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It only took a dozen minutes for the engineering robot to complete its analysis of the man-made object, and now the Voyager was explaining to Zhou Xin.

"Your Excellency, the engineering robot has been found after preliminary analysis. The structure of the man-made object is not complicated. Its main part is the tetrahedron seen before, and the two panels connected on both sides of the tetrahedron are the original solar panels, which have low energy conversion efficiency and are basically unable to play their power generation functions in this position. "Now that the engineering robot is disassembling the main part of the man-made object, it will take a little time for you to get a more detailed analysis report." ”

Zhou Xin nodded, and then emphasized: "Pay attention to keeping all parts intact." He then asked Atlas, "Atlas, do you have any trouble simulating the signal of this man-made object?" ”

"Don't worry, brother captain, it's a piece of cake."

At this time, Dart walked in, and when he saw the slightly excited expressions of everyone in the command cabin, he looked strange, "What's going on?" Then he speculated, "Did you find neutron matter here?" He had known about the damage to the warp engine for a long time before, but since Zhou Xin had entrusted him with the repair work inside the spacecraft, he didn't have much time to learn more about it in the previous time.

"Not really." Zhou Xin didn't feel bad because Dart mentioned the warp engine, and he opened his mouth to explain to Dart what Atlas had just discovered.

"Oh?" After listening to Zhou Xin's explanation, Dart was also a little excited, "So you can already determine that there is a civilization in this galaxy?" ”

"If there are no accidents, then it should be." Zhou Xin nodded, "The engineering robot is already analyzing the captured man-made object, do you want to listen to it together." ”

So Dart stayed behind with great interest, waiting to hear the analysis together. While waiting, Dart briefed Zhou Xin on the previous maintenance status of the ship's interior.

Through Dart's introduction, Zhou Xin learned that the main structure of all the cabins inside the spacecraft has been repaired, and the rest is the erection of some ancillary facilities and pipelines in the cabins, which is good news for Zhou Xin. However, after explaining the ship's maintenance progress, Dart immediately reminded him that the ship's resource reserves were running out again.

In this regard, Zhou Xin's heart has long been prepared, on the day Atlas repaired the warp engine, the Voyager had already mentioned this matter to him, and Zhou Xin had already instructed the Voyager to start limiting the consumption of certain resources in the spaceship, at this time, Dartdart's reminder was nothing more than Zhou Xin confirmed this point. However, before Dart could finish introducing this period of work, Voyager once again reported to Zhou Xin the latest investigation of the engineering robot.

"Your Excellency, the robot has completed the dismantling of the tetrahedron, and a detailed investigation of its interior has revealed that there is a simple information transceiver installed inside the tetrahedron; an observation device with low resolution; an energy storage device; A device of unidentified function and several scattered square flakes. ”

Zhou Xin was not surprised by the first few objects introduced by the Voyager, but the last two things it introduced piqued Zhou Xin's interest.

"An unidentified device? Square flakes? Zhou Xin asked suspiciously.

"Yes." Voyager confirmed, "Engineering robots are working on the device of unknown function. ”

Hearing the Voyager's words, Atlas was also interested in manipulating his robot, wanting to study the usefulness of the device with unknown functions.

Within a few minutes, the little girl's face showed a lack of interest, "I thought it was something, it turned out to be a player." ”

"Player." Zhou Xin felt very strange.

"yes, it's a player, it's for those square slices." Atlas said boredly, "And this player can only play sound, not even images, it's really boring." ”

But Zhou Xin obviously didn't think so, "Oh? If the sound is played, what does the sound it play mean? ”

"People don't know yet." Atlas is not interested in the player, but he is still very conscientious, "People are analyzing the sound it plays, but the sound played above seems to represent different languages in the same system, and it should be difficult for people to understand what it means." ”

After Atlas finished speaking, the Voyager then reported, "The analysis of the man-made object has been completed, what do you want to do with it, Captain." ”

"Make a copy of the information written above for later analysis, and as for the man-made object, restore it to its original state and let it continue its original course." Zhou Xin instructed, "Although this exploration device is a little rudimentary, after all, it is the first step of a civilization towards the universe, don't destroy it casually." ”

"Understood."

The square flakes seemed to be a lot of them, but they didn't contain much information, and after more than half an hour, Voyager had finished collecting data on the man-made object, and the playful Atlas even copied the object in its entirety. Voyager then put the captured man-made object back into its previous trajectory. Zhou Xin thought about it, although he didn't want to affect the development process of the local civilization, he still asked the Voyager to increase the flight speed of the man-made object a little, so that it flew towards the outer part of the star system at twice the previous speed, even so, it is impossible for it to reach another star, but it is still helpful for the civilization in the star system to study the cosmic space outside the star system.

After releasing the man-made object, Zhou Xin sent the Voyager to continue flying towards the interior of the star system, and after the ship resumed flight, Atlas began to observe the dark shadows flying around him.

Following its intended trajectory, the Voyager flew forward for another two or three hours, during which time Atlas remained interested in observing the shadows that kept passing outside. However, Zhou Xin's attention was clearly drawn to the information left behind by the man-made object, and he asked Atlas from time to time about the analysis of the contents. However, because there is not much content left in it, and it doesn't seem to be left in the same language, Atlas is very difficult to decipher, and it took so long for her to understand that the content recorded in it should be something like saying hello to aliens, and as for more detailed things, Atlas can't figure it out. Of course, Voyager also analyzed the contents of the man-made object, but came to the exact same conclusion as Atlas. Zhou Xin was slightly disappointed with this result, because in this way, they would not be able to understand some information before they made formal contact with that civilization.

However, while there has been little progress in the study of the data left behind by the tetrahedron, Atlas has made a new discovery in his observation of the dark shadows that streak around the spacecraft.

"Brother Captain, look, what's that!" Before saying this, Atlas was still complaining to Zhou Xin about how chaotic and difficult the information left by the man-made object was, when suddenly the little girl's face changed on the screen, and then he jumped up, waving his hands and shouting at Zhou Xin.

Zhou Xin was startled by her sudden exaggerated movements, and before he could react, the picture on the screen had changed, and another seemingly regular black shadow flashed on the screen, followed by Atlas's shout, "Brother Captain, stop the spaceship, otherwise it will fly over again!" Yes! Yes! Yes! Fly over, fly over! ”

Although Zhou Xin hadn't seen what the black shadow was, with the previous example, he chose to trust Atlas's judgment. So, the Voyager made a second U-turn and flew towards Atlas' discovery.

During the flight, Zhou Xin said with a little suspicion: "Atlas, you can't be mistaken, how can it be possible to find two man-made objects in such a short period of time, this is not quite in accordance with the law." ”

"Brother Captain, have you ignored our flight speed?" Atlas reminded, "We can fly much faster than that man-made object, and two launches that are long apart for them will only take a short time for us to encounter." ”

Under Atlas's reminder, Zhou Xincai finally noticed the problem, so he turned his attention to the screen again.

A few minutes later, the Voyager arrived at the location where Atlas had discovered the anomaly for the second time, and like the first man-made object previously discovered, a very regular-looking black shadow appeared on the screen, and even after being spotted by the Voyager, it did not stop its pace, still moving lonely at a very slow pace for a spaceship.

As it had done before, Voyager sent another probe to approach the regular shadow in an attempt to capture it. When the probe approached the black shadow, Zhou Xin and the others also saw the appearance of the black shadow clearly.

Unlike the man-made object they had encountered before, the object they found was a bare cylinder with no other accessories attached. However, the shell of this cylinder does not have a metallic sheen like the first man-made object, and its surface is covered with rectangular flakes.

Zhou Xin felt a little strange in his heart about the completely different shapes of the two man-made objects, but he didn't say anything, according to the previous practice, the probe brought the newly discovered man-made object back to the ship, and Atlas couldn't wait to analyze it.

While waiting for the analysis, Zhou Xin couldn't help but ask the doubts in his heart, "The appearance of these two man-made objects is too different, and it can't be seen that they were made by the same civilization at all." ”

"What's so strange about that?" Dart said disapprovingly, "Maybe it's just that in the time between they made the two objects, the technology has advanced a lot, and the things they made have been overhauled, so we're seeing two completely different devices now." ”

"Is that really the case?" Zhou Xin's doubts continued, "We have not encountered this situation in the development, the second generation of things can at least see the traces of the first generation of items, like this even the appearance of the two generations of items are completely different, we have not encountered in the development." ”

At this time, Atlas opened his mouth and continued: "There is some truth in what the captain's brother said, the people have completed the preliminary investigation of the man-made object. People found that not only from the appearance, but also in the material composition and internal structure of the two artificial objects, although the functions of the components inside are similar, but the structure is completely different, people can not see that these are two items made by the same civilization. ”

Speaking of this, the little girl showed a strange expression, "What are these round flakes for?" Her brow furrowed slightly, and it didn't take long for her face to stretch, "That's how it works." He clapped his hands, "Sure enough." ”

Then Atlas happily said to Zhou Xin: "People found the same thin slice used to record sound in that man-made object, and now people may be able to figure out the meaning of the sound recorded in the previous flakes." But after only a moment, the little girl frowned again, "No, how can it be completely different?" ”

"It's completely different." Zhou Xin has not yet figured out the current situation.

"The sounds recorded in these flakes seem to belong to two completely different systems from the languages of the previous man-made object." Atlas said with a tone of surprise.

"This-" After listening to Atlas's words, Zhou Xin was also a little surprised, "Two objects made by the same civilization, even if the structure is very different, it is impossible for even the language to be so different." Then he pondered, "Is it the same as the earth before?" These two man-made objects come from two different forces of the same civilization? He muttered to himself. Then Zhou Xin asked, "Atlas, can't you find any similarities between these two languages?" ”

"It's not two languages, to be exact." Atlas corrected, "There are two completely different language systems, and there are many similar different languages in both language systems, but there is absolutely no similarity between the two language systems. ”

After listening to Atlas's explanation, Zhou Xin was even more convinced of the thoughts in his heart......