Early the next morning, Jiang Ping came to the office, called Betty over, and asked her to arrange a patrol boat for herself.

Betty was a little surprised when she heard this, and asked, "Sir, are you going to go out?" ”

Jiang Ping nodded, and Betty said, "But the two patrol boats at the base have already been sent to patrol." ”

Jiang Ping listened and asked again: "Then what spare spaceships are there at the base now?" ”

Betty replied, "There's only one small combat boat left!" ”

When Jiang Ping heard this, he said: "Then this small combat boat, arrange it as soon as possible, I will use it immediately." ”

Betty opened her mouth and wanted to say something, to use this small combat boat, you need to get the consent of Sergeant Temur, but after thinking about it, you need to get the consent of Temur, that is when someone else uses it, the other party is the commander of the base, and it is natural to use the spaceship that dominates the base, so do you need to discuss it with Temur? Even if it really comes to Temur, the other party has no reason to refuse, so why should he be this villain in vain!

Thinking of this, she didn't say anything, answered, and said, "Okay, sir, I'll arrange it right away." ”

After a pause, she couldn't help but ask another question, "I wonder what the commander wants this small combat boat to do?" ”

She knew that after Temur learned about this matter, she would definitely ask herself about the purpose of Jiang Ping's trip, and she would ask clearly first, so as not to be unable to answer when Temur asked.

Jiang Ping said perfunctorily: "Just casually go around the neighborhood." ”

Seeing that she couldn't ask anything, Betty didn't ask any more, and turned around to make arrangements.

After a short time, Jiang Ping went downstairs and went straight to the small airfield of the base, where the only small combat boat in the base was already moored there, and the mechanic was doing a routine pre-flight inspection of the combat boat, and there was a pilot standing next to him.

The routine was over quickly and everything was normal. Seeing that the driver next to him was about to board the boat, Jiang Ping stopped him. "No. I drove it myself. ”

The commander's words, the driver naturally couldn't help but listen, and stopped.

Betty on the side saw it, a trace of surprise flashed across her face, and said, "Sir, don't you need other personnel to accompany you?" ”

Jiang Ping said indifferently: "Yes, I'm alone." ”

Betty moved her mouth. I wanted to say something, but I didn't say anything at the end.

Jiang Ping boarded the spaceship, and after a short time, the spacecraft started to float in the air, gradually accelerated, and crossed a long trajectory in the air. Farther and farther away, it soon turned into a small black dot and disappeared into the sky.

Betty stood there for a long time, looking at the direction in which the spaceship disappeared, and always felt that something was not quite right with the other party's move. After the black dot of the ship disappeared completely, she turned and walked straight into the command building. Come to Temur's office. Report this to him.

"You mean, he drove the ship out of the city alone?"

Hear Betty's debriefing. Temur's face groaned, as if he was pondering the purpose of the other party's trip.

"Yes, Sergeant Temur, I had assigned him a driver, but he refused." Betty replied.

"So what did he say he was going to do?" Temur asked again.

Betty shook her head and said, "He didn't say it, he just said that he was walking around casually." ”

Temur sat there and thought for a long time, but he couldn't think of what the other party's purpose was, and he shook his head and said to himself: "Maybe the other party is bored at the base and goes for a ride in the spaceship, whatever!" ”

He glanced at Betty again and commanded, "If you wait for him to return, you will notify me immediately." ”

Betty agreed.

Jiang Ping piloted the combat boat, and soon flew out of the planet's gravitational zone and continued to fly towards the boundless void. He didn't have any goals, just flew aimlessly.

After a while, I heard Xiao Teng's voice ringing in my head: "Jiang Ping, have you noticed that at this time, the radiation intensity of life energy in the void has dropped a lot?" ”

Listening to the other party's reminder, Jiang Ping felt the intensity of life energy in the nearby void with his thoughts, and sure enough, he found that when the spaceship arrived here, the strength of the life energy around him was constantly decreasing, and this decline was very large and obvious.

Originally, in the airspace near the X18 base, he could easily feel the fluctuations of the life energy in the void, but at this time, the fluctuations of the life energy in the void were already very weak, and if he didn't feel it carefully, he wouldn't have noticed it at all.

At this point, the strength of the life energy in the void was no different from that of other places.

It seems that there is still a certain range in this high-intensity area of life energy, and the range does not seem to be very large.

Jiang Ping, who was aware of this, was refreshed, and the idea of finding out the reason for this was even stronger.

He began to turn around the ship's course, sailing along the edge of this high-intensity zone of life energy, and he planned to find out how big this high-intensity zone of life energy really was.

This voyage is a few days away.

In the past few days, the route of his spaceship has been clearly outlined and presented on the big screen in front of him.

This is a roughly regular hexagonal area!

Is this a coincidence, or is there something strange about it?

Facing the screen, I couldn't help but ponder. In this large regular hexagonal area on the star map in front of you, there is a phenomenon of high intensity of life energy, and it will definitely not be like this for no reason, and there must be some reason for it.

But what is the reason for this?

Jiang Ping has been thinking about this question for the past few days, but he still can't figure it out.

Regular hexagonal ......

Jiang Ping's gaze unconsciously gathered on the six vertices of the huge regular hexagon in front of him.

He suddenly discovered that the planet MX112, where the X18 base is located, is located exactly at one of the vertices of this regular hexagon.

This discovery made his heart move, and his eyes continued to search carefully on the star map, and then he found that at the other five vertices of this huge regular hexagonal region, there was also this terrestrial asteroid similar to MX112.

Is this a coincidence, or is there something else?

Either way, this might be a useful clue.

Maybe there is some secret hidden on the MX112 planet itself, and I ignored it in the first place.

Jiang Ping, whose mind was turning, had the next step, after several days of interstellar voyage. Began to turn the bow of the ship back to sea. Fly in the direction of MX112, the planet where the X18 base is located.

After more than half a day of flight, the spacecraft appeared in the outer space of the planet MX112, and after connecting with the base's airport navigation system, the spacecraft began to land slowly, and finally stopped at the base's airfield.

Opening the gravity hatch, Jiang Ping walked out of the cabin and found it as soon as he came out. At this moment, on the waiting apron of the airport, there are several people waiting, it is Temur, Betty, Shirley and others.

Seeing this kind of battle, he thought that something big had happened at the base.

Step off the ship. Temur and the others came forward.

"What, what's the matter?" Looking at a group of silent people, Jiang Ping couldn't help but ask out loud.

Temur's face did not look good, and he did not speak. Betty complained on the side: "Sir, you have been out for several days, and you have not come back, it is really worrying to die!" ”

Shirley heard this, frowning slightly. He cursed in his heart: This vixen. Obviously, he has already had a hot fight with Temur, and he didn't forget to be coquettish at this time. It's not ashamed to say that you're worried about dying!

Jiang Ping smiled and said, "I originally just wanted to go around the neighborhood, but I didn't expect to get carried away with this turn, and I forgot the time for a while." yes, hasn't there been anything big lately at the base? ”

During the voyage in the past few days, he specially turned off the communication system of the spacecraft, no wonder these people are suspicious.

Betty shook her head and said, "It's not a big deal. ”

Temur had a gloomy face on the side at this time, and said in a strange manner: "Sir, if you go out in the future, it is best to keep in touch with the base at any time, lest we think that something has happened." ”

Jiang Ping smiled and said, "This is my negligence, which makes you worry!" ”

As he spoke, he walked straight towards the command building, walked a few steps, turned around again, beckoned to Betty, and said, "By the way, Betty, you come with me." ”

Betty looked at Temur, Temur nodded slightly, and Betty caught up with Jiang Ping.

After Jiang Ping left, Temur stood there, staring carefully at the small combat boat in front of him, glanced at Shirley on the side, and ordered: "Shirley, you go up and check the flight records of the spaceship, and see where our Second Lieutenant Jiang has gone in the past few days." ”

"It's good." Shirley agreed, turned around and quickly boarded the spaceship, entered the main control room, and began to retrieve the flight records of the spacecraft in the past few days from the main brain of the spaceship, and carefully checked them.

After looking at it for a while, she didn't see anything strange.

Temur also walked in at this moment and asked her, "Did you find anything?" ”

Shirley shook her head and said, "Didn't find anything, it seems to be just an ordinary patrol of the surrounding airspace?" See for yourself! ”

Temur walked over to the main brain screen, and Shirley called up the flight records of the spaceship in the past few days one by one for him to watch. After a few clicks of his fingers on the console, a roughly hexagonal flight trajectory appeared on the main brain screen.

Regular hexagon?

Looking at this flight trajectory on the screen, both of them frowned slightly.

"Shirley, what do you think this regular hexagon represents, is there any deeper meaning?" Temur asked contemplatively.

Shirley felt that this was unlikely, and shook her head: "I don't see any mystery in this, maybe this is just a trajectory that he flew out by chance, and it doesn't make any sense." ”

Temur muttered, "But I always find it strange, is it that he has been on such a boring and meaningless voyage these days? ”

Shirley sneered, and said disapprerovingly: "Sergeant, you have to know that this is just a young child who has just graduated from the military academy, maybe it is a newcomer, and I think everything is new and interesting, and it is also a very common thing to go for a ride in a spaceship, maybe it is the first time for people to sail a ship on an interstellar voyage!" ”

Temur couldn't think of a reason, but he still said in a deep voice: "Save all these materials, maybe they will be useful in the future." ”

Although she felt that the other party was really suspicious and made a big fuss, Shirley still agreed to the other party's request and said, "Okay, sergeant, I will carry out the order!" (To be continued.) )