"Captain, the source is sending the message again, we are currently 12 light-years away from where the source is transmitting, and we are expected to reach it in four months."

"Are there any warships around that have the same purpose as us?"

"No findings at the moment."

"Increase the engine power to get to the target location as quickly as possible."

"Okay, Captain."

McCann watched as he finished giving the order, returned to the captain's room and opened an encrypted copy of the text, and looked at it again.

As a member of the fourth-level civilization race, McCann is actually very reluctant to come out on a mission when the civilization is about to break through. After all, after advancing to a fourth-level civilization, it is much more beneficial to break through to a fourth-level evolutionary with the entire civilization race than to break through to a fourth-level evolutionary by yourself.

But as a person who had no background and offended the chief officer, he couldn't refuse this mission at all.

"What kind of encrypted text, what kind of top-secret mission, it's not to transfer me away and prevent me from participating in the promotion of civilization." McCann put the text in his hand still on the ground and roared angrily.

After half a ring, McCann took out a necklace, and inside the necklace was a photo of a woman of a human-like civilized race, and he looked at the photo for a long time, and finally calmed down his excitement.

Now he doesn't care what tasks are not missions, he doesn't know what is sending the signal when he investigates a single one, and if it is valuable information, how can he send a small warship.

So for this mission, he has long regarded it as a bad trip, and now his only thought is to arrive at the destination early, and then take a picture of the garbage signal sent by what may be a piece of space junk, and after counting the data, return as quickly as possible, maybe he can catch up with the civilization promotion.

Three months later. A small warship appears in a desolate star system.

The star inside this star system is dying and has now become a red giant, and the number of planets inside the star system is very small. There are only three, and all of them are rocky planets.

Such a galaxy has no value at all. Even if you mine resources, you won't go to such a star system to mine them, and it's a waste of time to complete them.

"Captain, determine the location of the signal source, but no equipment has been found to generate the signal source at this time."

"Do a deep scan of that planet."

"Yes, Captain."

McCann looked out the porthole at the gray-black planet without an atmosphere, and his face was very poor.

Such a planet is unlikely to be of any value at all, and that inexplicable signal is likely to be sent by some kind of creature or space junk. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that this place was too far away from their civilization. He would have thought that this signal source was deliberately placed here and asked to come and find it.

Ten minutes later, the main components of the planet and the internal structure of the planet have been scanned, but no devices have been found that can send signals.

"You mean to say that the unknown signal came from the rocks on this planet." McCann said with a gloomy face.

"But Captain, so far, no suspicious equipment has been found on this planet. So it's not yet possible to tell exactly where it came from. ”

"Since I don't know, then blow up this planet for me, no matter what the signal is, I don't believe that this planet will be blown up. It can also send signals. McCann said viciously.

"Okay Captain, we'll blow it up right away."

As a small battleship 800 meters long, it can only bully some of these small rocky planets.

Sou!

A cylindrical bomb was launched. This bomb is specifically designed to deal with the planet. Inside the cylinder are high-energy bombs, equivalent to 3 billion tons of nuclear fusion weapons. When this cylinder penetrates the rock layer of the planet at high speed and approaches the core of the planet, the high-energy bomb inside explodes, and such a bomb can directly blow up a planet with a diameter of less than 20,000 kilometers.

Soon, the surface of the planet in front of McCann instantly raised countless mountains, and the earth on the surface of the planet cracked, shining with dazzling light in the cracks. Then the planet was torn apart in the light, and countless debris scattered in all directions towards the cosmic void.

Seeing the destruction of the planet miè. McCann's mood was also a little better, at least the depression caused by more than a year of interstellar travel had dissipated a lot.

"Captain. The planet has been blown up, and no signal source has been found. ”

The results of this processing are reported back to headquarters. We'll be back right away. "McCann doesn't want to be here for a minute.

"Yes, Captain."

But just as the battleship had just turned around and had not yet flown out of the star system, the strange signal appeared on the monitoring equipment again.

“…… Warship...... Captain, the signal came again. The observer was stunned for a moment, then looked at the location of the source and said in surprise.

"Where is the location?" McCann asked.

"Right on the planet that just blew up."

"Go back right now, to where the signal came from." McCann felt that something was wrong this time, the planet had been blown up, and the location of the planet just now was now a cosmic void, so how did this signal come out.

When the battleship came to the location of the signal source again, it finally realized that this was unusual.

In the cosmic void, a transparent spherical bubble is suspended there, this bubble is only 3 centimeters in diameter, and it is not yet composed of normal matter, but more like a four-dimensional space model. If you hadn't gotten close and used gravitational lensing to observe it, you wouldn't have been able to spot this bubble. There was a planet covering it just now, and it was normal that this bubble could not be observed.

Now McCann looked at the bubbles that the gravitational lensing detected resembled a model of four-dimensional space, and finally smiled, and he felt a big secret beckoning. Maybe this time the task of being excluded will really make him a great achievement.

"Collect all the numbers of this bubble and make a report. The main brain, turn on the environmental simulation system, turn off the main engine, turn off the external active exploration equipment, turn off the external communication system, and no one is allowed to contact the outside world without my operation. After a while, McCann gave the order.

Although he was the captain of this battleship, he didn't dare to guarantee that everyone in this battleship would listen to him and have the same heart as him. At this time, it is undoubtedly the best way to communicate with the outside world, so that no one can communicate with the outside world.

As soon as McCann gave the order, he returned to his room and began contacting a councillor he knew.

Due to the shutdown of the external active detection equipment, no one inside the battleship noticed that a high-speed probe flew by outside this star system, which happened to observe the behavior of the battleship clearly. In fact, even if the external detection equipment is turned on, with the performance of this battleship, the chance of discovering the existence of the probe is very slim.

The probe faithfully detected a piece of information sent back to the Earth Federation, and the information collectors of the Earth Federation did not know whether it was because of personal hobbies or other reasons, and did not regard the information as a messy information of the cosmic background, but studied it seriously.

As a result, this research really found a big problem. (To be continued)