"Oh my God! How did this planet look like this! Ralph exclaimed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Zhou Xin was also surprised in his heart, he didn't show it, looking at the exaggerated shape of the planet in front of him, he frowned and thought for a while, and then asked: "It's unlikely that an ordinary asteroid impact should cause such exaggerated consequences, Voyager, calculate how big an asteroid impact would be needed to cause such exaggerated damage to this planet." ”

In less than a minute, Atlas preemptively said the answer: "According to the current shape of the planet, the mass of the impacting planet should be between half and four-fifths of the mass of the planet, and the impact angle should be between forty-five and sixty degrees." Two minutes later, Voyager came up with a similar result.

"Two planets of this size collide, the probability of this occurrence is a little too low." Zhou Xin was a little incredulous.

"This is the most likely outcome." The Voyager replied, "Another possibility that this ship has calculated is that another civilization with more advanced technology than ours has unleashed weapons of mass destruction on this planet. ”

"yes, yes, that's what I calculated." Atlas continued, "It would be even more exaggerated if that was the reason. ”

"Okay." Zhou Xin finally believed the results of the calculations made by the Voyager and Atlas, and he stared at the half-mutilated planet on the screen, while the Voyager explained the results in detail.

"The speed of the impact on the other planet of this planet was not slow, and after the impact, both planets took a lot of damage. On this planet, it can be seen that, in addition to the impact site, the outer shell of the planet located on the other side of the impact site has also completely cracked. Speaking of which, the Voyager enlarged the picture on the other side of the planet in the picture, and Zhou Xin and they saw that there were indeed cracks of different sizes on the other side of the earth's crust, and there was a huge crack that even ran through the poles of the planet, and there was a faint glow of dark red in these lines, "The huge impact blew away at least a quarter of the material of the planet, exposing the core of the planet." At this time, the picture turned to the missing part of the planet, revealing the part that Zhou Xin thought was the core of the planet, "After the impact, a large amount of magma inside the planet erupted, reheating the crust of the planet, until now the cooling process of the crust has not ended, which is the reason why the planet now emits a dark red light." ”

Atlas then added some details, "The impact between the two planets is just at the critical point of the planet's structure, if the impact was a little stronger, then the planet would not be this strange shape." The rest of the planet will collapse under gravity, reforming into a much smaller planet. Then she simulated the result of the impact on the screen after the force was too large, and Zhou Xin saw that a planet that was smaller than the shape of the planet in front of her appeared on the screen, "Moreover, it is because of this irregular shape that this planet has formed the strange orbit we observed before in the process of orbiting." ”

While they were analyzing the shape of the planet, the probe was getting closer to the planet, and some details on the planet's surface were more visible. In the screen, the surface of the missing part of the planet is close to solidification, and Zhou Xin does not see obvious traces of magma flow in this part of the area, but the temperature in this part is still very high, and the dark red light that everyone saw at the beginning is mainly emitted from this part.

On the other side of the planet, there were more cracks than Zhou Xin had seen before, and some small cracks that could not be seen because of the distance also appeared in the lens, and Zhou Xin basically couldn't see anything complete on this side. Most of the magma flowing out of the small fissures has completely solidified, and the solidified black basalt has been intertwined into a web along the side of the planet along the fissure, and looking at this large net, everyone can't help but feel strange in their hearts. Only a few large fissures still emit a faint dark red glow, so faint that they are completely invisible under the stellar light on the planet's sunny side, and only in the infrared band of the detector can you see that those cracks still emit not a faint heat.

Looking at such a mutilated planet on the screen, Zhou Xin felt a little helpless, "It seems that it is impossible to collect resources on this planet." ”

"Do you want to explore this planet?" The Voyager asked.

"Absolutely." Zhou Xin replied without hesitation, "Although it is said that it is impossible to collect resources on this planet, it is still necessary to explore, especially for the exposed core part of this planet, this is a rare opportunity to directly study the core of a planet." Let the nearby probes concentrate on this planet and conduct a detailed investigation of this planet. ”

"Understood."

"What about our resource gathering." Spred asked the question again after Zhou Xin's order.

Zhou Xin suddenly felt a headache, "I really didn't expect that none of the four planets would be able to collect resources normally." He thought for a moment, then tried to ask the Voyager, "During our stay, did the ship's probe equipment find the presence of an asteroid in this system?" ”

"Not really." Voyager gave a negative answer, and the probability of finding signs of an asteroid in this galaxy with our ship's exploration equipment is too low without a definite orbit.

This question was just asked by Zhou Xin with the mentality of trying, and he would not be surprised if he did not get a positive result, so he asked the question that he had thought about before: "Voyager, how is the current condition of the spacecraft, and can it withstand a short warp voyage?" ”

Hearing Zhou Xin's question, everyone in the command cabin was a little surprised, and Spred asked, "Do you want to—"

Zhou Xin nodded, and said helplessly: "Then what else can we do, we have no way to collect resources in this galaxy, so we can only go to other galaxies to have a look." As he spoke, he asked Voyager to pull up the star map left by the Atlanteans, and then continued, "Actually, I've been studying this star map for the past two days, and then I found another galaxy about two light-years away from our galaxy. Then, Zhou Xin pulled the star map on the screen, and a new galaxy appeared in the middle of the screen, "There are eight planets in this galaxy, and we can't find a suitable resource star among the eight planets." ”

Then, Zhou Xin closed the star map, and the broken planet reappeared on the screen, "That is to say, as long as the spacecraft can withstand about two months of warp speed, we can reach this galaxy." ”

"Will the Voyager be in good condition enough to withstand two months of warp flight?" Dart's face showed a hint of concern, "It's fine if we can get to that galaxy, but if something goes wrong and stops in the middle of flight, then no one will be able to save us." ”

"That's why I'll ask first." Zhou Xin said, "If the spaceship can't even withstand two months of flight, then we can only -" He looked up at the dark red planet in front of him, "and we can only try to collect a little resources on this planet." Voyager, has the condition of the ship been assessed? ”

"An assessment of the ship's condition is ongoing." Voyager replied that it took a full ten minutes for him to come up with an assessment, "The overall structure of the ship is basically intact, but one side of the hull is badly damaged, and the machine cannot predict whether the hull will be able to withstand the spatial distortion formed at the moment when the ship enters warp space." But once successfully entered the warp space, the structure of the hull was enough to support a warp flight for about two months. ”

"Is it possible to be dangerous at the moment of entering warp space?" Hearing the traveler's answer, Zhou Xin showed a hesitant expression, "Let me think about it." Then he asked Spred and Dart, "What do you think?" Are we going to take that risk. ”

"Is there no other way?" Spred frowned and thought for a long time, then said helplessly.

"Why don't we try to collect some resources on this planet?" Dart made a suggestion, "Collect a little bit and fix the ship's hull first." ”

Hesitantly glancing at the planet on the screen, Zhou Xin sighed and said helplessly: "Then try it first." ”

Next, they sent out engineering robots to land on the slightly intact side of the planet. Fortunately at first, the engineering robot did successfully land on the surface of the planet, and Zhou Xin was a little excited about this, but under the high temperature on the surface of the planet, the robot began to have various failures after working for less than an hour. At first, there was a problem with the communication device, and the Voyager noticed a delay in communication with the robot, and then the communication between the two began to make noise, which was barely tolerable. But then other precision parts of the robot began to have problems at high temperatures, and the robot's movements were greatly affected, and after more than ten minutes, the engineering robot on the surface of the planet completely stopped moving, and only the sound of the robot intermittently reporting errors came from the communication.

Just as the robot stopped working, Zhou Nobunaga sighed and said to Spred and Dart, "It seems that we can only take a little risk and sail at warp speed." ”

"That's all it can be." They both sighed, and Dart spoke.

Then Zhou Xin instructed the Voyager: "Use all the remaining resources in the ship, repair the hull of the spaceship if it can be repaired, this is our last chance, there is no need to leave any resources now, even if we stay, maybe we will not be able to use these resources for the next flight." There was a hint of sadness in his tone.

"Understood." The Voyager's tone didn't fluctuate, and she replied without emotion.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Xin added: "You all go and prepare, when the probe finishes exploring this planet, and the last bit of resources is used up, we will set off at that time." ”

After Zhou Xin finished speaking, Dart left first, and Spred showed an expression of wanting to say something, hesitated, he sighed, and left the command cabin after Dart.

In less than a day, all the remaining data in the spacecraft was turned into a part of the spaceship's shell by the engineering robot, and the probe's investigation of the seriously damaged planet was also nearing the end. They even found that if subdivided, the inner core of the planet can also be divided into different levels, which is clearly different from the hierarchy of the whole planet, the level of the inner core of the planet is not obvious, and there is no obvious dividing line between the layers, but the composition within each layer is very different, and various elements are deposited in the core in order from heavy to light. However, Zhou Xin and the others were not excited by the first-hand information they had obtained, because now their attention was on the impending dangerous journey, and the entire ship was immersed in a tense atmosphere.

Zhou Xin sat in the command cabin, his expression was solemn, his eyes looked at the broken planet on the screen, he didn't know what he was thinking, at this time, Dart opened the hatch and walked in.

Zhou Xin didn't even turn his head, he subconsciously asked, "Are you ready?" ”

"Actually, there's nothing to prepare." Dart's tone was a little helpless, "And I don't know what to prepare, I just told them to fix all the things in the living cabin that are easy to move around to prevent problems like last time." The rest is left to fate. ”

"Actually, you could choose not to leave in the first place, why did you have to leave that planet? Actually, I think staying in the base is also a good choice. Zhou Xin asked slowly, "Then you don't have to take this risk with me." ”

"I've already answered that question." Dart was not surprised by Zhou Xin's question, "I don't know what other people think, but for me, life in the base is too monotonous, and I don't want to end my life like this." ”

"But—" Zhou Xin stopped talking, he sighed, "Forget it, it's useless to talk about anything else now, let's wait until we successfully get through this difficulty." ”

While they were chatting, Atlas's excited voice suddenly came from the communicator......