"Our priority is not to study why this planet came into being, but to think about where we should go next to gather resources. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info," Spred said with a worried tone.

Under Spred's reminder, Dart also came back from his contemplation, and then said in a worried tone: "Spred is right, the material composition of this planet does not have the resources needed by the spaceship at all, where should we go next to collect the necessary resources for the spaceship?" ”

"There's nothing to worry about." Zhou Xin didn't particularly care about this problem, "Isn't there another three planets marked on the star map, it's impossible that the remaining three planets will be exactly the same as this planet." ”

"I hope so." Hearing Zhou Xin mention the other planets in the star chart, Spred ended the topic for the time being, but he still had a worried look on his face.

"Your Excellency, is the investigation of this planet going on?" The Voyager asked.

"Absolutely." Zhou Xin replied without hesitation, "The investigation still needs to be investigated, if only the reason for the formation of this planet could be found, of course, it doesn't matter if you can't find it." ”

"Understood."

Over the next few days, the probe explored the planet in more detail, but still found nothing. Zhou Xin even asked the Voyager to call in large equipment to drill the planet, and after drilling through the gravel layer for a full 100 meters, the drill bit finally touched the solid surface of the planet. However, the object encountered by the drill bit is no different from the results of the previous detector, and the rock layer is still made of quartz, but from quartz crushed stone to a whole block of quartzite. After confirming this fact, Zhou Xin gave up exploring the interior of the planet, and he asked the Voyager to withdraw various large exploration equipment, and did not continue to send more probes to the planet. The probes that had been launched to the planet's surface were also returned to the ship after exploring the planet's surface, leaving only a temporary base built to collect the planet's high-purity silica.

Of course, the probe also visited the white regions that looked like polar regions at both ends of the planet, but once again, to everyone's disappointment. The probe did not detect the presence of water in this area, and the silica that can still be found everywhere on the planet is all over the ground, perhaps because the polar environment is different from other places, so the silica here is not completely dusty, but granular, but a little similar to the desert on the earth. Coupled with the viewing angle, the poles of the planet turned white in the lens of the probe.

As to how the planet was formed, the probe did not come up with a very reliable conclusion until the end. Voyager can only deduce the reason for its formation based on the shape of the planet detected by the probe, but because there are too few clues, Voyager cannot deduce any defensible results. Atlas was also interested in the structure of the planet after seeing it at first, so when Voyager was deducing the planet's causes, she also had nothing to deduce a result. Zhou Xin was a little surprised when he got the results of Atlas's deduction at first, and after praising her, Zhou Xin carefully watched the results of her deduction. The results of Atlas's deduction were completely different from those previously deduced by the Voyager, and Zhou Xin was surprised again after reading her deduction results.

Atlas creatively proposed in the report that the planet was formed twice, according to her deduction, the predecessor of the planet should be a planet at least twice the diameter of the current planet, the original planet was not solidified when it was hit by another planet with a diameter of at least half of the earth, the force of the impact was so great that it reached the core of the original planet, and even knocked the newly formed core out of the original planet, while the unsolidified crust was directly blown into powder by the shock wave in the violent impact. Next, the cores of the two planets flew out of the orbit of the original planet under the action of collision, and the part of the crust that was blown away was left in the orbit of the original planet. Two and a half billion years ago, the blown away part was regrouped by gravity, forming this strange planet. This deduction also explains why the planet is so much younger than the star it orbits.

The Voyager also deduced the conclusion of the Atlas deduction after seeing it, and found that this conclusion was indeed closer to the actual situation than the results of its previous deduction. However, this deduction also raises a new question - where did the core of the original planet fly? Atlas explained this - either the original planet's inner core did not fly fast enough after the impact, and it simply changed its orbit and became another planet. Either the original planet's core flew too fast after the impact, and it has broken away from this star system and become a wandering planet.

Although Zhou Xin was surprised by Atlas's conclusion, he did not delve into it, because the probes who went to the other orbits marked on the star map left by the Atlanteans to find the planets had sent back reports that they had found the planets located in the second and third orbits from the inside to the outside. In fact, after determining the orbit of the first planet, according to the star map, the orbits of the other three planets were basically determined, but even so, it still took a long time for the probe to find these two planets. After finding these two planets, Zhou Xin still needs to send a large number of probes to explore them. However, the follow-up probe has not yet been launched, and the probes that arrived in advance sent back a disappointing result, the two newly found planets are actually gas giants, looking at a pale cyan and an ocean blue planet that appeared on the screen, Zhou Xin felt a little helpless. According to the law of the formation of gas giants, such planets are rich in fusion raw materials such as hydrogen and helium, but for the metal elements that are urgently needed on the Voyager today, there is no need to think about finding them. Even if they were to be found, those heavy elements would be hidden deep in the core of such a planet, and it would be extremely difficult to mine them.

But Zhou Xin did not give up, he held on to the hope of trying it, and asked the Voyager to launch the probe that had just been recovered from the planet under his feet to these two planets. However, the probe did not produce any unexpected results after probing the two planets, which are two extremely ordinary gas giants similar to Jupiter in the solar system. The surface of the planet is covered with a thick ocean of liquid hydrogen, which also contains a lot of helium, and above the ocean of liquid hydrogen is a huge storm that does not fade all year round. As for the content of other elements, it is very small, and there is no mining value at all.

Of the two planets, the pale cyan planet is about 1.5 times the size of Jupiter, and according to Voyager's calculations, if this planet were larger, perhaps its core could have a fusion reaction and become another small star. But with that little less mass, the planet can only spin silently in an orbit near the star like a newborn baby. From the footage of the probe around the planet, Zhou Xin saw a huge storm cyclone on the surface of the planet similar to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. The color of the Storm Cyclone on the screen is pink, but the interior of the Storm Cyclone does not match the cute colors it appears on the outside. According to the probe, the diameter of this huge storm cyclone is 50,000 kilometers, more than four times the diameter of the Earth, and the wind speed inside the cyclone exceeds 300 kilometers per hour. The first probe to enter the cyclone was not well prepared, and under the ravages of such a violent storm, it did not last more than a minute before losing contact with Voyager, and the second probe that successfully entered the interior of the cyclone successfully sent back images of the cyclone, but these images were shaking violently, making people feel that the probe was going to be destroyed at any time. After the Voyager processed the image, Zhou Xin and the others could vaguely see the scene inside the cyclone. The interior of the cyclone was covered with pink fog-like gas clouds, which were passing through the camera at an extremely high speed, except for the gas clouds that kept flying in front of the camera, Zhou Xin and the others did not see anything else inside the cyclone. This storm cyclone was like an energetic young man, and Zhou Xin saw no sign of its existence at all.

In contrast, the planet in ocean blue is a little calmer. This planet is about the same size as Jupiter, and in addition to the hydrogen and helium on the pale cyan planet, there are also a lot of nitrogen, water, methane and other substances. Although it is slightly calmer than the surface of the pale cyan planet, the storm on the surface of the planet is not weak, and the wind speed exceeds 100 kilometers per hour. This super-strong storm spread across the entire planet's surface, and only near the planet's axis of rotation did the wind speed slow down slightly. Zhou Xin and the others saw from the probes in the orbit of the planet that in the midst of the great storms that spread all over the world, some small white whirlwinds would appear from time to time. Some of the whirlwinds appeared for a while and slowly disappeared into the big storm, while some of the larger ones lasted a little longer, but after looking at it for so long, they didn't find a giant storm on the planet like the surface of the pale cyan planet.

"Let the probe collect some necessary data on the planet and come back." Zhou Xin reluctantly ordered the Voyager.

"What now?" Spred asked, "Three planets have been found, and none of them can be used to collect resources." ”

"What else can I do, isn't there another planet?" Zhou Xin sat in his seat and replied weakly.

"But—"

"What else is there?" Zhou Xin directly interrupted Spred's words, "You want to say what if that planet can't collect resources either, right?" Speaking of this, Zhou Xin spread his hands, "I don't know either." ”

"We can look for lone asteroids in this star system." A little girl appeared on the screen, "If you can find a metal-rich asteroid, you can also replenish resources." ”

"Yes, yes." Hearing Atlas's suggestion, Zhou Xin cheered up a little, "But if there is no indication of the star map, where should we go to find the asteroid, this is different from ordinary planets, with the size of the asteroid, it is still difficult for our probe to find it." ”

"Well, let me think about what else I can do." As she spoke, the little girl on the screen sat down, holding her chin with her hands and showing a thoughtful expression.

After thinking for a moment, her brow furrowed, and then she spoke, "Brother Captain, it seems that there is no better way. ”

"Forget it, don't think about it yet, let's wait until we find the last planet before making a decision." Zhou Xin said with a heavy face, and then he said to himself, "If this planet is not good, then maybe we will have to take a little risk......

Seven more days passed, and during the week, Voyager collected high-quality silica from the planet beneath its feet, and at the same time, the probes completed the exploration of the two giant planets, but it was worrying that the probes sent out to explore the star system still haven't found the last planet marked on the star map, which can't help but make Zhou Xin a little worried.

On this day, Zhou Xin sat in the command cabin and waited with concern for the news sent back by the probe. However, after sitting all morning, there was still no probe reporting the discovery of the last planet.

"Hasn't the probe sent back any new messages yet?" Zhou Xin finally couldn't help but ask the Voyager.

"Your Excellency, Captain, no." The Voyager replied emotionlessly.

"Isn't there a star map left by the Atlanteans? Can't you find the planet according to the orbit marked on the star chart? Zhou Xin asked.

"The orbits shown on the star map are not so detailed, only an approximate range." Voyager replied, "And the planet is far away from the star, so the error on the star map is very large, and the probe needs to search for it in a large area." ”

"Haven't you even searched for the orbits marked on the star map until now?"

"Not yet, there's still about 10% or so of the range."

"You say, could it be that the Atlanteans made a mistake in their observations, and that there was no planet in this place in the first place?" Spred asked......