"Brother Captain, what are you going to do with the five fusiform devices?"

Under Atlas's reminder, Zhou Xin remembered that there were still five intact fusiform devices parked in the dock, and it was a little difficult for Zhou Xin to make a decision on what to do with these five devices. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 After thinking about it for a long time, he was still hesitant. Zhou Xin is not afraid that what he will see after opening it is the corpse of an alien, he is worried that if the original device is lying in the living aliens, but these people die in the process of opening the device, it will be a bit more than worth the loss, after all, the first fusiform device is violently opened, and if the same method is used to treat the remaining five devices, it will bring unforeseen risks to the people who may exist inside. After struggling for a long time, Zhou Xin finally decided to bring up this issue for discussion.

Then, Zhou Xin expressed his worries to Dart, and after speaking, he asked, "So should we open those fusiform devices now, or should we put them in the dock first, and then open them when we find a better way." ”

"Just open it, of course." As soon as Zhou Xin finished speaking, Spred's voice came from the door, and a few seconds later, his figure appeared at the door, "Those fusiform devices may contain a lot of information related to this civilization, how to do it if you don't open it and study it." ”

Hearing Spred's words, Zhou Xin understood that he didn't know that he had opened one of the devices, and that he had already seen the situation inside the device, so Zhou Xin took a moment to explain what he had just seen in the isolation room and his own worries later.

After listening to Zhou Xin's worries, Spred also showed a hesitant expression, he lowered his head and thought for a while, and then made a request to Atlas, "Let me see what the inside of that open device looks like." ”

"No problem." As he spoke, the screen showed an inside view of the fusiform device that had been opened.

After taking a closer look at the inside of the device, Spred turned to Zhou Xin and said, "If this is the case inside, then it is even more important to open those devices as soon as possible." Seeing Zhou Xin looking at him with a puzzled expression, he explained in detail: "Based on the scene inside the devices we see now, and the way they appeared, it can basically be judged that these fusiform devices should be similar to the escape pod on the destroyed flying machine. Seeing that Zhou Xin nodded in agreement with his opinion, Spred continued: "If it is really an escape pod, then it is difficult to say whether it was damaged during the previous explosion, just like the fusiform device that has been damaged." Even if it hadn't been damaged, judging by the size of the fusiform device and the condition inside, it wouldn't have been able to sustain enough for life on this planet for a long time, and it might have been dead now, if that was the case, your thoughts would have hurt the people inside. ”

After listening to Spred's analysis, Zhou Xin, who originally thought that he could postpone the opening of the fusiform device, became a little nervous, and he hurriedly asked Atlas: "Atlas, have you investigated the fusiform device that has been opened?" Is it the same as Spred said? ”

The little girl nodded, "The situation is basically the same as what Big Brother Spred said, people have checked the fusiform device in detail, and they have roughly understood its operating principle, and they can basically determine that the device is an escape pod." A complete set of air filtration and exchange systems were installed inside, and it was also found that a small amount of nutrient solution was stored in one part of the device, which should be used to maintain the basic energy needs of the people inside. ”

"How long is the device in there?" Zhou Xin asked.

"There is no need to worry about this for the time being, according to people's estimates, if the system inside the fusiform device is operating normally and is not damaged, there is no big problem in maintaining the life inside for seven days." Atlas replied.

"That's good." After listening to Atlas's words, Zhou Xin breathed a sigh of relief.

"Seven days is not a long time, you still have to make a decision as soon as possible." Spred reminded with a frown.

"I understand." Zhou Xin nodded, and he then asked Atlas, "You just said that you have roughly understood the operation principle of the fusiform device, so have you found a way to open it normally?" ”

"Of course." Atlas said with a hint of smugness, "The switch to turn on that device has already been found inside." Before Zhou Xin could get happy, she poured another basin of cold water, "But that switch can only control the device to open from the inside, if you want to turn it on from the outside, you still need to know the signal to turn on, but in the fusiform device, people only found a signal receiver, and this person alone can't analyze what the open signal is." ”

After listening to Atlas's words, Zhou Xin was a little disappointed, and he couldn't help but say to himself, "Can you only use violence to open those devices?" ”

"I don't need that." Hearing Zhou Xin's self-talk, Atlas replied, "People can drill a hole at one end of the fusiform device, and then put a special robotic arm through the open hole, and turn on the switch inside the device, so that the damage to the entire fusiform device can be minimized." ”

"That's a good idea." After listening to her method, Zhou Xin thought about it and felt that it was very feasible, but he still asked more, "Is this method reliable?" Is there any other way? ”

"It's the safest way people have come up with it."

However, Zhou Xin still didn't make a decision immediately, he thought for a while before making a decision, "That's it, Atlas, you first take a device and experiment with the method you said, and if there is no problem, then open the rest of the fusiform device." ”

"No problem, leave it to me." Atlas replied immediately.

After getting Zhou Xin's accurate answer, the little girl on the screen jumped on the spot and disappeared, and the picture on the screen returned to the previous triangular spaceship, looking at the picture on the screen, Zhou Xin's heart was still worried about the fusiform device. After thinking for a while, Zhou Xin shook his head and refocused his attention on the screen in front of him.

Another day passed, and in this day, there was finally no sign of the number of vehicles in orbit under the probe, but even so, there were enough vehicles patrolling the orbit, and Zhou Xin switched the pictures of several probes, and there were at least a dozen aircraft on each screen. However, although the number of aircraft has increased, the large-scale conflict that Zhou Xin imagined before has not happened, but the confrontation incidents in the equatorial region have increased a lot, and the atmosphere of the entire planet has become more and more tense.

In the days that followed, confrontations continued to occur frequently, and the scope continued to expand, spreading from the equatorial range to the temperate regions of the planet, and even several confrontations had occurred on the edge of the two continents, but fortunately, the aircraft on both sides were very restrained, and no one opened fire. It's just that when one of the planes accidentally flies to the edge of the continent of the other side, it causes hundreds of aircraft to surround it. Zhou Xin witnessed this happening with his own eyes, and at that time he almost thought that the flying machine was about to be destroyed, but what he didn't expect was that even if this happened, the invading party's flying machine still didn't fire, and just drove the other party out of his own area, but in response, a new spaceship appeared in the orbit of the invading party.

After observing for a few days, Zhou Xin finally couldn't help but ask, "What are they going to do here?" There are so many aircraft in orbit, and they are just driving each other, and no one wants to fire first. The day before yesterday, the aircraft from the southern hemisphere had such an obvious invasion, and the other side dispatched so many aircraft to surround it, and it was actually just driven back to the other side. If they don't fight, then they just take back all the flying machines, what is the point of such a large-scale confrontation between them? ”

"At this point, maybe they don't dare to stop." Dart analyzed on the side, after all, he was once responsible for the security of the base, and his analysis of the war situation was still stronger than Zhou Xin's, "Although neither side has acted first until now, but they can't confirm whether the other party will suddenly move, if the troops are collected, the side that collects the troops first will become the side with the inferior forces, and if the other party makes a move at this time to gain the advantage of the war, then the side that collects the troops first will be difficult to recover." ”

Speaking of this, he paused, and only when Zhou Xin nodded to show that he understood, and asked him to continue, did Dart continue: "On the other hand, through the observation of the past few days, I found that they seem to be afraid of making the first move, as if something terrible will happen if they do it first. ”

"Afraid to do it first?" Zhou Xin interjected, "Where did you see that?" Then he followed Dart's train of thought, "Are you referring to the invasion that happened the day before yesterday?" ”

"Not just that once, but many times." Dart replied, "But since you mentioned the invasion, let's take it as an example." With that, Dart asked the Voyager to bring up the footage.

At the beginning of the footage, the intruding aircraft, which Voyager had deliberately marked, simply crossed the equatorial cordon between the two sides and then retracted.

"This is just the beginning of the temptation." Dart explained, and motioned for the Voyager to continue.

Then, after more than ten minutes, Zhou Xin saw that the marked aircraft had repeatedly crossed the line, but it quickly shrank back under the obstruction of the other party. This doesn't need to be explained by Dart, and Zhou Xin also knows that it is a tentative act. However, when the video was almost twenty minutes long, the aircraft blocking one side revealed a hole in an instant, and the marked aircraft suddenly accelerated through the encirclement of more than a dozen aircraft. The reaction of the dozen or so aircraft was a little slower, and it was only after a few seconds that they turned back and chased after the intruder flying machine, which was speeding forward, but by this time, they had been thrown a few hundred meters away by the flying machine.

At this time, Dart stopped the video, he pointed to several aircraft in the corner of the screen and said to Zhou Xin: "Have you noticed these aircraft, they should be the aircraft that invaded the other side." When the blocker's aircraft pursued the invading aircraft, there were obviously a lot of loopholes in this area, but the blocker did not mobilize the aircraft in the nearby area to assist in the defense. Moreover, don't you think it's strange that these aircraft of the intruder did not rush into the hole area like the intrusive aircraft after seeing the loopholes in this area? But Dart didn't answer the question, and continued to play the footage.

The next thing was the chase, and the dozen or so flying machines followed closely behind the intruding aircraft, maintaining a distance of several hundred meters at the beginning, and at this time, even Zhou Xin discovered the abnormality.

"Why isn't there a flying machine in front of it to contain it?" Zhou Xin blurted out in surprise.

Dart nodded, "Looks like you've discovered this too, and indeed, that's what I find weird, but don't worry, keep reading." ”

Dart then began to skip a lot of the chase footage, only to resume normal playback just as the invasion vehicle was approaching the edge of the continent.

At this time, Zhou Xin saw that a large number of flying machines had appeared in the direction of the circular continent, and these flying machines were rushing to the front of the flight path of the invading aircraft, trying to intercept it.

Next is the picture that Zhou Xin has seen before, the intruder aircraft slowed down when it encountered the blocking of hundreds of aircraft, and then it began to move along an irregular route, as if it wanted to find another omission from the interception of hundreds of aircraft. Of course, with so many flying machines in the way, this is obviously impossible to succeed.

At this time, Dart stopped the picture again, "You see, the dozen or so flying machines chasing behind have arrived at this time, but they have no new movements, they just surround it about a hundred meters behind the invading aircraft." ”

After saying this, he continued to play the video, but at this time, he switched the playback mode to slow play, "Then you take a closer look." ”

Then he pointed to one of the flying machines in the way and said, "Watch out for this flying machine. A few seconds passed on the screen, "Look here, at this time, the intruder aircraft has a movement that is obviously close to this aircraft, and the distance between the two is once close to the range of ten meters, but what did the aircraft of the blocking party do?" ”

Looking carefully at the two flying machines pointed out by Dart, after a few seconds, Zhou Xin was surprised, "How is it possible?!" The blocking team's flying machine dodged ......?! ”