Zhou Xin eagerly asked the detector to turn back to the camera, wanting to confirm whether his idea was wrong. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Fortunately, this time there were no UFOs rushing towards the probe again, and the space between the probe and the planet returned to calm. At this moment, an object that appeared to be the vehicle of this civilization appeared on the screen, slowly flew not far below the location where the probe had just been attacked, and disappeared from the probe's lens after more than ten minutes.

From these attacks, Dart seems to have seen the pattern, "It seems that only probes close to synchronous orbit will be attacked?" ”

Zhou Xin did not answer, but asked the Voyager: "Is there a probe in the synchronous orbit of this planet or a more inward orbit?" ”

"Not yet." Voyager replied, "Most of the probes are about to reach the altitude of their synchronous orbits, though. ”

"Let them stand back a bit." Zhou Xin commanded, and then he turned his head to answer Dart's question, "Judging from the situation of these probe attacks, it seems that this is indeed the case. But I'm not sure if that's the right thing to do, and I'm scared if going through two of the same incidents will cause the other to be alarmed. He thought for a moment, then said to himself, "Let's try." ”

Next, Zhou Xin instructed all the probes to search for meteors at a greater distance from the geosynchronous orbit. Everyone in the command module was a little puzzled by this order, but the probes still faithfully carried out Zhou Xin's order. It didn't take long for a probe to spot a meteor that had strayed into the planet's orbit.

"Push this meteor into the geosynchronous orbit of this planet and see what happens." After finding the meteor, Zhou Xin ordered without thinking. Hearing his order, everyone who had been puzzled finally understood, so they all focused their eyes on the screen, and the probe on the screen was now trying to change the orbit of the discovered meteor and push it to the planet under their feet.

Fortunately, it was found that the size of the meteor was not very large, and the probe only took a little time to push it in the direction of the planet, and after reaching a certain speed, the probe separated from the meteor. Only the scene of the meteor flying lonely towards the planet is left on the screen. Then, Zhou Xin instructed the nearby probes to point their cameras in the direction of the meteor, wanting to see what would happen next.

At first, nothing happened, but as the meteor approached the planet's synchronous orbital altitude, the same event happened again, and nearby probes observed what happened next.

Without warning, a UFO appeared again below the synchronous orbit, and this UFO quickly approached the meteor that had reached the altitude of the synchronous orbit and was now continuing to accelerate towards the planet. A few seconds later, the two collided together, and with a small explosion on the screen, the meteor was scattered as fragments, most of which continued to fly towards the planet's surface under the influence of the planet's gravity, and the fragments burned in the violent friction with the planet's atmosphere, turning into rays of light, which disappeared from the screen not long after.

This time, the probes finally saw where the UFO was coming from. In orbits about a few hundred kilometers below the altitude of the synchronous orbit, there are some aircraft that are not obvious in the footage, including the UFO that blew up the meteor, and the UFOs detected by previous attacks are all launched from these wandering vehicles, but due to the distance, everyone cannot see the true face of these objects flying in orbit.

After observing for a while, Zhou Xin found that these aircraft seemed to be patrolling in orbit on a fixed route, and did not pay special attention to the nearby airspace because of the probes and meteors that appeared in synchronous orbit before. After several experiments, Zhou Xin found that as long as they are not close to the synchronous orbit altitude of the planet, these vehicles will not react to passing meteors, and once Zhou Xin deliberately asked the probe to control the direction of the meteor and let it fly not far above the synchronous orbit, but the aircraft did not pay attention to the meteor, but normally let it pass not far from the planet. However, once they reach the altitude of the synchronous orbit, they will respond by launching the explosive projectile that was before the meteor. One meteor was too large to be completely destroyed by an explosion, so the aircraft launched a second explosive projectile into the remains of the meteor, completely turning the entire meteor into pieces.

After another meteor turned into debris and scattered on the surface of the planet, Zhou Xin spoke: "It seems that these aircraft should be the automatic defense system set up by this civilization near the planet, specifically for some UFOs such as meteors that are close to the planet's synchronous orbit. ”

"If that's the case, then these aircraft are just making normal defensive actions against our probes, not discovering our existence." Dart thought with his chin propped up.

"Maybe that's how it should be." Zhou Xin nodded in agreement.

"So what are we going to do next?" Spred asked, "Although it was not discovered by the other party, the presence of these vehicles also prevents our probe from continuing to approach this planet." ”

"This-" Zhou Xin thought for a moment, and then said his thoughts, "On such a big planet, there will always be places where the defense is missing, let's let the probe observe the trajectory of those aircraft first, and see if we can find the place where the defense is empty, and then we will make plans." ”

For Zhou Xin's idea, everyone agreed after a little discussion, so, according to this idea, Zhou Xin ordered the probes near the planet to maintain the current altitude and observe all the vehicles that could be found in the orbit below.

However, no holes have been found in the defenses below, and the probe has observed a very strange thing.

"An unidentified aerial vehicle has been detected to be operating in orbit at the same altitude as the probe." The Voyager suddenly reported.

"Tracks at the same height?" Zhou Xin was a little nervous, "Does it have any intention of getting close to the detector?" ”

"Not yet." The Voyager replied, "It seems to be following a fixed route, and the ship has made the probes near the unidentified aircraft evasive." ”

"Good." Zhou Xin nodded and ordered, "Let the probe pay close attention to the path of this UFO, and once there is an obvious intention to get close to the probe, pay attention to dodge, and leave the current altitude." ”

"Understood."

After a while, the probe found that the unidentified aerial vehicle at the same altitude as them did not make any obvious hostile movements, but flew slowly according to its own orbit, but Zhou Xin did not take this lightly, he instructed the probe to observe the movement of the unidentified aerial vehicle at all times until it left its current altitude.

Ten minutes later, the UFO orbited above the continent, and at this time, the probe noticed that its altitude began to decrease, little by little, towards the height of the synchronous orbit, and at the same time, its speed also decreased.

At first, Zhou Xin thought that this was the special route of this unidentified aerial vehicle, and he was relieved after it left the altitude where the probe was located, but what happened next was a bit unexpected.

"It was discovered that the aircraft below was firing explosive projectiles." The Voyager suddenly reported.

"What?" Zhou Xin was surprised, "Which probe approached the height of the synchronous orbit?" ”

"There are no probes that come close to this height."

"None? Where did the explosive flyer go? Could it be that our probes could be spotted by them from such a distance? It shouldn't be. Zhou Xin asked.

"The explosives are not flying in the direction of any of the probes." Before the Voyager could finish speaking, Atlas rushed to say, "Okay, let's tell me, the explosives are flying towards the UFO just now." As he spoke, the camera switched to a detector near the explosives.

At the moment when the camera just switched, all Zhou Xin saw was an explosion, and after a moment of explosion, a large number of metal fragments scattered in all directions, just like the fragments of a meteor, most of the metal fragments fell towards the surface of the planet, drawing a bright trajectory.

"What's going on?" Zhou Xin asked in surprise, "How did they destroy their own flying machines?" ”

Everyone shook their heads in confusion, apparently unaware of what was happening.

Atlas witnessed everything that had just happened in its entirety, and she opened her mouth to add details that Zhou Xin hadn't seen, "Brother Captain, when that UFV approached the altitude of the synchronous orbit, the aircraft below didn't hesitate at all, and directly fired at the UFO. ”

After Atlas finished speaking, Zhou Xin was even more puzzled, he thought for a long time, and then said hesitantly: "Could it be that the UFO and the aircraft below belong to two different camps?" That's why the flying machine below did not hesitate to fire? ”

"Quite possibly." Dart continued, "Judging from the altitude of the unidentified aircraft just now, it is a bit abnormal, and the altitude at which our probe is located is obviously not the height that a normal aircraft can use. Before the discovery of the unidentified aircraft, the probe did not seem to find other aircraft at the same altitude, but there were traces of flying in the synchronous orbit below. Speaking of which, he also confirmed with Atlas, and after receiving her affirmative answer, Dart continued, "Moreover, before it was shot down, the strange change of direction of that aircraft was also very strange, how could a vehicle flying normally in orbit suddenly lower its orbit and slow down, this intention is too obvious, it should be trying to avoid the tracking of the aircraft below." ”

While listening to Dart's analysis, Zhou Xin thought about it, and after Dart finished speaking, Zhou Xin nodded, "My thoughts are similar to yours, so now the question is, where did the destroyed probe come from?" ”

"I think—" Dart had barely said a few words when Atlas interrupted, "Brother Captain! The probe found an unidentified object below that was rapidly approaching a high orbit. ”

Hearing the words "unknown object", Zhou Xin's heart chuckled, and he hurriedly asked: "What object is close to the synchronous orbit, why is the aircraft below starting to launch again?" ”

"Nothing is in or near a synchronous orbit." Atlas replied, "And the unidentified object that the probe observed was not launched from a vehicle in orbit below, but from an orbit further down the vehicle." As he spoke, Atlas released an image of a detector that had observed an unidentified object.

At this time, the unidentified object had already crossed the altitude of the aircraft, and then it did not slow down, but accelerated towards the height of the synchronous orbit and continued to climb. At this time, the aircraft below that were originally patrolling according to the prescribed route began to react to the unidentified object, and several closer aircraft were approaching the flight trajectory of the unidentified object. At the same time, they also began to fire explosive projectiles, which chased them directly after them.

As soon as the aircraft fired the explosives, the UFO began to change its flight direction, trying to dodge the explosives, but this seemed to be in vain, and after the UFO changed direction, the explosives that followed it also changed direction. Zhou Xin counted, and there were a total of five explosives following the UFO, and they were outflanking the UFO in different directions.

As the UFO continued to rise, although the resolution of the detector did not allow everyone to see the specific appearance of the explosive flying object behind it, it was enough to see the shape of the UFO. Everyone saw that the UFO on the screen seemed to be a flying machine, its shape was smooth fusiform, according to the probe's estimates, its length was less than ten meters, and its widest point was about three meters in diameter. Seeing this shape, everyone was very curious about what was in the shuttle flying machine, but now was obviously not the time to discuss this issue, because the five explosives were already about to catch up with the flying machine.

However, the shuttle was very nimble in the process of escaping, and when the explosives were about to approach it, it also made all kinds of strange changes of direction, which were very effective, and it easily dodged the first three explosives. Then, the fusiform made another turn of nearly 180 degrees, dodging the fourth round of explosives, but, after dodging the first four rounds, it was no longer able to dodge the last one, and in an instant, a bright light erupted in the center of the screen, and the fusiform flying object was hit......