"However, the previously launched probe has sent back an investigation report on this galaxy, would you like to take a look?"

"Since there is no report of this planet for the time being, it doesn't hurt to look at the report of the star system. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info," Zhou Xin nodded and said.

The panorama of the planets on the screen disappeared, and a panorama of a star system appeared.

On the panorama of the star, Zhou Xin saw two planets orbiting the star, and there was a virtual orbit between the two planets, but Zhou Xin did not find the existence of the star in the orbit. Then the picture gradually zooms in on the star.

"This star is a yellow dwarf, slightly larger than the Sun, with a surface temperature of about 6,000 °C and an age of about 6.5 billion years. ”

Then the image pulls back to the entire galaxy.

Voyager went on to explain, "This star is surrounded by two planets, one of which is our target planet, which is about 1.1 AU away from the star and has an orbital period of about 413 days. There is also a gas giant located 22 AU from the star, a gas giant with an orbital period of about 95 years. Between the two planets, there is also an asteroid belt 13 AU from the star. That's roughly what happens with this galaxy. ”

Zhou Xin nodded and said to himself, "It looks like a very ordinary star system, and the structure of the solar system is completely different, but how could life so similar to the earth evolve here?" ”

"The ship cannot draw conclusions." The Voyager replied.

After not receiving an answer from the Voyager, Zhou Xin turned to Spred and them, "What do you think of this star system or this planet?" ”

Ralph hurriedly replied: "This planet has a much better living environment than our planet, if only we could be born on this star." It's just—" Her voice narrowed as she said this, "It looks like it's hot here......"

Spred shook his head, "She's been afraid of heat since she was a child. Then he said, "I don't have any more opinions about this planet. Seeing Zhou Xin's surprised expression, he added, "You don't know our previous situation, there are too many differences from the environment of this planet, and our scientific and technological development focuses on the study of energy, so we haven't explored our planet in more detail, so it is impossible for me to analyze a result from this information." ”

Zhou Xin nodded, "Since you don't have an opinion, forget it, does the Voyager probe send back more information?" ”

After receiving a negative answer from the Voyager, Zhou Xin handed over the matter to the Voyager and left the command cabin himself......

=Dividing line of time=

Three days after arriving at the target planet, Zhou Xin, who was in the entertainment module, received an urgent communication from the Voyager.

"Your Excellency, the probe has made a new discovery on the surface of the planet, please come to the command module immediately."

Zhou Xin pushed down the mahjong in front of him, and said to Spred and Ralph: "Don't fight, the Voyager sent a message, it seems that there is a new discovery on the surface of the planet." Saying that, he tore down the note all over his face, he was very unlucky today, and he had lost more than a dozen games in a row.

Ralph complained on the sidelines: "Uncle Captain, you are playing tricks again, I am about to win again." ”

"Don't call me uncle." Zhou Xin said helplessly, "And don't you want to go and see new discoveries?" ”

"It's going to be seen." Ralph muttered, "But isn't it a quick win?" ”

Spred pulled Ralph behind him, "Leave this kid alone, let's go see the new discoveries." ”

……

As soon as he stepped into the door of the command cabin, Zhou Xin asked directly: "Voyager, what kind of new discoveries have you made by contacting me in such a hurry?" ”

"A strange object has just appeared in the image sent back by the surface probe." Voyager replied.

"Oh? Check it out. Zhou Xin said.

The screen lit up, and Zhou Xin saw that a canyon appeared on the screen, which was a vertical canyon with a large width, the width of the canyon was about more than 100 meters, and the height could exceed 1000 meters. From the perspective of the picture, the location of this detector is the bottom of the canyon.

"This canyon is kind of spectacular." Zhou Xin sighed, "It's compared to the Great Rift Valley." ”

"In fact, this canyon is slightly smaller than the Great Rift Valley." The Voyager corrected.

"Okay." Zhou Xin said, "Is there anything strange about this canyon?" Except for the big one, it's just an ordinary canyon. ”

"The problem is not in this canyon." "Read on, strange objects are about to appear." ”

As soon as the Voyager's voice fell, Zhou Xin saw a group of black dots appear in the sky far away from the canyon, this group of black dots is getting bigger and bigger, and it looks like a probe is approaching, but before these black dots reach the location of the probe, they landed in the canyon, blocked by the rock wall of the canyon and cannot be seen.

Seeing these black spots, Zhou Xin began to be interested, "What are these black spots, actually flying in the sky?" Voyager, can you zoom in a little bit to see what it is? ”

"Here's an image of those black dots enlarged." Voyager said.

The screen flashed back to the moment before the black dot disappeared, and then Voyager zoomed in on the image of the black dot. Zhou Xin saw that each blurred black dot had turned into a small shadow, and this shadow was cross-shaped, but because it was too vague, Zhou Xin couldn't make out what this shadow was.

"What is this?" Zhou Xin asked, "I can only see the shape of a cross, is there a clearer picture?" ”

"Limited by the resolution of the detector, this is already the clearest image."

"It's so vague, I can't tell what it is." Zhou Xin was a little distressed, "I don't know if this is an animal or a special phenomenon on this planet." What do you think? He turned to Spred and Ralph behind him.

"It looks a bit like a bird." Ralph said preemptively.

"It doesn't look like a natural phenomenon, but it's not like this unknown planet." Spred thought for a moment and came up with an ambiguous answer.

"Birds?" Zhou Xin somewhat agreed with Ralph, "The appearance looks somewhat similar. ”

"yes, yes, I think it's birds." Ralph said excitedly.

Spred patted Ralph on the head, "I don't think that's speculation, it will affect our judgment." Then he said to Zhou Xin, "I see these black spots that seem to have landed in the canyon, let's send a robot over to take a look." ”

Zhou Xin nodded, "I think so too." He commanded the Voyager, "Send a probe to investigate where the shadows have landed." ”

"The probe who just took this image is on its way to the landing site." The Voyager replied, "We should be at that landing site in a moment." ”

Zhou Xin nodded, walked to his seat and sat down, and then he stared carefully at the enlarged picture, trying to see some clues from it, but after looking at it for a while, he still couldn't see anything new from the blurry black shadow. Zhou Xin had no choice but to give up.

After a long time, when Zhou Xin was about to fall asleep bored in his seat, the news finally came that the probe had arrived at the location.

Zhou Xin yawned, "Why is it so slow." ”

"Sorry, the terrain inside the canyon is a bit complicated, so the movement of the probe is a little slow." "This puts the images back from the probe. ”

The blurred black shadow on the screen vanished, and the next thing that appeared was a cliff wall that towered into the sky. However, in the images that appeared, Zhou Xin did not find any objects that could correspond to the black shadow just now.

"Come and help find something, there's something like that black shadow just now." Zhou Xin said.

"It seems—it doesn't look like it." Spred looked at it carefully for a moment and said with some hesitation.

"Can't find it—" Ralph said, shaking his head.

Other researchers have also reported finding no objects resembling the shadows.

"Did you say you landed and then left?" Zhou Xin muttered to himself, and then he asked the Voyager, "Did you see those black shadows flying again while the probe was moving?" ”

"Nope." Voyager spoke with the probe for a moment and replied.

"So where did these dark shadows go?" Zhou Xin was a little puzzled.

At this point, Ralph pointed to the screen and asked, "Look at what's that?" ”

"Where?" Zhou Xin followed Ralph's finger and found that Ralph was pointing to a section of cliff, "Cliff? Isn't this just an ordinary cliff? What are you pointing to here? ”

"What's that black thing on the cliff?" Ralph replied.

Zhou Xin then looked carefully towards the cliff, and under the interference of the shadow of a rock, it took Zhou Xin some time to make out what Ralph was referring to.

It was some small black dots, these black dots were located about half the height of the cliff, at first glance Zhou Xin thought it was the shadow of an ordinary rock, but after a closer look, he finally saw something unusual, those black shadows were arranged regularly, and the rows formed a shape similar to a phalanx, it was obvious that this was not a naturally formed scene.

Zhou Xin became serious and ordered the detector, "Enlarge the part that Ralph is referring to." ”

After a while, the detector zoomed the lens closer to the position of the rows of black dots, and at this time Zhou Xin finally saw clearly, these black spots were magnified and were round black shadows. Looking at these dark shadows, Zhou Xin muttered to himself a little puzzled, "This looks a bit like—"

"Cave." Ralph was the first to say the answer.

"It's kind of like a cave." Spred also said, "But it's rare to see caves that are so neatly arranged. ”

Looking at these cave-like objects, Zhou Xin thought for a while, and then said uncertainly, "There are so many caves, could it be that those black shadows just now went to the cave after landing?" ”

Zhou Xin's speculation was agreed by Spred and Ralph, and even most of the researchers in the command module agreed, so Zhou Xin ordered the robot to approach the dark shadows for further investigation.

As the probe approached, those circular black shadows became clearer and clearer, and after the probe walked about half the distance, Zhou Xin and the others finally confirmed their initial speculation, it was indeed a row of caves, but now they could only see the entrance of the cave, due to the angle problem, they could not see the situation inside the cave.

However, as the probe continued to approach, Zhou Xin and the others began to hear regular gusts of wind in the video.

"It's like the sound of a large bird flapping its wings." Zhou Xin hesitated.

"What are the big birds?" Spred and Ralph asked in unison.

"......" Zhou Xin was speechless, "Voyager." ”

What followed was a period of science and technology, and Voyager introduced the Thunder people to what birds were.

At the same time as the Voyager popularized science, the probe was still getting closer and closer to the holes, and the regular wind was getting louder and louder, and when the probe approached about ten meters or so to one of the holes, Zhou Xin heard the wind in the cave paused, and then there was a fluttering sound, and then the wind sounded again, and it could be heard that the wind was approaching rapidly, and after a while, Zhou Xin saw a black shadow coming out of the hole, and the black shadow pounced on the detector, and Zhou Xin didn't react to what happened, The detector's signal is gone.

Since the Thunderers were still watching the Voyager's science video, they didn't see what was happening on the screen, and they only turned their attention back to the screen when the warning of the loss of signal sounded.

"What happened?" Spred asked.

Zhou Xin told them what had just happened, and he emphasized the scene that happened before the probe disappeared. Everyone's curiosity was aroused, they put down the half-watched video they had just watched, and focused their eyes on the screen, so Zhou Xin asked the Voyager to replay the scene before the probe disappeared.

After watching the video, everyone paused slightly, and then Spred said, "It's so fast, I don't know what that dark shadow is." Ralph and the other researchers nodded in agreement.

Zhou Xin didn't pay attention to Spred, he said directly to the Voyager: "Is this video just sent back finished?" Can you slow it down? ”

"It's going to take a little time." Voyager replied.

After a while, Voyager told Zhou Xin that the video had been processed, and Zhou Xin hurriedly asked Voyager to put the video back out.

At first, the Voyager only slowed down the speed of the video by half, but Zhou Xin still saw a blurry black shadow, and then the Voyager slowed down to a quarter of the speed, and the shape of the black shadow was already faintly recognizable, and in the end, the Voyager had to slow down the video to one-eighth of the speed. Zhou Xin finally saw the true face of the black shadow.

"Stop." Zhou Xin asked the Voyager to freeze the screen, and then, the appearance of the creature that appeared on the screen surprised Zhou Xin.

Zhou Xin shouted, "Pterodactyl?!" ……”