When Wang Chengjia met Peng Haochang, although he was known as an interstellar explorer, he was no more than an interstellar scavenger. His salvage spacecraft "Kaiwu" was very close to being scrapped and was about to become unusable. The spaceship employees were also distracted, and each one of them was thinking of changing jobs, lest in the end Wang Chengjia's salary would not be paid and they would work in vain.
Peng Haochang was sitting in a luxurious cabin, overlooking a star field covered with interstellar dust, where was his destination this time - the Cole Peak Nebula.
The Cole Peak Nebula is 0.3 light-years long, 0.1 light-years wide, and only 0.02 light-years high. It is like a large flattened pizza across space, slowly spinning along its center.
Scientists estimate that in 3.8 billion years, the Cole Peak Nebula may be able to form a new star at its core, establish a star system, and give birth to one or two life planets suitable for intelligent life.
However, no one cares about this. 3.8 billion years is too long for an alien world with a clearly recorded history of only more than 200 million years in the universe.
This is a paradise for new stars and planets to grow, and a hell for intelligent life.
The Cole's Peak Nebula is located at a traffic artery in the universe. When civilian spacecraft from various countries conduct space navigation, they use super-light engines to jump through gaps and have to stay here for a while.
It is in this short period of time that the space pirates have accomplished good things. They often hide here to attack and rob passing civilian spacecraft of various countries.
The internal environment of the Cole Peak Nebula is extremely harsh, with various high-energy particles, powerful radiation, irregularly moving asteroids, magnetic storms, and so on. Any organization or individual who tries to establish a permanent presence there ends in failure.
Intelligent creations that stay here for a long time can easily be destroyed by its extreme environment, and it takes a huge amount of manpower and material resources to maintain the existence of a certain type of base. Obviously this is an act of disproportionate input and output. The universe is so big, why do we have to fight with the Cole Peak Nebula? So this place was abandoned by several countries near it, and they were left alone. To fend for itself. As for the passing spacecraft, their advice is to buy more insurance and pay more attention to safety.
This strategy is basically feasible, but there are always some unlucky people who will encounter unknown dangers.
In order to celebrate their 6000th wedding anniversary, a wealthy couple from the United States of Beyote piloted their own private spaceship to travel to the Red Luan Star of the Kabasi Empire.
While passing by the Cole's Peak Nebula, their spacecraft suddenly lost contact, which made their three children anxious.
The life and death of the two people is unknown, and their property of up to 30 billion yuan has been taken care of by the asset management company. Without two clear death certificates, the three children cannot inherit the property at all.
In the end, the three of them found the Tiangong Salvage Company and entrusted it to go to the Colmont Nebula to investigate the situation of their parents. They must obtain clear evidence whether they were alive or dead.
This kind of thing is not very dangerous, so Peng Haochang readily accepts it.
Finding people, retrieving important items, searching for legendary treasures, etc. in dangerous places in the universe has become an important business scope of Tiangong Salvage Company.
There is no way around this. People will cherish their lives after becoming rich.
Since Peng Yu, the Peng family has been adventuring for generations and accumulated a lot of wealth. It can be regarded as a wealthy family. They are no longer willing to take huge risks and risk their lives like their ancestors.
Therefore, although the current Tiangong Salvage Company has a long history and an outstanding reputation, it does not have outstanding achievements in truly independent exploration.
The risk levels of adventure in the industry are divided into three levels: first, shocking waves crashing on the shore, second, hair-raising, and third, shocking.
Stormy waves hitting the shore means that the natural environment is harsh and the danger is not great. It is not difficult to overcome them.
Creepy means that there is a certain risk to life. These risks may come from nature or from intelligent creatures.
Horrible adventure is an extremely dangerous adventure, with nine chances of death. If you succeed, you will gain both fame and fortune; if you fail, the ship will be destroyed and everyone will be destroyed, and you will be removed from the universe.
There is also a special kind of adventure with an undetermined risk level, because those things sound unreasonable, and everyone suspects that they do not exist at all, and is too lazy to judge them.
This adventure mission to find the rich man is of a creepy level, and most of the dangers come from pirate gangs that may suddenly appear.
To others, pirates are dangerous, but to the Peng family, pirates are their alternative friends.
In a sense, the "Win-win Agreement" that is still implemented in the Pirate Nebula is because their ancestor Peng Yu first started exploring there and found the treasure, which triggered people from all over the universe to go crazy for pirates. Nebula's treasure hunt led to the rise of various pirate gangs in the Pirate Nebula.
In the end, each pirate group reached a win-win cooperation agreement with the explorers, and extended this agreement to all passing ships, maintaining the long-lasting prosperity of the Pirate Nebula.
Pirate Nebula is the headquarters of many pirate groups. Because of the special historical relationship between the Peng family and Pirate Nebula, various pirate groups in the universe have given three courtesy to the Peng family.
The Peng family are also very good at doing things. Whenever they encounter pirates on their mission, they will share some of the profits with the pirates.
In this way, the Peng family has become a special entity in the exploration industry. Although it is not the richest and most powerful, it is the most respectable and well-connected. This is one of the reasons why many people are willing to entrust the Peng family with tasks.
It's just that the Peng family is not interested in adventures with huge profits and shocking levels, otherwise they can become top rich.
Peng Haochang really wanted to accept the most dangerous adventure to bring his family to a higher level, but the constraints of the huge family members made it impossible for him to do so.
After nearly 100,000 years of reproduction, the Peng family has grown in size. Another shareholder of Tiangong Salvage Company, the Joseph family, has long since withdrawn. Now it is a complete family business, not listed on the market, and all employees are family members.
If Peng Haochang attempts any risky adventure, there will be strong resistance within the company, making it difficult for him to proceed.
After too many times, Peng Haochang gave up and could only continue to run the Peng family without any trouble or waves, but in his heart he admired those people who were full of adventurous spirit and moved forward courageously.
Peng Haochang also likes to follow Tiangong Salvage Company in person whenever the company has tasks, which can be a little comfort to his unwillingness to be ordinary!
'Dududu' sounded in the cabin, indicating that the 'Steady' salvage ship had arrived at the Cole Peak Nebula. Peng Haochang stood up and left the room.
"Chairman!" Everyone in the bridge greeted Peng Haochang quickly when they saw him. Captain Peng Heng also stood up quickly and gave up the command chair to Peng Haochang.
"What's going on? Why don't you just jump to the Cole Peak Nebula?" Peng Haochang asked angrily. For the children of the Peng family who were unwilling to take any risks, he would lose control and lose his temper.
"Chairman, we have detected an annihilation wave in the nebula. For the safety of the Stable, we have to stay here temporarily and wait for the news from the newly launched unmanned probe 'Pierce 18' before deciding on the next action. !" Pahang said matter-of-factly.
"Annihilation Wave, someone is releasing a square material annihilation bomb here?" Peng Haochang was shocked. If this was the case, he would have mistakenly blamed these people. Under antimatter annihilation bombs, 100 Shenzheng is enough to see. Although Shenzheng has upgraded its protective shield to 300 degrees for a Class VI destroyer due to the needs of exploration.
"Peng Xun, please explain to the chairman, I don't understand very well!" Captain Peng Heng said to a fair-looking scientific official.
"Chairman, this is not necessarily the case. Antimatter annihilation bombs are a powerful weapon for the major countries in the universe. They are expensive and have not been used in wars. Unless there is a major war involving the fate of the country, no one is willing to use them. In an ordinary battle, apart from its role in transportation, the Col's Peak Nebula has nothing of value. Major countries will not foolishly detonate antimatter annihilation bombs here." Peng Xun talked eloquently.
After hearing this, Peng Haochang relaxed and said, "Then there is nothing to hesitate about. Just jump directly to the Cole Peak Nebula. Why bother here?"
Peng Xun looked a little embarrassed and quickly added: "Chairman, although the annihilation wave is most likely caused by non-weapons, there is a phenomenon in the universe that is very destructive. The spacecraft built by our intelligent creatures cannot compete with it, and that is the ignition of stars. The first driving force. The original rotating nebula composed of gas and dust will begin to gravitational collapse after being disturbed by external forces. At this time, the temperature rises due to the reduction in volume, but the newly born globular star cannot undergo nuclear fusion. We can only wait for it Only when the temperature reaches 15 million degrees Celsius can the chain reaction inside it be ignited and it can become a truly glowing and heating star. There are two ways in which this temperature rises. The first is that the spherical star absorbs molecules and dust in the nebula. It takes a very long time for their potential energy to be converted into kinetic energy; secondly, antimatter suddenly falls on it, causing a collision of matter and antimatter to release huge energy, which raises the temperature in a short period of time and directly turns the spherical body into a star."
Peng Haochang was a little confused when he heard this. He was not an astronomer, so how could he understand these things? He looked a little impatient.
Peng Xun simply said in the simplest language: "Chairman, it is possible that a spacecraft transporting antimatter occurred in the Cole Peak Nebula and crashed. The antimatter on it just fell onto the spherical star here and scattered out, causing matter and antimatter. Direct contact triggered a reaction, accelerated the formation of a star, and released an annihilation wave."
"Ah, the power of the annihilation wave can destroy any spaceship. Wouldn't the wealthy couple we are looking for turn into ashes!" Peng Haochang said with some pity.
The reward for this mission to find the wealthy couple is as high as 100 million bitus. If their persons or corpses are not found, they can only get an advance payment of 10 million bityou.
