Alien Relic Hunter

"Nino Alloy... Nino Alloy..." Ke Lan repeated the term that appeared in the memory fragment over and over again in disbelief, and his whole body froze in place.

He knew very well that Nino Alloy was not made by the Alpha Civilization... They just cut off the finished Nino Alloy from the "Aguna Kotor" and used it elsewhere... and this ancient battleship was considered It was built by another more advanced civilization (Ke Lan called it 'Beta Civilization').

But now, this memory is clearly telling Ke Lan that Nino Alloy was invented and named by humans on an escaped engineering ship...

The description of the appearance and properties of this "Nino Alloy" in the memory fragments are completely consistent with the "Nino Alloy" that Ke Lan and the others know, so the coincidence of the same name can basically be ruled out.

Could this memory be fake? Is it specifically used to confuse yourself?

No...it's not like...

If the Alpha civilization has acquired this memory and knows the detailed proportioning scheme of Nino alloy, then with their technology, it is impossible not to imitate this super alloy with superior performance - but the Alpha civilization has obtained " After taking control of "Aguna Kotor", he had no intention of imitating Nino Alloy. Instead, he devoted all his manpower and material resources to the research of energy crystals.

Why did Alpha Civilization give up research on Nino Alloy?

Because they know that the research and development of Nino alloy is simply impossible to succeed!

The key core of Nino alloy is this new element discovered by the people on this engineering ship on this gas giant planet. Without this new element, no matter how accurate the ratio of other materials is, it would be impossible to reproduce Nino. No alloy comes.

The Alphas knew this very well, so they did not do this useless work from the beginning.

But... what is the connection between the people on the escaped engineering ship and the "Beta Civilization" that built "Aguna Kotor"?

Could it be that this engineering ship was discovered and captured by the "Beta Civilization" during the subsequent voyage, and then the "Beta Civilization" found the gas giant planet based on the coordinates and smelting formula provided by the people on the ship, and put the new planet on it. The elements were mined in large quantities and smelted into Nino alloy, and then used Nino alloy to build a powerful fleet including "Aguna Kotor"?

But when the next scene emerged in Ke Lan's mind, what he felt was more than just shock.

The people on the engineering ship... began to use the newly developed "Nino alloy" to transform the hull... This was originally an understandable thing - if you want to escape the gravity of this gas giant planet, you must combine the power of the spacecraft and The physical strength of the hull has been strengthened to an extremely exaggerated level. The successful development of Nino alloy is as meaningful to these people as giving timely help. But as the transformation project continues to progress, Ke Lan feels an inexplicable chill running down his spine. Climbed up...

The ship is getting bigger and bigger...becoming more and more like...

"Yagunakitor".

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So, the so-called ‘Beta Civilization’ does not exist at all?

So, this old era geoengineering ship numbered 0906...is the predecessor of the 'Yagunaktor'?

This group of people who were supposed to be buried somewhere in the unknown universe miraculously survived and even arrived at Alpha Planet?

wrong! 'Yagunaktor' arrived at Alpha Planet tens of thousands of years ago. At that time, humans were still in the Stone Age and had not yet mastered even the most rudimentary metal smelting technology. How could they create something that could be used in the universe? Of a spaceship that sails in China?

Not to mention the spaceship, even the English letters and Arabic numerals on the spaceship had not been invented yet at that time!

The timeline doesn’t match up at all! Even if the variable of wormholes is taken into account, this is not possible - through wormholes, people can only go to the future... and return to the past, that is something that can only happen in science fiction works.

Time is a one-way, irreversible axis. People who walk on this axis can choose to stop or speed up and run forward, but they cannot go back.

From a certain perspective, the "past" can only be observed, but cannot truly go back to the past - for example, the light emitted by a star tens of thousands of light years away from the earth takes tens of thousands of years. It takes time to reach the earth. Therefore, what people on the earth see with the naked eye is actually what the star looked like tens of thousands of years ago. In the same time and space, maybe the star has already declined and collapsed into a star. The dim white dwarf may, of course, have transformed into a supernova, emitting extremely bright light at the other end of the distant universe.

Of course, it will take tens of thousands of years for this bright light to be seen by people on earth.

Not to mention the distance, let’s just talk about the sun, the nearest star to the earth. It takes more than eight minutes for sunlight to reach the earth from the sun. In other words, the sun that people can see when they look up is actually what it looked like eight minutes ago.

Suppose a group of interstellar terrorists blow up the sun with a bomb of extremely high yield, huge enough to destroy the star. It will take eight minutes for people on the earth to see the end of the world.

The past - can only be seen, not reached. If a person can really go back in time, then any tiny move he makes will be enough to trigger a series of paradoxes like the butterfly effect. It is no exaggeration to say that the entire universe may even be destroyed because of this time traveler.

There is no way that this engineering ship that escaped the solar system could go back tens of thousands of years and become the ship that was soaked in the magma pool... "Aguna Kotor".

Ke Lan squatted down, put his hands together into fists, and pressed them tightly against his forehead - he felt that his mind was in chaos: this memory contained a lot of vital clues, but these clues were connected together, and in the end It points to one paradox after another.

It was something that couldn't happen, but it happened.

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Alpha Star N45 airspace, "Yagunaktor" parking point.

Fleet Zero, "Betelgeuse" heavy cruiser, pilot lounge.

Colonel Yeager was lying comfortably on the soft imitation leather sofa. Lieutenant Colonel Hans beside him was holding a cup of steaming coffee, lowering his head and staring at the tablet computer placed on the coffee table, browsing the internal network. some information on.

"Hans, I'm just wondering, why can you drink such terrible coffee?" Yeager crumpled the napkin in his hand and threw it away. He originally wanted to throw it into Hans' coffee cup. , but as a result, because Hans was sitting directly opposite the air outlet of the air conditioner, the strong air flow directly blew the napkin ball back and landed at Yeager's feet.

Hans, who didn't notice his colleagues' prank at all, took a sip of coffee and said to himself: "Does it taste bad? I don't think so."

"Ask those who have drank the coffee you brewed. Who doesn't say it tastes bad? The best comment I've ever heard is 'This thing should not be used to drink, but should be used to flush the toilet' - -Speaking of which, you are also very capable. Even pre-mixed instant coffee can be turned into something even dogs can't drink when you get it." Yeager complained.

"Of course dogs don't drink coffee. Coffee is very poisonous to dogs." Hans's fingers quickly slid across the screen of the tablet, and one message after another kept scrolling. "Speaking of which, there were two more cruisers last week. They have been transferred. In total, six cruisers and four high-speed battleships have been transferred this month..."

"It's normal. The people above just think that we are too idle and don't want to waste precious combat power here. Besides, now that the Ark has encountered such a big change, it is normal to send more warships back. Besides, those who participated in the exploration Didn't the Yagunaktor consortium send out many empty ships to fill the vacancies?" Yeager said disapprovingly.

"That's a civilian airship. With that kind of armament, it can't be considered a combat power at all." Hans frowned - since this morning, his right eye has been twitching, which makes him He had a very uneasy feeling. He remembered that a Chinese officer in the army seemed to have said, "What does a twitching of the left eye mean, and what does a twitching of the right eye mean?"... It seems that one is a disaster? One is wealth?

But Hans himself couldn't remember which eye meant disaster and which eye meant wealth, not to mention that this was just a superstitious statement.

Unless he could find a sum of money on the ground today, he would believe it.

"What kind of combat power... do we need combat power? From its establishment to the present, has Fleet Zero ever participated in a battle, except for the mad woman in the previous research institute who caused trouble?" Yeger shrugged and stood up from the sofa. I took out a large bag of potato chips from the corner and tore it open with a squeaking sound.

These two pilots were none other than the two transport plane pilots who had dealt with Ke Lan several times before. Thanks to Ke Lan, not only were they not held accountable, but they were promoted all the way up, even though they had no experience at all. After achieving great military exploits, his superiors found a bunch of inexplicable reasons to promote him several levels in a row.

Their military ranks also changed from captain and lieutenant to colonel and lieutenant colonel, and became the captain and deputy captain of the air combat unit of the "Betelgeuse" heavy cruiser.

"But I always feel-"

Before Hans finished speaking, the air conditioner that was blowing cold air suddenly turned off. Then, the lights in the lounge also went out. Along with the piercing siren, the dark red emergency light embedded in the corner flashed. One by one the lights lit up.

"What's going on?!" Yeger jumped up from the sofa, reached out and grabbed the uniform hanging on the back of the sofa. He was about to put his arms into the sleeves, but after thinking about it, he threw the uniform aside, " Hans! You go change clothes first, and I’ll go to the hangar first. I just flew over this morning, so the combat uniform should still be in the cockpit!”

"Okay!" Hans drank the coffee in the cup and stuffed the tablet into his bag.

A second before inserting the tablet, Hans noticed that the tablet's signal bar returned to zero, and the pictures that had not yet been loaded below were spinning in circles.

At this moment, a pilot from the air combat unit opened the door of the lounge and stumbled in: "Colonel Yeager! Lieutenant Colonel Hans! Level 1 combat readiness! It's level 1 combat readiness! Captain I want you to go to the hangar and stand by immediately!"

"What happened? Who is the enemy? Don't worry, tell me clearly!" Yeger said loudly.

"I don't know yet! But the airspace where the fleet is located was suddenly hit by a high-intensity electromagnetic interference attack. All communication equipment was unusable, and even the radar was paralyzed." The pilot said anxiously.

"Electromagnetic interference attack?" Yeager and Hans looked at each other. The airspace where "Yagunaktor" was parked had been carefully surveyed in advance. There were no traces of Alpha civilization, so electromagnetic interference could not come from There are not many things in the ruins, and among the indigenous creatures on Alpha Planet, there are not many powerful beings that can completely paralyze the communications and radar of the entire fleet... Even if there are, targets like this have already been surrounded by peripheral enemies before they get close. Discovered by the reconnaissance team.

The anchorage point of "Yagunaktor" is not far from the Ark. If even this place can be attacked by indigenous creatures, then the Ark can be considered to be in danger.

"It can't be an indigenous creature." Hans shook his head, "We are in big trouble."

"It's the rebels." Yeger insisted, "Something happened."

The two of them followed the pilot who reported the news and rushed out of the corridor. Hans turned around and ran towards the locker room. Yeager, who was only wearing a tight shirt, was frantically pressing his cell phone with no response while heading towards the hangar. Walking away in stride.

By the time he arrived at the hangar, half of the "Betelgeuse" heavy cruiser's air combat force had already been dispatched - when the radar and drones were unavailable and unable to contact any nearby friendly units, the only option was to Fighters were dispatched to patrol the nearby airspace.

"How is the situation now?" Yeager pulled over a familiar ground staff member and asked straight to the point.

"It's hard to say." The ground crew shook his head with a straight face, "Apart from interference, the fleet has not been attacked yet... As for the pilots and aircraft sent out, no one has returned yet... So what exactly happened, we don't know. Not sure."

"Don't be careless. This is a special period now... Just treat us as if we are already in a battle." Yeger patted the ground crew on the shoulder, "Can my plane take off now?"

"Yes, the routine maintenance was just completed at noon, and the external propellers were refilled with fuel. You said that the problem of the left cannon's insensitive steering has been solved for you, but you should pay attention to the hydraulic lever of the right auxiliary wing. The wear and tear is a bit serious, and the replacement parts have been used up. New parts will not be delivered until at least next week. Do not make a large emergency change of direction, otherwise you may not be able to survive."

"Got it, help me clear the ejection runway!" Yeager took the helmet from the ground crew and ran quickly to his fighter plane.