"Could it be that the missing probe has been destroyed?" Zhou was shocked. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Before he had time to think more, he hurriedly asked, "Voyager, can you analyze what exactly destroyed the probe?" ”

"The amount of debris is insufficient, and the probe is collecting more debris to analyze the cause of the destruction of the missing detector." The Voyager replied.

Hearing the Voyager's answer, Zhou Xin had no choice but to turn his gaze back to the middle of the screen, staring worriedly at the movements of the detector on the screen, he was worried that the working probe would also encounter the same accident, but no matter how worried and anxious he was, the probe still maintained its fixed action mode, unhurriedly collecting debris in the nearby space.

Fortunately, Zhou Xin's worst fear did not happen, the probe remained in a normal state after more than ten minutes of activity in the nearby space, and Zhou Xin's heart finally relaxed a little, but the probe's next report made Zhou Xin's heart rise again.

"Analysis of the collected debris indicates that the missing detector was supposed to have been destroyed in an explosion. Many of the debris collected by the probe is distorted to varying degrees, and the direction of distortion is towards the outside of the probe. "Voyager summarized the report sent back by the probe.

"Explosion?" Zhou Xin was shocked, "How could it be an explosion?" How could an explosion occur? What kind of explosion can completely destroy a detector to pieces? ”

"The reason is unknown." The Voyager replied with the same emotionless words.

"Why is it for unknown reasons?" Hearing these four words, Zhou Xin's heart was a little frustrated, and at this time, Dart suddenly had an idea, "Could it be that the probe was hit by a meteor, so it caused the explosion of the probe." ”

"Impossible." Zhou Xin replied weakly, "Even if it was hit by a meteor, there was not such a large amount of energy inside the probe that could tear the entire probe into pieces, at most, a part of it was blown up, but if you look at the information in the nearby space sent back by the probe now, there are traces of slightly larger wreckage, all of which are small fragments." Now that it has become like this, there is no way to do it with a single detector or a meteor. ”

At this time, the probe sent back a new result, "This machine found alloy fragments that did not belong to the probe among all the wreckage recovered." ”

Regarding this news, Zhou Xin immediately paid attention to it, "Alloy that doesn't belong to the detector?" Can you find out where it came from? ”

"The machine is comparing the alloy composition sent back by the probe with the database on board." The Voyager replied, and after a dozen seconds, it gave the result of the comparison, "After comparison, it was found that the alloy composition did not match any of the alloy compositions used on the ship." ”

"Brother Captain, people have also compared, we have never used this alloy before." Atlas also added later.

Zhou Xin turned his gaze to Spred's body, and Spred was looking at the screen in front of him, which showed the composition of the unknown metal analyzed by the detector. He recalled for a while, then looked up and said to Zhou Xin, "We do have a similar alloy, but the elemental composition is still slightly different. ”

"So this alloy isn't what you use?" Seeing that Spred nodded affirmatively, Zhou Xin shifted his gaze to the big screen, "Since it's not the alloy used on the ship, then it can only be theirs." His eyes were focused on the planet on the screen.

At this time, everyone focused their attention on that planet, and it was obvious that they had the same idea as Zhou Xin.

"Could it really be them?" Zhou Xin muttered to himself.

"It's only possible that they're going to be." Spred said after Zhou Xin.

Zhou Xin thought for a while, and then asked the Voyager, "Did you detect any nearby objects approaching just before the probe lost contact?" ”

After a while, Voyager replied, "There was indeed a target approaching the probe, and the probe thought it was a meteor, and then it did a normal evasion, and then a few seconds later, the probe lost contact." ”

Hearing the Voyager's answer, combined with the information sent back by the probe, Zhou Xin suddenly became nervous, "It seems that what is approaching the probe may not be a simple meteor, maybe it is a weapon launched by this civilization?" Guessing this, Zhou Xin's heart had the worst thought, "Could it be that you say?" We have already been discovered by this civilization? ”

As soon as this idea popped into Zhou Xin's heart, he hurriedly ordered the Voyager, "Let the probes all retreat one after another, we may be discovered by the civilization on this planet." ”

Hearing Zhou Xin's order, everyone was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, they also analyzed Zhou Xin's thoughts based on the existing situation, and after being surprised, they also became nervous.

Under Zhou Xin's order, Voyager asked all the probes to stop approaching the planet and retreated to a position about twice the geosynchronous orbit distance from the planet, waiting for Zhou Xin's next order.

At this time, Zhou Xin became a little hesitant, and he asked everyone for their opinions, "Do we still want the probe to investigate this planet and this civilization?" ”

The people in the command module were very much on the subject, and they soon split into three factions, one of which supported the continuation of the investigation, while the other expressed opposition. The rest of the group believes that it is possible to observe the actions of the other side for the time being before making a decision on whether to continue the investigation.

Among them, Spreed's statement is the most reasonable, "If we don't continue to investigate this star system, then we will have to leave here and go to other star systems, we have lost the warp engine for the time being, which will waste a lot of time." And if we stay in this star system, what can we do but continue our investigation? If we don't know anything about the civilizations within this star system, we won't be able to do anything next. ”

After listening to everyone's opinions, Zhou Xin thought about it, and finally decided to let all the probes stay where they are now, and observe how this civilization will react next. At the same time, he also specifically instructed the probes who stayed near the wrecked probe to pay close attention to the situation in the space where the probe debris was located.

When it was learned that the cause of the loss of contact with the probe was not a natural cause, but a man-made accident, the atmosphere in the command module was very tense, and this atmosphere lasted for several hours. During this time, the probes staying in space are constantly observing the changes in space within their respective ranges. Voyagers occasionally reported signs of flying over their range, but these vehicles did not seem to make any special moves, just following their own routes, and even one of them flew directly past the area where the probe was destroyed, but it did not stop in nearby space, but instead bypassed the probe's debris and continued to fly towards the space building.

"It doesn't seem like there's any reaction from the other party." After several hours of observation, Atlas emerged from the screen.

However, Zhou Xin was still a little skeptical, "How can there be no reaction at all?" Hasn't this civilization discovered us? ”

"Maybe I thought the probe was destroyed as a meteor that happened to fly towards the planet." Spred guessed.

"Let's hope it does." Zhou Xin said, he still didn't dare to take it lightly in his heart.

"What about the investigation—?" Spred asked.

Zhou Xin pondered for a while, "Go ahead, Voyager, let the probe get close to this planet." But then he instructed, "Let the probes be careful, and if they encounter objects that are too close, whatever they are, prioritize their routes to avoid them, I don't want to see this again." ”

"Understood."

So, according to the arrangement that had been made before, the probe began to approach the planet again, and this time they were more careful, and even the flight speed was reduced.

After more than ten minutes, most of the probes returned to the vicinity of the synchronous orbit, and this time, there were no accidents, and the probes successfully began to survey the planet in their respective positions.

At this time, the probe that went to the other side of the planet to investigate also began to send back images of the other side of the planet, and together with the images obtained before, everyone finally saw the whole picture of the planet.

Compared to the side facing the Voyager, there are not a lot of clouds in the sky on the other side, so the view is much clearer in comparison. Everyone saw that the terrain on the other side of the planet was not complicated, and in fact, there was only one continent in the main part, and coincidentally, this continent happened to be located in the northern hemisphere of this planet, and the whole planet was far away from the other continent. And the shape of the two continents is also completely different, the continent on the back of the planet is nearly circular, it is obvious from the picture that this continent is much smaller than the other, and there are islands of different sizes around this nearly circular continent, except for these, the rest of this side is all a vast ocean.

"Is it just two lands?" Zhou Xin looked strangely at the topographic map of the planet displayed on the other screen, "It seems that the land area is much smaller than that on Earth." ”

"It's not small." Atlas said, "Brother Captain, don't forget that this planet is much larger than Earth, so the area of these two landmasses is only about 10% smaller than the land area of Earth. ”

"That's a small amount compared to the overall size of the planet." Zhou Xin stared at the topographic map on the screen and said attentively.

"It's a lot bigger than the land area of our planet." Spred spoke.

"Alert, an unidentified object has been detected approaching detector E-507 at high speed, and the detector is making evasive maneuvers." Suddenly, the Voyager's prompt sounded in the command module. At the same time, the picture on the big screen has also changed its angle. In the picture, in addition to the obvious planet in the middle, between the planet and the probe, there is also an obvious bright spot flying quickly in the direction of the probe.

Although the probe is in the process of evasion, its lens is always in the direction of the bright spot, and as the probe completes the evasion action, everyone can see that the bright spot has obviously changed direction and continues to approach the probe at high speed.

"Evasion failed, unidentified objects are still tracking E-507." At the same time, the Voyager also issued a prompt, "The two are expected to make contact in ten seconds, seven, six, five ......"

"How could you possibly catch up?" Before the countdown of the Voyager was finished, the voice of Atlas suddenly came. Then Zhou Xin saw that the probe seemed to have crossed a very strange trajectory in space, so fast that the probe's lens did not react, and the stars and bright spots on the screen disappeared in an instant. In less than a second, the camera finally returned to the planet, but by this time the bright spot had disappeared.

"The probe dodged the impact of an unknown object." That's when the Voyager reported.

"Phew—almost crashed." Atlas breathed a sigh of relief, but as soon as she finished speaking, she exclaimed again, "Oh my God, how can there be." Just as she screamed, another bright light appeared on the screen and flew towards the probe.

"The location of the unidentified object comes from the low orbit of the planet." Voyager is still unhurried to report, "The probe continues to perform evasion procedures. ”

"Don't do any useless circumvention procedures, let me do it." Atlas screamed, and then Zhou Xin saw the camera shake violently, apparently Atlas had taken over control of the detector.

"How could there be a second time?" Zhou Xin's mind was obviously not on how the detector could avoid the impact of an unknown object, and he was thinking quickly about the reason for the attack on the detector in his mind. Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind.

"Atlas, dodge and let the probe fly away from the planet." Zhou Xin said quickly.

"Huh? Good. A few seconds after Atlas answered, the detector changed direction, and at that moment, the unidentified object happened to pass by the detector. After changing direction, the probe's camera was still focused on the unidentified object that passed by, but at this time, the unidentified object was only a bright flame on the screen.

"Look back and see if there's anything else flying over." Seeing that the probe had escaped the second attack, Zhou Xin had no intention of watching the distant flames, and he was eager to confirm whether his idea was wrong......