A small propulsion rocket quietly departed from the Star Ocean spacecraft and headed out into the vast expanse of space. Compared to the large scale of the universe or the forward speed of the Xinghai spacecraft, its movement speed is very slow, only less than ten kilometers per second, which means that it will finally meet the alien device after about thirteen days, and it will take more than ten days to finally converge and then push it into the Xinghai spacecraft, which is a month. But Wei Feng, who has long been accustomed to waiting for decades and hundreds of years, doesn't care that this is only a month.

During this month, Weifeng first carried out some recovery training, and carried out some inspection and maintenance tasks of the Xinghai spacecraft, and also replaced some parts that were out of order or at risk of failure. Time passed quietly in such a busy, more than ten days passed in a flash, and at this moment, the distance between the small propulsion rocket and the alien equipment was less than ten kilometers.

The small propulsion rocket had been slowed down before it finally joined up with the unknown extraterrestrial device, and at this moment, the relative speed of movement between it and the extraterrestrial device was only about 100 meters per second, and this speed was rapidly decreasing. Finally, after more than half an hour, the propulsion rocket and the target successfully converged, and at this moment, the distance between them was reduced to less than one meter.

In the midst of this dark universe, two devices built by two different civilizations are moving side by side.

The distance between here and the Xinghai spacecraft is only 10 million kilometers, which means that the two-way communication between the two sides will be delayed by about a minute. This time is not too long, so, in order to improve the success rate of the task, Weifeng finally chose the manual operation scheme, that is. Every action performed by this propulsion rocket is controlled by Wei Feng himself. In this case, Weifeng issued an order, and after more than a minute, he received the task receipt and execution result report, and then Weifeng will decide the next execution action according to the task execution result. And every step in this task may be just a trivial command such as "turn on the hydraulic system of the robotic arm" or "go forward five centimeters". The whole task of retrieving this alien device is not too complicated, but when broken down into such small steps, it becomes a lot more troublesome. It also means that it consumes a lot of time.

But Wei Feng has this patience. Wei Feng manipulated the propulsion rocket to quietly adjust his attitude, and then stretched out the mechanical arm to pull himself to its side, and then the fixture began to work, and the alien equipment and propulsion rocket were tied together, and then the propulsion rocket ignited......

As the tail of the rocket began to erupt with a faint blue light, the equipment made by an unknown alien civilization that Wei Feng had been waiting for for more than two hundred years finally began to slowly approach the Star Ocean spacecraft......

This continued for more than half a month, and every five hours, Wei Feng would recalculate its forward trajectory to correct the orbital deviation it had generated in the process of advancing, every ten hours. Weifeng will check the working status of the propulsion system......

In this state, the two-way communication delay gradually decreased from nearly 70 seconds to 50 seconds, and then to 30 seconds, 10 seconds, and 2 seconds......

This means that at this moment, the distance between it and the Xinghai spacecraft is less than 300,000 kilometers. At this distance, the optical telescope equipped on the Xinghai spacecraft can already capture its image relatively clearly. So Wei Feng really saw the appearance of this alien device for the first time.

Its appearance has changed dramatically from 200 years ago. Two hundred years ago, it was about the shape of a screw, with a larger diameter nut part and a smaller diameter nut body. But now. The nut part has disappeared, and there are obvious signs of cutting and disassembly in the connection between the nut and the nut body. And there's also some scattered cable-like stuff that stretches out.

Wei Feng knew that this must be the work done by the dismantling and maintenance equipment he launched at the beginning. Wei Feng can't restore what happened more than 200 years ago, hundreds of billions of kilometers away from him, and he doesn't know what kind of work has been done to disassemble and repair the equipment, and what kind of problems and difficulties have been encountered. But Wei Feng knows a little. That is, the original disassembly and repair equipment has finally succeeded, it has successfully completed its intended goal, and this is the most important thing.

There were still about two or three days left before the final recovery was successful, and in these two or three days, Wei Feng cleared out the specimen reserve cabin of the Xinghai spacecraft. It is intended to be a temporary storage place for this unknown alien device. The specimen reserve was intended to collect and store specimens there after Wei Feng arrived in the South Gate II system, and it is just right to use it for this alien device now.

At a distance of 300,000 kilometers, the alien device began to slow down slowly under the propulsion of the propulsion rocket, and finally reduced its relative speed to about one meter per second before reaching the Star Ocean spacecraft. In order to ensure that there were no accidents, Wei Feng even reduced the rotation speed of the Xinghai spacecraft, opened the hatch of the specimen reserve cabin to the maximum, and with the cooperation of the robotic arm, finally successfully captured the target in the spacecraft.

After all this work, Wei Feng put on his spacesuit and prepared to enter the specimen storage cabin in a vacuum to inspect the experimental equipment for himself, while Ye Luo closed the hatch, retracted the mechanical arm, and manipulated the Xinghai spacecraft to start rotating again.

Gravity was restored to the spacecraft again, and the alien device fell quietly to the ground. Wei Feng also arrived here after ten minutes.

In a well-lit environment, Wei Feng saw this thing up close for the first time. The propulsion rocket had separated from it before it entered the Star Ocean spacecraft, but the four propulsion rockets sent out two hundred years ago were still attached to it. They occupy the left, right, and bottom sides of the device, and seem to have merged with it.

Looking at them, Wei Feng's heart was full of emotion. Wei Feng knew that this alien device could be successfully recovered in the end, all thanks to the propulsion of these four rockets. Although they have long been out of fuel and have lost their ability to work, and have even been seriously damaged in the long time of more than two hundred years, they are no different from a piece of scrap metal, but in Wei Feng's eyes, they are so kind.

"Long time no see, my old friends." Wei Feng said, and then walked over and walked around the alien equipment that was originally more than ten meters long, but now the nut part has been removed, and only ten meters long remain.

Its first impression of Wei Feng was that it was dilapidated and cluttered. It barely had a full armor or casing or anything like that, and it was full of useless black instruments and pipes and cables. It looked dirty, like no one had taken care of it in a dusty place for hundreds of years. But Wei Feng knew that there was no dust in the space environment. The fact that it is like this only proves that it has existed for too long, so long that it can hardly be imagined, so long that it is ...... The thin cosmic dust has gathered so much on it.

Although its appearance is scattered, except for the part where the screw and nut are separated, there is no obvious damage in the rest of the place, and there are no broken pipes and cables. This proves that in its long history of existence, it has not been subjected to accidents such as interstellar material impacts. Even...... It was at least partially capable of working more than 200 years ago.

Because more than 200 years ago, Ye Luo received a signal of unknown meaning from it. It was precisely because of these signals that Wei Feng was able to finally find it and capture it here. But now, it doesn't signal anymore.

This was determined when Ye Luo rediscovered its traces. In this regard, Wei Feng and Ye Luo also made some speculations. Wei Feng and Ye Luo both believed that the dismantled nut part that might contain a miniature black hole was probably the energy supply device of this instrument, and if it was disassembled, it would naturally not be able to work without power.

Although it is strange to use a black hole as an energy supply device, the reality tells Wei Feng that this is probably a very credible thing.

The spacesuit worn by Wei Feng has camera equipment on it, which means that every picture Wei Feng sees can be detected by Ye Luo at the same time. Ye Luo has the same vision as Wei Feng, if not more. So, after Wei Feng made a circle of visual observations, Wei Feng said directly to Ye Luo: "Disassemble the four propulsion rockets." ”

"Okay." Ye Luo agreed, and then manipulated several robots to come over, the lifting robot lifted the equipment first, and the dismantling robot stepped forward and removed the four propulsion rockets one by one.

Once this step has been completed, further analysis work can begin.

But at this time, Wei Feng felt a little embarrassed. Because after all, this is an alien creation completely different from human civilization, Wei Feng does not understand its structure, does not understand its working principle, and does not understand anything. In such a situation, how do you do the analysis?

"Captain, I think we should do a perspective scan of it first to determine its internal structure." "This will prevent us from accidentally destroying its structure and making it impossible to recover." (To be continued......)