"Brother Captain, in the past few days, the probes we sent to the planet have lost nearly one-fifth of the total. Moreover, this number will continue to expand at a rapid rate as the other side continues to attack in the future. Atlas reported to Zhou Xin with a solemn look.

"Haven't they ever attacked a mining site in all this time?" At this time, Zhou Xin's expression was as solemn as that of a little girl. However, under the same solemn look, at this time he and the little girl were not concerned about the same issue.

"Nope." Atlas on the screen shook his head, "Since the beginning of this round of attacks, the probe has not found any trace of a submersible belonging to the opposing party within a hundred kilometers of the mining site. ”

"That's weird, could it be that we were completely wrong in our previous judgment?" Dart's brow furrowed even deeper, "They're not heading for our mining site at all this time, but have another goal?" ”

"However, is there another target on the planet that deserves the other party's attention besides our mining site?" Zhou Xin replied suspiciously, "If there is one?" Then why didn't you find it in the previous attack of the other party? ”

"I don't know, they haven't found anything else on the planet that deserves the attention of those attackers." As if knowing what Zhou Xin wanted to ask, the little girl replied as soon as his words fell.

Hearing this answer, Zhou Xin fell into deep thought with a puzzled face. At this moment, Dart, after some thought, spoke, "Atlas, can you mark the locations on the map in chronological order that were attacked by the other side?" ”

"It's simple." As soon as the words fell, a large marked map appeared on the screen. At the same time, Dart's question interrupted Zhou Xin's thinking, allowing him to focus his attention on the screen.

After a period of careful observation, Dart shook his head helplessly, "Except for the initial attack locations that were all concentrated around the mining site, the places that the other party selected in the future were quite random, and I couldn't see any pattern at all, at least I couldn't see it." Atlas, what about you, can you analyze any patterns from this? ”

"N-yes." The little girl frowned and dragged her voice and replied, "The locations that the other party has attacked are almost all over the planet, and there are basically no repeats, and people can't see any patterns. ”

"What then?" Dart looked a little anxious, "If we can't be sure of the other party's real goal, then how should we deal with it next?" At this time, not only Dart, but even Zhou Xin's face showed the same look.

"Do we have no other way but to react passively to their attacks?" At this time, Spred, who had never spoken before, suddenly asked.

"What else can we do, if we can't be sure of their purpose, we don't know where the focus of defense is." Dart reluctantly explained, "Either we can continue to scatter the probes around the planet as we are now, and let them continue to withstand each other's attacks, or we can only withdraw all the probes." But no matter which of these two options is adopted, I'm afraid that those of us here are not willing to accept it. ”

"I'm afraid the only way to do this is to let the other party give up the attack." Zhou Xin smiled bitterly and continued, "You don't have to think about it to know that they won't do this." As soon as this sentence came out, he was stunned. After a while, Zhou Xin suddenly said to himself as if he had just woken up from a dream: "Maybe we can really make them take the initiative to give up the attack." ”

"How is this possible—" Dart scoffed at Zhou Xin's whimsy, but he was stunned before he could finish speaking. After a few seconds, he quickly reacted and asked urgently, "Atlas, how are you doing with their language parsing?" Have you been able to communicate with each other smoothly? ”

"Huh? Oh oh - it should - maybe - yes. The abrupt change of topic left the little girl unresponsive for a moment, and she paused before giving a vague answer.

"Is it okay or not?" Zhou Xin asked.

"Basic communication should be enough." After a moment's hesitation, Atlas gave an answer that he didn't know whether to be happy or worried, "At least it won't be as awkward as the last conversation." As soon as she finished speaking, her voice became urgent, "Brother Captain, those attackers have appeared again. ”

"They really don't give us time to think." Zhou Xin smiled bitterly again, "Forget it, Atlas, the quarantine period for those people should also be over, right?" In that case, take this opportunity to meet with them. He shook his head as he spoke, "I really didn't expect the first meeting with them to be used for such a reason......"

While discussions were underway in the command module, five members of the Gaziol team were sitting around boredly in one of the cabins on the Voyager.

"Wait, wait, how long will we have to wait?" After being locked up for nearly a month, Mondcombe, who was the most emotional member of the five-man team, had long since lost the energy he had at the beginning, and now he could only lie on the table and mumble a few words casually. As for Pavro and the woman among the others, although they had not yet reached the point of Mondcombe, judging by the expressions on their faces, I am afraid that they were not in much better mood now, even Geziol. I'm afraid that Mo is the only one among all of them, and there is no change in mood from his face that has not changed for ten thousand years.

"Wait, Sakincha won't lock us up here and do anything." Gheziol, who had already said everything in the past few days, did not know how to appease Mondcombe, so he could only say this sentence dryly.

As soon as the words fell, the five of them heard a familiar voice from above their heads, "Dear guests, you have been waiting for a long time. I'm so sorry that I'm only able to communicate with you now, and I hope you don't mind. Before a few people could react, the voice continued, "I apologize again, I originally planned to have a good chat with you after I was able to communicate with you, but due to some special reasons, I am afraid that this matter has to be postponed." Uh- Actually, I would say that this particular reason is also closely related to your civilization. So I hope that before we have a formal exchange, a few of them can help us solve the problems that we are having now. Uh--I'll tell you more about the details later. The person sent to pick you up is already on his way, please wait in your room for a while......"