More than an hour later, Zhou Xin came back with the apple he had just picked from the ecological cabin in his hand, and even Xiaobai's two paws were holding a plum. Pen&Fun&Pavilion www.biquge.info Zhou Xin bit the apple in his hand and asked vaguely: "Host, how is the investigation, are there any new discoveries?" ”

"No new discoveries, Your Excellency."

Zhou Xin sat on the captain's chair and said boredly: "It seems that nothing new can be found on this planet, so let's go directly to RS-0013 to collect energy." ”

"You don't have to leave this dwarf planet just yet." Voyager stopped, "Analyzing the surface of the soil, the soil of this planet contains a lot of helium-3, and we can directly harvest energy on this planet. ”

"Oh? That's good news. Zhou Xin took a bite of the apple, "I don't know if RS-0013 will break out again, if we can directly collect enough energy on this planet, we can not go to RS-0013, and there will be an accident in the province." Throwing the apple core in his hand into the trash, Zhou Xin continued: "Send out all the engineering robots, let's build a base on this planet to collect helium-3, and I will go down to have a look by the way, I have been in the ship for a few months, I really miss the feeling of being down-to-earth." ”

"Got it, this sends the engineering robots out." The Voyager replied.

A week later, a simple assembled base was built on the surface of the dwarf planet, and Zhou Xin couldn't wait to land on the base from the Voyager. Feeling the weak gravity of this planet, Zhou Xin felt uncomfortable for a while, after all, he had been in a gravity-free environment for several months, but after a few steps, Zhou Xin re-adapted to life with gravity. In this way, Zhou Xin stayed in the base for the time being. In the sky, the Voyager adjusted its orbit and stayed above the base, which facilitated transportation between the Voyager and the base.

Within a few days, a helium-3 production facility was sent from the Voyager, and the work of mining helium-3 began.

A few days later, Zhou Xin was in the base looking at various business reports from the Voyager. One of them reported on the progress of the repair work on the ship's hull - the repair work on the various modules was completed, and the engineering robots involved in the maintenance have been sent to the base to participate in the mining of helium-3. The other is a report on energy harvesting - the helium-3 mining at the base is progressing steadily, and the replenishment of the energy is expected to be completed within a month. The rest are reports that Zhou Xin thinks are irrelevant.

Just as Zhou Xin was looking at the report seriously, a new message came from the communicator, which was from an engineering robot that was mining outside. Zhou Xin turned on the communicator, and the scene around the robot appeared on the screen. Zhou Xin found that the robot was standing on a plain terrain, the surrounding terrain was very flat, and looking around, he didn't find anything unusual. The camera then moves towards a newly dug pit by a mining robot, and finally rests on top of a metal fragment.

"Isn't this just an ordinary piece of metal, is it that the robot was damaged and fell, what's unusual?" Zhou Xin was surprised.

"Report to the captain, this piece of debris has just been dug up, and the unit is not damaged." The mining robot reported.

"Could it be the other robots?"

"This machine is the first robot to arrive here, and the original plan was to dig a new pit here, and this machine is the first to arrive here for early exploration."

"Could it be ......" a thought popped up in Zhou's confidence, "Bring this piece back to check, no, let's send a reconnaissance robot over." Zhou Xin ordered.

After speaking, Zhou Xin put down the report in his hand and stood up, and then walked around the room restlessly. After experiencing the disappointment a few days ago, Zhou Xin is now a little worried about gains and losses. So before getting a definite conclusion, Zhou Xin could only divert his attention by constantly walking.

Ten minutes later, the reconnaissance robot sent a preliminary analysis report.

"After analysis, the metal composition of this fragment is not exactly the same as that of any robot on the ship, and the fragment did not fall from the objects inside the ship. At the same time, analysis of the composition of the fragment showed that the fragment was not naturally generated, and that there were traces of machine polishing on the metal fragment. It is initially suspected that this fragment belongs to a living creature. ”

Hearing this news, Zhou Xin, who was walking around, stopped and hurriedly asked, "Is it confirmed?" ”

"It's almost certain, but more samples are needed for further analysis." The probe bot replied.

"Then send more robots." Zhou Xin said, "Expand the scope of the search and strive to find more clues." ”

At this time, Zhou Xin suddenly remembered something, "Voyager, I remember that there was a square-shaped regular area at that time?" The last time I watched the content sent back by the reconnaissance robot, why didn't I have this part of the image?,Was it because I didn't find anything abnormal after exploring it later? ”

"No exploration of this part of the area has been carried out." The Voyager replied.

"What's the matter, didn't you focus on investigating this place?" Zhou Xin was a little dissatisfied.

"This part of the area is located at the junction of the normal plane and the glass plane, and this is the area where the two robots that landed on the glass plane due to an orbital calculation error were originally the landing site during the last exploration. However, Captain, you later decided that the planet was not worth further exploration, so the ship did not launch a probe into that area again. ”

"Uh." Zhou Xin's face was full of black lines, "This kind of thing should have been told to me earlier." ”

"Since the Captain adjusted your mission's first priority to collecting energy, the reports on the exploration are placed behind these reports, and you shouldn't have seen them yet." The Voyager replied earnestly.

"Well, it's my fault." Zhou Xin honestly admitted, "Then send more reconnaissance robots now, I want to know what is in that place as soon as possible." ”

At this time, a robot from the site where the debris was found reported a new discovery. They dug up that part of the ground, and found a dozen pieces of metal in the vicinity, large and small. The fragments, the small ones were only a few centimeters, the large ones were more than a dozen centimeters, and the fragments were scattered on the ground into a circle, and under the circle, there was a stick that was broken into several sections. It looks like the pieces make up a street sign.

"Continue the search, and report the new situation immediately." Zhou Xin ordered.

"It's not a coincidence." Zhou Xin muttered to himself excitedly.

After sitting down and reading the report for a few minutes, Zhou Xin stood up again, "Traveler, is there any new news?" ”

"No, the detection robot to the predetermined area is on its way, and there are no new discoveries at the site where the debris was found."

Zhou Xin sat down again, and after a few minutes, Zhou Xin raised his head and asked the question again, and got the same answer as the Voyager. In this way, for the next few hours, Zhou Xin asked every few minutes, and he didn't get much out of it except getting the same answer.

A few hours later, the bot at the site where the debris was found reported finding something new. The image on the screen immediately switched to that place, and Zhou Xin saw on the screen that a small piece of ground was exposed more than three meters underground. The ground is gray in color, and some of it has strange markings on it, somewhat similar to the concrete pavement on Earth. Zhou Xin ordered the robot to continue digging around, and as the robot continued to excavate, a small section of flat land similar to the road surface was cleared, and even a structure similar to a drainage ditch was seen on the side of the road. However, the ground was also full of cracks, and the shape was barely smooth.

"Is this a stretch?" Zhou Xin asked a little uncertainly, "How can the road surface be built three meters underground?" ”

"It's almost certain that this is a manufactured road surface." "As for why it's so deep underground, it's supposed to be why there's such a thick layer of dust on the ground. ”

"What, you said that the three meters of soil that were just dug up were dust? Is the real pavement the plane that is now dug out? Zhou Xin asked in surprise.

"That's the only plausible explanation." Voyager continued, "The other side was directly hit by the shock wave, which raised a large amount of dust, and at the same time, the direct impact of the shock wave on the planet also caused a global atmospheric disorder, and in the global air flow disorder, a large amount of dust was carried to this stable plane facing away from the shock wave and landed. The ship had calculated this process, but did not expect that this process would carry such a large amount of dust, covering the height of three meters in the hemisphere, and it was not until the road surface was dug up that the ship finally determined this. It seems that there is still a large error in the calculation of this global catastrophe, and this part of the content will be written into the ship's database as updated information. ”

"I don't need to report on the latter part." Zhou Xin complained, "It seems that there are indeed traces of life on this planet, and it is a high-level life, and low-level life will not build roads." ”

"Theoretically, yes." Voyager took Zhou's words, "Analysis of debris and pavement shows that the civilization is not low in technology, at least at the level of the first industrial revolution of mankind, and may even be higher." Moreover, analysis of the fracture of the metal fragment indicates that the suspected brand object was only recently broken, and the initial cause of the fragmentation is initially suspected to be the aftermath of the Nova explosion. ”

"So a few months ago, there was a high-tech civilization on this planet?" Zhou Xin said regretfully, "If only there was no new star explosion, maybe we would still be able to communicate with this civilization." And if it continues to develop, this civilization may be able to develop to the extent that we have. ”

Just as Zhou Xin was sighing, a new picture appeared on the screen. "The detection robot has arrived at the intended location, which puts the image sent back by the robot on the screen." The Voyager reported.

Zhou Xin turned his gaze to the screen in front of him, and in front of him was a broken wall more than a meter high.

Zhou Xin was slightly stunned, "Let me take a look at the surrounding situation." Zhou Xin continued

The screen began to move, and Zhou Xin saw that the broken wall was spreading far in one direction, and not far from this wall, another wall was spreading out in the same direction, and a road-like terrain was formed between the two walls. At the other end of the first wall, Zhou Xin saw a square area surrounded by a broken wall. Due to the lights, it is not visible further on. But you can also feel it from the part you see, that the wall was once part of a building.

"Explore this place in detail, and it's best to draw a topographical map." Zhou Xin said.

"Understood, this ship will send more scouts to explore this area."

A few days later, part of the topographical map was drawn, and on the screen, Zhou Xin saw a square-shaped area on the ground surrounded by broken walls, and these square areas were arranged in regular shapes, giving people the impression that this was once a continuous building area, but now only the ruins of the two meters high. In some places, not even the broken walls are visible, and all that remains are fresh traces of fractures. Except for the broken wall, the only thing left here is some traces of paint left on the broken wall, but because the height of the broken wall is so low, these traces are basically impossible to see what the original appearance was.

"This used to be a city, but now it's like this, but it's strange, what about the architectural fragments of these buildings." Zhou Xin wondered, "Even if all the buildings are destroyed, there must be building fragments, where are these fragments?" ”

"It was blown away." The Voyager then replied, "The powerful shockwave blew all the buildings on the ground away, and the fact that these ruins are left indicates that the structural strength of these buildings is very high, otherwise there would not be even these remnants left." ”

"I was going to search for traces of this civilization in this city, but now it seems unlikely." Zhou Xin said regretfully, "Judging from the remains of this part of the building found now, it is estimated that the entire city has been blown away." But let's be a dead horse doctor, Voyager, record all the symbols and patterns left on the remnants of the wall, and analyze them to see if you can find something valuable. At the same time, the multi-point reconnaissance robot searches this area and tries to find more information about this civilization in this area. And of course, don't stop harvesting. ”

"Understood." The Voyager replied.

"Tomorrow, I want to see the wreckage of that city." Zhou Xin added......