Ten hours later, the new Jackdaw appeared in normal space.
When leaving hyperspace, all the members on the ship ran to the bridge for some reason, including Nemiao, who had previously claimed that he was about to die in the computer room.
Wang Chao sat on the Iron Throne. He originally thought that looking down would give him a sense of accomplishment, but he found that he was overthinking.
Even if all of these people are beauties, they won't be able to bring much sense of accomplishment.
He couldn't help but think of himself playing the old game "The Elder Scrolls 5" and playing hundreds of MODs. After entering the game and looking at the hordes of harems, he felt full of satisfaction.
Helena noticed Wang Chao's contrasting expressions and teased: "Why, there are too few people for you to be an emperor?"
Wang Chao: "Is it true that your superpower can't read minds? Isn't it terrible to be able to tell my thoughts so accurately?"
Helena sighed: "I am a professor of psychology, and I am also qualified as a psychiatrist! I will die of shame if I can't do such a simple expression reading."
Gale shouted: "My adoptive father has made Helena shy!"
"It's shameful! And that was just a hypothesis. Do you understand what a hypothesis is?"
Liefeng deliberately made his two pupils look in different directions, pretending to be mentally retarded: "I don't understand, I only heard shame! You are ashamed!"
Helena shook her head: "Forget it, it's my problem. I already lost the moment I was thinking about it."
Wang Chao immediately remembered Guo Degang's joke and immediately got angry: "Yeah, it's like I told a rocket expert that this rocket cannot use ordinary coal and needs to be washed with water. As long as the expert looks at me, I lose. ."
Lily laughed.
It seems that she has never heard of Guo Degang's jokes - which is normal. By the end of this year, these are all antiques. It is estimated that only enthusiasts will have heard of them.
Nimiao: "You just stole ancient jokes to pick up girls?"
Wang Chao spread his hands and said: "It has been more than seventy years. It has entered the public circulation and has no copyright."
Nia: "Never mind this, now that our policy has changed...are we still mining?"
"Helium-3 always needs to be added," Wang Chao replied. "Although the survey data we obtained does not mention helium-3, generally a sun of this age will always have helium-3."
As long as there are planets rich in hydrogen, under the continuous exposure of cosmic rays, a large amount of helium-3 will always be produced.
Therefore, the key is to find a planet that has a large amount of hydrogen and does not have a strong magnetic field or atmosphere to protect it.
Generally, there will be some asteroids in a galaxy that meet this requirement and contain a large amount of helium-3, but detecting the asteroid belt requires too much energy.
Even with current remote sensing technology, it does not take too long to explore all major planets.
After all, there are more than ten or twenty major planets in a galaxy, which is a lot. Counting various satellites, there are only forty or fifty.
With modern remote sensing technology, it takes a few days to scan a planet to understand the basic situation. If there are animals and plants, the survey may take longer. For a planet without animals and plants, it can basically fully understand the situation in a week.
The problem is, asteroids.
In the solar system, the cradle of mankind, there are millions of asteroids. The key is that these asteroids are still distributed in the vast space.
Even if it only takes a few seconds to scan an asteroid, adding in the time it takes to fly over is not the same thing.
In this era, mankind's sublight speed navigation capabilities are quite impressive, and the ability to colonize interstellar space across thousands of light-years has illuminated the technology of using gravity engines to tear apart space.
Using a gravity engine to perform a hyperspace jump within a star system is simply not worth the gain - although a short jump distance can save some energy, there is no way to save the huge energy required to tear apart regular space and send the spacecraft into hyperspace.
Therefore, exploring the asteroid belt has become a very thankless task. Even in the core colonies of mankind, a large number of asteroids have not been surveyed. Instead, some asteroids are surveyed when specific industrial raw materials are needed, and then some of them are The engines that meet the requirements are installed and pushed to the vicinity of the factory area.
In fact, many human core colonies that have been established for less than a century have not even begun to use the resources on asteroids because the resources on large planets have not yet been exhausted.
It is precisely because of this that Wang Chao is sure that he can obtain helium-3 in this galaxy. The exploration data does not say that this galaxy has helium-3, which means that there is no helium-3 in the large planets and satellites. There must be helium-3 in the asteroids. They just need to find them. .
Gale: "You mean we have to spend time exploring asteroids? Do you know how long it will take?"
Wang Chao spread his hands: "Isn't this good? Let's disappear for a while to cool down everyone."
Helena: "After we disappear, they will make various speculations about what we did, and maybe they can improve the character of Organization X themselves."
Nimiao complained: "Will it go so smoothly? I think some people will soon think that we crashed during the hyperspace jump. After all, we took off deep in the planet's gravity well. Crashes are very common in this case."
Helena shrugged: "Of course there will be such a theory. But when we show up, this theory will be self-defeating, and then people will believe in other speculations more. For example, they believe that we went to the base of Organization X for further training. We There is no need to do any publicity or release any information."
Nimiao: "That would be great."
Page: "Well, interrupt me. According to telemetry, there are small settlements on the planet in front of us. In addition, I also discovered man-made objects in the orbit of the planet."
Nia was speechless: "I'm still wondering why there are such weak gravitational waves. It turns out they are satellites and space stations. But this space station is too small."
There was silence on the bridge.
A second later, Nimiao asked: "What should I say now?"
Nia: "We should not be discovered this time. The infrared signature of this ship's gravity engine is very low when it leaves hyperspace."
Nimiao: "Don't be stupid. Even if we can't be found, there is still a flash of light when we leave hyperspace. Unless this settlement and space station are all blind, we must have seen it."
Helena added: "And our ship is a bit big, is it really impossible to detect it at all?"
Wang Chao: "Our shell should be painted with low visibility. In the dark background of the universe, it is really impossible to see us without infrared imaging."
Helena: "But when we appeared in the St. Paul Colony a hundred years ago, people discovered us immediately."
Nia: "Maybe we emitted a lot of heat when we were rushed by the turbulence. Or maybe they are a colony of 100,000 people after all, and have a complete survey telescope system.
"But the colony we measured remotely only has a population of about a thousand at most. That space station is also a small space station with only one-fiftieth of our tonnage."
Wang Chao frowned: "Is it such a small space station?"
He has traveled so far and has become accustomed to large space stations. Whether it is Doyle Space Station, Apollodorus, or the smaller space station where Nemiao lives, they all weigh more than one million tons and have a population in the tens of thousands. large space station.
As a result, a small space station with only one-fiftieth of the tonnage of its new ship has appeared.
To use an analogy with things that Wang Chao is familiar with in the 21st century, the hundreds of thousands of tons of oil tankers and the reef-guarding stilt houses we built on the Xisha reefs were not grown by nature itself later. island.
Page displayed the space station he observed on the big screen - the bridge he was using now had the entire canopy as a display, so naturally he could use part of it to enlarge the display of a space station.
Liefeng: "This space station... looks quite advanced."
Page replied: "I found the design drawing of the outer module of the space station. This should be a design from fifty years ago. It is indeed much more advanced than the design we saw in the colony called Sao Paulo."
Wang Chao: "You can't say that. If we were really thrown into the past by the turbulent flow of time, maybe it was the most advanced style."
Nimiao: "So this colony didn't contact us at all. Maybe they really didn't find us."
Nia made a V gesture: "It seems that my design has achieved its goal. Such a large spaceship can hide its body, and a smaller spy ship will have no problem."
Wang Chao: "If that's the case, you might be able to change the shape of space war."
Now, because the spacecraft leaves hyperspace and is equivalent to shouting to the surrounding space with a loudspeaker, there is basically no sneak attack in space battles.
The attacking side had all their chariots, horses and artillery arranged, and they fought in a serious manner.
A sneak attack was also a sneak attack by the defenders. The starship, which silently shut down most of its energy sources, "floated" around the attacking fleet and suddenly launched an attack.
Now that the attacker can also sneak attack, there are many more tactics.
Nimiao: "Let's not talk about far-reaching things like changing the form of space warfare. What should we say now?"
Helena, who had been thinking, said, "Maybe we can try brainwashing on these people."
Gale: "Oh, Dr. Helena has her own evil plan!"
Wang Chao ignored Gale and asked with concentration: "How to operate?"
Helena: "First of all, we need to find out whether there is a quantum entanglement communicator here. We can't start the operation without a communicator."
If there is no quantum entanglement communication device, then all the gravity engines in this colony can be controlled to block their communication with the outside world.
Even if someone here uses radio to shout into space, it will take many years for the radio waves to be received by other colonies.
In this way, a closed experiment can be conducted here, and no matter what the result is, it will not be exposed soon.
Wang Chao: "Is there any way you can deceive the information?"
Helena shook her head: "I don't really have that ability."
Lily: "You were just brainwashing me."
"I mean, use my abilities and yours, plus a carefully customized publicity plan, to achieve an effect similar to brainwashing!" Helena explained, "My abilities are not as unreasonable as yours. Direct brainwashing can’t be done.”
Gale: "Professor Helena, who killed a ship of the United Church in one sentence, said so."
Wang Chao: "Lie Feng, don't interrupt."
"I obey my foster father." Liefeng shut his mouth immediately.
Although her expression was still funny, she really didn't interrupt anymore.
Wang Chao: "If Helena has no choice... Nimiao, the task of confirming whether the other party has quantum entanglement communication will be left to you."
Nimiao: "I did capture the communication, but it would be difficult to directly invade their local network."
Wang Chao: "Think of a way."
"Don't make it sound like I can figure it out if I think about it! But... I do have a way this time. I discovered the other party's communication satellite."
Nemiao displayed the position of the communication satellite and the space station on the huge holographic projector on the bridge.
Ni Meow: "If we dock quietly on this satellite, I mean this satellite marked Alpha, the space station should not be able to see us. We are blocked by the planet."
Wang Chao: "Is this satellite used to establish a global communication network?"
Ni Meow: "In order to establish a ground positioning system. Obviously, in addition to the large colonies we discovered, there are also smaller settlements on the ground. Maybe humans are evenly distributed on this planet."
Wang Chao: "No problem, move over and invade this satellite immediately. What's the next step?"
Nimiao: "After establishing the access point, I can access the local network, and then naturally I will do what a hacker does, invading the local server as a broiler, and releasing data crawlers to crawl around for intelligence. But considering that the quantum entanglement communicator may be in Offline status, we need to further confirm."
Wang Chao: "How to confirm?"
Nimiao: "I'll hack the warning system of the planet opposite. You can try to catch your tongue. It's best to kidnap the most powerful person here to confirm whether there is an offline quantum entanglement communicator."
Nimiao paused and added: "But I personally think that such a rural colony will probably not have such high-end things. But just in case."
Helena: "Very good. Then let's do this. First connect Nimiao, control the network, and then let me land quietly. We don't even need to arrest important local figures. As long as I go up, I can probably reveal most of the secrets." Dig it out—and no one has noticed me yet.”
Wang Chao snapped his fingers: "That's great."
Helena looked at Nimiao: "However, I may encounter some people who need support from hackers."
Nimiao: "You can find any computer that can connect to the Internet, and you can get support from hackers."
Helena: "That would be great."
Wang Chao: "Then let's set a course immediately, and the target is this Alpha satellite."
Nimiao: "Wait a minute, this ship is still too big. Let's take a small boat. That's why we brought it here."
Wang Chao: "The small ship has not done any low-visibility processing, nor has it improved heat dissipation. Maybe it is not as concealed as this big ship."
Nia: "Then use small boats. This scientific ship has many small boats that can be used for landing missions."
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the line pressing failed. Failure to press the line on the first day of the new year is not a good sign!
(End of chapter)
