CHAPTER XXIV
"No, how could there be no thing, did you miss something?" Zhou Xin was surprised. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"It's not like there's nothing at all." Atlas adds, "Inside the fusiform they found only small things that looked like personal belongings, but there were no people in there, and nothing else useful. ”
"Personal belongings? How could such a thing be inside a fusiform device? Zhou Xin felt a little puzzled.
"It's not uncommon for fusiform devices to have personal belongings in them." Atlas explained, "In the previous two manned devices, a lot of personal belongings were also found, and people wondered why there were only personal belongings in this device but no one was there. Moreover, after investigating these newly discovered personal items, it has been determined that they were not used by the two people who were found before, but belong to a third person. ”
"The third man? So where did this person go? Zhou Xin lowered his head and thought for a while, "Could it be that you haven't had time to enter this fusiform device?" ”
"That's what people think." "People guess it was because the explosion happened so suddenly that this man didn't have time to escape." ”
"Well, if only he managed to escape, we could get a better picture of the situation from him." Zhou Xin sighed and said regretfully.
"Brother Captain, don't be too disappointed." Atlas reassured, "Although no one was found in the last fusiform device, they found something that was supposed to be a diary among the personal belongings, and they were deciphering the contents of it. ”
"Oh? What is written in the diary? Zhou Xin asked.
"People are still interpreting." The little girl frowned, "The language information of this civilization obtained from those artificial satellites before is too little, and it is not systematic enough. Therefore, it is difficult for people to decipher the written information written in the diary they have obtained, and all they can understand is some meaningless broken words, if only they could find a dictionary or something like this civilization. Atlas also had a bit of regret in his tone.
"Forget it, take your time." Zhou Xin didn't have a good solution to something like translation, which could only be accumulated in a large number of languages, so he could only reluctantly open his mouth to comfort.
"Uh-huh." The little girl nodded vigorously, and then told Zhou Xin a relatively good news, "People just cracked the daily communication system of this civilization yesterday, and now people can already listen to their daily communication." Give them a little more time and maybe they will be able to understand their language. ”
"Well done." Zhou Xin was happy, "The language barrier is really too troublesome, Atlas, this matter will be left to you, figure out their language as soon as possible, and I will let the Traveler help you." ”
"No problem." The little girl agreed, "Give them a few more days, and they should be able to understand what they are saying." ”
Zhou Xin nodded, and then explained, "In addition to these, the research on the things found in the fusiform device that has not yet been figured out what they are used for must continue." I wanted to quickly figure out what the purpose of that shuttle was. ”
"Don't worry." Atlas replied, "People have been watching this in the lab. Then she made a request, "But I'm afraid it's not enough to rely on only one person and engineering robots for the next research, can people call all the previous researchers to study together?" In the end, Atlas took on a coquettish tone.
"No problem." Zhou Xin agreed without thinking, "Whoever you need, you can just call someone yourself." ”
"Uh-huh." The little girl nodded again and again, "Then the family will go and get busy." Before Zhou Xin could answer, Atlas disappeared from the screen.
"What an emergency." Zhou Xin shook his head and looked at the time, but he didn't expect it to be close to night. Seeing that it was getting late, he also left the command module and went back to his room to rest......
Another four days passed, and during those four days, everything was going on the Voyager. Atlas continued to study the objects found on the fusiform device, but even though she gathered a number of Atlantean researchers to work with her, nothing came of it. It's not even clear what each instrument does individually, let alone how to connect them together.
But there is another thing that Atlas is moving so fast is the analysis of the language of this civilization. On the third day after deciphering the civilization's daily communication, she was able to basically understand the civilization's daily conversation. Of course, Atlas didn't progress so quickly in the textual interpretation, but even then, she finished half of the reading of the journal she had found earlier. According to her, the part of the interpretation recorded some daily trivial matters, and there was no important information, so there was no need to tell Zhou Xin.
On the other hand, during these four days, the tension on the planet continued, but during these four days, Zhou Xin discovered a strange thing. The friction between the two forces on the planet in orbit has decreased a lot in the past few days, the most obvious is that the aircraft of the two sides have not invaded each other's territory as they did four days ago, and even cross-border events rarely happen. Most of the aircraft were concentrated near the equator and flew in their own orbits in an orderly manner, once Zhou Xin saw that the distance between the two aircraft was less than ten meters, but they did not make drastic movements, but they just kept this distance and flew together for a while before returning to their respective areas. And the few spaceships that appeared before were even more so, they didn't even fly to patrol near the equator, they just stayed above the edge of their respective continents, and the side of the circular continent even took back a spaceship when Zhou Xin didn't pay attention.
"Are they ready to put an end to this antagonism?" On this day, Zhou Xin looked at the planet screen displayed on the screen and guessed. Up and down the equator of the planet, there are two black rings that are not very obvious, which is a landscape formed by the gathering of a large number of aircraft in this area. "But what are these concentrated aircraft near the equator trying to do?"
"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Dart stared at the screen like Zhou Xin, he frowned and said, "Although the two sides have not had a fierce conflict in the past few days, judging from the current situation, it seems that they are still very wary of each other. I think both of them are just exercising restraint right now, and I'm afraid they're both preparing something in the back. ”
After listening to Dart's words, Zhou Xin's brows also furrowed, "You say this is the calm before the storm?" But what are they preparing? Is it the killer weapon that determines the outcome of the war? ”
"Who knows." Dart spread his hands, "But I don't think they're going to end like this, I'm afraid there's something more drastic going to happen." ”
Zhou Xin didn't answer, just stared at the planet on the screen that was temporarily calm, not knowing what he was thinking.
However, this state did not last long, and Atlas's cry brought Zhou Xin back to his senses.
"Brother Captain! Brother Captain! There's a change! There's a change! Atlas's startled voice startled Zhou Xin.
Zhou Xin felt a little inexplicable, his mind was still focused on the question just now, so he was still puzzled, "What has changed?" Then he glanced at the screen in front of him, but what he saw was the familiar image from a few minutes ago, so he asked suspiciously, "Nothing has changed on the planet, is there something happening on the back side of the planet?" ”
"No, no, no, people aren't talking about the surface of the planet." The little girl appeared on the screen, and he waved his hand again and again, "People are talking about space buildings, didn't you ask people to pay attention to the situation of space buildings before?" It's finally happening today. ”
"Space Architecture." Seeing Atlas mention something he hadn't paid attention to for a few days, Zhou Xin was slightly surprised, and after being stunned for a moment, he asked, "Didn't those space buildings move in the past few days?" ”
"Nope." Atlas shook his head, "A few days ago, people didn't find any spaceships flying from the planet to space buildings, and vice versa, but those space buildings occasionally send one or two spaceships to communicate with each other, but this kind of communication is also rare, only two or three times a day." ”
"And what about today?" Zhou Xin then asked, "Is it the planet that has finally sent a supply ship into space?" ”
"Not really." Atlas shook his head again, "In turn, there are a lot of ships near the space building. ”
"A lot?" Zhou Xin just asked, the screen on the screen switched to the vicinity of the space building, Zhou Xin took a closer look, and found that there were many more spaceships near each space building, these spaceships were of different sizes and models, and these spaceships were all mixed together, and there was no order at all.
"So many ships?!" Just glanced at the screen, Zhou Xin blurted out in surprise, "What exactly do they want to do?" Atlas, when did so many ships appear? ”
"It wasn't that long ago." Atlas replied, "And they appeared almost at the same time, and no one knew what the ships were trying to do." ”
Just as Atlas was answering, Zhou Xin noticed something, the spaceships that appeared on the screen were basically in a state of waiting to start, and the back of each spacecraft was glowing with a slight fire. Before he could question the situation, the spaceship on the screen went into action.
In just a few minutes, all the ships began to fly away from the group of space buildings, slowly accelerating, and even those that were slow began to move after the first ships had advanced a few thousand meters. On the screen, more than a thousand ships form a mighty procession, heading in the same direction.
"Where are they headed?" After seeing the collective action of these spaceships, Zhou Xin asked.
"Depending on the direction in which they are heading, the target of these ships should be near the planet." Atlas gave the answer directly.
"What exactly are they trying to do with such a large-scale operation?" Dart looked surprised, "Do they also want to join the conflict below?" Or are they the killer features we talked about earlier? ”
"I'm afraid not." Looking at the mighty team on the screen, Zhou Xin frowned and said.
Spred also frowned like Zhou Xin, "If my estimate is correct, I'm afraid these ships are fleeing." ”
Hearing Spred's words, Zhou Xin nodded silently and did not answer.
"Fleeing?" Dart was a little confused.
"It's been more than seven days since space buildings lost contact with the planet's surface." Zhou Xin's tone was a hint of depression, "Think about it, what would happen if the resources transported on the supply ship included water?" ”
Under Zhou Xin's reminder, Dart also reacted, "You mean they had to act because of lack of water?" ”
"I don't know if it's a lack of water, but it must be a similar reason. Judging from the previous situation, their actions should have been discussed in advance, otherwise these ships would not have set off at the same time, and this posture may still be a general action. Zhou Xin replied, and then he added, "And if it's not an emergency, why do so many ships have to set off at the same time?" ”
"Whether it's a whole operation or not, this fleet should include a large number of people from those space buildings." "You say, what the hell are people on the planet going to do to people on these space buildings." ”
"If they didn't fly in the wrong direction." Zhou Xin suddenly said something, "I don't think the people on the surface of the planet will do anything to them." ”
After Zhou Xin said this, he stared at the fleet on the screen and was silent, and the command cabin also fell into silence, and everyone focused on the screen.
Quietly watching the fleet on the screen fly for half an hour, during this half an hour, Zhou Xin noticed that there were occasionally one or two small spaceships flying out of the space building, but not many, only about a dozen, and they were all small spaceships, and they also flew towards the planet under the feet of the Voyager in the direction of the previous fleet's flight.
After another moment, the huge fleet had already flown half the distance, reaching the middle of the space building and the planet, and it was at this moment that the voice of the Voyager broke the silence in the command module.
"The probe detected an anomaly in the movement of the vehicle below." As soon as the words ended, the image on the big screen split in two, one side was still approaching the planet, while the other side became a scene on the surface of the planet captured by the probe. Zhou Xin only glanced at it, and found the anomaly reported by the Voyager......