Chapter 169: Stone Belt

Flying at a sub-light speed of 1.2 light-years, it would take at least two standard years to reach its destination, even with the acceleration of the Starry Sky's conventional thrust engines. www.biquge.info After two months of continuous sailing, everyone's patience reached the limit, and they had to stop and deliberate, and then they were patient again and continued to travel at sub-light speeds.

After stopping and going like this for half a year, finally everyone couldn't stand it anymore, and it used to be dozens of light years in the blink of an eye, when had they ever tried such a turtle crawl. In the end, everyone voted, Zhou Bocai made a decision, and the Starry Sky Cowboy turned on the jump engine under the careful control of Qin Na, and made a small jump forward. The only one in the team who voted against it was Ding Weijian, the father-to-be who was worried about his soon-to-be-born child all day long, and he was about to persecute paranoia.

The jump engine was much faster, and after a few jumps, the Starry Sky Cowboy reached the edge of the star system. Here, the entire galaxy can be seen clearly even through optical glasses. The entire galaxy is bright and dazzling, and in fact there has been no darkness since reaching the range of the Silver Heart. The five stars in the star system are like five big lights in the starry sky, illuminating the entire star system transparently.

The temperature in the galaxy is also frighteningly high, and of course, because there is no heat transfer medium in space, all the heat is transmitted by radiation. As a result, the temperature on the sunny side of the battleship reached a terrifying temperature of more than 300 degrees, while on the shady side, the temperature was more than minus 200 degrees. Due to the temperature in the star system, there are very few shaded places on the Starry Sky Cowboy. In other words, if you throw an intelligent creature into space for five minutes, although it is still more than minus 200 degrees Celsius around it, when you fish it up again, the intelligent creature has already been roasted.

Here, the Woodpecker's distress signal has disappeared. In fact, from a distance of 0.5 light-years, Qinna could not receive the Woodpecker's call for help. Qinna speculated that it had been at least half a year since the Woodpecker was killed. Even if everyone felt that what they saw was only a piece of wreckage, and there were no survivors to be found.

The Starry Sky Cowboy flew around the star system one after another, carefully scanning the entire star system, and could not find any information at the root. A dozen probes were then released to burrow into the galaxy for further reconnaissance, and if no special circumstances could be found, the probes would open their shields and charge towards the stars, sending back as much useful information as possible before the shields burned out.

In the last step, when the probe is unable to detect the danger, more than a dozen individual unmanned fighters controlled by Qin Na will enter the star system before the Star Cowboy and swagger a few times, if there is still no problem, the next Star Cowboy will really enter the star system. If there really is any trap set by a high-level civilization in the star system, at this point, everyone can only complain about bad luck.

However, Zhou Bocai also left an insurance, that is, to leave a small landing ship outside the star system, once the Starry Sky Cowboy loses signal, the landing ship will use the hyperspace communicator on the equipment to directly ask for help from the command center of the Golden Crow fleet. The Golden Crow Fleet has a special plan to deal with such a thing, and the team will also be rescued by the fleet official in a timely manner.

More than a dozen spherical probes flew into the galaxy under the impetus of the propulsion engine, and then in groups of two and two they explored the past in various parts of the galaxy. First of all, I went around the rocky belt, and after finding that there was no abnormality, I carefully drilled into the rocky zone. The rocky belt is very dense, at least dozens of times more dense than the material density of Saturn's rings. This made the cowboy team more and more sure that this was the wreckage of the planet, and even in the process of the formation of this galaxy, the matter was locked in the gravitational equilibrium zone of several stars before it had time to gather, and then it was nailed to this area for billions of years, and it could not move at all except for the occasional bumper car.

"Tut-tut, it's really a bonanza, you see, B-grade energy crystals are piled up, and even the entire asteroid is all composed of energy crystals. There are also many of these rare metals, M139 metal, M015, and M001! TRB394-51 is also present in large quantities! And that's just the edge of one of the rocky belts of the entire star system, which is more abundant than you can imagine! After making this ticket, we won't have to worry about eating and drinking for a thousand years," Huang Tao, a mineral major, sighed in surprise while looking at the information sent back by the probe.

"Shall we go in and have a look?" Zhang Jianwu also looked at Zhou Bocai excitedly.

"Think about the fate of the woodpecker team, this thing can't run away if you stay here anyway, be careful to make the 10,000-year-old ship. In addition, don't wait until later, open the hyperspace communicator and contact the official fleet now, after this trip, we can rest for a while, and we can change the hardware for the Starry Sky Cowboy. This battleship is almost out of date, and if it really doesn't work, we will go to Boeing and order a battleship carrier to come over. But all this has to be on the premise that we return safely," Zhou Bocai said cautiously.

Hyperspace communication was quickly established, and after a brief explanation of the situation, Niu Ziqiang, the minister of the Fleet Resources Department, personally spoke with Zhou Bocai, who started with the fleet's official salvage fleet, and had a natural keen sense of smell for precious resources, and could imagine how big a bonanza it was from a distance of thousands of light years. To put it mildly, if this place is excavated, the Golden Crow Fleet will be able to build hundreds more generation ships.

The news quickly alarmed Chen Peilin and Zhuge Wushuang, and a huge fleet was formed, except for the second fleet as an escort force, almost all the industrial ships of the entire Jinwu fleet were all sailed over, and even the civilian forces were requisitioned. Along with it is a huge generation ship, and all the resources that have been initially mined will be loaded into the generation ship and then refined after returning to the Peach Blossom Land base. The cowboy squad has also gained unimaginable wealth because of their discovery, billions of contribution points, with these capitals, the cowboy squad can go back to set up a well-capitalized consortium.

"Report! Probes 1 and 2 lost contact! Probes 9 and 10 have been attacked and destroyed! The message from Qinna pulled the members of the Cowboy Squad back from the sea of gold and silver, and focused all their attention on the message sent back. It is at stake in their plans to make a fortune, and they can't afford not to care.

"It's a star beast!" Zhang Wenhui pointed to the blurred figure in the image and exclaimed......