Chapter 640 Unsolved Mystery
After more than two months of full speed ahead.
The task force arrived at the planet Courage in the Kuiper Belt.
The task force that had just arrived around the Star of Courage was quickly divided into two groups.
Two of the Red Phoenix-class space motherships were deployed in the void 5 million kilometers away from the Courage Star, releasing more than 10,000 mobile space mines, all of which contained nuclear bombs.
A single space mine is composed of 80 sub-mines, each of which is a 300,000-ton firefly-type hydrogen bomb.
These space mines quickly attached themselves to the surrounding asteroids, and then adjusted their own speed to be consistent with the height of the Courage Star, ensuring that they could remain stable around the Courage Star for a long time.
The Scarlet Phoenix-class space mothership completed the first line of defense, and then two Scarlet Phoenix-class ships sent out a large number of mining spacecraft to mine the surrounding asteroids.
According to the headquarters' arrangement, they will build a military industrial base in the Kuber Belt by using local materials to mass-produce death ray cannons, hydrogen bombs and various warships.
After all, if we keep dispatching warships from the inner solar system, it is not a long-term solution.
This is also a model explored by the Space Defense Department during its development process, that is, the warships deployed in the early stage must have military production capabilities and can produce weapons and equipment in the defense zone themselves, reducing dependence on resources and equipment from the headquarters.
After the two Chifeng-class ships completed the defense line and entered military production mode.
The remaining two Qinglong-class ships also joined the Qinglong-class ship of Yin Siyong and others.
After the three Qinglong-class ships joined together, they quickly deployed 60 death ray satellites in orbits 100 kilometers, 300 kilometers, and 500 kilometers away from the Courage Star .
These death ray satellites are aimed at the metal rectangle on the Star of Courage. As long as there is any abnormality in the metal rectangle, the death ray satellite and three Qinglong-class space battleships will instantly concentrate their fire on the metal rectangle.
The Space Defense Department's task force has made arrangements for defense.
Finally, it was the Space Reconnaissance Department's turn to appear.
Hill was worried about the investigation team, so he personally came to Courage Star via a synchronized robot.
At this time, in the 100-kilometer orbit of the Courage Star, there are not only 20 death ray satellites, but also a makeshift investigation space station, where the investigation team led by Hill is located.
Yin Siyong and others who discovered the metal rectangle were temporarily recruited by the Space Reconnaissance Department to cooperate with the work.
"Minister Hill , this is our investigation and detection report on the metal cuboid over the past 87 days."
Hill waved her hand. She had been receiving this information these days and already knew the situation of this metal cuboid. "Thank you for your hard work. You guys can communicate with the investigation team. I need to arrange other work."
"No problem." Yin Siyong nodded. He knew that the other party must be very busy, so he quickly walked towards the other members of the investigation team.
Hill turned to the captain of the investigation team, An Maidong, and asked, "Maidong, this metal cuboid has not shown any abnormal reaction in a series of passive detections. I am considering gradually adopting active detection methods and testing it bit by bit."
An Maidong is a middle-aged man with sharp eyes. He holds a capacitive stylus and stares at the metal rectangular holographic projection in front of him: "It's so weird..."
"What's so strange? " Hill was a little puzzled.
An Maidong extracted the six faces of the metal rectangle from its cross-section and then formed six plane views.
"Did you see that, Minister?"
Hill frowned. The six floor plans in front of him were indeed very strange.
These plans are densely populated with rectangles.
Suddenly, an idea flashed through her mind: "This thing looks familiar? Eh? Isn't this a QR code?"
An Maidong recombined the six plane images and quickly combined them into one plane image based on the patterns of the corners. At this time, the plane image looked more like a QR code.
Hill guessed: "Is this some kind of information storage device?"
"I don't know either, but there must be some secret in it." An Maidong was also analyzing in his mind what this QR code-like pattern was.
Hill didn't figure out the secret, so he asked, "What's your idea?"
An Maidong raised his index finger and said, "First of all, judging from the metal cuboid itself, it existed 230 to 240 million years ago, and it fell to the Courage Star more than 80 million years ago."
"This means that the metal cuboid has been flying in the universe for 150 to 160 million years. Even if the speed is very slow, it has flown at least hundreds of light years, and may even have flown thousands or even tens of thousands of light years."
Hill agreed with An Maidong's judgment.
An Maidong pointed with two fingers and said, "Second, since the metal cuboid appeared on the Courage Star, this can only mean that the parent civilization of this thing is only a first-level civilization, and I don't think that the creation of a first-level civilization can withstand the baptism of more than 200 million years."
"That does make sense." Hill also found it hard to imagine any civilization's creations that could last for hundreds of millions of years, especially within the realm of a first-level civilization.
As for the mother civilization of the metal rectangle, it is also very clear that it is only a first-level civilization.
After all, if the parent civilization of the metal rectangle is a second-level civilization, then the other party must have mastered superluminal technology and would not be able to find any clues at all by the Homo Sapiens company.
The civilizations that can be discovered by the current Homo sapiens companies are all level one civilizations and level zero civilizations below them.
"Third, the layout of the metal cuboid is very irrational. The materials are iron, nickel, tungsten , copper, lead, platinum, and a lot of silicon. This thing doesn't look like a spaceship that can carry living things at all."
The other members of the investigation team were also confused about this.
There are no remnants of nuclear batteries, nuclear fission reactors, or nuclear fusion inside the metal rectangle, nor are there any circuits or pipelines for energy transmission.
If this civilization does not use electrical energy or light energy, An Maidong and others will definitely not believe that a first-level civilization has no way to escape the rules of the universe.
Among the basic rules of the universe, thermal energy, electrical energy, and light energy are things that no first-level civilization can circumvent.
As for antimatter, vacuum zero-point energy and the like, just think about it. These things are not something a first-level civilization can afford.
Judging from a series of passive detection data, the metal rectangle is made of ordinary metal material.
The only thing worth paying attention to is the texture on the surface of the metal rectangle and the layers of internal space structure.
An Maidong had a hunch that the secret of all this was hidden in these patterns.
But while trying to find a way to analyze these patterns, An Maidong, Hill and others were also thinking about the purpose of this civilization.
After all, any civilization does things for a purpose.
