Chapter One Hundred and Eighty Seven

Chapter one hundred and eighty seven

The neutron cannon spit out a gorgeous tongue of flame, and the antimatter orbital bombs landed on this huge building one after another, and the rumble of cannon fire resounded throughout the world. (apex novels hand-beating novels)

The Tomahawk has only two medium-sized rapid artillery pieces. Its main attack method is not relying on artillery fire, but the many combat drones it carries. Once they are released, they will bite each other alive like a large swarm of poisonous bees. .

Fearing that the dust in the hypergravity zone would damage these valuable drones, Xia Fei did not use them, but attacked with the only two artillery pieces.

"What are you doing?" Ghost asked in confusion.

He couldn't understand the meaning of Xia Fei's indiscriminate bombardment of these ancient square buildings. An antimatter orbital bomb costs as much as 30,000 star coins, and two high-speed artillery fires 180 shells per minute. The consumption of ammunition alone would cost more than five million star coins per minute. Xia Fei had always been very economical, and doing so would be a waste.

Xia Fei frowned, and did not order the artillery to stop. He said, "I suspect that these things are not buildings at all."

"Not a building? What could that be?"

Because of the inertial thinking, Xia Fei also thought that these huge square objects were a kind of construction at the beginning, like Ghost Shadow, it is impossible to produce such standard cubic boulders in the natural environment, unless it is artificially made.

But when Xia Fei really came into contact with them, this kind of thinking changed again. There were no doors and no windows. Xia Fei couldn't think of anyone who would build such a strange building. He began to suspect that these things were entities at all, not what a building.

The depth detector on the Tomahawk was disturbed by the surrounding environment and could not be used, so Xia Fei decided to use the most direct and effective method to blast these boulders with cannonballs to see what happened.

If they were buildings, they would naturally be torn apart by artillery fire, otherwise they were simply man-made concrete blocks.

The craftsmanship required to build solid concrete blocks with lengths, widths and heights exceeding one kilometer is not simple. Why are they discarded on this uninhabited planet after they are built? Xia Fei couldn't imagine, and now he can only figure out the real structure of these big guys first.

"Stop" After two minutes of continuous attack, Xia Fei ordered the main control computer to stop the bombardment.

Ghost Ying and Xia Fei stood in front of the porthole and stared straight ahead. When the dust cleared, the two of them couldn't help but take a deep breath.

A large rectangular boulder was cut in half from above, revealing countless broken concrete, with metal structures faintly visible.

These gigantic square objects are solid

they are not any buildings

No one can imagine who would throw away these gigantic concrete blocks here, and what would they be used for?

Lighting a cigarette, Xia Fei sat back in his chair, frowning and thinking hard.

Ghost Shadow thought for a while and asked, "Since these boulders are solid, could it be that someone wanted to use them to build some kind of building, but for some unknown reason it was not used and was discarded here."

As soon as the words came out, the ghost figure laughed first. Each boulder is no less than a thousand meters in length, width and height. Is it feasible to build a house with such a large stone? Even if it is really built, how big will it be?

What is a super building with a height of hundreds of thousands, or even millions of meters, used for? Do you play golf?

At least a building with a small body as high as one million meters cannot afford it. Unless there is some kind of extremely tall intelligent race in the universe, it is difficult to imagine who would need such a large building.

Human beings will actually build some super-large bases. Most of the construction methods are to find some small planets and then hollow out their interiors, install a lot of defense facilities such as artillery on the periphery, and turn them into a mobile bunker. Xia Fei is in. This is the case with those bases seen in the Wilderness Star Region.

The problem is that these stones look like bricks. If they are used to build a military base, it is much more difficult than hollowing out a planet, and they are not strong. If it is to build a civilian residence, it will be even more absurd. How is it possible to cram people into a building.

The Tomahawk continued to circle around the crimson planet. Xia Fei had been thinking about the use of the stones, so he did not give further instructions to the battleship.

Looking through the porthole, the arrangement of these stones is not uniform, some are closely connected to each other, and some are far apart, but they are all neatly placed, facing the dark starry sky, not like The reason Xia Fei thought they were buildings from the beginning was also influenced by the placement of these stones.

"The placement is uneven, but each piece is neatly placed?" Xia Fei said to himself in confusion.

Suddenly, his mind turned.

"Raise the altitude quickly to 150,000 meters," Xia Fei ordered.

The Tomahawk turned around and flew in the opposite direction. After a while, Xia Fei stood at the porthole and looked into the distance. He saw that these stones were connected horizontally and vertically, which looked like some unknown calligraphy.

"Look," Xia Fei said excitedly in a deep voice, "Do these stones connect like words?"

"Text?" Ghost was stunned for a moment, "Like, it really looks like text, the structure is scattered but not chaotic, but I don't know what kind of text this is."

Xia Fei smiled slightly, tapped his finger on the light curtain, and recorded these words on the record.

Due to the round shape of the planet, Xia Fei and Ghost Shadow didn't find that these stones were arranged like words at first, but if it was regarded as a flat plane, the stones on the planet would appear to be in order.

The translation chip in his brain was constantly busy, but he still couldn't understand the meaning. Xia Fei shook his head. If even the advanced intelligent translation chip couldn't read it, it would only mean that the structure of the text was too complicated. too rare.

Although it was impossible to know who dropped these huge stones here, and what the words made up of these stones meant, Xia Fei breathed a sigh of relief. After all, he had already found the trace of the old Potter, and he had figured it out. The purpose of these stones.

"This is at least a good start. The old Potter arrived here and left, indicating that he is at least alive." Ghost said.

Xia Fei nodded and ordered in a deep voice: "The leap engine starts to replenish its energy and moves towards the second target."

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The No. 2 purple area delineated by Old Potter is not far from here. It only takes one jump to reach it. Since the gravity of the two areas is almost the same, this jump is not as unbearable as before.

From the star map, it has left the black abyss star field and entered the real unexplored area, and this area is relatively large, with a gravel belt and four planets all in the purple area, which need to be explored one by one.

The signals received by the radar system were still chaotic, and Xia Fei had to continue relying on visual inspection and the blurred video system to find the traces of Old Potter.

First, he searched for the four planets one by one. These planets are the same as many barren asteroids in the universe. There is nothing special about them. Xia Fei pouted and drove the Tomahawk into the gravel belt.

Xia Fei did not find any gravel belt on the planet. Naturally, Xia Fei did not report any hope. With the spirit of giving it a try, the Tomahawk broke through the layers of obstacles and slowly advanced among the countless gravel.

"This gravel belt is too long. It would take a few months to search for it all." Ghost Shadow said, looking at the boundless gravel outside the window.

Xia Fei frowned and ordered in a deep voice, "The metal detector runs at full capacity and scans this gravel belt in all directions."

It is difficult to explore a wide gravel zone even without the obstruction of gravity, because the chaotic gravel can greatly interfere with any signal transmission, not to mention exploring in this hypergravity area, its The difficulty can be imagined.

"Using fuzzy scanning, only search for signals larger than or close to escort-class warships." Xia Fei continued to order.

The metal detectors started running quickly, and the rubble already contained varying amounts of metal, so those that were small or of insufficient purity had to be filtered out.

Xia Fei actually didn't have much hope for metal detectors. After all, the interference in the hypergravity area was so severe that almost all electronic equipment could not function.

Surprisingly, metal detectors found a dazzling signal

This signal is about tens of thousands of kilometers away from the Tomahawk. From the point of view of the signal equivalent, it is very huge, exceeding the huge size.

Words could not describe Xia Fei's shock. According to the signal, this metal object was at least 1.5 billion cubic meters.

what is the concept

It is simply a metal city, large enough to accommodate the lives of tens of thousands of people.

Such a huge metal, and it is a purified high-strength metal, what is it?

"Full speed ahead" Xia Fei commanded in a deep voice.

The Tomahawk suddenly accelerated and headed towards the target.

"How can there be such a large metal substance, is it a small planet entirely composed of metal?" Ghost Shadow asked.

Xia Fei shook his head, "Impossible, the metal detector shows that this is a purified, rigid-strength synthetic metal, that is to say, it is a man-made object."

Most of the metals distributed in the Xinghai exist in the form of ores. Although they are various in number, they are not pure. According to the metal detector, this huge material is purified and smelted by many different metals and artificially cast. It is made of metal, so it cannot be a metal block floating in space at all.

"Artificial matter is even more incredible. You must know that the largest warship super aircraft carrier in the human alliance currently has a volume of about 500 million cubic meters. This is already the maximum limit for human beings to manufacture warships, and there is no larger warship than that. , and its size is equivalent to three super aircraft carriers, how is this possible?" Ghost was completely shocked, and his voice was hoarse.

"Could it be because the metal detector is interfered with by gravity, and made a mistake?" Ghost asked, the huge man-made object of 1.5 billion cubic meters has far exceeded the limit of Ghost's imagination, so he was very concerned about it. is doubt.

Xia Fei said solemnly: "It is indeed possible that gravity will interfere with the signal, but it is more likely that the volume of this thing is larger than 1.5 billion cubic meters."