At this moment, there were more than 600,000 people on the entire Yuan Voyage spacecraft waiting attentively, and they did not dare to relax for a moment.
Because people don't know when the next order will arrive, nor what the next order will look like, they can only wait like this.
This will undoubtedly cause the energy consumption level of the Yuan Voyage spacecraft to increase again, which will obviously make things worse for the already insufficient energy reserves, but there is no way. In times of crisis like this, this must be done.
Even if he drinks poison to quench his thirst, he doesn't care.
At this moment, this high-precision radar full-sky scan is based on this background. It was precisely this level of vigilance that led people to make this discovery.
"Send an unmanned spacecraft to salvage it."
Zhao Changxing immediately issued the order.
An unmanned spacecraft quickly flew toward the place more than two thousand kilometers away according to the positioning and guidance of the Yuanhang spacecraft. And through the camera and observation equipment equipped on the spacecraft, people can really see what it looks like in the optical band.
It was an irregular-shaped metal object, about 0.6 meters and 0.4 meters at its longest and widest points, and about 0.25 meters at its thickest point.
It has a roughly curved shape with some bumps and depressions.
People don't know what this is, but they are certain that it is not a natural creation.
This unmanned spacecraft carries a simple materials research room. This avoids the need to bring unknown objects to the Yuanhang spacecraft in order to analyze their structure and elemental composition, and avoids potential dangers.
Therefore, in this simple materials research room, people remotely controlled various research and analysis equipment and began to study it.
After preliminary research, some surprising data emerged.
The first thing that can be determined is that the substances that make up this piece of material are all elements that people are very familiar with, such as iron, nickel, copper, gold, etc. But it is not a simple alloy.
The so-called alloy is actually just a simple mixture of various elements. But for this piece of material, within it, different elements are "combined" together in a state that people cannot understand. And this leads to a huge difference in its external physical characteristics from any previous component metal.
Taken together, this "combination" is somewhat similar to metallic hydrogen that can be produced under extremely high pressure.
Metallic hydrogen is also a hydrogen element, but its material properties are very different from ordinary hydrogen.
This is somewhat like a new "alloy" made through a principle similar to metallic hydrogen, but its technology is obviously more advanced than metallic hydrogen.
Subsequent performance testing also proved this. In the laboratory, people used methods including but not limited to radiation, extrusion, tearing, impact, etc. to test them respectively. The result of the test is that the performance of this material exceeds that of any material known to man.
It doesn't even need metal hydrogen, which relies on principles similar to explosive reactive armor to defend against electromagnetic gun projectiles with extremely high kinetic energy. It can block electromagnetic cannon projectiles simply by relying on its own toughness.
However, people know that metallic hydrogen can only be produced with mature technology after reaching the third level of civilization.
If the performance of this piece of material exceeds that of metallic hydrogen, and its technology has not been mastered by even the third-level civilization, then...
This piece looks like it was torn from a larger piece of material. The various depressions and bulges on it seem to prove the fate it has suffered.
Was that a fight? In a certain battle, a spacecraft made of this super-performance material was destroyed by another spacecraft, so this piece of debris was torn off, and then wandered in the universe for who knows how long. Was it seen by one's own side?
Is there any relationship between this piece of debris and the "kinetic thief" we encountered?
Zhao Changxing thought for a moment and issued another instruction.
"Send out the flares. Search everything in our vicinity."
A flare suitable for interstellar space and usually used to assist optical and infrared telescopes in searching for targets was launched and exploded thousands of kilometers away from the Voyage spacecraft.
The light it emits is enough to make all objects within a radius of one million kilometers, with a reflection area of more than 5 square meters and an albedo that is not too low, reflect light enough to be resolved by ultra-high-precision optical telescopes.
This is a supplementary detection method for sky survey scanning radar.
After that, Zhao Changxing also dispatched a number of small spacecrafts to places ranging from tens to hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from the Yuanhang spacecraft, where they launched full-sky radar and optical scans with himself as the center of the circle. It can perfectly search for any objects that exist in the surrounding area.
Under this circumstance, more objects suspected to be wreckage were found. Moreover, these things all have similar characteristics to the first wreckage discovered.
That is, these objects all have routes and speeds that are highly similar to the current Yuanhang spacecraft.
It's like... just like the "kinetic energy thief" hiding in the dark, who deliberately stole a precise amount of kinetic energy from the Yuan Voyage spacecraft, so that it would have a similar course and speed to the wreckage.
This is another thing worth paying attention to.
During this search operation, a large number of objects with various shapes, like a stone, an iron lump, an iron rod, etc. were collected by the search spacecraft.
What particularly caught Zhao Changxing's attention was that quite a few of these things were engraved with images, just like words.
"Are these images words? If they are really words, then the strokes and structure of this kind of words are too complicated."
It is obviously impossible to decipher these texts at this stage because the sample size is too small. Even if there is a sufficient sample size, it may not be possible to decipher the meaning.
The words of advanced civilizations inherently have very complex meanings. At this stage, human civilization has only completed the deciphering of the characters of the Moyunlitar civilization, which are familiar to Villagash and others. As for the things that Villagash and others are not familiar with, such as certain subdivided scientific fields. The specific text in it has not yet been deciphered.
Even the meaning of some words of deep space civilization has not been deciphered.
At this moment, the civilization that created these "wrecks" is very likely to have a higher level of technology than the Moyun Litar civilization. Faced with such a civilization, let alone even think about deciphering it.
However, people still recorded these words for future study.
During this large-scale search, something caught Zhao Changxing's attention.
It was probably a cylinder-like thing, about 10 meters long and about 1 meter in diameter. It seemed to have been torn off from something larger.
There was a big hole in it, as if it had been damaged by something. There are some incomprehensible circuit-like things inside, and there seem to be some components on them.
This is different from those simple alloy-like materials. This thing probably contains some technical details about that advanced civilization.
This aroused great interest.
Although the future is still unclear, if we simply compare it, if we can get a glimpse of the technical details of advanced civilization from this thing that is suspected to be a creation of advanced civilization, then the harvest will be enough to make up for the loss of kinetic energy of the Yuanhang spacecraft. “Stolen” losses.
A small scientific research spacecraft flew over, carefully "salvaged" it, and immediately analyzed it in the internal laboratory.
The dexterous robotic arm penetrated deep into the cylinder through the hole, carefully observing the structure and shape of the suspected circuits and components. A group of scientists were nearby discussing its possible uses.
But at this moment, under the vacuum state, under the gentle touch of the mechanical arm, some faint blue light appeared inside the cylinder.
"Um?"
It seemed like some mechanism was triggered.
People's hearts are lifted instantly. But then people remembered that this was not in the Yuan Voyage spacecraft. Even if there were any unknown risks, the loss would only be a small scientific research spacecraft.
Having said that, there is still some tension in people's minds.
Those wonderful faint blue lights flashed and changed, gradually forming a picture.
In the slightly dim light, people saw the sky full of stars, saw huge bright stars, and saw the aircraft in the picture, which seemed to only have a corner exposed due to the shooting angle.
That appears to be the outer armor of the spacecraft.
In the picture, there seem to be some small bright spots in places very far away.
"enlarge."
"yes."
The image captured by the camera on the robotic arm quickly expanded until it occupied the entire huge screen.
After the picture was enlarged enough, people finally saw clearly what one of the small bright spots was.
That is also a spaceship. A ship whose hugeness can be felt even without reference.
It appears to be a space carrier. Because people saw that there were more small bright spots coming and going in this spacecraft.
"What is the resolution of this projection?"
"I don't know, try?"
"Okay, zoom in again."
"yes."
The picture began to zoom in again, so the huge screen with an area of several hundred square meters could no longer fit. The camera on the robotic arm aimed at a corner of the screen and started shooting.
The picture expanded rapidly and appeared in front of people, as if people were moving quickly along the lens.
