Chapter 4: A Shadow
Just when Zhou Xin was sighing, a detector sent an urgent message. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Zhou Xin didn't care to continue admiring the beautiful scenery in front of him, he focused his attention on this news. Then, the fantastical image on the screen disappeared, and a white snowfield appeared.
Seeing this snowfield, Zhou Xin was slightly stunned, and then asked, "Isn't this just an ordinary snowfield?" What's out of the ordinary? ”
Under the prompting of the on-site probe, Zhou Xin discovered that there seemed to be a ball of snow flying up on the horizon, and the probe also deliberately enlarged this part of the image, but because the distance was too far, Zhou Xin only saw a white mass on the screen.
Looking at this shadow, Zhou Xin said casually: "I thought it was, this should be a snowflake stirred up by a certain detector, there's nothing to care about." ”
"There have been no reports of any probes passing by at the camera location." The Voyager added.
"Oh?" After listening to the Voyager's words, Zhou Xin became curious, "There is no air on this planet, what else can form such a picture?" He pondered for a moment, "Could it be a new ice volcano?" After thinking about it for a long time, there was no result, so Zhou Xin ordered the probe to get close to the white thing.
The probe moved towards the white shadow for a moment, and on the screen, the white shadow became clearer and clearer. Zhou Xin carefully observed the white shadow and found that the white shadow was still moving, and there was a white trail behind the white shadow that was not short. As the probe continued to approach, the white shadow began to get bigger and bigger, and when it was still about a kilometer or two away from the white shadow, Zhou Xin saw that the trajectory of the white shadow had changed, and it began to turn away from the direction of the probe, as if it was avoiding the probe.
Seeing that the white shadow began to turn, Zhou Xin and all of them became curious, and Spred asked suspiciously, "What's going on with this shadow?" Is it really hiding from the detector? Or is it just a coincidence? ”
"Just catch up and see." Zhou Xin stared at the white shadow on the screen.
However, the probe chased for a long time but did not catch up with the white shadow, and as the white shadow continued to flee, the probe seemed to be separated from it. After a while, the white shadow returned to the size of the white shadow that Zhou Xin had seen at first.
In the process, Spred was still guessing the identity of the white shadow, and he even wondered if the white shadow would be a conscious creature. However, obviously, this idea is unlikely to be recognized by many people, and the most common idea in the command cabin now is that this white shadow is a strange natural wonder, only Zhou Xin showed a thoughtful expression after hearing Spred's idea, but he did not say his thoughts, but stared at the white shadow on the screen. Then, he noticed that the white shadow began to distance itself from the detector.
"I can't seem to catch up." Zhou Xin muttered to himself, and at this time, Spred and the others also found that the detector was distanced by the white shadow. They all felt a little sorry that they couldn't catch up with the black shadow, but they didn't care too much, they just felt that they couldn't see a spectacle. Zhou Xin thought for a moment, then he ordered the Voyager to list the location information of all nearby probes, and then ordered one of the probes closest to the direction of the shadow's movement to intercept it.
Just as the shadow was about to disappear into the lens of the detector that had discovered it, its figure appeared in the lens of the detector that had come to intercept it, and as it moved rapidly, the white shadow was rapidly growing larger in front of the newly appeared camera.
Just as the white shadow approached the second probe a kilometer or two, it seemed to realize the presence of the probe in front of it again, so it turned around and continued to "escape" in a different direction from both probes.
At this point, even the researchers who thought it was a natural sight saw something strange, and the shadow seemed to be subconsciously avoiding the detector, although it was not known how the shadow did it. Zhou Xin and they began to be more and more curious about this shadow, so Zhou Xin ordered the third detector to go to the front of this shadow to intercept, but as before, the shadow began to turn within a kilometer or two of the third detector, and Zhou Xin They also found that the shadow turned very quickly, it seemed that it did not need to go through the process of slowing down and turning, but directly in the other direction with the same speed "escape".
This strange chase lasted for about an hour, and Zhou Xin successively mobilized more than 20 detectors to track the shadow, but the shadow still escaped. Under the unconscious guidance of the shadow, the tracking probes basically gathered. Still, they were left far behind by the shadow, and the distance began to widen.
Seeing this situation, Zhou Xin could not catch up with the strange black shadow by relying on these probes alone, so he had to start mobilizing the artificial satellite flying outside the planet, and he ordered the satellite located above the shadow to start tracking the shadow.
In the picture of the artificial satellite, Zhou Xin saw that a group of probes had formed a strange scene on the surface of the planet chasing a shadow, just like a pack of wolves chasing prey, but this group of wolves was very weak, not only could not catch up with the prey, but was also thrown farther and farther away by the prey.
Limited by the resolution of the satellite, Zhou Xin could only track the movement of the shadow, but could not see the specific appearance of the shadow. However, with the tracking of the satellite above, Zhou Xin will more easily direct the probe to contain the shadow. Under the calculation of the Voyager, Zhou Xin mobilized more than a dozen detectors in front of the shadow and began to contain it, and at the same time, the detectors following behind the shadow also dispersed, forming an encirclement behind the shadow.
It didn't take long for the probes to be completely formed, and in less than five minutes, the probes in front of the shadow were all within five kilometers of it. Dozens of seconds later, a new detector appeared in front of the shadow, and as before, the shadow changed direction and continued to escape, but then, more detectors appeared in front of it. At this moment, Zhou Xin seemed to hesitate when he saw the shadow, it stayed in place for a second, and then chose a position with the least detector and rushed over. However, it was clear that the Voyager's calculations would not be wrong, and within about fifty meters of the shadow approaching the probe in front of it, the encirclement had been completely formed, and if nothing else, the shadow would not be able to escape.
At such a close distance, through the lens of the detector, Zhou Xin and the others still couldn't see what the shadow was. There are many reasons for this, the main one being that the shadow moves very fast, stirring up a large number of snowflakes on the ground. Although they couldn't see clearly, Zhou Xin and the others still vaguely saw the general shape of the object in the shadow.
In the very center of the shadow is a cuboid black shadow in the shape of a car, and it seems that this black shadow is the true face of this shadow. Seeing this black shadow, Zhou Xin and Spred both concentrated their minds, after all, whether they can leave this shadow depends on the next ten seconds.
A few seconds later, the shadow was only about twenty meters away from the detector in front of them, and Zhou Xin and the others seemed to see the light shooting out from the front of the shadow. Ray? Zhou Xin and the others hadn't reacted to what was going on with this light, and at this time, a sudden change occurred.
At that moment, a laser shot out of the shadow, and the laser hit the detector directly in front of the shadow, destroying the detector in an instant, and then the shadow fired two more lasers, and these two lasers destroyed the detectors on the left and right of the first destroyed detector, so that a gap appeared in this encirclement in an instant, and the black shadow narrowly passed through this gap.
This momentary change made Zhou Xin and them unexpected, and after being stunned for a long time, they reacted, Zhou Xin and they looked at the screen again, and at this time, the shadow had already run away, leaving only a gradually smaller shadow in the lens of the detector. The siege plan was a complete failure.
But fortunately, although the black shadow escaped, but the satellite above the planet did not lose the trace of the shadow, Zhou Xin looked at the picture of the satellite, and found that the shadow was still in the satellite's field of vision, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Recalling the picture of the black shadow escaping just now, Zhou Xin opened his mouth and said suspiciously: "I was not wrong just now, right?" That shadow still glows? And will also shoot lasers to attack? ”
Spred looked at Zhou Xin, and then said helplessly: "If our detector is not damaged, I also think what we are seeing is an illusion." But—" He returned his gaze to the screen, where the three detectors that had just been hit by the laser were lying quietly on the ground, light blue sparks from the hole that the laser had passed through. Spred continued, "But it also proves that the shadow is not a natural creation, but a man-made object, so it must have something to do with the Atlanteans." ”
After listening to Spred's words, Zhou Xin thought for a while, then nodded and agreed with him, "Since that's the case, then we can't let go of that shadow." Then Zhou Xin said in embarrassment, "But since that shadow can attack, it seems to be a little troublesome." He thought for a moment, "It looks like we still need to send the battle robots down." ”
So Zhou Xin ordered the Voyager to send a battle robot to the surface of the planet, and in the process of the battle robot going to this planet, Zhou Xin and the others rechecked the previous footage of the black shadow when they fled, and then found a blurry black shadow in the lens of a probe closest to the black shadow. Through this blurry lens, Zhou Xin and the others could vaguely recognize the shape of this black shadow. They found that the height of the black shadow was not very high, it was flattened, and its movement seemed to be sliding on snow. Seeing this shape, Zhou Xin felt that it seemed a little familiar, and they thought carefully for a while before Spred hesitated and said, "You say—the shape of this shadow—doesn't look like the kind of weapon platform we encountered on that planet before?" ”
Zhou Xin nodded and said, "The shape looks a little similar, but it seems to be a little different in size, this black shadow is much larger than those battle platforms." And you look above it. Zhou Xin fixed the picture on the clearest shot of the black shadow, "The shape of the upper part of this black shadow is definitely completely different from the shape of the weapons on those combat platforms. ”
Looking at the camera on the screen, Spred nodded, "But the bottom half is really similar, maybe this thing has a different function than that weapon platform." ”
"That can only be known after this dark shadow is left......"
Seeing that this dark shadow could only be analyzed for the time being, Spred thought of a new question, "You say, will there be other dark shadows on this planet?" ”
Hearing Spred's question, others immediately felt that it made sense. Since the battle robots had not yet reached the planet, they simply searched for similar shadows on the surface of the planet. But after a long time, they did not find a second similar shadow on the satellite map, and later, Zhou Xin felt that their search was too inefficient, so he simply handed over the work to the Voyager.
More than two hours later, the battle robot reached the vicinity of the shadow. Thus, a new round of tracking of the shadow began.
For more than two hours, Zhou Xin had also been paying attention to the whereabouts of the black shadow. He saw that the black shadow moved forward rapidly for more than five minutes after escaping the detector, then slowly slowed down before finally stopping on a slightly protruding mountain bag. So, as before, Zhou Xin ordered the battle robots to disperse five kilometers away from the black shadow, and then surrounded the small hill, and after the encirclement was completed, the battle robots began to surround the shadow at the same time.
As before, about two kilometers away from the shadow, the shadow spotted the battle robot, and it moved again, trying to break out in one direction. After more than a minute, the shadow and the battle robot in the direction of its breakthrough met each other, and Zhou Xin had already seen the shadow in the lens of the battle robot. A few seconds later, the shadow was less than twenty meters away from the combat robot. Suddenly, a laser shot out from the shadow, just like it had done before attacking the detector, but the result was different, and the battle robot easily dodged. Seeing that the combat robot dodged the attack, the black shadow did not stop, its speed increased, and at the same time continued to fire lasers at the combat robot, the robot still dodged these lasers, and at the same time tried to fight back, after exchanging attacks a few times, just when the shadow was about to rush past the robot, the laser emitted by the robot seemed to hit its body. The shadow flew up for a distance, then fell back to the ground, and as it fell back to the ground, it raised a large number of snowflakes, and then, after rolling on the ground for some distance, finally stopped......