Voyage of the Stars

It was said to be a meeting, but in fact, at the end of the meeting, Yue Yuan was basically the one talking, bringing the matter to an end with one word.

His decision quickly became a reality.

After the meeting, the human fleet made a route change among the stars according to the new route.

Time flies, and human beings have explored five stars along the way according to a new route. Just like before, no signs of any alien civilization relics were found.

At this time, those who insisted on exploring at the beginning were also a little shaken. Of course, it was just "somewhat shaken". They did not give up. Instead, they put forward a new point of view at this juncture, believing that humans may have made a mistake, and that the so-called alien civilization relics may not really be on the planet.

This view is recognized by many people, but it is only recognition. These people who agree have little interest in continuing to search for the ruins.

After all, as the new perspective says, if the remains of alien civilization are not on the planet, the difficulty of exploration will inevitably increase exponentially. With humanity's current capabilities, it is not difficult to explore all the planets in a star system, but it is much more difficult to search the space within the entire star system.

That range is a three-dimensional sphere, and humans don't have the ability to cruise all the places in space. And this scope is still too small. Adding the so-called alien civilization relics to the interstellar world would be many times more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.

A space within the scope of a star field, humans do not have the ability to explore at all.

In this way, the large fleet that once again explored to no avail set sail again, carrying the new hope of countless people, chasing the brilliance of the stars, and submerged into the vast sea of ​​​​stars.

"After many trips and many twists and turns, there is still no harvest, and there is no progress in basic science. It seems that we have to speed up and leave this star field." On this day, Yue Yuan leaned on the sofa alone, using his hands through the operating terminal. , fiddling with the projection screen in front of him.

There was a star map on the screen. As Yue Yuan operated, the star map began to zoom and move, and soon a star more than 700 light-years away was brought to his eyes.

According to the star map, the area where this planet is located has a higher density of stars, and the surrounding stars are about 7 to 10 light years away from it.

Of course, if we had gone to the location of the solar system, the distance between the stars would have been smaller, but humans did not dare to go.

Therefore, it is not bad to find such a star field.

At this time, the large fleet has once again arrived between the two stars. In about eleven or twelve years, it will reach the next star system. Yue Yuan plans to make a large supply there, and then let the entire fleet launch a large hibernation voyage. , strive to go further at once.

Almost all scientists believe that human science and technology has reached the peak of level three civilization. As long as the grand unified theory is not realized, human science and technology will not undergo any qualitative changes.

Since it is a waste of time for everyone to walk from star to star while awake, it is better to go on a hibernation voyage, get to the destination after a few sleeps, and start the new particle collider project.

In this way, life will not be wasted.

Yue Yuan's idea was good, but he had no chance to implement it, because just when he was fiddling with the star map and preparing to determine the latest route, a hurried report came to his ears.

"Shuai Yue, come to the command center quickly. We found a strange thing right in front of the Tianqin. It's very close. For a long time, we were calculating the distance between it and the Tianqin. Oh my god, it's only 0.16 astronomical units for us. It may be unavoidable.”

This was a direct channel to call him. The caller was the officer on duty today, and his tone seemed urgent, and Yue Yuan could hear it.

As soon as the voices of the duty personnel fell in my ears, the internal emergency alarm of the Tianqin sounded, followed by the sound of the Tianqin's strong artificial intelligence "Light of the Tianhe".

"Warning! Warning! Warning!"

"A positional object was found in front of the battleship. The relative distance is 23,936,000 kilometers and the relative speed is being calculated. The Tianqin is about to make attitude adjustments and evasive actions. Please prepare all ship personnel for high-G impact resistance!"

"Warning! Warning! Warning!"

"A location object was found in front of the battleship, the relative distance is 23,936,000 kilometers."

The whole ship broadcast is repeated three times.

Hearing this voice, Yue Yuan knew that he was too late to rush to the command center, but it didn't matter. His office also had relevant equipment. In the case of the battleship, he only needed to send the data to the command center.

In fact, on the Tianqin, as long as Yue Yuan is there, it can be the captain's command post, but he is usually used to working in the command center.

He immediately pressed a button on the sofa, and then made a series of operations on the keyboard in front of him. Many mechanical structures protruded from the wall of his office and the location of the sofa, turning the sofa into a cushioned seat.

At the same time, the data from the command center was connected to the projection screen in front of him, allowing Yue Yuan to see various situations of the battleship as if he were in the command center.

"What is this?" After the data synchronized the large screen of the command center with the screen in front of him, Yue Yuan saw something appearing on the screen that he could not clearly see the specific situation.

With just one glance, Yue Yuan knew that this picture was not the information fed back by the neutrino detection radar, but the picture composed of the information fed back by the optical telescope.

Space meteorite?

It shouldn't be. How could there be a space meteorite in such an empty interstellar space, and it was only discovered by the Lyra at such a close distance? The most important thing is that it was not discovered by the neutrino detection radar but by the optical detection module.

In other words, this thing escaped Lyra's neutrino detection!

Is it some kind of unknown creation? !

Thinking of this, Yue Yuan's heart skipped a beat, and his mind immediately became extremely calm.

Is it such a coincidence? Encounter a certain creature in this interstellar environment?

and

Yue Yuan keenly noticed that in the sailing formation of the human fleet, the Tianqin was not the leading battleship. There were many battleships in front of the Tianqin, although not directly in front.

In other words, this thing did not avoid the Lyra's neutrino detection radar, but the radar of the entire fleet.

0.16 astronomical units. At the current speed of Lyra relative to the starting star, if this thing was parked in the starry sky, Lyra would hit it head-on in less than eighty seconds.

Of course, it is unlikely to be stationary under normal circumstances. It must move at a speed relative to a normal star system, but the direction of this speed happens to be in the direction of Lyra.

Just as I was thinking about it, a pressure of more than 35 G came from under my butt. Obviously, the Tianqin's steering thruster was activated and it began to perform high-thrust evasion.

"Attention all ship personnel, the Tianqin is undergoing evasive maneuvers. The main/secondary/steering thrusters are normal, and full maneuvering has begun! The relative speed of the Tianqin is 48.9% of the speed of light, and the velocity vector deflection angle is 0.0012." The voice of 'Light of the Milky Way' also seemed a little more urgent.