Earth Era

A small propulsion rocket quietly left the Xinghai spacecraft, and then sailed into the vast space. ☆→, compared to the large scale of the universe or the forward speed of the Xinghai spacecraft, its movement speed is very slow, only less than ten kilometers per second, which means that it will eventually meet the alien device. It will take about thirteen days to finally converge, and then it will take more than ten days to push it into the Xinghai spacecraft, which is a month. But Wei Feng, who was accustomed to waiting for decades and hundreds of years, didn't care that it was only a month.

During this month, Weifeng first carried out some recovery training, and carried out some inspection and maintenance tasks of the Xinghai spacecraft, and also replaced some parts that were faulty or at risk of failure. Time passed quietly in such busyness, and ten days passed in a flash. At this moment, the distance between the small propulsion rocket and the alien equipment was less than ten kilometers.

Before finally converging with this unknown alien device, this small propulsion rocket has already decelerated in advance. At this moment, the relative motion speed between it and the alien device is only about 100 meters per second, and this The speed is still decreasing rapidly. Finally, after more than half an hour, the propellant rocket and the target successfully merged, and at this moment, the distance between them was shortened to less than one meter.

In this dark universe, two devices built by two different civilizations are marching side by side.

The distance between here and the Xinghai spacecraft is only 10 million kilometers, which means that the two-way communication delay between the two parties is about one minute. This time is not long, so, in order to improve the success rate of the task, Wei Feng finally chose the manual operation scheme, that is. Every action performed by this propulsion rocket is controlled by Wei Feng himself. In this case, Weifeng issued an order, and received a task receipt and a report of the execution result more than a minute later, and then Weifeng would decide the next execution action based on the task execution result. And every step in this task may be just trivial commands such as "turn on the hydraulic system of the robotic arm", "go forward five centimeters". The whole task of recovering this alien device is not complicated, but if it is broken down into such small steps, the task becomes a lot more troublesome. It also means that it consumes a lot of time.

But Wei Feng has this patience. Wei Feng manipulated the propulsion rocket to adjust his attitude quietly, then stretched out the mechanical arm and pulled himself to its side, and then the fixing device began to work, the alien device and the propulsion rocket were bundled together, and then the propulsion rocket ignited ...

With the blue light emitting from the tail of the rocket, the equipment made by the unknown alien civilization that Weifeng had been waiting for for more than two hundred years finally began to slowly approach the Xinghai spacecraft...

This approach has lasted for more than half a month, and every five hours, Wei Feng will recalculate its advancing orbit to correct the orbital deviation it has produced during its advancement, every ten hours. Weifeng will confirm the working status of the propulsion system...

In this state, the two-way communication delay gradually decreased from nearly seventy seconds to fifty seconds, and then to thirty seconds, ten seconds, two seconds...

This means that at this moment, the distance between it and the Xinghai spacecraft is less than 300,000 kilometers. Above this distance, the optical telescope equipped on the Xinghai spacecraft can already capture its image more clearly. So Wei Feng saw the appearance of this alien device for the first time.

Its appearance has changed a lot from two hundred years ago. Two hundred years ago, it was probably the shape of a screw, with a larger diameter nut part and a smaller diameter screw body part. but now. The nut part has disappeared, and there are obvious cutting and disassembly marks at the joint between the nut and the screw body. And there are some scattered things that seem to be cables extending out.

Wei Feng knew that this must be the work done by the dismantling and repairing equipment he launched. Wei Feng could not restore what happened more than 200 years ago in a place with a distance of hundreds of billions of kilometers from himself. Difficult, Wei Feng doesn't know anything about these things. But Wei Feng knew something. That is, the original disassembly and repair equipment finally succeeded, it successfully completed its predetermined goal, and this is the most important.

There are still about two or three days before the final recovery. During these two or three days, Wei Feng cleaned out the specimen storage compartment of the Xinghai spacecraft. It is intended to be a temporary storage place for this unknown alien device. The specimen storage compartment is to be used to collect and store specimens after Wei Feng arrives at the Nanmen two galaxies, and it is just right to hold this extraterrestrial device now.

At a distance of 300,000 kilometers, driven by the propulsion rocket, the alien device began to slow down slowly, and finally reduced the relative motion speed to about one meter per second before reaching the Xinghai spacecraft. level. In order to ensure no accidents, Wei Feng even reduced the rotation speed of the Xinghai spacecraft, opened the hatch of the specimen storage compartment to the maximum, and with the cooperation of the robotic arm, he finally successfully captured the target inside the spacecraft.

After completing all this work, Wei Feng put on a space suit and prepared to enter the specimen storage cabin in a vacuum state to check the experimental equipment in person, while Ye Luo closed the cabin door, retracted the mechanical arm, and manipulated The Xinghai spacecraft started to rotate again.

The Xinghai spacecraft regained gravity once again, so the alien device quietly fell on the ground. Wei Feng also arrived here ten minutes later.

In a well-lit environment, Wei Feng saw this thing up close for the first time. The propellant rocket just now had been separated from it before it entered the Xinghai spacecraft, but the four propellant rockets sent two hundred years ago were still fixed on it. They occupy the left, right, upper, and lower sides of the device, and seem to have merged with it.

Looking at them, Wei Feng was full of emotion. Wei Feng knew that the successful recovery of this alien device was all due to the promotion of these four rockets. Although they have long run out of fuel and lost the ability to work, and have even been severely damaged in the long time of more than two hundred years, they are no different from a piece of scrap iron, but in Wei Feng's eyes, they are so kind.

"Long time no see, my old friends." Wei Feng said, then walked over and circled around the machine, which used to be more than ten meters long. Now the nut part has been removed, and only the ten-meter-long alien device is left. a circle.

The first impression it gave to Wei Feng was that it was shabby and messy. There's hardly a single complete armor or shell on it, and it's full of dark instruments and pipes and cables that don't look useful. It looked dirty, like it had been in a dusty place for hundreds of years without anyone taking care of it. But Wei Feng knew that there was no dust in the space environment. It appears like this at this moment, which can only prove that it has existed for too long, so long that I can hardly imagine it, so long that... the thin cosmic dust has gathered so much on it.

Although its appearance is scattered, except for the part where the screw body and the screw cap are separated, there is no obvious damage in the rest of the place, and there is no pipe or cable breakage or the like. This proves that in its long history of existence, it has not been hit by interstellar matter or the like. Even... it still had at least a part of its working ability more than two hundred years ago.

Because Ye Luo received a signal of unknown meaning sent by it more than two hundred years ago. It was precisely because of these signals that Wei Feng could finally find it and capture it here. But now, it doesn't signal anymore.

This has been confirmed since Ye Luo rediscovered its traces. In this regard, Wei Feng and Ye Luo also made some guesses. Both Wei Feng and Ye Luo believed that the dismantled part of the nut, which may contain a micro black hole, was probably the power supply device of this instrument. If it was disassembled, it would naturally be unable to work without power.

Although it is very incredible to use a black hole as an energy supply device, the reality tells Wei Feng that this is probably a very credible thing.

The spacesuit Wei Feng wears is equipped with camera equipment~www.readwn.com~, which means that every picture Wei Feng sees can be detected by Ye Luo synchronously. Ye Luo has the same vision as Wei Feng, or even more. So, after Wei Feng made a lap of visual observation, Wei Feng directly said to Ye Luo: "Take apart the four propellant rockets."

"Okay." Ye Luo agreed, and then manipulated several robots to come over. The crane robot lifted the equipment first, and the dismantling robot stepped forward and dismantled the four propellant rockets one by one.

After this step is completed, further analysis work can begin.

But at this time, Wei Feng felt a little embarrassed. Because after all, this is an alien creation completely different from human civilization, Wei Feng does not understand its structure, does not understand its working principle, and understands nothing. In such a situation, how to carry out the analysis work?

"Captain, I think we should first perform a perspective scan on it to determine its internal structure," Ye Luo said. "This will prevent us from accidentally destroying its structure and making it impossible to restore." (To be continued...)