After nervously waiting for two hours, the meteor group that appeared on the screen really appeared in front of Zhou Xin. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Similarly, at first there were black dots in twos and threes, and it didn't take long for a large force of meteors to appear.

"Contact is expected in five minutes, and the probe is searching for larger pieces of it." The Voyager reported.

"Execute according to the plan."

"The observation window is closed, and the large screen is turned on, turning into the perspective of an external detector." The Voyager's mobile defensive armor blocked the observation window in front of Zhou Xin, and then the observation window lit up, and the scene outside reappeared in front of Zhou Xin's eyes, which was the large display screen turned on.

"1 minute before contact...... 10 seconds, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 contact. ”

At this time, Zhou Xin suddenly felt that the vibration of the ship's hull began to intensify, and occasionally he could hear a crackling sound similar to hail hitting the window, which was the sound of a fist-sized meteor hitting the ship's hull armor.

The sound continued for a while, and Zhou Xin saw a car-sized meteor fragment in the distance on the screen, and several small meteors rushing towards the middle of the screen around it. "Large meteor fragments detected, missile launched." A few seconds later, a missile flew out and shattered the fragment.

For the next hour, there were hints of large pieces of debris, and even hints that the exterior armor had been destroyed and needed to be repaired, but fortunately, the damaged armor was quickly repaired by the engineering robot after the ship's attitude was adjusted. Suddenly, Zhou Xin saw a fragment appear in front of him, this fragment was getting bigger and bigger in the screen, and soon occupied a corner of the screen, and it was actually a huge fragment that was a hundred meters long.

"What is this?!" "Warning, warning, detection of asteroid-level debris, emergency avoidance, emergency evasion." The Voyager sounded the alarm.

Zhou Xin, who was sitting in the seat, suddenly felt a huge force pressing him to the seat, this is the Voyager is performing an emergency evasive action, the crackling sound from the hull is more dense, this is the hull attitude changed and hit more small pieces of meteors, and then, the fragments that occupied a corner of the screen gradually disappeared from the field of vision. In another view, the debris crossed about a hundred meters from the top of the battleship.

"It's so dangerous." Zhou Xin breathed a sigh of relief, "What's the matter, how did you find out at such a close distance." ”

"This is a mistake on the part of the ship, this piece of debris is hidden behind a group of debris, the radar echo is reflected by the debris in front of the detector after the identification of the size of the misjudgment, the ship has turned on visible light recognition as a supplement." The Voyager replied.

"I'm a little sorry at this time." "This ship doesn't have an emotional module, so it can't fulfill your request, Captain." "Okay, okay, be vigilant, don't slip through the net again, we can't afford to be bumped like this." "Roger."

Finally, two hours later, all the meteors had passed through the Voyager and flew into the distance, and after the Voyager narrowly avoided the large fragment, there was no trace of any more large fragments in its field of vision.

"Whew, it's finally over." After seeing the last few meteors disappear from the battleship's field of vision, Zhou Xin collapsed in his seat, although he didn't do anything, but he was still very stressed to pass through such a large number of meteors in a short period of time.

"Please don't take it lightly, Captain, this is just the first wave of meteors." "And a second wave?" "According to calculations, the explosion of RS-0013 ejected a large number of gas clouds, forming a dozen shock waves in the front, but at the same time, the ejected gas cloud also pushed the solid material around RS-0013, making it a high-speed meteor group, just now we encountered only dust-level meteors, they have a faster muzzle velocity due to their lower mass, therefore, there should be a large mass meteor group behind."

"A massive meteor swarm?!" Zhou Xin was surprised, "Otherwise, move forward in a different direction." ”

"No, since we don't know the direction in which the meteor swarm is coming and the direction of RS-0013's rotation, theoretically it is the same in which direction, as long as you move towards RS-0013, the probability of encountering the meteor swarm is the same."

"What can I do about this, I can't help but think about it for energy." Zhou Xin felt a little embarrassed.

"Comrade Captain, please rest assured, this ship has experience in flying in the asteroid belt, so don't be particularly worried, and you have not also flown in the asteroid belt with this ship."

"You don't understand, it's psychological pressure. Anyone flying in the asteroid belt would be nervous to see so many asteroids passing by? Moreover, it wasn't just the two of us who sailed the asteroid belt, the helmsman, the radar officer, or something. In addition, the navigation law does not say that we should avoid risks as much as possible, and I also do it for safety reasons. ”

"There is no psychological pressure on this ship, and at the same time, this ship also has the ability to deal with emergency situations independently. According to the ship's calculations, at this distance, there will not be many massive asteroids heading towards us, and the density is much lower than that of the asteroid belt, and the ship has enough time to avoid it. And, Captain, all emotions can affect your judgment, so please pay attention to that. ”

"I almost hit it that time." Zhou Xin muttered.

"It was just an accident, Captain."

"Okay, okay, so you mean to move on?"

"Yes, Captain."

Zhou Xin weighed it and ordered: "Okay, I order, continue to move towards RS-0013, but pay attention to safety." ”

"Understood, the main engine starts, continue to fly to RS-0013." "Chirp."

Over the course of the next three months, Voyager encountered three micrometeor swarms at first, but with the first experience, Voyager easily dodged the onrushing meteor swarm. The next meteors began to grow in mass, and asteroids with a diameter of several hundred meters began to appear, but there were basically two or three sporadic ones at a time, and Voyager successfully navigated these asteroids. In the last month, even asteroids with a diameter of more than a kilometer appeared, but this did not bother Voyager very much. They continued on their way towards RS-0013.

On this day, the Voyager successfully dodged an asteroid with a diameter of 10 kilometers, Zhou Xin was sitting bored in front of the command platform teasing Xiaobai, after so many asteroid attacks, Zhou Xin also began to be a little numb.

"Please don't take it lightly, Captain." The Voyager reminded.

"Just relax a little bit, don't be so harsh." Zhou Xin replied lightly, "Didn't you just dodge one?" ”

"That doesn't mean there won't be the next one, so stay vigilant."

"Good, good." Zhou Xin said perfunctorily, "In other words, the asteroids we have encountered recently are getting bigger and bigger, and you said that we will not encounter a real planet flying over in the end." Zhou Xin asked half-jokingly.

"It's a probability." The Voyager replied solemnly.

"No, it won't!" Zhou Xin was a little surprised.

"Theoretically, the probability of a planet around a red dwarf is very high, and if the force of this nova explosion is strong enough, it will be enough to push the planet out of its orbit, so that the possibility of a wandering planet is not impossible. If these conditions are met, the probability of a wandering planet is still very low. The Voyager replied earnestly.

"Okay, I see." Zhou Xin picked up Xiaobai and put it on his shoulder, then stood up, "It's almost time, I'll go check the situation of each cabin, and I'll leave it to you here." ”

"Leave it to me."

= Fourteen days later on the night =

Zhou Xin was happily chatting with Zhou Gong on the bed, and Xiaobai was still lying on the bedside table, and Zhou Xin made a small nest for Xiaobai on the bedside table. At this time, Zhou Xin's communicator on the bedside table suddenly rang. The mouse sleeping next to it was awakened.

"Wow~!" Xiaobai "whoosh" and jumped from the bedside table to Zhou Xin's face.

"Ah~!" This was Zhou Xin's exclamation when he was jumped on his face, Zhou Xin sat up from the bed, and then he took Xiaobai off his face.

"What's the situation?" Zhou Xin yawned, he was still in a state of confusion when he had just gotten up, and the communicator was still ringing, "Dididi." ”

Zhou Xin picked up the communicator from the bedside table, "Heh~, let's talk about it, what's the situation." ”

"A dwarf planet-level object has been detected flying 3 AU away, do you need to detect it?"

"Dwarf planet, just dodge, isn't it just a dwarf planet" Zhou Xin said in a daze, "Planet? Dwarf planet?! "He finally came to his senses." Dwarf planet! It's a dwarf planet. He didn't even bother to put on his clothes, so he ran to the command cabin.

"Host, report the situation." Zhou Xin, who was wearing pajamas, asked with a piece of clothing.

"The infrared detector detected the appearance of an object the size of a dwarf planet three astronomical units away from the ship. Is it necessary to continue the investigation? ”

"Are you coming for us?"

"According to the trajectory calculation, the ship will pass by the dwarf planet at a maximum distance of 2 astronomical units."

"Is there a specific image? Check it out. ”

The image taken by the infrared detector appeared on the screen, and at first Zhou Xin had not yet discovered the dwarf planet, but under the instructions of the Voyager, Zhou Xin found a red dot the size of a ping-pong ball in the middle of the screen, which was so dim that it almost blended in with the surrounding background.

"Such a faint reaction, sure it's a dwarf planet? Could it be an asteroid swarm? Zhou Xin was skeptical.

"There is an 80% probability that at such a distance from RS-0013, the asteroid would have been completely cooled a long time ago, and there would not have been such a strong signal response, and only the planet that is in the cooling can appear within the infrared signal. Of course, there is a 20% chance that RS-0013 is ejecting a large cloud of ionization. The Voyager replied.

"80% likely, it's still worth checking out, this is the first time we've encountered an exoplanet." Zhou Xin's voice was slightly excited.

"There's a 20 percent chance it won't." The Voyager said in a flat voice.

"Okay, don't splash me with cold water, hurry up and have a look." Zhou Xin was so excited that he couldn't sleep at all.

"Captain, it's time to rest." The Voyager reminded.

"Once or twice once in a while, it's fine." Zhou Xin said, "Do you think I can still sleep now?" ”

"This ship doesn't understand your feelings." The Voyager replied, "The discovery of a dwarf planet is not something to be excited about for this ship. ”

"Okay, I know you don't have an emotional module, you really can't understand my feelings, but let me indulge once, just once."

"Don't take it as an example."

"Okay."

After more than half an hour, a small black dot began to appear on the display, and as the Voyager continued to advance, the black dot grew larger and larger, gradually changing from the size of a ping-pong ball to the size of a football, and finally, a black shadow the size of a basketball appeared on the screen.

"Here we are, Captain, about 150,000 kilometers from that dwarf planet." The Voyager reported.

"It's so dark, can't the telescope see the more detailed situation?"

"The starlight around is too faint, and the visible light band doesn't get more information." The Voyager replied.

"What about the infrared band?"

"The planet indicates that the temperature is too low to discern more details."

"Then you can only send the robot directly?" Zhou Xin asked.

"You can launch a few close-range detection satellites to see what is going on."

"By the way, there's also a probe satellite, so let's do it."

"Understand that the launch of the probe satellite is being prepared, which is expected to reach the predetermined orbit in 90 minutes, and the global scan is expected to be completed within 3 hours of reaching the orbit." The Voyager came to a conclusion.

"Heh~ It's going to be more than four hours." At this time, the excited Zhou Xin felt a sense of sleepiness, "Then I'll leave it to you here, I'll continue to rest for a while." ”

"Understood."

= Here are five hours =

Five hours later, Zhou Xin stood in the command cabin in high spirits, with mouse Xiaobai standing on his shoulder. After the initial excitement, Zhou Xin's mood calmed down a little after a night's sleep.

"Voyager, are the results of the satellite scan out?"

"The global scan was completed just 10 minutes ago, and now the results are displayed on the screen." The Voyager replied.

At this time, Zhou Xin saw an irregular ball appear on the screen, half of the ball seemed to have been cut off by something, and the part that was cut off was still shining with a strange luster, like a broken glass ball. The other half is similar to a normal planet, with mountain terrain, valley terrain that used to be like a river, and plain terrain, but Zhou Xin vaguely saw a terrain that seemed to be a block in the plain near the river valley.

"This ...... The shape of the planet...... Why is it so weird? Shouldn't a normal planet be oblate? Zhou Xin felt a little puzzled.

This is a good explanation for the fact that the missing part of the dwarf planet was destroyed by the nova explosion, and at the moment of the nova explosion, the high-energy ionized gas was directly sprayed into the sunny side of the planet, blowing away part of the material on the sunny side of the planet, resulting in the loss of material on the planet. At the same time, the high-temperature gas directly melts the sunny side of the planet, making this surface a ......"

"A big piece of glass?"

"You're right, Captain."

"Well, that makes sense." Zhou Xin said, "Next, tell me the details of this planet." ”

"Okay......