Chapter 3 Smooth warp flight

"Your Excellency, Captain, this warp flight will end in an hour." On this day, the usual report of the Voyager sounded in the command cabin.

"Hmm." Zhou Xin nodded and ordered, "Continue according to the standard process." Now he and Dart were sitting in their seats with solemn expressions, and as for Spred, he had gone to the warp engine early in order to be able to deal with all kinds of emergencies when leaving the warp space. At the same time, the command module was a busy scene.

"But don't let anything happen." Looking at the unchanged exterior picture on the screen, Zhou Xin muttered to himself worriedly.

"Brother Captain, you don't need to be so nervous." Feeling Zhou Xin's nervousness, Atlas comforted, "It's not so worrying about going out than entering the warp space." It doesn't matter if something goes wrong and the hull is damaged, at least we've reached our goal, haven't we? What's more, since we were able to enter the warp space smoothly, there would be basically no problems when we left. ”

"There's nothing wrong with being careful." Zhou Xin said cautiously, "For the current Voyager, it is best not to have any damage caused by accidents. Moreover, while minor problems are tolerable, if something serious happens due to carelessness, it is not easy to remedy. With that, he began to check with the various departments inside the ship.

After learning more about the current state of the Voyager, more than half an hour has passed. But even so, Zhou Xin still seemed a little uneasy, and in the remaining twenty minutes, he repeatedly recalled in his mind whether there was anything he had missed in the examination just now. It wasn't until the Voyager's voice sounded again that he finally came to his senses.

"The ship will finish its warp flight in five minutes."

"What's the condition of the warp engine?" Hearing the countdown of the Voyager, Zhou Xin subconsciously asked the question he was most concerned about again.

"The warp engine was working fine and no issues were found." Spred himself answered.

"Everyone is focused on the condition of the ship, and if they find any problems, they must report them immediately." Next, looking at the countdown on the screen, Zhou Xin looked a little nervous, and he kept emphasizing the same problem to everyone in the command cabin.

"Three minutes to go...... One minute...... Ten seconds...... Five, four, three, two, one. "At the moment of countdown to one, the warp space around the Voyager on the screen quickly distorted. In the blink of an eye, normal cosmic space appeared around the spaceship.

"The ship has now left the warp space, and the warp flight has been successfully completed, with a flight time of 35 days, 16 hours, 27 minutes and 19 seconds." The moment Zhou Xin and the others saw the normal starry sky, the Voyager, which had completed the countdown, reported as soon as possible.

However, at this time, Zhou Xin did not care about the contents of the Voyager's report. Before that short report was over, he immediately ordered: "Immediately carry out a ship-wide inspection to confirm the damage to the Voyager as soon as possible." ”

After nearly half a day of detailed investigation, Zhou Xin and the others finally got the results of the damage to the entire spaceship. Thankfully, according to the more than 100-page report given by the Voyager, in the process of leaving warp space, except for a few armor plates that fell off in the violent spatial deformation due to the lack of other armor plates around it, and some of the original scars were slightly deformed due to the same reason, the entire ship did not add any new injuries. This is consistent with the results observed from the outside of the spacecraft, where there is not much scattered debris around the large Voyager. Hearing this result, Zhou Xin, who had been nervous for a long time, breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thankfully, if something happens again, it will be even more difficult for us." Zhou Xin said to himself happily.

"Brother Captain, look, people have said that it's okay before, but you were still so nervous before." Before Zhou Xin's words fell, Atlas jumped out and said excitedly.

"Okay, okay, our Atlas is the most powerful, I'll trust all your judgments in the future." Hearing the little girl's obvious words of praise, Zhou Xin said perfunctorily with a crying and laughing tone. Then, after calming Atlas's emotions, his expression became serious again, "Since there is no problem, let's start the main engine." We continue to move towards the inner star system. With the order given, the Voyager was soon moving through space.

During the flight, Zhou Xin asked Atlas, "At this distance, can our observation equipment observe the specific conditions in the star system?" Find a way to find out if there really is only one planet in the star system. After learning that there was no bigger problem with the Voyager itself, Zhou Xin's next concern was this problem.

"The results observed in most frequency bands are no different from before." After some scanning, Atlas replied, "So people can only be sure that there is at least one planet in the star system in front of them." She then adds, "However, in the visible wavelength, a slightly different result was observed." As she spoke, she broadcast images of what she had observed in the visible light range.

At the beginning, in the picture of only one star, Zhou Xin and the others did not see anything abnormal. However, after careful observation, Zhou Xin vaguely found that there seemed to be two rings that were fainter than the surrounding ones at the edge of the star. The first time he observed the two rings, he subconsciously thought that they were the orbits of the two planets, but after thinking about it for a while, he realized that there was something obviously wrong with his idea. Because if it were just a few planets, they would have formed a few dim dots at most after blocking the light of the stars, and they would not have become the two distinctly faint rings seen in the picture today. Realizing this, he suddenly felt some doubts in his heart.

After ruling out the possibility of planets, Zhou Xin continued to think about what could form the picture he saw now. It didn't take long for him to think of the most likely answer - the asteroid belt.

"That's—asteroid belt?" Thinking of this, he opened his mouth to confirm to Atlas......