"What?" Anthony asked in surprise.

"Their spacecraft may have been hit by a small rock outside the asteroid belt." Emerson said with certainty.

"Didn't they just fly out of the Earth's atmosphere? How come they flew near the asteroid belt so quickly?"

"Who knows?" Emerson looked back at the tracking record of Shi Hanlin's spacecraft: "Judging from its trajectory, after it broke out of the Earth's atmosphere, it went straight to the outside of the orbit of Mars. He probably wanted to help us find ores. But I don't know.

Why, before it entered the orbit of Mars, its spacecraft suddenly accelerated and rushed into the inside of the asteroid belt."

"Now that Mars and Jupiter are on the other side of the sun, I wonder why there is such a strong gravitational pull?"

"I can't explain this clearly. It's possible that they got close to the interstellar vortex and were swallowed up. It's also possible that those asteroids were hit by the vortex of this force and flew into collision with them."

"If you analyze it carefully, were they completely destroyed after encountering a star collision? Do they still have hope of survival?"

"Judging from the positions of their spacecraft and the few small stones, the place where they collided was not a head-on collision. The trajectory of the mallet-shaped stone showed that the bottom of its tip was in contact with the top of Shi Hanlin's spacecraft.

Therefore, it is estimated that their spacecraft was only damaged but not completely destroyed." Emerson saw the collision site clearly by amplifying the signal bit and transposing it.

"Then it's easy to handle. Contact them as soon as possible for rescue."

"But after their spacecraft was hit, its signal was interrupted."

"What?" Anthony was stunned: "What happened?"

"I estimate that Shi Hanlin's spacecraft encountered a mysterious force spiral arm just after it broke out of the earth's atmosphere, and was swept into an interstellar vortex, so that its signal was blocked," Emerson said.

"What should we do?"

"We can only find the exit of this mysterious whirlpool according to the disposal regulations learned in the textbook."

"How to specifically find the exit of this vortex?" Because Anthony's basic education was in outer space, although he was later transferred to the inner space exploration department by accident and took supplementary courses later, he still had many rules for dealing with dangerous situations in inner space.

I'm not very precise. So when I encounter this kind of phenomenon, I often ask Emerson for advice.

"This kind of signal shielding vortex has one or several exits, which are distributed around the vortex in a bottleneck shape. If you want to find a spacecraft falling into the vortex, you can only rely on high-sensitivity detectors to look for the signals that emerge from the bottleneck.

Signal from the spacecraft."

"Then you should find the bottleneck as soon as possible, and then we will carry out rescue."

"This kind of detector is only found on Sun Xiaogang's large-scale production and maintenance spacecraft. Our detector does not respond to this one-way signal. Because that one-way signal cannot reach our detector sensor. Unless we

The spacecraft flew above its bottleneck. But the bottleneck could not be found, and we could not reach above the bottleneck."

"What should we do?"

"There are only two ways. One is to set the spacecraft to swing greatly so that it accidentally swings above the vortex bottleneck. However, this involves the risk of our own spacecraft being sucked in by it."

"Then what's another way?"

"That is to say, notify Sun Xiaogang's spacecraft and ask them to use their high-sensitivity search and rescue device to detect the area we have given, find the specific location of the vortex bottleneck, and then fly to the top of it to send a signal inward to guide Shi Hanlin's spacecraft out of the vortex.

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"Then notify Sun Xiaogang as soon as possible and give the coordinates of the location where the signal of Shi Hanlin's spacecraft disappeared, so that he can carry out search and rescue as soon as possible."

"I have already sent it, I guess they are searching."

"Then let's rush to the area where Shi Hanlin's spacecraft crashed as soon as possible and prepare for rescue."

"OK."

With the approval of the Saturn induced ejection mining project, the surrounding area of ​​Saturn began to become lively. Teams of induced ejection and interception mining engineering teams came to the vicinity of Saturn and began to make preparations for launching ejection and tracking acquisition. Emer

Sen continued to shuttle between the rings of Saturn, sometimes measuring the composition of the ring particles, and sometimes remotely measuring the deep structure of Saturn, looking for solid fault-sensitive areas more suitable for triggering and intercepting ejections.

The spacecraft of the decoy engineering team is not a saucer-shaped spacecraft like Sun Xiaogang's, but a honeycomb-shaped spacecraft like a rocket launcher with many micronuclear warheads, and they are all unmanned spacecrafts. The control panel of the engineering team is also a saucer-shaped spacecraft.

When the spray is induced, the honeycomb launcher flies over the spray area, and after one of the launch tubes is pointed at the set decoy point, the spacecraft retreats to a safe area, and then the launch tube automatically fires a super-high speed

The rocket bombards the liquid-solid layer under Saturn's atmosphere, inducing faults that reach the interior of Saturn's solid layer. The energy accumulated inside explodes violently, ejecting lava containing mineral resources from its interior into space. This energy also depends on the size and size of the planet.

It is determined by the amount of energy accumulated inside. It is too small to be ejected out of the atmosphere, so it is difficult to achieve the purpose of mining. We can only find areas with large internal energy accumulation to detonate, so that the ejected lava can rush out of the atmosphere and be

Mining can only be considered successful when the erupted lava breaks away from Saturn's gravity and becomes the rubble belt of Saturn. Therefore, it is most important to accurately determine the areas where the internal energy of the star is concentrated and the most sensitive bombardment parts before erupting.

Although Sun Xiaogang expected that the induced ejection mining project would have little hope of allowing their personnel to directly participate in mining, the result was beyond his expectation. The Engineering Office of the Inner Planet Exploration Branch handed over the mobilization rights of this project to Emerson directly. This means

The engineering personnel involved in the decoction and mining equipment were all under the command of Emerson. This shows that the Inner Space Exploration Bureau attaches great importance to this project.

"I'm very worried." Faced with this allocation, Emerson mistakenly thought that the purpose of doing this was to make him take full responsibility in case of failure, so he began to feel uneasy: "What if the spray point is not selected correctly?"

It’s appropriate. If Saturn’s energy-gathering eruption fails to reach the planned speed, it is likely to result in failure.”

"What are you worried about?" Sun Xiaogang "smiled": "The decision made by the superiors is because they value you, not because they don't trust you. Don't worry."

"I'm afraid that our attempts will be in vain like those of our predecessors."

"There's no need to worry," Sun Xiaogang encouraged him: "It's none of your business even if you fail. Even if the result you're worried about happens, you have nothing to fear. At the worst, you can go back to Kuiper and lead a comfortable life."

"I don't want to live that kind of comfortable life," Emerson said. "My career is in the exploration of inner space. If I lose this opportunity because of this, I would rather not do it than stay here."

"Don't worry, even if you fail, I will assign the responsibility to you." Sun Xiaogang said, "As long as you detect it carefully and analyze it carefully, I believe you will succeed."

"Well, in order to be sure, I will conduct a comprehensive analysis of the data again to avoid making mistakes."
Chapter completed!