Deep Space Planet Leader

Time has passed year after year...

The entire fleet has sailed into the empty space. The Kunlun Mountains successfully used several large gravitational fluctuations , For the fleet to accelerate to the rated speed, into the normal sailing.

The goal is...187j3x2!

Although Zhang Yuan is the captain of the Kunlun Mountains fleet, he also has his own hibernation time. Hibernate about two years every five years, most of the time in hibernation. But compared to ordinary people, he wakes up much more frequently, and he ages faster, which is exactly the price of being a captain.

The daily work is not too busy. No matter how big the Kunlun Mountains are, it is just a spaceship. Without massive resources to support it, it is impossible to do any major projects. Everyone’s general work is routinely maintaining spaceship, doing simple research, or designing some new machinery.

The materials in the laboratory are still sufficient. Anyway, almost all resources can be sorted and recycled, and only energy is consumed.

Spaceship is full of talents, not that Zhang Yuan has to arrange everything personally. If no special events happen, Zhang Yuan will be happy.

In this way, it has lasted steadily for 39 years...

On this day, Xu Yuanyuan, a graduate student of space botany, and several colleagues are training new students in the radiation area of ​​the observatory. A generation of space mutant plants.

Although space travel is boring most of the time, occasionally there will be something new. For example, when crossing the "Kuiper Belt", people observed several large comets, the closest distance of which was about 800,000 kilometers.

As a large planet has not been formed near the Kuiper Belt, it is extremely weakly affected by stars, and has not experienced various complex astronomical phenomena, so most of its composition basically represents the formation of the planetary system Early- The primordial component of the stage is very meaningful for humans to understand the origin of stars.

Scientists once wanted to capture these meteorites. As a result, because the entire fleet was too fast, the entire capture operation failed...

This time, the reliable operation also made the entire ship. Many researchers are frustrated because of their failure this time.

Later, about 0.2 light-years away from the star, the entire fleet encountered a strange ionic wind. Such ion winds have also been encountered in the periphery of the solar system. I don’t know why...

After investigating for a long time, there is still no scientific model that can convince everyone.

There was no major event anymore. The matter in interstellar space is too sparse. Except for cosmic radiation, after traveling in this place for millions of years, you can encounter meteorites the size of a pinky finger. , Has been considered great luck.

"I will hibernate in another five months. I always feel that nothing has been achieved in the past few years."

"You stay on the planet, and you are not doing the same job..." Several girls wore spacesuits and chatted casually. They gathered a soybean-sized seed one after another and placed it in a petri dish.

"Hey, can beneficial mutations occur in seeds?"

"It's hard to say... If only we could find all the codes of genetic material, it would be great, we don't need to hit like this now. Great luck."

"It’s too stupid to understand."

DNA is an extremely complicated thing for humans, and every piece of DNA contains With a huge amount of information. This massive amount is truly massive, and the base pair sequence is only the most preliminary one-dimensional information, and there are more complex two-dimensional information, and even spatial three-dimensional information!

So until now, human beings have not completely deciphered the true mystery of genetic material.

Cultivating mutant plants in space is a rather boring and happy thing. Its principle is very simple. It uses radiation in space to produce a certain degree of mutation in plant seeds.

Overwhelming majority mutations are deleterious mutations, which make the seeds completely inviable.

But there are also a small number of mutations that are beneficial and will produce a wonderful response. For example, Portuguese grass, a kind of algae that is widely used to purify the air and is very delicious; Antimisia, a variant of banana, can produce a lot of ethylene; small hemp, a variant of cotton, but the output is two of cotton. Times...

Every time you cultivate a brand new seed, it is like playing a lottery ticket, with an inexplicable sense of expectation. Even if the overwhelming majority will not win the lottery, the moment you win the lottery is the peak of your life!

Because of the emergence of various beneficial mutant plants, people's lives are also better.

These plants provide chemical raw materials for industrial production, and some are food for humans and animals. They are also purifiers of the air environment, which are not generally important to humans.

After placing all the seeds, Xu Yuanyuan saw a blur suddenly, feeling something swept into her eyes.

The entire world becomes a piece of crystal red at this moment!

"Ah!"

She screamed quietly.

This feeling was like being swept into her eyes by a laser pointer, making her eyes sore and sore, and tears burst out uncontrollably.

She covered her eyes, and the other eye looked suspiciously all around.

"What's wrong with you?"

"I don't know..."

This starry sky is almost invisible, except for the spacesuit. Outside of the light, nothing can be observed simply.

She didn't know if it was her own illusion or something else, but the redness and swelling in her eyes was real, and there was still a stinging sensation of being burned.

Xu Yuanyuan hurriedly returned to the mothership and went to the hospital for examination. The doctor who helped her started started after hearing the specific reasons, and then did not dare to delay, and reported the discovery to the relevant government departments...

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"What, a girl is suspected of being hit in the eye by a laser beam from the outside world?!"

Zhang Yuan was also startled after hearing about this incident, and hurried to the hospital to visit this person in person Girl.

The doctor in the hospital replied: "It's just that the eyeballs are slightly congested. It should be fine after a short rest. There is no need to replace any bionic eyeballs."

"Okay, thank you You, if the nearby frigate misoperation, the related compensation and apology will be approved immediately."

But the whole incident sounds too unimaginable!

Zhang Yuan at first thought it was the frigate’s communication laser that accidentally hit someone. As a result, a few minutes later, all the surrounding frigates sent information, and there was no error or misoperation. .

"Report to the captain, Falcon No. 1, that the inspection is correct, and there is no communication laser fired by mistake."

"Report the captain, Falcon No. 2 is checked correctly."

……

Finally, the military also sent an investigation report: "The second confirmation, the inspection is correct, and there is no communication laser emitted by mistake."

In order to prevent communication With the large-scale exposure of radio waves, the contact between the mothership and the frigate relies on directional lasers. Under normal conditions, the frequency is about once every 1 minute.

Zhang Yuan took a deep breath, he soon realized some other possibilities...

"If it were not the result of the frigate’s misoperation, then... there are other possibilities Is it?"

An...an alien civilization!

There is probably an alien civilization nearby that is using low-frequency lasers to detect the outside world!

Things quickly became serious.

He comforted a few words, hurried back to his captain's room, and issued an emergency notice. The reason why such information can be inferred is that the Kunlun Mountains fleet also often uses low-frequency lasers to detect externally.

This starry sky is too dark. The nearest star is 2 light-years away, and there are so few photons in the space, almost in a state of invisible darkness.

This kind of darkness makes it impossible for conventional observation equipment to observe the surrounding environment. Therefore, the best detection method is to use microwave or laser!

Using a powerful microwave radar, the effect is very good, and everything around it can be illuminated very quickly. But this kind of high-power radar will directly expose its position, just like a huge light bulb in the dark universe, it can't be known without being known.

So, using a searchlight laser becomes a very good choice.

The power of this type of searchlight laser is not high and can be continuously emitted. After the laser touches a relatively smooth object, a series of diffuse reflection echoes will be generated. After data analysis of these diffuse reflection echoes, the specific shape and position of the object can be obtained...

When thinking of this possibility, Zhang Yuan was excited and worried, and immediately issued the command: "Attention, all spaceships, please be aware that there may be unknown alien civilizations around, use the detection laser to detect outside!"