Ten minutes later, the last fusiform was also brought back to the Voyager unharmed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this point, the camera cuts to the dockyard, where six identical fusiform devices are neatly arranged, each surrounded by several engineering robots, which are conducting a preliminary inspection of the fusiform device.

After a while, the engineering robots surrounding the leftmost fusiform seemed to have completed the preliminary inspection, and they left the fusiform device, and one of the robots reported to Zhou Xin: "Your Excellency, the ship has completed the preliminary inspection of the fusiform device. The object is one meter six in length, seventy centimeters in diameter at its widest point, and the shape of the object is perfectly fusiform. Upon careful investigation of the enclosure, it was found that the material used for the enclosure was the same as that of the explosives that had previously attacked the detector, and was a high-strength alloy. ”

"Did you find the entrance to get in?" Zhou Xin asked.

"The machine did not find an entrance to the object." "No traces of any seams have been found on the surface of the object, and its shell seems to have been poured in one piece, and since it does not know what is inside, the engineering robot does not dare to force a gap in the shell." This machine requires a large detection device to perform a detailed inspection of its internal structure. ”

"Very well done." Zhou Xin nodded, and then did not continue, but continued to watch the robot inspect the other fusiform devices.

After about twenty minutes, the inspection of all the fusiform devices has been completed, and after each device has been inspected, a robot comes out to report the conclusion to Zhou Xin. The conclusions reported by each robot are exactly the same, and the six objects are not different, at least in appearance. Only one fusiform device discovered an inconspicuous crack during the inspection, which the robot speculated to have been formed by the force of the previous explosion due to the impact force.

After listening to all the robot reports, Zhou Xin pondered for a while, and then said to himself curiously, "If you don't open your mouth, how should you put that thing in." ”

"It shouldn't be without an opening." Dart held his chin and thought, "Maybe the location of the opening is too hidden for us to find out yet." ”

"But the robot has already inspected the entire shell." Zhou Xin replied, "There is no connecting seam, where did the opening come from." ”

"Seams—" Dart continued to think, "maybe there aren't seams—" he looked up, "let Atlas check it out, I remember we had a similar technique, a seamless technique that we came up with to better enclose the space." ”

"Okay—"

After a while, the special model of the robot appeared on the screen, and it walked directly to one of the fusiform devices and began to check it out.

"Sure enough, this civilization uses similar technology to ours." The little girl on the screen was surprised, "The seam connection at the molecular level, if you don't check it carefully, you really can't find it." ”

At this time, the screen switches to the lens on the Atlas robot, in which everyone clearly sees a black crack, but the sides of the crack are not the usual planes, but are densely packed with round particles.

After this image appeared, Atlas explained: "Each of these particles represents a group of metal atoms, all of which are less than a nanometer in diameter, and the width of that joint is about a nanometer." ”

"That's what it looks like." After listening to Atlas's explanation, Zhou Xin was also a little surprised, "I really didn't expect it." ”

Then, the screen zoomed out and returned to the full picture of the fusiform device, and after a while, a circle marked with a red line appeared on the fusiform device, and this circle was about fifty centimeters in diameter.

"This is the opening of this fusiform device." "Except for this hole, no seams have been found anywhere else in this thing." ”

"Is there a way to open it?" Seeing that he had found the opening of the fusiform device, Zhou Xin asked.

"Generally speaking, this type of opening will not be opened mechanically." Atlas went on to explain, "Using this method is too much of a barrier to the tightness of the device, and the only way to turn it on is through an encrypted wireless signal. The little girl frowned, "But people don't know what the signal for this thing is now?" ”

"Can't you open it?" Zhou Xin continued, "That's a bit difficult." ”

"It's not that it can't be opened at all." Atlas replied, "It's just that it can't be opened using normal methods, and it's okay if you want to, Captain's brother." However, objects sealed with this technique usually contain important items, so it is not recommended to use this method to open them. ”

Zhou Xin nodded to show that he understood, he thought for a while, and then asked, "I remember that there is a device that has been damaged?" ”

"Yes." The robot confirmed to Zhou Xin, "An inconspicuous crack appeared on one of the fusiform devices. As he spoke, the camera began to move to what the robot called the crack.

Zhou Xin saw that the crack on the device was not very obvious, only about a millimeter wide, the length was more than a meter, and the entire crack traversed the middle of the fusiform device. Because the crack was still too narrow, Zhou Xin could not see through the crack inside the fusiform device.

After staring at the crack for a while, Zhou Xin made a decision, "Okay, that's it." Then he instructed the robot, "Since this device has cracks, let's experiment with this first." Let's see if we can see what's inside, and then try to open it. ”

After thinking for a while, Zhou Xin added: "Atlas, you can also go and do a favor, you are more familiar with this thing than those robots." ”

"No problem, leave it to me." The little girl patted her chest and reassured.

After getting Atlas's answer, Zhou Xin's eyes returned to the six fusiform devices on the screen, and now, all the engineering robots are surrounding the broken device, they are preparing to transport this device to a larger laboratory with more complete equipment for inspection, watching the robot's movements, Zhou Xin fell into deep thought, "What is the relationship between that fusiform aircraft and the aircraft below?" What's in it? Where did the flying machine that was destroyed in the first place come from? After thinking for a moment, he shook his head, "The interior of this civilization is really complicated. ”

"The interior of no civilization is simple." Zhou Xin's self-talk obviously reminded Dart of something, and he spoke, "Even within us, there were many factions in the beginning. With that, he stopped, closed his mouth, and seemed not to want to say any more.

Zhou Xin originally wanted to expect Dart to tell some secrets of the Atlanteans, but seeing that he didn't seem to be willing to explain, Zhou Xin no longer insisted, but turned his attention back to the probe that had been observing in the orbit of the planet.

For a period of time, the probe maintained its own orbit and continued to detect the synchronous orbit below and the orbit below, but nothing unusual happened. In addition to those patrolling aircraft, the probe can occasionally observe shuttle-like vehicles flying upwards from below. However, the aircraft equipped with weapons did not attack these shuttles, and even a few shuttles deliberately surrounded the shuttles when they passed the altitude where the aircraft was located, and they seemed to be escorting, these shuttles did not stop after reaching the altitude of the synchronous orbit, but continued to fly upward, after speculating on their trajectory, these shuttles were all flying to the huge satellite without exception, and there should be a base of the civilization on the satellite.

This is not only the case with the side of the planet facing away from the Voyager, but also the side facing the Voyager, with shuttles flying out of the planet's surface from time to time. However, there are more shuttles flying in the direction of this side, except for a few flying towards satellites, there are also a few in the direction of those large buildings that stay in outer space, and the aforementioned shuttle flight direction is quite normal, except for one shuttle.

"Your Excellency, it's strange to detect a shuttle." The Voyager reported that, at the same time, the screen switched to the strange shuttle that the Voyager had spoken.

"Very strange?" Saying that, Zhou Xin looked at the screen, and what appeared on the screen was a shuttle with a very ordinary shape for this civilization, its main part was in the shape of a triangular prism, and on both sides of the triangular prism there were also triangular wing-like objects extending outward, and there was a small area at the tip of the wings that was raised ninety degrees upward. The length of this shuttle is nearly 100 meters, and the wingspan width is more than 30 meters, which is considered a large one among shuttles. Now, the shuttle is flying at high speed, spewing fierce blue flames in the direction of the planet.

Zhou Xin watched the shuttle, which was not normal for him, flying normally on the screen, while the Voyager explained the strange things about the shuttle.

"The shuttle is in a strange direction, it's not going in the direction of that satellite, it's not going in the direction of the space buildings." Voyager reported, "The probe did not detect the presence of any stars in the direction of the shuttle, nor did it find any traces of the presence of man-made structures." As he spoke, the screen shrank to show the shuttle's path in space.

"Could it be that the shuttle is targeting us?" Seeing that the road map displayed on the screen was very close to the direction of the Voyager, Zhou Xin couldn't help but feel a little nervous, "Have we been discovered?" ”

"It's impossible." Atlas popped up suddenly, "With the size of our ship, it is impossible for this civilization to be observed at this distance, unless they have some special technology." And judging from this route, the shuttle still had some distance when it passed by the spacecraft. Then she reminded, "But in order to avoid being spotted by this shuttle, it would be better to move the ship around." ”

After listening to Atlas's words, Zhou Xin breathed a sigh of relief, and then he ordered the Voyager to transfer, as the spacecraft moved away from the flight path of the shuttle, Zhou Xin did not see that the strange shuttle had any signs of changing the flight path from the perspective of the probe, and he was completely relieved.

The Voyager then went on to describe the shuttle's anomaly, "Another point is that, unlike other normal flying shuttles, the detector did not detect any signal from this shuttle, and there were almost no lights on it, and the entire shuttle seemed to be in a silent state. ”

"A state of silence?" Zhou Xin was even more strange, "The flight path is very strange, and even the overall state of the shuttle is very strange, what exactly does it want to do?" ”

"The purpose is unknown." The Voyager replied in a serious manner.

"What do you guys think?" Zhou Xin asked the people next to him for advice with a puzzled expression.

Spred didn't answer the question, looking at the shuttle on the screen, he also had a puzzled expression on his face, it seemed that he was puzzled by the state of the shuttle like Zhou Xin.

Dart pondered for a moment, then speculated, "There's so much I can't analyze now, but judging by what this shuttle is doing now, it seems to be on some secret mission—"

"It's very much like that, indeed." Zhou Xin nodded in agreement, "But what kind of secret mission is he performing, isn't there nothing in this direction?" ”

"I don't know." Spred spread his hands, "If you want to know, you'll have to rely on the follow-up investigation of the probe." ”

"Is that where it ends?" At this time, Spred suddenly burst into words.

"Where is it?" Zhou Xin asked.

"I'm not sure, but I don't think the shuttle's target is at close range." Spred replied, then shook his head, "Maybe I'm thinking too much, so let's let the probe follow and take a look." ”

"It's okay, we are here to speculate." Then Zhou Xin instructed the Voyager, "Let the probe follow and investigate, and see where this shuttle is going." Be careful not to be found out by the other party. ”

"Understand ......"