Probably because of the short hibernation time this time, Wei Feng felt that he woke up much better this time than before. It's only been a few minutes since he woke up, and Wei Feng has already regained some strength a little. Wei Feng barely supported his body to sit up in the hibernation pod, and then asked, "Is there any further information?" ”

Now that Wei Feng is three trillion kilometers away from the sun, Wei Feng can be sure that there is no human creation here in his position, except for the Xinghai spacecraft and several probes launched from the spacecraft. Then here an unknown signal is received, and what this means is obvious.

"I haven't been able to determine the state of the source yet, but one thing is for sure, and that is that the surface area on the side facing us will not be larger than 100 square meters. Otherwise, I would have been able to see it through an optical telescope. Then I can tell you that it must not be very large, and at the same time, it is orbiting the sun at an extremely slow speed. What it emits is a repeating signal that repeats for five seconds, and if it were to be represented as a human audible sound, it would sound like this. ”

Wei Feng heard a sound similar to the friction between the legs of the table and the floor when he moved the table. The sound lasts for five seconds, stops after five seconds, and repeats again.

"I can't decipher the specific meaning of the signal." Ye Luo continued.

"Did you signal it back?" Wei Feng asked.

"I sent a response signal at the frequency they used, but they didn't respond. They still maintain this unknown signal that repeats every five seconds, without any change. As far as I guess. This could be an instrument with only a fixed working program. It is unable to respond to any stimuli from the outside world. In other words. There should be no intelligent life presiding over it within it. ”

"Find a way to capture it." Wei Feng immediately said, "This is most likely a relic left by an unknown civilization, and it may be hundreds of millions of years old. As long as we capture it, there's a good chance we'll get something very important from it. ”

Wei Feng said, slowly walked out of the hibernation cabin, then put on his clothes, and then instructed Ye Luo: "Immediately help me prepare some food that can quickly restore my mental and physical strength." ”

"Okay, please wait five minutes." Ye Luo said calmly. After a pause, he asked, "Do you have any plan to capture it?" Do not forget that our spacecraft Xinghai is moving at a speed of up to 3,000 kilometers per second relative to it. Capturing it is not an easy task. ”

Wei Feng held on to the wall with one hand to stabilize his body, while thinking quickly in his mind about the specific capture plan. This time is different from the last time, the last time Wei Feng encountered an asteroid, when facing an asteroid, Wei Feng can naturally take the way of smashing it and then capturing the fragments, but this time it is likely to be an alien civilization creation, it is likely to be a complete one. And the instrument is still working. Naturally, Wei Feng could no longer take the method of smashing it.

Then there are only two roads left in front of Wei Feng. One, slow down the Star Ocean spacecraft. Two, speed up for that unknown instrument. Of the two options, slowing down the Star Ocean spacecraft is clearly unrealistic. Wei Feng's sailing destination is the South Gate Two Galaxy, if the Xinghai spacecraft is slowed down now, after capturing that instrument, Wei Feng will have to accelerate the spacecraft, and this time will come and go, at least 30% of the spacecraft's total fuel reserves will be consumed. This is unacceptable to Weifeng.

Then there is only the second feasible path left.

Thinking of this, Wei Feng immediately said: "Ye Luo, you immediately manipulate the probe closest to it as close as possible, and then try to obtain as much data about it as possible, including its volume, possible mass, etc." At the same time, I immediately prepared the tools for me, and I was going to modify a few thrusters. ”

"Okay, I'll do it right away." Ye Luo replied.

Weifeng's plan is simple. Since the Star Ocean spacecraft can't slow down, it's time to speed up for that unknown instrument. Wei Feng planned to launch a few thrusters that carried enough fuel, and then slow them down to match the unknown device, then attach it to the thing, and then push the thing to accelerate, and in this way capture it into the Star Ocean spaceship.

This is the most likely way for Weifeng to succeed in the real world.

In the vast space, hundreds of millions of kilometers away from the port side of the Xinghai spacecraft, a small probe began to work. A burst of fire erupted from its tail, and under the impetus of the flames, its speed increased dramatically, and it sailed towards the location of the unknown instrument in the calculation.

"The second probe will pass 10 million kilometers from the source site in a day's time, at a relative speed of 3,600 kilometers per second. After passing through it, Probe 2 will no longer have any fuel available, which means that it will continue to move away from us, and we will never have the ability to reclaim it. We will lose it forever. Ye Luo said calmly.

"It's worth paying the price of a detector to recover an instrument left behind by an unknown civilization." Wei Feng responded, "Since we are doomed to lose this probe, can you manipulate it to blow itself up after it has skimmed over the source and sent back the probe data?" In this way, we may be able to use the high-precision telescope on top of the spacecraft to get more information about the signal source with the help of its self-bursting light. ”

"Yes." Ye Luo said, "I'll do the relevant calculations." ”

Preparatory work has already begun to be carried out intensively. After spending several hours regaining his strength, Wei Feng finally gained the ability to work, so the preliminary modification of the thrusters began.

As the day passed quietly, the No. 2 probe swept 10 million kilometers away from the unknown signal source, and then sent the information it obtained back to the Xinghai spacecraft, and it exploded and turned into a firework in the dark universe. But it was too far away from the Star Ocean spacecraft for Wei Feng to see the light it emitted with the naked eye.

Wei Feng couldn't see it, but the telescope on the Xinghai spacecraft clearly captured this scene. The light of the second detector's self-explosion increased the intensity of the reflected light from the unknown signal source by more than ten times, and with some information sent back by the second detector before, Ye Luo finally barely obtained some information about the location signalman.

"It's probably an instrument in the shape of a screw, with a larger diameter at the top of the screw cap and a smaller diameter at the rest of the place. It has a total length of about seven meters and a maximum diameter of four meters. At this volume, I don't think its total mass will exceed fifty tons. ”

"It's not smooth, it's rough. You see, although I can't tell the details, I think it's some cable or pipe that is exposed in the cosmic environment. It doesn't even have even the most basic protection. In this way, this is a very rudimentary instrument. But this also means a paradox: if you can send an instrument to such a place, how can you not be able to attach the most basic protection to it? Or rather...... It's not that it's unprotected, it's that its protection is broken later. ”

Ye Luo presented the received signal in front of Wei Feng in the form of a picture, and explained something to Wei Feng.

"It can make a detector lose even the most basic protection...... I think it's supposed to be war. Only combat can make a well-deserved instrument so tattered. "If that's the case, then our previous speculation can be verified." ”

The discovery of a fragment of an unknown civilization in the open space between the ecliptic discrete disk and the Oort cloud can barely be explained by coincidence, but now that a second has been discovered, it cannot be explained by coincidence. After ruling out the possibility of deliberate manipulation, the only remaining possibility is that encountering the fragments of an unknown civilization here is a high probability event. Combined with the fragment that appeared to have been torn apart by the explosion, and the tattered appearance of what appeared to be a probe at the moment, there seems to be no explanation other than the fact that there was a large-scale interstellar war in and around the solar system.

"We have to capture it. There's a lot to a working alien probe that could be there. Wei Feng said, "Ye Luo, you immediately fill the thrusters with enough fuel, then slow them down, and then let them push the probe to the spaceship." ”

"Okay. The four thrusters will be launched in twenty minutes, and they will slow down for two months, reaching the source to a standstill. After that, it would take them about thirteen years to propel the probe to a position only 100 kilometers away from the spacecraft, and to remain relatively stationary with the spacecraft. At that point, I will wake you up and it will be up to you to decide what course of action to go next. ”

Long distances mean long hours. Just capturing a detector will take more than thirteen years of Weifeng in total. But even if it takes a hundred and thirty years, Wei Feng thinks it's worth it.

"Okay." "I'll stay awake until two months later, and I'll start hibernation until it reaches us, after I'm sure I've successfully captured the source." (To be continued......)