Chapter Thirty-Four: An Intact Escape Pod
"Atlas, can you control the probe to keep up with these ships? I wonder where the home of this force is. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Let's try it." Atlas replied, and as soon as she finished speaking, the probes that had been hiding in the shadows to observe the ships restarted and followed their footsteps.
After explaining this matter, the time was almost six o'clock in the morning, and Zhou Xinzai couldn't help his sleepiness, so he left some unimportant things behind and went back to his room to make up for sleep. And this time, at last, there was no sudden event to disturb his sleep.
After only four hours of sleep, Zhou Xin woke up, stretched a long lazy waist, and then yawned back into the command cabin.
"Voyager, what did those aircraft do in the wreckage area while I was sleeping? And what about the three ships from space buildings? What are their movements? Atlas, what about the probes that track the ships of the Third Force? What is the situation now? As soon as Zhou Xin walked into the command cabin, he asked a series of questions.
"Your Excellency Captain, after arriving at the wreckage area, those aircraft simply searched the space around the wreckage, and left the wreckage area after about an hour and returned to their orbits." Voyager was the first to reply, "And the spaceships from the space building seemed to have discovered the existence of another aircraft when they approached the wreckage, so they temporarily found a cover and hid, until the aircraft left and entered the wreckage area, and now these three ships are still roaming the wreckage area, and the ship sent a probe to follow them." As it reported, Voyager released surveillance images from its probe.
"Well done." Zhou Xin complimented, and then looked at the screen, there were three spaceships in the middle of the screen, and the shape of the spaceships had an obvious style of the forces on the triangle continent. According to the location information reported by the probe, these ships are approaching the location of the core area of the wreckage, and their actions are somewhat similar to those of the previous Third Force ships, stopping and stopping along the way. Whenever they encounter slightly larger spacecraft debris, they will always stop, and sometimes even release one or two detector-like objects to get close to the debris to observe. However, the three ships did not take anything from the debris, and simply searched for the next target.
"Could it be that these ships are also looking for survivors?" Zhou Xin muttered to himself, thought for a moment, and then instructed the Voyager, "Continue to let the probe follow them, and report to me as soon as there is any abnormality." ”
"Understood." As soon as the Voyager's words fell, Atlas's voice followed, "Brother Captain, the ships that they are tracking have not left the wreckage area, and after they found the aircraft, they flew towards the dense wreckage, and then hid under the cover of the dense wreckage. ”
"Hiding?" Zhou Xin felt a little puzzled, "What about after the flying machine leaves?" And what did those ships do? ”
"They didn't react to the departure of the aircraft, but stopped at the core of the wreckage, where they remain until now." Atlas replied.
"Still parked in the core of the wreckage?" Zhou Xin was a little surprised, "These people are really bold, what do they want to do after staying in this kind of place for so long." ”
"People don't know." The little girl shook her head, "Anyway, since these spaceships stopped, the probes haven't seen any movement from them, and they haven't even released the aircraft or anything like that, if the lights on the spaceships weren't still on, people might think that they were damaged spaceships like the wreckage around them." ”
Zhou Xin asked Atlas to switch the camera to the detectors in the core area of the wreckage, and the strangely shaped spaceships were now lined up and quietly parked on the screen. After looking at it for a while, Zhou Xin found that except for the occasional flickering lights on the hull, the spaceships were almost motionless, and only one or two spaceships should occasionally move their bodies to avoid the incoming debris.
After watching it for about ten minutes, Zhou Xin also thought about it for so long in his heart, but he still didn't understand why these spaceships stopped here. After a while, Zhou Xin saw that there should be no result here, so he also instructed Atlas to pay attention to the movements of these ships, while he asked about another matter that he was more concerned about.
"Atlas, how is the search for survivors going, are the Third Force ships on the periphery that are also searching for survivors still there?"
"It's a pity." Atlas's tone was a little low, "They still haven't found a complete escape pod. Then her tone became confused, "It's strange, people have seen a lot of escape pods that have survived, but why can't they find any intact ones now, and the people inside are a little unlucky." Then she went on to report, "The ships that searched for survivors are still roaming around the wreckage, and they seem to have found an escape pod that is not damaged, but the distance is too far for people to see clearly, except for this one The ships have also recovered some escape pods that have been badly damaged, judging by the previous situation, they should be trying to recover the useful parts on it." ”
Zhou Xin didn't care about their actions of recovering and damaging the escape pods, but said with some disappointment: "Still haven't found survivors?" How to find a survivor is so hard. Then he changed to an urging tone, "Atlas, you have to move faster, it's the third day of the accident, and according to the situation of the fusiform escape pod, the effective working time of those escape pods is estimated to be only seven days, and there is not a lot of time left for us." ”
"People understand." Atlas replied, "But if you can't find it, there's nothing you can do." ”
"Anyway, you just have a number in mind, just as soon as possible." Zhou Xin sighed and then explained.
"Why are you so obsessed with finding a survivor?" At this time, Spred had already learned about what had happened last night, and he asked curiously.
"The situation on this planet is so complicated, don't you want to find someone to find out the specific situation?" Zhou Xin replied.
"But are you sure that the survivors you find will tell us about the planet?" Spred asked rhetorically, "And isn't Atlas already able to listen to everyday communications on the planet?" Could it be that she still doesn't know about the situation of this civilization? ”
"If I knew, I wouldn't have been in such a hurry to find a survivor." Zhou Xin sighed, "I've asked Atlas many times about this question, now I'll ask it again, Atlas, you can answer it." ”
"The daily life of this civilized person is a little strange." Atlas replied, "They don't usually have much extra conversation other than work communication, and there doesn't seem to be any downtime for them." They work every day except for the necessary sleeping time, as if they don't know that they are tired, and even extra rest is a crime for the civilization of this planet. So there's no way to analyze any useful information from their daily conversations. ”
"Do they love work so much?" Spred looked puzzled, "Won't they get tired?" ”
"I've also discussed this with Atlas, maybe it has something to do with the fact that people on this planet have a very fast metabolism, and they can have a lot of energy to spend on work every day, in short, they can't be idle." Zhou Xin replied.
"Okay." Spred's tone became a little strange, "Born to work hard?" I think I'm crazy enough to work on my own, and I didn't think there's anyone crazier than me, and a whole civilization like that, and it's really-incredible. ”
"Okay, you still don't have to worry too much about their daily lives, let's think about what we should do next." Zhou Xin said, "We've been here for so long, but we still don't know anything about the civilization on this planet, is there any way to speed up the current investigation?" ”
Hearing Zhou Xin's question, everyone in the command cabin showed a contemplative expression, but no one put forward any constructive suggestions for a long time. Spred thought for a long time and frowned, "It seems that there is no better way than to find a survivor as you said," he said hesitantly, "and not being discovered by the other party, and getting enough clues, this is really a bit difficult for us these days." He thought for a long time, and suddenly a thought popped into his mind, "Don't we have that little detector?" It's the kind that's only the size of an insect, and this kind of detector should be able to avoid the detection of those aircraft. ”
"Yes, yes." Zhou Xin's tone was a little helpless, "But if this type of probe is directly dropped on the planet, God knows where they will drift under the influence of the atmosphere, and if they are put together in order to be unaffected by the atmosphere, it will be no different from directly dropping a large probe." What can you do about it? ”
Hearing Zhou Xin's explanation, Spred's expression froze suddenly, and his brows furrowed again, "This is indeed a bit difficult. He muttered to himself.
"So, until now, I still haven't been able to do it." Zhou Xin spread his hands.
Just when everyone was still pondering, Atlas's exclamation suddenly came, "Brother Captain, Brother Captain, people have found an intact escape pod again." ”
This voice suddenly broke the calm in the command cabin, and Zhou Xin's slightly helpless mood suddenly became excited, "Really? Did you find it? ”
"That's it." Atlas's tone showed a hint of smugness, "Brother Captain, do you know where this escape pod was originally located?" Then she asked herself, "It's between the ship and our probes, and this time they risked being discovered and got the escape pod back before the ships." ”
"Very well done." Zhou Xin praised it, and then he asked, "Have you checked the escape pod and are you sure it is in good condition?" Are there any survivors in the escape pod? ”
"After a cursory inspection, this escape pod is intact from the outside, as for whether there are survivors in it, people are still uncertain, and it will take a while to bring it back to the spaceship and open it to know." Atlas replied, shaking her head.
"Okay." Zhou Xin nodded, "Then wait a while." ”
Since the escape pod found this time was a bit far from the Voyager, it took Atlas nearly an hour to bring the escape pod back to the Voyager. In this process, although Zhou Xin was dealing with some trivial affairs, his mind was all focused on the escape cabin, and in the last few minutes, he didn't even bother to deal with trivial matters, but walked around uneasily directly in the command cabin.
"Brother Captain, the probe has returned to the ship." Following Atlas's report, Zhou Xin couldn't wait to switch the camera to the dock of the Voyager, at this time, the door of the dock happened to be closing, and the escape pod was now lying quietly in the dock.
Like the previous one, which was damaged on the way, the newly discovered pod was capsule-shaped, and looked exactly like the previous one.
Looking at this intact escape pod, Zhou Xin's heart lifted, but at this time, his heart was not too anxious, he took a deep breath, and asked cautiously: "Atlas, have you studied the damaged escape pod before?" Is it safe to open this escape pod now? ”
"Of course." Atlas replied triumphantly, "People have already studied that escape pod thoroughly, and if you open it now, it's a little funny." When she said this, she still had a relaxed tone.
"How long does it take to turn it on?" Zhou Xin asked.
"This-" Atlas's face changed instantly, she scratched her head, "That-people forgot to prepare the isolation pod, Brother Captain, you can wait a while, just wait a while." She said in a coquettish tone.
"Okay." Zhou Xin has long been accustomed to this kind of small accident that Atlas often has, and he said helplessly, "Be serious and prepared, don't have any accidents at that time." ”
"Brother Captain, don't worry, leave it to me."
Twenty minutes later, Atlas had everything ready to open the escape pod......