"Use close-in defense artillery and fire several short bursts at the target area!" Lu Yuanzhou gave the order.
The close-in defense gun on the back of the battleship spit out several tongues of flame intermittently, and the shells flew towards the target like red-hot steel bars. A few minutes later, Wang Xiaoge reported:
"The unmanned spacecraft has discovered close-in defense artillery shells. All the shells passed through the target area without slowing down!"
First Officer Hank looked at the footage from the drone:
"Are they really not there anymore? Or were they never there?"
"According to the research of the EDA Science Committee, in order for the 'Boomerang' to complete complex instructions, it should have a command station. Moreover, now that Europa is gone, it may have left or disappeared," said Sachiko Ono.
Lu Yuanzhou stared blankly at the empty space ahead for a while, and then issued an order:
"The spacecraft slows down and docks into the synchronous orbit of the target area."
Although the crew members were all surprised by this order, because once the speed slowed down, it meant that if something unexpected happened, they might not even have a chance to escape. However, the order was resolutely implemented, and they trusted their captain.
After the Firefly was parked in orbit, the crew dispatched two unmanned spacecraft. The warship used all its own means to detect the airspace. First Officer Hank even took out a laser pointer to imitate the satellite.
Xu found a way to 'dart' in the atmosphere of Venus, hoping to find something. The result is still that there is nothing here like the Dirac Sea.
Lu Yuanzhou searched the window and after confirming the detection results:
"Recall the unmanned spacecraft."
On the backside where the sun was blocked by Jupiter's huge size, the fire from the unmanned spacecraft's nozzle appeared particularly bright. At the moment the unmanned spacecraft completed its turn and the nozzle went out, Lu Yuanzhou suddenly saw what seemed to be something appearing in the space around the unmanned spacecraft.
Circle fluorescence.
"Wait a minute!" He wasn't sure whether he was hallucinating because he stared at the dark space for too long, or whether the firelight from the unmanned spacecraft's nozzle was reflected by something.
"Captain, what's wrong?" First Mate Hank asked.
"Are there any spotlights on the unmanned spacecraft?" Lu Yuanzhou asked.
"No, not even on the spaceship, only on the shuttle." Wang Xiaoge replied.
"Deploy the shuttle immediately. No need to get close. Just use spotlights to illuminate the airspace near the unmanned spacecraft."
Hank immediately went down to the bottom cabin and personally drove the shuttle to the side of the battleship. When he turned on the high-power spotlight on the shuttle, everyone was attracted to the porthole at the bow of the ship. Around the unmanned spacecraft
, an arc-shaped halo larger than a battleship immediately appeared.
Hank shook the shuttle slightly. Under the swaying light beam, the arc-shaped halo reflected colorful colors, like a rainbow. There were irregular broken edges at both ends of the rainbow. Look.
It looks like a section was torn off from a circular rainbow and placed here.
"What are these reflective particles? The element detector on the unmanned spacecraft did not find any abnormal elements?" Laura exclaimed.
"I think it can only be ice crystals. Because hydrogen and oxygen are common elements near planets, they will not be displayed on element detectors," Wang Xiaoge said.
"Such small particles cannot be detected by radar waves," Ono Sachiko said.
"Where did these ice crystals come from? They are arranged so neatly!" Hank's voice came from the radio.
Lu Yuanzhou looked at Hank in the shuttle next to him, and pointed at the star ring not far away from them that looked very dim on the backside at the moment. They were almost entirely composed of Europa's ice.
Wang Xiaoge pointed to the ice crystal rainbow sparkling under the lights of the shuttle:
"I think these tiny ice crystals were gathered here under the influence of gravity. They formed a ring of ice crystals with extremely small mass under a weak gravitational source with rotational angular momentum. Later, the gravitational source left. Most of them
All the ice crystals were knocked away, leaving only this section."
"You mean, this is the orbital location where their command center once stayed! But they left later?" Ono Sachiko asked in surprise.
"I think Wang Xiaoge's conjecture is correct. For a period of time after Europa fragmented, it was still here directing thousands of 'darts' to guide organic organisms to form a broken ice belt and enter the transfer orbit.
During this process, some extremely fine ice crystals gathered here under the influence of gravity. After completing the command, it left. This is also consistent with our previous observations and speculations." Lu Yuanzhou said.
"Where's the damn command post now?" Hank cursed over the radio.
Lu Yuanzhou shook his head slowly:
"It may have been carried to the transfer orbit by the broken ice, or it may have fallen into Jupiter or gone somewhere else. No one knows."
"So what do we do now?" Hank asked.
Others in the battleship also turned their attention to Lu Yuanzhou. His eyes swept over everyone in turn, including Hank in the shuttle outside the porthole. Among them, Wang Xiaoge's eyes were more eager and fiery than anyone else's. Finally, he looked at
Toward an area in the vast sea of stars.
There is one star in that area that is particularly bright, and it is the gas giant planet Saturn, which also has beautiful rings.
Li Linjie and several companions stood under a seven or eight-story superconducting electromagnetic coil on the top of the central crater of the moon. The superconducting electromagnetic coil structure is rectangular, with an oval through hole along the ring direction of the crater.
, which occupies half of the building's volume.
There are a total of 24 such superconducting electromagnetic coil structures, which are evenly distributed on the top of the entire central crater, like beacon towers without the Great Wall connecting them.
In the elliptical hole of the superconducting electromagnetic coil, the upper and lower charged elementary particles will be accelerated in opposite directions by the electromagnetic superconducting coil to infinitely close to the speed of light. Then under the deflection of the two electromagnetic deflectors located symmetrically in the north and south of the crater,
The collision occurred in the center of the central crater at nearly the speed of light.
At the center of the central crater, stands a tall, slender black cylindrical tower - the collision induction tower. On the top of the tower is an altar-like hollow cavity, where ultra-high energy particle flows will occur.
A violent collision at the creation energy level. The smashed particles will fragment into more microscopic structures under the control of the laws of the universe. Within several Planck time scales, these particle fragments will either decay or recombine.
The sensors in the cavity of the collision tower will record these processes, thereby helping humans explore the basic laws of the universe that have not yet been discovered by humans. This super machine, which was initially doubted by most people to be useless, in the later stages of the crisis era
On the contrary, people have placed great expectations on it.
This may be because the actual industrial production capacity has approached the limit of mankind's existing scientific framework, and the high-tech weapons that can be imagined can no longer make people feel safe in the coming invasion. It may also be because this project was inspired by the discovery of extraterrestrials.
Led by Liu Chaowen, who showed omnipotence in the invasion of civilization.