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Chapter 237 The Indigenous Civilization Was Too Astonished

Rayka Star is an ecological planet covered in chlorine water, formed over 5.6 billion years of evolution.

Because it is covered by chlorine water, this planet, when viewed from space, does not appear as having vast blue oceans like Earth, but rather as a boundless expanse of green.

Because the vegetation on land is also green, 99% of this planet is completely covered in green, with only a few deserts and Gobi areas showing a different color.

This planet, like Earth, has evolved intelligent life over hundreds of millions of years in its complex ecosystem. In competition with each other, these intelligent beings eventually formed a civilization that covered the entire surface of the planet.

"The exploration program for the celestial body Z-16 is officially launched today."

"The Moroccan rocket was successfully launched today from the Barred launch site. It will serve as the first pioneer in exploring the Z-16 object, entering the gravitational orbit of the undead object and bringing back the first close-up images of the undead object."

"Subsequently, Barred Air Base announced that it expects to launch two more Moroccan-class rockets carrying landing probes in the second and fourth quarters to conduct landing exploration missions on the Z-16 planet."

"There are still too many unsolved mysteries surrounding the star Z-16. Where did it come from? Why did it suddenly appear in our home star system? Is it related to extraterrestrial civilizations, or is it just a natural phenomenon in the universe? All these mysteries await us, the Ska, to unravel."

"The launch of the Moroccan rocket marks another step forward for us Ska people in our journey into the vast universe, enhancing our understanding of the cosmos. This is a great historical advancement, an inescapable responsibility and obligation bestowed upon each generation of Ska people by civilization and history. This responsibility and obligation is not related to any country; it is the aspiration of our great racial collective..."

Makado, a young Skarman living at the Barred base, casually turned off the government news broadcast.

When it comes to news, you can basically understand everything by listening to the first half; listening to the rest is just a waste of time.

Makado asked his father, puzzled, "Dad, why wasn't that matter announced?"

The father, who was sitting to the side drinking some ink-like beverage, paused, looked at his child with confusion, and asked, "What is it?"

"According to the calculations of celestial trajectories made by the supercomputer in the base a few days ago, Z-16 will meet our home planet Reka in 2143 quarters," said Makado.

"Oh, that matter." Reminded by his child, the father suddenly realized, "The member states of the international alliance have all reached an agreement not to disclose it."

"2143 quarters is a long time. It's enough time for us to do a lot of things. Rather than announcing this bad news and causing social unrest and panic, it's better to keep it hidden for now and let society continue to function normally."

Although Makado felt very uncomfortable about hiding this from the public, he no longer had any objections after his father explained the pros and cons.

He then turned his attention to other things.

"This problem eventually needs to be solved. What do the various countries plan to do? Will we blow up Star Z-16?" Makado asked.

"Blow it up?" The old man was taken aback, then shook his head. "That's impossible."

In science fiction movies and TV shows, there's always a space object about to crash into the home planet, causing a huge disaster. Then, the country sends a demolition team to space to blow the object into many fragments before it hits the ground, thus averting the crisis.

However, these are just for filming purposes; they wouldn't be done in reality, let alone blow up a planet.

The father explained to his son, "The Z-16 is even larger than our home planet Reka. Even if all the nuclear weapons of all the countries on Reka were concentrated on the Z-16, it would only create a small crater."

"The only way out right now is to expand outwards and transfer all the Ska people to space bases and spaceships in space before the two planets meet."

"This is the only way out for us Ska people."

As he spoke, the father admonished his son, "Macardo, you must study hard and strive to be among the first to enter the universe. The future of the entire Ska people's society now rests in the universe."

……

From Lu Shang's perspective, after learning that man-made objects had appeared within the current star system, it wasn't hard to guess that a civilization existed within it.

Planetary lifeforms quickly located the planet Reka, whose oceans consisted of chlorinated water, by searching for regular radio signals in the universe.

Lu Shang had seen this planet before through the observational organs of planetary creatures, but because of the ghastly green covering its surface, he subconsciously assumed it was a solid planet covered in poisonous gas.

I never imagined that a civilization existed there.

Subsequently, under Lu Shang's instructions, the planetary beings began collecting the radio information emitted by Reka in an attempt to decipher the language system.

"Is the language deciphering not done yet?" Lu Shang asked.

"We can no longer use the real-time communication network built with psionic energy as before. The computational array is limited by the speed of light and cannot be as efficient as before," the planetary being replied.

Although the previous live computation array could not be used because the psionic network was unavailable.

But that's okay. If we can't use psionic networks to transmit information, we can use radio networks or neurotransmitter networks.

With a simple modification and replacement, the large biological computation array on the planetary organism can operate normally. Although the efficiency is not comparable to before, it is better than nothing.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Shang said, "If I remember correctly, having language templates could speed up the language deciphering process, right?"

"Yes," the planetary creature replied.

Lu Shang nodded, his gaze shifting to the artificial object resembling a rocket heading straight for the planetary life form. He said, "There just so happens to be a technological artifact that has come to us willingly. As an artificial object, it should have writing on it, which can serve as a language template to help the bee swarm decipher the language system."

"The swarm is currently unable to use psionic energy," a beehive on the planetary surface reminded Lu Shang.

Lu Shang sighed and facepalmed, "Use your brain! Is there any necessary connection between not being able to use psionic energy and the bee swarm being unable to go into space? Can a person die from holding their pee?"

As he spoke, Lu Shang then used the neural network and radio network covering the planetary organisms to issue commands to the hives on the planetary organisms.

"You spend a thousand days building a nest, but only use it for a single moment."

"Now the swarm needs you to design a biological rocket. It doesn't need to be very technically advanced. It just needs to be able to launch the organism into space, capture the artificial object that looks like a rocket in space, and then safely return it to the planetary surface."

"Understood, we'll design it soon." The hives accepted the task.

For the Babel bee swarm that has already ventured beyond the universe, designing a biochemical rocket is as easy as a modern superpower redesigning the Wright brothers' original airplane. It requires very little complex thinking, and a finished product can be designed very quickly.

The outer shell is made of high-strength biological keratin. Considering the need for the chemical engine to withstand high temperatures, the thruster section adopts a full skeletal design, plus a living biological pump. By accelerating the flow of bodily fluids, the biochemical rocket can quickly transfer the heat from the engine to the low-temperature zone.

The cryogenic zone is a solid helium container sealed by a biological skeleton. The body fluids that transfer heat from the engine will transfer heat to the cryogenic solid helium through thermal contact.

Since the goal was to capture and safely bring back the artificial object suspected to be a rocket by the indigenous civilization within the star system, the biochemical rocket was made very large, with a length of approximately 500 meters.

Although psionic energy is unusable, even a weakened camel is bigger than a horse. The biological industry of the Babel Tower bee colony still exists, and building a large biological rocket more than 500 meters long is not too difficult.

"Check your own condition."

"Inspection complete," the biochemical rocket reported via radio.

"emission!"

As soon as the launch command was given by the Hive, a huge plume of smoke appeared below the bio-rocket, which, as expected, slowly rose upwards.

Finally, with continuous acceleration, it quickly reached the second cosmic velocity of the planetary life form, broke free from the planetary life form's gravitational pull, and headed towards its target.

The purpose of the Ska's rocket launch was to deploy probe satellites around the planetary lifeforms, which were moving towards them.

The purpose of launching the bio-rocket was to reach this probe satellite.

The two traveled towards each other, which greatly shortened the time it would take for them to meet. After a while, Lu Shang received radio messages from the biological rocket.

"Approaching the target, currently 40 kilometers away."

The hive in command replied: "Deploy the fiber web and capture the target."

"learn."

The biological rocket disintegrated just before reaching its target, but it did not completely disintegrate; its various parts remained connected to a large network.

This large fiber net quickly trapped the target object.

Biological rockets use this direct method to bring both the target and themselves into a state of "same direction and same speed".

Of course, the direction and speed of their movement will definitely be deflected and changed due to such direct physical contact, but that doesn't matter, because the bio-rocket also carries fuel that can be used for propulsion.

After pulling the target to the same direction and speed as itself, the bio-rocket uses its remaining fuel to change the target's direction of motion and accelerate towards the planetary life form.

This series of capture activities by the biological rockets naturally had a huge impact on the Ska civilization on Reka Star.

Especially those high-ranking officials and scholars, although they occasionally say that it might be related to aliens, none of them really believe that the Z-16 object is directly related to aliens. They all tend to think that it is caused by some natural phenomenon in the universe, and that the Z-16 object appeared in the parent star system.

Alternatively, the star Z-16 may have been in the parent star system before, but the Ska people lacked the technology to discover it. This possibility is considered the most likely by the Ska scientific community.

As a result, the biological rockets of the Babel Tower swarm escaped and intercepted their probe satellite, instantly confirming the existence of aliens!

Aliens really exist!

(End of this chapter)