Chapter 21: Broken Contact

"How is that possible?! The blocking flying machine actually dodged?! Zhou Xin was surprised. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"You read that right." "The plane changed direction after pulling away and kept flying at a distance of about 100 meters. Dart continued to point to the flying machine that was pulling away, and after a few seconds, the flying machine changed direction again after reaching a position of about 100 meters as Dart said.

At this point, Dart turned off the video and continued, "This is one of the most obvious examples, not long after this happened, the blocker just launched the same action, and one of their aircraft also successfully invaded the territory of the intruder. This time, as the invaders, although they did not invade the southern hemisphere as far as the previous one, they behaved more excessively. I observed in the footage that the intruder's aircraft tried to approach the blocking aircraft several times, and on one occasion even came close to encountering it, but the blocking aircraft actively avoided it. At this time, Dart thought for a moment, and then said his guess, "It feels like the intruder's aircraft wants to be destroyed by the other party." ”

"Initiative to be destroyed by the other party?" Hearing Dart's reminder, Zhou Xin thought about it, "Do you mean to say that these few incidents are all about the invading side trying to find an excuse to start a war?" ”

"Isn't it?" Dart spread his hands, and then analyzed, "As long as the defender takes the initiative to attack the invading aircraft, the invading side has a good excuse for war. ”

"But isn't invading the other party's territory a legitimate excuse? And why do they have to make the other move first? ”

"Who knows, maybe for the people on this planet, who will shoot first will determine who starts the war first." Dart didn't know much about the first question, but he just guessed for a moment, and then he began to explain the second question in detail, "As for why the other party has to do it first, I have mentioned it before, they are afraid to do it first. After a pause, he continued to speculate, "I think it's very likely that there may be some congenital disadvantage for the first mover, or what advantage might exist for the later mover." I think the latter is more likely, that they may have some weapons of mass destruction or something like that, for some particular reason or restriction, that can only be used by the people behind them. ”

"Weapons of mass destruction?" Zhou Xin was a little puzzled, "What kind of weapon is it?" How can the people of the entire planet be so scared that neither side dares to take the initiative to start a war? High-energy weapons? Or a high-radiation weapon? Or is it something like that? ”

"Who knows?" Dart spread his hands again, and then said casually, "Actually, there is another possibility, that is, we haven't seen a third-party force in speculation. ”

"A third party?" This time, Zhou Xin quickly understood Dart's thoughts, "You mean that they are all afraid that if they really fight, they will be taken advantage of by a third party and profited?" ”

"I don't think it's very likely." Dart shook his head, "If they're afraid of a third-party fisherman's profit, then they should even be afraid of going to war." But looking at their current appearance, it is clear that they are in a state of active fighting, but no one dares to fire the first shot, and this difference is still very big. ”

Zhou Xin nodded, "I understand what you mean, it does make sense." Now the question is what is that 'thing' that they are afraid of? ”

"Look." Dart looked at the triangular battleship on the screen, slightly distracted, "Maybe it won't be long before we can see it." ”

"Tick, the probe has lost track of the shuttle." Suddenly, the Voyager reported.

"Shuttle? What shuttle? Zhou Xin didn't react to what the Voyager was talking about at first.

Then the screen changed, and an irregularly shaped star appeared in the middle of the screen, slightly larger at the ends and concave in the middle, looking like a bean.

At the same time as the star appeared, Voyager reported, "It's the weird shuttle you tracked the probe the other day. ”

Under the prompting of the Voyager, Zhou Xin finally remembered that because there were more things that happened a few days ago, he completely ignored the incident he had explained. But after thinking about it, he was a little surprised, "It's been so many days, and that shuttle hasn't reached its destination yet?" Surprised, he asked the Voyager, "Where did the probe lose track of that shuttle?" ”

"It's near this star." Voyager replied, "This is one of the larger stars in the inner asteroid belt of this galaxy. For fear of being discovered by the other party, the probe did not dare to track at close range, and could only follow at the farthest distance that the probe could observe. In the last image of the shuttle sent back by the probe, the shuttle went around the star, and then when the probe followed the other party's route around the star, the shuttle disappeared from the camera, and the probe searched the star field within the visible range, but did not find the shuttle again. ”

"Asteroid belt? Actually ran so far away, no wonder it was tracked for so long. What the hell is it going to do here? Zhou Xin muttered to himself, thought for a moment, and then asked the Voyager, "Did the shuttle disappear after bypassing this star?" Has the probe examined the surface of the asteroid, and will the shuttle have landed on the asteroid? ”

"After searching the surrounding space and finding no sign of the shuttle, the probe scanned the surface of the asteroid, but did not find anything similar to the shuttle." Voyager replied, and then added, "The probe on the surface of this asteroid has not even found any traces of man-made structures. ”

"Strange, where did the shuttle go?" Zhou Xin stared at the asteroid on the screen and muttered, "Are there any other asteroids nearby?" He asked.

"There are no large stars found within a hundred kilometers of this asteroid that can hide from the shuttle, and more distant stars are impossible to reach at the speed of that shuttle." The Voyager rejected Zhou Xin's idea.

"You're not going to get into an asteroid." Dart was also thinking about the whereabouts of the shuttle when suddenly he burst into words.

"It may be possible." Zhou Xin continued to look at the asteroid and said thoughtfully, and then he instructed the Voyager, "Well, let that probe continue to search the nearby space to see if there is anything missing." If not, then let this probe stop near this asteroid, if the shuttle does get into the asteroid, it will come out sooner or later. ”

"Understood."

"Strange, if there really is space in an asteroid, why would they do that? It's obviously a lot more laborious than building a base on its surface. Zhou Xin continued to look at the asteroid and think.

"Maybe they're trying to hide something, who knows?" Dart replied casually.

Zhou Xin looked at the asteroid on the screen and thought for a while, and suddenly, Atlas's voice rang out.

"Brother Captain! Brother Captain! People have discovered a very strange thing! ”

"Huh?" Zhou Xin came back to his senses, "Strange thing? What's the strange thing? ”

The little girl appeared on the screen, and then she switched the image on the big screen to a picture that Zhou Xin had seen before.

"Isn't this the group of space buildings? What happened? Looking at the group of space buildings that appeared on the screen, Zhou Xin asked strangely.

"Nothing has happened to the space building itself." Atlas replied, "But the strange things that people have found have something to do with them." She paused, then said, "The buildings seem to be cut off from the planet. ”

"Interrupted? How do you say that? Zhou Xin asked strangely.

"In the first few days of our arrival here, there was communication between the space building and the planet. From time to time, people can find that the aircraft departing from the surface of the planet and then docking on this group of space buildings, these aircraft are only a dozen meters small to hundreds of meters, and the types are different. But, just the day before yesterday, that changed-"

"People found that all the flying machines that could be seen from time to time disappeared the day before yesterday, and until now, no one has seen any flying machines flying from the ground to those space buildings. What's even more strange is that some of the vehicles from the surface of the planet and docked to space buildings did not return to the surface of the planet after the day before yesterday, and the connection between the two was completely lost. Atlas detailed what she had observed over the past few days.

After listening to Atlas's words, Zhou Xin's attention was not focused on the disappearance of the aircraft, he thought for a while, and then asked: "There was communication between the ground and the space building before?" Is it frequent? Where did the spacecraft that took off from the ground come from? ”

"At least one or two every hour, and from somewhere-" Atlas tilted his head for a moment, then replied, "from the Southern Hemisphere." ”

"Is that so?" Zhou Xin's tone was a little disappointed, obviously there was a big gap between what Atlas observed and what he thought in his heart, and he said to himself, "It doesn't seem to be what I thought." Then he went on to ask Atlas, "You said those flying machines disappeared the day before yesterday?" When exactly? ”

"Just after the first aircraft intrusion." Atlas immediately replied, "After this incident, no one has seen a flying machine fly out of the planet, and there is no flying machine in the space building back to the planet." ”

"It's easy to understand." Dart said, "It must be for safety reasons, the people on the ground voluntarily cut off contact with the space buildings, so as not to innocently affect these aircraft when they fly in the atmosphere." ”

"Hmm." Zhou Xin nodded, "I think so too, otherwise this incident wouldn't have happened just after the invasion appeared." ”

"But isn't it strange to find that even those spaceships for material exchange are gone?"

Hearing this, Zhou Xin was a little surprised, "Are you sure it's a spaceship used for material exchange?" And not for any other purpose? ”

"Those spaceships are hundreds of meters long, and in the process of docking next to the space building, there are constantly small aircraft flying back and forth between the space building and those large spaceships, and each time they will carry different things, this is not for material exchange, but for what is it for?" Atlas explained in detail.

"How is this possible, if it is really a spaceship for material exchange, then it is also prevented from flying like other aircraft, so what will happen to the people in the space building." Zhou Xin said in surprise.

"This person doesn't know, the probe can't see what's going on inside these space buildings."

Zhou Xin's eyes when he looked at the space building suddenly turned into a worried look, "I don't know what happened to the people inside, if those cargo spaceships were transporting daily necessities, it would be fine, but if it was food, it would be fine." Atlas, what is the frequency of the appearance of cargo ships? ”

"About fifteen hours a ship."

"Is it once in half a day of planetary time?" Zhou Xin thought about it, "This frequency is not low, it is estimated that it should be what necessities, is it really food?" After staring at the space complex on the screen for a long time, Zhou Xin couldn't help muttering, "I hope these buildings can be self-sufficient inside, otherwise the people inside will be miserable." ”

"If there is really a shortage of food in the space building, the ground will definitely be transported to it, and it is impossible to leave it alone, after all, there are people from the same force inside." Dart said indifferently, "Besides, what does this have to do with us, it should be their own concern, what are you doing here?" ”

"But it's all life, after all." Zhou Xin still stared at the screen for a while after finishing speaking, and then he sighed, "Forget it, that's what I'm talking about, I'm here to worry about what to do." Atlas, if you can, keep an eye on this group of space buildings. After thinking about it, he still explained.

"There's no problem, just let the probe continue to observe." Atlas replied, and then she brought up another matter, "Brother Captain, the analysis of the alien corpse has been completed, do you want to know about it......?" ”