"The sun's," the MDT replied briefly.
"A pile of sun's … ashes?" Hao Ren was a little surprised. "An extinguished star? Other than that? "
"Other than that, there's nothing. No planets, no asteroid belt, and no man-made celestial bodies. The joint thinking program of the drone cluster compared the starry sky in the vengeful spirit's memory. It found a place where it could observe the starry sky, and the star map match 99.99% of the time. Basically, it can be confirmed that this is the place where the vengeful spirit looked up at the starry sky. But that place is only in the vast space, and the closest entity is an extinguished star. The only good news is that the star is still a little far away from the location we previously determined. It's about two astronomical units away, so the Nangong couple shouldn't have been thrown into the sun. Instead, they should have been thrown onto a planet that originally belonged to the sun. However, those planets are nowhere to be found. "
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Lily leaned on the back of her seat. "Let's go and have a look."
Hao Ren nodded and ordered the spacecraft to disconnect the data connection with the outpost. The Petrachelys retracted the communication beam and disappeared into space in a flash of silver light. The small outpost readjusted the angle of the crystal plate and quickly returned to its working state.
After a short voyage, the spacecraft arrived at its destination. The observation platform on the upper part of the Petrachelys slowly peeked out from under the armor belt. After the occlusion layer lowered, the vast space appeared before everyone's eyes.
The MDT used a light beam to point in a certain direction in space. In the direction that the light beam was pointing, there was a small egg-sized, dim red glow. "That's the ashes. It's a long-extinguished sun. It didn't become a black hole, and now only a slightly hot core is still emitting residual heat. The entire star can be said to have nothing left. The whole space around us is filled with the remnants of this star … Thin gas, fragments of the big bang, and so on, very, very thin, negligible. "
Hao Ren nodded. He could see an abnormal grayish-brown color in the background of the universe. This was the residual ashes of the star after the explosion. Since the thin gas had spread so far, the current location of the spacecraft should have been swallowed by the explosion of the star's corona. If there was any planet here, it was probably burned to ashes by the scorching nuclear flame.
But even if it was burned to ashes, there should at least be some residue left.
"Have you checked the possible orbits?" Hao Ren looked at the embers of the star in the distance. "Even if that star burned all its satellites, there should at least be some residue left."
The MDT beeped. "Checked. Nothing."
"Expand the search area." Hao Ren nodded. "When a star explodes, it may blow away the celestial bodies around it."
"I can't think of that?" The MDT shook its body. "Let me remind you: according to calculations, the star in front of you exploded more than 10,000 years ago. Even if it blew away its own satellite, it should have happened at that time. The starry sky in the vengeful spirit's memory was a hundred years ago. A hundred years ago, everything was calm here. So if we can't find anything here now, then there would be nothing here a hundred years ago."
Y 'zaks suddenly said, "Unless there was a planet here a hundred years ago, and it grew legs and ran away within a hundred years."
Y 'lisabet mimicked her father's usual manner. She crossed her arms and nodded. "My dad has a point."
Vivian waved her hand to stop the little girl. "You know what your dad means? He has a point."
Y 'lisabet puffed her chest out. "Anyway, my dad has a point! This is the law of nature! "
Just as Hao Ren was about to say something, a ring of light suddenly appeared in the space near the spacecraft. A small, silver rectangular device jumped out of the ring and silently approached the Petrachelys. Hao Ren recognized that it was the same detector he had released before. Of course, it was not the original one. It should be the 'descendant' of the original detector, which was currently responsible for drawing the star map of this area. The smart drone sensed the position of its master and flew straight to the observation platform of the Petrachelys. The back half of its shell opened to both sides, and a small metal device floated out of its "belly" and passed through the observation platform's shield to land in front of everyone.
Lily immediately caught the gadget out of curiosity. She realized that it was an incomplete part, and the craftsmanship was obviously not from Xi Ling's equipment.
Hao Ren was surprised. "Where did it find this?!"
The MDT went up to the detector and talked to it. "It's a few light years away from here. It was found in space. At that time, this fragment was flying in space at three percent the speed of light."
Hao Ren thought of something and immediately ordered, "Track it in that direction!"
The surface of the drone glowed blue and disappeared in a blink of an eye. The MDT turned on the holographic projection, which showed the radar images sent back by the drone. The images started from the Petrachelys and extended rapidly in a certain direction. A moment later, the MDT suddenly let out a loud whistle, and a bright red dot appeared on the image. "The detector found a planet! But it's being pushed by a bunch of thrusters. It's at least eight light years away from here … "
Suddenly, everyone was silent and focused on Y 'zaks. The latter scratched his big bald head and laughed dryly. "It's really running away …"
Y 'lisabet continued to cross her arms, her face full of pride. "That's why my dad's sustainability makes sense."
The Petrachelys immediately followed the navigation signal sent by the detector and quickly caught up to the planet that was running wildly in the vast space. The scene in front of them left everyone dumbfounded.
A dim, grayish-white planet was moving alone in space. Its surface was covered with neat and huge ravine lines, which were the traces of deep artificial modification of the entire planet. At the intersection of those lines, a large number of thrusters were distributed symmetrically along the earth's axis. Those thrusters were as large as mountains, and they were unbelievably huge even from outer space. Some of them were operating with loud noises, bursting out dazzling flames that were hundreds of miles long from the huge nozzles, pushing the planet forward in space while maintaining a slow acceleration process.
This planet reflected a kind of "rough technological power" everywhere. The propulsion method it used was obviously the primitive working medium engine, which was completely different from the "coordinate drive method" used by many space civilizations. However, it was this simple and crude propulsion method that gave the entire planet a sense of power that was stunning.
The Petrachelys flew synchronously over the dim planet. Hao Ren looked down at the grayish-white land under his feet from the observation platform. "Didn't the detection drones find this planet before?"
"The early detection drones were only mapping the stars. As for the planets and the small celestial bodies in space, they are obscured by a larger gravitational source or light source," the MDT explained. "Besides, the planet in front of us happens to be on the border of the cruising areas of the two detection drones, so there's a high chance that it will be overlooked. After all … it doesn't emit light, it doesn't have a lot of mass, and it's cold. "
Rollie was lying next to the observation platform and meowed in surprise, her tail wagging gently in the air. "That's the place Big Boss Cat is looking for?"
"Is it here?" Vivian also turned her head and asked.
The MDT was calculating the trajectory of the wandering star, and based on its current route and acceleration, it could reverse its position a hundred years ago. This required complicated calculations, and it could only get an ideal approximation. The stars in the universe were a constantly changing reference frame, and all celestial bodies were in motion, so the calculation had to be done at the same time. Fortunately, the time span that the MDT needed to consider was only a hundred years. Within a hundred years, the relative positions of the stars would not change too much.
"First of all, we assume that the planet maintained its current thrust and accelerated after leaving the star system. Then we assume that it did not change its course within a hundred years, and that it was not captured by other massive celestial bodies. Finally, we take into account the perturbations of all the nearby gravitational sources …" the MDT mumbled as it calculated. Hao Ren was having a headache listening to it. "Just speak human language."
"Oh, this should be the star we're looking for." The MDT smacked Hao Ren on the head. "A hundred years ago, it should be located at the coordinates we found before … It's a few dozen astronomical units off, but on the scale of space, this deviation is almost a perfect fit."
Lily poked Wuyue in the back of her waist. "Your parents should be down there. Probably. "
(Asking for monthly tickets =. Everyone, please check if you have a monthly ticket. If you do, please vote. There shouldn't be a double at the end of the month, and even if there is a double, I might not remember …)
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