Chapter 36: Preparing for the Rescue
After listening to Prit's words, Zhou Xin and the others were immediately shocked. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"But it doesn't look like it now." Prit's next words made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, "In terms of size, the spatial anomaly this time is much smaller than the one recorded in the data, and the phenomenon is not the same as before the spherical battleship appeared. The battleship was able to see part of the battleship very soon after the spatial anomaly appeared, and the spatial anomaly you observed has been present for so long without any signs of objects, it seems that this may be a natural phenomenon in the universe. But I don't know exactly what the phenomenon is, after all, it's the first time I've seen it. β
"That's good." Zhou Xin breathed a sigh of relief and said, "If it's really that spherical battleship, then I don't know what to do." With our abilities, we can't escape like the Great Western Continent. β
"Violent mood swings are not the style of a good captain." Unexpectedly, Perrit began to teach Zhou Xinlai a lesson.
"This--just a moment of excitement, a moment of excitement." Zhou Xin replied a little embarrassed.
"So will this spatial anomaly affect our warp engine?" Spred couldn't help but ask the question that he was most concerned about.
"What is a warp engine?" Prit felt a little strange, and after listening to Zhou Xin's brief description, he suddenly realized, "It turns out that you are using such a method of advancement, which seems to be different from our hyperspace jump. He thought for a moment before continuing, "But both seem to be based on special spaces. I can at least be sure of one thing now: this kind of spatial anomaly will affect our hyperspace jumps, so the Great West Continent always started its own jumps after the spherical battleship left hyperspace, and I think the warp engine, which is also based on special space, will also be affected. β
"Do you think so?" Zhou Xin was a little disappointed, "Then we can only wait here now?" β
"It looks like that's all it takes." Pratt was also a little helpless.
"Forget it." Zhou Xin reinvigorated himself, "Anyway, we also came out to explore the universe, and this anomaly is also worth exploring." Traveler, send a few probes to investigate the location of the space anomaly. β
"Understood."
However, before the probe could be launched, the anomalous space began to change again.
Before they could be alerted by the Voyager, Zhou Xin and the others saw the changes that had taken place. Originally, Zhou Xin could still see a little starlight distorted by space in the abnormal space on the screen, but now in the middle area of the distorted space, the distorted starlight suddenly disappeared, and was replaced by a small black object, which began to grow larger and larger as time passed.
"What's that?" Zhou Xin asked in surprise as he pointed to the black object on the screen that blocked the starlight.
"Preliminarily determined to be an entity with mass, the object appears to be trying to emerge from warped space." An observing Thunderstar said.
"What's going on?" Zhou Xin asked in surprise to Prit, who saw this scene together on the screen, "Didn't you say that the battleship wouldn't appear?" β
"I said the ship won't show up, but that doesn't mean there won't be anything else." Prit was a little helpless and curious, "Could it be such a coincidence that another civilization has appeared?" β
"Could it be that your main force is coming back for you?" Mentioning another civilization, Zhou Xin suddenly thought of this.
"Impossible." Pryt replied affirmatively, "You have also seen our hyperspace technology in the video, and the blue hyperspace door will appear before the spaceship appears, and it is not such a distorted space. β
"Are you thinking too much, maybe it's just an ordinary natural phenomenon?" Ralph asked from the side.
"Maybe it's possible." Zhou Xin showed a thoughtful expression, and then he was relieved, "Anyway, the other party is about to appear, and it's too late for us to leave now, so we won't know what it is when they appear." Then he ordered, "Everyone stay vigilant and wait for the black mass to appear." β
Shortly after Zhou Xin's order, the distorted space was completely restored to its original state. But instead of it, there was a black shadow, and with the faint starlight, Zhou Xin and the others vaguely saw the appearance of the black shadow.
It was a spherical spaceship similar in shape to the spherical battleship encountered by the Atlanteans in the video, the only big difference was the size of the spaceship, the diameter of the spaceship that appeared in front of Zhou Xin and them was only about one-tenth of the battleship that the Atlanteans encountered, but it was still very large compared to the Voyager. The spaceship stalled for a few minutes after leaving hyperspace, and then flew straight in the direction of Zhou Xin and them.
Seeing that the other party's obvious intentions, Zhou Xin and the others guessed their purpose without even thinking about it, and Pratt on the screen sighed heavily, "It looks like it's still coming-" But he didn't panic, his expression became serious, "Captain Zhou Xin, this matter has nothing to do with you, while they haven't discovered you yet, you should leave quickly, it's too late if you don't set off." Then he pleaded, "I hope you will have a chance to find the traces of the main forces and inform them of our situation." But you don't have to go out of your way to find them, just let it beβ" and then he turned to Dart again, "It seems that in the end you are right, and I have explained to you what I should explain, protect them and protect yourself, you are the last spark of our Atlanteans." β
Listening to Prit's words like his last words, the atmosphere in the command cabin suddenly became heavy. "Lord Dean." "Grandpa Dean." "Grandpa. As soon as Prit finished speaking, the Atlanteans in the command cabin couldn't help but scream, and the cry was filled with deep sadness.
"Okay, don't be too sad." At this time, Prit comforted, "I thought about this day, but what I didn't expect was that they actually appeared in my lifetime." Forget it, maybe it's fateβ" he sighed again, and then he stopped talking nonsense, "Hurry up, it'll be too late if you don't go." β
Glancing at the battleship on the screen, and then at Prit, Zhou Xin's heart was also full of deep sadness, and after hesitating, he opened his mouth and suggested: "Maybe you shouldn't be so pessimistic, I can try to take you along?" β
"Impossible." Pratt shook his head, "There are more than 4,000 people in this base, are you sure your little ship is taking it with you?" And time doesn't allow us to do this, the enemy won't give us time to retreat calmly, so you better leave us alone and go-"
Hearing that there were still so many Atlanteans on the frozen planet, Zhou Xin was suddenly a little surprised, and then he became depressed again. Perrit is right that it is indeed impossible to accommodate so many people on board the Voyager, and even if it can, the ecosystem inside the ship cannot withstand the consumption of more than 4,000 people. But looking at Christie's sad looks, Zhou Xin was a little unbearable.
"You need to find a way to save them." Ralph said anxiously beside him, and the other Thunder Star people in the command cabin also put their eyes on Zhou Xin's body, quietly waiting for his order.
"It's too late." Spred also put aside his preconceptions at this time, "There is not much time left for us, calculations show that if it flies at this speed, that battleship will reach this planet in ten hours, and we simply don't have enough ships to transport so many people in such a short time." β
Hearing the results of Spred's calculations, an idea suddenly popped up in Zhou Xin's heart, and after thinking for a while, he ordered: "Voyager, release all the engineering ships, there are still ten hours, enough for us to go back and forth twice, how many people can be picked up." Then he turned to Prit and said, "Get ready in the base, don't bring anything but the necessary things, and we'll go down and pick you up right away." β
Hearing Zhou Xin's order, everyone in the command cabin was slightly stunned, but they still obeyed his order, and the command cabin was busy in an instant. Even Spred, who was strongly opposed at first, did not raise an objection, but silently coordinated the work in the command cabin.
"Engineering ships No. 1 and No. 2 are ready to enter the process of leaving the ship." At this time, the Voyager reported, "Engineering Ship 3 is under repair due to damage sustained during the last operation, and the ship is ordering the robot to speed up the overhaul, which is expected to take at least two hours to complete." β
"As soon as possible." For this situation, Zhou Xin didn't have a good solution, so he had to wait helplessly for the engineering robot to repair the No. 3 engineering ship.
"Actually, you don't need that." After hearing Zhou Xin's order, Prit was also slightly stunned.
"Needless to say, I'm not the kind of person who doesn't save me when I die." Zhou Xin directly opened his mouth and blocked Prit's next words. Seeing this, Prit stopped talking, he sighed, turned around and went to prepare to retreat.
Seeing that everyone in the command cabin was busy helping their people retreat, the few idle Atlanteans next to Zhou Xin seemed a little helpless, and even Dart could only stand aside with an anxious face. Seeing that Zhou Xin's busyness seemed to be over for the time being, he hurriedly asked, "Is there anything you need our help with?" β
At this time, Zhou Xin, who was a little more idle, realized the existence of Dart. Hearing his request, Zhou Xin thought for a moment, then called Ralph, who was helping Spred, and explained to her: "You and Christy take Dart and them to familiarize themselves with the situation inside this ship. Then he turned to Dart and said, "Familiarize yourself with the situation inside the ship as soon as possible, especially the living quarters, and when the first people come up, the task of pacifying them will be left to you." β
Dart nodded, "No problem, leave it to me, I will definitely appease them." With that, Ralph led them out of the command module. At this time, Zhou Xin turned around and continued to pay attention to the situation of the spherical battleship on the screen.
The spherical battleship on the screen had not changed much since it started to move, and if it weren't for the reminder from the detector, Zhou Xin wouldn't even feel that the battleship was heading towards them. Under the observation of the probe, Zhou Xin found that the speed of the spherical battleship was not very fast, only about half the speed of light, which is why it took them so long to reach this planet. Zhou Xin felt incomprehensible about this, but he also felt a little lucky, if it weren't for their speed being so fast, then maybe Zhou Xin wouldn't have had time to rescue at all.
Seeing that there was no new movement on the battleship for the time being, Zhou Xin turned his attention back to the engineering ship, and in another screen, the engineering ship had begun to fall towards the surface of the frozen planet, and a dazzling blue tail flame was spraying from behind it. Looking at the engineering ship that was speeding down, Zhou Xin only remembered one thing at this time.
"Voyager, do you know where the Atlanteans are based?" Zhou Xin asked nervously.
"Just now, the Atlanteans have sent the location information of the base to this ship, and the current direction of the engineering ship is the location of the base."
"Good thing Pratt remembers it." Zhou Xin breathed a sigh of relief, and he then asked, "Is the spaceship all ready?" There is not enough space for them. β
"There's plenty of space." The Voyager replied, "The Atlanteans live in a similar environment to ours, so we don't need to modify the cabins, but the scope of the living quarters is limited, and we recommend that the crew's cabins be opened for the Atlanteans to live in first." β
When the Voyager mentioned the crew members who were still dormant, Zhou's confidence sank slightly, but he thought about it for a while and nodded in agreement, "Yes, but before that, you need to let the robot check every room, and the crew's personal belongings should be cleaned up." β
"Understood, this ship will go and prepare." The Voyager replied, "Also, there's a problem here, since we don't know how many Atlanteans we need to take, we are worried that the ship's ecosystem will collapse as a result, so we want you to reactivate the second eco-pod."
"Eco Cabin II?" Zhou Xin was a little strange, "Wasn't it impossible to repair before?" β
"In the past, it was due to a lack of materials, but in the previous investigation of the dinosaur planet, the ship obtained enough materials after exploration, so the ecological cabin was also repaired by the way. Now the second eco-cabin is ready for normal operation.
After listening to the Voyager's report, Zhou Xin finally showed a smile: "There is finally good news." He nodded and ordered, "Go to the seed bank and get some fast-growing seeds out of it, and get the eco-pod back to work as soon as possible." β
"Understood."
After Zhou Xin had arranged all the important things, after more than an hour, the No. 1 and No. 2 engineering ships finally arrived at the gate of the base, where a group of Atlanteans who had been waiting for a retreat had been waiting for a long time......