On the fifth day of the voyage, the Boulder's fleet had already entered the asteroid belt for some distance, and at this pace, it would be possible to reach Ceres in three more days. With the help of the counter-powered engine, the speed of the spacecraft today is not the same as that of sixteen years ago, and it basically crushes the spacecraft that consumes helium-3 fuel as a booster. And, one more thing is that there is not much helium-3 fuel on Mars now. Those who have money have bought Liu Jie's antimatter fuel, and those who have no money have found a slightly inferior substitute for helium-3, and the entire stock of helium-3 on Mars may not be as much as the fuel that the Kirin ship took back then.

On this day, Boulder and Skeleton are studying a document on the 'new humans' that they purchased from a venture capital firm before they broke out of Mars. As for the rumors of new humans, legends began on Mars three years ago, but no one has seen what new humans look like, most of the news is released by venture capital companies, and news from other sources has also been confirmed to be compiled. And the news of venture capital companies has always been untrue and false, they do business like this, true and false, the news is here, you don't buy it, and no one forces you, even if you are deceived in the end, it is also the period when the willing person takes the bait, and he can't complain about others.

In a venture capital firm, the only news that can be trusted is the 'project' released by the venture capital firm. These projects are divided into two types, the first type is initiated by people other than the venture capital company, verified by the venture capital company, and then released through the platform of the venture capital company, the venture capital company is equivalent to a bridge, and the commission is drawn from both parties. The other is the project released by the venture capital company itself, which is equivalent to the venture capital company's 'self-operated' project, although it does not promise profit or loss, it will not take commissions. Every month, venture capital firms release several projects available for investment and accept investment from all Martian owners, and in this regard, venture capital firms are quite fair.

Buying this map before the Boulder Breakout, it vaguely points to a place where a new human 'spaceship' has been discovered. But the situation on this road is unknown. The Giant Stone would buy this map, also out of curiosity at that time, and at the same time, it was forced by Liu Jie to have no choice. He always has to find a reason to give his brothers in the mercenary group a little hope, do you want him to tell his brothers that although he broke through this time, he will face the days when he will never return to Mars and wander in the universe? Besides, wandering can't wander for a lifetime, when the antimatter fuel is exhausted, they still have to face destruction, and they will be a group of old people at that time, even if they come back and surrender, I'm afraid there will be no way out.

But for this map, the boulder and the skeleton, there is a tendency not to believe it, because this thing has never been confirmed over the years. At the same time, they are also worried about another thing, and that is the strange event in the asteroid belt. I don't know when the asteroid belt has become a black hole belt of electromagnetic signals, and once you enter the asteroid belt, you can't transmit messages through electromagnetic signals. There have been spaceships in and out of the asteroid belt before, although the probability of an accident is very small, but basically they are all lost contact when they go in, and the things that the boulder and the skeleton are discussing now also include the problem of how to communicate after the ships are separated after they really enter the asteroid belt.

At this moment, Jushi's flagship radar received a clear distress signal. When the communication soldier reported, the boulder and the skeleton were very surprised, because this is very abnormal, the asteroid belt was shielded from electromagnetic signals for more than ten years before, why can it be contacted now?

The boulder made a decision immediately, immediately tracking down the source of the signal. After human beings entered space, the rules followed by spaceships basically followed the rules of human beings during the Great Voyage. As long as it is not a clear-cut hostile force, when it encounters a distress signal, it will basically reach out to help. There is only one simple reason for this, and when you encounter the same situation, you also hope that the other person can lend a helping hand.

For the clear code signal, it is not a very difficult time to trace the source of the signal, and soon, the flashing light point of the source of the distress signal appeared on the radar screen of the boulder ship. But when the screen showed this object, they were still surprised by the boulder and the skeleton, because they saw a miniature transport ship, this transport ship, the volume of which is less than one percent of that of a normal transport ship, and it is impossible for a human life to live on a transport ship of this size.

"Boss, it may be an unmanned ship launched by a certain spacecraft, and it is also fate to meet it in the vast sea of stars." At this time, the skeleton thought that if the asteroid belt is not an absolute shielded electromagnetic signal, but can be contacted within a certain distance, then there is hope for communication, and it is only necessary to measure the maximum value of this distance, and then get stuck at this distance and put down the communication node, and the communication problem can be solved. Before he could speak, he only heard the boulder say: "Don't worry about this yet, send someone to capture this thing, what it is, just look at it." ”

The skeleton had no choice but to arrange for someone to salvage the ship, but he had no hope that there would be any information on the ship. First of all, I don't know where this spacecraft came from, and besides, it is uncertain when it was launched, and if it was a long time ago, even if they went to rescue them, the other party would have died long ago. Besides, the skeletons don't want to care about this kind of thing in their hearts, after all, they can't protect themselves now. If the other party is a group of refugees, they still have to pay for the food, drink and Lazar of these people, which is definitely a loss-making business.

The boulder seemed to see his concerns, and said: "Let's see who the other party is first, maybe we can use them to open up a trade channel with the Martian city, we can't go back to Mars, they maybe, when the time comes, it is better to reverse the minerals, or do some other business, we can always live, maybe there is a possibility to go back." ”

At the mention of this, the skeleton's eyes suddenly lit up. If you want to say people who don't want to leave Mars, skeletons are definitely the first. At that time, when the war was defeated, the skeleton even wanted to surrender directly for a moment, who wanted to live a life of exile? If there is a chance to return to Mars, it will never let go of this opportunity.

"I'll do it myself." The skeleton said and chased after the squad leader he had just dispatched. The boulder stared at the small spaceship displayed on the screen, and it always felt a little familiar when he looked at it. He motioned to the radar soldier to enlarge the image, and saw the emblem sprayed on the small spaceship, and felt even more familiar, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his head, he recognized this emblem, although the memory is long, but it is absolutely not wrong, this is the logo of the Four Elephant Fleet, the Qinglong Ship!