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Suddenly, everyone's emotions became nervous, and as for Zhou Xin, he became a little nervous after giving the order. Although the whole process is only a few seconds, in everyone's mind, the time has become so long.

The moment it made contact with the button, the mechanical arm paused slightly on it, and then pressed it all at once. At that moment, several people in the command cabin couldn't help but close their eyes.

However, fortunately, luck was on Zhou Xin's side. When that button was pressed, the worst they had expected didn't happen. Not only is it the worst-case scenario, but nothing has changed at all in the box after the button is pressed. Except for a faint "click", they wouldn't have even noticed it if it weren't for the silence in the command module at this time.

Next, the robot remained motionless as if it were pressed the button, and the screen seemed to be still. Nearly a minute passed before Zhou Xin's voice sounded in a quiet command, "The box - has it been opened?" ”

"It should be—it's open." Atlas's answer was also a little hesitant, and the robotic arm on the screen also made new movements at the same time. It moved to the sides of the chest, trying to open it.

However, the robotic arm had just touched the box again, and the lid popped up. Although the sound was not loud, it still startled many people. With this change, the movement of the robotic arm stopped again.

After hesitating for a while, Atlas controlled the robot to open the box without waiting for Zhou Xin to continue to order. It seemed that the box was indeed very heavy, and Zhou Xin could clearly see that the mechanical arm supporting the lid of the box was trembling slightly. But even so, the box was slowly opened, and the contents appeared in front of everyone's eyes little by little.

When they saw the inside of the box, many people were a little disappointed. Unexpectedly, the whole box is almost solid. Most of the surrounding area was filled with thick metal, except for a small section in the middle with a book-sized groove, and inside the groove were two rectangular objects, one large and one small. These two objects just filled the entire groove, not even a single gap.

Unlike those who were disappointed, both Zhou Xin and Dart were overjoyed when they saw the scene inside the box. The two of them agreed that the contents of a box that seemed so heavily guarded, no matter how simple, should be something very important. Zhou Xin even couldn't wait for Atlas to take out the contents and observe them.

However, under the cautionary Dart's reminder, Atlas did not immediately touch the two objects in the box. Instead, the open box was inspected several times, and even the surrounding solid parts were investigated in detail. After making sure there were no problems, the robotic arm took the two objects inside.

As soon as he took it out, Zhou Xin noticed the difference between the two objects. The larger cuboid was obviously as similar to a book, and as soon as he picked it up, Zhou Xin saw the page-like structure that was clearly carried inside the cuboid. As for the smaller cuboid, it is different, it is a complete cuboid, and its function is not visible at all from the appearance.

"It seems to be a small storage device, something similar to that seen on planetary surface probes." After the mechanical arm took the little cuboid and glanced at it a few times, Atlas said. Then she flipped through the book-like thing, and after two clicks, she continued: "This is a research notebook that records the progress of the research, and the content of the research should be the 'dawn' that Candela mentioned. ”

Then, Atlas picked two of the pages and casually translated them, which introduced the research progress of the "Dawn" project. However, the only thing mentioned is the success of each specific study, and at most the experience of some of the failed projects that Candela has documented, and there is no more detailed information on it.

"It's not going to work for us at all." After listening silently for a while, Dart shook his head and said, "We don't even know what that Candela is researching, so what's the use of knowing the progress of the research." ”

"That being said." Zhou Xin continued, "But the notes may be filled with other things besides research. Atlas, please translate the entire note and see if you can find any useful information for us. ”

"Don't worry, brother captain, it won't take much time."

After saying that, Zhou Xin focused his attention on the storage device that the robot put back in the box, and then he couldn't help but say to himself: "It's not worth the trouble to keep it in such a box if it's just a progress note, it seems that the more important thing here is the storage device, I don't know what will be recorded in it." He then went on to say to Atlas, "The contents of the storage device should also be read as soon as possible, and I am afraid that the secret should be hidden in there." ”

"It's going to take some time." Atlas replied, "People need to make a copy of the reading device they are using, but it just takes a while, people have already studied their storage devices, and it's not very complicated." ”

Atlas then focused on the work. In less than an hour, she finished translating the notes. To Zhou Xin's disappointment, the notebook was indeed a pure research notebook, and it did not mention anything unrelated to research. Atlas had no information to analyze other than the fact that the substance he wanted to create was very difficult to obtain and extremely dangerous, as he had already learned from Candela's diary. It's not that Candela didn't explain the substance in his notes, but that he used a lot of unexplained technical terms in his descriptions, which made it impossible for Atlas to translate. As a result, it was difficult to find anything useful in the research notes, and Zhou Xin and the others could only turn their attention to the storage device.

During Atlas's research on the storage device, Zhou Xin also mentioned to Demancha during a liaison with the Community about the attack on the aircraft they had witnessed when they first arrived on the planet. However, the community did not know anything about the accident in which Zhou Xin and they were lucky enough to obtain several fusiform devices. This made Zhou Xin inevitably a little disappointed, but Demancha was extremely impressed by the Candela and his research that he mentioned next.

"Speaking of which, that should have been a few years ago." "At that time, a scientist named Candela suddenly appeared in Kazran, and he claimed to have developed a powerful energy source that could keep the entire country from energy shortages for hundreds of years. To this end, he also specifically applied to the state for technical support, wanting to manufacture the theoretically established substance. In the beginning, all we had to do in Kazlan was news of failure, so we gradually lost our attention to it. However, for unknown reasons, Candela suddenly came out in a high-profile manner to claim that the experiment had been preliminarily successful, that he had succeeded in making the substance. In the future, as long as the problems of mass production and storage are solved, the Kazlan people will have a long-term stable and efficient use of energy. This incident is so famous that even the news has reached the side of the Ewen Empire. To this end, the Eun Empire sent a large number of spies to Kazlan during that time. ”

"Wait." Zhou Xin interrupted, "When did Candela announce the success of the experiment? ”

"About -- it was two years ago." Demancha thought for a moment and replied, then he added, "It should be less than two years, a month or two." ”

Zhou Xin estimated the time in his heart, then nodded and motioned for Demancha to continue.

"For a period of time after Candela announced the success of the experiment, all that came was the news of the success of the follow-up experiment." "However, after only a few months, Candela stopped publishing the news that was supposed to be made every ten days, citing the need to concentrate all his research on the substance he had made. That's fine, but, oddly enough, it didn't take long for the government to issue a gag order that wouldn't allow anyone to talk about Candela's experiments or anything about it. He even openly claimed that Candela was a liar and that his research was a fiction. He was even wanted half a year ago. ”

"Half a year ago, around the same time we first arrived here." Zhou Xin muttered to himself, and then he asked Demancha, "What happened next?" ”

"What's next? Then Candela disappeared from everyone's sight, and if you hadn't brought it up at this time, I would have almost forgotten about him. ”

"It's strange, how could Candela's research cause such a reaction from the Republic of Kazran?" Listening to Demancha's description, Zhou Xin also recalled what he had learned in Candela's diary. After thinking about it, he decided to hide the contents of the diary from Demancha. After greeting each other for a while, the two sides ended the conversation.

At the same time as the communication ended, Spred, who had been in the laboratory and had not seen anyone for more than half a month, happened to walk in.

"Both storage devices are already in order?" At the first glance of him, Zhou Xin asked, hearing Zhou Xin's question, many people in the command cabin turned their attention to Spred.

"The storage device that was shipped back later has no problems other than that it has been left for a little longer." Spred replied, "Just leave it there as it is and wait until it's time to use it before turning it on." But the broken storage device is more troublesome. It took a lot of time to make the equipment used to separate the mixture, and there was no suitable storage equipment, so I had to use the high energy field to temporarily confine it to a makeshift container. However, this is not a long-term solution, and I don't know what will happen to the neutron matter if it is stored in it for too long. The only way to do this is to put them all at the heart of the jump engine as soon as possible. ”

"It's not like you can't wait even a day or two." Zhou Xin said, "Wait another day or two, if we haven't found anything yet, then we'll be ready to go." ”

"A day or two shouldn't be a problem."

After asking about this, Zhou Xin's train of thought returned to the doubts that arose after the previous conversation with Demancha.

Internally, Kazlan's top brass desperately urged Candela to conduct the experiment, and even directly sent people to participate in the experiment. However, the news has been tightly blocked to the outside world. Zhou Xin said to everyone. Next to him, Dart briefed Spred on Atlas' discoveries during his absence. "The inconsistencies between the inside and the outside, combined with what Candela mentioned in his diary. It shows that the Kazlan military attaches great importance to the kind of substance invented by Candela, and may use that substance as a weapon. But doesn't Kazlan already have something as powerful as a neutron weapon? Why would you still be interested in Candela's civilian-oriented invention? ”

"There are not too many weapons like this." After Dart introduced Spred, he said, "Judging from the diary records, the destructive power of that substance is also considerable, and it is normal for it to be used to make weapons. I'm curious as to why they suddenly blocked the news, and although the reason they chose seemed normal, there was still a suspicion of trying to cover it up. ”

After thinking about it, Zhou Xin shook his head, "I don't know, Kazlan's reaction is indeed a bit weird, judging from the attitude towards Candela, they seem to attach too much importance to the kind of substance he invented." ”

At this time, Spred, who understood what was going on, spoke, and he said thoughtfully: "Perhaps, only by figuring out what the substance that Candela has made can we understand why the attitude of the Kazlan people towards this matter has changed so dramatically. ”

"But." Zhou Xin's tone was a little helpless, "The research notebook that Candela left behind is so simple that we can't understand what it says. ”

"Isn't there a data storage device?" "It stands to reason that there should be a detailed explanation in it." ”

"I can only hope so......"