Chapter 635 Empty

Hao Ren believed that he was far-sighted - well, not necessarily far-sighted, but at least far-sighted.

He made some arrangements when he left the dream plane last time, but at the time he didn't expect that these arrangements would one day be used to find someone. At that time, he wanted to explore the starry sky of the Dream Plane and draw a star map for future operations, so he ordered the Giant Turtle Yantai to release a batch of self-proliferating detectors. Those detectors would be able to replicate themselves as needed and think networked through faster-than-light antennas. They will plan their own best exploration plan, continue to move into the depths of the universe, draw all the celestial bodies they encounter along the way on star maps, and build small observation stations at regular intervals to maintain this advanced drone network.

The working mode of these detectors is to first send a group of high-speed individuals to quickly scan the starry sky, and then send high-precision individuals to gradually fill in the blank parts of the scanning area. In this way, Hao Ren can grasp the celestial bodies in a large area of ​​​​the Dream Plane in the shortest time. distributed.

Obviously, after this drone group has been operating for a period of time, the first thing that will be fed back is a set of rough star maps, which only include the distribution data of major celestial bodies within a certain range. To specifically scan those celestial bodies for traces of life, It’s not that easy anymore, and subsequent slow detectors are needed for precise observations. So far, the drone swarm released by Hao Ren is only doing preliminary work such as drawing sketches, and has not yet progressed to the step of detecting life. Moreover, it was not until a few days ago that the drone swarm sent back the first star map. But I didn't expect it to come in handy now.

Now the fastest detectors have mapped stars across billions of light-years - centered on the planet Holleta.

The data terminal called up the rough star map and looked for a point within its range where the starry sky consistent with the memory of the angry spirit could be observed.

Nangong Wuyue waited nervously and anxiously beside him, and Nangong Sanba also separated from the device and followed the progress of the matter with his sister - it seemed that he was lucky enough to escape the punishment of the invincible windmill this time. Hao Ren comforted them: "Don't worry, those drones have been expanding outwards, and their scanning range is very large. Even if there is no star map that meets the requirements this time, it will not take long to find it in the future."

Wuyue gently rubbed Hao Ren's trouser leg with the tip of her tail: "It's okay, we've been waiting here for more than a hundred years."

The door to the laboratory slid open silently, and Lily carefully slipped in with the freshly washed cat girl. The stupid cat's hair still felt a little wet, and most of her and Lily's clothes were wet— —It seems that bathing a cat is not easy.

"What are you doing?" The husky spirit realized that the atmosphere was serious, and immediately swallowed the "ooh" that had just jumped into his throat, and then tugged on Hao Ren's sleeve and asked in a low voice.

"Go away" with a serious look on his face, washing his face with his paws and helping to explain: "You must be looking for small dried fish for me."

Hao Ren touched Gun's head and was about to say something when he was interrupted by the data terminal: "...This machine has found a place with a high probability, but..."

Nangong Sanba looked impatient: "But what?"

The data terminal turned on the holographic projection, which showed an empty vast space. This was a picture transmitted from the dream plane by a certain detector: "A drone drew these images while traveling through the starry sky. The images of these stars The location and features are consistent with the memory of the angry spirit, but the problem is... there are no celestial bodies in this place."

"There are no celestial bodies?!" Nangong Wuyue exclaimed, and then quickly thought of something, "Could it be that...my parents were sent to space?"

The data terminal shook his body: "Logically speaking, it shouldn't be. Space transmission usually chooses something with mass as the landing point first. This is caused by the disturbance of gravity to space. But this location is indeed a bit strange at the moment... There is nothing here. There is only a cloud of embers in the celestial body, and it seems that there was a big explosion many years ago. The intelligence returned by the drone is limited, and this aircraft only knows so much."

Hao Ren stared for a long time without saying a word, and finally he could only touch May's shoulder: "Don't worry, at least your parents weren't transported to the sun, right..."

Lily looked at Hao Ren sideways: "How many times have I reminded you, don't comfort people as much as possible, your mouth needs to be pumped most of the time."

Hao Ren opened his mouth in embarrassment: "Okay, let's not think so much. It's better to go to the place and see the actual situation. In any case, the star map cannot lie. The angry spirit must have been to that place. Let's go back Discuss it with others and set off to the Dream Plane as soon as possible to confirm."

Nangong brother and sister looked at each other in silence and nodded silently. They were not in the mood to talk too much now.

The atmosphere was stiff, and even the ignorant cat next to her calmed down obediently. The cat girl found a place out of the way and squatted down carefully, wiping her face with her paws, while muttering: "The big cat is not happy, so what?" I don’t want Xiaoyudian anymore…”

After that, there was no words for the whole journey. Hao Ren explained the situation to Galadra through the spacecraft communicator, and then directly started the space jump to return to the earth.

When they returned home, it was already night on Earth. Elizabeth and Isaacs had already gone to bed. Only Vivian was humming and knitting a scarf and watching TV in the living room. When the vampire girl saw everyone coming out of the basement, she raised her head and said hello with a smile: "You're back? Do you still want to eat something? I made gluten soup tonight."

Hao Ren waved his hand to indicate that he had eaten outside, and then sat down next to Vivian: "We have unlocked the memory of the angry spirit, and we have the whereabouts of Nangong's parents."

"Huh? This is a good thing," Vivian stopped what she was doing and saw that the expression on Hao Ren's face seemed to be quite meaningful, "Is there something unexpected?"

"Maybe somewhere in the Dream Plane, the drones I sent out before happened to find a star area with a high probability." Hao Ren told Vivian the general situation, "...problem It’s that there aren’t any celestial bodies in that place.”

"Then it seems we can only go over and confirm the situation," Vivian put her finger on her chin, "Shall we set off tomorrow?"

Hao Ren glanced at the Nangong siblings: "Have a good rest today, we will leave tomorrow."

The next day, Yizhaks and his wife learned about the memory of the angry spirit and volunteered to go with them to help find someone. Considering that this time he was flying over in a spaceship, and some people could stay on board the spacecraft if necessary, Hao Ren decided to bring his entire family with him - including cats and fish. In this way, he would not have to worry about the trouble and damage that might be caused by a naughty child looking after the house. Before leaving, he greeted Raven 12345 and after confirming that there were no mission arrangements for the time being, he set off with his team.

The Giant Turtle Yantai was traveling rapidly through the vast space. The distant starlight projected a vague halo on the silver-white shell of the spacecraft. According to the navigation signals left by the detection drones, the spacecraft was moving rapidly. Close to your destination.

When it was still 0.3 light-years away from the target, the spacecraft performed a temporary deceleration. It broke away from the hyperspace state and moved closer to a small silver-white building in space.

This building is very small, only one-third the size of the Giant Turtle Rock Platform. It looks like a stubby tower in space, with four symmetrically distributed towers suspended on its top. Crystal thin plates, and some small floating turrets can be seen around the building - the latter is the defense force of this small outpost, which is enough to deal with ordinary wandering celestial bodies and invaders (if there are any) . And if it encounters a greater threat, the entire outpost will jump away as a whole: after all, it is just a broadcast antenna, and there is no need to confront the enemy head-on.

This outpost is one of the results of the drone swarms Hao Ren released previously. While those drones are constantly heading into the depths of the universe, they are also constantly building a huge network. While they are multiplying themselves, they are looking for suitable celestial bodies in the universe to build production bases. At the same time, they will also follow a strict and exquisite plan. The blueprint builds a signal relay station in space, which is the facility in front of you.

These things work together to form an autonomous drone swarm. Although these low-tech drones with simple structures can do very little, for censors on pioneer missions, these things are quite useful.

A beam of light was fired from the Giant Turtle Platform and connected to this small outpost, directly reading the latter's recent observation records, and the crystal plate on the top of the outpost also changed its direction and pointed to the depths of space. A drone hurried across the starry sky made contact and conveyed information from afar to its master.

On the bridge of the Giant Turtle Platform, the data terminal transferred the observation report from the outpost: "Two detectors were ordered to return to provide us with more accurate constellation navigation in this area. There are still no detections in the target area. Celestial body…but with a pile of ashes.”

"Ashes? What ashes?" Vivian asked curiously.

"solar."