Time passed year after year...
The entire fleet has sailed into the open space. The Kunlun Mountain successfully used several large gravitational fluctuations to accelerate the fleet to the rated speed and entered the normal course of sailing.
Its target is exactly... 187j3x2!
Although Zhang Yuan is the chief captain of the Kunlun Mountain Fleet, he also has his own hibernation time. About two years of hibernation every five years, more than half of the time in hibernation. But compared to ordinary people, he wakes up much more frequently and ages faster, which is exactly the price of being a captain.
The daily work is not too busy. No matter how big Kunlun Mountain is, it is only a spaceship. Without massive resources as support, it is impossible to engage in any major projects. The general work of everyone is to maintain the spacecraft routinely, do simple research, or design some new machinery.
The materials in the laboratory are still sufficient. Anyway, almost all resources can be sorted and recycled, and only energy is consumed.
There are a lot of talents in the spacecraft, not to say that Zhang Yuanlai has to personally arrange everything. If there is no special event, Zhang Yuan is happy to be at ease.
In this way, it has continued steadily for 39 years...
On this day, Xu Yuanyuan, a graduate student of space botany, and several colleagues are cultivating a new generation of space mutant plants in the radiation area of the observatory.
Although space travel is boring most of the time, occasionally there is something new. For example, when passing through the "Kuiper Belt", people have observed several large comets, and the closest distance is about 800,000 kilometers.
Since no large planet has been formed in the vicinity of the Kuiper belt, it is extremely weakly affected by stars, and has not experienced various complex astronomical phenomena, so most of its composition basically represents the original composition of the planetary system in the early stages of formation, which is of great importance to human understanding. The origin of stars makes a lot of sense.
Scientists once wanted to capture these meteorites, but because the speed of the entire fleet was too fast, the entire capture operation failed...
This reliable operation also caused the whole ship to fly, and many researchers were very disappointed because of this failure.
Later, about 0.2 light-years away from the star, the entire fleet encountered a strange ion wind. This kind of ion wind has also been encountered in the outer reaches of the solar system. I don't know why...
After searching for a long time, there is still no scientific model that can convince everyone.
After that, nothing major happened. The matter in the interstellar space is too sparse. Apart from cosmic radiation, it is considered a great luck to encounter a meteorite the size of a pinky finger after sailing in such a place for millions of years.
"In five months, I will go into hibernation. I always feel that nothing has been achieved in the past few years."
"You stay on the planet, and you do the same job..." Several girls in spacesuits chatted casually. Small and large seeds are collected one by one and placed in a petri dish.
"Hey, can seeds have beneficial mutations?"
"It's hard to say... If only we could find all the codes of the genetic material, we don't need to be lucky like we are now." "
Too stupid to understand."
The substance DNA is an extremely complicated thing for human beings, and each piece of DNA contains a huge amount of information. This mass is a real mass. The base pair sequence is only the most preliminary one-dimensional information, and there are more complex two-dimensional information, and even spatial three-dimensional information!
So until now, human beings still haven't completely deciphered the true mystery of genetic material.
Cultivating mutant plants in space is a rather boring and joyful thing. Its principle is very simple, using radiation in space to make plant seeds mutate to a certain extent.
The vast majority of mutations are deleterious mutations, rendering the seed completely non-viable.
But there are also a small number of mutations that are beneficial and produce a wonderful response. For example, grape grass, a kind of algae that is widely used to purify the air, and is very delicious; Anthemisia, a variety of banana, can produce a lot of ethylene; Times...
Each time a new seed is cultivated, it's like playing a lottery ticket, with an inexplicable sense of anticipation. Even though most of them will not win the lottery, the moment of winning the lottery is completely stepping into the pinnacle of life!
Because of the emergence of various beneficial mutant plants, people's life is better.
These plants provide chemical raw materials for industrial production, and some are food for humans and animals, and they are also purifiers of the air environment, which is not generally important to humans.
After placing all the seeds, suddenly, Xu Yuanyuan's eyes blurred, and she felt something caught her eyes.
The whole world turned into a crystal red at this moment!
"Ah!"
she screamed softly.
This feeling was like being swept into the eyes by a laser pointer, which made her eyes sore and painful, and tears burst out uncontrollably.
She covered her eyes and looked around suspiciously with the other eye.
"What's the matter with you?"
"I don't know..."
The starry sky was pitch black, except for the light from the spacesuit, there was nothing to observe.
She didn't know if it was her own illusion or something else, but the redness and swelling of her eyes was real, and she still had a tingling feeling of being burned.
Xu Yuanyuan hurried back to the mothership and went to the hospital for examination. The doctor who treated her was shocked when he heard the specific reason, and then he didn't dare to delay, and reported the discovery to the relevant government department... "What, a girl is suspected of being killed by the outside world
. The incoming laser hit the eye?!"
Zhang Yuan was also taken aback when he heard about this incident, and hurried to the hospital to visit the girl in person.
The doctor in the hospital replied: "It's just that the eyeball is slightly congested. It should be fine to rest for a while, and there is no need to replace the bionic eyeball." "
Okay, thank you. The apology will be approved immediately."
But the whole incident sounds too unbelievable!
At first, Zhang Yuan thought it was the frigate's communication laser that accidentally hit him, but a few minutes later, all the frigates around sent messages, and there was no mistake or misoperation.
"Reporting to the captain, Falcon 1, the inspection is correct, and there is no communication laser fired by mistake." "
Reporting to the captain, the inspection of Falcon 2 is correct."
...
Finally, the military also sent an investigation report: "Second confirmation , The inspection is correct, and there is no communication laser fired by mistake."
In order to prevent large-scale exposure of communication waves, the communication between the mothership and the frigate relies on directional lasers to communicate. Under normal conditions, the frequency is about once a minute.
Zhang Yuan took a deep breath, and he quickly realized some other possibilities...
"If it's not the result of the frigate's misoperation, then... are there other possibilities?"
One... an alien civilization!
Near here, there is likely to be an alien civilization that is using low-frequency lasers to detect the outside world!
Things quickly get serious.
After a few words of comfort, he hurried back to his captain's room and issued an urgent notice. The reason why such information can be deduced is because the Kunlun Mountain Fleet also often detects externally through low-frequency lasers.
This starry sky is really too dark, the nearest star is 2 light-years away, and there are so few photons in the space that it is almost in a state of pitch blackness.
This kind of darkness makes it impossible for conventional observation equipment to observe the surrounding environment. Therefore, the best detection method is to use microwaves or lasers!
Using a powerful microwave radar, the effect is very good, and everything around it can be illuminated quickly. But this kind of high-power radar will directly reveal its position, just like a huge light bulb in the dark universe, it is impossible not to be known.
Therefore, using a search laser becomes a very good choice.
The power of this type of search laser is not high, and it can be emitted continuously. After the laser touches a relatively smooth object, a series of diffuse reflection echoes will be generated. By analyzing the data of these diffuse echoes, the specific shape and position of the object can be obtained...
When Zhang Yuan thought of this possibility, he was both excited and worried, and immediately issued an order: "Attention, all spacecraft Please note that there may be unknown alien civilizations around, use detection lasers to detect them!"