The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 440 Creatures on the White Planet
The dean of the Academy of Sciences continued to explain: "The huge gravitational source will make the New World galaxy deviate from the orbit by more than 100 astronomical units every year.

"This distance seems to be very large, but it is easy to be ignored in the observation of the universe on the scale of light years.

"These coincidences superimposed together caused the accident that the frontier fleet drove directly to the interior of the planetary system."

The head of the strategy department with thinning hair said: "In addition to the objective reasons for the accident, we have carefully studied and summarized the human reasons.

"As for the concept of the buffer zone of [-] AU, we got it from the Trisolarans.

"But we ignore the fact that the Trisolaran galaxy is next to the solar system, and the Trisolarans sent a large number of sophons to the solar system.

"The Trisolarans know the orbit of the solar system very well, so they can accurately escape the speed of light at six thousand astronomical units.

"The New World galaxy is too far away from us, and we don't have time to make serious observations, which is another reason for the accident.

"We suggest that in the future, when humans conduct their first interstellar voyage in a planetary system within [-] light-years, the safest distance should be around [-] AU, which is the safest."

Cao Yang frowned: "This distance is about 0.2 light years."

Jiang Yu waved his hand: "Now is not the time to discuss this. You should talk about some information about the enemy. Up to now, we still don't know anything about the enemy."

No. 20 added: "According to our observations, the enemy has at least [-] warships! [-] other ships of all kinds!"

The number of warships shocked the White Planet!
It was like suddenly discovering that the brother sleeping on the top bunk was a mammoth.

Cao Yang asked, "How many warships did we destroy in the previous battle?"

Jiang Yu was concerned: "Didn't they only come for six or seven years? They built so many warships?"

No. [-] replied: "According to our colonization procedure, we must first send out a pioneering fleet, and after the preliminary development of a planetary system, we will carry out large-scale immigration.

"But the enemy's colonization method is not like this. When they come, the fleet will block out the sky, and it is estimated that it has reached such a scale.

"We believe that their colonization method is very different from ours, at least half or most of a civilization colonizes with one brain!
"And the focus of the opponent's colonization is not the planet in the habitable zone we think, but the high-temperature planet that is closer to the star, so we speculate that the difference in vital signs between the enemy and us should not be small."

He paused and then answered Cao Yang's question: "About three or four thousand enemy ships were destroyed, the main credit was the volley of the monster cannons!"

Cao Yang pinched his temples: "One-twentieth!"

After the two sides were silent for a long time, Jiang Yu ordered to report the movements of the enemy ships at all times, and then ended the call.

No one left the command room, and everyone stood there silently for a long time, because the complexity of the galaxy in the New World far exceeded everyone's expectations.

Under Cao Yang's order, everyone dispersed.

After a short rest, Jiang Yu called Cao Yang, Hao Ying and others to a meeting.

Jiang Yu said: "Now we are not blind and deaf, but the situation is getting more and more difficult and urgent.

"The enemy will broadcast the position of the New World galaxy at any time, but we are still 'crippled' and unable to carry out interstellar voyages. If we are hit by dimensionality reduction, the consequences will be disastrous.

"Fortunately, we are relatively safe before the Dark Forest strikes.

"We must make full use of this time, work hard to develop the industrial system, and create an interstellar accelerator as soon as possible.

"With something we can run on, we won't be afraid of anything."

He paused and said again: "Let's discuss it now, what is the most important thing now?"

After meeting for over an hour, everyone agreed that there were three things to do immediately!

The first is to summon civilian ships that are hiding, with a large number of people and strong strength, and quickly establish a complete industrial system.

The second is to detect the location of minerals on this planet based on the existing equipment, and prepare for further mining operations.

The last thing is to bury the dead compatriots. The enemy has found more than 40 civilian ships, which means that more than 4 compatriots died in the enemy's search.

It is irresponsible for our own civilization to let our compatriots die in the wilderness.

At the same time, we must search for the destroyed civilian ships to see if we can find anything of value, and try to use some general equipment to repair the nuclear engine of the command ship.

Jiang Yu made a division of labor, Hao Ying was in charge of summoning the civilian ships, Xing Yuanbin was in charge of carrying out equipment and robots for preliminary surveys, and Cao Yang took people to bury the compatriots who died.

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Cao Yang modified ten escape pods on the civilian ship, took twenty soldiers, more than 100 technicians, and [-] volunteers, and rushed to the place where the bodies of the victims were piled up.

However, after Cao Yang and others arrived at the designated location according to the coordinates, the piles of corpses disappeared.

A few soldiers went down to check, and Cao Yang immediately contacted the command ship with communication equipment: "Command ship, do my coordinates match the mission coordinates?"

Ella, the communications staff officer on duty, replied, "It matches. Is there any problem?"

Cao Yang said: "The remains of the victims' compatriots are gone. Check to see if the detectors in low-Earth orbit have taken any photos at this coordinate in the past two days."

Ella: "Okay, wait a minute."

After waiting for a few minutes, Ella said with doubts in her tone: "Commander, the body seems to be covered by a layer of ice and snow."

Cao Yang used the camera on the outside of the escape cabin to look around. The white snow field was very flat, and there were no protrusions such as snow hills.

He ordered Ella: "Send me the picture!"

Several photos soon appeared on Cao Yang's display screen. Just as Ella said, the body seemed to be slowly covered by a layer of white ice and snow.

But... After carefully comparing several photos, Cao Yang found something wrong in the photos. The body was not covered by ice and snow, but disappeared in the ice and snow!
Because it was shot from the sky, it looks as if the body is covered in snow and ice.

Cao Yang pinched his chin, could this be the enemy's trick?

At this moment, a soldier suddenly shouted on the combat channel: "There are enemies!"

Cao Yang came back to his senses: "Don't panic, use the ship as cover, and fight back effectively!"

Another soldier reported: "There is only one enemy, and it is white!"

Cao Yang immediately found the soldier who reported just now from the combat channel, and switched to the perspective of that soldier.

After careful observation, he found the general outline of the enemy.

It was a pure white creature, and the whole world here was white, which became its best camouflage.

If you don't observe carefully, you can't really observe its existence in the ice and snow.

To Cao Yang's surprise, it had a humanoid outline. Cao Yang could see the obvious head and limbs, but the face was blurred, which looked weird.

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