Chapter 1267: Entering the Anomalous Celestial Body. “Acceleration complete. Proceeding towards Red Dwarf A. Expected to enter the Stellar System’s gravitational range in 1 year and 8 months, and reach the anomalous celestial body in 2 years and 1 month.”
Their initial location was already within a globular cluster, where Star density was very high, with the nearest red dwarf only a little over 1 astronomical unit away.
“All personnel, enter semi-hibernation.”
Once in semi-hibernation, a year or two passed in the blink of an eye.
Upon reawakening, An Lun saw the anomalous celestial body drifting in the distant Starry sky.
He scanned it and found that its surface reflected light was also somewhat abnormal, resembling an artificial celestial body.
“Jia Baixin, go to the left; Wang Weihai, go to the right. Be careful not to approach the celestial body. Maintain a minimum distance of at least 1 astronomical unit.”
The two observed the anomalous celestial body, one on the left and one on the right.
“Captain, confirming the shape of the anomalous celestial body: cigar-shaped, with a rough, irregular surface. However, an anomalous glowing point has been detected, with the light source coming from the middle section of the anomalous celestial body’s side.”
Jia Baixin quickly sent back the message.
Wang Weihai’s side remained silent.
“Wang Weihai, any discoveries?” An Lun asked proactively.
But he still received no reply.
He had his mecha emit a signal wave to determine Wang Weihai’s location.
The result showed that Wang Weihai had already reached the surface of the anomalous celestial body.
“Bastard!”
An Lun cursed.
“Prepare for battle and proceed to the surface of the anomalous celestial body.”
“Captain, we still don’t know the specific situation of the anomalous celestial body!” a team member worriedly said.
“Never mind all that. Saving him is what matters.”
In this era of Human Civilization, the population was too large, and human lives were not valued.
This was actually the view of the upper echelons, not representative of ordinary people’s thoughts.
For ordinary people, their lives were limited, and the number of people they encountered was also limited, so for them, human life remained extremely precious.
Since An Lun had said so, the others could only follow.
After all, if they didn’t go to save Wang Weihai now, and if they themselves later fell into trouble, others wouldn’t save them either.
“Jia Baixin, you stay on the flank. If we don’t send back any message within 24 hours, report the situation here to the warship.”
“Yes!”
After preparing, An Lun led the remaining 7 people to the surface of the anomalous celestial body.
The closer they got, the more they could feel the special nature of this celestial body itself.
And when they truly reached within 1 million kilometers, they finally saw some details of the celestial body’s surface.
It was indeed irregular, with tree-bark-like patterns crisscrossing its surface.
However, these grooves mostly ran in one direction.
Each groove had light points inside.
“First, find Wang Weihai.”
An Lun suppressed his curiosity, locked onto Wang Weihai’s landing site, and led his team to descend into that area as well.
He almost impacted the ground at a speed of 1000 kilometers per second. Logically, ordinary rocky ground would have been hit by them, creating a giant crater at least 10 kilometers in diameter.
But the reality was that they didn’t even make the ground dent by 1 centimeter.
This was no longer just unusual; it was confirmed to be a creation of Unknown Civilization technology.
“Everyone, spread out one kilometer apart and search the surface first.”
After An Lun gave the order, he walked off alone in one direction.
He walked to the front of a gully.
He looked down.
The light seen from space was not actually a lamp, but rather some cables at the bottom of the gully that were glowing.
Those cables themselves seemed to be made of a fluorescent substance.
The entire cable should have been fully illuminated at first, and if there were any circuit problems, the light in that section of the cable would extinguish.
It’s also possible it was the other way around, that the glowing parts were where the problem occurred.
What An Lun saw now, however, was an entire dim light cable, with only a very small portion of it glowing.
Regardless of the situation, it was certain that these cables were now unusable.
An Lun released several bee-sized detection devices, which explored down into the gully, continuously emitting signals so that Wang Weihai could receive them.
Half an hour passed, with no discoveries.
Other areas were the same.
One team member found an entrance leading inside, on the edge of the gully, which should have been a maintenance access point from the interior to the exterior.
The group gathered in front of the approximately 8-meter-tall access point, and An Lun reminded them, “Be careful!”
Everyone was very solemn.
This object could be a fortress or a warship. Seeing no obvious damage on the exterior, it was possible that there was still life inside this warship.
“Disintegrate!”
The Engineer among the team members touched the door in front of them, and the door, as if corroded, developed a small hole, which then expanded until the entire door disappeared.
When the small hole appeared, An Lun felt a faint breeze, which proved that there was gas inside this object.
They stepped inside.
A relatively short tunnel appeared, looking very rough inside, with a large number of exposed lines.
“It is indeed a maintenance access point. The thick cables outside transmit energy and signals into each passage, connecting every area.”
“This is like a series circuit.”
The Engineer carefully inspected the types of these lines and made a judgment.
“I hear the sound of current!”
A female Soldier pressed close to the cables, listening intently.
“Something must be malfunctioning.”
An Lun had everyone continue forward.
Another door inside the maintenance access point was disintegrated by the nanobots. This time, a strong gust of wind swept in. If it were just a person weighing a few hundred kilograms, they would probably be blown away directly.
Their own weight was several hundred kilograms, plus their mechas and the energy backpacks on their backs, the minimum weight was in tons.
This included the An Clan and Ice-Making Clan in the team.
The Lellerra Clan and Lightwing Clan were actually the same.
Originally, their body sizes were relatively small, but these very small races experienced great inconvenience in daily life.
For example, a War Beast Clan might not even notice an Ice-Making Clan that was only a few tens of centimeters tall.
Therefore, many races in Human Civilization are now starting to deviate from their original body types. Many of the Ice-Making Clan are above 1.5 meters, and some are even as tall as 2 meters.
The average height of all races in Human Civilization is around 2.1 meters. After removing the War Beast Clan, who raised the upper limit, the average height is still 1.62 meters.
“A lot of air. The air composition is mainly… carbon.”
After An Lun’s analysis, he found that the air here was actually gaseous carbon.
Carbon usually gasifies only at high temperatures above 1000 degrees Celsius, but the internal temperature here was even around minus 90 degrees.
“It’s not simple carbon. Do not attempt physical contact or absorption.”
After entering the door, the surroundings were a control room, or something called a maintenance room.
Large electrical equipment could be seen here.
The Engineer walked over. After carefully inspecting it, he said, “Actually, I wanted to say earlier, this thing beneath our feet is not made of any metallic elements. Its main component is boron, and also some astatine, a radioactive element.”
“However, while it’s called the main component, it actually only accounts for about 16%. The remaining substances should all be created elements, not elements that exist in nature.”
An Lun asked, “Are these devices too?”
The Engineer nodded.
“Can’t it be repaired?”
“It’s not that it can’t be, but it would take time, and a very long time. All the elements used in this kind of thing are different from ours, and each one needs to be analyzed.”
“It would take at least three to five years before I could gain the ability to repair it.”
It was the ability to repair, not to fix it completely.
“Then give up on investigating from this aspect and go directly inside!”
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