The light search and rescue boat slowly stopped in the void four kilometers away from the light cluster, Luo Min stopped the search and rescue boat steadily, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and let out a long breath: "Head Wang, you have arrived at the place." ”

Luo Min is a major pilot on the medical rescue ship, specifically responsible for piloting the search and rescue boat, don't look at the search and rescue boat is not a combat ship, but the pilots who can be sent to the Aquila are all called the elite of the aviation force, even if the pilots on the hen are counted together, Luo Min's skills and flight time can be regarded as the best among them, because of the importance of this mission, the steel soul specially sent Luo Min, who has the best skills.

The black bear swallowed and wiped a handful of non-existent sweat from his forehead: "Oh my god, it's so fucking scary." Lao Luo, you wait first, I'll be fine right away! ”

The internal structure of the search and rescue boat is not quite the same as that of other small spacecraft, the overall structure is similar to that of an enlarged ambulance, with the narrowest cab in the front, the first aid cabin in the middle, and the airtight cabin of the same size as the first aid cabin in the stern.

In order to carry out this special mission, the search and rescue boat, numbered 016, emptied all medical equipment from the first aid cabin, leaving only the empty cabin.

"No problem!" Luo Min replied immediately.

The black bear buckled his helmet, held the drone in the cabin and kicked lightly, and the whole person flew into the airtight cabin at the stern. After the airtight door locked and drained the air inside, the black bear slowly floated out of the search and rescue boat.

A light cluster with a diameter of twenty kilometers is not far ahead, and from the position of the black bear, the huge light cluster looks as majestic as a star. However, when viewed up close, the light cluster is not as radiant as it is on the optical system. Rather, it presents a translucent texture, that is, formless and substantial.

"Damn, this is really not a human job." The black bear muttered quietly, landed lightly on the hull of the search and rescue boat, and carefully secured itself with a magnetic buckle.

Everyone on the bridge had been paying attention to the movements on the search and rescue boat, and when they heard the black bear's words, Ye Fei's eyes immediately widened: "What's the complaint, hurry up and get to work!" ”

"Knowing the way, knowing the way, what is urging!" The black bear grinned in dissatisfaction and released the drone.

The spherical drone is powered by a miniature magnetic engine, which is the only reconnaissance aircraft that the commandos are equipped with that is capable of flying in space.

The long-range reconnaissance of the Aquila relied mainly on two camouflaged reconnaissance ships. It is not equipped with large-scale unmanned reconnaissance equipment at all. Although there are several ready-made satellites, their flight capabilities are extremely poor, and it is impossible to use them for this mission. There are quite a few small aerial vehicles on battleships, but not many unmanned aerial vehicles. In addition to the commando UAVs. It can only be made on an improvised basis for engineering ships.

It doesn't take much time to make a drone. However, it will take at least three or five days, and Ye Fei simply has the patience to wait that long.

The drone equipped by the commando team is not good at speed, and after leaving the search and rescue boat, it slowly and leisurely flies towards the light cluster. It gives the illusion of a balloon release.

And this UAV must be remotely controlled by combat armor, if not, there is no need for the black bear to follow, and there is no need to float out of the search and rescue boat - there are many precision medical instruments installed in the search and rescue boat, in order to prevent the pulse radiation on the battlefield from affecting the work of the instrument, the special shell of the search and rescue boat can block most of the electromagnetic waves, if the black bear stays in the hull, it is impossible to fly the remote control UAV.

The picture on the main screen of the bridge of the Aquila turned around, changing from the search and rescue boat to the perspective of the drone, and when the picture switched, the light cluster had already occupied the lens of the drone, except for the edge, there was a little colorful streamer, and the white light in the center occupied most of the screen.

Although the flight speed of the drone is slow, the straight-line distance between the search and rescue boat and the light cluster is only a little more than four kilometers, and the drone does not take much time to fly close to the light cluster, almost without causing any abnormal changes in the light cluster, and the drone gently submerges into the light cluster.

The two sides on the main screen suddenly freeze, leaving only a blank of white.

Is the light blob white on the inside?

This thought flashed through the minds of many people at the same time.

"Bridge bridge, loss of drone signal, repeat, loss of drone signal!" The Black Bear's communication was sent back to the bridge as soon as possible.

The collective sighs of the bridge converged into a loud sigh.

"The bridge receives it, return immediately." Ye Fei ordered calmly.

The failure of the first temptation had long been expected, and it had no effect on Ye Fei.

"Yes!" The black bear immediately agreed and quickly flew into the search and rescue boat.

Before the mission began, Luo Min had a certain understanding of this light, and knew that this thing was likely to be a wormhole, and he was afraid that the faster-than-light engine would cause trouble, so he cautiously used the conventional flight method to fly away from the light, and only after flying away did he start the faster-than-light to return to the Aquila.

Watching the search and rescue boat on the screen slowly turn back, the veterinarian whispered, "Whatever it is, this thing will definitely block the signal." ”

"The drone didn't cause any change when it flew into the light cluster, is it because the mass of the drone is too small?" He Jian rubbed his eyebrows and guessed.

How many million times the difference in quality between the warships of the Third Fleet and the three-kilometer-long power shock ships? The mass difference between a three-kilometer-long warship and a drone with a diameter of only forty centimeters is also ten million times different, what is the difference between the three?

"It's possible." Ye Fei said, "But there is no evidence yet. ”

"Won't you know what to do with it?" The veterinarian pointed to the wreckage of the biological battleship floating outside port side and said, "There are a lot of these things, why don't you just get a few pieces and throw them all over?" ”

"Great idea!" Ye Fei's eyes lit up, and he agreed loudly, "Anyway, the engineering ship will have to be used for a while, Lao He, we still have a ready-made disposable asteroid engine on the ship, right?" ”

"Yes!" He Jian immediately replied, "There should be dozens more." ”

"Immediately arrange for the engineering ship to prepare for construction, and find a few relatively complete wreckage." Ye Fei commanded excitedly.

"Understood!" He Jian immediately arranged the task.

After a while, the engineering maintenance ship separated from the main ship Tie Niu, and after flying in the direction of the light cluster for a distance, he randomly picked a few relatively intact biological warship wreckage and loaded them with thrusters, but it took only about ten minutes. The corpses of the four bio-warships slowly flew towards the ball of light under the impetus of the thrusters.

They flew faster and faster, getting closer and closer to the light, and the atmosphere in the bridge gradually became solemn.

But what is disappointing is that the wreckage of the four biological battleships was submerged into the light group one by one, but the light group did not change at all, as if it was a calm ancient well.

He Jian pursed his lips and said dejectedly: "It seems that I was wrong...... A layman like me still cares about this, so leave it to a professional like Staff Officer Ren. ”

The veterinarian couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Lao He, don't mention this, I have a headache just thinking about it." You take a closer look at the replay. When the drone went in, there was still a little movement, but the biological warship leaned over, and it was really not a wave at all. ”

"Who's to say it's not, it's weird. Could it be that it still knows whether the things that are approaching the road are dead or alive? He Jian guessed wildly. If only I could catch two living creature warships and try it. ”

Ye Fei rolled his eyes informably: "What are you kidding?" Drones are a lump of iron. If it knows whether it is alive or dead, it should not move. ”

"It can't be magnetic, right?" He Jian spread his hands, "Our warships are made of steel. Creature battleships are flesh-long, and that's the difference. But how is it possible for magnetism to be seen directly with the naked eye? ”

"Magnetism?" The veterinarian was stunned for a moment, tilted his head and thought about it, "Could it be ...... Is it because of the magnetic engine? ”

He Jian reminded the veterinarian that in addition to the difference in quality, the Third Fleet, the Frustration Ship and the UAV Capital use magnetic engines, but the difference is that the power of the magnetic engines is very different, which is higher than the difference in quality!

How much power does it take to propel a giant ship more than ten kilometers long? Do you need a little more power to propel a drone?

Ye Fei nodded thoughtfully: "This also makes sense, but before you figure out what this thing is, you can't try it casually." ”

At this time, the black bear had returned to the Aquila and got the drone that the engineering ship had just refitted, and Luo Min flew to the light group again with the search and rescue boat.

After flying to the designated position four kilometers away from the light cluster, a launcher temporarily installed under the belly of the search and rescue boat slowly flew a drone away from the search and rescue boat, but this time, a slender optical fiber was pulled behind the drone.

This drone dismantles the wireless control system, and installs a simple optical fiber control system, in order to prevent the colorful light emitted by the light cluster from interfering with the control of the optical fiber, the surface of the optical fiber is also coated with a layer of light-blocking material.

Fortunately, the Aquila's data transmission system uses optical fiber, and there is a large amount of inventory in the engineering maintenance ship, otherwise it would be impossible to find more than four kilometers of optical fiber.

I don't know what the result of Lu Dao will be this time, but Ye Fei is very expectant and waits for the drone to fly into the light cluster.

The drone didn't enter the light group, and Ye Fei excitedly shouted: "Go in, go in!" "But both sides are still as frozen as they were just before.

Ye Fei's expression immediately froze: "Black bear, how is the situation?" ”

"Everything works, uh...... Fiber is still being released! ”

"How is that possible? Can't the images captured by the drone be transmitted back through optical fiber? Ye Fei scratched his scalp in annoyance, and the chaotic dandruff flew down like snowflakes, "Black bear, take back the drone!" ”

"Yes, taking it back!" The black bear immediately sent a signal, but the signal sent out was like a stone sinking into the sea, and the ship did not respond, "Bridge, the drone did not respond!" ”

"Forcibly take it back!" Ye Fei's tone was cold, like a cold winter.

Among the three plans, he was most optimistic about the second plan, but he didn't expect such a result.

"Received, forcibly retracted!" The black bear reluctantly said hello to Luo Min, and the device that released the optical fiber immediately began to reverse, trying to forcibly pull the drone back.

The strength of the optical fiber is not high, but in the vacuum state, even a strand of hair can pull the giant ship, let alone an optical fiber?

After a while, the optical fiber was pulled out of the light cluster, but only the broken optical fiber came out, but the drone connected to the optical fiber was missing.

Disappointed, Ye Fei sighed: "Black bear, let's implement the third plan." ”

"Understood!" The Black Bear has again released a third drone.

This drone is neither remote control nor wire control, but a real program control.

The programmed drone flew towards the light and gradually disappeared, and the atmosphere in the bridge became more and more oppressive as the drone disappeared.

The program in the drone is to fly into the light cluster and return ten minutes later, and everyone waits quietly, but ten minutes later. The drone did not escape from the light cluster.

This time, Ye Fei was completely gone: "Black bear, come back." ”

The veterinarian looked at Ye Fei and didn't speak, he knew very well that instead of spending his efforts to persuade Ye Fei not to go to his heart, it was better to come up with a feasible way, three sets of plans had been used, what else could he do?

He was sure that this strange glow was a cosmic phenomenon, but it was hard to say that it was not a wormhole.

Suddenly, Che Qi shouted softly: "Come out, come out!" Look if it's a drone! He wasn't pointing in the direction the drone was flying in, but above the light cluster.

Ye Fei suddenly came to his senses: "Black bear." Fast. Topmost! ”

After receiving instructions from the bridge, Luo Min, who had excellent vision, vaguely saw an inconspicuous shadow above the light cluster, and he hurriedly drove the search and rescue boat over and flew above the light cluster to change the angle. It was finally determined that this thing that flew out was a drone.

There was jubilation in the bridge.

After the black bear leaves the search and rescue boat to capture the drone. The search and rescue boat returned the drone to the warship as fast as possible. The technical department immediately activated the image records in the drone and sent them to Ye Fei.

Ye Fei couldn't wait to play the video in front of everyone, and the picture taken from the angle of the drone started from entering the light cluster, only to see that after the drone entered the light cluster, it was first snow-white. Then enter a magical world of magnificence, everywhere the camera can see, there are cirrus clouds with red as the main color, dreamlike bright colors and strange shapes make people feel like falling into a dream.

"Wormhole, wormhole, must be wormhole!" The veterinarian almost jumped up, and hugged Ye Fei excitedly, "This is a wormhole, we have made history!" ”

Compared with the excitement of the veterinarian, the others are much calmer, not that they are not excited, but no one understands the significance of the discovery of wormholes like veterinarians - the discovery of wormholes represents that in addition to the use of faster-than-light engines, humans have another means of exploring deep space, although it is not known what the place is on the other side of the tunnel, but it is certainly not near the solar system, maybe somewhere in the Andromeda galaxy.

What is this place? Ruan Peng asked the question in everyone's mind.

Everyone's eyes fell on the veterinarian.

"What do you want me to do?" The veterinarian was innocent, "I'm not an astronomical student!" ”

His answer made everyone retract their gaze in disappointment.

Jiang Xue, who has the most research on astronomy, looked at it carefully and said hesitantly: "I think it seems to be the inside of a cloud, maybe it is a nebula?" "There was no one present who was more accomplished in astronomy than her, but she was mostly exposed to astronomical knowledge related to navigation, and had never studied nebulae.

Everyone's eyes were on Jiang Xue's face.

Ye Fei didn't feel like she was talking nonsense, so he asked softly, "Can you tell which nebula it is?" ”

Jiang Xue was stunned first and then smiled bitterly: "How can you see that the drone photographed the inside of the nebula, not the appearance of the nebula." ”

"Forget it, it doesn't matter where it is, the question is where is the Third Fleet?" Ye Fei knocked on the table, "Even if the Third Fleet was actively swallowed by the wormhole, but there is only a nebula on this picture, there is no shadow of a battleship, the wormhole is here, why don't they return?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, all stumped by Ye Fei's question.

"Will it ...... No, it's not. Ruan Peng swallowed back half of his words.

"What do you want to say? Say it boldly. Ye Fei encouraged.

Ruan Peng awkwardly avoided Ye Fei's gaze: "I want to say whether the Third Fleet wants to avoid the bone mound, so they didn't fly back in time, but then I remember that their task is to drag the bone mound, and there is no reason not to avoid it......"

"No, the Third Fleet probably wants to go back, but it can't!" Scissors analyzed, "There are also a large number of biological warships involved in the wormhole with the Third Fleet! ”

He Jian had a different opinion: "After so many days, the combat effectiveness of the Third Fleet is again, and it is time to break up those biological warships, right?" ”

"There are all nebulae on the other side, you see, these nebulae look so thick, I'm afraid that they will fight with the enemy for too long and get lost in the nebula!" Ye Fei pointed out another possibility.

"I don't think it's very likely that the Third Fleet will leave the wormhole on its own." The veterinarian said with an opposing attitude, "No matter how stupid the commander is, he knows the importance of the wormhole, no matter how fierce the battle is, it should revolve around the wormhole, leaving the wormhole in that strange place and burrowing into the nebula is not the same as looking for death?" My idea is that walking through wormholes will have any unknown adverse effects on the human body, or living beings? ”

Everyone trembled a little when they heard this, the total number of biological warships that were caught in the wormhole is not small, but after all, the Third Fleet still has two capital ships and a heavy aerospace carrier, no matter how bad the combat effectiveness is, three days is enough to kill all the enemy ships, how can it be delayed for more than 20 days and not come back?

The veterinarian's speculation from the medical side seems to be more reasonable than Ye Fei's speculation from the military side - the veterinarian can barely be regarded as a doctor, Ye Fei is a professional commander, and the two speculations happen to be the respective specialties of the two.

"If a person crossing a wormhole is affected, will the passage of a biological warship also be affected?" Che Qi whispered his opinion, "Also, there are no warships and no biological warships near the wormhole, is it at any speed here, crossing over to that side or at what speed?" ”

"Let's put this aside and study it later, and find out whether the wormhole has any adverse effects on people. This matter cannot be risked by humans, and biological crossing experiments must be carried out! Ye Fei's words were categorical, but then he was impatient again, "Damn, where can I find animals in this place?" ”

Everyone, look at me, I'll look at you, no one can think of a way.

Every inch of land in the battleship must be valuable, pets are not allowed at all, and once the war starts, no one has the time to take care of pets, and there is not even a single mouse on the Aquila, how can there be a creature that can be used?

Unless it's bacteria! (To be continued......)

PS: Personal question, the time of the code word is relatively late, so it will not be divided into chapters.