Chapter 991: Detecting Wormholes

Earth spaceport.

The Retaliation Star Destroyer opened the hatch, and the Shenzhou spacecraft flew into the interior of the Retaliation.

The side length of the triangular pyramid of the USS Repulse Star Destroyer is 1667 meters, while that of the Shenzhou is only 125 meters.

Therefore, the Shenzhou can completely enter the interior of the Retaliation.

After the hatch was closed, the wormhole exploration operation officially began.

Fang Yuan sat on the bridge of the Repulse Star Destroyer, raised his hand, and gave the order to set sail.

Repulse started its propulsion engine and flew to outer space. After leaving the spaceport for 300 kilometers, it started the curvature engine and entered the curvature flight.

"According to the summarized wormhole information, the closest wormhole to the earth is near the asteroid belt, and the star system that this wormhole leads to is Tianyuan 4." Zhao Anya reported the first wormhole of this mission while reading the information. Target.

"Where's Tianyuan Four?" Niu Dazhi patted open a bag of potato chips, crossed his legs, and asked while eating.

Eve said angrily: "Sister Ya, ignore him, this kind of common sense lets him look up the information by himself."

"What the hell? Is this common sense? I know it when the sky is angry and people complain. I have never heard of Tianyuan Four." Niu Dazhi protested confidently.

At this time, Lang Xiaonian came over and said, "I'm familiar with this, let me tell you. Tianyuan Four is a star, very close to our solar system, only 10.5 light-years away."

Niu Dazhi continued to cross Erlang's legs, counted with his fingers, and said: "It takes ten years to go, you tell me it's very close?"

"Retaliation is 10 times the speed of light under the curvature." Lang Xiaonian said.

"That's going to take a year. God, it's two years every time I go there. You didn't say that this mission took so long, and I didn't bring so many snacks." Niu Dazhi looked very distressed.

"I just said it three minutes ago. We're going through the wormhole. It won't take two years, or two months, or even two days, but just two minutes." Eve gestured "two" to him with two fingers. , but I feel that this "two" is referring to him.

"Oh, that's all right... then how long will it take us to reach the wormhole?" Niu Dazhi turned to another question.

"If you just go to the asteroid belt, it will only take one-third of a second at the speed of light." Lang Xiaonian replied.

"Are we so close to the asteroid belt?" Niu Dazhi felt that he was becoming less and less sensitive to numbers.

I forgot to put the potato chips in my hand into my mouth.

"It's hopeless." Eve shook her head with a look of disgust.

Lang Xiaonian then explained: "We don't use the shortest distance to go to the asteroid belt, we want to go to the location where the wormhole is, so according to the approximate coordinates, we have to go two astronomical units. At the speed of light, it takes about 16 minutes. It should be almost there by now."

At this point, only an hour had passed since departure.

At the limit speed, the Star Destroyer Repulse can indeed reach a curvature of 10 times the speed of light.

However, the faster the speed, the more energy is consumed.

When sailing short distances, it does not run at full power.

Therefore, when going to the wormhole at the location of the asteroid belt, only 30% of the speed of light is used to fly.

Therefore, after sailing for more than an hour, we gradually approached the goal.

Fang Yuan stood up and moved his hands and feet, ready to start to confirm the location of the wormhole.

"Be careful. So far, the approximate location of the wormhole we have obtained has not been confirmed. We must remain vigilant." Zhao Anya reminded.

"I know." Fang Yuan replied.

The reason why Zhao Anya wanted to remind this was because the summarized wormhole information was obtained from Luo Hu and the Cleaner.

Therefore, accuracy and authenticity cannot be guaranteed.

"Everyone should be more vigilant, because this mission, what we have to face may be a trap." Zhao Anya raised her voice to remind everyone.

that's the truth.

The task this time is to confirm the exact location of the wormhole, but all the information about the location of the wormhole is provided by individuals of hostile civilizations.

Then, there is a high possibility that there are traps hidden in this information.

A wormhole is actually a super-large space rift.

Human beings have been researching space rifts for sixty years, so the level of related research is very high.

However, those that can be called wormholes are usually very large.

Because those who pass through the wormhole are usually interstellar spacecraft.

Like the Star Destroyer Repulse, which was originally a Cleanser spaceship of the Palesean civilization, with a side length of 1,667 meters.

To pass through such a large spacecraft, the diameter of the wormhole must be at least 3000 meters.

Those space cracks of a few meters or tens of meters in size cannot be called wormholes at all.

Repulse entered the asteroid belt and began to detect the location of wormholes in the asteroid belt.

In the asteroid belt, there are millions of asteroids, meteorites, and cosmic dust.

If you look at it on the star map, it is densely packed with small dots.

However, in fact, the distance between these cosmic dust is very long.

"According to the collected information, the wormhole should be near here." Zhao Anya drew a circle on the star map while reading the information.

"Walk around, the wormhole detector will open." Fang Yuan ordered.

The area Zhao Anya drew is a bit large, covering millions of kilometers.

"Our wormhole detector is a bit weak, it can only detect tens of kilometers, which is too difficult to find."

Repulse flew around, but did not find the wormhole, and Eve couldn't help complaining.

Originally, the Repulse had a wormhole detector, but it was broken.

With the current level of human science and technology, it is still possible to completely repair the Counterattack, so some functions are missing.

In an area of ​​millions of kilometers, it is indeed a bit troublesome to find it slowly with a detector with a detection distance of tens of kilometers.

Fang Yuan thought about it, and said: "Lao Ye, the diameter of the wormhole is at least 3000 meters in diameter. It is in the asteroid belt, and it may be possible to find it through observation."

"Okay, I'll give it a try." Ye Zheyu immediately activated the observation system of Repulse, and began to look for suspicious places in the asteroid belt.

Fang Yuan thought of a guy, so he rubbed a piece of fish food and threw it forward.

A guy in front of him flicked and swallowed the fish food in one gulp. It was the "big belly" of the chasing puffer fish.

This guy has grown to the size of a millstone.

Everyone is familiar with "big belly". After setting up the automatic navigation, Eve walked over and squeezed it a few times.

"Look for wormholes, that should be your field of expertise." Fang Yuan pointed to the dark space outside the spaceship.

"Big Belly" opened its mouth and swayed left and right. After receiving the second fish food, it slipped through the dimensional membrane and disappeared.

Everyone used various methods to search for half an hour.

Ye Zheyu suddenly said, "I seem to have seen a strange phenomenon."

"What phenomenon?"

"A fist-sized piece of cosmic dust disappeared just now. Is it possible that it was sucked in by the wormhole?" Ye Zheyu replied.

"Where is it? Go and have a look." Fang Yuan said.

Ye Zheyu reported the location, and Eve turned the direction of the spaceship and drove over.

When it was about to arrive, "Big Belly" suddenly came out, shaking left and right, indicating that it had found the wormhole and was ready to receive the prize.

Fang Yuan stretched out his hand to push it away, saying: "You came late, someone found it before you."