Chapter 165: Fall and - Explosion

Not long after switching to the ground footage, the first debris was hit. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Because I had seen similar images before, this time it was nothing more than a larger and denser number of falling debris. Therefore, after two glances, Zhou Xin motioned to Atlas to switch the picture to other places.

In the footage of another probe, the crowd saw a similar scene again. The difference is that the place shown in this picture is already early in the morning. At this time, on the horizon, a round of "red sun" is rising. However, in addition to the red sun that the Kazlan people here can see every day, in the meteor-dense sky, several fireballs slightly smaller than the "sun" that everyone saw were rushing from the sky towards the ground at a very fast speed. With trails two or three times longer than the other meteors trailing behind them, and with their own shard soldiers, the entire army of wreckage charged towards the ground desperately.

Underneath these large fire clusters, some of the battleships were concentrating on the path in which they fell. The ships struggled to gain altitude, just to be able to make contact with the large wreckage that had fallen a second earlier. But even then, they may not have time to destroy all the wreckage.

Just as Zhou Xin's attention was all focused on the picture on the screen, Atlas said: "From the current situation, it is estimated that the destructive power of the wreckage that fell in this area should be about the same as the destructive power of all the wreckage in the last fall in Kazlan itself, maybe a little less. ”

Before the little girl could finish her sentence, a large piece of wreckage fell to the ground near the probe. Suddenly, a thick pillar of smoke shot into the sky, and it didn't take long for it to grow into a huge mushroom cloud. Before the mushroom cloud had fully formed, everyone heard a loud rumbling sound coming back from the probe. As if the horn of the charge was sounded, at the same time as the rumbling sounded, behind the pillar of smoke, smoke and dust of different sizes and thicknesses came out of the ground one by one, and the main force of the falling wreckage arrived.

"Let's switch to another place, and then look down and it's basically the same as the last time." Zhou Xin looked at the pillars of smoke that had not yet fully formed a mushroom cloud and said.

The screen changed again, and now the detector was located exactly during the day. At first glance, Zhou Xin and the others saw a lot of bright "suns" hanging in the sky.

Of course, among these "suns", only the bright yellow one in mid-air is the star in the star system, and the other ones that are not perfectly round and glow red are all large debris that are falling. Looking closely, Zhou Xin and the others found that compared with the previous two pictures, the number of meteors in this picture was significantly reduced. It's not sparse, but it's not like it just now obscured almost the entire sky. However, relatively speaking, the number of large wrecks is much higher. Among the fireballs in the sky, several of them were actually elongated ellipsoidal, and they were significantly larger than the others. This made many people recognize at a glance, it was a strange combination of those battleships that did not succeed in self-detonating and space buildings.

Among the falling wreckage, the figure of the interceptor warship is naturally indispensable. At this moment, there are more warships on the screen that are intercepting than Zhou Xin and they have seen on the first two screens. However, it is a pity that the total number of warships is only a little more than 100, but the number of aircraft exceeds 10,000. It is clear that the Kazlans have not developed warships that can operate in the atmosphere, and now in the face of this attack, the number of warships is far from enough. As for the flying machines, they are still very effective in sweeping debris of a few meters or even more than ten meters, but if they are faced with the kind of wreckage of hundreds of meters, the power is not enough at all.

In full view, more than 100 warships gathered fire and hit the three large wrecks closest to the ground, and successfully reduced them to countless pieces. However, they didn't have time to deal with the fourth large piece of wreckage, and just like that, the piece of wreckage marked by Atlas was more than 100 meters long and fell to the ground very far from the probe. In less than a second, an inconspicuous column of smoke appeared on one side of the picture. However, Zhou Xin and the others did not dare to underestimate this pillar of smoke and dust, because this was the first piece of wreckage that did fall on the ground with a length of more than 100 meters, and it looked relatively small because it was far away from the detector. Nearly a minute after seeing the column of soot, the sound of the debris falling to the ground reached the location of the probe. It was a loud bang similar to muffled thunder, even a few points stronger than thunder, and even the camera of the probe shook slightly under the loud noise.

Just as the loud bang was still echoing in the command module, the accident happened. In an instant, the screen disappeared, leaving only the screen full of noise and four words - signal loss.

"What's wrong? What happened? The probe was discovered by the Kazrans? The first time he saw the picture on the screen, Zhou Xin asked nervously.

"People don't know what's going on, and the signal from the detector is lost all of a sudden. Brother Captain, wait a minute, and they will check the footage of the other detectors. Atlas replied as he checked the data from the other detectors in the background while switching the screen to another detector.

In the new picture, the time is still daytime. However, compared to the previous picture, the sky is obviously much cleaner, except for a dozen large fire balls and some small meteors around the fire balls. The rest of the place looked very ordinary, revealing a large expanse of the sky.

However, after seeing this picture, everyone did not feel much lighter. Because they knew where the camera was going - the last dozen or so space structures that had not been attacked by the Kazran fleet. These dozen or so space buildings, each of which is a behemoth of several hundred meters, and the number is much more than the previous few strange combinations, if it is really allowed to let so many space buildings fall directly on the surface of the planet without destruction, the consequences can be imagined.

However, in this picture, except for the dozen or so fire balls that were clearly seen, everyone did not appear to intercept the battleship, which couldn't help but make everyone feel quite puzzled.

"Strange, what about Kazran's interception fleet?" In the first moment, Demancha, who was most concerned about the situation on the surface of the planet, opened his mouth to ask.

"This area is a no-man's-land on the northern continent, so the Kazlans didn't send warships to defend it." Atlas replied casually, and then she reported to Zhou Xin, "Brother Captain, the cause of the loss of signal has been found out. It wasn't discovered by the Kazlans, but a large piece of wreckage had just fallen near the probe, destroying it. ”

"That's good." Hearing the little girl's report, Zhou Xin breathed a sigh of relief. Then he continued to look at the screen on the screen, and then he frowned and said to himself: "Although it is a no-man's land, if the space buildings are allowed to fall directly to the ground, they will cause no less damage to this planet than if they fall into an inhabited area." After saying this, he sighed deeply. However, at this time, Zhou Xin also understood that they had done everything they could now, so he could only look at the screen helplessly now.

"Brother Captain, several of the space structures in the picture are still trying to turn, and the probes left inside the space buildings have detected that some of the engines are still running normally." Atlas reported on the state of those space buildings.

"Hmm." Zhou Xin nodded, and then motioned for Atlas to switch the screen to other probes, and at this moment his heart was a little resistant to seeing such a large space building fall to the ground. As soon as the words fell, a wall of smoke appeared on the screen that occupied the entire screen.

It didn't take long for the wall of smoke in the frame to slowly shrink, and it appeared that the detector was moving away from the wall of smoke. After nearly three minutes, Zhou Xin and the others saw the true face of the smoke wall, which was actually a mushroom cloud, and the smoke wall they had just seen was only a part of the mushroom cloud.

It was only at such a close distance that everyone finally realized how huge the mushroom cloud was. However, at the first sight of this mushroom cloud, a faint feeling appeared in Zhou Xin's heart, he always felt that this mushroom cloud was much bigger than any one he had seen before. Looking up at the top of the screen, the sensation became more and more apparent, as the upper end of the mushroom cloud was even connected to some of the low clouds. Zhou Xin was very sure that the mushroom clouds he had seen before had never reached the height of the clouds. At this time, Atlas's voice reached Zhou Xin's ears, "This is the first piece of wreckage that fell to the ground more than 100 meters, and it is the remaining part of a battleship that failed to completely self-detonate." ”

Looking at the mushroom cloud that occupied almost one-third of the entire screen, Zhou Xin opened his mouth and asked, "Can you estimate the damage caused to the ground by this piece of wreckage?" ”

"Judging by the previous situation where the wreckage fell to the ground, the diameter of the impact crater is estimated to be at least about 2,500 meters, and the depth should be more than 200 meters. However, fortunately, there is a no-man's land around the crater, so there should be no casualties. Before that, Atlas had already spent some time studying the crash site, and as soon as Zhou Xin asked a question, she immediately answered.

While the little girl answered, many people were still carefully watching the picture on the screen. After a while, just as Zhou Xin wanted to ask another question, in the corner of the screen, a bright spot suddenly appeared on the horizon in the distance, and it looked like sunrise. But at this time, it is obviously daytime, and there is no sunrise at all. Zhou Xin's heart had just felt strange, and at that moment, the bright spot quickly expanded and exploded, turning from a point of light into a large ball of light. The ball of light looked even brighter than the real "sun" it had just seen, illuminating a large area of the surrounding sky. However, this image only appeared for less than a second and disappeared, but the reason was not because the ball of light had dimmed, but because a large number of snowflakes suddenly appeared on the screen at this time. Subsequently, the detector loses its signal.

At the moment when the bright spot exploded, everyone who saw this picture subconsciously closed their eyes. While closing his eyes, Zhou Xin also asked, "What is that?" Surely it wasn't something that could have been formed by the fall of the wreckage? It looks more likeβ€”"

"Explosion." Dart replied affirmatively, "It must have been caused by the explosion." ”

"Explosion?" At this time, many people had already opened their eyes, and Zhou Xin looked at the picture on the screen that lost the signal again and said thoughtfully, "It should be an explosion, could it be that this is caused by the fall of the wreckage?" But what could have made such a powerful explosion? ”

At this time, the Voyager reported: "Your Excellency, forty-three seconds ago, our ship detected a burst of radiation from the surface of the star, and the ray also contained a large number of antineutrinos. ”

"Radiation burst?" Hearing the Voyager's report, Zhou Xin's heart suddenly had an ominous premonition. At this time, Atlas also reported: "Brother Captain, in a circular area on the northern continent, all the probes have lost contact. The preliminary judgment is that the cause is that the radiation exposure exceeds the normal dose in an instant. ”

"Can you find the source of the radiation?" Zhou Xin hurriedly asked, "Then send the nearest probe over to investigate the situation." ”

"The location of the radiation source has been preliminarily determined: the inner city of the Republic of Kazran and its vicinity." The Voyager reported in all seriousness the last thing Zhou Xin wanted to hear.

"How could it be there?! Is that wrong?! Spred screamed in surprise the moment he heard that, and everyone in the command cabin realized what could have caused such a violent explosion as soon as they heard the Voyager's report. Many people had a look of disbelief on their faces at first.

"Little sister's judgment should not be wrong." Atlas also replied, "The circular area where the probe lost contact is also centered on the central city. This answer alone was enough for everyone present to make an accurate judgment.

"Neutron matter." These four words slowly came out of Dart's mouth.

"Maybe it's something else that caused the explosion." Spred still had a hint of luck in his heart.

Zhou Xin sighed, and then patted Spred on the shoulder, "I also hope that this explosion was not caused by neutron matter under the central city, but all the evidence observed now points to that place, so the biggest possibility now is the result we least want." Sighing again, he said to Atlas, "But let's send a probe over and take a look." ”

"Understood, the probe is moving in the direction of Central City." The little girl nodded.

More than half an hour passed, and the time came to the early morning on the Voyager, and when many people walked into the command cabin one after another to replace their companions who had been busy all night, the probe came to the periphery of the central city......