Chapter 602: Get Close
2.1 to 5.3 light years is just an approximate number.
If you want to determine the departure point of an alien spacecraft, you must board the alien spacecraft and conduct a comprehensive inspection.
The Space Division acted quickly.
Until three months later, in August of the 4th year of Xinghe.
Three newly built Cicada-class spacecraft have been transported to the lunar orbit, and then used hydrogen bomb propulsion to quickly fly towards Cicada-class No. 004.
Now that the support spacecraft has been launched, Cicada-class 004 is also ready to land on the alien spacecraft.
At the Earth headquarters, Hill was still in charge of coordination. She had a serious expression on her face, her eyes fixed on the images and various data transmitted synchronously by the Cicada-class 004 spacecraft.
As for the Cicada-class spacecraft No. 004, those responsible for the boarding mission were Wu Tegong, Zheng Lin, Diat, Lin Mingyu and others who had previously discovered the alien spacecraft.
As the captain, Wu Tegong had to stay on the spaceship to command. He carefully instructed Zheng Lin:
"Alin, don't be careless."
"I'll pay attention." Zheng Lin nodded, then turned around and said, "Diater, let's go!"
The two of them controlled the synchronized robot and entered a small exploration boat, which was provided by the Cicada-class spacecraft. It was mainly designed to facilitate the exploration of planets along the way. There were three models in total.
The exploration boat the two were driving at this time was a model specially designed for exploring asteroids.
After the Cicada-class spacecraft adjusted its direction, the exploration craft spewed plasma and approached the alien spacecraft little by little.
At the same time, the only death ray cannon on the Cicada-class spacecraft quickly aimed at the alien spacecraft, and the hydrogen bomb inside the spacecraft was also ready to fire.
Once an emergency occurs on the exploration boat and there is no way to deal with it, Wu Tegong can only kill them directly.
Half an hour later.
The exploration boat finally docked on a relatively flat part of the alien spacecraft.
Zheng Lin pressed the grip button, and six mechanical claws instantly ejected from the bottom of the exploration boat and directly inserted into the hull, firmly fixing the exploration boat on the surface of the alien spacecraft.
"Diater, what's going on?"
Diat is operating various detection equipment to conduct a more detailed detection of the spacecraft.
Various feedback data poured in like a tsunami, and the exploration boat's built-in supercomputer quickly analyzed the data.
Soon a more comprehensive and accurate holographic spaceship model appeared in front of the two.
"Diater, the data model has been completed. You stay in the exploration boat while I enter the alien spacecraft."
"clear."
Zheng Lin floated over to the transportation cabin in the middle of the exploration boat, where a set of combat exoskeleton armor had been prepared in advance. It was specially designed for outer space combat.
The exoskeleton armor quickly opened its shell, revealing the humanoid driving seat inside, and he floated and lay inside.
In an instant, a large number of micro-nanomechanical tentacles emerged from his synchronized robot. These tentacles were connected to various devices inside the driving seat, and then the outer shell closed.
Zheng Lin does not need control methods such as buttons or keyboards, but directly uses mind control through a synchronous communication system.
The exoskeleton armor stood up.
"Diater, open the hatch."
"receive."
Zizi...The door of the transportation cabin opened, and Zheng Lin controlled the synchronized robot, wearing exoskeleton armor and floating outside .
Since the alien spacecraft is in a state of high-speed inertial flight at this time, and its gravity is very small, you must be very careful, otherwise it will easily float away.
You have to know that at this time, there is nothing but empty void within billions of kilometers around. If it floats out, this synchronized robot and exoskeleton armor will be scrapped directly.
Therefore, this exoskeleton specially designed for landing on asteroids is not human-shaped, but similar to the shape of a spider robot.
Its chassis is a multi-legged mechanical body with eight mechanical legs made of high-strength alloy. It can be instantly inserted into the outer shell of an alien spacecraft and fix the body to the surface of the spacecraft.
The outer shell of this alien spacecraft is made of silicon-lead-iron alloy , which has average strength. It is probably designed for radiation protection. In addition, it has been exposed to outer space for a long time and has become very fragile.
The mechanical legs of the exoskeleton armor can be easily inserted into the hull.
Zheng Lin controlled the exoskeleton and crawled towards a hole not far away.
They had previously conducted a comprehensive study of the structure of the spacecraft and chose this landing location because of the nearby hole, which would allow them to directly enter the interior of the alien spacecraft without having to break open the hull, thus reducing the amount of engineering work.
Soon Zheng Lin came to the hole.
This is a hole created by an asteroid impact. The hole has a radius of 17.6 meters and a depth of 15.4 meters. A large amount of water ice and dry ice are condensed on the surface.
The mechanical legs tested the area cautiously, trying to avoid landslides and unstable positions.
It took him more than ten minutes to reach the bottom of the cave.
The extremely sharp mechanical leg knife instantly cut through the blocking ice layer, and a passage appeared in front of Zheng Lin.
This is a passage that is 3.53 meters high and 4.21 meters wide. The exoskeleton's searchlight shines deep into the passage.
Since he did not come here himself, Zheng Lin had no fear at all, but his actions were still relatively cautious. After all, there were only 15 synchronized robots on the Cicada-class No. 004. If one broke down, there would be one less robot, and there would be no way to replenish it.
He looked at the internal structure diagram of the alien spacecraft and began to walk towards the first target.
After twists and turns for more than an hour, we finally arrived at the location of the first target.
This is a special cabin.
However, seeing that the hatch in front of him was only 1.52 meters high, Zheng Lin could only use the mechanical leg knife to try to cut open the cabin wall and expand the size of the hatch, otherwise he would not be able to get in.
Although the hatch is made of aluminum alloy and composite materials, no matter how tough the material is, it will still age over a long period of time.
The mechanical leg knife easily inserted into the bulkhead. He activated the chainsaw mode and sparks immediately came out of the bulkhead.
Twenty minutes later.
A hole two meters high and two meters wide was cut out, and Zheng Lin entered the cabin.
The cabin was not spacious and seemed a bit narrow for Zheng Lin, who was operating the exoskeleton armor. There were rows of cabinets on one side of the wall.
There is also thermal energy reaction inside, which is the core of a nuclear battery, but only a small part of the plutonium 239 is left.
He first checked the condition of the nuclear battery system.
It was discovered that the nuclear battery's power generation system had been completely scrapped, and the heat energy generated by the nuclear battery was also neutralized by the surrounding low temperature.
He tried to take out one of the nuclear batteries, and after great effort, he successfully took out a nuclear battery.
He used the magnetic field detector built into the exoskeleton armor to recheck the plutonium 239 content of the nuclear battery.
The data was fed back to the supercomputer of the Cicada-class 004 spacecraft. Soon, based on the decay conditions and the content of other elements inside, they were able to basically determine that this plutonium nuclear battery was manufactured between 45,300 and 45,400 years ago.
Zheng Lin took out three more nuclear batteries and found that they were all manufactured at about the same time.
Of course, this is not 100% certain, because we cannot rule out the possibility that this was created by an alien civilization in flight.
Therefore, he had to check the nuclear battery manufacturing time of several nuclear battery centers before he could determine the specific manufacturing time of the spacecraft.
The exploration of alien spacecraft continues.
However, Earth has already launched relevant research topics based on the information discovered during this exploration.
