"At the same time, four detectors are selected and transformed, and then they will be launched in the left and right directions of the spacecraft to keep them in a relatively static state with the spacecraft, so as to expand the detection field of the spacecraft."
There are detectors in the Xinghai spacecraft. These detectors were originally intended to be started after Wei Feng arrived at Nanmen 2, but now Wei Feng has decided to start them before.
"Good captain, do these things need to be reported to the earth? You have the autonomy of these things, and you can decide for yourself whether you want to report to the earth. "
Wei Feng hesitated a little and then replied, "Don’t report it to the earth. It belongs to me."
Wei Feng can be sure that the earth will not agree with what he speculates and will not agree with what he has done. In that case, why not tell the earth anyway? They don’t know what they have done here.
"A good detector transformation needs you to complete. I don’t have the ability," Ye Luo said.
"No problem" Wei Feng immediately agreed to come.
During the training for more than 20 years, Wei Feng has mastered these skills and transformed a detector, so things can still be better than daily recovery training, replacing damaged parts and eliminating bugs accumulated during leaf falling operation. Wei Feng has another job.
The renovation of the detectors was completed one and a half months later, so they were launched by Wei Feng. Compared with the Xinghai spacecraft, their relative movement speed is very slow, about 10 kilometers per second. It takes about one and a half years for the speed to fly to the designated position. This time seems to be a long time, but it is nothing for Wei Feng. Wei Feng has plenty of time.
When they arrive at the designated position, they will slow down and then maintain a relatively static state with the Xinghai spacecraft, which is advancing at a speed of 3,000 kilometers per second. They maintain a relatively static state with the spacecraft, that is, they are advancing at the same speed of 3,000 kilometers per second. This is inertial navigation and does not need to consume additional fuel, but they are equipped with detection instruments, which can expand the vision of the Xinghai spacecraft several times. More than that, the possibility of discovering alien remains is naturally greatly increased.
"Captain, I’ll fix the position of the detector later. Now it’s time for you to hibernate." One day after two months, Ye Luo once again calmly informed Wei Feng of hibernation.
"Good" Wei Feng nodded his head and once again lay down in the hibernating cabin after some preparations.
It’s still the same process. Xinghai spacecraft has once again returned to the cold and dark, which is different from before. Four small but powerful detectors have been added in the four directions around the spacecraft to accompany Xinghai spacecraft.
As time goes by, it goes by slowly until one day later, when all the functions are played, and then the hibernating cabin hits Wei Feng, and his eyes are opened again.
Every hibernation is like dying and then coming back to life. Every time I wake up, Wei Feng feels as if she has been sleeping for 10 thousand years, but this time she feels a little different. I don’t know why Wei Feng feels that she seems a little short when she sleeps this time.
"Is it nearly over when the leaves have fallen for ten years?" Restoring the ability to think, the guard wind asked this question to Ye Luo.
"No, captain, it’s only six years since you fell asleep," Ye Luohui replied. "I woke you up before because I met an emergency. According to your setting, I didn’t handle this incident myself."
"An emergency?" Wei Feng immediately asked, "What happened to you?"
"I received an unknown signal with no meaning at a straight distance of 700 million kilometers from the spacecraft and a vertical distance of 400 million kilometers from the navigation channel." Ye Luo calmly replied, "If we maintain the current course, we will pass 400 million kilometers from the signal source in about two days and four hours. How do you plan to deal with this incident?"
Chapter two hundred and twenty-four Capture
Probably because of the short hibernation, Wei Feng felt that he was in a much better state when he woke up this time, but it was only a few minutes since he woke up, and Wei Feng had recovered some strength a little. Wei Feng barely sat up in his hibernating cabin and asked, "Is there any further information?"
Now that Wei Feng is 3 trillion kilometers away from the sun, Wei Feng can be sure of its position, except for the Xinghai spacecraft, which launched several detectors from the spacecraft. There is no human creation here, so it is very obvious what it means to receive a no signal here.
"I haven’t been able to determine the state of the signal source, but one thing is certain: the surface area of the side facing us must not be more than 100 square meters, otherwise I can see it through the optical telescope. Then I have a conclusion that it must be small in size and it is running around the sun at a very slow speed. It sends out a repetitive signal with a repetition period of five seconds. If it is shown as a human audible sound, it will sound like this."
Wei Feng heard a general sound similar to the friction between the legs of the table and the ground when moving the table, which lasted for five seconds, stopped after five seconds and then repeated again.
"I decipher the specific meaning of the signal" Ye Luo continued.
"Did you send a signal response to it?" Wei Feng inquired.
"I think they sent a response signal by frequency, but they didn’t respond. They still kept repeating it every five seconds. This unknown signal hasn’t changed. As far as I can guess, this may be an instrument with fixed working procedures that responds to external stimuli in other words, there should be no intelligent life in other departments."
"Try to capture it," Wei Feng immediately said. "This is probably an unknown relic. It may have a history of hundreds of millions of years. If we capture it, we will probably get something very important from the surface."
Wei Feng said and slowly walked out of the hibernating cabin, then put on his clothes, and then ordered Ye Luo, "Help me prepare some food that can quickly restore my spirit and strength."
"Okay, please wait for five minutes," Ye Luo said calmly, and then asked after a pause. "Do you have any plan to capture it? Don’t forget that our Xinghai spacecraft is moving at a speed of up to 3 thousand kilometers per second relative to it, and it is not an easy task to capture it. "
Wei Feng held the wall in one hand to stabilize his body while thinking quickly about the specific capture scheme in his mind. This time and every time, Wei Feng encountered an asteroid. When facing an asteroid, Wei Feng could naturally adopt the method of crushing and then capturing debris. But this time, it is likely to be an alien artifact, which is likely to be a complete and still working instrument. Wei Feng naturally cannot take the method of crushing again.
Then there are only two roads left in front of Wei Feng. One is to slow down Xinghai spacecraft, and the other is to accelerate the unknown instrument. Of these two options, it is obviously unrealistic for Xinghai spacecraft to slow down. Wei Feng’s sailing destination is Nanmen Star. If the Xinghai spacecraft is slowed down now, the instrument guard will be captured, and the spacecraft will accelerate. At least 30% of the fuel of the spacecraft will be consumed, which is unacceptable to Wei Feng.
Then there is only the second feasible road left.
Thought of this, Wei Feng immediately said, "When the leaf falls, you should immediately manipulate the detector closest to it as close as possible, and then try to get more data about it, including its volume, possible mass, etc. At the same time, I will immediately prepare tools, and I will transform several propellers."
"Okay, I’ll do it right away." Ye Luohui replied.
Wei Feng’s plan is very simple. Since Xinghai spacecraft slows down, the unknown instrument will be accelerated. Wei Feng plans to launch several propellers with enough fuel, then slow down these propellers to match the unknown equipment, then attach them to the east-west surface, and then push that thing to accelerate. In this way, it will be captured in Xinghai spacecraft.
This is the most likely way to succeed in Wei Feng’s reality.
Hundreds of millions of kilometers away from the port side of the vast Tai Zhong Xinghai spacecraft, a small detector worked, and a flame suddenly ejected from its tail, which pushed it to speed up suddenly and sailed towards the unknown instrument location under calculation.
"In one day, the signal source of the No.2 detector will be 10 million kilometers, and the relative speed will be 3,600 kilometers per second. After passing it, the No.2 detector will have no fuel, which means that it will keep moving away from us, and we will never be able to recover it. We will lose it forever," Ye Luo said calmly.
"It’s worth paying the price of a detector to retrieve an unknown instrument," Wei Feng replied. "Since we are doomed to lose this detector, can you manipulate it to blow itself up after it passes the signal source and sends back the detection data? In this way, we may be able to get more information about the signal source with the help of its high-precision telescope that emits light from the explosion. "
"But" Ye Luo said, "I’ll do the phase calculation."
The preparatory work was already in full swing. It took Wei Feng a few hours to recover his physical strength and finally gained the ability to work, so the preliminary renovation of the propeller was carried out.
One day, the No.2 detector passed quietly, just like in the calculation. The unknown signal source passed 10 million kilometers, and then it obtained information and sent it back to Xinghai spacecraft. After that, it crashed and exploded into a fireworks in the dark universe, but it was too far away from Xinghai spacecraft. It was impossible for Wei Feng to see its light with the naked eye.
Wei Feng couldn’t see the telescope of Xinghai spacecraft, but he clearly captured this scene. The explosive light from the No.2 detector increased the intensity of the reflected light from the unknown signal source by more than ten times, and some information was sent back before the No.2 detector. Ye Ye finally managed to get some information from the position signalman.
"It’s probably in the shape of a screw. The diameter of an instrument screw cap is larger in some places and smaller in others. Its total length is about seven meters, and its maximum diameter is four meters. According to this volume, I think its total mass will not exceed fifty tons."
"Its surface is not smooth, but it is very rough. You can’t tell the specific details clearly here, but I think it is some cables or pipes in its exposed cosmic environment. It doesn’t even have the most basic protection. In this case, this is a very simple instrument, but it also means a contradiction. Since an instrument can be sent to such a place, how can it be incapable of attaching the most basic protection? Or … it’s not that it’s unprotected, but that its protection was later broken. "
Ye Luo presented the received signal picture to Wei Feng and explained something to Wei Feng.
"It can make a detector lose even the most basic protection … I think it should be a war and a fight to make an intact instrument so broken." Wei Feng said, "If so, then our previous speculation can be verified."