The Titan slowed down and slowly headed towards the space dock. The space dock suddenly came to life, with a large number of manipulators activated and mechanical troops on standby.
The command room of the Panshi was as happy as if it was a festival.
The Titan is 27 kilometers long, 6.7 kilometers wide, and 1.9 kilometers high. It has 3 main engines and 4 smaller auxiliary engines, 12 heavy proton cannons and 4 powerful neutron cannons. 4 of these heavy cannons are... Twin turrets are arranged on both sides of the tower bridge, with a quadruple turret on each side. Thousands of armed turrets are scattered on the surface, with a total of 100 turbolaser platoon cannons, 500 laser cannons, 500 ion cannons and 468 tractor beam launchers are armed to the teeth.
Now, the starship is theirs.
Through the glass window, they could see the Titan slowly approaching them, its huge figure blocking out the sky and the sun. Compared with it, the Wuheng was like a small fishing boat encountering an aircraft carrier, dwarfed by it.
"Boss, we have successfully taken over the Titan. The estimated internal transformation time is: 6 months." Zhou Xiaozhi reported to Zhou Xinghui.
"Okay, okay!" Zhou Xing nodded happily.
"Mr. Zhou, can we go in and take a look first?" Professor Lin Hai asked excitedly, unable to restrain himself.
"Yes! Can you test the Titan's attack system first?" Commander Chen Xiaolin said with bright eyes.
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Everyone looked directly at Zhou Xing, just like the child who had his favorite toy, and couldn't wait for a test ride on the Titan.
Zhou Xing smiled, nodded and said, "Okay! I also want to try its power."
"Xiaozhi, please don't rush into the dock to find a suitable attack target." Zhou Xing gave an order to Zhou Xiaozhi.
"Okay, boss! Is TZ287 asteroid okay? It is five million kilometers away from us. Its distance and size are very suitable as an experimental target." Zhou Xiaozhi responded, and immediately commanded the big screen to display a rapidly progressing asteroid. , nearly a hundred kilometers in diameter.
"Okay, that's it, activate the Titan attack system." Zhou Xing confirmed.
"Okay, boss!" Zhou Xiaozhi responded.
Immediately, under the control of Zhou Xiaozhi, the Titan turned its bow, the main gun energy gathered, and the attack was about to begin.
Professor Lin Hai looked at everyone and said excitedly: "The Titan uses antimatter and dark matter as energy for the battleship. Both antimatter and dark matter are countless times more powerful than nuclear fusion, so the attack power of its main gun will be very terrifying."
Hearing this, everyone perked up, held their breath and stared at the big screen with gleaming eyes.
With a "Zhi" sound, a vast white light shot out from the gun port of the Titan's main ship. It disappeared in an instant and was difficult to see with the naked eye.
Everyone stared nervously at the command screen, waiting for the results.
Five million kilometers, even at the speed of light, it will take a while.
After more than ten seconds passed, the TZ287 asteroid on the large screen suddenly exploded with great ferocity.
"Boss, the Titan hit the target and the target was destroyed." Zhou Xiaozhi reported the results.
"Okay! Okay, that's great. There is not a single asteroid TZ287 left. The power of this cannon can destroy a medium-sized country." Chen Xiaolin trembled with excitement and cheered repeatedly.
"This is just the power of one of the guns. The Titan has 12 heavy proton cannons, 4 powerful neutron cannons, and thousands of secondary guns. It is armed to the teeth." Liu Xin was excited, his eyes shining. explain.
"Well, its attack power is pretty good, and its defense system is also very powerful. With Wu Henghao's attack power, it can't cause any damage to it at all." Zhou Xing smiled with satisfaction.
After a pause, Zhou Xing continued: "The only disadvantage of Titan is that it requires a huge amount of energy. Since its original energy supply system was damaged, the repair process used an antimatter energy supply system to replace it, and we lost its original speed. , its maximum speed can only reach sub-light speed.”
"Sublight speed, that's enough, that's enough!" Chen Xiaolin nodded with satisfaction.
"The internal environment of the Titan is set according to the living habits of the Titans. It needs to be transformed, including the gravity environment, the ecological environment of the ship, the battleship operation module... and other important facilities, so everyone should wait patiently for a while!" Zhou Xing He looked at everyone and introduced with a smile.
"I understand, it's nothing more than sleeping! As soon as we wake up, we can board the ship!" Chen Xiaolin nodded nonchalantly and smiled.
"Haha, General Chen is right, the long waiting time can be replaced by sleep." Professor Lin Hai laughed.
"Yes! I really hope that one day when I wake up, I can be on my home planet!" Tang Xin smiled and said in agreement.
The long interstellar voyages were often spent in dormancy. They gradually adapted to the dormant state, and something special and unexpected happened every time they woke up.
Especially this time, the Titan accepted the incident. As soon as they collectively woke up from hibernation, the Titan appeared in front of them, giving them a huge surprise.
"Well, I don't know how the situation is on the home planet! The Wuheng has been out of contact for so long, they should all think that we are in trouble!" Chen Xiaolin's face darkened and she said in frustration.
Although he had been vaccinated with his family before departure, his family must have been devastated to be "disappeared" like this. Fortunately, he was not married. There are crew members on the ship who have families. When they return, they may have to face complicated situations. Emotional and ethical issues.
"Xing, is there any progress in the 'Cosmic Tree' exploration project?" Tang Xin looked at Zhou Xing and asked.
Hearing this, everyone looked at Zhou Xing. The "Cosmic Tree" exploration project was their only hope to return to Earth. Its success or failure was related to the possibility of returning home.
Zhou Xing nodded, looked at Zhou Xiaozhi and said: "Xiaozhi, bring out the cosmic tree model."
"Okay, boss." Zhou Xiaozhi obeyed obediently.
Immediately, a three-dimensional dynamic diagram was displayed on the command screen. An explorer passed through the cosmic wormhole. On the basis of a spherical universe, another universe appeared. The explorer began to soar in the universe and record the star map information of the universe. Then, one ship, two ships, three ships... Hundreds of explorers continued to shuttle through cosmic wormholes, and spherical universes appeared one after another. They were like fruits hanging on a tree, densely packed.
"Xiaozhi, report on the exploration status of the exploration project." Zhou Xing ordered Zhou Xiaozhi.
"Boss, a total of 52,464 'Explorers' have been produced in the exploration project so far. After comparing the 'star map' and excluding a large number of homogeneous universes, we have obtained the star map coordinates of 735 universes, No. 109, No. 320, No. 529 ...A total of 614 explorers discovered extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations, and the self-destruction program automatically started;
No. 216, No. 437, No. 721... A total of 27 explorers encountered, unknown positions, supernova activities, gravity traps... and other unknown factors caused signal interruption and loss of contact;
So far, exploration projects have discovered a total of 25,765 life galaxies, 565 planetary civilizations, 45 advanced civilizations, and 4 super civilizations. Among them, traces of the spread of the Dark Zerg have been found in 57 universes including the 7th, 11th, 23rd... etc. "Zhou Xiaozhi nodded and watched Zhou Xing report in detail.
"So many universes have been discovered, but our universe has not been found yet?" Chen Xiaolin asked in despair.
"Not yet, but the manufacturing speed of the explorers is increasing, and their search area is gradually expanding. It is expected that it will not take long to find them." Zhou Xiaozhi replied.
"I hope so!" Chen Xiaolin nodded expectantly.
"Xiao Zhi, we have discovered so many civilizations, show them to us!" Professor Lin Hai looked at Zhou Xiaozhi with bright eyes and said excitedly.
"Okay, professor, what level of civilization do you want to see?" Zhou Xiaozhi nodded and asked.
"Of course, let's look down from the top and look at the situation of the four super civilizations first." Professor Lin Hai said impatiently.
Zhou Xiaozhi glanced at Zhou Xing and saw that he agreed, so he immediately responded: "Okay, Professor!"
Immediately, the command screen changed, and a large galaxy appeared, and then the camera kept zooming in on that galaxy.
With a "boom", the screen suddenly interrupted, and the explorer self-destructed. However, before it died temporarily, it transmitted the last glimpse of the scene, and everyone on the Wuheng was stunned for a while.
In the picture, all the planets in the entire galaxy have been transformed into silver "sea urchins", with countless giant "spikes" standing tall. Then, the surroundings of the planets are densely covered with small "sea urchins", with trillions of them They are spread throughout the star system. Even the central star is in the process of being transformed into a silver sea urchin and has not yet been completely transformed.
"Oh God! What is going on with this civilization? What technology do they use? Why can they even 'process' stars?" Professor Lin Hai widened his eyes and shouted in disbelief.
"That's a star! A star bigger than the sun! How could it be transformed into this!"
"It's so scary. It's indeed super civilized!"
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In the command room, the professors screamed in horror, astonished by the technology mastered by the super civilization on the screen.
"A star is just a spherical glowing plasma condensed by gravity. If you master the corresponding technology, it is not impossible to transform it." Zhou Xing looked at the command screen and said solemnly.
"That's amazing! When will we humans reach this level?" Chen Xiaolin nodded with emotion and said with emotion.
"Us? If we can live for six to seven thousand years, or tens of thousands of years, we may have a chance to see him!" Zhou Xing smiled bitterly and speculated.
Hearing this, everyone was silent for a while. To transform a star, one must first master the super technology that overcomes the star's environment and power. It is definitely not an easy thing to do.
In a stellar system, stars are the most important component. They are the center of celestial bodies and generally account for more than 99% of the total mass of the entire galaxy. Just like the solar system where human civilization is located, the diameter of the sun is 1.39 million kilometers, which is 109 times that of the earth. times. The volume of the sun is 1.3 million times that of the earth, its mass is 330,000 times that of the earth, and its average density is 1.4 g/cm. The sun is a hot gas ball. From the surface to the center, the temperature is getting higher and higher. The central area is about There are 16 million degrees Celsius and 300 billion atmospheres of pressure…
Zhou Xing's speculation must be based on his own perspective! Once a genius scientist like him is gone, it will be difficult for humans to master this technology even in 100 million years!
"Xiao Zhi, have our Discovery been discovered by them? Are there any traces of them searching for it?" Professor Lin Hai looked tense and asked Zhou Xiaozhi.
The technology mastered by this super civilization is so terrifying. Once it searches for them, it won't take long to discover their existence.
"Professor, there is insufficient data to support the deduction!" Zhou Xiaozhi looked at Professor Lin Hai and replied.
"That's it!" Professor Lin Hai nodded disappointedly, looked at Zhou Xing and said worriedly: "Mr. Zhou, the exploration project seems to be a trick! It will definitely be counter-tracked."
"Yes, Discovery's self-destruction measures cannot stop these civilizations for long. We can only compete with them for time now. As soon as we find a way back to Earth, we will leave this universe immediately." Zhou Xing agreed with Professor Lin Hai's judgment and said seriously.
"Boss, do you want to broadcast information about the next super civilization?" Zhou Xiaozhi asked.
"Go on! Let's see if we can learn anything from this." Zhou Xing nodded and ordered.
"Okay, boss!" Zhou Xiaozhi responded. Immediately, the command screen changed and another short-lived image appeared.
Due to the need to prevent reverse tracking of advanced civilizations, once an advanced civilization is observed, the Discovery will immediately start the self-destruction process, and the information obtained about advanced alien civilizations often only lasts a short period of time.
The command screen shows a civilization that developed saucer-shaped spaceships. The entire galaxy is full of circular flying saucers. Their civilizations are connected into a large area, covering an area of more than 100,000 light-years.
Immediately afterwards, the picture changed again, and another image information of a super civilization appeared on the screen.
Super star civilization, advanced planetary civilization... Various forms, various technologies, a dazzling array of things, are presented one after another.
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Everyone looked at each other in silence.
The universe is so lively! The technology of human civilization is not worth mentioning in front of these alien civilizations.
"Mr. Zhou, I feel that the exploration project is just another attempt to poke trouble! Attracting the attention of so many alien civilizations, I'm afraid it will be difficult to escape!" Professor Lin Hai looked at Zhou Xing with a wry smile.
"Xing, will everything be okay?" Tang Xin looked at Zhou Xing worriedly.
"It's okay! Even if they can trace back to this universe, it will take a while for them to come here. As the number of explorers increases, the speed of discovering new universes will continue to increase. By the time they come to the door, , we should have found our way home and left this universe." Zhou Xing smiled at Tang Xin and explained calmly.
Hope so!
After hearing Zhou Xing's words, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.