Interstellar Mecha Life

Chapter 71

Asteroids are small, but at least they have a solid surface to offer.Because there is almost no atmosphere and the gravitational force is small, the landing process is relatively easy, and the shell will not generate high temperatures due to friction, and normal operations can be resumed quickly.

However, their four mechs didn't really touch the land, but started to fly near the asteroid after they got close to the surface of the asteroid to a certain extent.

Because the size and mass of this planet are too small, it is between the boundary line between planets and space meteorites. Its shape is either concave or convex, and it cannot completely form a round surface. It is relatively irregular, making walking more troublesome.

Because there is a central star, there is a certain revolution and rotation, so when they land, they are still close to the equator first, and then fly to the poles.

Along the way, the scanning equipment equipped with Michael's mecha was also turned on to the maximum, but no signs of life were found.

"Whether the intermediate lifeform is a larva or a mature one, it will not send out any signals." Jazz explained, "You should know that."

Otherwise they wouldn't be so difficult to find.

Xing Tianhe said: "Yes, but if it is really a larva as you said, there should always be people who cultivated it? Whether it is Arud, human beings, or other races, they should be detectable."

"Maybe they're not here." Jazz said while poking various data displays on the inner wall of the mecha with his slender fingers.Xing Tianhe glanced at him and slapped his hand off.

"It was you who said there were larvae here." Xing Tian said, "You hinted that we might find the culprit here."

Jazz chuckled: "I'm talking about possibility. It's you who makes the decision."

But after a while, the pothole at the pole was approaching.The three-dimensional map has gradually become clear, but the process is very slow, and only approximate information can be displayed, with low accuracy.

At a place about five kilometers away from the pothole, the four mechs gradually slowed down and finally stopped.They're waiting for Michael's final scan results.

"There are no traces of man-made drilling, no moving machinery, and no natural passages large enough for mechas to enter and exit." Michael shared the scan results with others, "If you really want to go down, I'm afraid you have to drill from the place marked in red. "

There is no water on this asteroid, only a hard surface layer with rocks and loose soil, which is charred and black.If they want to drill, they have to choose the softest and thinnest place, and they have to let the shuttle land.The conditions on the surface of the planet are actually not suitable for landing.Not only is it undulating and rugged, but many rocks are not firm.

Xing Tianhe decided to get closer to the location of the pothole first, observe it before making any plans.The four mechas have entered a state of combat readiness to deal with any danger that may arise at any time.

But until they arrived at the predetermined place, nothing happened.

"Captain, do you want to contact the shuttle for an assisted landing?" Yorkwen asked.

Xing Tianhe was about to make a decision when suddenly he stretched out a few fingers and swipe them deftly on his map. "look here."

Xing Tianhe looked carefully and found that it was a more detailed image of the ground under their feet: on the black and hard ground, within an area of ​​about [-] square meters, there were densely packed pores with a diameter of about [-] centimeters.It is roughly estimated that there are tens of thousands of them.These holes do not look shallow, at first glance they look like the caves of some kind of creature.

"This is……?"

"I don't know either," Jazz said, "but it's suspicious."

Suspicious indeed.

However, because of the small size of these narrow pores, they were not detected in previous scans.

Yun Da Vinci operated the mecha and slowly landed on the ground.The soles of their mechs are equipped with a noise reduction system, which actually uses air cushions to make the footsteps land on the ground like a cat stepping on the pads without a sound.When the system is turned on, even if the mech is walking normally, there is almost no landing sound, which is very suitable for sneaking.

Don't think that there is no need for stealth and concealment because the mechs are tall and burly. Even if their battle mechs are generally more than ten meters high, they are still quite small on a large-scale battlefield, and they often conduct stealth and surprise operations.

Yun-Da Vinci's mecha is dark blue before the optical camouflage is turned on.At this moment, it slowly bent down with dexterous movements, stretching out its hand to aim at the hole.

A small and flexible probe was drilled out of the mecha's palm, and then drilled down the narrow hole, and sent back visual information and other detection information along the way.

The inside of the hole is still a charred rock surface, and there is nothing unusual about it.

"Maybe it's just a feature of the landform." Michael said softly, "Can Jazz be able to locate it more accurately?"

Jazz only said after hearing this: "I can only be sure that they are on this planet."

"Still still there?" Xing Tianhe asked.

Sir nodded.

At this moment, the tentacle-like probe of the Yun-Da Vinci mech seemed to have touched something and stopped.

"What's going on? Physical barriers? There's nothing..." Da Vinci himself was also surprised. He checked the reason and found that the probe stopped because it was blocked.

"No signal doesn't mean there is nothing!" Xing Tianhe suddenly realized something, "Yun, make a physical capture."

Yun-Da Vinci did not hesitate after hearing this, and directly activated the physical capture device.Because the capture object is uncertain, there is no electromagnetic wave radiation in any band, and there is no heat radiation. After the capture device is activated, it will optically cut along the inner wall of the rock, and then form a cage composed of laser light.Then the tractor light will extract the objects in it.

The capture process went smoothly without any hindrance.The thing in the cage is still missing, and there is no signal response on any frequency band, making people doubt whether it really exists.

Xing Tianhe controlled the mech to get close to Yun Da Vinci, and the latter extended the probe holding the light cage to the front of his cockpit.

Jazz's eyes narrowed suddenly: "That's it!"

Xing Tianhe said: "Luptus?"

"Yes...but it seems to be closer to the source of mutagenesis!" Jazz patted the bulkhead, "This is the state of fusion, the fused object becomes transparent and loses all attributes, becoming undetectable!"

Xing Tianhe said: "Are you sure?"

"If I'm not mistaken, the mutagenic source can still be stripped off at this time..." The Jazz swallowed suddenly with a flash of eyes when he said this: "This, give it to me."

Xing Tianhe glanced at him, neither agreed nor refused: "You sit down first."

Next, the other team members on the shuttle also landed and began to clean up all the space-time attribute life forms in the holes one by one.Some of these life forms are just like the one they encountered at the beginning, they are just in the stage of fusion, according to Jazz, they can still be separated.Some have already fused, and the newly formed larvae have become optically visible again, but are still undetectable by any other means.Compared to adults, these juveniles appear much quieter, completely motionless and unresponsive even when they are cut by a laser.

Although Xing Tian and the others are not experts, they have had a lot of contact with time-space attribute life forms.The cleaning process is not slow, but there are too many holes. Even if each takes 5 minutes and 20 mechas are carried out at the same time, it will take more than 40 hours to complete.

For detachable larvae, they are collected separately after being judged by Sir.Although the other larvae have their own stages of development, according to Jazz, although some of them are fused, they may not have shown the space-time attribute.However, for the sake of insurance, they still decided to uniformly use DTS explosive bombs to deal with them and annihilate all biological tissues.

Tens of thousands of holes, tens of thousands of larvae.Some have even evolved quite completely, almost no different from the mature individuals seen before, except that they are much quieter and do not respond to various stimuli.

After two full days and 48 hours of continuous work, all the larvae found in the potholes were taken out and sorted.Xing Tianhe arranged for the team members to take a short break, but they were not allowed to leave the mecha, and everyone remained vigilant.

Next, the 20 team members were divided into three groups. One group conducted a quick search to find any holes that had been missed; the second group conducted a carpet search on the entire planet to find similar landforms.The remaining group, including Xing Tianhe, will process all the hatchlings that have been excavated.

"DTS bombs may not be enough." York Wen said worriedly.

Thousands of juveniles waiting to be destroyed are piled up like rotten fish, forming a cone ten meters high.Although these larvae are smaller than the time-space-like life forms they have dealt with before, there are mutants in each of them, and each may have independent space-time attributes.When using explosive bombs to destroy, it is necessary to ensure that the time and space attributes of each larva are destroyed.

"Let Michael model and calculate how to arrange the explosive bombs." Xing Tianhe estimated, "It should be enough to eliminate these."

It is impossible for him to return to the zero zone now, and DTS bombs are impossible to have on ordinary supply planets, and Xing Tianhe must go back to the zero zone to collect them in person.

"Captain Xing, you have to think carefully." Jazz looked at him frowning, as if he had made some kind of decision, and couldn't help saying: "After completing this destruction, if you decide to return to the base, you may not be able to perform related missions again. .”

Xing Tianhe glared at him, and in his sharp eyes revealed a trace of persuasion: "How do you know?"

"Heh. Remember when I said at the beginning that I only trust you?" Jazz said coolly, "Some of you humans participated in the production of larvae. Fusion, I'm afraid it's definitely not something ordinary humans can do."

His hints are already quite obvious.

"Alud can do it too. There are also many advanced intelligent races." Xing Tianhe retorted, "In the Small Magellanic Cloud Galaxy, not only humans are keen on planet colonization, and they control many planets."

"Of course. You can have your judgment, I have mine."

Xing Tianhe looked at him with a frown.He always felt that his smile was so malicious.

"By the way, Captain Xing, can you give me the source of mutagenesis that was stripped out?" Jazz said, "We will be grateful to you."

Xing Tianhe raised his eyebrows: "I'll save the source of mutagenesis first, and I'll talk about it when things become clearer."

As soon as Qi Yue came out of the DREAM building, McDull told her that Xing Tianhe had sent a message and reminded her: "The encryption method used by Xing Tianhe has changed."

Qi Yue felt strange and cautiously connected: "Xing Tianhe?"

"it's me."

Qi Yue let out a long breath: "Are you not in the army anymore?"

Xing Tianhe did not answer, but said: "I haven't heard you speak for a long time."

Qi Yue was taken aback for a moment: "That's true."

Xing Tianhe seldom communicates with her, especially in the recent period, all of them are by email.

Ever since the birthday gift incident, perhaps due to the lack of manpower, when Qi Yue came into contact with him, he no longer held vague hostility and resistance, but really seemed like a friend.

Chat with each other about the current situation, talk about troubles.Every time we communicated, Xing Tianhe asked very detailed questions, as if he wanted to know her every move.

He asked, and Qi Yue told him.She didn't even realize it herself, and she didn't have any resistance in her heart to these questions.

Everything seems to be taken for granted.

"Is the mech team training normal?"

"It's okay." Qi Yue said a few words casually, "The game is coming soon."

"Come on." Xing Tianhe took a deep breath, although his voice was tired, but his tone was very relaxed: "It's not a big problem for you to advance to the school competition."

"I think so too." Qi Yue said, "But until the final result comes out, I can't be [-]% sure, and there are still variables. I dare not be careless."

After hearing this, Xing Tianhe said: "You have always been cautious. You are very reliable."

Qi Yue smiled: "How are you doing?"

Xing Tian and Shen Mo didn't answer.

"Your communication encryption method has changed." Qi Yue finally asked, "Xing Tianhe, what happened?"

Xing Tianhe asked instead: "Do you know anything that can interact with dark matter and dark energy? It's best to destroy them. It's like bomb blasting damages normal matter."

After cleaning up the larvae on the asteroid, they have very few DTS bombs left.Even if he didn't want to, he had to admit that Jazz was right. If they returned, they would probably face strict investigations.Even if the mission can be resumed in the future, it may have nothing to do with the space-time lifeform.

And none of them wanted it to end so vaguely.

Xing Tianhe dismantled two DTS bombs and showed Jazz the internal structure, hoping he could see something.

The latter stretched out his long fingers, pinched Xing Tian and the DTS that had been removed from the shell, and took a closer look: "Your bomb is very smart. The mutagenic mediator did not reach Arud's original idea. But the space-time property appears. And its space-time property is the superficial manifestation of their mysterious relationship with dark matter and dark energy.”

He shook his head while talking: "Although my intelligence level has been raised, I still can't understand the relationship behind it. But there is no doubt that destroying its dark attribute is the key."

"But among the substances known to mankind, there is no substance that can interact with dark matter or dark energy." Michael said.

"There must be, but we don't know that's all." Jazz said, "Otherwise, how do you think this DTS bomb is made?"

Xing Tianhe threw the remaining things aside and leaned against the wall to think deeply.Now that the Jazz said so, I am afraid that his idea of ​​self-made DTS is not feasible.

Back to Zone Zero?steal?grab?
Then he suddenly thought of Qi Yue.

"Let me think."

When Xing Tianhe asked this question, Qi Yue really thought of something.However, whether it can achieve the effect he wants needs to be confirmed.

(End of this chapter)