"When the ship's hull is repaired, we can set off again. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Zhou Xin said.

"That's good news." Dart then asked, "What about the wear and tear of the mining equipment?" ”

Zhou Xin's mood suddenly improved, "After using the kind of paint provided by Atlas, the life of all the equipment on the surface of the magnetar has been greatly extended, although it is said that it will still be damaged in large quantities after a long period of work, but the speed of damage is already within the acceptable range." ”

"It's good to be useful." Dart said casually, he glanced at the Atlanteans working around him, and as if he had noticed something, he walked quickly to the side of one of them. Behind him, Zhou Xin saw that Dart walked up to the Atlantean and picked up something, and then spoke to the man.

Seeing that Dart still had something to do, Zhou Xin looked at him and thought about it, and found that there was nothing important to say to him, so he decided not to bother Dart anymore, but left silently. Christy wanted to give him a ride, but Zhou Xin didn't let her do it, and asked her to help Dart.

Time passed little by little, and in the blink of an eye, it had been more than half a year since the Voyager left hyperspace, and they had been collecting resources on magnetars for nearly five months. During these five months, the resource gathering work was also carried out in an orderly manner, and two months after the resource gathering began, some large equipment also began to appear damaged in the harsh environment on the magnetar, but these were all in the calculations of the Voyager, and after spending a day replacing the wear parts, the large equipment could continue to work, so this did not cause much disruption to their collection work.

However, while the collection went well, the collection was much slower than expected, and was discovered by Voyager within a month of starting the collection of resources, but it was slow to find the reason why the actual collection was slower than theoretical. It wasn't until one day that Zhou Xin accidentally saw a large amount of mineral dust in the probe's footage that the truth was found. It turns out that this is still the problem of magnetic dust unique to the magnetar, in the process of unloading minerals, large pieces of ore must be no problem, but in addition to ore, a large amount of magnetic dust is still adhered to the transportation equipment, occupying a limited transportation space, although at the beginning, these magnetic dust in the transportation equipment occupies not a lot of space, but with the increase in the number of transportation, the magnetic dust accumulates over time, gradually occupies more and more space, resulting in less and less minerals transported. And there were no detectors installed in the cargo hold of these transport equipment, which led to slower than expected acquisition speeds. After Zhou Xin found out about this, the robots in the base spent three days cleaning the cargo hold of all the transportation equipment, and after cleaning, sure enough, the collection speed returned to the original level, so the planet base had another job - every other week to clean the cargo hold of the transportation equipment, so as not to reduce the speed of resource collection due to excessive dust in the cargo hold.

In addition to this problem, they also encountered a lot of other problems in the process of collecting resources, most of which were caused by the special environment of magnetars, so Voyager did not expect it at first, but fortunately, it was all a small trouble, except for slightly slowing down the speed of resource collection, it did not cause a particularly big impact. According to Voyager's estimates, they may need to waste about half a month more on the time they spend collecting resources on this planet, and Zhou Xin is not surprised by this.

However, as the saying goes, people are not as good as heaven, just after the Voyager estimated that they might need to stay on the magnetar for half a month longer, an Atlantean accidentally found a crack in the intact part of the shell in the process of repairing the spaceship, and after obtaining this report, Zhou Xin couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. After a detailed investigation by the engineering robot, the Voyager found that some seemingly intact parts of the spacecraft's hull have actually appeared invisible cracks inside, and the existence of these cracks makes this part of the hull shell much less solid than before, and because these cracks can only be detected by instruments, the cracked hull has become an unstable time bomb, and I don't know when there will be problems.

Therefore, after discovering this problem, Zhou Xin asked the Voyager to conduct a more detailed inspection of the entire spacecraft for the sake of insurance, and the inspection results found that about 5% of the intact hulls had this invisible hidden danger. After thinking about it, Zhou Xin decided that he couldn't ignore this hidden danger, and he asked the Voyager to also replace these hulls with invisible cracks. This would once again waste more than a month of their time in this galaxy, and Zhou Xin felt very helpless about this. However, he knew that there was no hurry, so he did not urge the Voyager to speed up the repairs, so as not to make mistakes in the chaos.

While the Voyager was undergoing repairs, Atlas's investigation continued, and Atlas had been silent for more than a month since the last time Zhou Xin was briefed on the planetary impact. Then she appeared in front of everyone again, but this time she was not in a very good mood, and Zhou Xin obviously saw that the image of the little girl had a bitter face.

After learning more about Atlas, Zhou Xin and the others understood, and after the first report, she launched a large number of probes to explore the galaxy. However, apart from the five planets that had been found, the probe had not found many asteroids in the rest of the galaxy, and even the smaller ones, which were not even asteroids, made Atlas wonder why a galaxy with planets could be so clean. Moreover, among the several asteroids discovered, she only found that two of them had been affected by strong gravity and changed their orbits, and according to the orbital changes of these two asteroids, Atlas could not calculate the orbit of the unknown planet that caused this galaxy to become like this, so she showed a sad face. Moreover, Atlas did not understand where and how the unknown planet that collided with the collision came from, and this series of questions made her feel very unhappy, as if you only heard the beginning and end of a story, and did not know the cause and process of the story at all. Zhou Xin couldn't do anything about this, so she could only comfort Atlas well, and when she was in a slightly better mood, she showed an unconvinced attitude, so she continued to study her galaxy incognito.

Zhou Xin was a little laughing and a little admired for the attitude shown by Atlas during his stay in this galaxy, what she showed was exactly the attitude that a researcher should have, even Dart was very surprised after learning about Atlas's attitude during this period of time, he had never seen Atlas have such serious energy before. At first, he was a little worried, thinking that Atlas might repeat the mistakes of his previous research, but after a week of covert observation by Voyager, Dart found that Atlas did not show any anomalies compared to normal in addition to studying the galaxy carefully, so he finally relented a little.

This day was the time when the Voyager initially expected them to complete the work, although he knew in his heart that it would take more than a month to complete the maintenance of the spacecraft, but Zhou Xin still came to the command module to learn about the current progress of the Voyager.

"The obvious damage to the ship's hull has been largely repaired." The Voyager reported, "The next step was to repair the vital compartments and replace the enclosures that were later discovered to be problematic." It is expected to take about five weeks to complete these tasks. ”

Zhou Xin nodded, "Then go on, I'd rather slow down than have problems." Then he asked, "How's Atlas doing, and have you been doing anything strange lately?" ”

"Aside from research, the ship has not found any anomalous behavior in the artificial." The Voyager replied, "Recently, however, the ship has found that the amount of computation on the main engine has suddenly increased a lot. ”

"Is there something wrong with the console?" Zhou Xin was shocked.

"Not really." Voyager continued, "It was the AI that was mobilizing the host's massive computing resources, and it seemed to be doing orbital calculations, and sometimes the AI would contact the machine directly, wanting it to assist her in completing some complex calculations, but the machine refused. ”

"Then it'll be fine." After listening to the Voyager's answer, Zhou Xin breathed a sigh of relief, and he instructed the Voyager, "As long as Atlas does not affect the normal work, the rest, let her go." ”

"Understand ......"

The day after this conversation, Atlas, who had been silent for a long time, appeared again, but this time she was obviously in a very good mood, and Zhou Xin also saw a hint of triumph in the little girl's expression.

The first sentence she said made Zhou Xin very surprised, "Hehe, brother captain, people have finally figured out the orbit of that troublemaker." ”

"Didn't you say some time ago that the number of affected asteroids found was not enough? How is it now calculated again? Zhou Xin asked strangely.

"Hmph, brother captain, you don't look down on who I am, I'm amazing." Atlas said proudly, and then explained, "I didn't find it before, it doesn't mean that I didn't find it later, although there are fewer asteroids in this galaxy compared to other galaxies, but there are still some, and later people found a few asteroids with abnormal orbits, so the orbits are calculated." As she spoke, the star map that Zhou Xin was familiar with appeared behind the little girl on the screen, and on the star map, there was another green track. This orbit is very strange, it starts from the innermost orbit, crosses a huge arc, stabilizes between the two giant planets for a while, and then inexplicably rows towards the original orbit of the outermost planet, and after intersecting with the outermost orbit, it changes direction and flies further to the outer side of the galaxy, and after a short distance, the orbit disappears.

The little girl took out her stick and pointed to the strange orbit and explained: "This is the orbit that people calculated, that strange unknown planet used to orbit steadily between the two giant planets for hundreds of millions of years, but then under the gravitational influence of the two giant planets, it deviated from its orbit and crashed into the outermost planet. Then she said in a slightly frustrated tone, "But the people who came to know where that planet came to be still haven't figured out, and the clues really can't be found." ”

"You've done a great job." Zhou Xin comforted, "It's enough to know what's going on in this galaxy, it's really too difficult to figure out the origin of an alien planet." Then he said, "That's almost the end of the study, we'll be leaving in a little more than a month, and you should get those probes back." ”

"Uh-huh." The little girl nodded vigorously, "The people are going to do the same, the probe has already ordered them to come back." For the study of this galaxy, people are ready to organize the information and finish. ”

Zhou Xin nodded, and then said to himself: "Although the original purpose was only to collect resources in this galaxy, and I didn't plan to know what happened here, but now it can be regarded as an unexpected gain." He smiled to himself, "It's still a little over a month, but it's time to start preparing for the work you leave." ”

Atlas heard Zhou Xin's self-talk, and she said with a little excitement, "Are you going to go to a new place?" Where are we going this time? As she spoke, the little girl on the screen jumped up.

Looking at Atlas, who looked like he knew that his parents were going to take him out to play, Zhou Xin still poured cold water, "It's going to be more than a month, don't think about leaving until the spaceship is repaired." ”

"Oh-" Atlas's excited expression suddenly disappeared, revealing a disappointment that could not be concealed, but after a few seconds she picked herself up again, "Someone is going to help my little sister repair the spaceship together." ”

"It's—it's better not to." Asking Atlas to repair the Voyager, Zhou Xin was still not at ease, "The spaceship is already being repaired at the fastest speed, and it won't be of great help if you go." He thought for a moment, "Otherwise, you might as well go and study the target we are going to, although it has been decided, but we still don't know anything about the target galaxy, since you are free now, let's study the situation of the target galaxy first." ”

"Leave it to me." The little girl patted her chest and replied......