246 Lost

After saving people, Zhong Yun controlled the spaceship to fly to the original route, and after such a long time, it stands to reason that he should have returned to the original place a long time ago, but no.

Then he found that the star chart was also invalid. They can't locate themselves and don't know where they are.

It means they're lost.

The star map is the most important tool for spaceflight, and with it, you won't get lost. Losing your way in the universe is basically no different from looking for death.

If you get lost in the desert, as long as you find a direction and keep moving forward, you have a good chance of getting out. But if you get lost in the universe, the probability of encountering a manned planet is not much higher than the probability of finding an administrative star in the universe. Both fall under the category of looking for a needle in a haystack.

The Star Map will fail because it suddenly enters a place outside of the Star Map, and just returning to the Star Map area will make it work again.

But for several days, they still haven't returned to their original place.

Because there are all kinds of gravitational forces in the universe, the gravitational pull of stars, the gravitational pull of planets, and even the gravitational pull of comets and so on. In fact, the trajectory of the spacecraft cannot be in a straight line. A little gravitational pull can deflect a spacecraft from its orbit, and if it deviates by 0.01 degrees, you'll never reach your destination.

One of the functions of the star map is to adjust the direction so that the ship is traveling in the right direction. This adjustment of direction is made every half hour, and this is done to save energy.

Therefore, more than 90 percent of the time the spacecraft is in the wrong direction during its voyage. With the function of adjusting the direction of the star map, the spacecraft can reach its destination correctly.

The failure of the star map is almost a devastating blow to the spacecraft.

Fortunately, the probe is still working, and the power of the probe on Mercury is turned up to its maximum power, and it can detect specific conditions within 5,000 kilometers of the vicinity, the presence of high-density metal objects within 10,000 kilometers, and violent energy fluctuations within 1 million kilometers.

Even so, the chances of finding a place where there are people are slim. Because the universe is so big. The range of one million kilometers is no different from an atom in relation to the entire universe.

The two spaceships drifted here for a month, Zhong Yun didn't know where he had been, and the space remote sensor had failed, making it impossible to communicate with the outside world.

The feeling of bad feeling in his heart became clearer and clearer. Getting lost in the universe is a very terrible thing, and Zhong Yun has already experienced it once, although this time there are two high-level spaceships with Mars and Mercury. But the feeling of anxiety has not diminished in the slightest.

Even Xiao Ling is helpless, this is a huge blow to Zhong Yun, all along, Xiao Ling is omnipotent, but now the biggest reliance has also lost its effect. Makes him a little flustered.

Zhong Yun stopped all his training and stayed in the main control room of the Mercury all day, studying ways to get out of trouble.

After a month of aimless drifting, Zhong Yun made up his mind and decided to change his strategy, work steadily and steadily, and recreate a star map. The reason why the star map fails is not because of the failure of the machine, but because it is impossible to locate the location in the star map.

The Mercury was originally an expedition ship, with extremely advanced star map-making equipment, and the work of recreating a star map was huge, but it was better than scurrying around like a headless fly.

In terms of food, Mercury has a food synthesis machine, which is nothing more than carbohydrates, and the elements that make up carbohydrates can be found everywhere in the universe, plus some proteins and vitamins.

The production supply of 8,000 people is excellent, the only problem is energy, although the energy on Mars and Mercury is still sufficient, but there is always a day when there is light, so it must be used sparingly.

At the same time, the charging plate on the outer wall is opened, and the universe is filled with various rays, which can be converted into energy. Although the converted energy cannot be fully replenished, it is quite considerable.

Given the huge reserves of the two ships, this cost is not worth mentioning. But there is also a problem, after the charge plate is opened, the ship's protection ability will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, Zhong Yun only opens the charging plate of one spaceship at a time, and the other spaceship is always on alert to prevent accidents.

Because of the need to make a star map, the speed of the spaceship is not fast, fortunately it is fully automatic, otherwise Zhong Yun would not be able to do it alone. He didn't call the Six for help. He didn't dare let people into the control room.

Half a month passed like this, and on this day, Zhong Yun approached a planet with Mercury, which was an ordinary planet and not suitable for human habitation. There is no atmosphere and the environment is harsh.

Zhong Yun came here to collect some samples, because Xiao Ling found that the distribution of elements here was a little strange. When collecting some elements such as carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen on an asteroid to make food, I accidentally discovered that the planet had an unusual amount of metal. In particular, some rare metal elements are incredibly high.

Later, several more asteroids were collected, and the metal levels were also abnormally high. Once it's a coincidence, but it's the same result several times, and that only proves one thing. This area is a metal-rich star field.

The abundance of some rare metal reserves is so great that even Xiao Zero is amazed, and what is even more rare is that the scope of publication is so wide. If this belt is discovered, it is very likely to trigger a war between the two countries. Because these rare metals are just so tempting.

After the Mercury received the planet, it released the remote-controlled collection boat, landed on the planet, collected some surface rocks, and began to explore underground, the collection ship had large drilling equipment, first drilled a hundred meters underground, collected some rocks, and then continued down.

When it was 5,000 meters underground, the drilling rig didn't know what it had touched, and the drill bit was scrapped.

Zhong Yun, who got the news, was a little surprised, he had read the manual, the penetration of the drilling machine was very powerful, except for the hardest alloys, there was nothing it could not penetrate. Even the outer shell of a spaceship, given enough time, can drill through it. (This is the advertising slogan on the manual)

What is buried in the ground that is so hard?

Zhong Yun sent the detection robot on the collection vehicle down, and the results were very strange, and the detection results of the detection vehicle showed that it was just an ordinary rock underneath.

That's weird. Zhong Yun ordered the robot to take out the rock, and the report showed that the rock was too big to be removed.

What exactly is the rock? Zhong Yun wanted to know what surprises the planet could give him, rubbed his hands, replaced the drilling rig with a spare bit, and drilled again.

Five minutes later, the drill bit of the rig was damaged again. Zhong Yun was shocked, and he specially asked Xiao Ling what are the things in nature that this drilling machine can't drill through.

Xiao Zero's answer is that no matter what kind of rock it is, its hardness alone is invaluable.

Zhong Yun was ruthless, and sent dozens of excavation machines in one go, making sure to dig out the rock and study it clearly.

This digging is seven days. Originally, Zhong Yun would not waste time like this, but the astonishing discovery of the underground made him unable to stop. He even had a vague feeling in his heart that this astonishing discovery might be the key to their extrication.

Zhong Yun originally thought that it would take only a few hours to dig out the rock at most, but later realized that the "rock" was really unbelievably huge.

The excavator has dug a huge crater with a radius of almost 1,000 kilometers, and it is still impossible to see the end of this "rock".

Zhong Yun couldn't even hold it back, and drove the Mercury down, wanting to see it for himself. I was amazed at what kind of rock this is, the surface is flat and smooth, not a small part, but the whole of a thousand square kilometers is so flat. It is impossible for this to be natural.

There must be some secret hidden here, Zhong Yun thought.

Could it be, like Mercury, a spaceship buried underground? He was curious to know. But he couldn't do anything about the "rock". Neither the high-energy ion gun nor his ionic concussion knife with a destructive power of 8,000 units of energy could leave even a trace on this flat and smooth "rock".

This piqued Zhong Yun's curiosity even more, and he simply sent all the digging robots down.

Seven days have passed, and I still haven't dug into the edge of that flat "rock", and I really don't know how big it is.

Zhong Yun consumed it, and he would never give up until he figured out what it was. By the way, you can take a break on this planet.

It had been a while since the rough stone had arrived, but because he was in a hurry, Zhong Yun never stopped to load a few pieces on Xiao Ling. Every time Xiao Zero loads the original stone, it will restart once, and after restarting, it will be like evolution, and it will become more and more powerful each time.

Zhong Yun hopes that after this restart, Xiao Ling will be able to find a way to leave this ghost place. He'd scouted it repeatedly, and the neighborhood was fairly safe. So take this opportunity to install new rough stones for Xiao Ling.

He picked out the best two hundred and put them on the small zero. Originally, he wanted to put all the more than 500 pills together, but was stopped by Xiao Zero, because if he loaded too many at a time, it would take a long time to restart, and he didn't know what year and month it would take to complete.

Xiao Zero expects the restart to be completed in two months, during which time Mars will be unmanned and will have to stop on that planet.

Zhong Yun, on the other hand, patrols the planet with the Mercury, and at no time will he let his guard down. During this period, he ate and slept on the command platform.

Time passed, but the "rock" still could not be dug up, and now the excavated soil is almost piled up into a Himalaya.

And in front of this "rock", the prospecting instrument also loses its effect, it cannot even distinguish this "rock" from it, as if they are one.

Zhong Yun felt more and more interesting.