"Xiao Ye, what do you want me to say?" Dr. Liang hated that iron does not become steel, "The mass of neutron stars has increased greatly in a short period of time, and this level of impact cannot be ended in a while and a half, no one can say how long it will last, and the impact will produce a series of chain reactions throughout the galaxy, and when the impact of the impact calms down, I don't know what will happen to the path, maybe all those crystals will decompose due to strong radiation." ”

Dr. Liang has always believed that superheavy elements with large atomic weights cannot be as stable as they seem, and if the conditions are right, they will definitely be able to decompose instantaneously and release huge fission energy.

Ye Fei finally understood the seriousness of the situation, and couldn't help but think of the mineral veins in the asteroid belt, and his face couldn't help but change.

He had always thought that he was lucky enough to come across the super-heavy element enrichment zone when he first explored the asteroid belt, but after the Aquila returned to the neutron galaxy, it carried out a systematic exploration of the asteroid belt, and finally found that 18 percent of the material in the asteroid belt was composed of super-heavy elements, and about 5 percent of the super-heavy elements existed in crystalline elemental form.

The asteroid belt of the neutron star is much larger than that of the solar system, and all the asteroids together have a higher mass than the Earth, and if all the superheavy element crystals are separated, the total mass will be more than six times that of the Moon!

If all the superweight elements were extracted, it would be enough to accumulate a few more balls above the Earth.

Such a large amount of super-heavy elements is beyond everyone's expectations, and if nothing else, it is enough for the entire Anthropocene world to last for centuries!

But now everything is in vain, and it is only five years away. No matter how hard you try, you can't mine all the superheavy elements.

However, Ye Fei thought about it and calmed down again: "Doctor, in fact, you don't have to be so excited, don't you have five years left?" We will try our best to mine the super-heavy elements in the past five years, and if there are signs of impact, we will immediately withdraw everyone from the city. ”

After five years, all manpower must be evacuated in order to avoid losses, but a large number of robots can be left to continue working if the boundary is not reached. Unmanned transport spacecraft come and go every seven days or half a month. The mined super-heavy element crystals are transported away. In this way, it is possible to continue to mine super-heavy element crystals and minimize losses, which is simply a huge profit.

However, there is no need to talk to Dr. Liang about such an idea, and it will be done by going back and reporting directly to the headquarters.

"Five years is not an exact number. No one can guarantee that there will be no accidents. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a sound monitoring system. Also, I recommend keeping the number of people here as small as possible and everything is dominated by robots. "After calculating the outcome of the imminent collision of the giant planet with a neutron star. Dr. Leung also pondered a little way to deal with it.

Five years is just the result of calculations based on the available data, and mankind knows too little about neutron stars, and no one dares to say what will be true in the future - five years is a long time for mankind, but it is not even a moment for this universe, and it is much easier to get through this period than to blink an eye!

Ye Fei nodded and said, "I will report your suggestion to the headquarters, but it depends on the headquarters how to decide in the end." ”

"I understand." Dr. Leung said understandingly.

Dr. Liang and Ye Fei are both pragmatic people, and the conversation ended here, with the doctor continuing to study the neutron star, and Ye Fei immediately reporting the situation to the headquarters.

At present, the super-heavy element is the heart of the headquarters, and even the neutron galaxy has become a sweet spot in the eyes of the headquarters.

The military quickly assembled a research team of more than a dozen top experts to conduct a detailed analysis of the observational data sent back by Dr. Liang, and the final result was that the impact would probably occur in less than five years!

This reality is too unacceptable to accept, racking their brains to keep vested interests under the influence of the impact, using faster-than-light torpedo bombardment, a large number of nuclear bombs, high-power laser continuous irradiation, asteroid continuous impact, and other methods that may affect the impact time have been put forward one by one and rejected one by one.

If it is an asteroid, even if it is short, you can give it a try, but the means of human beings are far from affecting the orbit of giant planets.

The headquarters made a decision as quickly as possible and revised the established plan.

From this time on, all large-scale construction plans such as the construction of large-scale industrial bases and satellite warship factories in the neutron galaxy were stopped, and all the manufacturing power was used to build robots, and all resources were used to build mining robots, except for expanding the scale of robot production.

Not only did the neutron galaxy do this, but the native and Proxima Centauri also received the same order, and the ships that had been modified would send a steady stream of robots produced in these two places to the neutron galaxy and bring back super-heavy element crystals.

Since only two types of crystals were found to be useful, headquarters ordered that the mining of these two crystals be prioritized, especially the pink crystals. No other crystal, even if it has a miraculous effect, is not as powerful as these two known crystals.

All the plans were completely messed up, the Red Star and the Silver Star were completely turned into huge construction sites, one assembly line after another was established, and a large number of robots were produced from the non-stop assembly line day and night, and then transported to the asteroid belt at the fastest speed.

Despite Ye Fei's best efforts, tens of thousands of robots thrown into the asteroid belt are inconspicuous than a handful of sand thrown into the sea, even if the daily crystal mining volume can reach hundreds of tons, it is still only a fraction compared to the total reserves contained in the asteroid belt.

HQ is trying to speed up mining, but it takes time to build robots.

At this time, the first laboratory proposed a biological mining plan, which is to use the biological warship samples left by the outer bone people to create cosmic creatures with mining capabilities by cloning, as long as enough resources are invested, cosmic creatures can spread throughout the neutron galaxy in the shortest possible time.

However, as soon as this plan was proposed, it was shot directly by the headquarters, and the Aquila was able to create a large number of bone dogs in Gliese 581. That's because there are a large number of biological warships to provide nourishment, where to find so many biological warships near the neutron star?

Transporting organic nutrients from the local area to there is simply nonsense, and if you have that energy, it is better to directly ship the robot.

Because of the destruction of the Outer Skeleton Man, many of the research in the No. 1 laboratory is no longer important, so there have been few achievements in the past few years, and this performance has left an extremely bad impression on the military bosses, so soon after, the headquarters issued an order to transfer less than half of the personnel from the No. 1 laboratory to form the No. 2 laboratory.

Laboratory 1 is still responsible for biotechnology research, while Laboratory 2 is replenished with staff and equipment. Responsible for the research of superheavy elements.

If it weren't for the fact that most of the personnel in Laboratory 1 were proficient in biotechnology. Only a few people know how to study physics, and maybe half of the people will be recruited.

To prevent accidents, Lab 2 is located on Enceladus, which has a diameter of 1,440 kilometers, and the experimental area is deep underground and covers a large area. Minimize the cascading losses caused by experimental accidents.

It didn't take long. A new laser gun based on pale green crystals was born from the second laboratory. Its power is no less than that of the laser cannon currently preparing for the commando. Moreover, the laser weapon produced based on green crystals has a simple structure and is easy to maintain, and it is the first individual laser weapon that can be put into practical use.

However, the research of other crystals has not been a clue for a while.

Let's go back to neutron galaxies.

Mining is all done by the robots, and the Aquila's job is to act as a guard.

Ye Fei used his position to get a lot of green crystals. After using the equipment of the engineering maintenance ship, the original laser emitter of the main gun of the battleship was replaced, and only the main gun of the Aquila was modified at the beginning, and the results showed that the power of the main gun after the transformation was tripled, and the firing range was increased by one-third!

People who are soldiers have extreme preferences for weapons, Ye Fei immediately expanded the scope of transformation, and included all the main guns in the scope of transformation, because the production capacity of engineering ships is limited, they can only be transformed one by one, and when the transformation of the main guns is completed, it can only be the turn of the secondary guns.

On December 24, 2212, the transformed Aquila returned to the solar system, and the battleship landed directly on the lunar headquarters.

Ye Fei entered the base alone, went straight to the core area deep in the base, and met with Wu Han, who had specially taken time out.

Wu Han's secretary led Ye Fei into the office, Wu Han was reviewing the documents, looked up at Ye Fei and said, "Sit casually, wait for me for a while." ”

"Yes!" Ye Fei replied honestly and sat down to wait for Wu Han.

Old General Wu quickly signed a dragon flying phoenix dance at the end of the document, and handed the paper document to the secretary: "Xiao Ye, how is this time?" ”

"Everything works." Ye Fei hurriedly replied, grinning awkwardly after speaking, "Minister, if you have anything to say, just say it, I feel sorry for myself in such a circle." ”

It's not the first time he's face-to-face with Wu Han, and he knows very well that Wu Han likes to go around a few times when he has an important task.

"You kid." Wu Han scolded with a smile, "Okay, I won't go around in circles, I have a task to give you." ”

"You say!"

"That's right, you know better than me about the situation of the neutron galaxy, once there is an impact, all the input will have to be lost, even if we ship out more crystals, we can't stand the consumption of sitting and eating. Therefore, there is a new plan in the headquarters, which is to find a new source of crystals. ”

"Huh?" Ye Fei was stunned for a moment, "You mean, find another neutron star?" ”

"That's what it means." Wu Han corrected, "Xiao Ye, you also know what is the speed of our current warship, although there is no need for a new colony star now, but the material conditions for sailing into deep space are ripe." The solar system was almost destroyed by the Outer Bone Man, and the plan of the headquarters is to get out of the Outer Bone as soon as possible, in addition to finding new resources, there is also the meaning of looking for potential enemies, and the enemy is in the country, and you don't need to say that you understand this. What do you think? Would you like to? ”

This mission must be far away from the solar system, and no one knows how long it will take for him to return, so as long as he volunteers, he will not force anyone.

Ye Fei thought about it carefully and nodded heavily.

Wu Han quietly breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, the logistics department is already preparing for the supplies, set off as soon as possible, you have two directions to choose, one is the direction of Sagittarius leading to the center of the galaxy, and the other is the opposite direction of Orion." ”

"Sagittarius direction." Ye Fei replied without thinking.

"Good. Once you've set off, other ships will set off to explore other directions, keeping in mind that finding resources is only part of the mission, but more important is finding potential enemies and mapping the stars. Wu Han said.

"Understood!"

"Okay, what's the problem?"

"Nope." Ye Fei replied.

What Wu Han told Ye Fei was only a rough planning framework, and the detailed details still needed Ye Fei to understand carefully. After half a month of preparation, after replacing two-thirds of the personnel on the Aquila, Ye Fei once again commanded the battleship to leave the solar system and fly straight in the direction of Sagittarius at a speed of nearly one light year per hour.

The Aquila set sail. It means that mankind has officially launched the exploration of deep space.

For the current Aquila. The distance between the stars was not too far, and every few hours, the battleship would stop to check on the stars in its path. Scan the galaxy for the situation. Record everything and send it back to Earth.

Seven days later. Aquila has discovered three planets near a red dwarf star seventy light-years away, the second of which has pristine ecosystems, inhospitable lands, and oceans rich in flora and fauna.

The Aquila planarly dropped a batch of seeds of Earth's plants and some sea creatures on the planet. As for whether it can be developed, it depends on luck.

Twelve days later, Aquila again discovered a habitable planet at a distance of one hundred and seven light-years, with no ecosystem at all, and only a large amount of water. The Aquila sowed the seeds of the Earth's microbes and set sail again.

It was also at this time that two other warships set sail from the solar system, each heading for two different directions. Since then, one or two warships have set sail every half a month, and it will not end until half of the military's warships fly into deep space.

The situation around the solar system was continuously sent back to Earth, and it was not long before the detailed stereoscopic star map of nearly 100 light-years was displayed in front of the Chinese leadership, and it was still expanding.

However, as the distance between the battleship and the Earth became farther and farther away, the gaps on the star map also increased, and although all the battleships curved forward as much as possible, they still inevitably left a huge gap.

On February 4, 2213, the battleship Seahawk accidentally discovered the main legion of the mechanical civilization one hundred and forty-three light-years away from the solar system, and the Juggernaut led its descendants to establish a new manufacturing base here, and is building the mechanical civilization split to replenish the split that was lost during the destruction of the outer skeletons.

On February 9, 2213, the Swift Eagle discovered a highly developed ecosystem on the third planet near a star in the solar system 172 light-years away.

The planet's atmosphere is filled with giant jellyfish-like creatures, which can levitate in the atmosphere at an average vertical height of more than a kilometer and at least 300 meters in diameter, and their slender tentacles constantly roll up from the ground and send the creature into the milky white canopy.

The Eagle originally thought that the Aura Mother was a native of this planet, but it soon became clear that they were an alien cosmic creature that was devouring the essence of this line!

The raging air mother reminded many of the officers and men of the Swift Eagle of the skeletal scarlet-infested Mars, and after requesting the headquarters, the battleship launched a full-scale attack on the air mother.

The attacked air mothers immediately flew to the planet, but their speed was too slow, and under the blows of the Swift Eagle spared no effort, all the air mothers were shot down by artillery fire and fell into the planet one by one.

Some of them were killed before they could fly out of the atmosphere and fell directly to the ground.

After destroying all the gas mothers, the Swift Eagle wandered over the planet for more than ten days, until all the air mothers began to rot, and then left the place.

Originally, the encounter between the Swift Eagle and the Air Mother was just an accident, but a few days later, another battleship, the Thunderhawk, encountered another group of cosmic creatures one hundred and twenty light-years away.

This cosmic creature resembles a swordfish and flies extremely fast, but like the airmother, it does not have the ability to fly faster than light.

The appearance of these two cosmic creatures shocked the Chinese high-level leaders.

If human beings fail to enter the cosmic age, I am afraid that any kind of cosmic creature entering the solar system will bring devastating disasters to mankind.

There have been five mass extinctions in the history of the earth, and the previous view was that the cause of these mass extinctions was an asteroid impact or a sudden change in the earth's environment, but after the two warships discovered the cosmic creatures respectively, the theory of the extinction of cosmic organisms immediately occupied the mainstream theory, believing that the mass extinctions of organisms in the history of the earth were all caused by the "patronage" of cosmic creatures, and cosmic creatures were the culprits of the five mass extinctions!

This theory is supported by most people, but a small number of serious scientists believe that although this is possible, it is not appropriate to blame all five mass extinctions on cosmic life in the absence of evidence.

In addition, there have been new changes in the study of cosmic organisms, in the past, human beings did not think too much about the problem of superluminal speed, but after the discovery of these two cosmic creatures, the authoritative No. 1 laboratory put forward the classification theory of cosmic organisms.

The worst is the blue light fish, a cosmic creature that has just evolved the ability to fly into the universe and cannot be far away from the home planet; At the next level are cosmic creatures such as Aero and Swordfish, which can leave their home planet and fly into interstellar space; Even higher is a cosmic creature like Xiaoyu that has evolved the ability to fly faster than the speed of light.

If wisdom has evolved, it is not included in this classification, but is divided according to the degree of intelligence.

From now on, the military will classify space creatures as a threat to humanity according to the classification method of space creatures, and decide whether to eliminate them based on the results of the analysis. (To be continued......)

PS: The state has not been very good in the last few days, sorry!