A bright light suddenly appeared on the screen, and after the bright light flashed, the screen went dark and pitch black. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"What's going on?" Zhou Xin was slightly surprised, "What happened to the detector, why did the picture disappear?" ”

"The ship has lost contact with the probe." Voyager replied.

"Lost contact?" Zhou Xin was a little puzzled, "Is the interference too strong?" ”

"The ship is not sure, and new probes need to be sent to investigate."

At this time, Spred, who was next to him, asked, "Did you see what happened to the probe at the end?" What's going on with that last white light. ”

After Zhou Xin motioned for the Voyager to continue launching the probe, he turned his head and replied, "I don't know, maybe it's a strong interference." ”

"I don't think so." Spred's voice was a little confused.

"Then let's take a look." Seeing that Spred was a little suspicious, Zhou Xin asked the Voyager to release the picture before the probe disappeared.

The screen lit up again, and the picture just now appeared, but what Zhou Xin saw was still the same as just now, the detector was moving forward normally at first, but in an instant, a white light flashed, and then the picture disappeared.

"Take it slowly." Spred said after reading it for the first time.

The Voyager slowed the footage down by a factor of 5 and played it again.

Zhou Xin finally saw a trace of abnormality in the slow-motion picture, the detector was moving normally at first, but after advancing for a distance, something seemed to stick out of the wall of the passage, and before Zhou Xin could see what this thing was, a white bright light appeared.

"What is this?" Zhou Xin froze the picture to the moment when something sticks out of the wall, but because the speed is too fast, the thing is very blurry on the screen, and only a stick-like object can be vaguely seen.

Spred spread his hands, "I can't see clearly, it's too blurry." ”

Helpless, Zhou Xin had to wait for another probe to arrive to solve the mystery. However, it was fortunate that the probe relay communication was used at the beginning, so the location of the other probe was only about a kilometer away from the rock wall. At this time, the picture of the new detector had already appeared on the screen, and after less than ten minutes, Zhou Xin saw the stone wall again. Just as the probe was about to pass through the hole in the stone wall, Zhou Xin stopped it, he thought for a while, and said to the Voyager: "Just in case, send another probe down." ”

So after waiting for another ten minutes, two detectors arrived at the location of the stone wall, and Zhou Xin ordered the detectors to continue the investigation. At this point, the two probes entered the hole in order.

At this point, the screen was split into two halves, and the images from the two detectors appeared on the screen at the same time.

After passing through the stone wall, Zhou Xin asked one of the probes to stand by while the other continued to move forward. The advancing probe hadn't taken a few steps before Zhou Xin saw the wreckage of the previous probe on the ground.

Yes, Zhou Xin read it right, the earliest detector has become a wreckage, Zhou Xin ordered the probe to get close to the wreckage, the probe took a few steps forward, and the wreckage appeared clearly in front of the camera.

Zhou Xin saw that under the light of the detector, there were still a few wisps of green smoke from the wreckage of the detector on the ground, but on the whole, the wreckage was relatively complete, and a hole was pierced in the camera part in the middle of the wreckage, and there were traces of melting at the entrance of the hole, and some of the exposed wires were still shining with electric sparks. There are also scattered debris around the wreckage, apparently caused by the probe's impact on the ground.

Seeing the destruction of the probe, Zhou Xin was a little surprised, "This- how does this look like it was shot down?" ”

Seeing the condition of the wreckage, Spred nodded and said, "Well, I don't think it's like the destruction caused by a powerful interference. ”

"Analysis of the wreckage showed that the detector's camera site was hit, and then penetrated the entire detector, and from the damaged part, the detector is suspected to have been hit by high-energy rays." At this time, the Voyager also gave an analytical conclusion.

"High-energy rays?" Zhou Xin said, and then he recalled the scene when his detector was destroyed, "It seems that it has nothing to do with that white light." ”

"What are high-energy rays?" Ralph asked.

“……”

=Popular Science Time=

While explaining to Spred what high-energy rays were, Zhou Xin ordered one of the probes to move over the wreckage, and at the same time, Zhou Xin turned his gaze to the other detector that was stuck in place.

The probe didn't advance a few steps, probably at the beginning where the earliest probe lost contact, Zhou Xin saw a flash of white light again, and then, the image of the advancing probe disappeared, and the Voyager lost contact with this probe.

At this time, Zhou Xin had clearly seen the entire process of the incident on the screen of another detector:

At first, the probe was still moving forward normally, and after a few steps, a stick quickly stretched out from the wall, and then, a white light shot out at the front end of the stick, and after the white light was emitted, the stick retracted, and the white light hit the advancing probe in an instant, and the probe crashed in an instant, landing next to the previous wreckage. The white light did not fade after penetrating the detector, passing the detector that stayed next to the stone wall, and finally hit the stone wall.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Xin didn't need to look at the destruction of the probe, he directly asked the Voyager to slow down the picture just now. At this time, Spred and the others also put down the popular science materials in front of them and focused their attention on the screen.

After watching it twice in a row, Zhou Xin froze the picture to the moment when the white light was emitted. They finally saw the stick-like thing sticking out.

It was a stick not much longer than a pencil, about the thickness of a finger, with a stand sticking out of the wall at one end and a glass-like sphere the size of a walnut on the other, which looked like a large matchstick. And that white light came out of the glass sphere on the matchstick.

"Is this—a weapon?" Seeing the stick, Spred asked with some hesitation.

"Obviously a weapon." Zhou Xin frowned, "This weapon is so small, and it is so powerful, it seems that the technology of this civilization is much higher than ours." ”

At this time, Voyager also gave an analysis report, "This device is an ordinary laser emitting device, this stick is the emitting port of the device, and the laser energy intensity it emits is at least an order of magnitude higher than that of our laser emitter." ”

"So this civilization has higher technology than us?" Hearing the conclusion of the Voyager, Zhou Xin subconsciously asked.

"You can't compare with just one laser device."

"Okay." Zhou Xin continued, "We will not discuss this issue for the time being, and the next question is, should we continue to explore? ”

"Why don't you keep exploring?" "We've all spent so much time that it would be in vain to give up now." ”

Spred nodded, "I agree, it's all come to this point, why give up." Also, it's a bit out of your style to give up exploring just seeing a weapon. There was a slight hint of reproach in his tone.

"Actually, I want to continue exploring." Zhou Xin smiled bitterly, "But we are now led by this civilization, which makes me feel very pressured." And judging from what we have now, the technological level of this civilization is not low, and may even be higher than ours. If we explore further, we may encounter the creatures of this civilization, and this laser may indicate the attitude of this civilization, so I am a little worried that it is possible to know what kind of attitude an unknown civilization has towards us. ”

"What's there to worry about, it's the robots who are probing anyway, if we find the hostility of the other civilization, let's just go." Ralph said with a big grin.

"And, as you cringe, how did you find our civilization in the first place, you weren't like that back then." Spred continued.

"That's the time." Zhou Xin said, "First, I was excited about meeting a new civilization for the first time, so I didn't think about it so much, and second, the Voyager had already deciphered your language before I met you, so I didn't have any worries about communication. And now we don't know anything about this civilization, and this unknown is what worries me. ”

"It's a big deal to call Chang'e again." "That's not how you talked to us at first. ”

"Okay." Zhou Xin took a deep breath, and then made up his mind, "Then continue to explore, here's how to get in." After a pause, he continued, "I think there must be more than this weapon in this passage, how do we get in." ”

"Just rush in." Ralph hurriedly said, "There's nothing wrong with stationary weapons. ”

"Then how do you get rid of this laser weapon?" Spred asked.

"Laser weapons." Zhou Xin thought for a moment, "If there are combat robots, this thing will be a matter of one shot, but now there are only detectors and engineering robots below - otherwise, take a reflex device and try it, but I don't know if it will have an effect on such a high-level laser." Voyager, will it work? He asked the Voyager.

"Theoretically, this method will work with any laser weapon."

"Actually, I'm still a little worried." Zhou Xin said, "If we destroy this laser weapon, will it alarm the civilization inside?" ”

"I think if there were aliens inside, the people inside would have discovered it when the laser device was activated." Spred said.

"That's right." Zhou Xin said, and then he shook his head, "Forget it, just find out when you need to find it, it's useless to think about it now." By the way, Voyager, send some combat robots down, in this situation, it's too slow to ask engineering robots to solve these weapons, so let's call the combat robots to go down and solve them. ”

After an hour, the engineering robots made a reflection device on the spot and sent it into the tunnel, and with this reflection device, they successfully cleared the laser emitter, so that the probe could finally move on. Just in case, Zhou Xin asked the Voyager to send some more probes in.

The detector didn't go far before it encountered a second laser device, and after losing another detector, Zhou Xin thought about it and decided to let the engineering robot walk in front with the reflective device to open the way, and the detector followed behind to investigate.

In this way, they slowly advanced for about 50 meters, and on the way, they encountered more than a dozen laser devices, but with some preparation, these laser devices were successfully destroyed by engineering robots. After they destroyed one more laser device, the engineering robot took a few steps forward, and to their surprise, two laser devices protruded from the passage below. Although it was a little unexpected, the engineering robot still cleared the two laser devices without danger, but the two laser devices that just appeared aroused Zhou Xin's vigilance. After encountering the two laser devices for the first time, the next engineering robot encounters the two laser devices. Although it was a bit troublesome, the engineering robot managed to deal with it successfully. In this way, he walked forward for more than 50 meters. Then the weapons that appeared completely blocked the path of the engineering robots.

It was a live-fire weapon. As the robot moved forward with the reflector device, Zhou Xin heard a huge "bang" from inside the detector, and then Zhou Xin saw the engineering robot in front of the camera stop. Zhou Xin fixed his eyes and saw that the reflex device held on the robot's robotic arm disappeared, and even the robotic arm was interrupted, because everything happened so fast, Zhou Xin didn't know what was going on. It wasn't until Zhou Xin watched the video replay of the Voyager that he learned that the reflex device and the mechanical arm were destroyed by a submachine gun-like device sticking out of the wall. Seeing this situation, Zhou Xin had no choice but to temporarily stop exploring and wait for the arrival of the combat robot.

After pausing the exploration, Zhou Xin said to Spred worriedly: "I think the trouble of this passage is not small, and now different weapons have begun to appear. ”

"It's not that the combat robots haven't arrived yet, and if they go down, it's not easy to deal with these things." Ralph said.

"The current situation is easy to deal with, but-" Zhou Xin said worriedly, "What if there are weapons that are beyond our technology, you know, although the current appearance is only ordinary laser launchers and live-fire weapons, but the conclusion of the Voyager's analysis is that the technological level of these weapons is a little higher than ours, and if this continues, there may be weapons far beyond us behind the passage." What should I do when the time comes. ”

"I haven't seen anything yet." Ralph had a nonchalant attitude, "I'll just figure it out when I see it." ”

"Yes." Zhou Xin thought about it and was relieved, "Then there is nothing to do for the time being, let's wait for the arrival of the battle robot......"