A red streamer suddenly flashed in the void universe of nothingness, and a magnificent colorful light emitted from the end of the streamer, and then the streamlined Aquila appeared in the colorful light.

"Out of the faster-than-light state, everything is working with the control system!" Jiang Xue, who piloted the battleship, made a routine report.

"The fire control system self-test has been completed, and the weapon system is normal!"

"The coordinates of the battleship are correct, the optics are all right!"

"Zoom in on the target star and put the picture on the home screen." Ye Fei ordered lightly.

Observing this star with the naked eye from the position of Aquila can only be regarded as a relatively bright star in the starry sky, and it is impossible to see the true face of the star without magnification by the optical system.

Che Qi immediately executed the order, pulled the star in front of the battleship closer, a star emitting yellow light appeared on the screen, the optical system automatically locked the four planets orbiting the star, and marked them on the screen one by one with conspicuous white, and some vague small celestial bodies were also pulled out by the optical system.

"This is Kepler-22? It's no different! Ye Fei whispered to himself, "Lean over!" ”

Aquila has flown close to at least one planetary system every day for the past few months, passing countless stellar planets, flying more than 600 light-years away, discovering at least a dozen planets with ecosystems and dozens of habitable planets, but this planetary system has a completely different meaning from other galaxies, because this is Kepler-22, the first planet identified by mankind to be located in the habitable zone.

The Aquila set sail again, this time without using the crystals to accelerate. With only a faster-than-light engine, it didn't take long for it to fly to the edge of the galaxy.

However, Aquila did not arrive in the ecliptic plane of the galaxy, but from above the galaxy, looking down on the galaxy condescendingly. Because of the closer distance, the battleship saw the entire galaxy at a glance through the optical system, quickly marking six planets and a large number of small objects.

Scissors exclaimed in surprise: "This place really looks like the solar system!" The others unanimously voiced their voices in agreement.

To be precise, it's like a simplified version of the solar system.

Kepler-22's first line is a small, desolate terrestrial planet, easily reminiscent of Mercury; The second planet is Kepler-22b, which was discovered 200 years ago, and the slightly cyan planet gives people a sense of vitality; Planet III, barely on the edge of the habitable zone, is a terrestrial planet with a very large diameter, tentatively estimated to be six times the diameter of Earth – Jupiter is just over eleven times the diameter of Earth. This massive solid-state planet is 100 percent more massive than Jupiter.

The fourth and fifth planets are two gas giants. The sixth planet is an ordinary gaseous planet.

There is a sparse asteroid belt between the third and fourth planets, two gaseous dwarf planets with a diameter of just over 2,000 in diameter outside the sixth planet, and the Kuiper Belt with small bodies on the periphery of the galaxy, among which several dwarf planets with extremely long orbital periods have also been found by the optical system.

Ye Fei saw the blue color of the second planet, and his spirit was shocked. Immediately ordered: "Quick." Zoom in on the second planet! "That's why the Aquila flew here. Just to see what this planet looks like.

The second planet immediately took over the entire main screen, and the sound of neat gasps in the bridge almost sucked the bridge into a vacuum.

"It's so beautiful!" Jiang Xue was stunned and let out a heartfelt admiration.

The surface of the second planet has a beautiful blue-blue color. The color of turquoise is the color of a large area of the ocean. The vast sea is full of large and small spots, which are countless islands distributed on the surface of the planet, and the white clouds are dotted in the planet's atmosphere like garlands, and three satellites of different sizes are suspended outside the planet, if the three satellites appear in the night sky at the same time, it must be a great spectacle.

"Boss, the data is out!" "The diameter of the planet is two and a half times that of the Earth, the average gravity on the surface is 1.4 times that of standard gravity, the atmosphere is mainly composed of nitrogen and oxygen, of which oxygen accounts for 20 percent, the sea surface temperature is 22 degrees above zero, there is no ice cover at the poles, 91 percent of the surface area of the star catalog is covered by the ocean, and only 9 percent is on land." ”

"Only nine percent? So little! Ye Fei's fiery heart suddenly cooled by half.

All the data on this planet is beckoning to human immigration, but with so little land, how many people can be immigrated?

"Less?" Che Qi was stunned for a moment, his face was swollen and he wanted to speak, and he didn't know what to say.

"Captain, that's not how the data counts." Li Rui, who had never spoken, explained in a rigorous scientific spirit, "The diameter of this planet is 2.4 times that of the earth, and the surface area is almost 5.8 times that of the earth. ”

Li Rui is an astronomer who was transferred to the Aquila before the departure of the battleship, and no one knows what the specific title is, anyway, the battleship belongs to his highest level of astronomy.

Ye Fei covered his face: "Damn, this person is a big loss." "None of the others dared to laugh at him, first, they didn't dare, and second, they didn't understand, like Ye Fei, they felt that nine percent of the land was too little.

"It's okay, you have a specialization in the art industry, you are engaged in military command, and it is normal that you don't understand this." Li Rui comforted sincerely.

It was obviously a good word, but when it came out of Li Rui's mouth in a serious way, no matter how it sounded, it sounded like a joke, Ye Fei sighed depressedly: "Don't worry, I don't have anything to do, this planet is so beautiful, it's better to call it Qingwen Star." ”

After a few months of contact with Li Rui, Ye Fei has a certain understanding of this astronomer with military rank, Li Rui, like all scholars engaged in astronomy, can't find a few romantic bacteria up and down his body - I don't know what the reason is, astronomers usually have simple and straightforward names when they come up with them, such as Jupiter's great red spot and Neptune's big black spot.

If it were someone else's, it would at least have a name like Demon Eye.

In the past few months, Ye Fei had heard too many letters and numbers from Li Rui's mouth. Forget about the other planets, but the environment of the Cyan-streaked Star is too suitable for immigration, much better than the environment of the Giants, and he really doesn't want this beautiful planet to have a straightforward name.

Li Rui's eyes lit up: "Good name!" After saying that, he immediately marked this name on the star map, and officially named Kepler-22B as the Blue Star.

Ye Fei couldn't think of the name of such a big road item as the Blue Striped Star at all, and the corners of his mouth barely curled: "Che Qi, scan the surface of the planet." ”

"Scanning!" The optical system is aimed at a relatively large island on the surface of the blue-veined star, and after several magnifications, the high-altitude overhead view of the island is put on the big screen.

Located near the equator of the star Cyan, the island is covered in dreamlike turquoise vegetation with a cone-shaped volcano in the center of the island.

"What is this?" Li Rui suddenly stared at the corner of the screen and exclaimed. The vegetation there is relatively sparse. If you look closely, there seems to be a certain pattern in the distribution of plants.

Usually only planted forests show a similar pattern.

Ye Fei stood up with a "sigh": "Quick, focus on scanning this area!" ”

Che Qi immediately executed the order, and the electromagnetic waves scanned the area that occupied one-third of the island dozens of times. Soon. A map expands on the home screen.

"It's a city!" Ye Fei recognized at a glance what was on the image.

As a military commander. Especially for the commander who was born in the commando team, the top-down map of high-altitude reconnaissance is very familiar, although the color of the scanned and restored terrain map is too monotonous. But that didn't stop him from seeing that electromagnetic waves could reconstruct the vegetation through the island's vegetation, but the exact color could not be determined by a simple scan.

Everyone was stunned by this discovery, they could never have imagined that in this place more than 600 light years away from the earth, an alien city had been discovered!

Judging from the layout and architectural style of the city, the inhabitants living on the Blue Star are by no means tribal primitive people on the Giant Star, but should be a civilization with a level of skill similar to that of humans.

Humans have been fighting with the Outer Bone People for more than ten years, and have been allies with the mechanical civilization for more than ten years, but the Outer Bone People who have actually settled on the planet have never encountered them.

Che Qi immediately turned on the calculation device, and a straight line on the screen crossed the city, and immediately concluded that the area of the city was about 40 kilometers, almost one-fifth of the total area of the entire island.

"How so? Is there a Lord here? Li Rui was suddenly depressed like a deflated ball, and finally found a habitable planet suitable for immigrants, but he already had an owner.

If there are no intelligent creatures living here, it is possible for the earth to immigrate here, but there are not only intelligent creatures here, but also intelligent creatures with a similar level of technology as humans, even if the news is sent back to the earth, it is impossible for the mainland to send immigrants over a distance of 400 light years.

It's not that there is any technical or other resistance, but humans have found a few planets near the solar system that can be settled, and there is no need to go far.

"What's the Lord, you don't want to take a good look, where there is a Lord, you can let the plants cover the whole city?" Ye Fei's words changed, "Che Qi, let's take a look at other places." ”

"Yes!" Che Qi immediately aimed the optical system at the other islands, and soon found that there would be a city on any island of similar size, but all the cities were covered by plants, and they couldn't see their original faces, and they looked like people were empty.

Li Rui originally thought that the civilization here was the kind of natural civilization with a high degree of harmony with nature, so the urban greening was done well, but when he heard Ye Fei say this, he realized that he thought badly, and he couldn't help but show embarrassment.

I have to say that those who engage in research are a little nerdy, and Li Rui is only a little slow to respond in non-astronomy, which is relatively good.

The atmosphere in the bridge became more and more solemn because of the discovery of the optical system, and Scissors said in a deep voice: "What the hell is going on in this place?" Where have all the people gone......"

Before he finished speaking, the picture on the main screen was suddenly blocked by something, and this sudden change made everyone stunned.

Che Qi immediately adjusted the magnification of the optical system and pulled the lens out of the surface of the planet, only to find that what blocked the lens was a batch of space junk floating in the orbit of the outer space of the blue striped star, with countless small debris and some large debris.

Ye Fei saw at a glance that something that seemed to be a wing in the garbage, and he said thoughtfully: "These fragments look like the wreckage of a spaceship. There are so many of them, it seems like a big war has been fought. ”

Scissors sat up straight with a flick of his shoulder: "Could it be an invasion of cosmic creatures?" "Humans have struggled for more than a decade in the shadow of the Outer Skeleton to get out of the nightmare, and most people's first instinct is to think of cosmic creatures like scissors.

"It's possible, but there's no evidence." Ye Fei said, "Jiang Xue, lean over and stop in the synchronous orbit of the Qingwen Star. ”

"Understood!" Jiang Xue piloted the battleship to the Qingwen Star, and a few minutes later, the battleship stopped steadily on the synchronous orbit, and the fragments were just below the battleship.

Ye Fei gave an order. Black Bear commanded the assault ship to break away from the main ship. A towing beam shot into the cloud of fragments from the battleship, from which several of the largest fragments were pulled, the largest of which was more than two hundred meters long.

After the towing beam pulled the debris far away from the cloud of debris, the assault ship slowly flew over. Dozens of commandos flew away from the assault ship. Approach these fragments.

The spherical panoramic screens in the left and right directions of the bridge are divided into dozens of small pieces. Each showed the perspective of a commando, and Ye Fei randomly clicked on a soldier who flew towards the largest fragment, and put the perspective of this warrior on the main screen.

The fragments on the screen quickly expanded. A fully manned assault team slowly descended to the vicinity of the fragment more than 200 meters long, then adjusted its flight speed to keep up with the fragment, and then began to check the shape of the fragment.

A warrior lay on the surface of the splinter and touched it, only to hear a voice say, "It should be an alloy." ”

"It's up to you to say that!" Another voice said, "Don't waste time, come here!" ”

Several warriors immediately gathered in one direction, where the fragments were broken.

After all seven people arrived, the detachment leader found a passage more than four meters high and three meters wide, and several soldiers drilled into the passage under the leadership of the detachment leader, and the snow lights illuminated the passage.

The fragments more than 200 meters long are not big or small, but the space inside is very spacious, and strange things are floating everywhere, and after about 30 meters deep, the team pried open the door next to the passage and turned into a fork in the road.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I turned in, I found a humanoid thing floating in the air, and a few lights immediately shone through, and I saw that it was a spacesuit-like equipment.

Two fighters immediately flew to its side, and from the angle on the screen, the two fighters wearing a full set of combat armor and a height of two meters and five meters were several heads shorter than the spacesuit, and from this point it can be judged that the race wearing this spacesuit is at least about three meters tall.

A soldier tugged at the spacesuit and suddenly shouted, "It's heavy, there's something in it!" ”

Another fighter immediately flew to the head of the spacesuit under the command of the detachment leader and began to try to untie the helmet, but after trying for a long time at the position of the neck, he also failed.

"Can you be a little more stupid?" I didn't know that the bridge was watching their detachment captain hate iron and steel, "What about embroidery? What about the saber that adorns you? Cut it for me! ”

The warrior hurriedly pulled out his saber and split the spacesuit, a strange liquid flowed out of the spacesuit, the warriors subconsciously flew away, and then used the air flow to blow away the suspended unknown liquid, until there was no more liquid flowing out of the spacesuit, and several people worked together to cut the spacesuit open, revealing a tall skeleton inside, the thick thigh bone, almost as thick as a human arm.

This discovery immediately excited the warriors, and everyone spliced all the bones together, and a skeleton similar to a human skeleton appeared in front of everyone.

"What's going on in this place?" One fighter said dissatisfiedly, "I think its knees should be bent back." ”

The military doctor in the detachment immediately retorted: "It's useless, its knees are the same as ours, and they are bent forward." ”

The warrior was still unconvinced: "Who said that? ”

"Me!" The military doctor said without hesitation, "You've read too many novels, haven't you?" Let me tell you, regardless of whether the knee is bent forward or backward, the position and structure of the thigh must be forward to conform to the evolutionary law of Homo erectus, so the structure of the anti-joint is much more complex than the normal human leg structure. ”

The warrior suddenly realized, grinned and put the bones together with the military doctor, and at this moment, Ye Fei noticed the skull of this skeleton.

The skull is roughly similar to a human skeleton, but the teeth protrude outwards and are particularly large, so it can be concluded that the head of this creature must have protruded from its mouth, and at first glance it has the feeling that a bite has to fall off a piece of flesh; The proportions of the orbits on the bones are also surprisingly large, and their eyes are likely to be very large.

Ye Fei directly cut into the public communication frequency: "Fourth detachment, pack up this set of bones and send it back immediately." ”

The captain of the detachment did not expect to receive a direct order from the bridge, so he quickly agreed, and ordered the soldiers to pack up the aliens' bones and prepare to transport them back to the Aquila in a while.

The soldiers then took the bones of the dead and began to search in other directions, and found a number of small objects and some equipment similar to weapons, all of which were sent back to the assault ship in one fell swoop, including a few large splinters.

Then the fighters returned to the assault ship and gradually flew away from the debris.

Considering that it may be necessary to explore the Cyanmarin Star many times in the future, in order to prevent any eventuality, Ye Fei ordered to destroy all the space junk in the sky above the Cyanmarin Star.

Several pale green rays of light flashed, and the synchronized fire of the eleven main guns swept away all the debris floating on the periphery of the planet, and all of them turned into molecular dust.

Ye Fei was surprised to see that the main cannon with the replaced laser emitter was much more powerful than before the modification, but he was more interested in what this laser could reveal an obvious path of light in the empty universe. (To be continued......)