wandering planet

With the adjustment of the defense level of the Eris Spear, the defense parameters of the Kuiper Shield will also change accordingly.

A few minutes later, all the solar system crisis defense systems built on the Kuiper belt were adjusted to the highest level.

That's the kind of treatment only meteorites, asteroids, and looters that strike suddenly.

"Station Master, Monitoring Station No. [-] sent a request for help."

Xue Ming raised his head from the report: "What's wrong?"

"One of the survey vehicles was blown away by the wind and could not be found."

Xue Ming cursed in a low voice: "The storm warning was issued the day before yesterday, why is the survey vehicle still on the ground?!"

Neptune has the most violent storms in the solar system, with wind speeds of up to [-] kilometers per hour.An important job of the scientific research base is to monitor changes in Neptune's atmosphere, even issuing warnings to several surrounding monitoring stations to avoid storms.

But in fact, Neptune is windy almost all the time, and several monitoring stations are working in rotation.

Like the scientific research base, the monitoring stations are built underground, which allows them to protect themselves in the event of a storm.

Neptune is an aphelion planet, the farthest planet from the sun in the solar system. It has extremely low temperature and its surface is covered with thick ice.These ice layers can also serve as a protective layer for scientific research bases and various monitoring stations.

"Blow it away, just blow it away." Xue Ming had a headache, "What type of car is it?"

After hearing the model number, Xue Ming let out a vague sigh.

"That car... 3000 million dollars, 3000 million dollars." He was a little depressed, "I ran away from this year's bonus again."

He picked up the report in his hand again.

Xue Ming has worked at this base for several years, and has seen many visitors from afar: comets, asteroids, meteorites, and so on.Sometimes the huge ships of the Marauders can be observed slowly passing by from a distant place, but since the establishment of the Solar System Crisis Defense System, the Marauders have never visited.

Could this be a predator?

He couldn't figure it out and could only wait for the next more detailed report.

This news has been sent back to Earth as soon as possible, but it will take at least two or three days to get an order.

Bureaucracy, Xue Ming thought.

He yawned and looked up at the map of Neptune hanging in his office.

Neptune is a very beautiful blue planet because there are a lot of methane and other various blue gases and crystals.

In the history of human exploration for hundreds of years, apart from Neptune, they have only discovered one blue planet: Virgil located in the Sirius planetary belt.

But Neptune is darker than Virgil.It is like a perfectly round, cold dark blue gemstone, orbiting the edge of the solar system.

On the left side of the map of Neptune is the floor plan of the scientific research base.The base's logo is embossed in one corner of the floor plan.

Thick black lines draw an irregular outline, and there is an English word below the outline: Australia.

This is the Australian station on Neptune.People named him after a vanished continent, and let it guard the safety of the earth and the solar system on the far edge.

Xue Ming thought it was very romantic.The person who proposed this name was an official they called the "Australian legacy". When the Australian station was established, Xue Ming's grandfather had not yet been born.

In order to establish a solar system crisis defense system as soon as possible, human beings recover from pain and despair as quickly as possible.

Xue Ming whispered this word.The way the words are pronounced is slightly different from the language he speaks now, but it is not difficult to learn.

I heard that the continent is beautiful.Xue Ming thought to himself.

He was about to call up the Australian documentary to take a look, when someone suddenly opened the door and broke in.

"Master!"

"Calm down, calm down." Xue Ming pressed his palm, "Speak slowly."

"That unknown object is neither a meteorite nor a planet, it's a ship!" The young man's voice was trembling, "It just made three consecutive subspace transitions, and it is now less than 10 light-years away from us."

"The third subspace transition is over." Fei Lian wiped off the sweat that didn't exist on his head, "I can take a rest for now."

He was alone in the cockpit with Linney and Pierre.Song Junxing and Jiang Che were preparing a big meal in the kitchen, saying that they were about to return to Earth, and there would be more and better food after returning, and they had to get rid of the food stored on the Phoenix as soon as possible.Tang Mo went to the cultivation room to pick tomatoes and peppers. Jiang Che said that at least one dish was spicy today, which made Pierre very happy.

"Where's Ovid?" Fei Lian blinked, and he found that Ovid was not on the Phoenix.

"He's going to the Homer in a protective suit." Linney didn't take his eyes off the screen, "Fei Lian, tell me about the solar system crisis defense system in detail."

At this moment, Ovid was gripping the back of Commander Volkonski's chair in the cockpit of the Homer, shaking non-stop.

He's holding himself back from throwing up in the helmet of his hazmat suit.

Originally thought that only one subspace transition was needed, so after the first transition, he left Jiang Che's side, passed through the port, and came to the Homer.

Then it collapses completely during the second and third jumps.

"You don't seem to be used to jumping?" Tolstoy asked gently, "Are you all right? Do you need me to inform Fei Lian?"

"No need, no need." Ovid waved his hand, "I... I can adjust my own... You may not know, I am a killer."

"I know," replied Tolstoy, "Philian told me."

The intense nausea finally subsided.Ovid let go of his hand.In a zero-gravity environment, he slowly soared into the air and grabbed the pole above his head.

Homer's screen is no longer usable, but he can still see the deep and distant universe beyond the ship through the porthole covered with cobweb cracks.

This reminded Ovid of his first glimpse of the universe on Faust.

"... Tolstoy, don't you think I don't look like a killer?" he asked, "I look... bad, I don't look like a killer at all."

Ovid looked down at the commander who sat quietly in the chair.

Everyone who goes into space has a definite purpose, except him.

He had come aboard Faust on a mission and to leave Marseilles.Then, because he wanted to follow Jiang Che to the earth, he left Faust and changed to the lifeboat.Now that the Phoenix was about to return to Earth, Ovid gradually felt uneasy.

The fear is inexplicable and unfamiliar.He knew that Jiang Che would not give up on himself, but he couldn't help but keep thinking about what else he could do after he arrived on Earth.

Cicero's clones told him that people are people and there is no difference between people.

"What can a killer do?" Ovid murmured, "And it's a...unreliable killer like me."

The cockpit became slightly darker, and the scenery outside the porthole became clearer.It was Tolstoy who adjusted the brightness of the light for him.

"Mr. Ovid, I think you look like a killer." Tolstoy said slowly, "When you first arrived on the Homer, you couldn't move smoothly in a weightless environment, but your second visit The Homer—that is, now, has been able to move freely. This shows that you have a strong learning ability. Your way of acting is different from Captain Linney or Mr. Jiang Che. When you move to a new location , will not land immediately, but lean on the armrest to observe the surroundings, even if this place is the cockpit you have been to once. In addition, the sound is very soft when you move, you are a novice, and it is difficult for novices to avoid collisions or sounds sound, but you are always paying attention not to touch things around you, and control your voice. Even when you felt extremely uncomfortable just now, you didn't even make any moans..."

Ovid felt his face heat up: "That's enough...don't talk about it. This doesn't mean I'm a killer."

Tolstoy stopped his analysis and replied gently: "They show that you are not unreliable."

His voice is low and gentle, with a slight hoarseness, which is easily convincing.Even more comfortable once tender: a stranger, but a reliable, gentle stranger.

"You are so consoling...have you always been so gentle?" Ovid whispered. "The crew must all like you."

Tolstoy laughed: "Haha... the commander often said that I was very boring, and he liked Fei Lian better."

Ovid remembered something.

"We haven't asked Fei Lian about the crew of the Phoenix...we thought about asking, but he seems reluctant to talk about it."

"I know, when he transmitted the data to me, I have already read it. But I can't tell you." Tolstoy paused, "For a ship, the one that really comes alive A moment, when it set sail, when it was loaded with crew. When the Marauder killed the Phoenix, Fei Lian was not completely dormant. Someone protected him and turned off his attack program, so the Marauder didn't Know that there is an artificial intelligence on board the Phoenix."

Tolstoy stopped talking.That's all he can say.

But that's enough.

Even an AI like Tolstoy without a human emotion processing program would say to Feilian, "I haven't heard a human speak for a long, long time", so what about Feilian?

He's a kid who sets his Maker's voice as the Phoenix's system voice.

He watched the people on the Phoenix die one by one.

"I won't ask any more questions," said Ovid.

Tolstoy seemed to laugh again.

"Mr. Ovid, you are also a gentle man."

Ovid blushed again.

He now believes that Tolstoy is a more difficult AI than Fei Lian.

After returning to the Phoenix, Ovid first lay down in the connecting cabin to relax for a while.

Returning from weightlessness to normal gravity, he felt dizzy.

First, I went to the breeding room to play with Tang Mo and Pierre’s pepper tomatoes and other plants. Before being beaten by Tang Mo, I quickly escaped, sneaked into the kitchen to eat boiled fish, and then held a small bowl containing red soup and fish fillets. Go to the cockpit to Pierre.

But the atmosphere in the cockpit was serious, and Ovid lingered for a moment, not daring to approach.

"It's impossible." Linney gritted his teeth, "Why attack us?!"

"It seems that the solar system crisis defense system has been successfully established." Fei Lian stood beside Lin Ni, staring at the screen, "They are not trying to attack us, but because, to the solar system, we are suspicious guests of unknown origin. "

A huge exclamation mark was displayed on the screen.

[Warning, warning. 】An arbitrary sound echoed in the cockpit,【A large offensive weapon was detected near the end point and was locking on to our ship. 】