Chapter 22 The Anomaly of Proxima Centauri
The construction progress was faster than Zhou Heng expected.
In just five years, the main body of the spacecraft has been completed.
Although there are still a large number of facilities that are not fully equipped, it already has basic interstellar navigation functions.
Just because it lacks a steering function, once it takes off, it will not stop until it reaches the end point.
And due to the lack of communication system, once it takes off, it is equivalent to losing contact with Blue Star forever.
If there is indeed information about extraterrestrial civilizations in the screening results after one month, Zhou Heng will have no choice but to launch the spacecraft urgently.
"What a pity. It would have been better if those lunatics had delayed repairing the extraterrestrial facilities on the moon two years later." After seeing the construction progress of the spacecraft, Tang Qingqing sighed with regret.
"No" Zhou Heng shook his head: "It has reached the minimum navigation standard I set."
"You're not going to take such a simple spacecraft for interstellar navigation, are you?" Tang Qingqing said in shock: "It doesn't even have a steering engine. Once you set off, you will never come back."
"I didn't plan to come back originally." Zhou Heng said lightly.
Tang Qingqing opened his mouth, and then fell into silence.
Yes, if you really need to leave Blue Star, it means that Blue Star is no longer safe, and coming back is just courting death.
Tang Qingqing finally chose to stay with Zhou Heng to wait for the screening results. She wanted to see Blue Star's final fate.
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Thirty days later.
Zhou Heng and Tang Qingqing stayed at the command center waiting for the final result.
"The screening is completed and the final results are being output."
"Exporting!"
"The results are coming out."
Zhou Heng and Tang Qingqing were both very nervous.
"Alert, alert, abnormal gravity point found!!!"
As soon as the results were output, the system sounded a piercing alarm.
All screens in the entire command center turned red alert.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Heng and others felt their hearts skip a beat. There was still something wrong with the final screening results.
However, Zhou Heng quickly calmed down: "Cancel the warning and call up the abnormal gravity point observation report."
"Shua~"
An observation report appeared on the screen in front of Zhou Heng.
The report shows that the gravity of Proxima Centauri, a star named Alpha Centauri c, located 4.2 light-years away from the blue star, is abnormal.
In the past two years, huge gravitational sources have suddenly appeared near it.
"How could this happen? It's impossible. This is unscientific." Zhou Heng muttered, frowning as he stared at the report on the screen.
"What happened?" Tang Qingqing patted Zhou Heng's shoulder gently.
Although she had gained a lot of scientific knowledge in the past few years, it was obvious that the content of this report was beyond her understanding.
In order to explain to Tang Qingqing, Zhou Heng then called up the star chart of the Centaur constellation, then pointed to Proxima Centauri and said.
"Teacher Tang, the gravity here suddenly produced a large amount of distortion two years ago, as if a large amount of matter suddenly appeared out of thin air."
"Then, could it be an alien civilization?" Tang Qingqing asked quickly.
Zhou Heng shook his head: "It's unlikely. If it's really a civilization in appearance, then these sudden large-scale gravity sources may be starships of alien civilizations."
"If this is the case, then they must have mastered some kind of technology to travel through space."
Speaking of this, Zhou Heng frowned and said in confusion: "What I don't understand is, if they really have mastered the technology of traveling through space, then why don't they teleport directly to the vicinity of Blue Star."
"We need to know the normal speed in the universe. The fastest is the speed of light. If these gravitational sources are really their starships, it will obviously take four years at the fastest to reach the Blue Star."
"Then their actions lose their suddenness."
"This is a taboo in interstellar warfare."
After listening to Zhou Heng's explanation, Tang Qingqing understood the meaning of the report just now.
"What if it's not that they don't want to teleport to Blue Star, but that they can't?" Tang Qingqing said suddenly.
"What?"
Zhou Heng did not react.
Tang Qingqing pulled out another star map of the moon next to the star map of Proxima Centauri, then pointed at the moon and said.
"I mean, what if it's not that they don't want to teleport directly to the Blue Star, but that they simply can't?"
Zhou Heng followed Tang Qingqing's finger and saw that as the screen gradually zoomed in, a dense group of small dots gradually began to appear on the originally desolate back side of the moon.
Seeing this, Zhou Heng looked suddenly startled, and he thought of a point that he had ignored all this time.
"Superpower!!!"
Tang Qingqing nodded: "Yes, it's a superpower."
"The reason why the dark matter energy production device on the moon can be repaired today is because the combined force of all the A-level powers in the world sent a space system user to the moon."
"This led to the subsequent repair of the device and the revival of the superpower."
Zhou Heng said in a deep voice: "So powers can be teleported!!!"
Thinking of this, Zhou Heng quickly found out the time when an abnormal gravitational source first appeared near Proxima Centauri.
Sure enough, the first abnormal gravitational source appeared in the second month after Zhou Heng blew up the moon's dark matter energy production device.
Chapter completed!