Dark matter storm is a cosmic phenomenon that has not been completely deciphered by human beings so far, dark matter is an irregular cosmic matter that is difficult to observe, and dark matter storm does not have an accurate law of action from its cause to formation.

However, like Earth's storms, dark matter storms, although unpredictable, still have their own wind zones and attenuations, and dark matter storms in the solar system are not strong, just like a stable inland area, no matter how strong the winds, they cannot compare with the hurricanes in the coastal areas.

But even so, the impact of the dark matter storm on researchers is huge, and many detection and transportation work will have to be stopped because of this. And scientists are always exploring dark matter storms.

When the dark matter storm is strong, scientists are unable to carry out outdoor survey work, and unknown energy fluctuations and various radiation can harm or even threaten their lives.

When a dark matter storm weakens, scientists can observe it more closely, thus obtaining more detailed scientific data about the storm and better supporting future research.

Lingyu said: "The intensity of today's dark matter storm has decayed to about 17% of the previous one, and its intensity rate is still decreasing. ”

Hua Lian said: "In other words, you can go out of the cabin to act?"

Lingyu nodded and said, "That's right." ”

Hua Lian's heart couldn't help but move when he heard this, since the scientific researcher can go out of the cabin to conduct an investigation operation, then he can't help but be a little excited when he thinks that he can fly the mecha back in a few days.

Hua Lian wanted to ask Hoover about the current situation, and how long he still needed to stay in the "Miro Palace" according to this situation, but now Hoover was busy discussing work with others, so Hua Lian put up with it for the time being, and it was not too late to ask after these tasks were completed.

Hua Lian wanted to know more about the current information, so she continued to ask Lingyu, "Who is the one who went out of the cabin today to investigate?"

Lingyu said: "Chengzi and Jindu." ”

For Chengzi, Hua Lian is naturally more familiar, and she also has an impression of Jindu Hua Lian, Yu Na is an extremely tall and strong middle-aged man, his figure is not like a scientist in ordinary people's impressions, but like a bodybuilder, so many people here also jokingly call him King Kong.

At this time, Hoover's voice rang out: "Everything is ready, everyone, pay attention, the Storm Catcher is about to leave the cabin." ”

The testing work has begun, Hua Lian walked to a corner with interest and quietly watched all this, today it can be said that she is the only superfluous person here, so she naturally has to keep a low profile.

Eventually, the lights in the tower began to dim, and only the light projected by the various instrument screens flickered around.

Hoover clicked his finger on the keyboard a few times, and then a holographic projection of a fixed angle of view appeared in mid-air, and at the same time, Hoover also connected to Chengzi and Jindu.

"How are you doing?" Hoover asked.

"Everything is working and ready to go. Jindu's deep voice resounded in the room, echoing in the huge space and buzzing.

Hoover nodded and said, "Very good, the execution of the cabin will start in three minutes." After a pause, Hoover continued: "Today's inspection operation was launched by the Russian space station, and the leading power is naturally owned by the Russian side. You don't need to do too much work, just observe and learn from the periphery, and the specific actions after leaving the cabin will be under the full command of Professor Sergei. ”

"Understood. ”

"Understood. ”

Chengzi and Jin both agreed one after another.

Hua Lian saw everything in her eyes, and her heart couldn't help but move. She knew that Tsukishima's space power was inferior to that of other countries, and now it seemed that it was, and she didn't have full authority to act on a small dark matter storm detection project.

Although the prestige of the Templar is far higher than that of the Russian Knights of Catherine, the Moonisland side is obviously much weaker in the aerospace field.

While Hua Lian was thinking about and sighing, suddenly a figure appeared in her eyes, and that person was none other than West.

Hua Lian was quite surprised by West's appearance, and she couldn't think of a reason for such an anthropologist as West to appear at the scene of the experiment.

Vest also quickly noticed Hua Lian in the corner, and immediately walked over and smiled at Hua Lian: "I didn't expect the captain to be here." ”

Perhaps it was the drunken gaffe that day that made West cautious, and his title Hua Lian was re-titled from the previous Xiao Lian to Captain, and Hua Lian didn't care about this and let him be called.

Hua Lian smiled slightly and said in a low voice: "I didn't expect Mr. to appear here, I thought I was the only idler here today." ”

Hearing this, West chuckled and said, "It's a coincidence, I just finished the work in my hand today, and I heard that the testing project was going to be carried out here, so I came over to have fun." Originally, seeing that he couldn't help much, he was ready to leave, and he didn't want to see the captain, but it seemed that he finally had someone to accompany him. ”

Hua Lian said: "I also have nothing to do, I was invited by Professor Hoover to observe here, in that case, let's just watch quietly." ”

West nodded in response to a good word.

Just as the two were greeting, the time to leave the cabin had come, and the door of the cabin where Chengzi and Jindu were located opened, and the two slowly drove out of the cabin under the impetus of the aircraft.

Although this observation experiment is only a test project carried out in the vicinity of the "Miro Palace", it is necessary to deal with an elusive dark matter storm after all, so it is also very careful.

Chengzi and Jindu are covered with heavy exoskeleton spacesuits, although this spacesuit is not as dexterous and light as ordinary close-fitting spacesuits, but the safety system is higher, and with the blessing of exoskeleton machinery, it can exert extremely powerful power, which is extremely important in the cosmic activities of outer space.

That's when Hoover said, "The windcatcher is coming." ”

At this time, Hua Lian and the others could see a disk-shaped object slowly approaching from a distance through the view of the outer window of the observation tower. As the object got closer, Hua Lian saw its appearance more clearly, it was a huge disc together, I don't know what was in it under the gray-white shell, and there was a huge ring outside the disk, which was connected to the disk.

Around it were three astronauts also wearing exoskeleton spacesuits, and the three of them were clinging to the ring outside the disc and approaching the two Naruko through their own propulsion devices.

At this time, there was a new signal coming in to the communicator in front of Hoover, and Hoover connected it immediately, only to hear a loud voice from inside.

"Professor Hoover, it's been good lately. ”

Hoover laughed: "It's still the same, everything is still reasonable." ”

The voice was clearly the result of a translator's adequate processing, and although the timbre and intonation were maintained to their pristine quality, there were still some deficiencies in some details.

"Haha, Professor Hoover's so-called old appearance is really modest, and the two papers you published before really amazed me. You can come to me for a drink or two when you have time. ”

Hoover smiled: "Professor Sergei is in love, but with the friendship between you and me, if you want to have a glass of wine with you, you still have to write a stunning paper?"

Sergei's laughter rang out loud.

"Of course not, as long as Professor Hoover wants to drink, I will accompany him to the end!"

After some jokes, the smile on Hoover's face subsided, and then he said, "I still ask Professor Sergei to bother more about today's observation experiment." ”

"Haha, it's all easy to say. ”

Hua Lian knew that the person who spoke to Hoover should be one of the three Russian astronauts, and he was also the person in charge of today's experiment, Sergei in Hoover's mouth, but Hua Lian did not know anything about Sergei.

West on the side seemed to see Hua Lian's thoughts, and whispered to Hua Lian at the moment: "This Sergei is also a legendary mission, and his working time on the 'Miro Palace' space station is even longer than that of Professor Hoover, and it has been twenty-one years. According to this man, he is no longer ready to return to Earth, and will remain on the space station for the rest of his life. ”

Hearing this, Hua Lian couldn't help but think of the conversation she had with Hoover before, and said in her heart that Professor Sergei also had a cage in his heart that could not be solved.

Vest continued: "Sergei has made many contributions to Russian space for more than 20 years, and his team has solved one problem after another. It is now close to old age, but it still sticks to the front line of the out-of-cabin operation, which is extremely rare in the history of aerospace in the world. ”

Hua Lian nodded, and then smiled at West: "It seems that Mr. has a very comprehensive grasp of the information of each space station." ”

Vest smiled: "After all, I have to live here for a long time, and I still have to have the necessary information. Hua Lian naturally knew this, and she didn't doubt it at the moment.

A Russian cosmonaut handed two safety belts to Chengzi and the two, and the two used the safety belts to fix their bodies to the windcatcher, and then also held the ring on the outside of the windcatcher, and the five people jointly thrusted the windcatcher to the outer universe of the "Mirogong" space station.

"The escort ship is ready, and the continuous tracking begins. Hoover on the side calmly gave an order, the so-called escort ship is not the escort ship used in the navy, but a small space drone, which accompanies the astronauts as an auxiliary aircraft, and will provide assistance as soon as possible if an accident occurs, and at the same time it can also carry out auxiliary detection, data collection and other work.

During this relatively slow movement, West continued to chatter with Whitney.

"The dark matter storm has gradually subsided recently, and it seems that the captain will be able to leave for the trip back soon. ”

Hua Lian nodded and said, "Yes, I can finally leave." I've been here for too long because of this accident. ”

West smiled, "As the spear and shield of Tsukishima, the Templar must have a lot of work. ”

Hua Lian never revealed the information of the Templar to anyone, not only to Hugo, but also to West, who was just smiling and silent.

West didn't dwell on the topic, he just chuckled, "It can be seen that the Captain's time here is not particularly satisfactory." ”

Hua Lian said: "It's not enough to say that you are not satisfied, you are always uncomfortable." Although you are in this endless universe, the space for activity is really limited. Although the Miro Palace is large, the range of activities is also in this area, which makes people feel quite unfree. ”

West nodded and said, "Although this is the International Space Station, as long as there are countries, there are different ideas in my heart. What's different about the earth here? It's just a microcosm. ”

Hua Lian was quite deeply affected by this.

Vest continued: "Tsukishima's aerospace industry started too late, hundreds of years behind other countries, and it is nothing in the eyes of these cosmic powers, and I don't complain about any help to Tsukishima for any reason. Don't look at today's observational experiment as a big deal, but how much people here have to do to make it happen. If it weren't for Professor Hoover's two powerful papers, do you think Sergei would have invited our people into his experimental team and let us use their instruments?"

By the end, Vest's tone began to become a little agitated, and his voice increased.

Hua Lian frowned slightly, and then said in a low voice: "Sir." ”

At this time, West also noticed his gaffe, and immediately smiled: "Let the captain see the smile." ”

Hua said pitifully: "The eyes of truth, how to smile." ”

Hua Lian knew that West was a straight person to a large extent, and his words had already shown his strong attitude, and his words also aroused Hua Lian's thoughts.

Hua Lian sighed lightly and said, "It's like this here, but it's not in the earth." ”

"Although Tsukishima was built by countries around the world, it was originally established only to solve various troublesome problems, and it was not a place of peace. The people of Tsukishima have worked this rootless land for a hundred years, and they have been coveted by the strength of various countries since it first became large. After that, there was another struggle of blood and tears, and after the sacrifice of countless people, there was today's independent regime. ”

West: "There may be an element of friendship in the interaction between people, but the interaction between countries can only be respected and recognized by people only if they are naked and powerful. ”

In this regard, Hua Lian and West are surprisingly in agreement, and this exchange makes the two feel closer to each other.

While the two were chatting, Chengzi and his party had begun to approach the expected experimental area, and the speed of the situation began to slow down.

Professor Hoover has been conducting comprehensive monitoring and scheduling, and although the experiment was commanded by Sergei externally, Hoover was responsible for internal mobilization.

Seeing that everything was going well, Hoover finally announced the start of the testing experiment.