In the latest photo sent back by the probe, a faint red light finally caught everyone's attention. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The red light was located exactly in the direction of the probe, and while it may have appeared to be only slightly stronger than the candle flame, it was still very noticeable in the dim light. When they saw the first photo with a faint red light, Zhou Xin and the others thought that there was something wrong with the data sent back by the detector, but in the next two photos, everyone saw the same light in the same position, which was definitely not the problem of the detector.

"What's that red light?" Looking at the fourth picture with red light on the screen, Zhou Xin muttered to himself. His voice wasn't small, at least everyone around him must have heard it, but none of them answered the question.

In all the images sent back by the probe, the red light remained in the middle of the screen. And, as the detector continued to move in the direction of the red light, the originally faint red light was now brighter. At the same time, not only the brightness, but also the area occupied in the picture is slowly increasing. In the latest photo sent back by the probe, what was originally only the size of a red dot slowly turned into a spot the size of a ping-pong ball. And the surrounding scenery has also been faintly revealed under the illumination of light spots. But because the spot was still too small, Zhou Xin and the others could only see a small piece of brown and black, and they didn't know what it was.

However, as the spot of light continued to grow larger, Zhou Xin and the others were finally able to see more clearly. It turned out that the brown-black object was not something, but the inner wall of the cave, and it seemed that the red light was shining from under the cave. Judging from the pictures that had been sent, Zhou Xin judged that the red light that appeared on the screen was just the light emitted by something under the cave.

Sure enough, as the probe moved forward, a full hole appeared in the middle of the screen. The entrance to the cave looked like a crater, slowly narrowing from top to bottom, and the edge was slightly above the surrounding ground. At the first glance of this complete pit, Zhou Xinli could basically determine that this pit was caused by the wreckage that fell in the central city. But what he didn't understand was why there was such a red light still coming from the fall pit after a day had passed. Even if it was the wreckage of the fuel tank that fell here, it should have burned out, and it was impossible to hold on for so long.

In the following footage, the probe continues to move in the direction of the crater, and everyone sees the picture of the deeper part of the crater little by little. At the same time, the brightness of the red light continued to increase, and even slowly became dazzling.

When the red light is extremely bright, a blazing point of light suddenly appears in the picture. Then, as if the sun was rising, the point of light slowly turned into a circle, and the bottom of the fall pit finally appeared in front of everyone.

Ever since he saw that blazing point of light, Zhou Xin felt quite surprised. Then, as the picture changed, he began to slowly become surprised. Until the bottom of the fall pit appeared on the screen in its entirety, in addition to Zhou Xin, many people present were also surprised.

"Where is this?" At this moment, Spred, who had finished resting, just walked in and saw the picture on the screen.

"That fall pit in the central city." Surprised, Zhou Xin still heard Spred's words, and he replied casually.

"Fall pit?!" Hearing Zhou Xin's answer, Spred was also surprised, "How do you think this is more like a crater?" ”

"I don't know." Zhou Xin replied a little bewildered, "This picture has just appeared, is this really the fall pit of the wreckage?" Even he began to be suspicious.

As soon as he finished saying this, the screen once again switched to the image that the probe had just sent back. In front of the camera, the shape of the crater has not changed much, but has become larger, and it seems that the probe is continuing to move in the direction of the crater.

After being surprised, Zhou Xin and the others finally came back to their senses and carefully observed the appearance of the suspected fall pit on the screen. Judging by the appearance characteristics, there is a high probability that the pit is a fall crater. However, at the bottom of the crater, instead of seeing the wreckage of a space building that should theoretically appear there, it was a near-circular cluster of light about one-fifth the diameter of the crater's mouth. Moreover, the brightness of this light cluster even reached the point where it was almost difficult for everyone to look directly, which couldn't help but make everyone feel puzzled.

"Could it be—" Just as everyone was racking their brains to figure out what that light cluster was, Atlas's thoughtful voice suddenly sounded in the command module.

"What do you say? Do you know what this light cluster is? Zhou Xin asked.

"It's hard to say now, people need a probe to collect some data near the pit to be able to tell." The little girl shook her head, not uttering her guess.

In fact, after thinking about it for so long, Zhou Xin also had some vague guesses in his heart, he felt that the light cluster at the bottom of the pit should be caused by the explosion of neutron matter, but he never believed that the explosion of neutron matter could cause such an exaggerated effect. After questioning to no avail, he told the guess.

"So Brother Captain, do you think the same way?" As soon as Zhou Xin's words came out, Atlas agreed, "People have the same idea as you, but they have never seen such a large-scale explosion before, so I'm not sure if this idea is right or not." ”

Confused, the probe moved on. As a more detailed picture appeared in front of everyone's eyes, many people began to believe Zhou Xin's guess. In the meantime, Dart also returned to the command module. At the first sight of the pothole, he was just as surprised as Spred. However, in addition to being surprised, he made the same judgment as Zhou Xin at the first time.

When the full picture of the pit appeared on the screen, everyone thought that the probe was not far from the crater. Unexpectedly, the probe advanced for more than an hour to reach the edge of the pit. It was also surprising that from a distance, when the probe reached the edge of the crater, it was discovered that the edge of the pit was nearly fifty meters higher than the surrounding ground, and even higher than most of the collapsed buildings around it. After lowering the flight altitude somewhat, the probe landed on the edge of the crater, and the image of the bottom of the pit appeared in full in front of everyone.

The inner wall of the pit was a slope of more than ten degrees, which was not much different from when viewed from a distance. However, the bottom of the pit is different, and at this distance, the crowd sees the details inside. It wasn't just the first sight of the light, it was a pool of lava. Near the center of the lava pool, the lava inside is even extremely active, and bubbles are constantly emitting as if it were boiling. Then, they looked at the edge of the lava pool, where the magma had begun to cool somewhat, and a lot of obsidian glowing with a dark red glow was quietly piling up there.

While everyone was looking at the screen screen, Atlas was also reporting the various data measured by the detector, "The temperature of the area where the detector is located exceeds 100 degrees Celsius, and the radiation intensity far exceeds the maximum value that a small detector can bear, and the operating time of the detector in this environment is expected to be no more than half an hour." At the same time, the detector also detected the presence of a stable strong radioactive source nearby, and preliminarily determined that the location was in the magma pool below. ”

At this point, everyone is already very sure that the crater in front of the camera is caused by the explosion of neutron matter, if not, there can be no strong radioactive source under the magma pool. As for why there is a magma pool at the bottom of the pit, the reason is self-evident.

"I really didn't expect that the previous explosion would be so exaggerated that such a magma pool would be formed." Dart said in surprise.

"It's unimaginable." Spred also shook his head, "We haven't created this phenomenon in previous experiments on neutron matter, I really don't know how many neutron matter exploded before." ”

"Judging by the size of this crater, it is conservatively estimated that the mass of the exploding neutron matter is at least more than 1,000 tons." Atlas replied uncertainly.

"How big is this pit?" Spred asked curiously.

"It's about 100 kilometers in diameter and about 5,000 meters deep." Atlas gave a figure that surprised everyone.

"Is it so big? Four times larger than I expected. Dart sighed, "I really didn't expect that a civilization could create such a catastrophe with such destructive power, which we may not have been able to do back then."

"That's different, Kazlan is a war-oriented civilization, how can it be compared to the Atlantean civilization." Zhou Xin continued, "Moreover, what happened in itself was an accident, and it caused such a serious disaster to the Kazlan people themselves, which is nothing to praise. ”

"Anyway," Spred suddenly remembered, "is the wreck of the space building really to blame for this disaster?" And what about the wreckage? Why didn't you see it? ”

Before they could speak, Atlas answered Spred's question, "It's in the magma pool, don't you see?" ”

As he spoke, a new image appeared on the screen. The magma pool in the camera looks closer, and at this time, everyone notices that there is an object standing near the center of the magma pool. However, due to the distance, they still couldn't see the shape of the object.

However, Atlas quickly enlarged the object standing in the magma pool, and a familiar shape appeared in front of Zhou Xin and them.

"This isn't—" Seeing this shape, Zhou Xin said uncertainly, "Kazlan Battleship-"

"It's the tail of the Kazlan battleship." Dart affirmed.

Sighing slightly, just as Zhou Xin was about to continue, Atlas added: "It's not just the Kazlan battleship, people have checked all the images sent back by the probe. According to the analysis of the trajectory of the large wreckage, it is supposed to be a combination of a space building and a battleship. The combination fell at a great speed, piercing the ground and hitting the base underground. However, what happened next is not easy to analyze. Perhaps it had something to do with the impact, which caused the explosion of the neutron material stored in the base, and then the place became what it is now. ”

After listening to the little girl's analysis, many people present looked at the tail of the Kazlan battleship in the middle of the screen and fell silent. It had been a long time since this screen had been replaced, and it was assumed that the detector had been destroyed by the intense radiation from the surrounding environment and had lost its ability to work.

Although he was silent at first, like everyone else, after a while, Spred came to his senses and asked the most concerned question, "Is there any residual neutron matter at the location of the probe?" As soon as this question was spoken, it attracted the attention of many people present.

"According to the last batch of data sent back by the probe." After a few seconds, Atlas replied, "A small number of antineutrino rays can still be detected in the magma pool, indicating that there is indeed a certain amount of neutron material in it." This sentence immediately excited many people, including Zhou Xin, but her next sentence instantly changed the mood of those people, "However, there are other types of rays with greater intensity mixed in the antineutrino rays. Strictly speaking, it should be a variety of rays mixed with faint antineutrino rays. This indicates that in addition to the presence of neutron material, there are also large amounts of radioactive material in the magma pool. Although it is not possible to accurately analyze the process of the formation of these radioactive materials, there is no doubt that it is related to the explosion of neutron materials in the past. ”

Before the little girl finished speaking, Zhou Xin understood what she meant, "Not to mention how our detector can work for a long time in a state of high temperature and strong radiation. Even if we could, we don't have any equipment right now that can separate neutron material from so much radioactive material. There was a disappointment in his tone that could not be concealed. When Zhou Xin finished speaking, Atlas on the screen nodded again and again in confirmation.

"So now we're going to have to try our luck at other places where we might store neutron matter?" Spred said as if asking a question, and as if talking to himself.

"That's the only way to do it right now." missed the neutron matter several times in a row, which made Zhou Xin's mood a little low. However, as the captain of the Voyager, he knew in his heart that his current mood would affect the rest of his work. Therefore, it didn't take long for him to force himself to calm down.

Due to the damage of the detector, Zhou Xin's investigation of Yangcheng has come to an end for the time being. Now that he has a general understanding of the situation in Central City, and the current environment in the city is harsh, Zhou Xin does not plan to continue to investigate that city. At this moment, the picture switches to the panoramic view of the central city that I saw not long ago. Looking at the ruins on the screen, Zhou Xin thought for a moment, and then asked about the post-disaster losses of the Kazlan people......