There was an eerie silence in the bridge of the Aquila, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes stared at the two dimly lit constellations on the screen at the same time, stunned and stunned.

"This, this, what's going on?" Ye Fei's mouth was crooked, and he was almost shocked by the news and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.

The astronomical knowledge of these months has not been learned in vain, and he recognized these two famous zodiac constellations at a glance. If only one can be barely explained by coincidence, but two constellations appear at the same time, and the directions between the two constellations are not much different from those seen on Earth, then this is the most fatal discovery.

The battleship travels through the wormhole to reach the distant unknown starry sky, but suddenly finds that it can see the familiar constellations on the earth! Under what circumstances would such a strange phenomenon occur?

"Could it be that this is a short-range wormhole, and we are not far from the solar system now?" Scissors wondered, "But the place we're staying in now is at least a few light-years in diameter, right?" Is there a nebula of this size near the solar system? ”

If Nebula is compared to ice cream, then the location of the stargate is a pit dug by a gluttonous naughty boy with a big spoon!

"What we see now is at most a small part of the nebula, how can such a large nebula be near the solar system?" Jiang Xue immediately dismissed the scissors' speculation.

How could such a large nebula not be discovered near the solar system?

"Then I can't think of a reason." Scissors scratched his scalp vigorously and stared at the two constellations on the screen as if he could see the flowers.

There was silence again in the bridge, and everyone was in deep thought. Try to figure out a plausible reason.

"Che Qi!" Ye Fei suddenly broke the silence.

"Here!"

"Photometric compensation is gone!" Ye Fei pointed to the star map and said.

Che Qi immediately complied, and the two constellations, which were originally very clear, immediately became incomplete, and only a vague outline could be seen.

"I see!" Jiang Xue slapped her forehead and suddenly realized, "The reason why you can see these two constellations is because of the ...... Hey, how do you say that? ”

She understood the situation in front of her, but the more anxious she became, the more she didn't know how to accurately explain the situation. It was a piece of paper that she could pierce with her hand, but she just couldn't figure out how to pierce it.

Everyone invariably turned their puzzled eyes to Jiang Xue, who had a sad face. Waiting for her explanation.

"Oops. I get it too! The veterinarian looked suddenly clear, pointed to the star map and said, "Our current position is behind the earth!" ”

Behind the Earth?

Where did the earth come from? Not only did they not understand what the veterinarian meant, but they were even more confused.

At this time, Jiang Xue's tightly clenched brows suddenly appeared: "Let's put it this way." The solar system is in the direction of these two constellations. One of these stars. It's the sun! ”

Everyone showed a look of understanding at the same time, and the scissors shouted: "Wouldn't it be over if you said that earlier, the center of the galaxy is in the direction of Sagittarius." The Stargate has sent us some distance to the outer side of the galaxy! "The one who is close to Zhu is red and the one who is close to ink is black, I have a wife who likes astronomical constellations, and I know some common sense about scissors.

"Yes, yes, that's it!" Jiang Xuexi smiled, squinted and glanced at the scissors.

The scissors who received the signal were on fire, and they couldn't wait to hand over the shift with their wives immediately.

"OMG!" Ye Fei's heart finally let go of half of it, "It's really a coincidence, if this opening is in the wrong direction, I'm afraid we won't even be able to figure out the direction." Jiang Xue, can you find which star is the sun, or calculate the distance between us and the sun? ”

Jiang Xue hesitated for a moment, and said unsurely: "I'll try it, but I don't dare to guarantee it." Her hobby is astronomy, not boring data, and she only has some understanding of how to calculate star distances, and has never actually calculated them, so she is a little lacking in confidence.

"Otherwise, send the data back to headquarters and let the experts have a headache." Scissors, who felt sorry for his wife, made a very constructive suggestion, "Can we calculate faster than other professional astronomers?" ”

If she directly handed over this question to Jiang Xue, she would have thought about getting off work today, how could the scissors let her stay alone in the empty room?

Ye Fei, who was accustomed to solving problems by himself, suddenly glared at the scissors viciously: "I don't know what to say!" Ruan Peng—"

"Understood, do it right away!" Ruan Peng saluted with a patton-style salute and immediately sent the observation data to the strategic command center.

Ye Fei let out a long breath, and suddenly said to himself with a look of reminiscence: "Sagittarius, the zodiac sign corresponding to Sagittarius should be Gemini, right?" Jiang Xue, what nebula is in this direction? ”

"There are no nebulae in Gemini!" Jiang Xue thought for a while and said, "But Gemini and Orion are next to each other......"

"Orion Nebula?" Ye Fei suddenly remembered the thought that he hadn't captured just now, and his current position was obviously a good thing worth celebrating, but his expression not only did not show any joy, but became more and more sad.

Ye Fei couldn't be happy, this place was too unexpected.

As the name suggests, the Orion Nebula is located in the constellation Orion, also known as M42, with a diameter of about 16 light-years, a mass equal to more than 300 suns, and a distance of more than 1,500 light-years from the solar system!

The distance of sixteen light years is not particularly far for humans now, but it is only a two-month voyage of the Aquila, and the problem is that Orion is not only a nebula of M42!

Orion is home to a huge molecular cloud called the Orion Molecular Cloud, which extends over a hundred light-years distance!

What is the concept of a distance of a hundred light years? The farthest human footsteps have ever reached Giant, only twenty-nine light-years away, and the Aquila is in a huge Orion molecular cloud, much smaller than a drop of water in the ocean!

To make matters worse, nebulae are hotbeds of stars, filled with young stars that have just formed and "embryonic" stars that are about to be formed, and the environment is both harsh and complex, making it a good place to find resources.

Jiang Xueteng stood up and nodded again and again: "Yes, yes." It's definitely the Orion Nebula! If we fly out of this nebula, we will definitely see Betelgeuse 300 light-years away! ”

Located more than 1,300 light-years from the solar system, Betelgeuse is one of the three stars in the belt of the famous constellation Orion, a superblue giant star with extremely high surface temperature and intense brightness.

The so-called flame nebula is illuminated by the star's high-energy stellar light, which stimulates the hydrogen gas in the nebula, and only then does it emit a fascinating light.

(According to online data, Betelgeuse is more than 800 light-years away from the sun, and the second says that it is more than 1,300 light-years.) The Flame Nebula is 1,500 light-years away from Earth, and the distance from Betelgeuse is taken as the former. It takes more than 700 light-years for its light to reach the nebula. This distance is equal to the center of the Earth and the nebula! After more than 700 light-years to inspire the light of hydrogen, how huge is this star? So this is a distance of 1,300 light years – the above does not count as words! ）

"Ruan Peng, report the situation to the headquarters."

Soon after, the country's top astronomers gathered to make detailed calculations. The location of the stargate was finally determined at the base of the Orion Nebula M42. Scissors thought it was only a few light years of hollowness. The actual distance is as high as more than ten light years!

It's no wonder that Ye Fei and the others are mistaken, if they leave the battleship and take a look at the situation outside the ship with their own eyes, they will find that the brightness of the outside world is not much darker than the brightness on the screen. Nebulae that are more than a dozen light-years in a row reflect light from the stars, and are not at all dark like the solar system.

After determining the location of the stargate, the military's exploration plan was in full swing, except for the necessary remaining fleet, all the newly commissioned warships were replenished to the Orion Nebula, and a large-scale exploration work was carried out with the stargate as the core.

The two stargates were also officially named soon after, and the solar system was naturally called the solar system gate, numbered NO.1, and the Orion constellation was called the Orion gate, but I don't know what the road is, and the Orion gate was not numbered.

After completing the task of guarding the satellite gate, the Aquila returned to the solar system to recuperate, and it was rare to reunite with the family after a long absence, and everyone, including Ye Fei, was not only relaxed, but simply indulged.

During this time, many officers and soldiers submitted applications for transfer, not because they did not like the Aquila, but because they were all bosses and were not small, and it was time to consider personal problems.

All Ye Fei who submitted an application would be allowed to go, hindering a bachelor from marrying a daughter-in-law, this would be poked in the back, and Ye Fei couldn't do it.

Besides, the situation of the Celestial Army is very good, and the commissioning of more than a dozen new warships has greatly alleviated the two major problems of insufficient personnel and low combat effectiveness.

However, this phenomenon is not only the Aquila, but also the situation of the First, Second and Third Fleets that have returned to the mainland are similar, and a large number of soldiers have applied for retirement or transfer from the warship, which suddenly makes the personnel problem that has just been relieved tense.

There is no way, once the fleet departs, it will be far away, and the longest First Fleet, starting from 2204, has been 2209 when it returns to Earth, a full five years!

How many five years are there in life? Even if the fighters themselves are not in a hurry, what about the old people at home? I don't know how many parents begged the warriors to get married and have children with such a sad reason as leaving a child—no one knows if Lu Dao left the earth again and could come back alive.

During this time, the military was overwhelmed by snowflakes of decommissioning applications, and even the idea of freezing germ cells was raised at meetings.

But even if this is done, it is only half solved, where does the other half of the woman come from? Besides, if the man dies in battle, how to solve the problem of pregnancy? Does the military pay to hire?

What interstellar joke?

The final solution is still to balance the number of men and women, which means that from now on, the army will no longer be a male-dominated world!

In fact, an idea has existed for a long time, but the military has not been able to implement it, in recent years, the warships of the Heavenly Army have gone farther and farther, and the interval between returning to the mainland is getting longer and longer. Whose parents are willing to send their children into the army?

If we do not solve the personal problems of the officers and soldiers, and even affect the military resources of the entire country in the near future, how can the bigwigs of the military not pay attention to it? How dare you not pay attention to it?

The final result makes people laugh and cry, the military's solution is to relax the scope of recruitment!

Female soldiers, who were originally recruited in small numbers, have officially entered the military arena and are no longer limited to the communications and health sectors. Instead, as long as the conditions are qualified, female soldiers can be appointed for any position and position, including commandos.

Within three to five years, the military hopes to replace the current male-dominated army with a half-male and half-female army to solve this thorny problem once and for all.

Although a husband and wife or lover are on the same battleship, it is impossible to have no effect on the combat effectiveness, but it is much better than having no soldiers.

War makes women go away, and it's a proud declaration of manhood. But the slogan of equality between men and women has been shouted for centuries. Women are equal in politics and business, and the military is a manly world, and finally half of the sky has fallen!

Extremist feminist organizations across the country celebrated for days. But in reality, the military's reasons for doing so have nothing to do with their constant protests.

Except for the actions of the military itself. The movements of the fleets of various countries are not small.

The Battle of the Nameless Star Domain completely disintegrated the offensive of the Outer Skeletons. The human fleets that have shifted from defense to attack are blooming in all directions, and all but a few fleets are developing outward. Search for enemy forces from galaxy to galaxy, sweeping away all the graves and sea urchins everywhere you go.

Since the invasion of the Outer Bone Man into the solar system, it is the first time that humanity has launched an all-out counterattack with such a high eyebrow.

The outer bone groups close to the solar system have all been cleaned up by humans, and those who are far away are also suffering under the onslaught of mechanical civilizations, and the destruction of this group of bone mounds scattered for a range of fifty light years is only a matter of time.

In addition to the military, there is also a lot of movement on the part of the government.

There is no threat to the outer skeletons, except for leaving a fleet to defend, the military has completely handed over the dominance of the development of the giant star, and the cries of the people to carry out interstellar voyages are higher and higher, but there are not many who really dare to start.

The reason why the Age of Discovery can become the main theme of an era is that voyages have brought enough benefits, but the universe is different from the sea, and the cost is a huge problem in the first place.

Hundreds of years ago, you could embark on a long voyage with a random ship, but who would dare to build a random spaceship and fly outside the solar system?

The faster-than-light spaceship has been opened to the people, but the high price has discouraged everyone, and even Jiang Yufei, who has been planning to buy a faster-than-light transport ship for transportation, had to give up the idea of buying a few more, and joined forces with Liuzi to buy only one.

There are those who retreat, and there are naturally those who persevere, there are many rich people in this world, the first batch of twenty faster-than-light transport ships were quickly sold out, and the identity of the buyer is a mystery, but it didn't take long for someone to stand up and publicly announce the development of cargo and passenger routes from the earth to the giant star.

Ye Fei felt that those who did this kind of business were either sick in the brain or had money to burn, and the high transportation costs brought high fares and transportation costs, and it was clear that he would lose all the pants.

However, not everyone wants to engage in transportation, and an industrial group released the news of going to Giant Star to find oil fields, which immediately caused an uproar in public opinion.

The earth's oil resources have long been exhausted, and the depletion of oil not only affects the fuel, but also a fatal blow to the petrochemical industry.

Over the past 100 years, various materials originally produced through petrochemical industry have either been recycled or substituted, but some products are incomparable to substitutes.

There are two theories of the formation mechanism of oil: domestic sedimentary oil and petrochemical oil, the former believes that oil is formed by ancient biological remains after a long period of deepening and belongs to fossil fuels and is non-renewable. It was formed no less than 2 million years ago, and the oldest oil layer can be traced back to 500 million years ago; The latter is often said to be the creation of carbon in the earth's crust and has nothing to do with living things.

After the successful transformation of Mars, there was also a period of large-scale oil exploration, but in the end, it was unsuccessful.

In the case of the two theories at the same time, if the oil industry can be restarted on the giant star today, it will definitely bring astronomical benefits - the two planets of Gliese 581 also meet these two criteria, if it were not for the storm fungus still wreaking havoc on it, presumably the two planets would be on the exploration list at the same time!

As for Storm Star, the planet's oceans are so large that it's almost 100% certain that they have large oil fields, but the harsh environment is prohibitive for everyone, and they have to wait for enough environmental modifications in the future before they can be explored.

Although it is only a plan that has not yet entered the implementation stage, the petrochemical industry involves agriculture, energy, transportation, machinery, electronics, textiles, light industry, construction, building materials and other aspects, and the cost of substitutes and artificial synthesis can fully offset the high transportation costs!

The state has given a high degree of support to this plan, after all, colonization through state power requires a continuous investment of manpower and material resources, and if there is an invincible driving force of profit, the forced migration of the state will turn into a spontaneous act of the people, and the benefits to the immigrants are self-evident.

In addition, the news of the Star Gate is no longer kept secret from the outside world, and the appearance of the Star Gate is like dropping a nuclear bomb from the water, the Anthropocene world is in an uproar, the country is rejoicing, and the foreign country is overwhelmed with all kinds of doubts.

The Chinese side reacted very indifferently, releasing the approximate location of the Orion Gate and several panoramic photos taken inside the nebula.

After getting the photos, the media of various countries tried to find out the flaws, but after careful research, they came to the conclusion that there was no trace of synthesis in the photos!

Only then did the people of all countries, who had always been skeptical of Stargate, realize that China has once again gone to the front of the times, leaving all countries far behind.

Of course, China is not doing this to show off, but to indirectly tell other countries where China's focus will be in the future when it goes into the universe.

Soon, the United States, Russia and other countries adjusted their existing strategies, leaving the Orion direction to China and concentrating on developing in other directions.

Interestingly, Gliese 581 and Titan are both located in the direction of Sagittarius, which is very different from Orion!

The United States is mainly attacking in this direction, and they really want to get these two galaxies from the Chinese side, but at the moment, all the colonial immigrants are in the mirror, and only these planets are real, and there are already more than two million Chinese immigrants on the giant star, how can they let go at this time?

Although human beings began to use civilization to flaunt themselves hundreds of years ago, in essence, human society is still a power society, and the Yankees who have nothing to do can only end up knocking out their teeth and swallowing blood. (To be continued......)