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Ralph nervously said to Spred, "Dad, is our request too much, what if they don't agree?" What if they get angry and leave? ”

"It should be—not really." Spred hesitated, "Even if you don't agree to us, get angry - probably not." ”

"What if I just leave?" Ralph continued.

Spred sighed slightly, "Alas—we can't stop them if they want to go, and if they do, we'll have to rely on ourselves." Actually, we didn't think we could recruit aliens, did we? Just as if they hadn't been there. ”

Ralph said anxiously, "But they have appeared in front of us now, and it would be a pity to let them go." No, you can't let them go. ”

"Don't let them go? Can it still be forced to stay? ”

"If you force you to stay, you will be forced to stay, just these few people, you can still let them run away."

"Don't mess around, they're here to help us, and you're sorry to keep them. And if it is not handled well, if their companions come, how will we explain. Hmph, get out and stay in confinement for three days. Spred said angrily.

"I'm just thinking about it." Ralph said weakly.

"I can't think about it, get out."

"Well, this—" At this time, Zhou Xin also finished communicating with the Voyager, and then he heard the last words between the two of them.

The two of them immediately stopped arguing, and Spred said apologetically to Chang'e, "I'm sorry, my daughter didn't mean to, she was just a little anxious, we never meant to force you to stay, if you want to go, you can leave, and we will figure out the rest ourselves." Ralph, don't apologize to them yet. ”

"Yes, I'm sorry, I, I, I." Ralph was nervously speechless.

"What's going on? How did it not take a while for this to happen? Zhou Xin was a little puzzled.

Chang'e told Zhou Xin about the conversation between the two of them just now. Spred and Ralph stopped talking and looked at Chang'e nervously.

"Huh? Oh-" After listening to Chang'e's narration, Zhou Xin reacted.

"I'm sorry, I was just thinking about how to solve your problem." Zhou Xin said to the two of them.

"And the result?" Ralph asked anxiously, "Please don't go, we really need your help." There was a hint of pleading in her tone.

"We're not ready to go." Zhou Xin smiled.

"That's—" This time even Spred couldn't hold back, and asked aloud.

After a moment's hesitation, Zhou Xin said, "This-before making a decision, can we go and see that warp engine first?" ”

Both of them were puzzled, and in the end, Ralph didn't hold back, she asked, "It's not impossible to go and see the engine, but what does it have to do with your decision, can't you tell us the decision first?" ”

"This - it's just not a good decision right now, let's wait until we see the engine." Zhou Xin said perfunctorily.

Although he was puzzled, Spred said, "In that case, then you can come with me." ”

After saying that, Spred walked out of that hall with Chang'e, he took Chang'e through a very long passage, turned a corner, and they walked through another passage, and at the end of the passage was an elevator, and they walked into the elevator.

In the elevator, Spred explained: "There are five floors on the surface of this base, and we are now going to the sixth floor where the engine is located. ”

"Is it necessary to hide it so secretly?" Zhou Xin asked.

"It's very necessary." Ralph hurriedly replied, "When they were dismantling the entire ship, they actually wanted to dismantle it with the engines attached. But at that time, many people still chose to keep this engine, after all, this only engine is also the crystallization of our technology. So, these people built this base in order to hide the warp engine. ”

As Ralph explained, Zhou Xin saw that Spred pressed the switch that looked like a floor button in a certain order, and pressed it about a dozen times, and then, the orange light on the panel that seemed to display the floor turned into a red light. Then, Zhou Xin heard a sound similar to that of a machine.

"Whether or not to enter the sixth basement floor." Chang'e translated.

Spred replied, and then Zhou Xin saw that the camera began to shake and the elevator began to run.

After a while, Zhou Xin heard a prompt sound, and the sixth underground floor they were going to had arrived. The elevator door opened, and Spred stepped out, followed by Ralph, and then Chang'e and the robot walked out.

Walking out of the elevator, Zhou Xin saw a very ordinary passage, at the end of the passage was a large door, Spred did not stop after getting out of the elevator, and walked directly towards the door, Chang'e hurriedly followed. Walking to the door, Spred put his hands in a box on the right side of the door, a red light flashed in the box, and then Zhou Xin heard the familiar machine prompt in the elevator, and after the prompt sounded, the door opened. Walking into the gate, Zhou Xin saw that behind the door was still an ordinary passage, and at the end of the passage was another gate.

"For safety reasons, there are three gates, each of which opens differently." Spred explained.

Ralph was also a little excited at this time, "Although I know that there is a warp engine hidden in this base, but it is also the first time I have come here, and I wanted to come in before, but my father didn't let me, and this time I can finally see it." ”

Spred glanced at Ralph, "Well, I can't just let you in to satisfy your curiosity." ”

Ralph stuck out his tongue cutely.

Before walking to the second door, Spred turned his head to the machine next to the door, a faint red light flashed on the machine, and then the machine beep sounded, and the door opened.

"Iris lock." The Voyager analyzed.

After passing through the second gate, Zhou Xin finally saw the last gate. This gate is no different from the previous two gates, but the way to open the door Zhou Xin is a little incomprehensible, I saw Spred put his hand into a pit next to the door, and after a while, the sound of the machine sounded again, and the third gate also opened.

"How did this door open?" Zhou Xinyou asked curiously.

Spred turned his head to look at Chang'e, "Do you know what genetic material is?" ”

"You know, don't you?"

"Now that you know, it's easy to explain, the key to this door is my DNA." Spred explained.

After explaining this, Spred walked through the open door.

Entering the gate, Zhou Xin saw that this was a very large hall, unlike other places, this hall was very bright, and Zhou Xin could see the situation of this hall at a glance. The hall is nearly 100 meters long and more than 40 meters wide. Looking around, there was not a single door in the walls around them, except for the door they had entered, and in the middle of the hall, a large cylindrical object lay silently.

Spred walked over to the cylinder and explained as he went, "This level is meant to preserve the engine, so this is the only hall except for the passage to enter. As Spred walked, a lot of dust kicked up on his feet, and he quickly took out two mask-like things from his pocket, handed one of them to Ralph, and covered his face with that thing, and after doing that, he continued, "Sorry, no one has been here since the engine was put here, and today is the first time to open this place after the lockdown, so the dust is a bit heavy, please don't worry." ”

"Such an important thing is placed here, and you have no one to maintain it?" Zhou Xin was a little surprised.

"It's important for us, but for most of us, the warp engine is a thing of the past." Spreed sighed, "Although I thought about maintaining this engine, there are too many people to maintain the engine, and these people have basically chosen the opposite path of us, and even if we want to maintain it, we can't find enough people to do it." At the same time, a big deal about finding someone to maintain it would probably attract the attention of that part of the population, especially if they thought about dismantling the engine. Helplessly, I can only put it here. ”

"What if it breaks after leaving it for so long?" Zhou Xin asked.

"That's what I'm worried about." "This is our last hope," said Spred, "and if it really breaks, then I have no choice but to wait for destruction, alas." He sighed deeply.

As they spoke, they walked up to the engine, and in front of the camera, a huge cylinder took up the entire screen. This cylinder has a diameter of more than ten meters, about 50 meters long, at a glance, this is an ordinary cylinder, around the cylinder, Zhou Xin did not see anything similar to the interface, one of its ends is also closed, only the other end has a large cylinder groove, through the groove to look in, you can see that it is densely covered with pipelines, if not for the warp engine earlier, Zhou Xin thought this is a semi-finished product.

"Except for the shape, it doesn't look like an engine." Zhou Xin was a little puzzled.

"This engine is completely different from our own other engines." Spred replied, "It doesn't rely on ejecting material outward to propel the spacecraft forward, but relies on high-density energy to directly compress the space behind the spacecraft to propel the spacecraft, so it doesn't need to open a vent at one end of the engine." ”

"What?" Zhou Xin looked at the groove at the end of the engine, "This groove is not a spout yet." ”

"What?" Spred was puzzled for a moment, then reacted, "Of course not, this place is an energy slot, a place to fill with energy. ”

Zhou Xin suddenly realized, and then, Ralph couldn't wait to ask: "Now that you have seen the warp engine, can you tell us your decision?" Just as Ralph asked, Spred withdrew his gaze from the engine and stared at Chang'e tightly.

"It's not impossible to build a spaceship for you. But—" Zhou Xin said a little against his will.

After listening to the first half, Spred was visibly relieved, and Ralph even whispered, but when they heard the "but", they became nervous again, and Ralph blurted out, "But what?" ”

"I want drawings of the warp engine." Zhou Xin continued.

Zhou Xin saw that after he said this, Spred showed an embarrassed expression.

"What's wrong? Is there anything difficult about this request? Could it be that the drawings of the engine are a secret? Zhou Xin asked suspiciously.

"At this point, no matter how confidential the secret is, it is not as important as our survival." Spreed said embarrassedly, "You should know that to complete such a large-scale project, it is impossible to build it by a single research institute or a factory, and this engine is made by combining all the forces of our civilization at that time. In the process of dismantling the spaceship that year, many of the spaceship drawings were destroyed along the way, although our institute retained a lot of spacecraft materials at that time, but the part about the engine is incomplete, only about 80%, if you want, I will give it to you when it will go up. ”

"Didn't you make a warp engine with your technology?" Ralph asked.

"Don't be so rude, how could their technology not make a warp engine." "They may just want to use our drawings as a reference and improve their engines." ”

"If we really had a warp engine, we would be able to accept 80% of the drawings, but we really don't have a warp engine." Zhou Xin was a little embarrassed, "The direction of our technological development is a little different from yours, so we haven't built a warp engine yet, so I thought of asking you for a copy of the drawing." ”

"Huh?! You really don't have a warp engine, do you? Ralph asked, startled, and Spred glared at her, and she hurriedly quieted down, pretending to be a good girl.

"If that's the case, it's going to be difficult." Spred continued, "It's still very difficult to deduce the other part from 80% of the drawings, and the most important thing is that the missing part is the engine core, which was originally designed by another research institute on the same level as ours, so we can't ask them for drawings to record." ”

"That's—" Zhou Xin said with a tone of disappointment.

"I'm sorry I can't help you any more." There was a hint of apology in Spred's tone, "You can take the 80% of the drawings first, and I hope you can restore the complete engine according to the drawings." ”

"Thank you so much." Zhou Xin's answer was a little weak.

"And you're going to help us build the ship?" Ralph asked hopefully......