While everyone waited, another four days passed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAfter repeated revisions by Spred, a streamlined maintenance plan for the warp engine core was released.

"How much has the success rate changed compared to the previous one?" After receiving Spred's request to prepare for the repair of the engine core, Zhou Xin did not immediately agree to him, but asked a question that he was most concerned about. After asking, he added, "If the success rate is too low, then the repair will not be in a hurry, and we will take a long-term view." I've been waiting so long, I don't care about waiting a little longer. ”

"According to my estimates, the success rate of the final repair has not changed much, and I have just omitted a lot of the inspection steps." Spred replied, and then he explained, "Because the restoration was carried out on a copy of the Voyager's core, it was theoretically impossible for errors to occur, so the omitted checks were dispensable." The success rate will definitely be a little lower, but this is completely negligible. ”

However, after listening to Spred's detailed explanation, Zhou Xin still did not agree immediately, and at the same time, a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.

While Zhou Xin was thinking, Spred continued: "Even if it continues to be delayed, the maintenance plan will not make significant changes, and the impact on the final success rate is very small." ”

"Okay." Zhou Xin nodded, "Then let's start repairing the core of the warp engine, when will it start?" ”

"We also need to extract neutron matter out of that fusiform device." Spred replied, "For the sake of convenience, we built a small temporary device for storing neutron matter. However, like the robot, this temporary device only has a lifespan of a few hours, so the neutron matter can only be moved to the temporary device before we are ready to make repairs to the engine core, and then the robot can be brought into the core of the warp engine. ”

"Let's start transferring neutron matter first." Zhou Xin said, "I'll wait for you at the entrance of the warp engine with Dart in a moment. Don't bother you, see you later. With that, he ended the communication.

More than ten minutes later, Zhou Xin led a few people to the entrance of the warp engine. After waiting at the entrance for nearly half an hour, he saw a few people.

Zhou Xin saw that among the few people who walked towards him, except for one person, everyone else was wearing bulky protective clothing. Due to the restraint of protective clothing, those people did not move forward very quickly. The man who was not wearing a hazmat suit was surrounded by the others. As they were moving forward, Zhou Xin noticed that the only person who was not wearing a protective suit was holding a box-like object in both hands, and at the same time, he seemed to be carrying a small backpack behind his back.

As the group of people approached, Zhou Xin immediately recognized the "person" who was not wearing protective clothing, it was a special model of biochemical robot that had just been transformed two days ago. Now that it has been recognized, it is obvious what it is holding in its hand.

In a short distance, it took the group of people nearly five minutes to reach Zhou Xin's vicinity. At this time, a person walked out of the middle of the crowd, and he stopped when he walked to a position about three meters away from Zhou Xin. Then, from inside came the voice of Spred, which had become almost inaudible.

"I'm sorry, but there should be a small amount of radiation left on the suit, so I can only talk to you in this way for now." He said apologetically.

"It doesn't matter." Zhou Xin waved his hand, and then asked, "Have the preparations been completed?" As he asked, he turned his gaze to the bionic robot. Now it had stopped, standing quietly in the middle of the crowd with the box in its arms. The researchers around it were scanning the robot's surroundings with their instruments, as if to make a final examination.

Two minutes later, a man came out of the crowd, and he walked up to Spred and said, "Dean, the inspection of the special type of the bionic robot has been completed, everything is normal, and the repair work of the warp engine core can begin at any time." ”

Spred didn't speak, he turned his head to look at Zhou Xin. Although he couldn't see the expression on his face, Zhou Xin also understood what the other party meant now, "Now that everything is ready, let's start." ”

Spred nodded slowly, "The working life of the robot is not long, and we need to race against time." With that, he walked back to the crowd, stopping the curious Zhou Xin and them from approaching.

"The storage device we made improvised wasn't very well protected." "There's still some radiation around it, and that's why we're wearing protective suits, so I hope you don't come near it," Spred explained. Since he had already explained this, Zhou Xin and the others had no choice but to stand at a distance and observe.

Back in the crowd, Spred just took the other guys' instruments and looked at them twice, then said a word to the robot and left it alone. Then, the bionic robot slowly walked out of the crowd, making its way to the entrance of the warp engine, and finally slowly disappeared into the shadows.

"Okay, it's going to take more than half an hour for that robot to reach the core of the warp engine, and then it can start repairing the core." Just as Zhou Xin's perspective was still at the entrance of the engine, Spred walked near him again and spoke.

"Why is it taking so long?" Zhou Xin asked puzzledly, "It didn't take so long when we went in before. ”

"That's different." Spred replied, "The robot was holding a dangerous creature that weighed nearly two tons in its hands, and we didn't have it when we went in." Therefore, even the route it takes to enter the core is pre-arranged, and every step the robot takes has to step on a specific position, and as long as it takes a wrong step, it may cause damage to the inner wall of the engine. ”

Under Spred's reminder, Zhou Xin realized that the inconspicuous-looking box in the robot's hand contained a neutron substance with a mass of nearly two tons. Although the impact of mass in space is not very serious, it cannot be ignored directly.

In the next half hour, Zhou Xin and the others stood at the entrance of the engine and chatted with each other. If anyone listens carefully, they will find that the topic they are talking about is not the same as the horse's mouth, because everyone's attention is focused on the news that the robot sends back from time to time, and the words are just their subconscious reactions. When the news came from inside that they had safely arrived at the core of the engine, everyone's mood did not relax, but became more and more nervous. Due to the special environment in the core of the warp engine, the robot cannot get in touch with the outside world when it comes to actually starting to repair the engine.

"The Bionic Robot Special has sent back the last signal and is ready to start repairing the core of the warp engine." One of the researchers next to Spred spoke. After a few seconds, he reported again: "Contact with the robot has been lost. ”

With this report, the chat came to an abrupt end. Although they knew in their hearts that it would be a long time before they knew the result, everyone couldn't help but turn their attention in the direction of the engine entrance.

In silence, more than an hour had passed, and it was now night on the Voyager, but everyone who remained at the door of the warp engine still did not show any sleep. Seeing this situation, Zhou Xin opened his mouth and said: "It's not too early, anyway, it won't help you here, so you better go back and rest." ”

"I've been waiting for so long, and the results are finally coming out soon, do you think you can still sleep now?" Dart smiled bitterly, "And, don't you can't sleep either?" As soon as this sentence came out, others expressed similar thoughts.

Seeing that no one left, Zhou Xin stopped urging. He turned his gaze back to the direction of the engine entrance and sighed softly, "yes, it's been so long, but in the end we can't guarantee that we'll be able to fix the warp engine." ”

"There's no way, we've done our best." Spred and his fellow researchers didn't take off their protective suits, and now they sat directly on the ground, "If it really fails in the end, then it can only be said that it is providential." ”

After struggling for a while, Zhou Xin was also relieved, "Forget it, if it really fails, it can only be regarded as if we have never installed any warp engine." Anyway, I didn't have this thing in the beginning, so I walked over, so I just thought of it as a trip back in time. After thinking so, his mood relaxed. Then Zhou Xin smiled: "Just now that I have time, let's talk about where we can go if there is really no way to repair the warp engine." ”

"Don't say it, I've really thought about it." Spred laughed, "Some time ago, I took some time to browse the nearby star maps, maybe because we are in a star cluster, and there are actually two stars within a light year of our star system. Although the probability of life in it is not high, it is still worth visiting without a choice. ”

"Did you notice those two stars too?" Zhou Xin replied with a little excitement, "It seems that we have similar ideas." And just like that, the two of them chatted along the topic. It didn't take long for the attention of others around to be drawn to the content of the conversation.

Before you know it, the time has reached the middle of the night, and more than two hours have passed since the last message sent back by the bionic robot. However, Zhou Xin and the others didn't feel anything, and they were still immersed in the previous topic. Now their minds have diverged from the two stars mentioned in the initial conversation to the possible life forms around them, and some have even begun to write the language to communicate with the civilization they guessed. It was at this time that the unexpected happened......