After leaving the last dark journey of the gravity catapult, the Flowing Horse once again ran under the stars. This made Alex feel relaxed and happy, and also reminded him that he was about to reach the destination of this trip: xm1.

xm1 is the name of the planet based on the star Beolo, which means "secret solar system, number m, first planet sequence." On the star chart of composite evolved humans, it has a more complex "geography" based on the spiral arms of the Milky Way.

The number of the system is just considering that Alex learned the information about this planet from the self-contained biological people. To show respect, the shorter name xm1 is used.

Still 30 light years away from the destination, a golden star appeared on the bridge's monitoring screen, like a golden orb inlaid on a black curtain. That was the sun of xm1. Its burning was not violent.

It is not large in size, so its temperature is relatively low. Only the planet in orbit closest to it has the basic temperature to sustain life.

Viewed from the high-resolution optical analyzer, XM1 is a severely deserted planet. There are no mountains or valleys on the planet's surface, only rugged and continuous sand dunes. The temperature difference between the half directly illuminated by the sun and the other half in the night is huge, and the atmosphere is active.

There are no terrain obstacles, so terrifying yellow storms periodically sweep across the planet's surface, leaving about 1/4 of the planet's airspace permanently in dust storms that block the sky. The entire planet's surface has long been fully mixed, achieving egalitarianism.

Everywhere is endless sand and nothing else.

Alex looked at the yellow planet on the bridge and felt sorry for it in his heart. Judging from the orbital environment and material composition, it is indeed a promising terrestrial planet. The golden sun of xm1 is very gentle and stable.

The threat of externally radiated solar wind is very small, and it is even difficult to stimulate auroras on the magnetic field of

Reaction and rainfall have become very difficult.

"If there is rainfall and a lot of thunder and lightning, basic life substances may be synthesized by themselves." Amy analyzed the orbit of xm1 in the console, so that the optical analyzer always locked on the planet. It was thirty light years away from xm1 before.

The scene seen everywhere is its state 30 years ago, and as the warp speed of the Flowing Horse continues to approach, what happened in the next thirty years is being played in fast forward. Recording all these images and analysis will help track it

The change.

"Wait, what is that?" Amy clicked on the control screen to enlarge an image. In the very blurry outer orbit of XM1, a faint flash caught her attention. "This must be a starship.

Unfortunately, I can’t see it clearly, I just know that it’s quite big. If it’s a space station, that’s fine. It’s not in the subsequent images, or it’s landed, or it’s hiding itself – I prefer the latter.”

Amy pointed to the black shadow that appeared in the last cycle of

It won’t be able to fly.”

"Judging from the time, this starship exactly matches the records of self-contained biological people. It is the one they sent to investigate xm1." Alex called out the information analyzed by Boss Hades and said to Amy: "If

The soil ball is still on xm1, will it be under the sand? Can a stable research base be established in that environment?"

"Are you suggesting that self-organized humans will rush their starships directly under the sand? Planets with underground hollow worlds are rare, and most of them are comets. There are obvious distinctions between above and below ground among planets... Could it be that xm1 is one

?”

Amy readjusted the spectrum and mass analysis of the planet, looked at it for a while and said: "It is possible, but we cannot be sure from the current data. We need to get closer and do a deep environmental scan. But pt52's soil ball

Just in the underground cave, xm1 may be no exception."

While the two were discussing, the Liuma flew closer. The light from 15 years ago came to the high-resolution spectrum analysis. At this time, the planet had changed a lot. A glowing ring appeared on the screen.

Compared with the planet, it is just a thin ribbon, passing through the two directions of the planet's magnetic field, perpendicular to the direction of its rotation, and circling the planet in a space orbit.

"This is obviously man-made, but what is it for? A permanent space station?" Alex asked, pointing to the ribbon on the optical image.

"It looks like the Sado Birdman's planetary environment modification ring, a device that uses gravitational effects to change the planet's landscape. Well, I probably know what they want to do." Amy enlarged the image, and then stared at it carefully: "Ari

Chris, have you noticed that this transformation ring always seems to be above the shadow of the sand storm. It can imitate the satellite to generate extremely strong gravitational tides, perhaps using this to reduce the storm."

Continuing to fly forward, the effect of time is accelerated. Sure enough, another ten years have passed, and the shadow of the storm on

In the actual surface environment of

"The power of this modification ring is not small! I feel that it is much better than the environmental modification device with the concentrated heat station as the core. It will take one or two generations for the people who pioneered the planet to make the surface of the planet fully usable, and this

It’s only been ten years.”

"No, this kind of transformation ring shouldn't have such an effect." Amy shook her head and said: "The environmental ring of the Sado Birdman can only have good effects on ocean planets, and is extremely unstable on hard planets.

It was originally designed to develop gaseous planets. Later, as the power increased, it had the function of environmental transformation. However, the planets it tore and destroyed were ten times as many as those of successfully developed planets. Even if it is successful, it will not last for decades.

Maybe this situation on xm1 is not normal."

There was no interpretable information from the optical observations, so Alex forwarded all the messages received so far to each crew member's room and asked them to prepare for action after leaving warp speed.

.Liu Ma continued to fly forward, and at a position 2 light years away, the state of xm1 suddenly changed.

The planet terraforming ring disappeared, and the desolate Gobi became lush and green overnight, as if a beautiful green planet had "replaced" xm1.

"The breath ball was triggered? I can't think of any other possibility." Amy was amazed and said, "Brother, it seems that our trip was in vain. The breath ball there is gone."

"It does look like it's made of a soil ball, and the soil ball will completely disappear after being used. But..." Alex shook his head: "Remember pt52? The soil ball just changes the environment and gives life

It was prepared for the emergence of the planet, but it did not directly produce a large number of advanced life. According to the news on the Slow Internet, pt52 still looks desolate, but there are microorganisms appearing in the ocean."

"Maybe the soil balls are different? I personally think it is more appropriate to directly generate advanced life, so that the results are easier to control." Amy held her chin and said: "No matter what happened, we are already so close anyway, we must

I want to go over and take a look. I'm starting to slow down, please let them know."

The Liuma gradually approached the gravitational circle of the solar system where

Then, it slid as far as possible. At this time, the gravitational wave radar showed many signals of starships staying in orbit near xm1.

"There's someone!" Amy glanced at the radar, took a long breath, and said: "Starships without natural selectors or composite evolved humans are just inferior small and medium-sized aircraft. Hey, there's a call coming."

Generally, calls between starships like to use the computing power generator, and then it automatically exchanges the process of slow network mail packets for sending, which can save system verification, standard adjustment and many other troublesome things. But this time the call from the other party came from a nearby quantum computer.

The signal beacon shows that someone has launched many small communication satellites at no cost to build a super-light communication network for the star field near

There will be a charge for receiving and receiving information. Unexpectedly, the first sentence of the communication said that all high-speed network information sending and receiving is free.

"Attention foreign starships, this is Star Governor Mark, and you are entering the public exploration star field. Do not show any aggressive tendencies, otherwise you will be attacked unanimously by everyone." An electronically synthesized standard compound came from the communicator.

The evolutionary man's male voice continued: "If you are willing to abide by the principle of sharing, welcome to the Golden Sun Oasis Planet. The public communication channel uses..."

Alex took a moment and said to Amy: "Although he said that his title is Star Governor, he did not mention the Trade Federation. First join its public channel and express a peaceful attitude, and then see what happens in detail.

thing."

Amy agreed, and said while operating: "These people don't want to use the communication channel of the computing power generator, that is, they want to keep the compound evolved people secret and not expose what they are doing. You must be vigilant when dealing with these people.

If you can spend a lot of money to install a super-light communication network in the star field, you don't care about spending a little money to buy good weapons and sink all other starships."

"Never put down the shield, keep the clearing cannon on standby at all times." Alex put on the communicator mask and said: "They use falsetto, so do I. Since it is not a network of computing power generators, then I and I

Don’t worry too much if they talk to each other.”

A moment later, "Mark Star Governor" sent a voice message. This time the voice was still electronically synthesized, but with an obviously cheerful tone. "Ah, Pink Paradise, welcome to Jinyang Oasis, I am Ecological Transport Ship Mark

Star Governor. Are you here to join the hunt?"

Alex thought for a while and replied in an electronically synthesized voice: "I don't know the specific activities here. I just heard that there are job opportunities nearby. What's the hunting about?"

"Oh, you don't know? Let me tell you briefly. The self-contained living beings of Beolo planet discovered a special natural environment on this primitive planet that allowed animals and plants to mutate and evolve rapidly, so they transformed it into a large zoo.

, listed as their property. I am here to represent the interests of the Biolog Gene Research Institute and acquire those high-quality, rare, and highly variable biological genes."

The two siblings looked at each other and quickly exchanged opinions. If this "Mark Star Governor" is a representative of a self-contained biological human, this would explain why there is no computing power generator here, but a high-speed and expensive network for free.

For everyone's use. In pt52, the self-organizing people kept secrets by hiding underground, but in xm1, they couldn't stop the starships coming here, so they used free methods to keep it secret.

"The creatures on the Golden Sun Oasis planet change rapidly and have no regional characteristics. Traditional methods such as biological scanning and classification are very ineffective. Therefore, the self-made creatures recruit hunters to go to the surface of the planet to collect animal blood samples." Mark Xingdu continued.

Said: "We will distribute samplers and neural stunning weapons to each group of hunters. After paying for the prey, use the sampler to collect blood or spinal fluid. The analysis information can be synchronized to our specimen ship, and the value of the prey will be calculated immediately.

.If you can find rare or important prey, the self-created creatures will purchase it immediately and deliver it on the spot, saving you the trouble of transportation. The specific details have been sent to you in the form of a document, and it also includes a comparison of values ​​on known planets.

High species information.”

A document of nearly a thousand pages was sent, each page introduced a valuable creature, and the reward given looked exciting. Alex glanced twice, and then asked: "Since it is a self-made creature,

It’s a planet of biological people, so why don’t self-made biological people hunt these prey?”

"To be honest, there is some danger down there." Star Governor Mark showed no secret at all: "There is a gravitational instability area in the airspace two hundred to one hundred thousand meters away from the surface of the Golden Sun Oasis planet, which affects starship flight and various detections.

The system scans, so landing directly is the most stable way to get prey. If I recruit self-made biological people, my cost here will be higher. After all, I have to take care of their various needs. I also want to make more money, comprehensively

After thinking about it, the current model is the best."

"That is to say, we go down to find the prey, send the blood information to determine the price. Then what? Then transport it to your starship?"

"Send the location coordinates and I will send a small transport ship down. If you look at the gravitational wave radar, you can find that a transport ship is returning." Star Governor Mark said: "You can observe here for a while and ask other people about the situation.

How about it, and then make a decision. My starship has 840 biological compartments left, and when they are full, it will return to Beolo. The starship to replace me will arrive in three weeks."

"Okay. I'm very interested in this hunting job, but I have to see if the equipment on the ship is suitable for such a task." Alex said: "Arrange a docking position for me. I will bring peace and

It comes from the passion for making money.”

Star Governor Mark let out a few electronically synthesized laughs, and then arranged an open area for the Flowing Horse. Alex set the route and let the Flowing Horse drive there automatically, saying nothing during the process.

When the Liuma stopped about one light second away from xm1, Alex took action. He picked up the intercom and began to give orders decisively: "Red and Green, you are responsible for contacting the surrounding starships and analyzing

Use their intelligence to see if you can find anything. Xiaoxiao, summarize and study the prey catalog they provided to see if it is reasonable. Boss Ming and Mr. Jin, you have two tasks: start searching to see if the earth ball still exists.

, and then see if there is a gravitational instability area on the surface of planet xm1, and what is the cause."

"Then what do I do?" Amy asked.

"Look at the starships around and see who they are, and see if any of them can pose a threat to us. And the most critical point is:" Alex said: "The natural selectors, composite evolutionaries and self-contained organisms,
Chapter completed!