Chapter 1011 1078 Another mistake 1079 Exploration (two-in-one)
Chapter 1078 Another mistake (first update: He Meng’s fax machine)
One day after Si Xi set off a storm in the investigation, the weather was sunny in the afternoon.
On a lake covering an area of nearly 10,000 square kilometers, a huge wave suddenly exploded.
The height of the waves exceeded 200 meters, and the sound shook the area.
This lake is connected to the ocean, adjacent to the fiefdoms of three noble families, and is itself the territory of the government.
The lake is not particularly deep, only 180 meters. The mud and sand at the bottom of the lake are surging, and two figures can be vaguely seen.
In the diffuse mud and sand, one of the figures twisted his body and made a gesture.
The other figure was obviously slower to react, and after being stunned for a moment, he followed up with a gesture.
Then the two turned their hands and each took out an aerospace helmet, and then looked at each other again - and sure enough they thought of going together.
After each put on their helmets, high-pressure gas spurted out from the helmets, and their faces gradually became clear.
They are not strangers, one is Qinghu Supreme and the other is Bentley.
Bentley looked confused and kept gesturing, obviously asking - what happened?
Qinghu looked dumbfounded, as if she wanted to be serious, but she couldn't control her expression at all.
Finally, she made a "listen to me" gesture.
Bentley took two deep breaths, then took off his astronaut helmet and made a series of gestures.
"Hurry up, I can't last long... I'm a little hurt."
Qing Hu simply released a rescue capsule and then made a gesture, "Go in!"
Bentley is also used to being competitive, and his own fighting ability is not bad either.
But at this time, he really didn't have the ability to be serious. In the final analysis, he was the supreme, and he was only A-level.
Seeing him entering the lifesaving cabin, Qinghu picked up the lifesaving cabin and walked quickly across the bottom of the lake.
The noise they made when they appeared was unusually loud, and it was normal for the sound to travel hundreds of kilometers.
Although she didn't know the specific location here, and wasn't even sure if it was on Qingyuan Star, there was nothing wrong with leaving as soon as possible.
The water pressure at the bottom of the lake is not low. After all, it is the highest and can survive in space for a short time. This situation is child's play.
It took her almost three minutes to rush more than ten kilometers quickly.
Originally, she wanted to use a flash to do it, but flashing underwater would not only make a lot of noise, but also consume a lot of energy.
The speed is still a bit poor... Qing Hu analyzed it carefully. She had never thought that time would pass so slowly.
At this moment, her outer mental power sensed obvious energy fluctuations a hundred kilometers away!
"Oops, someone still found out!" She sighed secretly.
At this time, she had already sensed the general scope of the lake, which was about 10,000 square kilometers, and it would not take long to get ashore.
But the noise alerted people on the shore, who should have come to check the situation now.
So Qing Hu sank, directly burrowed into the mud at the bottom of the lake, and continued to move quickly through the soil.
However, although she has also mastered the earth attribute, her convergence is not bad, and her traveling speed in the soil is not slow, but she can definitely not keep up with the movement on the ground - it is not even faster than in the lake.
She also had to be careful in her operation. If her movements were too big, energy fluctuations would spread out and she might be discovered by an aircraft above the lake.
Moving cautiously like this, it took her almost half an hour to reach the shore with the rescue capsule.
However, the shore is not her final destination - in fact, the danger of staying here is not small.
So she continued to move forward in the soil, and it took another half an hour to advance seventy or eighty kilometers before she dared to stop and rest for a while.
There was an error in the jump this time, and Bentley seemed to be slightly injured, but she was fine and basically fine.
But even so, she was really tired after walking all the way through the mud with the rescue capsule.
This feeling of fatigue is not mainly from the body, but from the mental aspect.
First of all, a wrong jump is already very painful, not to mention that you have to take people on the road later, and you have to be careful about being discovered...
Where she stayed, the surface was a hilly area with relatively lush trees, and there was no human habitation around.
Qinghu cannot be accurately located, and I don’t know what kind of place it is.
But the good thing is that she can confirm through the celestial phenomena that this place at least belongs to Qingyuan Star!
Anyway, there was no one around for about ten kilometers, so she took the rescue capsule to the ground first.
It is impossible to use a watch casually, but her talisman contains a forerunner.
She released Bentley first and let him adjust his condition before contacting the boss, but she was not in a hurry.
If not for the fact that all of Qu Jianlei's team are veterans of the war, it would be impossible to make mistakes in response.
At this time, it is important to contact the main force, but more importantly, to keep the body in the best possible condition.
Of course, your comrades can be trusted, but you must ensure sufficient combat effectiveness before your comrades arrive!
This is not only responsible for yourself, but also for your comrades and team.
With their fighting prowess, as long as they can maintain their condition and remain alert enough, it is almost impossible for them to be captured quickly.
Bentley also knew how to choose, took out a capsule and threw it directly into his mouth.
——This is the precious material that the boss gave them to save their lives. The situation is unclear at the moment, and it is not the time to worry about it.
While absorbing ten thousand years of stone milk, he took out an A-grade crystal to regain energy - this could be considered a combination of coarse and fine grains.
There is no other way. People who are poor must learn to save.
When he was getting angry again, he didn't forget to ask, "Where is this?"
"Congratulations, at least we are on Qingyuan Star," Qinghu sighed softly and slowly adjusted his condition.
"That's it..." Bentley hesitated before speaking, "Is it what you encountered last time, the jump failed?"
"It's not a complete failure," Qinghu replied with drooped eyelids, "At least it didn't jump to the depths of space!"
Thinking of the failure of her last jump, she couldn't help but feel a little fear in her heart.
If she and Bentley were teleported to the depths of space, she really couldn't guarantee whether they would survive like last time.
Last time, it was thanks to the boss who brought enough supplies with him and managed to discover the energy stone mine.
The key is that the boss can also rub the energy block extractor with his hands, and the group of people finally persisted until the starship of the Ping An Business Group appeared.
Bentley also heard about their experiences, and he couldn't laugh or cry for a while.
But what he couldn't understand the most was why the jump failed. "What did we do wrong this time?"
"I don't know either," Qinghu replied with narrowed eyes, "I'll ask the boss later."
"You have to ask!" Bentley said simply, "This kind of reliability... is really scary!"
He knew that the team had failed to jump before, but he really didn't expect that something similar would happen to him again.
Our luck is pretty good this time, but who can guarantee that if the next jump fails, we will still be so lucky?
"Yeah," Qing Hu nodded when she heard this. She said with her conscience that she was about to be tortured out of her psychological shadow!
She is not afraid of fighting with real swords and guns. Even if she dies in battle, her skills are inferior and she deserves to be killed.
But if you die inexplicably because of a failed jump, it will feel like a huge loss.
The two of them rested for about ten minutes. Suddenly, two flying mechas appeared in the distance.
There is a pod hanging underneath one of the mechas.
Bentley recognized it instantly, "Oh no, it's used to collect energy induction."
"Then what should we do?" Qinghu was a little confused after hearing this. She was really not as experienced as Bentley in mechanical maintenance.
"Build a concealment array," said Ben, who was quite calm. "Sensors like this are unlikely to be able to detect concealment arrays."
"If you don't have one, you can only try to enter the ground carefully."
"I really brought the concealment array," Qing Hu quickly took out the concealment array and built it, "I gave the blueprints to the boss!"
The two of them set up a hiding array in a clump of trees that were not too high, and were actually not discovered.
When the sky turned dark, the two men recovered somewhat, and Qing Hu took out the Forerunner.
The next moment, a line of text appeared on the Forerunner, "What is going on with you two?"
After a brief exchange of words, Qu Jianlei was a little speechless, "Well, there is an error of more than two thousand kilometers?"
The place where they are now is located in the fiefdom of a count.
Although no one from the government is patrolling, once discovered by the count's escort, he will have no choice but to consider himself unlucky if he is killed.
Fortunately, the two of them contacted the main force just when it was getting dark.
The rest of the matter was much simpler. Mrs. Jia and the paranoid went out together, one to create some chaos and the other to deal with it.
There is no need to elaborate on the specific process. Anyway, before dawn the next day, Qinghu and Bentley returned to the Gustin fief.
When they arrived, all members of the team were waiting - everyone wanted to know what went wrong with the near-Earth jump.
Anyway, after all this trouble, the relevant secrets can no longer be hidden from the nutritional supplements.
No one specifically explained it to the nutritional supplement, but he didn't raise any questions. Instead, he looked like "it should be this way."
Qu Jianlei asked carefully for a long time, but he didn't understand what happened.
——Neither Qinghu nor Bentley are people who like to make their own decisions. Under normal circumstances, they will strictly follow the procedures.
Everyone discussed it for a while, even though it was dark, they still didn't come to a conclusion.
But the more this happens, the more anxious everyone becomes - this kind of accident can happen once, and it can happen a second time or a third time...
Just when everyone was at a loss what to do, Nutritional Agent suddenly said, "I have an idea."
"Is it possible that when you jumped, there were space fluctuations around you?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately shut up.
This possibility really exists objectively, and there really aren’t many rules for the interaction between spatial fluctuations.
(First update, He Mengzhu "Fax Machine".)
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Chapter 1079 Exploration (Second update)
After listening to the nutritional supplements, Qu Jianlei suddenly thought of something.
Back when they were helping Tianyin to avenge Qingsha Star, they frequently used teleportation arrays, which caused the nearby space to become unstable.
So much so that Imperial Storm came there specially, but luckily they had already evacuated by then.
Qu Jianlei can understand the logic, and other supreme beings will naturally be able to do the same.
Mrs. Jia immediately spoke out, "This possibility exists objectively, but I want to know where the fluctuation comes from?"
When it comes to space fluctuations, it's never a trivial matter. Let's just discuss what might have happened.
Qinghu frowned and thought about it, then suddenly spoke, "It seems... I did feel that the space was a little abnormal at that time."
Everyone looked at her when they heard the words. It wasn't that they couldn't believe her, but it sounded like they still didn't understand her.
Bentley said directly, "I didn't feel it, but that's not the point. The key is why does space fluctuate?"
"I don't know about that either," Qing Hu spread his hands and answered calmly, "Who can explain the mystery of the universe clearly?"
Qu Jianlei spoke up in time, "I believe this, I, please stop talking."
Bentley has always been convinced by his words, but this time he couldn't help but be more serious, "But why does it fluctuate?"
"Because something is going to change," Nutrient said, seriously, "This may be an opportunity."
"I don't agree with this!" Rarely, the paranoid became more serious, "You mean, there will be treasures near Qingyuan Star?"
Nutritional Agent spread his hands, "It may not be a treasure, it may be a disaster. Who can tell clearly?"
This statement is in line with everyone's understanding of sudden fluctuations in space.
Qu Jianlei made a decisive decision, "Okay, this issue... we have to figure it out first."
"Even if it's not for treasure or disaster, just to find out the stability of the near-earth jump, a thorough investigation must be carried out."
Okay, let’s stop pretending, we have indeed mastered the secret of near-Earth jump.
A smile appeared on the corner of Nutrient's mouth, "It seems that I won't have to enter the rescue cabin again when I leave the planet."
In the next few days, Qinghu and Bentley rested peacefully in the fiefdom.
The impact of this teleportation error on Qing Arc was indeed minimal—Supreme's body was indeed strong enough.
Bentley was not good. Although he was wearing armor when teleporting, he still had many scratches on his body and his internal organs were also slightly displaced.
It will take at least ten to eight days to recover before returning to normal, and it will take almost twenty days to fully recover.
While the two were recuperating, Qu Jianlei controlled the small lake and inquired about information about space fluctuations.
Unfortunately, there is not a shred of relevant information on the Internet.
The ominous ship deep in space also received the news and released many micro-detectors, but still nothing was observed.
But this problem cannot be solved without clarifying it. On the fifth day after Qing Hu and the others came back, Qu Jianlei planned to find out.
After other people heard about it, they also expressed their intention to go - everyone really cared about it.
However, someone must stay in the fiefdom. After some discussion, everyone decided to keep Qinghu, Bentley, Tianyin and Claire.
The first two need to rest, and the latter two are B-level. If something abnormal happens in space, their defense capabilities are too poor.
This time, you will definitely not be able to use teleportation. You will have to go to the butler to borrow a small business starship.
The housekeeper trusts these tenants very much - after all, he has earned so much face for himself that borrowing a starship is nothing.
He did not ask the tenants what they wanted to do, but still said it would be better to send two employees on board to make it easier to deal with any interrogation.
Nutrients simply refused, "If you encounter any trouble, we will contact you."
That night, the small commercial starship quietly took off and headed towards the depths of space.
However, even at night, various observation equipment on Qingyuan Star are working as usual.
Someone soon noticed, "A commercial starship took off from Gustin's fiefdom."
In the nobility's fiefdom, most starship takeoffs and landings do not need to be reported, but there are also corresponding management regulations.
This commercial starship was registered and registered on Qingyuan Star and is a high-end tool ship belonging to the Gustin family.
With this starship coming forward, like the last time four large cargo starships landed, the government can simply ignore it.
Of course, when the tool ship itself enters and exits the planet, the government can ignore it.
However, even if this is the case, there must be corresponding entry and exit records, there is no doubt about this.
Soon, relevant records were automatically entered into the database.
Qu Jianlei and others piloted the starship and flew two million kilometers away from Qingyuan Star, and began to modify the starship.
The first step is to replace the starship's control system.
This is easy to say, just install an anti-smuggling terminal.
Although the computing power of this thing is not too strong, it is enough to control such a small starship.
In order to operate better, Qu Jianlei took out two anti-smuggling terminals at once and connected them together.
Others are already accustomed to his operation, and even nutritional supplements are not curious at all.
After replacing the control system, he took out a dozen gun-type probes.
This is the result of his labor in recent days, which can detect spatial fluctuations in a targeted manner.
The empire has equipment specifically designed to detect space fluctuations, but those equipment are relatively large and strictly controlled.
Qu Jianlei's self-made detector is no worse than the special equipment - it's even slightly better.
However, in terms of appearance, it is somewhat unremarkable, and it feels like it is shoddily made.
However, the requirements for hand-rubbing equipment should not be too high, as long as it is easy to use.
Qu Jianlei did not rush to install it, but waited until the starship flew more than three million kilometers away from Qingyuan before he started.
At a distance of more than two million kilometers from habitable stars, starships often stop by and officials will also conduct key observations.
These gun-type probes made by Qu Jianlei don't look very eye-catching, but... why should people notice them?
After some simple modifications, more than a dozen gun-type probes probed out of the starship through weapon holes and other locations.
Although there are more than a dozen probes, they are not very long outside the starship. It is really difficult to find them without paying attention.
However, after starting active exploration, more than a dozen gun-type probes require a lot of energy.
Although the commercial starship they are traveling on is a small ship, its power output is very strong and its maneuverability is very good.
However, even so, the power system cannot supply such a huge energy demand.
Active detection requires too much energy. If the energy is not enough, the detection distance and effect will be seriously affected.
And this vast space is vast and boundless. If you want to find an abnormal point in space, you must search hard.
Seeing the rising output of the power system, Hua Xiezi became a little worried.
"Boss, we can't keep going like this without preparing a backup power system?"
"There's no place to put it," Qu Jianlei spread his hands helplessly, "Do you think it's just a small generator?"
A complete power system cannot be accommodated in the space of a small starship.
"It's better to quickly rendezvous with the ominous ship," Mrs. Jia said aloud, "We can borrow its space and power."
When Qinghu and Bentley used the ominous ship to teleport to the planet, they were more than 20 million kilometers away from Qingyuan Star.
The ominous ship is currently approaching, but it is still nearly 10 million kilometers away.
The key is that Qingyuan Planet is currently investigating various cases thoroughly under the leadership of the military police, and the planet is very busy.
As a result, the government's surveillance of space has become much stricter.
It is said that cases that occur on the ground have little to do with space, but this is the case in the age of interstellar navigation.
No matter what kind of case it is, as long as it is serious enough, supervision of space will be strengthened.
Half a day later, the two starships finally converged, and at this moment they were more than 10 million kilometers away from Qingyuan Star.
You can't get any closer, otherwise it will be easily discovered by the strict surveillance network.
In the past, the government did not explore this far, mainly because it was unnecessary. Now it is not appropriate to challenge the government's bottom line.
After the rendezvous, Qu Jianlei took out a power system and installed it in the cargo hold of the ominous ship.
Originally, there were three small attack ships in the cargo hold, but he released them all and stood guard around them.
In fact, one large and four small starships still have huge goals in space.
When everything was ready and each probe could work at full capacity, the five starships began to move cautiously in space.
Even though the distance from Qingyuan Star is more than 10 million kilometers, you still have to be careful.
Not only has government surveillance been tightened, but there are also warships cruising in space.
The most important thing is that the probe that actively detects space fluctuations can also release strong energy fluctuations, so you can't do it accidentally.
In particular, the detection direction cannot be directly aimed at Qingyuan Star, otherwise it will really expose one's position actively.
So it's really hard to do such careful detection, unlike when they are on the ground, where they can do everything they want.
In the blink of an eye, three days passed, and no one found the point where the space fluctuated.
Especially near where Qinghu and Bentley were using the teleportation array, Qu Jianlei did a careful search and found nothing unusual.
However, everyone is not very anxious. This kind of thing cannot be rushed. After all, space is too big.
But as time went by, Qu Jianlei discovered that there were gradually more and more small detectors around.
"It's strange, we are far away from Qingyuan, how come there are so many detectors?"
When Mrs. Jia heard this, her expression became a little serious, "Is this a newly launched detector?"
Qu Jianlei shook his head, "That's not true. Some equipment has been in space for many years, but I didn't find it when I came here."
At this moment, Nutrients suggested, "The detection range can be further."
"Spatial fluctuations are not fixed, and displacements often occur over large distances...distorted space cannot be accurately positioned."
Qu Jianlei frowned. He was not very sure about this theory. "Will the displacement range be very large?"