The explosion was so powerful that even though it was several kilometers away, the shock wave of the explosion still caused considerable damage to the camp.
After the aftertaste of the explosion dissipated, Su Wanxia immediately tried to contact others to confirm everyone's safety. In the end, only Xian Qianhua and Yan Sichen were in the camp.
Shen Yinuo, Xiaoxiao and Chu Xiaoming are all somewhere outside the camp, and they cannot be contacted for the time being.
"Can you determine what caused it?" Su Wanxia asked Samantha.
"The preliminary judgment is that the explosion was caused by the rupture of a highly compressed energy tank, but we are not sure where these explosives came from." Samantha quickly collected a large amount of useful data from outside the camp, and compared it to get the conclusion corresponding results.
Yan Sichen frowned and asked, "Could it be caused by the crash of the spacecraft?"
"The spacecraft crashed?" Xian Qianhua was stunned, and she asked Samantha, "Have any UFOs been detected approaching?"
"No, the explosion came from deep inside the earth's surface."
"Deep under the surface?!" This is more disturbing than a spacecraft crashing.
"Go take a look?" Yan Sichen suggested.
"Let's go." Su Wanxia had already planned this, but before leaving, he calmly said, "Sister Hua, can I ask you to stay at the camp?"
"Ah? Just let me stay here alone?" Xian Qianhua was a little unhappy.
"Isn't there still Samantha?" Su Wanxia said with a smile.
"Oh ho? Why do you still need me here when there is Samantha? Let's go together." Xian Qianhua had no intention of staying.
Su Wanxia had no choice but to agree.
The three of them changed into space suits with integrated exoskeleton systems, brought weapons, ammunition and various devices for collecting data, and then drove two terrain vehicles to the scene of the incident.
On the way, they finally contacted Chu Xiaoming and Shen Yinuo.
Fortunately, when the explosion occurred, they were in the Cuckstone Isthmus, thirty kilometers away from the center of the explosion, and the explosion did not have any impact on their outdoor activities.
However, I heard that Su Wanxia and the others were rushing to the explosion area, and Shen Yinuo and Chu Xiaoming were also rushing here.
…
In less than five minutes from the camp, Su Wanxia and the others arrived at the edge of the explosion area.
The impact crater was shallow but very large, and the entire explosion area looked like frozen ripples.
Samples collected from the periphery showed that this was a special energy residue that even Samantha didn't recognize. They were very clean, and of course their destructive power was amazing. Through the model demonstration of the calculation core, the thing that caused the explosion was probably only the size of a cherry.
This shocked Su Wanxia and others because they never expected this thing to be so small.
Continuing deeper, the undulations on the ground become more and more dense.
In the center of the explosion, Su Wanxia and others saw a blazing "spear" that was still rotating slowly.
It is 18 meters in length and 25 meters in diameter. It is red in color, with its spearhead pointing toward the ground, hanging twenty-five centimeters in the air, and at an angle of ninety degrees to the surface.
"What is this?" Chu Xiaoming saw this "spear" with the help of the recorder on Su Wanxia's shoulder.
This is what Su Wanxia and others want to ask.
Everyone consciously stood far apart.
Radiation detection showed that the amount of radiation at the center of the explosion was close to zero, which surprised Yan Sichen because it was impossible for such a large explosion to leave no radiation at all.
However, the energy amplitude data on Xian Qianhua's side showed that it was approaching the peak, which meant that the thing in front of him had not "calmed down" and it was still active.
"This thing is in very unstable condition and is likely to cause an impact. I think we should withdraw it first," Xian Qianhua reminded.
Su Wanxia looked at the spear. Although she didn't know what it was or where it came from, she felt a sense of déjà vu in her heart.
Just when Su Wanxia came closer to take a closer look, with a harsh "buzz", the spear suddenly rose into the sky and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Su Wanxia responded quickly, "Track its location, Samantha!"
"It's already being tracked, but it's about to leave my limit detection range."
What?!
Su Wanxia was shocked again.
It took less than ten seconds from the time he watched the spear take off until it left Samantha's extreme tracking detection range.
Three hundred kilometers in ten seconds?! A spear flying at the speed of light?!
Three minutes later.
"Lost target." Samantha tried her best, but it was too fast.
Yan Sichen looked up at the sky for a long time and said, "It's about to rain and the storm is coming... I think something like this will happen again in the next few days. We have to prepare in advance."
When Su Wanxia heard this, she looked at Yan Sichen, who also looked up at the sky, but the thoughts in her heart were completely opposite to Yan Sichen's.
What he felt was not the turbulent weather, but the sky was clear after the rain...
…
Ten days later.
Su Wanxia, who had just gotten up and was reading an ancient book, was startled by a loud noise.
This time the explosion occurred thirty-seven kilometers east of the camp.
When the five-person expedition team arrived at the center of the explosion, they found a spear that was almost identical to the last time, except that it seemed to be dimmer than the one they saw before.
Based on the last experience, the five people did not get closer. They waited quietly at the edge of the explosion area.
Sure enough, shortly after the explosion, the spear soared into the sky again, and once again escaped from Samantha's tracking range at a speed approaching the speed of light.
The same thing happened twice in a row in less than half a month. To say it was just a coincidence would be a bit unreasonable.
So this time, Su Wanxia and Chu Xiaoming decided to take the space elevator to the star port in Mars orbit, where they planned to install a new magnetostatic lattice radar to track these mysterious spears.
The installation process was relatively smooth.
And after the installation was completed, what was very disturbing was that Samantha's first extraterrestrial scan found multiple unknown objects floating in the orbit of Mars within a radius of 155 kilometers centered on the star port.
Through pattern collection, it was initially determined that they should be the wreckage of some kind of aircraft. However, from the analysis of the data, not only Su Wanxia and the others could not identify what kind of aircraft it was in the human space program, but they could not even be found in Samantha's database.
to similar aircraft.
…
"Do you think... could it be the wreckage left by aliens?" Chu Xiaoming asked Su Wanxia.
Su Wanxia was not very sure. He could only barely discern the shadow of aircraft as aircraft from these wreckage, and indeed he could not completely conclude that they were the remains of damaged aircraft.
"Not necessarily, unless we can collect some and take a look." After Su Wanxia finished speaking, she asked Samantha, "Samantha, how feasible is it for us to implement the recycling plan?"
"Less than 20," Samantha responded.
"Oh...that means there is still hope. I think we should take a gamble." Su Wanxia rubbed her hands and then looked back at Chu Xiaoming.
Chu Xiaoming was stunned for a moment and then looked at Su Wanxia in disbelief and said, "Brother, are you crazy? Are you betting on a chance of success of less than 20? Have you lived enough?"
Su Wanxia was silent. He looked at the dark space outside the star port. After a long time, he smiled and said, "I have indeed had enough life. Days like this, every day is like wandering in the dark woods.
I have had enough of being tortured by those endless stories every day...can you still endure it?"
Chu Xiaoming stopped talking. He knew what his brother was thinking, and he didn't think he should be called hypocritical at this time.
In fact, only people who are emotionally deficient will think that people with rich emotional experiences are hypocritical, and there is nothing to be proud of in that kind of rhetoric.
He folded his arms across his chest, covered his mouth with one hand and remained silent for a long time before saying, "But we can't tell Yinuo and the others about this, just the two of us know about it."
Su Wanxia's eyes lit up.
"certainly."
…
"There is a 20 chance of success, a 675 chance of the machine being destroyed, and there is some uncertainty left... Hmm... your death roulette is really big." Samantha was preparing the preliminary work for Su Wanxia and Chu Xiaoming.
I also didn’t forget to complain about them both.
Su Wanxia put on her helmet and said, "When the space elevator was built, the probability of success in the first trial run was less than 0001, but those lunatics still got on it themselves to prove that their design was perfect. Compared with this, a probability of 20 is enough."
Big."
"Yeah, that's right, but they have a chance of survival. As long as you fail once, you will die without a burial place." Samantha continued to complain.
Chu Xiaoming laughed, "You can't defeat her! But, Samantha, you can say something nice and send us some blessings."
"Okay, okay, I will pray for you, and you'd better be smarter. I'm not sure how long I can hide it for you."
"Don't worry, help us prepare champagne, we'll be back as soon as we go." Chu Xiaoming said and immediately entered the spacecraft.
Su Wanxia also followed, but before the spacecraft started, he re-determined the location of the wreckage, and then he said to Samantha, "If something really happens, remember to seal the elevator, and you must not allow any accidents to spread to the camp."
Go over there.”
"OK, all right."
…
Su Wanxia and Chu Xiaoming were still inexplicably excited as they started the "recycling" operation again after many years.
The wreckage they selected is very close to the starport. If the operation goes well, they can complete the recovery operation within an hour.
But plans often fail to keep up with changes.
These debris are not stationary. They are still moving slowly as they float in space, but at a very slow speed. They feel like a piece of driftwood in the ocean.
"Why do you think these debris can keep floating in space? Is the attraction of Mars to them so small?" Chu Xiaoming asked.
"I don't know. There are not many weird things happening around us. I'm already numb."
"Hey, that's right. I might even believe that there are still living people in these wreckage."
"Uh..." Su Wanxia was stunned when she heard this, and looked at Chu Xiaoming speechlessly.
"Ah? Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Can you stop being so clumsy? Why do I feel like I'm getting nervous?"
"Don't come here. You hid the matter from me and Yinuo before. I haven't found you yet. Today, I have to do it myself."
"you sure?"
"Are you sure? What are you doing? Nothing will happen." As he spoke, the spacecraft had already arrived near the wreckage.
After adjusting the speed and flight angle, the spacecraft began to slowly rotate to achieve a relative stationary state between the spacecraft and the wreckage.
At the same time, before Chu Xiaoming set off this time, Su Wanxia prepared weapons for him in case of emergency.
Chu Xiaoming, who entered space with a gun on his back, felt clumsy and clumsy, but his movements were obviously much more agile than Su Wanxia's.
Through the lens, Su Wanxia could clearly see the specific appearance of the wreckage.
It was like a piece of black chocolate that melted and then solidified again. Not only was the whole body pitch black, the entire wreckage also showed a strange frozen molten state.
After Chu Xiaoming approached the wreckage, the detection data showed that the surface temperature of the wreckage was 0 degrees, which was a very abnormal data.
Su Wanxia also noticed this. He reminded, "Be careful, this thing may not be the wreckage of a spaceship."
"It's not a wreckage? What is that? Could it be a space monster?" Chu Xiaoming smiled. He continued to move forward and soon reached the wreckage. Now he could touch this huge black wreckage as long as he stretched out his hand.
.
"Anyway, you should be careful."
"I know, I know. I'll go up there and take a look. Once I'm sure there's nothing wrong with it, you can recycle it."
"receive."
Chu Xiaoming said it lightly, but he had already grasped the specially-made space weapon.
This kind of magnetic storm rifle has a very short range, but is extremely powerful. It is an absolute killer weapon for individual soldiers in close combat in space battles.
Climbing up the wreckage using freehand rock climbing, Chu Xiaoming soon saw the inside of the wreckage.
Compared with the distortion from the front, the interior of the wreckage is much more regular.
Various mechanical components, damaged pipes and wiring fully prove that it is indeed the wreckage of some kind of cutting-edge interstellar aircraft, but Su Wanxia is very curious, who does it belong to?
Is it human? Or alien?
While secretly guessing, Chu Xiaoming seemed to have discovered something.
He said "Huh" and then leaned into the wreckage.
I don’t know if there was something wrong with the recorder that Chu Xiaoming was carrying, or if the wreckage itself had signal isolation capabilities. In short, Su Wanxia’s vision went dark and she couldn’t see anything.
"Xiao Ming?! Xiao Ming!" Su Wanxia was anxious.
"Xiaoming! Are you still there? Answer me!"
no respond.
Su Wanxia was a little panicked. He hurriedly switched frequency bands and strengthened the signal strength, but he still couldn't contact Chu Xiaoming, and even wired communications were subject to strong interference.
"This..." Countless bad possibilities flooded into Su Wanxia's mind.
He hurriedly got out of the cockpit, planning to put on his space suit and go rescue Chu Xiaoming.
As a result, before the spacesuit was put on, Chu Xiaoming's breathless voice came to his ears: "Oh my God! It's so heavy!"
"Xiaoming? Xiaoming! Why didn't you speak just now?"
"How do I know this? I thought it was because you stopped talking?" Chu Xiaoming muttered angrily and then tried to drag a large object out of the wreckage. "Oh, Niang Lie, this guy is so big.
You won’t get stuck here, right?”
Su Wanxia was stunned, and hurriedly threw down her space suit and returned to the cockpit.
"What did you find?"
"I don't know, but it should be a good thing." As if claiming credit, Chu Xiaoming changed his angle, then counterattacked, and finally dragged the big guy out of the wreckage.
Only then did Su Wanxia see clearly that what Chu Xiaoming separated from the wreckage was a black box like a coffin.
"What are you delaying?"
"I don't know, but I think it is well protected. It must be a treasure. Maybe there is a driver inside." Chu Xiaoming said with a smile.
"Driver?!" Su Wanxia's heart was shocked, but he immediately felt something was wrong. "Wait a minute, are you sure the person in that box is a person and not something else?"
"Um? What other things?" Chu Xiaoming was stunned for a moment and then understood, "You mean aliens?"
"It's not impossible."
"Hey! Yes! Then you have to open it and take a look." When Chu Xiaoming became bolder, no one was as excited as him.
Su Wanxia was very helpless, but she couldn't leave Chu Xiaoming outside, so he had to discuss with Chu Xiaoming, "Well... Xiaoming... I think, to be on the safe side, you should hang the box outside the spacecraft and wait for us to get back."
Let Samantha check it before deciding whether to open it."
"Well...okay..."
…
An hour later, Su Wanxia and Chu Xiaoming returned to Starport smoothly.
But what greeted them was not the champagne prepared by Samantha, but Shen Yinuo's angry glare.
Obviously, the huge gamble of two careless grown men was exposed.
Yan Sichen saw that the atmosphere was not right, and hurriedly reconciled it by saying, "Um... Anyway, the result is good, just don't follow suit in the future, right, sunset? Xiaoming?"
Su Wanxia and Chu Xiaoming lowered their heads and said nothing, just like two children who were caught by the teacher for doing something wrong.
Shen Yinuo didn't say anything. She looked at the two men in front of her in silence. After a while, her eyes turned red and she walked away.
Yan Sichen took a deep breath and was about to laugh at Su Wanxia and Chu Xiaoming. Unexpectedly, the two of them were frightened and hurriedly chased Shen Yinuo to apologize.
Yan Sichen couldn't understand.
Xian Qianhua could see it clearly, but she didn't say it. She was more concerned about the wreckage and the big box now.
…
"The box has a special protective layer. With my current ability, I can't find out what's inside without opening it, so..." Samantha was also helpless, but the fact she said was that she was not omnipotent.
This makes people's heads ache.
Scans of the internal structure of the wreckage have been released, and it is undoubtedly a human-style aircraft. However, judging from the various materials and details, it is obviously not a product of Xian Qianhua's time.
Combining various possibilities, Xian Qianhua felt that these wreckage may have been involved here by some kind of force. It was also affected by the disorder of time, so she met the five of them.
Then there is only one problem now.
Open or not.
"Open!" Chu Xiaoming took the lead in expressing his stance.
Su Wanxia said nothing.
Yan Sichen was a little hesitant, but finally nodded and said, "I also agree."
Xian Qianhua also had no objection, "Let's open it. You two have brought it back, why should we delay it until a few chapters later?"
Su Wanxia was stunned, "How many chapters later?"
When Xian Qianhua realized her slip of the tongue, she hurriedly cleared her throat and said, "Ahem, it's okay. Anyway, I agree. Now there are three votes. If you two are afraid, you can go back to the camp first."