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Shortly after leaving the destroyed probe, the probe sent back a new message.

"Brother Captain, the probe has observed a large number of micrometeors approaching at high speed ahead." Atlas said to Zhou Xin, "The probe is evasion. ”

Not long after Atlas's report, meteors began to appear on the screen, none of them were very large, and the largest could not exceed one meter. At the same time as the meteor appeared on the screen, the camera of the probe began to shake violently, obviously it had begun to perform evasive actions, but although the probe was trying very hard to avoid the attack of the meteor, the number of incoming micrometeors was too many and too dense, and occasionally there were one or two muffled bangs on the screen, which was the sound of the micrometeor hitting the shell of the satellite.

Listening to the impact sound, Zhou Xin couldn't help but worry about the fate of the probe, but fortunately, the size of the meteors that hit the probe was not very large, if you could observe it from near the probe, you would find that there were many pits on the shell of the probe, but there was no place that was broken through by the meteor, so although the speed of the probe was slow at this time, it did not stop. In Zhou Xin's worries, the probe passed through the dense micrometeor swarm without danger.

After Atlas reported that the probe had passed through the meteor group, Zhou Xin breathed a sigh of relief, and then he asked strangely: "Voyager, did the last probe encounter this group of micrometeors on the way to the location of the asteroid?" I don't remember you reporting it to me. ”

"The last probe didn't encounter a micrometeor swarm on its way through this area." The Voyager replied.

"Brother Captain, the orbit of this micrometeor group is not very stable, and it can't be judged based on the situation last time." Atlas explained.

Zhou Xin nodded, he just mentioned it casually because the probe had not yet reached the target location, in fact, he didn't take this micrometeor swarm to heart, and then he continued to pay attention to the screen.

At this time, the detector was less than 5,000 kilometers away from the predicted location of the high-energy ray source, and its speed had now slowed down just in case. However, until now, except for the micrometeor swarm that has just been encountered, there have been no other suspicious objects in the probe's footage.

Next, as the probe continued to advance, the number of snowflakes on the screen gradually began to increase, and the little girl's brows on the screen slowly wrinkled, she seemed to be talking to herself and seemed to be talking to Zhou Xin, "The interference is too serious, strange, how can this area be filled with all kinds of inexplicable rays, and the intensity is not small." After saying this, the picture on the screen was suddenly replaced by snowflakes, this time even worse than before, and nothing but snowflakes could be seen.

"Atlas, is there no way out?" Seeing this situation, Zhou Xin asked.

"Wait a minute, brother captain, people have to change their ways." Atlas replied, and then she called out, "Little sister, come and help, help me with this part." ”

"The person who gave the order does not have the authority to operate the ship, refuse-" Before the Voyager's words were finished, Zhou Xin hurriedly repeated Atlas's words, so the Voyager stopped the second half of his sentence and fell silent.

"It's not like that, it's like this, it's like this." After a while, Atlas's anxious voice sounded, "That's right, that's it, the next frame of the image will also be handed over to you, and I will be responsible for the connection between the images." ”

After a few seconds, the snowflakes on the screen finally began to slowly decrease, although it was not comparable to before, but Zhou Xin had already seen the object on the camera suspiciously and blurrily, at this time Atlas opened his mouth and said to Zhou Xin, "Brother Captain, there is no way for people, the clearest picture is only like this, and people have tried their best." ”

"That's good enough." Zhou Xin comforted, after processing the picture, he began to carefully look at the image displayed on the screen, at this time, the detector had reached the location of the radioactive source. But after watching it for a long time, Zhou Xin didn't find anything on the screen that looked abnormal, and there was nothing in front of the camera at all.

"Strange, what about the radioactive source?" Glancing at the big screen, Zhou Xin asked suspiciously, "Moreover, it seems that even the previous asteroid is gone?" Voyager, what about the asteroid? ”

"Your Excellency, the location of the probe now is the location of the previous asteroid." The Voyager replied.

"Where did the asteroid go?"

"It's not clear for the time being, the probe is searching the nearby starry sky, but the search progress is a little slow due to the surrounding space being filled with various high-energy rays." The Voyager replied again.

"Atlas, did you find anything?" Seeing that the Voyager did not give any valid information, Zhou Xin turned to Atlas to ask.

"They didn't find anything strange." The little girl shook her head.

Zhou Xin couldn't help but be a little disappointed, but he didn't urge, but quietly waited for the next return from the probe.

After waiting for nearly half an hour, the probe seemed to have made a discovery, and Zhou Xin saw from the blurred picture that the probe seemed to have changed its direction, and then began to move in this direction. At the same time, Atlas also opened his mouth to report: "Brother Captain, the probe found that an asteroid has appeared nearby that has not been detected before, and it is about a hundred kilometers away from the current location of the probe, and now the probe is heading to the location of that asteroid. ”

"An asteroid that wasn't detected? Is it an off-orbit asteroid from somewhere else? Zhou Xin asked.

"I don't know until I see it, but I can only say that there is such a possibility." Atlas replied.

So Zhou Xin didn't continue to ask questions, but quietly watched the detector on the screen move towards the target.

In less than a few minutes, a shadow appeared on the screen that was not very clear, but because the picture was very blurry, Zhou Xin couldn't see what it was. After another five minutes or so, the blurry shadow slowly grew larger in front of the camera, and at this time, Zhou Xin finally recognized that it was an asteroid. As the probe continued to approach, the asteroid became larger and larger in the probe's lens, but Zhou Xin still couldn't see the details of the asteroid.

"Huh? This asteroid-" Although Zhou Xin didn't see it clearly, Atlas seemed to have discovered something, and when the asteroid's blurred figure happened to occupy the entire screen, she let out a puzzled sound.

"What's wrong, Atlas, what did you find?" Zhou Xin asked.

"It seems that this asteroid is a little weird—" Atlas replied uncertainly, "the signal interference is too serious, Captain brother, wait a minute, someone needs to confirm the information sent back to the probe." Then she stopped making a sound, and made serious contact with the detector.

After waiting quietly for a long time, Atlas finally spoke again, "Brother Captain, there is no way for people to process the video information sent back by the probe more clearly, but they have simulated the image of the asteroid in combination with the video information. As she spoke, the screen began to be replaced by a static image, and she added, "Sure enough, as people think, we have seen this asteroid before." ”

"We've met before?" While asking, Zhou Xin looked at the picture on the screen.

At first glance, Zhou Xin did not find any anomalies in the asteroid on the screen. Two-thirds of the asteroid appears to be nearly spherical, while the remaining third is occupied by a huge crater that looks like a big bite of an apple.

Zhou Xin looked at it carefully for a while, and then found that the surface of this asteroid was a little strange, under the light of the star, a faint dark green light was reflected on the concave side of the asteroid.

"How is this asteroid like this?" Zhou Xin's tone was a little uncertain, "How do you feel like this part has been melted?" It didn't take long for him to make a new discovery, "What's the matter with the smaller pits inside, arranged so regularly that they look like they can be connected into a line?" And what about those two square pits? ”

After Zhou Xin asked a series of questions, Atlas came to his conclusion, "Brother Captain, this asteroid should be the asteroid where the previous shuttle was hiding." ”

"How is this possible?" Zhou Xin had an expression of disbelief, "The shapes all look completely different, not to mention the surface features, how could it be that asteroid." ”

"It's really different in this direction, but in a different direction—" Atlas said as he adjusted the direction of the image, and at the same time placed an image of the asteroid that the probe had taken from the previous probe, which looked a bit like a bean. At first glance, Zhou Xin still couldn't connect the two, but when Atlas stacked the two pictures together, Zhou Xin was surprised to find that the asteroid in front of him actually perfectly coincided with part of the asteroid earlier, and when you zoomed in, even the topography on the surface was almost identical, but there were only a few more cracks on the surface of the asteroid he saw now.

After carefully observing the comparison map, Zhou Xin found that except for a few extra cracks, all the terrain mismatches were concentrated in the obvious depression on the current asteroid, and this place corresponded to the interior of the original asteroid. After a little thought, Zhou Xin seemed to understand a little.

"It looks like the asteroid exploded from earlier?" Zhou Xin's tone was a little uncertain, "And then the violent explosion caused part of the original asteroid to collapse and become what it is now?" Looking at the screen now with less than a quarter of the original asteroid left, Zhou Xin said to himself suspiciously, "Then where is the rest of this asteroid?" ”

"The probe hasn't found any other parts of the original asteroid in the vicinity, not even a slightly larger asteroid in the vicinity." Atlas replied.

"Didn't you find out?" Zhou Xin thought for a moment, and then ordered, "Let the probe place a beacon here, and then investigate this part that has been found now." It is better to find the other parts of the original asteroid first, so as not to take too long and make the search more difficult. ”

"That's what people think." Atlas agreed. Ten minutes later, a small object swept in front of the probe's camera, which flew straight towards the asteroid on the screen, and at the same time, the probe began to change its course and began to search around.

Since the search was not expected, the number of detectors sent to this place was only five, and the progress of the search was very slow. Zhou Xin had to ask Voyager to send more probes to the area to assist, and before the arrival of subsequent probes, the five probes had already searched a radius of about 3,000 kilometers centered on the discovered asteroid. However, apart from the discovery of some meteors that may have been due to the explosion of the asteroid, no larger asteroids have been found.

Five hours later, the search was joined by subsequent probes, who began to explore farther afield. However, the progress of the search is still very slow, as the interference is still very high.

Looking at the blurred picture on the screen, Zhou Xin's brows tightened, and he opened his mouth to ask Atlas, "Isn't there a way to calculate the trajectory of the rest of the asteroid?" ”

The little girl shook her head, "There are so few asteroid fragments found so far that people don't even know how many pieces the rest of the asteroid has been blown into, and there is no way to calculate their specific trajectory, at most they can only estimate a rough dispersion range, which is probably a spherical area within a radius of 10,000 kilometers centered on the original asteroid." Hearing Atlas's answer, Zhou Xin's heart was slightly disappointed, but he didn't show it, but continued to pay attention to the search operation of the probe.

Another five hours passed, and after waiting for so long, Zhou Xin's heart no longer had much hope for the discovery of new asteroid fragments. Just as he was about to ask the probe, who was still searching, to divert the target to the asteroid fragment that had been discovered, Atlas reported the probe's new discovery.

"Brother Captain, the probe found an object about 8,000 kilometers away from the first asteroid fragment, and when people looked at it, this thing seems to be really a fragment of an asteroid." Atlas said......