Now there is Second Officer Petrus watching from the bridge. Anne and Gordon have also returned. They should not cause any more trouble. In addition, they can't help much with the investigation of the planet. Therefore, compared with

Before going to the bridge, she preferred to go to the cafeteria to eat something first, and if possible, maybe she could come back to take a shower and have a cup of coffee or something.

'Report!'

At this time, the communication interface that had just been closed lit up again.

'Captain Ed!'

'And Mate Kelly!'

'I think it would be best for you to come to the bridge immediately?'

Then, the voice of the second officer Petrus in the picture sounded, and it seemed to sound a bit serious. Although Petrus' words had always been serious, Ed and Kelly could see that this

It seems like something is really different this time?

"immediately?"

"what happens?"

"Isn't it Annie who went to cause trouble again?"

"Oh my God, she must have gone to play on that planet again, right?"

"Didn't you just come back?"

Ed and the astonished Kelly looked at each other, then blurted out questions with their eyes widened.

'not at all!'

'Anne should be sleeping in her room now. She won't be seen again for the next twelve hours.'

'The problem now is...'

'That planet, it disappeared!'

Petrus did not hesitate, and simply explained the main reason why he suddenly contacted the two of them at this time and asked them to go to the bridge immediately.

"??"

"Wha, what?"

"The planet disappeared?"

"What do you mean disappeared?"

Hearing this, Ed and Kelly couldn't help but subconsciously glance at each other again, and then, after a while, they all got excited and looked at the communication interface inexplicably.

'Disappearing means literally, that planet has disappeared again.'

'Anyway!'

'Please come to the bridge as soon as possible.'

'Issac said that he has a conjecture. He thinks you need to listen to it in person, if you have had a good rest?'

'complete!'

After saying that, the second officer Petrus closed the communication regardless of the very exciting expressions on their faces.

"..."

"Let's go!"

"Hopefully it won't be any worse news!"

"Um."

"hope so!"

…

A few minutes later, the ugly-faced Captain Ed and First Officer Kelly both came to the bridge and learned what was going on through the Orville's replay of the real-time video.

"All right!"

"I know why my second officer was so nervous just now."

"Say it!"

"Isaac, what is your theory?"

"Please try to explain it in a way that we can understand!"

Such a big planet, which is about the same size as the Earth, suddenly appeared without any warning and then disappeared about twenty hours later. That kind of thing is indeed weird and outrageous. Therefore, Captain Ed urgently asked

I want to know the specific reasons.

After all, he and Kelly had just communicated with the unreasonable commander, and the other party had made it clear that the Orville must investigate the truth of the matter. If not, he might really do it in the future.

About to be dispatched to a colony to clean toilets.

"certainly."

"Captain Ed, it's like this. According to what Anne said before, I also believe after analysis that the planet we encountered is a planet locked in a 'multi-phase orbit'."

The robot Isaac stood up immediately and explained. Then, it saw that both Ed and Kelly were confused and seemed not to understand at all, so it had to continue to explain:

"The so-called 'polyphase orbit' is a wonderful phenomenon in which planets orbit a star, but their orbits are divided into two parallel universes."

"What's interesting is that our universe and another parallel universe have the same or very similar two stars in size, which just allows this planet to maintain a relatively stable environment, which is why it can become a planet.

The premise of a living planet.”

"Then, under the rules of the universe at certain locations, when it rotates around the star to a specific angle, because the two universes have folded spaces or channels that we don't know about, it suddenly appears in our universe.

And orbited the 'polyphase' star, and then returned to its own universe after reaching a certain angle."

"This is the real reason why it appears and disappears suddenly, and why we can only detect abnormal gravity and abnormal space data during certain periods of time."

"And what Anne said before is this..."

'People have known for a long time that this planet is about to emerge. It is a planet outside another parallel time and space. It has an intersection with your space and time universe, which is the area you just detected. Now it just passes by.

So it just popped up!'

With that said, the robot Isaac also very appropriately recalled and played on the spot the original words of a troubled little girl when their shuttle was about to make an emergency landing, and directly reproduced the cute tone of Annie's words at that time.

and voice are fully demonstrated.

"Oh I see!"

"That is to say..."

"The situation you scanned and investigated is basically consistent with what Anne said at the time?"

"That planet has now gone to the other side."

"right?"

Ed felt that Annie's statement was easier to understand, so he first glanced at everyone in the bridge and found that no one had any objection to it before he asked in a deep voice.

"Yes."

"But that is just a speculation we have made based on the current data, and it needs to be verified again."

"That is."

"We have to wait until it happens again."

"Until it reappears in our side of the universe, we can finally get all the complete data and determine the validity of that inference."

Isaac nodded and stated straightforwardly the dilemma their investigation was currently facing.

"Is that so?"

"That……"

"How long do I need to wait?"

"I mean, how long will it take for it to show up again?"

Ed, who rubbed his chin and slowly sat down in his captain's seat, quickly grasped the point of the question and looked at Isaac again.

Although this discovery is very important, and the commander-in-chief has emphasized it many times in communications, Ed feels that if the waiting time is too long, for example, it will take months, years or decades.

, then there is no point in coming.

If that's the case, I'm afraid that the Orville will definitely not be able to wait. In the end, they can only report it and ask the officer to send other scientific research ships or simply build an observation station here and wait. Anyway, he

Ed and his Orville certainly won't wait that long.

"soon."

"According to calculations, it should appear again eleven days later."

Fortunately, the situation that Ed was most worried about did not arise. Robot engineer Isaac immediately gave a time that was not too long but not too short.

"Eleven days?"

Ed couldn't help but be startled when he heard that it was only eleven days.

"Okay!"
To be continued...