Pan Galactic Age

Chapter 93 Distress Signal (I wish everyone a happy Year of the Monkey!)
Immediately afterwards, he discovered that there seemed to be objects reflecting dazzling light in the distance.Um?Artifacts!It's a shard of some kind of metal!Shocked, Xiao Cheng immediately slowed down his sailing speed, released a small detector, and sailed in the direction of the piece of metal.

There is an irregular asteroid with a diameter of more than ten kilometers nearby. The detector is only more than 30 centimeters in size. It flexibly avoids all kinds of tiny debris, and gets close to the suspicious piece of metal. After a short time, it returned to the detection The data turned out to be fragments of an external armor module of a cruiser-class starship, with various fragments scattered around.

According to calculations, this starship should have crashed here five years ago. Unfortunately, like Xiao Cheng, it plunged into this asteroid belt. With the cruiser's huge body, it is really difficult to avoid these small meteorites .

Xiao Cheng is a little silent. The consequences of a starship disintegrating in space are very serious. If the escaped people cannot return to the nearby space buildings or habitable planets in time, it is impossible to persist in space for more than 3 starships with the escape pod alone. month time.

The silent Nuwa suddenly said: "Maybe it's not so bad, there is a habitable star here."

What?There is actually a habitable star in this wormhole?Xiao Cheng almost wondered if his ears heard something wrong.

"You will understand when you leave this asteroid belt." Nuwa said briefly.

Xiao Cheng explored more and more starship fragments along the way. According to the analysis, the unknown cruiser probably hit a large meteorite and disintegrated on the spot. Fortunately, he did not scan any living things. Matter, that is to say, no one died here, after all, he breathed a sigh of relief, and began to concentrate on driving towards the exit of the asteroid belt.

Because the rubble was too dense, the starship never dared to travel too fast. It took more than two full days for this journey, and finally got out of the asteroid belt!At the same time, Xiao Cheng was also amazed by the wide coverage of this asteroid belt.

The scanner finally worked normally. After careful scanning, Xiao Cheng finally discovered that this wormhole is actually composed of a complete galaxy, with a total of 14 planets revolving around the star. According to Nuwa, this galaxy should have It is a normal galaxy outside the wormhole, but then the space near that galaxy suddenly collapsed, completely "swallowing" the galaxy in, and then the space collapse slowly healed the "wound" to form the wormhole.

This asteroid belt is located between the sixth planet and the seventh planet, and the habitable star here is the fourth planet. Xiao Cheng also became very interested in this strange galaxy. Naturally, the first thing he thought of was to go to this place. Take a good look at the habitable star in the wormhole and compare it with the normal habitable star outside.

After switching the jump engine, "Chuxin" quickly disappeared into space.

A few seconds later, the "Chuxin" jumped out of the subspace, and it was only 1 kilometers away from this mysterious habitable star. The planet was already well observed. The scanner gave a detailed index. The land 70 %, ocean 30%, oxygen content 27%, primitive carbon-based life exists, and the degree of evolution is average.

Xiao Cheng was taken aback for a moment. The high oxygen content here means that the organisms on the planet should generally have evolved to be quite large, which is not suitable for exploration on the planet, especially since his frigate does not carry combat mechs.If he enters the planetary land rashly, I'm afraid he will end up in a very miserable situation... As for landing with the "Chuxin", he is still worried about encountering any accidents. This is the only means of transportation he can leave the wormhole!If something goes wrong, I can't even cry!
However, the development of many things will naturally not be left to him.

Just when Xiao Cheng was hesitating to enter the interior of the planet, the starship actually received an intermittent distress signal!

"...Voyager...Mayday...7 people...emergency..."

The content is very vague, it seems that the signal is not very good.

"Xiao Cheng, this is the first time I have obtained detailed information on this habitable star." Nuwa said, "This distress signal is very unstable, and it may have been sent automatically many years ago. In this environment, human beings can survive The probability is almost infinitely close to zero, I suggest you not go to the rescue lightly.”

"Am I the kind of person who will never save people?" Xiao Cheng shrugged, "Under the starry sky, human beings are too small. When encountering compatriots in distress, saving people is the first criterion."

"That must be the prerequisite to ensure your own safety!" Nu Wa was speechless.

Shaking his head, Xiao Cheng said: "I also know that this rescue mission is dangerous, and there may be nothing to be gained, but if someone survives, it must be very difficult for them to struggle in such a harsh environment for five years. The galaxy where the wormhole is located is already remote enough. If I leave today, the next time someone will come over, I don’t know when—I destroyed that landmark, and maybe no one will come over in a short time... Besides The firepower of the 'Chuxin' is very powerful, and I don't think those flesh-and-blood creatures can resist our powerful firepower."

After a pause: "Although it is the consensus of mankind not to destroy the ecology of outer planets as much as possible...but since it is for saving people, if necessary, we have to make an exception once."

Nuwa sighed and said nothing more.

However, Xiao Cheng adjusted the direction of the "Chuxin" and rushed towards the direction of the signal source.

With the protection of the energy shield, the process of entering the atmosphere was very smooth. However, what troubled Xiao Cheng slightly was that the distress signal came from a large lush virgin forest below—even though the land of this planet was basically covered. forest covered.

Xiao Cheng tried to send a contact signal, but according to the feedback information, his own contact signal was actually blocked by these dense virgin forests, which is a bit weird. Due to international practice, distress signals generally use the simplest light quantum Communication means for transmission, and I also use the same means for feedback, so why was it blocked?

"Be careful, it's not the forest blocking the signal." Nuwa said suddenly, "First float in the stratosphere and release the detector, something is not right in the forest below."

"Nuwa, did you find any problems?" Although Xiao Cheng had doubts, he would not doubt Nuwa's suggestion, so he immediately released the hive detector.

This kind of honeycomb detector is a kind of detector specially designed for planetary exploration. Each honeycomb detector contains 50 ultra-miniature flying detection robots, which can conduct the most detailed reconnaissance and scanning of the area with a radius of 100 kilometers. For any climate environment, conduct detailed data analysis on the destination soil, air, organisms, abiotics, etc., and establish a complete data model in the control center system.

Since this kind of ultra-miniature robot is a combination of biotechnology and electromechanical technology, a single electronic defense or biological defense method will not work against them, and since the size of the individual is no more than 2 mm, it is extremely concealed. Difficult to detect and prevent.

This is also one of the equipment brought out from Nuwa's main base at the beginning, but the technical content is not high. The "dust" monitor robot carried by the bald dragon has even shrunk to less than one millimeter in size, which is much more advanced than this hive detector.

"Chuxin" hovered smoothly in the upper stratosphere where the distress signal was located, waiting for the feedback results of these detectors, Xiao Cheng stared at the analysis results of the optical brain, and soon, the detailed data modeling of the virgin forest with a radius of 100 kilometers Started to take shape, and nothing seemed amiss.

"Maybe my previous induction was wrong..." Nu Wa herself became a little uncertain.

"It looks like everything is normal, I'd better go down and have a look." Xiao Cheng said with a sigh of relief, and ordered all the hive detector robots to return to the mother warehouse, and then the mother warehouse automatically flew back to the "Chuxin."

　I wish you all a prosperous Year of the Monkey, happy family, happiness and health!
　　
　
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