Hao Ren thought he was farsighted—well, not necessarily, but at least he was farsighted.
When he left the dream plane last time, he made some random arrangements, but at that time he didn't expect that these arrangements would be used to find someone one day. At that time, he was in order to explore the starry sky of the dream plane and draw a star map for future actions, so he ordered the Giant Turtle Rock Platform to release a batch of self-proliferating probes. Those detectors are able to keep replicating themselves as needed, and think through the network through the faster-than-light antenna. They will plan the best exploration plan by themselves, continue to travel to the depths of the universe, map all the celestial bodies encountered along the way on the star map, and build a small observation station at intervals to maintain this advanced UAV network.
The working mode of these detectors is to first send a group of high-speed individuals to quickly scan the starry sky, and then send high-precision individuals to gradually fill in the blank parts in the scanning area, so that Hao Ren can grasp the celestial bodies in a large area of the dream plane in the shortest time distributed.
Obviously, after the drone group has been operating for a period of time, the first feedback is a set of superficial star maps, which only include the distribution data of the main celestial bodies within a certain range, and it is necessary to scan those celestial bodies for traces of life. It is not so easy anymore, and it requires subsequent slow detectors to make precise observations. So far, the drone swarm released by Hao Ren is only doing preliminary work such as drawing sketches, and has not yet reached the step of detecting life, and it was not until a few days ago that the drone swarm sent back the first star map. But I didn't expect it to come in handy now.
The fastest detectors now have mapped stars across billions of light-years — centered on the planet Holletta.
The data terminal called up the rough star map, looking for a point within its range, and could observe the starry sky that was consistent with the memory of the angry spirit.
Nangong Wuyue waited nervously and anxiously by the side, and Nangong Sanba also broke away from the equipment to follow the progress of the matter with his sister—it seemed that he was lucky enough to escape the punishment of the invincible windmill this time. Hao Ren reassured them: "Don't worry, those drones have been expanding outwards, and their scanning range is wide. Even if there is no star map that meets the requirements this time, it will not be long before they can find it in the future."
Wu Yue lightly rubbed the tip of her tail against Hao Ren's trouser leg: "It's okay, we've waited for it for more than a hundred years."
The door of the laboratory slid open without a sound, and Lily slipped in cautiously with the freshly washed cat girl. The stupid cat's hair still felt a little wet, and her and Lily's clothes were mostly wet—it seemed that it was not easy to bathe a cat.
"What are you doing?" The husky spirit noticed the serious atmosphere at the scene, and immediately swallowed the "oooh" that had just jumped into his throat. Then he tugged on Hao Ren's sleeve and asked in a low voice.
"Go away" washed his face with his paws with a serious face while helping to explain: "I must be looking for dried fish for me."
Hao Ren rubbed his head, and was about to say something when he was interrupted by the data terminal: "... This machine found a place with a high probability, but..."
Nangong Sanba looked impatient: "But what?"
The data terminal turns on the holographic projection. What is shown above is an empty and vast space. This is a picture sent by a probe from the plane of dreams: "A drone drew these images when it traveled through the starry sky. The positions and characteristics of these stars are related to anger It's the same in the spiritual memory, but the problem is... there are no celestial bodies in this place."
"There is no celestial body?!" Nangong Wuyue exclaimed, and then quickly thought of something, "Could it be... my parents were sent to space?"
The data terminal shook its body: "It is reasonable to say that it shouldn't be. Space transmission usually chooses something with mass as the landing point first. This is caused by the disturbance of gravity to space. But this place is indeed a bit strange... There are no celestial bodies here , there is only a cloud of embers, and it seems that there was a big explosion many years ago. The information sent back by the drone is limited, and this machine only knows so much."
Hao Ren stared for a long time without saying a word, and finally he could only touch Wu Yue's shoulder: "Don't worry, at least your parents weren't teleported into the sun, right..."
Lily squinted at Hao Ren: "How many times has the bat reminded you, don't comfort others if you can, try not to comfort others, your mouth doesn't twitch most of the time."
Hao Ren opened his mouth in embarrassment: "Okay, let's not think so much. It's better to go to the place to see the actual situation. Anyway, the star map can't lie. Nu Ling must have been to that place, let's go back Discuss with others, and set off to the dream plane as soon as possible to confirm."
The Nangong brothers and sisters looked at each other speechlessly and nodded silently. Now they are not in the mood to talk too much.
The atmosphere was stiff, and even the ignorant and stupid cat next to her quieted down obediently. The cat girl found a place out of the way and squatted carefully, wiping her face with her paws, muttering: "The big cat is not happy. Then I don't want the little fish to dry up..."
After that, Hao Ren was speechless all the way, and Hao Ren explained the situation here to Galazore through the spacecraft communicator, and then directly started the space jump to return to Earth.
When they got home, it was night on Earth, and Elizabeth and Izaks had already gone to bed. In the living room, only Vivienne was singing a song while knitting a scarf and watching TV. Seeing everyone coming out of the basement, the vampire girl raised her head and greeted with a smile: "Are you back? Do you still have something to eat? I made gluten soup tonight."
Hao Ren waved his hand to indicate that he had eaten outside, and then sat down next to Vivienne: "I have unlocked the memory of Nu Ling, and we have the whereabouts of Nangong's parents."
"Huh? This is a good thing," Vivian stopped her work and saw that the expression on Hao Ren's face seemed to be full of content, "Is there something unexpected?"
"It may be somewhere in the Dream Plane. The drones I sent out just happened to find a star area with a high probability," Hao Ren told Vivian about the general situation, "... the problem is There are no celestial bodies in that place."
"Then it seems that we can only go there to confirm the situation," Vivienne put her finger on her chin, "Shall we set off tomorrow?"
Hao Ren glanced at the Nangong brothers and sisters: "Take a good rest today, we will leave tomorrow."
The next day, Y'zaks and his father learned about the memory of the angry spirit, and asked to go with them to help find someone. Considering that this time he was going there in a spaceship, and some people could stay on the spaceship if the situation required, Hao Ren decided to bring the whole family with him this time—including cats and fish. In this way, he also saves him from worrying about the trouble and damage that the bear child may cause when housekeeping. Before leaving, he greeted Raven 12345, and after confirming that there was no task arrangement for the time being, he set off with his team.
The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace was rapidly traveling through the vast space, and the distant starlight projected a blurred halo on the silver-white shell of the spacecraft. According to the navigation signals left by the detection drones, the spacecraft was moving rapidly. close to the destination.
When it was 0.3 light-years away from the target, the spaceship performed a temporary deceleration. It escaped from the hyperspace state and approached a small silver-white building in space.
The scale of this building is very small, only one-third of the size of the giant turtle rock platform. It looks like a short and thick tower in space, and four symmetrically distributed towers are suspended on its top. Crystal slabs, and some small floating turrets can be seen around the building-the latter is the defense force of this small outpost, and it is enough to deal with ordinary stray celestial bodies and invaders (if any). And if there is a bigger threat, the entire outpost will escape as a whole: after all, it is just a broadcast antenna, and there is no need to confront the enemy head-on.
This outpost is one of the results of the drone swarms released by Hao Ren. While those unmanned aerial vehicles are constantly advancing towards the depths of the universe, they are also constantly building a huge network. While proliferating themselves, they are looking for suitable celestial bodies in the universe to build production bases. At the same time, they will follow a strict and delicate The blueprint is to build a signal relay station in space, which is the facility in front of us.
These things work together to form an autonomous drone swarm. While there's very little this simple, low-tech drone can do, it's a huge plus for inspectors on frontier missions.
A beam of light was fired from the Giant Turtle Rock Station to connect with this small outpost, directly reading the latter's recent observation records, and the crystal thin plate on the top of the outpost also changed its direction and pointed to the depths of space. A drone scurrying across the stars makes contact, relaying a distant message to its master.
On the bridge of the giant turtle rock platform, the data terminal transferred the observation report from the outpost: "Two probes were ordered to return to provide us with a more accurate constellation navigation in this area. The target area has not yet found any Celestial bodies...but with a pile of ashes."
"Ash? What ash?" Vivian asked curiously.
"The sun." (to be continued~^~)