The Voyager's voice interjected, "Your Excellency, the probe has found traces of the shuttle. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Shuttle?" Zhou Xin's tone looked a little puzzled.

"It's the shuttle that disappeared near the asteroid before." The Voyager reminded him.

"Oh, it's the one." Zhou Xin finally remembered, "Have you finally found it?" Where was it found? ”

"Right on the last asteroid to disappear." Voyager reported, "It appeared in the direction of the asteroid's back to the spacecraft, so the probe lost its target when it was tracked." ”

Zhou Xin then asked, "Turn your back to the direction of the spaceship?" Didn't the probe search the entire asteroid later? You can't really hide in an asteroid. ”

"Your guess is not wrong." Voyager replied solemnly: "Just now, the probe clearly observed that there is an entrance and exit behind the asteroid, and it is from this entrance that the shuttle flies out. ”

"There's actually a base inside the asteroid?" Zhou Xin was a little surprised, "Hiding in such a secret place, this base may not be simple." He then asked the Voyager, "What about when you come out?" Where is that shuttle now? ”

"After leaving the asteroid, the shuttle turned directly in the direction of the planet." Voyager replied, "And the probe observed that the shuttle was moving at a speed never seen before, and judging by its forward movements, we can preliminarily conclude that the shuttle must be fleeing." ”

"Escape? What to run? Zhou Xin asked strangely, "Didn't they just come out of the base inside the asteroid?" Why run away? ”

"Perhaps—" Dart's first reaction to this kind of thing was always more sensitive than the others, and he guessed uncertainly, "that base—not theirs?" ”

"Not their base?" Zhou Xin asked as he motioned for the Voyager to release the images observed by the probe. However, due to the fear of being discovered by the other party, only a bright point of light appeared in the center of the detector's lens, and nothing else could be seen.

Since there was no way to see clearly, Zhou Xin simply asked the Voyager, "How long has the shuttle maintained this speed?" ”

"It started as soon as the shuttle steering was done." Voyager replied, "It's almost twice as fast as it used to fly to asteroids, and it's 0.1 times the speed of light." None of the vehicles of this civilization that the ship had previously observed had ever reached this speed, and the probe had observed that the speed of the shuttle seemed to continue to increase. ”

"Is it really running away?" Looking at the point of light on the screen, Zhou Xin muttered to himself in confusion, and it didn't take long for an accident to happen.

"Didi, Warning, Outbreak of High Energy Ray Detected, Warning, Burst of High Energy Ray Detected." Suddenly, the Voyager's warning sounded.

Since it wasn't the ship's warning that he heard at first, Zhou Xin didn't look very nervous, but he still asked with concern: "What is the place where the high-energy ray erupted, and does it have any effect on the Voyager?" ”

"There is no impact on the ship for the time being." The Voyager replied, and then he said a surprising result. "The location of the high-energy ray burst appears to be coming from the direction of the asteroid that the shuttle has just left, and due to the interference of the high-energy rays, the ship has now lost contact with the detector tracking the shuttle."

As soon as the Voyager's words fell, the screen burst into an extremely strong light, and then in a very short time, the light disappeared, and the screen fell into darkness.

"Brother Captain, Brother Captain, look outside the ship." At the same time, Atlas's screams rang out in the command cabin, and the screen in front of Zhou Xin lit up again, but this time the footage was from the footage fixed on the outer deck of the Voyager.

"What's going on outside the ship?" Looking at a normal starry sky on the screen, Zhou Xin asked suspiciously.

"It's a nova exploding, nova." Atlas explained, and then a small circle appeared on the screen, and in the circle, a bright point of light was shining, "Brother Captain, this is this star, it just appeared in this position, and in just a few seconds, its brightness is close to the brightness of a first-magnitude star." Then Atlas's tone became strange, "But—based on the effects obtained, it seems that the star appears in the interior of this star system." ”

"Nova explosions inside the star system, how is this possible?" As soon as Atlas finished saying this, Zhou Xin said in disbelief, and then he remembered the report of the Voyager just now, and Zhou Xin immediately connected the two, "Voyager, Atlas, you compare the observation data just now, and see if the location where the high-energy ray burst occurred and the location where the nova appeared are in the same place?" ”

After just a few seconds, the two came up with the result, "After comparison, the location of the high-energy ray burst is basically consistent with the location of the nova." "Brother Captain, it's indeed the same place." Both of them voiced at the same time.

"Can you determine the exact location? Where exactly is it in this galaxy? Zhou Xin asked.

"After comparing the observation data, we can get a relatively small range." This time it was Voyager who answered, "The location is probably in the vicinity of the asteroid where the shuttle disappeared before." ”

"How could it be there?" Zhou Xin was a little surprised, "Has the probe explored the area near that asteroid before?" Is there anything there that could cause such a violent outburst? ”

"Not really." Voyager replied, "The probe has previously surveyed the nearby space, but has not found anything unusual other than a few asteroids. ”

"Strange, what caused this change." Zhou Xin muttered to himself, and at this time, Atlas reminded again, "Brother Captain, the brightness of that new star is starting to wane. ”

As Atlas explains, the bright spot of light on the screen is now rapidly dimming at a rate visible to the naked eye. In less than half a minute, the point of light disappeared from the screen.

Seeing this situation on the screen, Zhou Xin asked the Voyager, "Has the contact with the probe been restored?" ”

"The ship is trying to make contact." The Voyager replied, and in about half a minute, it replied, "Contact has failed, the intensity of the high-energy rays shows no signs of abating, and the interference is still very strong." ”

"Get back in touch as soon as possible and find out what's going on in that area as soon as possible." Zhou Xin commanded, then he thought for a while, and then added, "Forget it, just in case, send two more probes over, and be sure to understand what is going on there?" ”

"Understood."

"Strange, what's going on there?" Sitting in his seat, Zhou Xin crossed his hands, held his chin and thought, after a while, he basically had a more certain idea in his heart, "It seems that there should be an accident at the base inside the asteroid, except for that base, there is nothing else nearby." Then his tone became puzzled, "But what is it in that base that can cause such a violent incident?" ”

While thinking, he quietly watched the development of the incident, and after ten minutes, the voice of the Voyager rang out, "The high-energy ray burst has been detected to have obvious signs of weakening, but the ship is still unable to communicate with the previous detector, and it is initially suspected that the detector has been damaged in the high-energy ray burst." ”

"Has the new probe been launched?" Zhou Xin asked.

"It was launched five minutes ago and is now on its way to the ray source, which is expected to arrive in five hours."

Since it was the early morning of the ship five hours later, in order to conserve his energy, Zhou Xin took advantage of this time to rest for a while, and when he appeared in the command cabin again, the probe had approached the target location.

Zhou Xin yawned while looking at the picture on the screen, although the intensity of the high-energy rays has weakened significantly after such a long time, the screen transmitted by the detector is still flickering with snowflakes frequently, and sometimes it is even completely impossible to see what is displayed on the screen.

"Is the picture so blurry?" Zhou Xin frowned and asked, "Is there a way to be clearer?" ”

"The images sent back by the detector have been processed and the source data is even more blurry." The Voyager replied.

"Okay." Hearing the Voyager's answer, Zhou Xin had no choice but to give up this idea, and he looked carefully at the image on the screen.

After looking at it for a long time, he still couldn't recognize the location of the probe from the blurry image, so he had to ask Voyager the question.

"The detector is still about 10,000 kilometers away from the predicted range of the ray source." The Voyager replied.

Seeing that the probe had not yet arrived at the intended position, Zhou Xin simply sat down in his seat, and then stared closely at the picture on the screen. However, due to the serious interference, the starlight and snowflakes were mixed, so Zhou Xin couldn't see the scene in the detector's lens at all, and he didn't even know if the detector was advancing. ”

"Brother Captain, Brother Captain, the probe is about to arrive." At this time, the voice of the Voyager sounded, and it seemed that she was also interested in the matter.

"It's almost there." Zhou Xin replied, "But the interference is a bit serious. ”

"Is the interference serious? Let me take a look first. After a while, Atlas said, "It looks a bit serious, let me see if I can deal with it a bit." Little sister, show me the source data sent back by the detector. ”

"Voyager, send the data to Atlas." Knowing that the Voyager had to wait for his orders, Zhou Xin spoke.

"Mm-hmm, they've received it." As soon as Zhou Xin's words fell, the little girl nodded vigorously on the screen, and after a few seconds, she showed a clear look, "So that's the case, little sister, you can't make a mistake in dealing with it like this, but there is actually a better way, such as this, like this." After a few seconds, the screen was darkened with snowflakes, and then the screen flickered twice and reappeared.

This time, Zhou Xin saw that although there were still snowflakes on the screen, it was obviously much clearer than before. Moreover, in the reappearing footage, he also saw what appeared to be an object faintly in front of the detector's lens.

"What's that?" Zhou Xin asked, pointing to the thing on the screen.

"What's that?" Atlas only processed the picture, not to see what was on it. But just a few seconds after Zhou Xin asked, he recognized the object in front of the camera, "Isn't that our detector?" ”

Under Atlas's reminder, Zhou Xin also recognized it, "It's such a coincidence, Voyager, can you let the probe lean over to see what happened to the previous probe?" ”

Nearly twenty minutes later, just as the immobile detector was about to leave the camera, the detector finally responded to Zhou Xin's command. Adjusting the direction slightly, the stationary detector reappeared in the middle of the screen.

A few minutes later, the two probes were already close together, and it wasn't long before Voyager reported: "Contact with that probe has failed, and it has not responded to the ship's request for contact." ”

Zhou Xin frowned, "Can you find a way to investigate the situation of that detector?" ”

"Let them try it." Atlas said, and after a moment, her brow furrowed, "No, no one can contact the probe, it seems that we need to investigate closely." ”

After some investigation, Atlas reported the results of the investigation to Zhou Xin, "Brother Captain, although the surface of the detector looks relatively intact, the core inside has been completely destroyed by high-energy rays, and it has long been impossible to operate. ”

After listening to Atlas's report, Zhou Xin thought for a while, and then said slowly: "It seems that this time the ray burst is more serious than imagined, our detector is theoretically able to resist the radiation of the nuclear bomb level, but now the core part has been completely destroyed, it is incredible." It stands to reason that such a high-energy ray burst could not have occurred in the vicinity of the asteroid belt, but what is going on? He thought for a moment, "It seems that it should be something inside the base in the asteroid, but what could it be, that can burst out such a high-energy ray." ”

While thinking in his heart, Zhou Xin motioned for Atlas to let the probe continue to approach the ray source, and he now wanted to know what happened to the asteroid before......