Earth Era - v2 Chapter 346
In the depths of the distant dark universe, in the void space between the stars, an icy stone is quietly running. While it’s a strange thing to see macroscopic objects in this thin place, it’s not impossible to explain. Due to the mutual gravitational disturbance between stars, the rubble at the edge of the star system in the Oort cloud may also break free from the gravitational force of the original stars and enter the cosmic space. After the voyage, it entered the gravitational range of another star and was captured by another star.
This is the exchange of material between stars, which is rare, but not unusual.
Surrounded by boundless darkness, cold and quiet. In the distance are shining stars, up, down, left, right, front, and back, in all directions. Here is a sea of ​​darkness and stars.
This stone is about two meters long, and its height and width are only one meter and 0.8 meters respectively. It has an irregular shape and is full of dense holes. Obviously, in its past life history Among them, it has suffered more than one collision.
Like the countless ordinary stones that exist in this universe, it is bland and can’t find a special place no matter where it comes from. But it was such a stone that suddenly had a strange change in the next moment.
Its body suddenly cracked a small crack, and a glass spherical thing protruded from the crack. The brilliance of the distant stars reflected on it, and the plain white added a little mysterious atmosphere to it.
Those are its eyes.
This is a monitoring satellite of the Lyra Deep Space Monitoring Network. In order to improve its survival rate and concealment, people covered its body with thick camouflage, disguised it as an interstellar rock, and placed it in the void space between stars, Let it run according to a specific orbit, monitoring all the changes in this vast void space.
Thousands of spy satellites like this have been dropped here. These thousands of satellites form a large network, which undertakes the monitoring work of the E7368 star field, and forms a higher-level monitoring network with the other hundreds of satellite networks of similar scale.
Light from the depths of the universe entered the glass ball-shaped eye, and then entered the analytical instrument hidden inside. Except for information collection devices in the optical band. It also integrates more devices for different purposes. There are space curvature detectors, gravitational wave detectors, wave detection instruments, etc.
a few hours ago. It detected spatial curvature fluctuations, which means that something is traveling faster than light not far from it, and this is traveling faster than light, and this is not reported in the Lyra Deep Space Monitoring Network. Under the current circumstances, it is obvious that there is only one possibility for a robot group that has not been reported and is traveling faster than the speed of light. The smart program inside it also calculates this. So it moved its orbit. Going to come here to check the situation of the robot group in more detail. But for some reason, it was an hour after it noticed the fluctuations in the curvature of space. That space curvature fluctuation suddenly disappeared.
The disappearance of space curvature fluctuations means that the robot group has left the state of superluminal navigation and entered the state of regular navigation. The robot group under the normal sailing state can be observed by optical telescopes. It is because of this that it releases its own “eyes”. Going to see what’s going on here.
But the dark universe blocks out so much information that it sees nothing in visible light. So it switched to the infrared band to observe. So… a sun suddenly appeared in its field of vision.
It wasn’t the real sun, but it was too similar to the sun. It’s too big and too bright. Observed by this spy satellite. A powerful infrared ray source appeared at a distance of about hundreds of millions of kilometers from itself, and if it was further distinguished. It saw that this infrared ray source… is actually formed by the convergence of more very tiny small ray sources. It’s just because the distance is too far, so when viewed from a distance, it converges into one piece.
It came to the conclusion after a little calculation by a computer program: “There are at least .
A source of infrared radiation means there is heat. Obviously, this heat is radiated from the bodies of those robots. Their engines generate a lot of heat during operation, which is why the satellite can observe them.
It immediately transmits the information it observes. This information will be transmitted to the spy satellites that are close to it, and then relayed all the way to Earth. This is the working mode of the Lyra Deep Space Monitoring Network.
It doesn’t know why these robots suddenly leave the superluminal state, and it doesn’t care about that. Its job responsibilities are only to collect data. As for the analysis of data, that is the responsibility of the earth base.
But after a while, another unexpected thing was noticed by it. The instrument on it told it that the intensity of that powerful infrared ray source… seemed to have decreased a little in the past little time.
It also doesn’t care why the intensity of the infrared ray source decreases, it still just records it faithfully and sends it out.
The decrease in the intensity of infrared radiation sources seems to be an inexorable trend. In its silent observation, the sun in the infrared field of view was rapidly dimming, from a scorching sun to a sunset, and finally completely dimmed and disappeared completely. So it lost the last means of observing the robot group.
In another corner of the universe, on a planet in a red dwarf galaxy.
This place was originally a paradise for human beings. People built various facilities here, built high-rise buildings, built roads, transformed natural landscapes, and built space bases… But all man-made objects have completely disappeared. All this was destroyed by artillery fire during the sweeping operation as the humans retreated. Then, after decades of silence, it welcomed its second group of visitors.
It was an army of hideous-looking robots. They descended from space like a meteor shower, taking over the planet’s lands and mountains, its valleys and oceans in less than a day. The silent stars are noisy again, and the robots are mining the materials and minerals they need here, and multiplying to the fullest…
But at this time, a signal was transmitted here from the depths of the universe and entered the signal receiving equipment of the robots. As if something had been activated, after receiving this message, all robot movements stopped.
It was as if someone had cast time-stop magic here.
But this time stop only lasted for less than a second, and after a second, everything was different from before. The robot flying in the sky suddenly fell to the ground like raindrops. The crawling robot fell to the ground as soon as its body was tilted, and there was no movement. The larvae robot, which was foraging under the leadership of the mother robot, was ready to face it. The food is also powerless to move forward…
There are still robots in the sky trying to land on the ground. When they enter the atmosphere from outer space, they will decelerate and finally land at a safe speed, but for some reason, the originally scheduled deceleration action did not happen. Under the dual action of the planet’s gravity and its own inertia, they entered the planet’s atmosphere at a very high speed, so… they turned into fireballs in the friction with the atmosphere.
There were endless fireballs with long tails in the sky, like a meteor shower… No, a meteor shower is not enough to describe the situation at the moment. It was a fireball impact that was thousands of times stronger than the meteor shower, and they even filled the entire sky.
On the horizon, the star that dominates this star system is about to fall, and its afterglow can only bring a dim color to the world, but at this time, under the illumination of the infinite light, the whole world Bright as day.
The planet’s atmosphere is not large enough to burn out the robots~www.mtlnovel.com~ After passing through the atmosphere, there will be many remains of the robot’s body. So they hit the ground at a speed of at least ten kilometers per second – such a high-speed impact can even trigger a nuclear fusion reaction.
One shell after another bombarded the surface of the planet, and endless smoke and dust rose up, all the landforms on the surface of the planet were destroyed, and the entire atmosphere was shrouded in smoke and dust… The world quickly entered a darkness.
But the sky is still bright, and the continuous impact has not stopped, but has a more and more violent trend.
It wasn’t just this planet that got hit. The state of motion at the last moment before the robot loses consciousness determines its state of motion afterward – they have no consciousness and ability to change this state of motion, and they can only move under the dominance of inertia and the gravity of the planet. As a result, trillions of robots have become headless interstellar cannonballs. Some of them hit the stars, some hit other planets, and some hit each other because of the overlapping orbits. The impact and eventually turned into fragments, and some escaped the star system directly under the support of inertia, stepping into the endless depths of the universe… (To be continued.)
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