Chapter 513: The Outpost at the Edge of the Stars

The lead-gray alloy pipe fell to the dusty ground, splashing a handful of gray dust and smashing a shallow crater on the surface. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 There was no sound from the collision, and all that was around was nothing but the broken stones, and all that was left was empty darkness. In the improvised radio receiver, except for the source that was constantly emitting at a certain frequency, what remained was a sound similar to a ghost's scream.

It wasn't the roar of some starry sky monster, it was just a wave of radiation emitted by the two-stage magnetic field of the gas giant on the periphery of the inner star system. This kind of sound is very common in space, and the sound of radiation waves emitted by the magnetic field of giant planets with different volumes, masses and even rotational speeds is also different. In the first few years, the astronomers within the fleet were still interested in this radiation wave, but until now, even the children in the Golden Crow Fleet Junior Academy have not been interested.

"After reporting the bugs, the cockroach squadron has arrived at the target location" Kurunze led his team members cautiously forward to search and report to the command center. Since the source of the signal is located in the depths of the dark and steep canyon of the dwarf planet, no one knows how much space there will be, and the other party is still using very primitive radio communication. Therefore, the nearly twenty-meter-tall Xingtian mecha was not equipped with a reconnaissance team, and Kulenze and the others came out just wearing alloy battle armor.

"Received by the worm queen, please open the shared connection, connect the signal amplifier" The alloy armor only has a small quantum communication module fixed on the outside of the helmet, and the transmission power is pitiful, and it is only suitable for information sharing between individual soldiers. Directly sharing long-distance video with the mothership, that's the work of the mecha.

In order to expand the information channel between the alloy warframe and the mothership, each team member also installed a backpack-sized signal amplification plug-in on their backs, which divided the images received by the soldiers into continuous data packets and transmitted them to the mothership's host in real time through subspace transmission.

"Understood!" Kurunze stared intently at the display on his helmet for three seconds, and a small interface opened in the upper left corner of the screen. As the Culundzer's line of sight shifted, the port to connect to the communication plug-in was finally found. As the activation command is issued, the red port turns green, indicating that the energy channel is successfully connected, and then receives feedback that the signal is being shared successfully. This also means that from this point on, everything that Kurunze and his team members see, everyone sitting in the command center will be able to see at the same time.

The intended location of the signal source did not find the expected alien base, and there was only a crashed "spaceship". The spacecraft is very backward, like the probes launched by the earthlings in the late twentieth century. The entire probe is only 17 meters long and is divided into three different segments. One of the metal arms, more than six meters long and forty centimeters in diameter, was wrapped in a layer of gold leaf, which was mainly used to protect the probe from space radiation. However, the probe has been launched for a long time, and it has also been damaged a lot during the landing, and some of the facilities inside have been exposed, showing strong radioactivity.

"It's plutonium, this six-meter-long metal rod is plutonium, a very primitive fission battery, which can continue to provide electricity for small detectors for 70 to 100 years, and in terms of radiation intensity, it can be used for at least five to ten years. Of course, if it's an intermittent awakening, this period of time may last longer," said Lan Weier, a semi-intelligent assistant program that Culundzer had matched.

"This thing has been obsolete even by us Emmys for nearly a hundred thousand years," Culundzer muttered quietly, then ignoring the original No. 5 battery and beginning to look elsewhere.

"The probe must have used the acceleration generated by the planet's gravity to orbit for a long time after launch, until it finally ran out of energy before landing here. The descent was supposed to be bumpy, but it was lucky enough to fall on such a dwarf planet. Dwarf planets don't have atmospheres, and their gravitational pull is small, and if they do, even if they have a planet with a thin atmosphere like Mars, the atmosphere alone can scatter the probe," Lanvier continued.

Kulenze has a feeling that recently, Lan Weier has been talking more, and sometimes even if Kulenze himself doesn't speak, Lan Weier will find a topic to talk about. This was not the case at the beginning, and there was no such change in the auxiliary programs of other team members who issued semi-intelligent assistance programs in the same batch as themselves. Cullenzer was going to take the time to turn Lan over to the repair center to check it out, maybe something was wrong.

"Captain, there's a lot of patterns here," Team member No. 17 shouted through the communication link, dispersing Kurunze's thoughts and refocusing his attention on the pile of "wreckage" in front of him.

Soon, through visual sharing, Kurunze also saw those patterns. The pattern is very beautiful, it looks a little like moire, and the moire is constantly rolling and entangled, overlapping and curling, and it looks like a fine work of art.

"Compare the database and see if it's text, if it can be translated," Kurundzer ordered Lanvier.

“…… I couldn't find any similar text, so I suggested that all the images be sent to the command center and handed over to an artificial intelligence that specializes in text decipherment, which is much more powerful than me," Lan Weier replied.

"You just said 'me'?" Kulenze was surprised.

"What's wrong?" Lanweier asked strangely.

"No, no, nothing" Kurunze directly disconnected the topic. Semi-intelligent assistant programs are generally called their own local, they have no self-concept, and those with self-concept can only be artificial intelligence. Kulenze's heart fluctuated, and even if he tried to calm down, he couldn't completely calm down. What a full-fledged artificial intelligence means in the Golden Crow fleet is still very clear to Kurunze. This can be seen from the fact that only the flagship of the seventh-level fleet has artificial intelligence in the integrated fleet.

Where the moire appears is a cylinder with a diameter of more than one meter, and the outside of the cylinder is also wrapped with gold leaf. However, to Kurunze's surprise, the thickness of the gold leaf was not a thin layer, but a dozen layers in a row. Wrapped between the gold leaf interlayers is a bunching lead alloy, a neutron-absorbing material. This alloy is rarely found on spacecraft of lower civilizations, as they are too heavy unless absolutely necessary.

"Strange!" Lanweier said.

"What's wrong?"

"The inside of the cylinder is heating up, not very much, but I'm sure it's heating up. From just now to now, the temperature has risen to minus 377K, and the speed is still accelerating, just like ......"

"Like what?" Kurundzer asked as he opened the energy shield, it would be a problem to fire an explosion.

"It's like when the hibernation pod thaws, yes, that's it. We didn't have a hibernation pod, but I was able to find information about this technology," Lanvier said.

"Do you think there's intelligent life in there?" Kulenze couldn't believe it.

“…… Not to mention, really! Life signal detected, extremely faint! ......" (To be continued.) )