From black technology to super engineering.

Chapter 628 The Aircraft in the Cargo Hold
Li Dongsheng woke up from his doze on the Asterisk probe spacecraft.

Since the core wormhole of the "planet" of Auriga [-] passed through, including him, the "captain", none of the four of them had enough sleep for a day and woke up naturally.Especially him, as the one with the strongest scientific research background and the highest education in the entire scientific research spacecraft, in addition to operating various instruments and equipment by himself, he also has to be responsible for training the other three people.

After all, Chen Xiwen and the others are professional fighters, and they are also special forces fighters... What they are best at is reconnaissance, penetration and killing techniques, not scientific research.

"Old Li, Professor Hollein asked us to install a multifunctional satellite with a missile head to the antimatter mine."

Chen Xiwen said loudly as he strode into the empty command cabin.

Li Dongsheng rubbed his eyes, and after a moment his face was full of bitterness: "This is going to dismantle the missile...will you know?"

"I don't know. Chang Xiaochuan probably does. He was transferred from the Rocket Army." After a pause, Chen Xiwen added: "But I don't think it's necessary to dismantle it."

"Huh? Then what's the matter?"

"I think it can be in the form of a plug-in. How about we go to the combat cabin to see?"

"Walk."

Li Dongsheng stood up from the chair, twisted the teacup away, and then walked to the combat cabin with Chen Xiwen.

As a purely scientific research ship, its combat cabin is set up very concealed, not only does it not have any signs, even the entrance is in a small warehouse next to the command cabin.

Usually, except for the necessary periodic maintenance, there is no one in the combat cabin when performing missions.Especially the Asterisk, being an "old" ship, its weapons were only used once two years ago, and only with lasers to burn stones.

But in any case, when it comes to weapons, the regulations must be strictly followed-single-person entry is not allowed in the combat compartment.

As soon as he entered the combat cabin, Li Dongsheng heard the conversation between Chang Xiaochuan and Geng Mingyou.

"Good guy, and DF-17, has this thing been modified?"

"I don't know wow."

"I think it should not be modified. This thing is a waverider. It has been in an aerobic environment. It uses a scramjet engine. It cannot be used in a vacuum environment without modification."

"What about air-to-air missiles?"

"It's not enough, and the air-to-air missile is a little smaller."

Seeing Li Dongsheng enter the room, the two quickly stopped talking and stood up to say hello.

Li Dongsheng nodded, looking around - he had been in the combat cabin of the Yueyue a long time ago, but this was the first time he had seen the combat cabin of the Wenxing. The cabin is smaller and more "status-less", a design that is a mixture of combat space and arsenal.

The real command cabin is very small, only about ten square meters, but the warehouse next to it is quite large, with more than a dozen missiles of various kinds fixed on the shelves.

"Don't worry, the missiles here are all modified." Li Dongsheng pursed his lips, and looked away from the weapon rack: "The main consideration of the weapons on the Asterisk is to eliminate space threats, um... for example, the meteorites on the channel." kind."

"Then there's no problem." Chang Xiaochuan immediately said, "Then I'll find a screwdriver."

Chen Xiwen laughed and kicked Xu Xu: "Can you take this thing apart with a screwdriver?"

"I don't know wow."

"Just messing around." Chen Xiwen looked at Li Dongsheng: "We don't dismantle it, just pack and tie the detector on it, and we don't need to consider air friction in a vacuum—if we dismantle it, you still have to consider the issue of separation."

"Actually, it doesn't even need to be separated." At this time, Geng Mingyou interjected: "I think the detector is a one-time product. Think about it, it is going to fly to the antimatter mine... Whenever some antiparticles burst out, this thing will immediately It's about to disappear."

"Hmm..." Li Dongsheng held his chin and thought for a while before nodding: "Okay, anyway, this is the condition we have now, you guys just do it."

As he said that, he looked at the time again: "Damn, I have to go to see the engineering robot - you are busy."

The three of them laughed together.

Everyone has been in the same boat for so long, so they naturally know how "guilty" Li Dongsheng feels in his heart these days. There is no disobedience to orders.

But Li Dongsheng is different, Li Dongsheng sneaked out directly under Mr. Ye's nose!This nature is not ordinary... Although he has a good relationship with Mr. Ye, he may not be dealt with too much, but it is inevitable to cause trouble to Mr. Ye.

Therefore, this guy worked non-stop all day long, as busy as a spinning top, and even the three of them "suffered".

"By the way, Captain Li, there is one more thing." After laughing, Chang Xiaochuan said.

"what's up?"

"We don't have much supplies." Chang Xiaochuan pursed his lips and shrugged again: "Unless you make up your mind, we really want to drill into the next galaxy like a space wanderer, and then find the supply point smoothly, otherwise... …We can stay here for at most a week before returning.”

"Fuck! Isn't there a soilless cultivation laboratory for crops? We can't grow them?"

"Uh... there are vegetables growing on it, so we can't eat all the vegetables without the staple food, right?"

"Come on... where's the meat?"

"There's not much meat in stock." Chang Xiaochuan said helplessly, "Maybe when we go back, we'll have to eat vegetarian food for a few days."

"Okay... I see." Li Dongsheng's eyebrows and beard frowned, and after a while, he snorted heavily.

"The Canglan base is too picky!"

……

Leaving the war room, Li Dongsheng quickly walked back to the command cabin, and then returned to the mechanical control position to sit down—this was his old position. The front control panel could control the entire ship's mechanical equipment and any disembarkation equipment.

I took a look at the disembarkation equipment, and saw that most of them showed green under control—these detectors and engineering robots were remotely controlled by various units on the earth, and they are currently conducting an in-depth analysis of the ruins of the battleship.

Among them, the white one is the resting state, the orange one is the state that needs to be charged and maintained, and the gray one is the offline state.

Seeing more and more detectors and robots flashing green and orange, Li Dongsheng sighed softly.

His most task is to maintain these detectors, whether it is small repairs, charging, or battery replacement, the spacecraft is required here.

Once the spacecraft leaves, it means that these detectors and robots will completely stop working in a few days.

After contacting the control objects of some of the engineering robots that need to be charged, he first took over the control of these robots, and then queued up to return to the energy device for charging-the energy device is actually a large off-board power bank, but There are propulsion and attitude controls.

After giving the order, he switched into an engineering robot in a resting state.

This robot is controlled by him personally, and the target is a relatively intact spaceship.

The reason why it is relatively intact is that the rear engine part of the spaceship was hit with a big hole, and it looks like it was hit by an asteroid—this was chosen by Li Dongsheng for himself out of selfishness.

Of course, it's not his fault. After all, the wreckage of the spaceship is a treasure in everyone's eyes. How can others care about picking and choosing!

Controlling the engineering robot to accurately stick to the edge of the big hole in the tail and enter the ship, Li Dongsheng turned on the lighting and inspected it carefully.

Obviously, this place should be similar to a reaction furnace, or a confinement furnace... Well, if it is really like what Ye Ming said, this is an antimatter mining area, then maybe it is the design of an antimatter engine... Thinking of this, Li Dongsheng controlled the robot from multiple angles After taking several high-definition photos, I continued to move forward with satisfaction.

Along the way, the debris flying around and the impact marks on the bulkhead confirmed Li Dongsheng's conjecture that the spaceship was indeed hit by a meteorite—but why didn't the spaceship explode?
However, this idea only flashed in Li Dongsheng's mind and quickly disappeared. He asked himself that he was not an authority in this area, and left the headaches to Ye Ming to ponder-the more unreasonable things, the more they can arouse Ye Ming. This guy Ming's interest is an experience that has already been verified.

Soon, the engineering robot came to the middle of the spaceship.

"Damn it!" Li Dongsheng broke out in a cold sweat from the fright——under the light, an extremely wide space appeared in front of his eyes.However, half of the front rollers of the engineering robot fell on the "cliff".

Startled, he quickly removed the electromagnetic device, and the engineering robot floated from the state of being close to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, Li Dongsheng activated the jet attitude control system, stably synchronized the engineering robot with the wreckage of the spaceship, and aimed the light downward at the same time.

According to experience, this is undoubtedly a cargo compartment.

Li Dongsheng thought so, and his gaze followed the light.

Under the impact, the cargo hold was in a mess, countless wooden boxes and metal parts were floating in the air, and the walls of the cargo hold were also covered with impact marks everywhere.

This means that when the tail of the spacecraft was hit, it did follow Newton's law.

"It's a pity..." Li Dongsheng looked around and found that there was nothing of value. He regretfully controlled the robot and prepared to cross the cargo compartment to the main control room.

However, just as the engineering robot flew halfway, a nearly complete flying device was suddenly seen below in the lights!

His eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately controlled the engineering robot to fly down.

A three-meter-long and one-meter-wide aircraft, like a fuzzy rocket, was firmly locked on the machine platform in the warehouse.

Other than a bit of scuffing on the outer shell, the craft is intact.

Li Dongsheng pursed his lips, his eyes lit up, and the next moment, the engineering robot took out the cutting machine.

……

Three hours later, the cargo hold of the Asterisk was wide open, and the engineering robot, which was on the verge of power failure, pushed the aircraft back.

On the spaceship, Li Dongsheng and Chen Xiwen stood on the balcony of the cargo hold wearing radiation-proof interior space suits, staring intently at the aircraft.

The hatch was closed and the lights were turned on. Li Dongsheng glanced at the Geiger counter in his hand.

"Safe! Come on, let's take a closer look, it would be awesome if it's a missile!" Li Dongsheng put away the instrument and walked down the stairs first.

"Captain Li, if this thing is really in the cargo hold, I think it's a landing craft, right? Or it's a shuttle." Chen Xiwen followed closely behind.

"I don't know, let's talk about it after reading."

While talking, the two came to the side of the aircraft.

From the outside, this aircraft does not have any function at all. It has no landing gear and no glass windows. There are only a few bowl-sized nozzles at the tail-of course, this also makes it clear that it is indeed an aircraft.

In addition, there are only some lines on the shell for reference.

"Look at these lines, are they similar to those on the battleships we have seen?"

"Well, sort of... If so, what Slanzi supplies does this thing use?"

"Almost, so this thing means it can go through wormholes?"

"Damn it... that's not really an interstellar missile, is it?" Li Dongsheng took a step back, but immediately took a step forward, his eyes gleaming: "If it's true, then we'll be rich."

Chen Xiwen coughed, but his eyes were also full of joy.

Human beings know very little about the "enemy" now, and this time the detection, because the battlefield was severely damaged, and I don't know how many years have passed...so it has become a luxury to find some "garbage" to go back.

Li Dongsheng was able to bring a nearly perfect aircraft directly, which was naturally something to be happy about.

Not to mention, if this thing is really an "interstellar" missile, it will undoubtedly increase human understanding of extraterrestrial civilizations.

But... Chen Xiwen was still a little skeptical.

He also participated in the investigation of the wreckage of the spaceship, and at the same time obtained a wealth of information—that is, the configuration of the warships of alien civilizations, or "habits", is actually similar to that of human warships.

It is also divided into regions and combat compartments.

Moreover, he did not see such a thing as a missile.

The extraterrestrial civilizations are more likely to perform miracles vigorously, using laser weapons or particle weapons.

What's more, if it was a missile, why would it be placed in the cargo hold?
"Never mind him, I'll tell Mr. Ye!"

At this time, Li Dongsheng didn't find anything famous after looking left and right, so he immediately raised his wrist, intending to "show off" to Ye Ming.

——I don't know if Ye Ming is really angry or fake, anyway, I haven't contacted him these days.

Hmm... I don't know how Ye Ming will feel when he sees this thing.

Just when Li Dongsheng was about to dial the number, Chen Xiwen frowned more and more. After a while, he looked at Li Dongsheng: "Captain Li, it wasn't the battleship that found this?"

"No."

"Is it in the cargo hold?"

"Yes."

"Then... do you think it is possible that this thing is used to collect antimatter?"

Chen Xiwen pointed to the binary star system in the distance that was erupting with distorted light day and night.

Li Dongsheng was slightly taken aback: "How to say?"

"I don't know. As a soldier, I take it for granted that there must be a purpose for fighting. And here, as an antimatter mining area... the war must be around the service of antimatter."

Li Dongsheng nodded slightly: "And serve for the war."

"Yes—but when you found it, you were not on a warship, and this aircraft, without any openings for doors and windows, cannot be used to carry people."

"As for missiles, firstly, civilizations outside the system do not have the habit of using missiles, and secondly...missiles should not be stored in ordinary cargo bays."

Chen Xiwen frowned, and said softly: "Of course, this is just a guess... You'd better wait for Mr. Ye to judge. If it is really used to collect antimatter..."

He didn't finish his sentence, but both of them fell silent at the same time.

Everyone knows what this means.

(End of this chapter)