Earth Era

Probably because of the short hibernation time, Wei Feng felt that this time he woke up in a much better state than before. But only a few minutes after waking up, Wei Feng has already regained some strength. Wei Feng barely supported his body and sat up in the hibernation cabin, and then asked, "Is there any further information?"

Now Wei Feng is three trillion kilometers away from the sun. Wei Feng can be sure that in his position, in addition to the Xinghai spacecraft and several probes launched from the spacecraft, there are There is no human creation here. Then there is an unknown signal here, and what it means is obvious.

"I haven't been able to determine the status of the signal source, but one thing is certain, the surface area of ​​the side facing us must not be larger than 100 square meters. Otherwise I can see it through an optical telescope. Then I The following conclusion can tell you that its volume must be small, and at the same time, it is revolving around the sun at an extremely slow speed. What it sends out is a repeating signal, and the signal repeating period is five seconds. This is what it sounds like when a human-hearing voice manifests itself."

Wei Feng heard a sound similar to the friction between the legs of the table and the ground when the table was moved. The sound continued for five seconds, stopped after five seconds, and then repeated again.

"I can't decipher the specific meaning of the signal." Ye Luo continued.

"Did you send a signal to it?" Wei Feng asked.

"I sent a reply signal on the frequency they were using, but they didn't respond. They still maintained this unknown signal repeating every five seconds without any change. An instrument for working procedures, it cannot respond to any stimulus from the outside world. In other words, there should be no intelligent life host within it.”

"Find a way to capture it." Wei Feng said immediately. "This is most likely a relic left by an unknown civilization, and it may be hundreds of millions of years old. As long as it is captured, there is a good chance that we will get something very important from it."

Wei Feng said. Slowly walked out of the hibernation cabin, and then put on clothes. Then he instructed Ye Luo: "Immediately help me prepare some food that can quickly restore my spirit and physical strength."

"Okay, please wait five minutes." Ye Luo said calmly, and after a pause, he asked again, "Do you have any plan to capture it? Don't forget, our Xinghai spacecraft is relative to it. It's moving at a speed of up to 3,000 kilometers per second. It's not an easy thing to capture."

Wei Feng held the wall with one hand to stabilize his body, while thinking about the specific capture plan quickly in his mind. This time is different from the last time, the last time Wei Feng encountered an asteroid, when facing an asteroid. Wei Feng could naturally smash it and then capture the fragments, but this time the encounter was likely to be a creation of an alien civilization, and it was likely to be a complete and still working instrument. Wei Feng naturally couldn't take the method of smashing it.

Then there are only two roads left in front of Wei Feng. One, slow down the Xinghai spacecraft, and two, accelerate the unknown instrument. Among these two options, it is obviously unrealistic to slow down the Xinghai spacecraft. Wei Feng's voyage destination is the Nanmen two galaxies, if the Xinghai spacecraft is slowed down now. After capturing that instrument, Wei Feng had to accelerate the spacecraft, which came and went. At least 30 percent of the ship's total fuel reserves will be consumed. This is unacceptable to Wei Feng.

Then there is only the second feasible path left.

Thinking of this, Wei Feng immediately said: "Yeluo, you immediately maneuver the detector closest to it as close to it as possible, and then try to get more data about it, including its volume, possible mass, etc. At the same time, prepare tools for me immediately, and I will transform a few thrusters out."

"Okay, I'll do it right away." Ye Luo replied.

Wei Feng's plan is simple. Since the Xinghai spacecraft can't slow down, then it's better to speed up the unknown instrument. Wei Feng intends to launch several thrusters that carry enough fuel. Then slow those thrusters down to match the unknown device before attaching it to the thing. Then push that thing to accelerate, and capture it into the Xinghai spacecraft in this way.

This is the most likely successful method Wei Feng can take under the actual situation.

In the vast space. Hundreds of millions of kilometers away from the port side of the Xinghai spacecraft, a small probe began to work. A flame suddenly spewed out of its tail, and under the impetus of the flame, its speed suddenly increased, and it sailed towards the location where the unknown instrument existed in the calculation.

"Detector No. 2 will pass by it at a relative speed of 3,600 kilometers per second at a relative speed of 3,600 kilometers per second at a distance of 10 million kilometers from the source location in one day. After passing by it, the No. 2 detector will no longer be Any available fuel, which means it will keep moving away from us, and we will never have the ability to take it back. We will lose it forever." Ye Luo said calmly.

"In order to recover the instrument left by an unknown civilization, it is worth paying the price of a detector." Wei Feng responded, "Since we are destined to lose this detector, then Yeluo, when it passed the signal source and After sending back the detection data, can you manipulate it to explode itself? In this way, we may be able to use the light from its self-explosion to use the high-precision telescope on the spacecraft to obtain more information about the source of the signal.”

"Yes." Ye Luo said, "I'll do the relevant calculations now."

The preparatory work has already begun intensely. Wei Feng finally got the ability to work after spending a few hours recovering his strength, so the preliminary modification work on the thruster began.

A day passed quietly, and the No. 2 detector passed by 10 million kilometers from the unknown signal source as in the calculation, and after sending the information it obtained back to the Xinghai spacecraft, it exploded and turned into A firework in the dark universe. But it is too far away from the Xinghai spacecraft, and it is impossible for Wei Feng to see the light it emits with the naked eye.

Wei Feng couldn't see it, but the telescope on the Xinghai spacecraft clearly captured this scene. The self-exploding light of the No. 2 detector increased the intensity of the reflected light from the unknown signal source by more than ten times. Coupled with some information sent back by the No. 2 detector, Ye Luo finally managed to get some information about the location signaler. .

"It is probably an instrument in the shape of a screw. The diameter of the screw cap is larger, and the diameter of the rest is smaller. Its total length is about seven meters, and its maximum diameter is four meters. Based on this volume, I think its The total mass will not exceed fifty tons."

"It's not smooth, it's very rough. You can't tell the details here, but I think it's some cables or pipes that are exposed in the universe. It even has the most basic protection. None. From this point of view, this is a very simple instrument. But it also means a contradiction. Since an instrument can be sent to such a place, how can it be impossible to attach the most basic to it? Protection? Or... it's not that it has no protection, it's that its protection is broken later."

Ye Luo presented the received signals to Wei Feng in the form of pictures, and explained some things to Wei Feng.

"To make a detector lose even the most basic protection... I think this should be a war. Only a battle can make a sound instrument so tattered." Wei Feng said, "If this is the case, Then our previous speculation can be verified.”

The discovery of a fragment of an unknown civilization in the open space between the ecliptic disc and the Oort cloud can barely be explained by coincidence, but now that a second one has been discovered, it cannot be explained by coincidence. After ruling out the possibility of intentional manipulation, the only remaining possibility is that it is a high probability event to encounter the creation fragments of unknown civilizations here. Combined with the fragment that is suspected to be torn apart by the explosion, and the tattered appearance of what seems to be a probe at this moment, except for the explanation that a large-scale interstellar war has occurred in the solar system and its surroundings~www.readwn. com~ seems to have no other explanation.

"We have to catch it. There could be a lot of stuff in a still-working alien probe," Wei Feng said. "Yeluo, you fuel the thrusters right away, then slow them down. , and let them push the probe to the spacecraft."

"Okay. The four thrusters will be launched in twenty minutes, and they will slow down over a period of two months, just when they reach the source location and slow down to a standstill relative to the source. After that, they will take about It took thirteen years to push the probe to a position only 100 kilometers away from the spacecraft, and keep it relatively stationary with the spacecraft. At that time, I will wake you up, and you will decide the next course of action. "

A long distance means a long time. It's just to capture a detector. In total, it will take Wei Feng more than 13 years. But even if it took 130 years, Wei Feng thought it was worth it.

"Okay." Wei Feng replied, "I will stay awake until two months later. After I have determined that the signal source is successfully captured, I will start to hibernate and hibernate until it reaches us." (To be continued)