Chapter 588: Crater
"Is it the local native?" said Roger, looking confused.
"I don't know. Shuya shook her head.
"You send the signal source to Gu Cheng'an, and ask him to arrange another lander to come down and take a look, and he and I will go to save people first. Roger explained to Shu Ya.
"Okay. Shuya picked up the communicator and contacted the spaceship.
"How are we going to get five kilometers?" Meng Jian asked Roger as he looked out of the porthole.
Roger glanced at Meng Jian and did not answer his question, he was analyzing the composition of the earth's atmosphere at this time, and soon determined that the atmosphere on this planet was very primitive, mainly nitrogen, and the concentration of carbon dioxide and ethane was also relatively high.
The asteroid has a lot of rocks and a high metal content, almost an iron lump.
The asteroid orbits in an elliptical orbit around the star that is nearing its twilight years, with a cycle of five to six hours, so the rotation of day and night here is five or six hours, and now the landing place is in the middle of the night, and the ground temperature is extremely low.
"We came by motorbike. After Roger was done, he replied to Meng Conversion, and then he took Meng Conduit to the isolation capsule and began to change into a space suit.
"We'd better bring another set with us. Meng Jian thought of a question when she was wearing a spacesuit, and she didn't know what happened to Lin Jing's spaceship, what if she didn't have a spacesuit?
"Put it on a motorcycle. Roger didn't say much, he pressed a button, and a strangely shaped motorcycle with a narrow front and a wide rear appeared in the isolation cabin, with no wheels underneath. Apparently a magnetic levitation drive.
Roger got on the motorcycle, maneuvered it and started it. Then he took out a semaphore and handed it to Meng Conversion.
"I'm in charge of driving, you're in charge of direction. Roger spoke to Meng Conversion.
"No problem. After Meng Jian fixed another set of spacesuits on the motorcycle, he also climbed onto the motorcycle.
After Meng took refuge on the motorcycle, Roger clicked on the motorcycle a few times, opened the hatch, and drove the motorcycle out of the lander.
Although it was only five kilometers away from Lin Jing's crash site, the terrain on the asteroid was extremely complicated, and huge rock mountains blocked the two of them in front of them. If you are not careful, you will also encounter extremely deep canyons, in which case the maglev motorcycle will have to go around.
Moreover, the planets are mainly metallic, and some places even have strong magnetic fields. This makes the control difficulty of the maglev motorcycle also increase a lot out of thin air.
"Grass! What kind of place is this? "Why don't you let people go?" Roger cursed after a few detours.
Meng Jian was also extremely irritable in his heart, when would he be able to rush to Lin Jing like this? The oxygen in the space suits of the two of them was limited, and it would last for six hours at most, if it exceeded these three hours, they couldn't rush to Lin Jing. The motorcycle had to go back where it was. This detoured three times, and more than half an hour passed lightly, but the two of them were still in place and did not go far.
Just as the maglev motorcycle was traveling along the edge of a canyon, Roger suddenly yelled, 'Oh no!' and the maglev motorcycle plunged into the nearby canyon uncontrollably.
Meng Jian felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly reached out and grabbed a strange rock next to him, and then hung on the strange rock, but Roger fell into the deep canyon with the maglev motorcycle.
Meng Jian glanced into the canyon, which was unfathomable. In the middle of the night, he couldn't see what was going on, and he called out to Roger through the communicator in his spacesuit. There has been no response.
I'm going to it!
As a last resort, Meng Jian could only figure out a way by himself, and it took a lot of effort to climb out of the canyon and return to the ground just now.
Meng Jian looked at the extremely dark canyon in shock, and he estimated that there was probably a strong magnetic field interference source nearby, which interfered with the control system of the maglev motorcycle, and directly pulled the motorcycle over.
Roger sat in front and had no chance to jump out of the motorcycle, but Meng Jian was lucky to sit in the back seat and jump out of the motorcycle in time to save his life.
"Shuya, Shuya, can you hear me?" Meng tried to contact the spaceship, but there was no response. It seems that there is indeed a strong magnetic field in this place, which interferes with the communication signal.
Meng Jian had to carefully study the detector in his hand, in addition to the red dot indicating the landing point of the spacecraft, there was also a small green dot around it that kept drawing circles outward, it should be Lin Jing's location, right?
Meng Jian could only roughly estimate Lin Jing's exact location based on the place where the green appeared the most, maybe after leaving this area with large magnetic field interference, the signal would be clearer.
Thinking that after the spaceship crashed, Lin Jing's situation would definitely not be too good, Meng Jian didn't dare to delay, and took the detector and went on the road again. This time he didn't make much of a detour, except for the rocky hills that were too high and steep, or the canyon cracks that were too deep to see the bottom, all of them were the way he chose to go straight to the signal source.
This is faster than a maglev motorcycle.
To Meng Wei's great joy, half an hour later, he walked out of this stone mountain area, a huge plain appeared in front of him, and the signal of the detector also stabilized.
In addition, there is also a light, and without using night vision devices, you can clearly see some of the scenery in the near distance.
In order to reach the landing site of the spaceship as soon as possible, Meng Jian accelerated his pace again, and even ran on the plain. Thanks to his day-to-day training, his physique is far stronger than ordinary people even without system bonuses, and even in a spacesuit, he can run faster than many ordinary people without a spacesuit.
It didn't take long for Meng to know why there was a large plain here.
Because, there is a huge volcano in front of it.
The volcano is still erupting, and a large amount of lava rushes into the sky, illuminating the vicinity.
When this volcano erupted, it was very strange that there was no volcanic ash! Meng Jian quickly figured it out...... The bottom of this planet is likely to be pure metal, and the volcano erupts completely liquid metal, so there is no volcanic ash, and it is precisely because of these eruptions that the liquid metal solidified on the ground that the plain in front of it was formed.
The closer to the volcano, the warmer the air became, but Meng had to continue to move towards the crater, because the signal from the detector showed that Lin Jing's spacecraft crashed near the crater.
The spacesuit was full of sweat, and Meng Wei even had the idea of taking it off and leaving only the gas cylinder and gas cover on his body, but considering the surrounding high temperature, as well as unknown radiation and other factors, he still dispelled this idea.
At a distance of five thousand meters, from leaving the lander to the foot of the volcano, according to Meng Conversion's estimate, it only took Meng Conduium about two hours, and judging from the display of the detector, the signal source was within one kilometer of him.
Finally, ten minutes later, with the help of the detector, Meng Jian saw a lander that had been damaged, and the signal source also locked on the lander, if nothing else, Lin Jing was in the lander.
It wasn't a spaceship that crashed here, it was just a lander. It is very likely that the spacecraft could not get rid of the gravitational pull of the black hole at that time, and Lin Jing, under the guidance of Yiyi, gave up the spacecraft and launched the lander into this small galaxy.
None of this matters now, though, Meng Jian had to do everything he could to find Lin Jing and bring her back to Shu Ya's lander from here.
Meng Jian circled around the lander that had destroyed Yan Zòng, and soon found the entrance to the lander. The inner space of the lander was very small, and after Meng Jian got in, he searched around, but he didn't find Lin Jing, only the lights on the communication device were still flashing, and they continued to transmit a weak signal outward.
Meng Jian sat down, gasping for breath while thinking about where Lin Jing would be at this time.
One can imagine how frightened and desperate Lin Jing would be when she fell here alone. She probably wouldn't have thought of the timeline that Meng Jian would be able to rush back here in time to save her sixty-three years later, right?
It's very hot here, it's very close to the crater, and with her character, she's definitely not going to wait here to die, but to leave the lander and go somewhere else!
Where should I find her now?
Meng Jian tried to use the communication device of the damaged lander to see if he could contact Lin Jing, but the thing seemed to have failed except for the constant flickering. It's getting hotter and hotter in the spacesuit, because the insulation effect of the spacesuit is very good, and now you feel so hot in the spacesuit, you can imagine how hot the temperature is in the surrounding environment.
Since Lin Jing left here, it means that she is wearing a spacesuit, and according to the basic common sense of human survival, she should instinctively go in the direction away from the heat source, so ...... It must be in that direction, right?
Meng Jian was not sure, the most hateful thing was that there was no volcanic ash in this volcano, so there were no footprints or anything like that on the ground, so Meng Jian could not accurately judge the direction in which Lin Jing left.
Now I can only bet that she is going in the direction away from the volcano, but even if it is the direction away from the volcano, Meng Jian casually analyzed, and at least a thirty to fifty arc can be drawn, Lin Jing's choice, all the routes within this arc are possible.
In which direction should we go?
Once you choose the wrong one, there is no room for reversal.
At this moment, the detector in Meng Conversion's hand suddenly sounded, and he quickly picked it up and looked at it...... It's not that it received any useful signal, but that the communication device of the damaged lander next to it has completely lost power and stopped transmitting signals. (To be continued......)