The situation was exactly the same as Feng Lei's prediction, and the provenance continued to encounter herdsmen on the following trips, most of the time only one herding family, and occasionally a few herding families living in harmony in the more material-rich galaxy.

At this time, Ye Fei would be glad that he had wasted a little time learning the pastoral language, and then made routine inquiries, but unfortunately he had never been able to find any useful clues.

In the blink of an eye, another week passed, and there was only more than a day left to go, Ye Fei suddenly had the urge to fly directly over, but fortunately, he did not turn the impulse into reality.

With only more than 30 light-years left in a straight line from the pulsar, Provenance broke away from the speed of light near a red dwarf star and began to measure the outside world.

After a while, Feng Lei got a detailed result, and said while looking at it: "The radiation intensity here is already very high, and there should be no more herdsmen in the future." ”

Cosmic creatures are extremely resistant to radiation, but they cannot eliminate the danger of radiation to living beings, so theoretically speaking, no matter how strong cosmic creatures are, they will not haunt the high-intensity radiation zone for a long time.

This theory was absolute, but when Aquila encountered unheard of cryogenic creatures near the Orion Gate, it broke the limits of human imagination, and no one ever thought that living things could only be produced in an environment similar to that of Earth - radiation that is deadly to Earth creatures and Earth-like creatures may be just as deadly to low-temperature creatures, but it can also be like warm sunlight.

"If you can't touch it, you can't touch it, isn't there such a saying? No news is the best news. Ye Fei said.

"I hope so." Feng Lei said in disappointment. "Okay, the counting is done, let's go."

Ye Fei nodded, and was about to order Jiang Xue to continue to set off, when Xia Zhuoyan suddenly exclaimed, "Boss, what do you see I found?" ”

Feng Lei chuckled in his heart, hoping that what she found was the inspection ship, but he was afraid that she would find the inspection ship.

"What did you find?" Ye Fei asked curiously.

Under the manipulation of Xia Zhuoyan, the large screen was continuously enlarged again, and a piece of interstellar dust near the red dwarf star gradually approached. until clearly recognizable.

I saw sparse small celestial bodies. A small colony of star-eating ants leisurely shuttles back and forth, nibbling on delicious ice crystals every now and then.

"Wouldn't it? Where are the herders? Feng Lei asked in surprise.

"No herdsmen found!" Xia Zhuoyan told the truth.

"Could it be that this small colony of star-eating ants is wild?" The black bear asked angrily.

Every time you encounter herders, you can see them frantically forcing star-eating ants to eat, just like the famous cramming ducks in ancient times. And these star-eating ants in front of them look like picky eaters who love to eat and don't eat. It doesn't look like a herd guarded by a herder at all.

"Impossible." Ye Fei said. "This thing is no one to be a treasure except for the herdsmen......"

Before he finished speaking, a blurred shadow floated out from behind the red dwarf, and Xia Zhuoyan reopened a window on the big screen. After magnifying the shadow alone, filtering out the light of the red dwarf, the outline of a herdsman appeared, but only two-thirds of his body remained, and a large piece of his tail was missing as if it had been bitten by something, and some indistinguishable internal organs overflowed from the wound, showing no signs of fluttering, as if frozen by the passage of time.

"What's going on? Could it be that this is the galaxy where the herdsmen were hunted down by the technological races? The black bear said without thinking at all.

"Nonsense, it's been hundreds of years, why are those star-eating ants still there?" Fenghua slanted the black bear with a white eye,

It's too embarrassing to say this, if it weren't for the virtual bridge that couldn't do it, she would have to screw the black bear ruthlessly.

"That's the most recent thing." The black bear immediately changed his words, "Dr. Lei, you have miscalculated, the radiation in this place is not enough for the herdsmen to escape. ”

With the passage of time, everyone is becoming more and more familiar, Ye Fei has recently changed his name to Feng Lei Lao Feng, and the black bear has also changed his words, calling Dr. Lei is cordial and not offensive.

Feng Lei's face was extremely gloomy: "This is not a good thing. ”

Ye Fei's expression was equally solemn: "Jiang Xue, lean over, we need to find out the cause of this herdsman's death." "If it's really a technological civilization, it means that they've been moving around, which isn't good news.

At this time, everyone also thought of the point, and the atmosphere in the bridge suddenly became a lot heavier.

Because the distance between the battleship and the star is a little far, the corpse of the herdsman who seems to have just turned from behind the star is actually an image from ten minutes ago.

Jiang Xue manipulated the battleship to approach the target using the low speed of light of the magnetic dirt, and after breaking away from the target, he made two adjustments before finally approaching the corpse of the herdsman.

At this time, Xia Zhuoyan found several more broken corpses of the herdsmen, a total of five, which seemed to be members of a family.

A thought flashed in Ye Fei's mind, the armor under the front ventral side of the Seed Source opened, and twelve unmanned aerial vehicles less than twenty meters long flew away from the battleship in a neat formation, approaching the herdsman's corpse from different directions, and fixed the mechanical arms on the herdsmen's carapace.

After all twelve unmanned aerial vehicles were fixed, they started their engines at the same time, pushing the corpses to slowly fly towards the provenance.

Through the magnification of the optical system, everyone clearly saw the edge of the huge wound on the herdsman's body, the outermost layer is a thick carapace, the carapace has no obvious boundary with the inner layer of tissue, the inside of the thick carapace has formed a huge cavity due to the loss of internal organs, and a ray of sunlight obliquely shines into the cavity, and you can see the vertical and horizontal rib-type reinforcement structure on the inner wall of the carapace.

Everyone suddenly realized, no wonder there was no obvious layering on the wound, it turned out that the thick carapace of the herdsmen was internal organs, and there was no muscle at all.

This characteristic is somewhat similar to that of a tortoise.

"The edges of the wound are irregular, and I don't think he was killed by a weapon of technological civilization, but rather like he was bitten by something, or his shell was smashed by something." The only woman in the inspection group, and the relationship with Feng Lei is very ** Lin Rong said suddenly.

She is the only member of the team who has a deep knowledge of biology and has a lot of say in this regard.

Ye Fei was stunned for a moment, and said hesitantly: "You mean, the shell of the herdsman is brittle?" ”

"Not necessarily." Lin Rong replied rigorously, "Usually the carapace of a creature is not particularly hard, and maintaining a certain amount of toughness will help improve defense, but if the speed of the thing smashed over is relatively fast, then the toughness of the carapace will not be able to play its due role." (To be continued......)