Homo sapiens

After more than two months of full steam ahead.

The task force arrives at the planet Courage in the Cooper Belt.

The task force that had just arrived around Courage Star quickly divided into two groups.

Two of the Red Phoenix-class space carriers were deployed in the void 5 million kilometers away from the Courage Star, releasing more than 10,000 mobile space mines. These space mines were filled with nuclear bombs.

A single space mine consists of 80 submines, each of which is a 300,000-ton firefly hydrogen bomb.

These space mines quickly attached to the surrounding asteroids, and then adjusted their speed to be highly consistent with the Courage Star, ensuring long-term stability around the Courage Star.

The Red Phoenix-class space carrier completed the first line of defense, and then the two Red Phoenix-class ships sent out a large number of mining spacecraft to mine the surrounding asteroids.

According to the arrangements of the headquarters, they will build a military industrial base in the Cooper 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, will it be a long-term solution?

This is also a model that the Ministry of Space Defense has explored 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 reliance on the resources and equipment of the headquarters.

After the two Chifeng-class ships completed the defense line and began to enter military production mode.

The remaining two Qinglong-class ships also merged with the Qinglong-class ship belonging to Yin Siyong and others.

After the three Azure Dragon-class ships converged, they quickly deployed 60 death-ray satellites in orbits 100 kilometers, 300 kilometers, and 500 kilometers away from the Courage Star.

These dead ray satellites are aimed at the metal cuboid on the Courage Star. As long as there is any abnormality in the metal cuboid, the death ray satellites and the three Azure Dragon-class space battleships will instantly focus their fire on the metal cuboid.

The Space Defense Department's task force is making arrangements for defense work.

Finally it was the turn of the Space Reconnaissance Department to appear.

Hill was worried about the investigation team and personally came to Courage Star through a synchronized robot.

At this time, in the 100-kilometer orbit of Courage Star, there were not only 20 dead-ray satellites, but also a makeshift investigation space station, with the investigation team led by Hill on it.

Yin Siyong and others, who discovered the metal cuboid, were also 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 in 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. Let's talk with your investigation team. I have to arrange other work."

"No problem." Yin Siyong nodded. He knew that the other party must be very busy, so he quickly walked over to the other members of the investigation team.

Hill turned to An Maidong, the captain of the investigation team, and asked: "Maidong, this metal cuboid has not shown any abnormal reactions during a series of passive detections. I am considering gradually using active detection methods and testing it bit by bit."

An Maidong is a middle-aged man with sharp eyes. He holds a capacitive pen and stares at the metal rectangular holographic projection in front of him: "It's so weird..."

"What's so strange?" Hill was a little confused.

An Maidong extracted the six faces of the metal cuboid in cross-section, and then formed six plan views.

"Can you see it? Minister!"

Hill frowned. The six floor plans in front of him were indeed very strange.

These plans are densely covered with a large number of rectangles.

She suddenly had an idea: "This thing looks familiar? Huh? Isn't this a QR code?"

An Maidong reorganized the 6 floor plans, and according to the pattern pattern of the corners, he quickly combined the 6 floor plans into one floor plan. At this time, the floor plan 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 kind of secret in it." An Maidong was also analyzing in his mind what this pattern similar to a QR code was.

Hill didn't figure out the mystery, so he asked, "What are your ideas?"

An Maidong raised his index finger: "First of all, judging from the condition of the metal cuboid itself, this thing existed 230 to 240 million years ago, and it fell into the Star of Courage 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 slower, this thing has flown at least a few hundred light-years, maybe even thousands of light-years, or even tens of thousands of light-years."

Hill agreed with An Maidong's judgment.

An Maidong gestured with two fingers: "Second, since the metal cuboid appears on Courage Star, it only means that the parent civilization of this thing is only a first-level civilization, and I don't think the creation of a first-level civilization can withstand two The baptism of hundreds of millions of years.”

"It makes sense." It's hard for Hill to imagine any civilization's creations that can last for hundreds of millions of years, especially within the category of first-level civilization.

The judgment that the mother civilization of the metal cuboid is only a first-level civilization is also very clear.

After all, if the parent civilization of the metal cuboid is a second-level civilization, then the other party must have mastered super-light speed technology, and there will be no clues discovered by the Homo sapiens company.

The civilizations that can be discovered by the Homo sapiens company at this stage are all first-level civilizations and zero-level civilizations below.

"Third, the internal layout of the metal cuboid is very unreasonable. The materials are all iron, nickel, tungsten, copper, lead, platinum and a lot of silicon. This thing is not like a biological spacecraft at all."

The rest of the investigation team was also confused about this.

There are no remaining remains of nuclear batteries, nuclear fission reactors, or nuclear fusion inside the metal cuboid, and there are no circuits or pipes for energy transmission.

If this civilization does not use electric energy or light energy, then An Maidong and others absolutely do not believe that there is no way for a first-level civilization to escape from the rules of the universe.

Among the basic rules of the universe, thermal energy, electrical energy, and light energy cannot be bypassed by any first-level civilization.

As for antimatter, vacuum zero-point energy, etc., just think about it, these things are not something that a first-level civilization can afford.

Judging from a series of passive detection data, the metal cuboid is made of an ordinary metal material.

The only thing worth paying attention to is the texture on the surface of the metal cuboid and the internal spatial structure of the layers.

An Maidong had a hunch that the secret of all this was hidden in these patterns.

But while trying to figure out how to analyze these patterns, An Maidong, Hill and others were also thinking about the purpose of this civilization.

After all, any civilization has a purpose when doing things.

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