A good idea stumped a group of people, and the bridge was thinking about it with sad faces, but they couldn't think of the slightest idea that worked.

Sensei said that it was his own warship, and even the scattered Americans could not keep useless animals on the battleship, so the nearby friendly forces could not point to it at all, unless it was transported from the mainland.

But although this place is much closer than Giant Star and Gliese 581, it is also more than ten light years away, even if the Aquila is fast, it will take more than four months to run a round trip, and the Third Fleet has been missing for more than 20 days, wouldn't it cost people to wait for another four months?

"If only those mercenaries hadn't handed it over." The scissors smacked their lips and said, "I mean, chief, where is the First Fleet now?" Can we get in touch and get two mercenaries over? ”

Ye Fei's face darkened: "You are ruthless enough, you want people with one mouth, how can those frozen mercenaries be useful?" "All the mercenaries who have blood debts on their hands, let him order to kill them before they can send the Aquila, and those who are handed over to the First Fleet are all innocent, how can they be used for experiments?

Scissors touched his head and smiled: "Didn't I just say it!" Why don't you ask, maybe the Air Canada battleship has a living creature with a giant star on board! ”

"Who dares!" Ye Fei was angry, "That's an alien creature, which one dares to live?" ”

"That's over." Scissors was completely speechless, "I can't think of a way." ”

"Forget it, it's not a way you came up with!" The veterinarian teased, and suddenly smiled: "Let's change our expressions, what's so difficult about this?" Have you forgotten what's in the bilge? So many biological warships out there. Wouldn't it be okay for us to train a few bone dogs? ”

Everyone was stunned at the same time, and Ye Fei looked at the veterinarian suspiciously, "Is there anything left in the bilge?" "He was also a veterinarian, and all the cloned cells he brought on the ship were used up.

"One thing, not a lot, and you don't need a few for an experiment." The veterinarian said with a smile.

"Okay, let's do it right away!" Ye Fei made a decision immediately and decided on the next step.

The wreckage of the bio-battleship was everywhere outside, but all of them had been frozen hard by the low temperature of the universe, and they had to be thawed before they could start cultivating bone dogs.

"That's good. I'll have to wait again. Scissors pouted. The professional is different. ”

"Wait, wait!" Ye Fei immediately retorted, "It's just an experiment, and it's not like sending the bone dog into the bone mound, just grow to the extent that it can be used." You don't need to grow up. ”

The veterinarian laughed when he heard this. He was still thinking about how he could make the bone dog grow faster. There's no need to waste that useless mind.

The breeding of the bone dogs began immediately under the leadership of the veterinarian, and at the same time, the refitting of the search and rescue boat was handed over to the engineering ship.

Search and rescue boats are manned aerial vehicles. The IQ of the bone dog is not up to the level of driving a search and rescue boat, and even if the bone dog can do it, it does not have the American time to teach the bone dog to learn to drive, and it must be modified to use it.

Fortunately, it is not troublesome to install a control system, but the structure of the search and rescue boat is much more complex than that of the drone, in case of a mistake in the control signal, the search and rescue boat may not be able to come back, and several engineers on the engineering ship need a period of time to adjust the control system.

Having solved the big trouble in front of him, Ye Fei was in a good mood. At this time, it was time for the drone that had passed through the wormhole to return, and the picture on the screen slowly receded until it completely returned in a white light.

From entering the wormhole to returning victoriously, the time on screen is exactly ten minutes.

Ye Feideng was stunned: "Eh, this time is not right, why is it ten minutes?" ”

"Fifteen minutes!" He Jian replied affirmatively.

Just now discussing how to complete the biological crossing experiment, everyone's attention was taken away from the screen, including He Jian.

"Look here!" Ye Fei pointed to the time on the screen, "I also remember fifteen minutes, but the drone shows only ten minutes!" Where do the five lost minutes go? ”

Everyone hula-la-la gathered around again, and after reading it, they looked at each other and collectively lost their voices.

The missing five minutes must have been lost in time to travel through the wormhole, and no one could have imagined that this would happen to everyone who was present, but no one could have predicted it.

"Time stands still inside the wormhole?" Scissors thought the answer was a little incredible, but it wasn't a big deal.

Ye Fei sizzled and gasped, rubbing his cheeks with a headache: "I thought that the wormhole was like a membrane, and if it was penetrated, it could go to the other side, but looking at it this way, the wormhole is really a hole!" ”

"Hey, what are you doing with these? If you want me to say, it's better to leave this kind of thing to the insiders, and those of us who are soldiers will still be blindly involved, and our battle will be over. He Jian held back this sentence for a long time, and finally seized an opportunity to say it, "Insiders watch the doorway and laymen look at the excitement, none of us are engaged in research, is it necessary to pretend to be this big-tailed wolf?" ”

Ye Fei smiled bitterly: "That's right, but I know that the wormhole is right in front of me, and I don't know that my heart is the same as a cat scratching, it's uncomfortable!" ”

"Then I don't have anything to say." He Jian exhaled helplessly.

Ye Fei sighed: "Lao He reminded me, we don't understand, it's over to find someone who understands, Ruan Peng-"

"Understand, contact the headquarters immediately!" Ruan Peng moved quickly, "Or go directly to General Nie for National Defense?" ”

"If you don't look for him, who will you go to? Where can I find someone who knows how to do it? Ye Fei asked rhetorically.

"Understood!" Ruan Peng agreed, and the communication was quickly connected.

For a while, the Aquila had been on the phone with Nie Jianrong several times, and such frequent communication even made the communications staff officers on duty in the communication center have a bad premonition.

Didn't the Nameless Star Field Battle just finish? Where is the war going on again?

"Chief!" Seeing that Nie Jianrong had done too many times, Ye Fei was already a little numb, and he explained the situation as quickly as he could.

Nie Jianrong immediately said that he would find an expert in astronomy to participate as soon as possible, but he didn't have much hope. Because wormholes have always only existed in science fiction works, human beings have only speculated about the existence of wormholes in the universe. However, even if there is no theoretical basis and no actual research, even if all the top astronomers in the world are found, they may not be able to say one, two, three, and maybe they will stage a full martial arts because of different views!

Wars on the battlefield of scientific research are a daily occurrence, especially when it comes to scientific theories that have not yet been proven, and the severity of theoretical confrontations is comparable to that of the Cold War.

Nie Jianrong thought about it, and still felt that human beings were completely blank in this regard, and there were not no experts with profound theoretical skills, but there was no way to say what the situation was with this thing, and the so-called profound theoretical foundation. It is equivalent to saying that an inherent set of theories has been formed. It's a bit risky to use the existing system to explain the unknown, what if the Aquila is misled and the ship is lost?

After thinking about it for more than half an hour, Nie Jianrong made up his mind. Since there is no information on this. It's better to ask the mechanical civilization.

Ye Fei didn't know what Old General Nie was considering. After waiting in place for two days, the embryos of the six bony dogs had grown to more than forty centimeters long, although they looked a little fragile under the membranes. But he was up to the task.

The veterinarian personally sent the six embryos, still attached to the flesh of the biological warship, into the modified search and rescue boat.

The search and rescue boat slowly flew towards the wormhole in a conventional way, and finally disappeared into the light, and everyone's hearts tugged at this moment.

After a while, the search and rescue boat flew out of the wormhole, and the bridge immediately saw six embryos through the monitoring system in the search and rescue boat, and the monitoring system temporarily installed on the boat sent the situation of the six embryos back to the battleship, and the veterinarian declared that everything was normal after studying it for a few seconds!

But Ye Fei soon discovered that the time record on the search and rescue boat came and went for ten minutes, and the record of the Aquila was sixteen and a half minutes!

"How so?" This discovery washed away all the joy that the experiment had brought to Ye Fei, "What's the extra minute and a half?" Could it be that the speed of passage of the wormhole is also related to the mass? ”

"Impossible, right?" The veterinarian subconsciously retorted, but what else could be possible?

He Jian was stunned: "Are you saying that the Third Fleet is still in this hole and has not reached the other side?" ”

This speculation was so terrible that everyone shuddered.

Ye Fei didn't know what to say, so he had to announce the suspension of all detection operations and wait for the instructions from the headquarters.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for Nie Jianrong to send the communication to the Skyhawk, Ye Fei couldn't wait to know the results of the local research of Lu Dao, but he was destined to be disappointed, those experts couldn't say anything at all, there were a bunch of guesses, but none of them were reliable, and all the experts who knew about it jointly submitted an application to the military to study the wormhole at close range, but the military temporarily refused on the grounds that the area where the wormhole was located was the front line.

At the same time, Nie Jianrong also brought good news, he got some information related to wormholes from the mechanical civilization.

The data confirmed some previous speculations that the active expansion of the wormhole is indeed related to magnetism, or that the wormhole, like the faster-than-light engine, is closely related to magnetism, and the reason why the Third Fleet was swallowed up was because of the magnetic engine.

With the understanding of mechanical civilization, the wormhole can indeed be regarded as a hole, it takes a certain amount of time to pass through the wormhole, this time has nothing to do with the mass of the object entering the wormhole, but it has a lot to do with the speed when entering, the third fleet is swept into the wormhole, and the speed through the wormhole is definitely not fast, if the third fleet is rushing to the wormhole at full speed, I am afraid that at this moment I have already arrived at the opposite side.

Wormholes can provide natural and convenient interstellar long-range movement, but the formation of natural wormholes has a certain degree of accident, and there are not many of them in the universe, even if the mechanical civilization has tracked the outer skeleton people in the universe for more than a thousand years, it has only encountered a few wormholes on the way.

Moreover, the wormhole itself is not in a stable state like a black hole, and once the factors that formed the wormhole are eliminated, the wormhole will suddenly disappear, so it is never a good idea to sail through a natural wormhole in high space.

This news made everyone's hearts tight, but this world is always balanced, and after the formation of natural wormholes, the state of wormholes can be stabilized through a series of means.

The mechanical civilization provided humans with a blueprint that could maintain the wormhole and prevent it from disappearing due to the failure of the wormhole itself.

After the stargate is built, it can even move freely by regular flight! This news is simply a natural sound for humans, and it can completely drag the wormhole back to the solar system!

The only trouble is that a stargate needs to be built at the other end of the wormhole. Otherwise, even if the stargate is built, it may fail due to the disappearance of the wormhole on the other side.

The Boundary Gate will turn into a random portal, and no one knows where the Passage will arrive when it enters it, and it will never be able to return.

Nie Jianrong summed up after that: "Ye Fei, the new order given to you is to stay there and not let any irrelevant forces approach, we have reached an agreement with the mechanical civilization, and they will help us build the Star Gate as soon as possible." "The mechanical civilization has always followed the Outer Skeletons, so they have not mastered a single wormhole. The technique of building the stargate is similar to the chicken ribs of the mechanical civilization.

However, the mechanical civilization and the humans only reached an agreement against the Outer Skeletons. The agreement that the mechanical civilization will help the Chinese side build the stargate is not within this scope, so the Chinese side has to start new negotiations with the mechanical civilization and pay enough price for the construction of the stargate.

There is no such thing as a free lunch, if the mechanical civilization discovers the devastating effects of faster-than-light impacts before they come into contact with humans. It is hard to say whether humanity will be able to form an alliance with mechanical civilization.

Fortunately, the credit of mechanical civilization is still quite strong. The agreement was not terminated because the humans were strong enough to fight the Skeletons.

Then again. With China's current strength, it simply does not have the strength to build a star gate, if it does not have the help of mechanical civilization. I'm afraid that the stargate hasn't even made a frame, and the wormhole has already disappeared on its own.

A circular star gate was built around a wormhole with a diameter of 20 kilometers, and the amount of work involved was needless to say, and it was double!

The price paid by the Chinese side for this is sky-high, and even if the entire country is sold, it will be difficult to pay it off. Fortunately, the mechanical civilization does not want immediate benefits, and the most important one in the agreement is that the mechanical civilization can use the completed stargate anytime and anywhere.

It must be explained that behind the wormhole is a new starry sky, where there are countless virgins and lands waiting to be developed, as long as the stargate is pulled back to the solar system, the energy will continue to obtain unlimited resources from the other side of the wormhole, which is very important for the future development of the country!

The resources of the solar system are already limited, and in recent years, the mechanical civilization has carried out unlimited mining for the construction of warships, according to estimates, the entire solar system will be exhausted in less than 150 years, and this time will gradually decrease with the consumption in the future.

At that time, the local subsidy will only be available from the various galaxies around the solar system, but the ultra-long voyage will bring extremely high freight costs, which will directly lead to the skyrocketing price of resources transported back to the solar system.

Imagine transporting a shipload of steel from Proxima Centauri back to the solar system, even if it is transported by a high-speed spacecraft like the Aquila, it will take 20 days each way, and the wear and tear of the spacecraft, the labor and fuel spent will all be added to the steel, and what will be the final price of steel?

In addition, there is the option of mining the remaining barren deposits of the solar system at a high cost, but the cost is not much better than long-distance transportation.

With the wormhole, you can drag the opposite stargate into a certain galaxy, and the mined mineral deposits can be sent back to the solar system directly!

But for now, all that can be obtained from the other side of the wormhole is resources.

This is because the opposite side of the wormhole is inside the nebula!

Nebulae are often thought of as hotbeds of stars, and some are produced by supernova explosions, but no nebula is stable in time on a cosmic scale, in other words, the nebula has been ravaged by a stellar explosion or has just formed a young star.

Both of these cases lack stable conditions for the production of living things, so the probability of finding a living planet is infinitely close to zero! However, habitable planets have a certain chance of appearing, but they also need to undergo long-term and meticulous planetary modification before they can be settled.

On the whole, the price paid is far less than the long-term benefits that will be generated in the future, so even if it is extremely expensive, the Chinese side still agrees with the mechanical civilization.

In fact, what mechanical civilization needs is also the infinite resources on the other side of the wormhole!

Speaking of which, we have to mention red dwarfs.

Seventy percent of the stars in the universe are red dwarfs, which have a small mass, a low burning rate, and a theoretical lifespan of tens of billions of years, almost as long as the age of the universe.

This raises the problem that the light and heat of the star are produced by the fusion of matter, and the hydrogen fusion produces helium, and when the hydrogen fusion is over, the helium inside the star is ignited due to the pressure and temperature generated by the shrinkage of the star, and the star enters the helium fusion phase.

When the mass of the star is sufficient, elements such as hydrogen, helium, carbon, oxygen, neon, and silicon fuse sequentially, but because iron fusion needs to absorb energy instead of releasing it, the fusion of stars will eventually stop at iron fusion.

Therefore, most stars produce very few heavy elements after extinguishing, and the heavy elements in the universe, such as copper and gold, basically come from supernova explosions.

Or to put it this way: without supernovae, there is no heavy element!

Red dwarfs that exceed 70 percent of the total number of stars are celestial bodies that cannot produce heavy elements, and other stars with a mass less than eight times the mass of the Sun cannot enter the supernova stage, that is, the vast majority of stars in the universe do not have the conditions to produce heavy elements!

In other words, there may be many living planets or habitable planets in the universe, but there are not as many resource galaxies that meet the needs of human and mechanical civilization as imagined!

For hundreds of years, human wars have basically been fought for resources, and in the future, human beings who go into deep space will still have to fight for resources! (To be continued......)