The first expedition of the Star Alliance Space Force turned into a long-range training and a test cannon of the Golden Crow, which is indeed a bit embarrassing, but if this biological planet is still alive, the first expedition will become a collective servant street, and it will be a tragedy.

Compared with the Younas fleet, which was still crawling at turtle speed on the way, the morale of the officers and men was as high as if they had won a battle, and of course this was also related to the 800 cannons of the Golden Crow.

By the time the Younas fleet arrived, the original biological planet had completely changed, and the planet looked like an apple that had been attacked by an ant colony, with only the broken apple core and scattered debris remaining.

"You're welcome, take whatever."

Xia Ming's words choked Huang Yanxing and the others with a bitter smile, and when they heard the next sentence, they couldn't laugh anymore.

"It's hard to tear open your teeth."

Younas's drone carrier is not small in size, but without the metamaterials of the Star Alliance, it is just a clumsy transport ship, let alone loaded with high-powered weapons. Starlink is not blocking the technology of Younas, but the output of metamaterials is not high, Starlink itself is not enough, and Younas has to wait in line.

Coupled with the concerns of Stargate Syndrome, and the extremely low success rate of consciousness activity training under the military system, Younas now looks extremely strong. There were less than a hundred people on each mothership, plus the rest of the manpower, the total number was less than two thousand, which was less than the Star Alliance.

A total of tens of thousands of UAVs are Younas's biggest reliance, and this kind of fighter modified on the basis of X-47B UAVs is called "Black Beetle" by Younas himself.

As Xia Ming said, in front of this biological planet, the firepower of the drone is extremely weak. The two DN-50 electromagnetic guns are only the secondary weapons of the Warhammer destroyer, the two laser launchers are only individual weapons, and as for the 30 electric cannon, it is just an improvement on the traditional 30 rotary tube cannon, and if you are unlucky, you can't even penetrate the heavy land combat power armor of Starlink.

In the eyes of UNOC and Younas, such equipment is much stronger than the individual firepower of a year ago, but in front of the fleet of the Star Alliance Space Force, it still can't raise its head. What is comforting is that there are a lot of drones, and when necessary, they can also be used to mount hydrogen bombs and detonate them inside the target.

Although the battle of a year ago has proved that this is a bad trick to kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, there is no more powerful means for Younas, who still has a cult of nuclear weapons.

Huang Yanxing had no choice but to change the topic: "What is the origin of this thing?" ”

"I'm not sure yet, drag some bits and pieces back and let the scientists find us more information."

Xia Ming didn't tell the truth, because he was afraid of scaring them, and then scaring the UNOC, so that their attitude towards Xingmen would change even more.

Now the UNOC's attitude towards the stargate has changed, and after the signing of the "Soul Charter", a kind of speech began to rise in the UNOC, thinking that since the Stargate has the technology in its hands and only cares about the safety of the Stargate and EI, then the stargate will be handed over to the Stargate, and the UNOC will live its own life in the solar system.

The countries that hold such statements are the United States, which has not yet signed the Charter of Soul, and has thus been excluded from the scope of technology beneficiaries by the Star Alliance, and has embarked on a new isolationist path, not wanting to bear the huge investment of the UNOC in Stargate.

There are also many other countries, all of which have not received much actual benefit from Stargate. In short, when the Star Alliance dispelled their fear of Star Alliance's world domination with the "Soul Charter", they were like small citizens whose safety was guaranteed, and they felt their "unnecessary contributions".

If the UNOC had known that this biological planet was only a part of the unknown, they would have been talking about stupid topics like "closing the stargate". The current Star Alliance, whether from the perspective of people, or from the perspective of materials and technology, the resources are not enough to protect the satellite gate alone.

Of course, this is just to buy a little time, in addition to continuing to prepare, Xia Ming is still looking forward to Qianyi's surprise.

"Send some samples back first, as soon as possible!"

Xiaotang's eyes flashed with stars, and he said so on the Qianyan Network. According to the information sent back from the scene, she believes that this is an extreme mutation of the chaotic strings based on biological routes, which should be greatly enlightened in metamaterials, biological computers, and gene editing.

Xia Ming admonished: "Lord Dean, don't just patronize and ponder technology, you have to find an effective way to deal with this kind of thing." ”

Starlink Academy is now in charge of Xiaotang, and when it comes to academic details, Xia Ming has to give her a hand.

"The core of the biological route is adaptation, the most effective means of restraint is to destroy genes, the core of the mechanical route is efficiency, and the most effective means of restraint is to destroy logic......

Xiaotang muttered to herself, seeing that she was immersed in her own train of thought again, Xia Ming didn't bother her anymore, quit the channel, and commanded the fleet to carry out the recovery operation.

It is impossible to drag all of such a huge thing back, in fact, dragging a few samples has already made the fleet quite funny, and it looks like an army of motorcycles going home for the Spring Festival with large bags and small bags.

Even the drone carriers of the Golden Crow and Younas can only be fixed outside the hull with anchor cables because of lack of space. As for the Warhammer destroyer, the originally slender front end was also strung with a round package, so much so that the officers and soldiers of the Star Alliance jokingly said that the Warhammer should be renamed "meat skewers".

All the warships were converted into transport ships, but only 1% of the wreckage was transported, and the rest of the wreckage, Xia Ming left some satellites as navigation beacons, which were included in the cruise plan, and were only ready to do regular inspections.

If it was a real planet, he would still find a way to transform it into a base, but this ...... Corpses, even if they have a certain amount of gravity, can be used as the support of the fleet, and all day long in and out of the corpses that are tentacle forests on the surface and slimy gel on the inside, it is too polluting to the mind.

On July 20th, the Star Alliance Space Force and Younas finally completed their first joint expedition, and the group returned to the base. The Space Force is naturally the Siyuan space station, and Younas is back to the Amm space station, which is 20,000 kilometers away.

In the huge space of the Biological Research Department of the Academy of Starlink Sciences, with a small shell, a mass of gel with a diameter of hundreds of meters is fixed in the center by the robotic arm, and in the depths is a large mass of countless nerve connectors, extending up and down to "bones" with characteristics similar to plant fibers.

"All the mysteries are in this thing......"

With Xiaotang's gesture, the robotic arm clamped out a sphere with a smooth surface and a diameter of about half a meter.

"This thing, I call it the 'Mate-Ball Ball', you can call it the Matter-Ball for short, its predecessor is an independent living entity."

Xiaotang's explanation not only stunned Xia Ming, but also other experts, including those from the UNOC Academy of Space Sciences, were taken aback. This neuron, which looks like a giant life form, is actually an independent life!?

"The structure of the bubble tea we see now is the result of their mutation, because the mutation completely follows the biological route, which is different from the route of mutant Borg, which converts organisms into circuits, so we can see some mutation processes from its DNA."

Xiaotang's use of the English name of a matryoshka doll to refer to this kind of thing is very appropriate. However, using "bubble tea" to describe the terrible existence in front of them has made many people's stomachs churn, and it is estimated that they will not drink bubble tea again for a long time.

"31 pairs of chromosomes, 3.7 billion base pairs, 24,000 coding genes, what do you think of this data?"

Xiaotang sent the genetic analysis report to everyone present, and when he heard this data, the scientists' expressions changed again.

Human beings have 3 billion base pairs, 27,000 genes, chromosomes are diploid, and the number of base pairs determines the number of cell types. This Matt ball has a cell morphology that is more complex than that of humans, but it has fewer genes than humans, which means that it has a longer evolutionary process than humans, and the coding efficiency of genes is higher.

Such a ball has a longer evolutionary process than humans, and if it is really intelligent life, it is actually more advanced than humans?

Looking at such a round thing that is about the same size as a large fisheye, what are so many base pairs used for? Scientists strongly doubt this.

"Even in living samples, because of the mutation, many genes have been cut and abolished, but its internal structure is completely different from the human body, which is quite complex."

Xiaotang then showed the internal structure map, in terms of the mutated form, its "brain" occupies more than half of the volume of the entire body, and the material that constitutes the brain is different from the brain tissue of the human body, it is a gelatinous substance, and the external morphological changes will not affect the operation of its brain.

A layer of mucous membrane wrapped in the outer layer of the brain, after magnification, can see the traces of atrophy of some specific tissues, and what exactly they are, it needs to be carefully searched from the discarded genes.

There is also a layer of cavity between the mucosa and the outer skin, and according to the structure of the mucosa and the cavity, Xiaotang speculated that the outer skin should have a controlled inlet and outlet to absorb gases or liquids from the outside world, which can be used to absorb nutrients and move.

"These inconspicuous protrusions on the outer skin may be atrophied tentacles, which can adjust their movement posture and interact with their own kind. Judging from the physical characteristics alone, the living environment of the Matt ball is either in the deep sea of terrestrial planets or in gaseous planets, which are all environments with high pressure but can move freely. ”

Xiaotang's explanation made everyone's thoughts start to drift, and it sounded like the life that might be produced by a gas planet like Saturn.

As for the rest of the planet, such as fibers, gels, and shells, Xiaotang said that in terms of molecular structure, it looks like the outer skin of the Matt ball was mutated.

The more you know, the more you don't know.

If Matt Ball hadn't mutated, what kind of intelligent life was it?

Now, what kind of existence is it after it mutates?

Xiaotang simply said: "This is easy to do, if we clone a living body, we can know more." ”

Including Xia Ming, everyone changed color slightly, cloning a living body, aren't they afraid of opening a devil's door?

"There is no living body, and no further information can be obtained, especially its mutated condition."

Xiaotang looked at Xia Ming, although she was sharp and decisive, she would still listen to Xia Ming's opinion on such a big issue.

"There shouldn't be much of a problem with thinking encroachment......

Xia Ming thought about it and felt that this risk was worth it, and he couldn't wait until that mutant appeared to figure out how to deal with it. Moreover, inside the stargate, the movement of the thought strings that have been extinguished cannot be resurrected through cloning.

He carefully advised: "Build a test module and throw it outside the space station to do this, and it can only be operated by robots, and people cannot enter it." Preventive measures must be in place, diversified, and eliminated immediately if anything is wrong. I will also arrange for the battleship to be monitored at all times, and if necessary, the test chamber will be destroyed. ”

"Got it", Xiaotang said with a smile: "The lesson of Xingmen syndrome is there, I will be careful." ”

While preparing for cloning, the research on how to deal with the Matt Ball variant is also in full swing, and research in this area is progressing rapidly, and the Academy of Sciences has come up with a plan that is not surprising.

If the body is a being larger than the moon, the effectiveness of kinetic weapons is poor. At present, among the weapons of the Star Alliance and Younas, hydrogen bombs, microwave and laser weapons are also effective, and the power of microwave and laser weapons is even greater, preferably a hundred times stronger than now. The ion cannon under development is also theoretically an effective weapon, but it still needs to wait for the maximum breakthrough in superconducting materials.

In terms of power, the supercapacitor project presided over by Yang Bin has not yet seen results, and the use of metamaterials to make supercapacitors is a new direction, and GEI has no experience to learn from, so it can only rely on Yang Bin to find ideas by himself.

Even with supercapacitors, existing space reactors are not powerful enough to support the continuous launch of energy weapons, and only the miniaturization of controlled nuclear fusion can be counted on, but so far, progress has been slow.

Can we only rely on hydrogen bombs?

The means of hydrogen bomb is currently only in the hands of Younas, and the UNOC has also reached an agreement with Xia Ming that Starlink will not get involved in the research and development of nuclear weapons unless necessary.

If only the hydrogen bomb is effective, how well Younas and the Star Alliance cooperate will become the key to future wars. Xia Ming obviously wouldn't put all his hopes on others, so he had to find a weapon that could be temporarily replaced.

Back at the headquarters, Xia Ming unfolded Qianyan's research assistance application list, looking for those weapons programs that had been temporarily put on hold.

The plans rolled over one by one, Xia Ming was a little disappointed, one plan flashed suddenly, and then it was linked to another plan, and the content of the two plans unfolded in his consciousness.

"Research Program ...... on the Application of Intelligent Missile Space Warfare"

"Research Project on the Weaponization of Metallic Hydrogen Magnetopressure Preparation Process......

The smart missile is only equipped with a conventional warhead and has no effect in space, so except for Younas, who is doing research on loading a hydrogen bomb on a smart missile, the Star Alliance has not done anything on its side.

The magnetopressure preparation process of metallic hydrogen has been relatively mature, and Starlink focuses on the research of metallic hydrogen in cutting-edge fields such as ion cannons, and does not care much about the direction of directly using metallic hydrogen as explosives. In terms of power, metallic hydrogen is only 25 to 35 times that of T-NT, and for Starlink scientists who are accustomed to advancing a hundredfold, this difference is not enough for them to spend precious time pondering carefully.

But now it seems that the combination of these two solutions is a good direction.

"Weilong and Hill Femis, let's defend the dragon......"

Xia Ming found the proposer of the two proposals, casually named Wei Long as the person in charge, integrated them into one project, set a three-month time limit, and forwarded it to the GEI of the Academy of Sciences. With his authorization, this small project can not only access Qianyan, get Qianyan's support in data and analysis, but also call relevant resources.

"What else?"

There is a little hope in the plan, and the others either need time, or they are of little value, Xia Ming fell into hard thinking again.

The appearance of Matt Ball brought a sense of crisis stronger than ever, and Xia Ming felt that his progress in climbing the technology tree was still too slow for the first time. (To be continued.) )