The message sent by Nuwa could be summed up in one word: Broken.
The alien spaceship was broken.
The reactor had stopped working and the electricity had been cut off.
The robot opened the hatch and found the corpse of an alien in the control room of the spaceship.
The corpse was wearing a spacesuit and holding a Gauss pistol in its hand. There was a bloody hole in its forehead and the transparent helmet was covered with green blood stains.
"Suicide. Judging from its posture of death, it probably committed suicide."
Nuwa said.
"Suicide?"
Chen Jin was confused. "Why did it commit suicide?"
After successfully completing the mission, shouldn't this alien spy be happily rushing back to receive the reward? Why did it choose to commit suicide?
"I don't know. Master, please give me two days. I'm trying to find a way to restore the power supply of this spaceship, collect some information storage, and try to analyze some valuable information."
"Okay, it's best to investigate everything clearly. I want to know the whole truth!"
…
Two days later.
When Chen Jin returned to the Base of Operations, he turned on the long-distance communicator and asked Nuwa about the results of the investigation.
Nuwa said, "Master, although I'm not 100% sure, I have a basic understanding of the situation. You can ask your questions."
"Okay! Tell me the conclusion of your investigation. "
Chen Jin said, "What I want to know the most is why this alien spaceship did not leave Mars. Instead, it continued to stay on Mars. Logically speaking, it should have left."
"Yes, master. Logically speaking, it should have left. But due to the lack of energy in the spaceship, it did not even have the energy to break free from the gravitational pull of Mars. It hurried back."
Nuwa shook her head. "This is very confusing. Their spaceship did not even have enough energy to return to their home planet."
Nuwa also explained that the energy system carried on the spaceship was a very small reactor. It was surprisingly no more than 50 cubic meters.
But the reactor's power output was extremely high because it burned a blue energy block.
The energy contained in the energy block was very high. A block the size of a fist was equivalent to tens of thousands of tons of coal.
But the energy block in this spaceship had been completely used up. The reactor's control panel kept sending out prompts to replenish the energy block and showed the appearance of the energy block.
"How could this be?"
Chen Jin was very surprised. "Could it be that the alien spy took a one-way spaceship and could only come and not go back?"
"Master, you guessed correctly."
Nuwa nodded and said, "Your description is very accurate. This is a one-way spaceship. In the control panel of the spaceship, the chip used to store navigation data has been burned. In addition, the main engine at the bottom of the spaceship has been severely damaged. It seems to have been caused by an internal explosion … and the self-destruction program has been activated."
"Our goal is to prevent this spaceship from returning."
This …
Chen Jin was a little dumbfounded. "What does this mean? The mission has been successfully completed, what does it mean by not letting it go back?"
A phrase popped up in his mind: Cook the dogs after the hares are dead.
Or … the sorrow of being a pawn?
"Master, I found some log videos. They were recorded by the alien that committed suicide. In the video, it was very agitated. It was cursing loudly, and its expression was one of despair."
"Based on its movements, expressions, and eyes, I tried to decipher the meaning of its words. I was able to decipher about 50% of the meaning."
"Obviously, what it expressed the most was its anger. It was asking loudly, 'Why did you deceive me like this?'; it was cursing the superiors who drove it, 'You bastards,' and 'I'm going to kill you.' Towards the end, there was only despair and fear. It was murmuring, 'Am I going to die in this place?' Finally, after struggling to survive for about 3,700 days, it chose to pull out a gun and commit suicide."
As Nuwa spoke, she pulled up a video clip and shared the general process of the alien spy's rage, madness, and then despair and suicide.
"It lived for more than 3,000 days, more than 10 years. How did it do it? Is there enough food and water on this spaceship? "
"The immigration base. It relied on the water and supplies in the immigration base to survive for such a long time. But later on, the spaceship's reactor stopped, and the supplies in the base were depleted. There was a lack of oxygen, food, and water … In order to reduce its pain, it could only choose to commit suicide."
Chen Jin nodded. In an environment like Mars, with limited resources, surviving alone for more than 10 years was already the performance of a master of survival.
However, he still could not resist the fate that belonged to him.
However, Chen Jin still found it a little difficult to understand. These two spies, whose overall qualities were considered excellent, had relatively easy missions. Why did they become pitiful sacrificial pawns, abandoned by their own civilization?
Would adding a few more energy blocks to their spaceship and letting them go back increase the cost by a lot?
Nuwa raised her speculation.
"Master, I think it may be because of these three reasons that their superiors treated them as disposable chess pieces.
"First, to avoid the risk of mission failure.
"Since it is a spy mission, there is a chance of success, and naturally, there is also a risk of failure. If it succeeds, everything will be easy. But what if it fails? Wouldn't the coordinates of their galaxy be immediately exposed? If the captured spies led a huge fleet of revenge towards their home … they would certainly not want this to happen, although the probability of failure is very low.
"Second, to save costs.
"Assuming that their bureaucratic system is very corrupt and that there are many cases of favoritism and fraud, they may give less than half of the energy blocks and embezzle the other half. Or they may not want to give the mission rewards and divide the achievements of the meritorious … At the same time, they may not give the meritorious person the chance to expose them.
"Third, to avoid public opinion and moral censure.
"No matter what kind of intelligent civilization it is (excluding the Zerg and machine civilizations), if it only has an evil side, there is no possibility for it to move towards the interstellar era. It has already self-destructed. It must be restrained by kindness and morality, and a group of intermediate rationalists occupy the upper echelons … Only then can the civilization develop and grow.
"Therefore, it will generally not do things to destroy other civilizations.
"But once it is done, it will bear a lot of risk. The kind faction will fiercely attack it, and the neutral faction will also have a lot of criticism.
"In order to shut the mouths of the people from the two factions, the best way is to not let anyone know about it, to avoid causing the impact of public opinion and falling into a passive situation.
"Therefore, it is necessary to do things to the extreme.
Master, I am more inclined to the first and third guesses. "
Chen Jin nodded repeatedly as he listened to Nuwa's analysis.
The future era was an era of highly developed consultation. The voice of a single individual was insignificant, but as long as the information that was exposed was fierce enough, it was possible to attract the attention of billions of people and set off a storm of public opinion.
Moreover, when it came to human nature, there was good and evil, left and right. In the end, it maintained a general balance. If one went to the extreme, it would become a huge disaster.
Therefore, the civilization behind the two alien spies could not be categorized as an evil civilization with 100% certainty. It was just possible that it was led by the evil.
Even from the sentences written in the diaries about homesickness, it could be seen that the demons also loved their hometown.
There were also some ideological differences among the demons.
In essence, it was even the same as human civilization. If human civilization reached an extremely high level of science and technology and suddenly discovered that there was a low-level civilization with a certain potential and threat around them, they might also become demons for their own interests.
In short, between the various intelligent civilizations in this universe, there was no absolute good or evil, only the strong and the weak.
…
"Nuwa, with the help of this spaceship, can we lock onto the galaxy coordinates of the alien civilization?"
"Not for the time being. Their navigation data has self-destructed. We can only make inferences based on other information. Maybe it is possible to lock onto the location of the alien civilization."
"This …" Chen Jin shook his head. Damn the aliens, they actually played this trick.
"Don't be discouraged, Master. Although we did not get the navigation data, our harvest this time can still be described as a 'great harvest.' Even through this alien spaceship, we can determine the technological development route for the next hundred years. We have a lot of objects of high value in our hands as reference … It is no exaggeration to say that the value of this alien spaceship is equivalent to that of a planet."
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