"Hopefully there will be good news in the next investigation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Zhou Xin comforted himself with a little worry.

=Dividing line of time=

Let's skip some of the boring investigative processes and turn back the clock by five months, during which Zhou Xin lived a cookie-cutter boring life, every day, the probe would send back some reports that he needed to deal with, and after he read them, he would call back the reports that he thought were worthless to the Voyager for processing, and only take out a few of the reports that were worthy of attention and discuss them with Spred. However, there are not many reports worth paying attention to, and basically there will be no more than one a day, so in general, the five months of last week's letter are still very boring.

In the past five months, nearly 85% of the exploration of the entire planet has been completed, but the probe has not achieved anything other than the occasional discovery of special creatures in the deep sea, and Zhou Xin has nothing to do about it. At the same time, the exploration of that circular area was also 75% complete, but what worried Zhou Xin was that except for the area he knew from the beginning was a strong magnetic field area, the detector found nothing, and not even a special creature was found in this area, which inevitably made Zhou Xin doubt his speculation.

Of course, Zhou Xin told Spred about the worries in his heart, but Spred didn't have a good solution when the clues were insufficient, so he had to comfort Zhou Xin and let him continue to investigate, maybe he could find something in the remaining part. Helpless, Zhou Xin had no choice but to follow Spred's advice first, put aside his worries, and wait for the final investigation results.

In the blink of an eye, another three months passed, and as the investigation continued, Zhou Xin's worries grew day by day, and at first, the probes exploring around the planet could occasionally send back some messages to divert Zhou Xin's attention. However, in the second month, with the completion of the exploration of the entire planet, Zhou Xin completely focused his attention on that circular area. In the last month, Zhou Xin finally ushered in the last day of exploration, and according to Voyager's estimates, the detailed exploration of the circular area would be completed in 12 hours.

Because the surface environment of this planet was still too hot, Zhou Xin did not leave the base a few times in total, so after staying in the ground base for about half a year, he returned to the Voyager. Now, although there are still 12 hours before the completion of the investigation, Zhou Xin is already sitting uneasily in the command cabin waiting for the final result.

At this time, Spred walked in from behind Zhou Xin, looked at Zhou Xin with a worried face, and asked with concern, "What?" Are you still worried about the results of the survey in that area? ”

Zhou Xin replied worriedly: "That's natural, it took so much time, only the last small piece of land is left, and we haven't found any clues yet, do you think I'll not be worried?" ”

"But now that's 12 hours before the scheduled time? Is it okay not to go to bed? ”

"I can't sleep." Zhou Xin made a bitter face, "Thinking about how to sleep, you say, what if we get nothing in the end, this is our last clue." ”

"Then I can't help it." Spred said helplessly, "I don't have any more clues here, but don't be discouraged, after all, there is still a little place to explore." He comforted Zhou Xin.

"Alas-" Zhou Xin sighed, "That's all it takes, let's take one step at a time." Then, reluctantly, he asked the Voyager, "Is the research on those special creatures complete?" Are you sure there are no new leads? ”

"This ship has conducted a detailed analysis of the various parts of those special creatures, from the overall structure to the intermolecular structure, and indeed no new clues have been found." The Voyager's answer was cold and unforgiving.

"Including the special creatures that were discovered some time ago?" Zhou Xin still didn't give up.

"Including newly discovered special creatures." The Voyager shattered Zhou Xin's last glimmer of hope.

"Actually—" Seeing Zhou Xin ask about those special creatures, Spred stopped talking.

"What do you want to say?" Seeing Spred's hesitant eyes, Zhou Xin asked curiously, "Is there anything you want to say?" ”

"Actually, it's just an immature idea." Spred hesitated, "You say, are we focusing on those special creatures and ignoring their location itself? ”

"What do you mean?" Hearing Spred's words, Zhou Xin thoughtfully, "You mean, their location is a clue in itself?" But we've discovered hundreds of special creatures so far, so do we need to re-investigate all the points? ”

"That's not necessary." Spred waved his hand, "The probe has already done a detailed investigation before, and there is no point in doing another investigation." ”

"And what other clues are there to these locations?" Zhou Xin asked puzzledly, "Is there any other information besides the locations themselves?" ”

"I don't know if there's any other information." "I'd better put my thoughts out first, and you'll see if it's worth investigating." Seeing Zhou Xin nodded, Spred continued, "Haven't you ever been suspicious that these special creatures are trapped in a specific place and can't get out? ”

"Didn't we talk about this before?" Zhou Xin asked, "Didn't you come up with a reliable guess because of the lack of clues at that time, do you have new clues now?" ”

"No, that's not what I meant." Spred shook his head, "We only discussed how they got stuck here last time, however, we didn't discuss why they were trapped here. ”

Hearing Spred's somewhat awkward explanation, Zhou Xin muttered, "Why are you trapped here?" After thinking for a moment, he asked Spred, "What do you mean by that civilization itself that keeps these special creatures in a fixed place?" ”

"Isn't it?" Spred said, "I think there are only two possibilities for these special creatures to be trapped in a fixed place, one is to keep these special creatures from coming into contact with the outside environment, but the investigation of the probe can already explain the problem, the place where they are trapped is no different from the nearby environment, so why are they trapped here." So there's only one possibility, the points themselves have some information hidden, otherwise why can't they leave these locations. ”

After a pause, he continued, "Of course, the probe has investigated all the points and found nothing out of the ordinary. So I wondered if the location itself was fine, but that the location information of their location was hiding something. ”

Seeing Zhou Xin's puzzled face, Spred opened a topographic map, "Look, this is the location of all the special creatures we have found now, what will happen if we ignore other information and look at these locations as points?" ”

This time Zhou Xin understood, "You mean that we should not investigate each point separately, but analyze them as a whole?" ”

Spred nodded, "That's what it means, just look at them as dots, then what do you think of them?" ”

Zhou Xin thought for a while, "If it were me, I would first subconsciously connect them when I saw so many points." ”

Spred nodded, "I think so too, I tried to connect the dots some time ago, but there were too many dots, so I didn't get a very regular pattern." ”

"Sounds reasonable." Zhou Xin said slowly, "But have you ever thought about what if we miss some special creatures? ”

"Only God knows." Spred spread his hands, "Maybe this is also a test of that civilization, just like the topographic map of the DNA hidden, if you don't have enough technology, you can't get information, which can also explain why a few special creatures are hidden in some extreme environments." ”

Zhou Xin thought for a moment, and then he instructed the Voyager: "Voyager, analyze the connection between the locations where these special creatures are located, and try to see if you can connect these dots into a pattern." ”

"Analyzing." As soon as Zhou Xin's words fell, the Voyager began to analyze, and after a while, he replied, "There are too many locations, and this ship needs more time to analyze." ”

"Hmm." Zhou Xin nodded, and then, he said to Spred, "It looks like it will take a while to get the results." ”

"Hmm."

Then, Zhou Xin asked the Voyager, "Hasn't the probe sent back any new news?" ”

"Nope." Voyager still gave a negative answer.

Seeing Zhou Xin's distressed expression again, Spred patted Zhou Xin's shoulder, "There are still 12 hours, don't worry." ”

"Can you not be in a hurry, there is only such a little space left." Zhou Xin said distressedly, and then he said to Spred, "Forget it, you don't have to accompany me here, go and do your own thing." ”

After Spred left, Zhou Xin continued to sit in his position and wait for the latest news from the detector.

The next 8 hours passed, and in these 8 hours, the detector sent back a message, which was still very excited when this news first came, but when he verified the message, Zhou Xin was disappointed again. The probe only discovered a normal cavern, but the cave was hidden near the detection limit, which caused a false alarm from the probe.

Time continued to go for two hours, and with the tiredness of his body and the depression in his heart, Zhou Xin fell asleep in his seat unconsciously. Just a few minutes after Zhou Xin fell asleep, the detector sent back a new message, and the prompt sound of the message woke Zhou Xin up.

Zhou Xin rubbed his eyes, then stretched, and said to the Voyager tiredly, "Are there any new discoveries?" What's this time? It can't be a cave again, right? ”

"Theoretically not."

"Oh?" Zhou Xin was a little more energetic, "That's what you found, let it go and take a look." ”

A circular topographic map appears on the screen, and then the topographic map zooms in a little, focusing on one of the corners of the topographic map, the last place the probe has not explored. Then a red dot appeared on that small piece of the map, apparently where the anomaly had been found.

"At this location, the probe found an anomalous cavity." The Voyager introduced.

"Hollow?" Zhou Xin asked suspiciously, "Are you sure it's not a naturally formed cave or something." ”

"I can't be sure for the time being, but the shape of the cavity that the detector has scanned is a bit strange."

Then the topographic map on the screen began to change, from a top view to a side view, where Zhou Xin saw a mountain range. Then the camera begins to approach one of the peaks on the mountain range, and then passes through the mountainside part. Then came a section of the mountain, on which a clear red line was drawn. The red line starts from the mountainside and goes straight through the mountain to the bottom of the mountain.

Voyager went on to report: "The probe found a space that appears to be a cave in the red line, but the shape of the cave appears to be very unnatural, so the probe suspects that the cave may not have been formed naturally." ”

Looking at the straight red lines in front of him, Zhou Xin was a little puzzled, "Indeed, such a straight cave doesn't look like it was formed naturally, does it mean that this is the place we are looking for?" Voyager, has the exploration of this cave begun? ”

"Not yet." The Voyager replied, "The suspected entrance to this cave is also covered with thick rock formations, and our probes are temporarily unable to enter this cave, and the ship is sending some engineering robots to assist in the exploration, and it is expected that the engineering robots will arrive in two hours." ”

"That's just in time for the probe to finish exploring this place." Zhou Xin yawned, "No, I'll go sleep first, Voyager, call me in two hours." He fell asleep directly on his stomach......

Two hours later, the sleeping Zhou Xin was woken up by the Voyager, with a pair of dark circles under his eyes, Zhou Xin rubbed his eyes, and then cheered up a little, "Voyager, have you made any new discoveries in these two hours?" ”

"Not really." Voyager replied, "The probe's exploration of the target area has been completed over a total of eight months, during which time the probe has discovered 27 natural caves, as well as one suspected man-made cave, and nothing else is anomalous. Voyager summed up the eight months of exploration.

"Finally the probe is over." Zhou Xin breathed a sigh of relief, "At least one anomaly has been discovered, and I also mean that nothing will be found." Voyager, has the engineering robot arrived? He asked the Voyager.

"The engineering robot has arrived at the predetermined location and is waiting for your order."

"Whew." Zhou Xin let out a long breath, "Then let's get started, let's see what secrets are hidden in this anomalous place......"