doomsday exile

Inside the "Conqueror" spacecraft, the atmosphere was very tense.

The captain in charge of this mission was a tall black man, his hair was already gray, and besides wrinkles, there were shallow scars on his forehead.

The other three people are also of strong physique, because this is not only a spaceship, but also can be transformed into mechs in parts, and they need to be controlled separately.

Of course, the "Conqueror" is not as magical as in sci-fi movies, because the most important part of the mecha, the current technology does not support flexible operations in space. This so-called space mecha is like the Plus version of a certain brand of mobile phone. It seems that the function is very advanced, but in fact there is no updated technology in essence.

After all, the imaginary enemy was a meteorite when it was built.

Before this meteorite arrived on the earth, it was an inconspicuous small celestial body in the starry sky. It would neither resist nor turn around and run away. How difficult is it?

In the future, this kind of space mech should be positioned as the escort ship of the spacecraft, responsible for handling some emergencies during the long interstellar voyage, eliminating hidden dangers on the route, and so on.Its positioning may be more like a mechanical engineer than a soldier.

Still, it's as high-tech as a bald eagle can get its hands on.

Therefore, the crew of the Conqueror felt that they were in a dominant position as soon as they came up, because their spaceship was bigger, and Huaxia's so-called quantum aircraft was very shabby by its size. Deduction, it is estimated that there is no extra space.

Before coming here, I heard about the reconnaissance mission carried out by the other party, and I felt even more underestimated.

In fact, this idea is quite normal. At sea, when ships belonging to two different powers encounter each other, even if there is no conflict, the side with stronger firepower will always feel that its waist is harder.

——With a nuclear warhead, it's no wonder that you are not very angry.

However, this spirit disappeared without a trace in just ten minutes.

The captain looked at the three companions with ugly faces. They had a quarrel just now. Of course, there was no result in the quarrel. Now, apart from anger, it is more difficult to accept the facts.

"Major Belleman, it is impossible for us to listen to the Chinese..."

"And what are your thoughts?"

The black captain interrupted the young engineer.

"I, I mean they can't be some kind of AI."

The person who spoke was very nervous, but his eyes were firm, "I suspect this is a remote connection. Huaxia's biological AI has been criticized internationally. Many people do not recognize this kind of artificial intelligence, and suspect that they use some kind of holographic technology to make people Thoughts were briefly transferred to machines, and some felt it was a permanent and irreversible state."

"what do you want to say in the end?"

Major Belleman, the black captain, stared grimly at him.

Obviously he didn't want to hear whether Huaxia violated ethics by using living people for experiments, that's not what he cared about.

An embarrassing expression appeared on the young man's face, and he said reluctantly: "Major, they are indeed not AI, but they have no body and are not afraid of danger at all. The situation is unknown now, if we easily believe them, it is very likely... "

"Used? To die?"

When Major Belleman said the first word, everyone still nodded, but when they heard the second word, they felt something was wrong.

Isn't that what they were arguing about just now?

"Major, this is different..."

The young man's tone was not so firm, but a little weak.

Being sent by the country and being used by other countries are indeed two completely different concepts, but this cannot conceal the depressing reality.

Major Belleman pointed at him and asked: "How far is it from Mars here? How much time difference is the communication time difference with Mars? How much time difference is the communication time difference with the earth and the Huaxia spacecraft? Do you think the frequency of the interval they spoke just now is like what the hell? remote connection? Even if they are disembodied guinea pigs, are they now in that bat-like flying machine? So you think a thoughtful, sarcastic, quarrelsome... or like you think, would want to take advantage of Will our things not care about life and death?"

The young man had nothing to say.

His words were indeed contradictory, but he was unwilling to admit that he had made a mistake.

"Maybe the interior of the meteorite is something that is dangerous to us, not to them."

This guess can be said to be very close to the truth.

Major Belleman did not know the truth, but he knew another fact.

"You make a lot of sense, so what do you think we'll do without them? Does it make a damn difference?"

"..."

The cabin fell into deathly silence again.

The young man was tongue-tied. He had never encountered such a situation of "I guess everything is right, but I have nothing to do about it". No matter what was in the meteorite, believe it or not, the Chinese people had no way to defend themselves.

Major Belleman said in a blunt and cold tone: "The first goal is the mission, the second goal is to live, as long as it can be achieved... No matter what we do, those **** politicians can make up the process, so I suggest You don't need to spend this energy arguing with the Chinese people, and we don't need to help politicians save face and make their work easier! The task is that we die, our family can be treated as heroes, the task is that we don't die, then Just God bless, if nothing happens, don’t even think about the following things, who doesn’t understand what I said so clearly?”

The people on the Conqueror spacecraft looked at me and I looked at you, and finally did not raise any objections.

***

Lu Di looked at the light spot of the bald eagle spaceship following behind on the virtual screen, and asked a little worriedly: "Are they willing to cooperate?"

"Maybe I don't want to." Yan Long replied casually.

But who cares?

Do you still want to contact some battlefield friendship and engage in friendly neighbor activities?

Lu Di understands this truth, but he is still very entangled, mainly because it is awkward to have such a guy behind him.

"Ghost knows if they will give us a shot, or hold us back or something." Lu Di muttered.

Yan Long said earnestly: "According to the communication just now, I don't think the captain's head is used to increase height, so you can rest assured on this point. Even if he gets angry, the captain will calm down quickly. He is a An excellent commander will basically not do stupid things."

Lu Di was dumbfounded.

So it turns out that you have a purpose in beating people up online?

"Now we have provided him with a safe method, allowing them to follow from a distance and not take the initiative to contact the danger, which will be easier to accept psychologically. Next, as long as we are always correct, they want to go back to see their relatives alive. Will actively cooperate with us.”

Yan Long taught Lu Di patiently.

If you can't come up, you need a nuclear warhead.

First ask for other firepower. It is impossible for the Conqueror spacecraft to only carry nuclear warheads. There must be other things. Let’s talk about blasting the outer shell of the meteorite.

"The maximum power of a nuclear warhead must be pierced into the meteorite to be effective. This cannot be denied, right?"

"Then what if the shell can't be exploded?"

"Explode it a few more times." Yan Long said calmly, "If there is a spirit body hidden in the core of the meteorite, they will definitely respond, saving us from exploring."

Lu Di thought, yes, their goal is not to blow up the meteorite, but to figure out the structure of the meteorite.

"Uh, is there really a spiritual body in it?" Lu Di asked hesitantly.

"50.00%, although I also think that meteorites cannot be as comfortable as spaceships, but these ancient spiritual bodies are difficult to guess..."

Yan Long thought about it slowly, and then said, "Anyway, be prepared to fight. Even if the spirit body is hidden in the meteorite, and you can adjust the route at any time, they will definitely not fall on the earth with the meteorite."

That is not to bring disasters to the earth, but to send oneself to death.

So these spiritual bodies must have a way to leave the meteorite, such as small spaceships.

This meteorite is 10 kilometers in diameter. The previous detections only found its surface and shallow components, and could not see the inner core. We only know that its density is very high and its weight exceeds expectations.

"See it."

Yan Long said suddenly.

Lu Di looked at the screen without blinking, and finally the light spot with the red mark broke into the field of vision.

On the star map on the computer screen of the Mars Research Station, it is so small that it is almost invisible.

At this moment, it looks like a huge monster, a devil emerging from the deep sea.

The Conqueror spacecraft is 120 meters long and 50 meters wide, and the quantum aircraft is 35 meters long and 8 meters wide. They all look extremely small in front of this meteorite.

"... Jormungandr."

The dark brown meteorite shell is a mixture of iron and nickel, uneven, and doped with other metals.

The middle piece of the meteorite is the most obvious, with a very obvious long vertical rhombus pattern. If you insist on saying that this is like a snake, it is barely feasible to imagine it abstractly.

Jormungandr is a legendary earthly python that can circle the planet in length. It will wake up at the end of the day, but it will sleep until then.

The Earth Federation had a hard time naming this terrible meteorite. At first they were only willing to call out the serial number, refuting many names that symbolized ominousness, and did not dare to add a lucky name to it, in case they were slapped in the face ?So I dragged and dragged, and finally used the monster in the myth.

Monsters can be killed.

Jormungandr symbolizes the end, and Jormungandr may continue to sleep.

In the aircraft, the "listening window" is already open.

Lu Di listened intently to all the sounds while watching the huge meteorite approaching on the screen.

When Ye Mengjiade entered the detection range, Lu Di caught the echo.

That's the sound of cosmic ray particles and solar wind hitting the crust of the meteorite.

Very ordinary, very normal, just like other small celestial bodies that Lu Di has heard...

"and many more."

Lu Di suddenly felt a noise.

"A signal is being sent!"

This time without Lu Di's reminder, Yan Long also caught this unusual movement.

The meteorite is actually sending a signal to the outside world?

How can this be?

"It's... requesting communication?"

Lu Di was dumbfounded. At this moment, he was sure that the meteorite also "saw" them.

Yan Long, who was also in charge of the radar, found that the signal was indiscriminate, and it was not only sent to his own side, but also sent to the Conqueror spacecraft.

What's even more outrageous is that the Conqueror spacecraft has "connected" to the message for some reason.

"Are they crazy?"

Lu Di was shocked, isn't he afraid of the spacecraft system being controlled at all?

"It's not quite right, the signals are changing."

In just a few seconds, the signal sent by the meteorite became like a human communication wave.

Even the communicator started ringing, and the call was still from the Conqueror spacecraft.

"This……"

Lu Di thought to himself, what kind of conqueror or faller is this, who finished so quickly? .

Unexpectedly, the meteorite didn't take a single shell, and didn't hide, just opened up when they met!

"Accept the signal."

Yan Long said decisively.

Turning off the main control (auxiliary) system of their spaceship is an empty shell, so they are really not afraid of being accused.

As the communication was connected, a strange mechanical sound sounded.

"Hello, earthlings... no, you are spiritual bodies, no..."

Lu Di's eyes were blank, the bald eagle is really over?Damn, there are nuclear warheads on that ship!

"Ok?"

The mechanical voice suddenly paused, and then said slowly: "You are very strange."

Lu Di didn't know how to complain, he was so shocked.

strangeness?Could he be stranger than the unidentified creature in the meteorite?