239: Chapter 239 Bionic System

Chu Ge thought of his dream; wasn't this clearly pointing him toward Mars?

Europa didn't have a red surface; Chu Ge remembered it as a vast, white expanse.

"No, that's not right. Looking at the satellite images, there are indeed some brown stripes on its surface."

"However, the layer beneath is an ocean, an ocean covering the entire planet. For such a small planet, the total amount of water is more than twice that of Earth."

"Also, the saintess in my dream said she didn't know what an ocean looked like."

Chu Ge was completely confused.

After thinking for a long time, he decided he should trust System Big Brother; after all, that was just a dream, which was far less reliable than System Big Brother.

Chu Ge took out his data terminal and began checking the distance between Europa and Earth.

The furthest is 900 million kilometers, the closest is 600 million kilometers.

Chu Ge did the math; Europa was quite far from Earth. Even at full speed, the aerospace carrier would take over two hours to get there.

Chu Ge suddenly felt that the Nuclear Fusion Engine seemed a bit insufficient even within the Solar System.

He had to develop the Warp Engine as soon as possible!

The next day, Chu Ge did not arrange for the engineering team to go to that underground cavern again.

They needed to wait for the next supply run from the transport ship, and besides, Captain Wang and his team were too exhausted yesterday.

They needed time to rest and recover.

Chu Ge checked in at the Flight Control Center and headed straight for the Research Department.

He wondered if Yan Tianhao and the others had managed to extract any useful technology from that pile of wreckage; Chu Ge had been worried about this matter.

Arriving at the cabin section where Elder Huang was located, Chu Ge raised his arm, and the double doors opened immediately.

After entering, Chu Ge discovered that there were only a few people in the entire research center.

"Where is Elder Huang?"

Chu Ge asked a young man who was organizing research reports.

"Elder Huang is in the laboratory, this is… ah, Academician Chu."

The young man stopped mid-sentence, looked up, and then stood up nervously.

"No need to be so nervous. Could you take me to your laboratory?"

Chu Ge asked the young man with a smile.

The young man nodded quickly and ran in front of Chu Ge to lead the way; the two soon arrived at a special experimental cabin section.

This first-generation aerospace carrier wasn't particularly impressive in terms of its armament systems, but a lot of effort had been put into its defense and scientific research capabilities.

Especially in research, every key subject was equipped with a well-outfitted laboratory.

The laboratory was a separate core cylinder structure, independent of the aerospace carrier's internal structure.

The core cylinder had a magnetic levitation device underneath and was mobile.

In an emergency, the experimental cabin would move at maximum speed into the aerospace carrier's atrium.

Then it would be ejected from the aerospace carrier's hull.

Therefore, this place could serve as both an experimental cabin and a temporary escape pod.

When Chu Ge first received the blueprints for the aerospace carrier and saw these functions, he redefined it as an Interstellar Exploration Carrier.

Exploration and scientific research were twin brothers.

The outer doors of the experimental cabin were much heavier than the doors of the aerospace carrier; after the door opened, Chu Ge walked in.

In the outer cabin section, Chu Ge saw Elder Huang and the others busy inside through the protective partition made of transparent SGP plastic resin.

"Academician Chu, do you need me to greet Elder Huang and the others?"

The young man beside him asked softly.

"No need. Go ahead and get back to work, thank you."

"You're welcome," the young man said, turning to leave.

Inside the inner cabin section, Elder Huang and his team were wearing protective suits and studying something with their heads down, completely unaware of Chu Ge's presence.

After watching from the outside for 20 minutes, Chu Ge realized this wouldn't do; the people inside didn't even have time to look up.

He walked to the intercom system and pressed the button.

"Elder Huang."

Elder Huang looked up, realized it was Chu Ge, and walked over with a smile.

"Academician Chu, what an honor to have you here."

"Seeing how focused you all are, I couldn't help myself. Where are the protective suits?"

Under Elder Huang's guidance, Chu Ge put on a protective suit, passed through a sterilization corridor, and arrived at the inner cabin section of the experimental cabin.

"What are you studying? You're so focused."

Chu Ge asked curiously as he watched Yan Tianhao carefully take out a black, nondescript object.

"Academician Chu, if you hadn't come today, I probably would have gone to find you."

"Come here. Do you see this fragment? We suspect it's part of that starship's outer armor."

Elder Huang said to Chu Ge, pointing to a curved fragment.

"This is the only fragment selected from thousands that has maintained its complete structure."

"The rest of the fragments were destroyed; they were either crushed together or their structures had decomposed."

"Structure? What kind of structure?"

Chu Ge keenly caught the key point in Elder Huang's words; logically, this starship had to be an SSS-level warship from the Military-Industrial System.

Many of its technologies should be one or several levels higher than the "Kunpeng."

"A honeycomb structure, and it's at the nanoscale. As for its function, we have no idea."

"Moreover, beneath the sheet structure, there are many tiny conduits, dense and packed like human capillaries."

"With the help of a transmission electron microscope, we discovered a tiny amount of ice crystals within the nano-conduits."

"We are currently analyzing the composition of the ice crystals."

Elder Huang listed all their research findings to Chu Ge in one breath.

Chu Ge nodded; looking at it this way, even the most basic outer structure of this warship was fundamentally different from their aerospace carrier.

"Elder Huang, Academician Chu, the analysis report for the ice crystals is ready."

Yan Tianhao walked over carrying a large data terminal specifically for the laboratory.

This data terminal was different from the standard ones issued to crew members; first of all, its size was similar to a tablet computer.

Furthermore, its main function was to record experimental data, reports, analysis results, and similar materials.

It had its own specialized data encryption channel, and these materials could only be viewed by relevant laboratory personnel and those with the highest clearance on the aerospace carrier.

All data and materials could not be copied; it prioritized recording and absolute confidentiality.

Chu Ge and Elder Huang huddled together and began to read it carefully.

"This seems to be the molecular configuration of water."

Yan Tianhao explained from the side.

"Not ordinary water, this seems to be ultrapure water," Chu Ge added.

"Exactly, Academician Chu is correct; this is ultrapure water."

Elder Huang finished speaking and continued reading, but Chu Ge was thinking rapidly.

The outer layer was hard armor, and beneath a honeycomb-structured metal interlayer, it was filled with nano-scale conduits containing ultrapure water.

Chu Ge organized the relationships between these elements.

This seemed to be a bionic system, and as for its function, Chu Ge felt he had vaguely guessed something.

He closed his eyes and quickly retrieved the specific technical data on the Warp Engine from his mind.

Then he jumped straight to the dark matter section, which served as the medium, and scanned through it quickly.

"Is this bionic system a device for extracting and channeling dark matter?"

Chu Ge opened his eyes abruptly...