"Looks like I may need to scrutinize the space where Substance Zero is kept. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Spred looked thoughtful.

While discussing, the group walked back to the command module, and after entering the command module, Spred asked a crucial question, "What should we do next?" ”

Zhou Xin thought for a while, "Since there is no way to repair the warp engine for the time being, then there is no point in stopping here now, let's go directly." We're not that far from our target galaxy right now, but with Voyager's subluminal main engine, we'll be at least thirty days away from reaching our destination. ”

Spred nodded, "Then let's get ready to go, I'll take someone to inspect the core of the engine in detail." With that, he stopped and turned to head to the warp engine again.

"Stay safe." Zhou Xin instructed uncomfortably behind him, but Spred did not answer, but directly closed the door of the command cabin.

Staring at the door of the command module for a while, Zhou Xin sighed deeply, and he instructed the Voyager: "Send some engineering robots to help Sprede." Then he said to himself, "I don't know if it will come in handy, but I can't stand idly by." ”

"Understood."

Zhou Xin fell silent after giving the order, staring at the screen in front of him for a long time before he came back to his senses at the sound of Atlas's call.

"Brother Captain, Brother Captain, have you found the cause of the warp engine damage?"

Zhou Xin gathered his scattered gaze on the screen in front of him, and on the screen, the little girl happened to show a curious look.

"Not yet." Zhou Xin subconsciously shook his head, and then he repeated what Spred said to Atlas.

"That's—" the little girl looked down with a thoughtful expression, "it's impossible, how can there be no trace at all." She had a puzzled look on her face, and after a while, she raised her head and pleaded, "Brother Captain, this is really strange, it stands to reason that this is impossible, can I go and see?" ”

Zhou Xin thought for a while, thinking that the special engineering robot modified by Atlas might really help the investigation, he agreed to Atlas's request, "It's okay for you to go and have a look, but after you go in, you are only allowed to look at the side, and you are not allowed to move." ”

"Brother Captain, don't worry." Atlas agreed, and as soon as her words fell, the figure of the little girl disappeared from the screen in an instant.

After the little girl disappeared, Zhou Xin contacted Spred, but fortunately, he was still preparing in the engine room, and Zhou Xin explained to him Atlas's request to enter the core together. Spred still looked a little unhappy at first, but after listening to Zhou Xin's idea, he still agreed. After agreeing, Spred called Atlas out of the engine room, and made a lot of demands to Zhou Xin in the presence of Zhou Xin, and after Atlas agreed to all his strange requests, he finally agreed to Atlas's request.

Seeing that the matter had been settled, Zhou Xin ended the communication with the engine room, and after the communication was over, he stared at the screen for a while, not knowing what he was thinking, and then he shook his head, threw the thoughts out of his mind, and began to focus on the Voyager.

"Voyager, we're ready to go." Zhou Xin said slowly, "Start the main engine, let's continue to the target planet." ”

"Understood." The Voyager reported that "the main engine is being recharged...... The main engine has been fully charged, and the necessary checks are being carried out before starting...... Everything is fine with the main engine...... The main engine starts. ”

Ten minutes later, the Voyager began to accelerate, and within a few moments, the ship reached its top speed and continued to fly towards the target system......

Let's set the clock back to ten days, during which the ship will be flying at sub-light speeds towards the target galaxy all the time, and everything inside the ship will continue as usual, except for Spred's investigation of the core.

During this time, Spred took people to the core of the warp engine every day when he got up and checked it until late at night, but even so, he still did not notice anything unusual in the core.

On the tenth day of the warp engine shutdown, Spred finally made a rare appearance in the command module. At the first glance of his appearance, Zhou Xin's heart was still happy, thinking that he had finally solved the mystery of the disappearance of neutron matter, but the first words Spred said made Zhou Xin a little disappointed.

"It looks like I have no way of knowing how Substance Zero disappeared." Spred frowned and said depressedly, "I have conducted a detailed examination of the core part in the past few days, but there is no trace in the core, not even a trace of radioactive residue can be found, and the whole mass of material seems to have disappeared out of thin air." With that, he sighed heavily, "Well, it would be nice if the people from the other base were here, they know more about the core, maybe they could find out why Substance Zero disappeared." These days, I've been studying the structure of the core and looking for the reason at the same time, and I still don't know much about the core. ”

"Still can't find the reason for the disappearance?" Zhou Xin said with a little disappointment, "Have you investigated the entire core?" ”

Spred continued to say depressedly, "It's been twice, and I'm about to do a third investigation. Then he sighed again, "If this investigation still can't find out the reason, then I will have to give up." ”

"That's all it can be." After listening to his words, Zhou Xin thought for a while, and said helplessly, "If you can't find the reason now, it's not a big problem, what I'm worried about is what if the same problem happens again after we repair the engine." ”

"Do you think it's easy to find a lump of Substance Zero?" Spred smiled bitterly, "Where does such a thing exist in a normal galaxy, I think instead of looking for a naturally occurring mass of Zero matter, we should make a mass ourselves." ”

"Isn't that going to take decades, and we'll have to wait?" Zhou Xin's face was depressed, and then he was silent for a long time before he spoke again, "Forget it, let's take a step at a time, at least we have a galaxy to investigate in front of us." ”

"That's all it can be." Spred said helplessly, "Then I'll go back and continue to investigate the core of the warp engine, hoping that this time it will have a different result." With that, he turned around and wanted to leave the command module.

At this moment, Atlas's happy voice sounded in the command cabin, "People have found it!" Brother Captain! They've found it! ”

Just when he heard her words, Zhou Xin also showed a puzzled look, "What did you find?" ”

"They've found the core of the warp speed anomaly!" Atlas replied happily.

"Something is out of the ordinary." Spred had just walked to the door of the command cabin at this time, and when he heard Atlas's words, he hurriedly turned around and asked.

At this time, the figure of the little girl appeared on the screen, and at the same time, there was also a flat image, the little girl jumped to her feet, pointed to a small black dot on the plane and said: "Look here, look here, there is a hole here." ”

Looking at the black dots on the screen, Spred looked puzzled, "Hole? Where is this and how can there be a hole? I didn't find out before. ”

The screen began to shrink, and after a while, the hole that Atlas pointed out was too small to be seen in the screen, but the screen continued to shrink, and after a while, a corner of the engine core appeared in the screen.

This is the first time Zhou Xin has seen the core of the warp engine, and due to the strong electromagnetic field, the core is completely unable to communicate. During the second inspection, Spred turned off the electromagnetic restraint in order to gain access to the room where the neutron matter was kept, and communication was able to proceed normally.

In the screen, Zhou Xin saw that the core space used to restrain neutron matter is not very large, about a cylinder with a diameter of three meters and a height of about two meters, and there is no wall in the strict sense around the cylinder, but it is surrounded by dense coils, these coils are arranged in the shape of chain mail, and there is now an opening of about one meter on the wall composed of coils, which is the entrance to this room, in addition, only coils can be seen in this room. Even the ceiling and floor are made of coils.

Zhou Xin looked at the scene on the screen curiously, he was very puzzled how the robot controlled by Atlas entered the core from such a small entrance, and Spred's attention was obviously not on this, his attention was attracted by the hole that Atlas said, but the existence of the hole was no longer visible on the screen now.

"What about the hole? Where did you go? Spred hurriedly asked.

"Brother Spred, don't worry, that hole is less than a micron in size, and you can't see it in this picture." Atlas explained.

"Less than a micron?" Zhou Xin asked suspiciously, "Is this a hole?" Are you sure it's not an anomaly in the manufacturing process of the coil? ”

"This can't be?" Spred came out and explained, "Every coil in it is strictly inspected after it is manufactured, and if there is any unevenness, it will be discarded directly, let alone a hole." ”

The little girl also shook her head, "It shouldn't be like this, people have also found a tiny hole in the wall at the corresponding position outside the coil, and in this hole, people have detected extremely faint neutrino residues." ”

"Neutrino remnants?" Zhou Xin's face was incredulous, "Didn't you say that there are no traces of radioactivity in the core?" ”

"It's really not radioactive." Atlas replied, "Neutrino rays are not radioactive rays. Moreover, the residual neutrino rays are already very weak, and if they hadn't discovered the hole first, they wouldn't have noticed the neutrino anomaly. As he spoke, the screen zoomed in once again to see the hole.

"Where did this hole come from?" Glancing at the small hole on the screen, Zhou Xin turned his head to look at Spred suspiciously, "Didn't you say that no anomaly was found?" ”

"Who knew there would be such a small hole." Spred said depressedly, "Although it is said that a detailed inspection was carried out, I can't go into detail to inspect the condition of each coil, do you think this kind of thing can be done by a few people?" ”

"That's right." Zhou Xin didn't care about this problem, he looked at the little girl on the screen, "It's really thanks to Atlas this time, otherwise I don't know when I want to find this hole." ”

Atlas smug a smug expression, "That's right, they're amazing. ”

After complimenting her a little bit, Zhou Xin returned to the topic, "Okay, now the question is, how did this hole appear?" ”

"People are still checking." Atlas replied, "The outer protective layer has already found a hole through it, and this hole is slightly larger than the hole in the coil, about two microns." As he spoke, the screen had shifted to the outside of the core, "Wait, what is this?" After a while, Atlas exclaimed, and the picture suddenly changed from the outer protective layer to a new place, and in the middle of the screen, a black hole appeared there, "Brother Captain, look, it's another hole!" ”

"Where is this?" Zhou Xin asked.

"The second shield of the core." Before Atlas could answer, Spred recognized him at a glance, and then he quickly said, "Atlas, you wait for me there, I'll be there right away." With that, Spred's figure disappeared into the doorway.

A few minutes later, Spred's voice came out of the screen, "Atlas, where is the hole located?" ”

"Right here." As he spoke, the screen shifted to Spred's body, and he fixed the instrument in his hand to the place where Atlas was pointing, and then searched the screen on the instrument.

"This is it." Atlas stretched out his mechanical arm and pointed to a place on the screen of the instrument, Zhou Xin could not see the scene on the screen of the instrument, but Spred saw a very inconspicuous black dot on it, if Atlas hadn't pointed out, he might have to look for a long time on the screen.

Looking at the tiny hole displayed on the screen, Spred fell into deep thought, and after a while, he shook his head and said, "No, I can't tell how such a small hole was formed at all, but the disappearance of Substance Zero should have something to do with this hole." As he spoke, he fixed the same instrument to the protective layer on the other side, "I need to take a moment to examine these holes and see what I can find......