Chapter 63
Tang Wuqiu had never been to a place like the desert before. But when a friend of my sister-in-law came to Yanaka, she talked about this kind of place. The man, who was from the Western Regions, said he had grown up in a desolate, barren place that looked vast and open.
Tang Wuqiu had only survived as a story before, after all, his physical condition and temperament did not seem to be able to go to the Western Regions. But he didn't expect that after a few years, he would see this kind of environment in another world in another way, which seemed to be shining gold chips.
Although it has been analyzed that the composition of the atmosphere on this planet is very close to that of Gaia, but without full certainty, those who rescued did not risk breathing directly on this planet, but wore protective clothing strictly.5./books/28/28621/
[Rebirth] from a vase to a goddess.
However, Tang Wuqiu didn't have a chance to wear it, because Saroman didn't intend to let Tang Wuqiu out of the hatch at all - this was not a fake public and private discrimination, but all the obedient people on the battleship were like this.
Who told them to be too "delicate and frail" compared to the dominators?
However, although Tang Wuqiu and they stayed, they didn't just stay in the battleship to hide for safety and laziness. There were only twenty servants on this battleship, and although there were professional pilots, if something happened to the passengers on the Meranda and needed help, they would naturally not stand idly by.
Although Tang Wuqiu is not as professional as them, he is not idle, although he has repaired a lot of mecha before, but there are also a few mecha that have been affected by the stricter zhòng when they jump in space. Although it is not completely destroyed, if you want to repair it, it will not be able to complete it in a while.
Tang Wuqiu just took a fancy to this, so he took those tools and parts and "plunged" into the mecha hangar.
At this time, Saroman was driving the Teng Snake and the other members of the search and rescue team to rush to the signal they had received earlier.
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On a strange planet, mechs are essential.
Not only can it respond to sudden combat situations at any time, but it can also collect, sample, and detect, and so on. So, although Saroman and the others are wearing protective suits, they still drive mechs.
“…… It's amazing, sir, the gravity on this planet is about the same as that of Gaia. As soon as he took two steps, a young soldier who had previously lifted one of Tang Wuqiu's sleeping pods spoke with amazement.
In order to make it easier to walk and save energy to the greatest extent, when the mech they are driving sets foot on the land of this planet, they need to adjust the way the mech travels according to the gravity of the planet.
For example, on a planet with very little gravity, they use the method of "jumping" to move forward, but at the same time, in order not to deviate from the direction, they have to increase the friction and gravity between the mecha and the surface of the planet; On planets with too much gravity, jumping is obviously not a good idea, so at that time they will choose to use the "glide" way of progress......
This time, too, because considering that the place where they landed was a long stretch of yellow sand, no one knew how thick the sand layer was, and whether the place where they landed was a quicksand pit, so Sullivan and the others immediately tested it after leaving the battleship.
They were pleasantly surprised.
"The universe is so big, it's normal for gravity to be similar." Saroman said lightly, and then looked at the Teng snake who no longer concealed but had a sense of zài since the "exposure/exposure": "How is the situation?" ”
On the floating panel, a small scaled snake mecha rested its cheek with its hand, with a stern expression (although there was only one expression on the mecha's face anyway): "Report, no life reaction was found. ”
"Yes......" Saloman muttered, then summoned the order through the communication between the guò mechs, "activate the weapon system." ”
Sullivan and the others were stunned for a moment - activate the weapon system? Isn't it saving people? How did it turn into a war? Although there were more or less doubts in their hearts, everyone almost immediately followed the order the next second Saloman's voice fell.
The temporary search and rescue team brought out by Saloman, not to mention anything else, there is no doubt about Saloman's sincerity, it is completely what Saroman orders, they will do anything, even if there is doubt, they will carry it out first.
Naturally, Saroman understood this, so after giving this order, he did not stop, and soon reached the bottom of the naked/rocky hill, where the Meranda, which had been forced to land, was quietly parked.
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Until now, the Meranda has not responded to the rescue and inquiry signals sent by the Salomans, but the Saloman and the others can feel that the Meranda has been sending a steady stream of distress signals.5./books/28/28620/
Dear Mr. Gu,
"Could it be that they chose the hibernation pod in order to save food and drag longer?" Sullivan guessed.
It's not out of the question.
After all, even if the Meranda doesn't have an accident, the sailing time is more than half a month, for most people, although the vast starry sky of the vast universe is indeed beautiful and shocking, but it is not interesting to watch it continuously all day and all night, so it is normal to choose to sleep and spend a long journey. And the Meranda does have a hibernation pod for everyone on board.
Although the hibernation cabin is not as advanced and perfect as the sleeping cabin, compared with the humanized sleeping cabin, the sleeping cabin has more "pause" performance - once the human body enters the sleeping cabin, the consumption of various functional activities of the body will be reduced infinitely close to zero.
Although the captain of the Meranda was lucky enough to send the signal to the Empire and was received by the Empire, by the time the Empire received it, the Meranda had been forced to land on the planet U.N. 02333. According to normal logic, although the Empire immediately responded and sent a rescue message back, the Meranda may not have had a chance to receive it at that time.
In other words, there is a high probability that the crew and passengers on the Meranda do not know that they will be rescued soon, because they don't know how long they will have to stay, so it is also a rational choice to choose the dormant cabin to extend the support time.
The only thing to consider is that the hibernation pod also consumes the spacecraft's energy, and if they wait for the spacecraft to run out of energy, the hibernation pod that cannot be opened due to the "automatic crash" due to the lack of energy supply will become their "grave".
Although Saroman also thought about it, the answer given by Teng Snake did not support this hypothesis.
Because what Teng Snake said was that from the Meranda "there was no life reaction".
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You know, the hibernation chamber is only "dormant", not "frozen", in this case, the human body will also have a normal metabolism, but it is extremely weak and slow, but it cannot hide the detection of high-tech.
As a custom mecha, Teng Snake is naturally not comparable to the mass mecha, the life response detection of the mass mecha is generally through guò infrared and heat reaction, and Teng Snake can not only do this, but also detect the bioelectric current generated by the small breathing of guò cells. In this way, even if the other party is just a single-celled organism, it will not be able to escape at all.
And later, because Tang Wuqiu found that he could talk to Teng Snake and Ah Shilan, considering their "life", in terms of studying mecha manufacturing, combined with his experience as a Yanshi, he tinkered with Teng Snake's perception system for more than a month, and added detection programs in this area (For Tang Wuqiu, the design and production of mecha is not very difficult to get started, the most difficult thing is to write a program, because I have never been exposed to it before, so I can only learn it from scratch, But fortunately, Tang Wuqiu may really eat this bowl of rice, under the teaching of Bai Lao, not only mastered the knowledge of the system in the shortest time, but also quickly touched the bypass o(* ̄ ̄*)o).
All in all, the detection system of the Teng Snake is not perfect, but in general, there are really no missing aspects.
Because of this, Saloman was convinced by the report that the snake had reacted back, and did not agree with Sullivan's speculation.
Rather than Sullivan's speculation that the people on the Meranda were staying in the hibernation capsule waiting for rescue, Saloman, who had a memory, combined with the report of the Snake, was more inclined to another possibility - the Meranda was already an empty spaceship at the moment.
However, Saroman could not stop his journey to the Meranda just because of that.
Take 10,000 steps back and say that the Meranda is an empty spaceship and the same as what Sullivan said before, it is just speculation. Saroman had only vaguely remembered what seemed to be a spaceship crash during the New Year, but he didn't pay attention to it at the time, and after many years, Saroman had no relevant details to remember.
Moreover, Saroman had a hunch in his heart that he could find an answer to a question that had once bothered him by going inside the Meranda.
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Although Sullivan is a soldier, because the current army is no longer like in the ancient times, everyone has their own unique personality.5./books/28/28618/
The fox of the passing years on the other side of the river. Although Saloman's temperament is relatively "independent" and his management style is stricter, it does not erase his personal temperament.
For some reason, Sullivan knew Saroman at a very young age, and he also regarded this ruler as his idol and goal, and later when he entered Saloman's army, he was even more energetic in the hope of being able to enter the eyes of the other party. Although he has now become one of Saloman's hardcore soldiers, his temperament has not changed at all.
After stepping into the Meranda, he couldn't wait to explore - today's spacecraft is mainly composed of a power system, a life support system, an artificial gravity system, living quarters, a cryo-dormancy pod, etc., and now Sullivan is only in the passage behind the hatch - well, the ground is still clean, but probably because no one has cleaned it, even the inside of the spacecraft has fallen a thin layer of dust. And there were no human footprints in these gray layers, indicating that at least the people on the Meranda were not active, so he was a little more sure of the guess that the people on the Meranda were in the sleeping module.
But he is not the type of thick branches, so although he thought so in his heart, he did not rush directly into it recklessly, but continued to observe. And with this observation, he saw a little difference.
There was still a faint layer of dust on the floor of the main road, but there were wet black mud spots in the corners of the corners that were not easily noticed.
You must know that as a passenger spacecraft, the sanitary conditions must meet the regulations, dust is a human life, it will be stored, this is unavoidable, and the appearance is normal, but mud spots ...... It's intriguing that this thing appears in a spaceship.
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Because the mecha is generally tall, and as a passenger spaceship, there is not enough height for the mecha to enter the hatch and passage, so Saroman and his party left some people to guard the mecha, and took a small number of them to wear protective clothing and entered the Meranda first.
Today's protective clothing is very lightweight, breathable, easy to move, and not bulky at all, so after Sullivan noticed it, he directly bent down and touched the mud-like thing with his gloves.
"Hey, Sullivan, why aren't you leaving? What are you looking at? Is there any treasure there? Kaye followed Sullivan and asked when he suddenly stopped and crouched in the corner.
Because of Sullivan's movements and Kaye's words, the rest of the team also looked over, and Saloman, as the leader of the team, walked to Sullivan's side: "Did you find anything?" ”
Sullivan's gloves were already stained with a little "mud" at the moment, he looked at his chief a little strangely, and his index finger and thumb pinched the "mud" and pressed it tightly and pulled it away: "Boss, you see this thing is elastic." Obviously, it was only the size of a mung bean, and his index finger and thumb were at least twenty centimeters wide outstretched, but the "mud spots" were only stretched to a very fine extent, and the thinnest part was thinner than a hair, but there was no sign of breaking at all.
It's a pity that I can't smell this thing with a breathing mask now.
Sullivan was quite research-minded, but after seeing what was on his fingers, Saloman's pupils shrank suddenly, and he immediately ordered in a low voice: "All obey the order!" Get ready for battle! ”
Sullivan was still thinking about it in his head, and when he heard this, a spirit immediately shook the thing in his hand and took out his weapon from his protective suit! After posing, he remembered to ask why, after all, this was the shipwrecked spaceship, and the people suffering in it were the good citizens of the Empire...... Ahem. But looking at the stern eyes and cold backs that the head of the family had left them, he intuitively felt that something bad had happened, and swallowed the words with a very good look.
Saroman wasn't as thoughtful as Sullivan, and when he saw it, his heart sank, and he knew that the last thing he wanted to see had happened. However, he only saw a little slime now, there was no trace of their activity on the ground, and the snake had not detected a life reaction before, so he was not sure yet - he was going to go in and see if there were any traces of this in the living quarters!
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In fact, as Saroman doesn't want to see, if there are only some scattered black slime in the corners of the passage, then there is more than just slime on the ground in the living area, just from the broken simple table, scattered luggage and the broken machine qì people who have long since died, it is enough to make people see [Taklamakan Desert: Taklamakan Desert (snow-covered desert), is one of the members of the world's large desert club, in terms of area, It is ranked 15th among many non-polar deserts.5./books/28/28619/
Politics. It is located in the Tarim Basin, which is inland and water-scarce, far from the sea and cannot regulate the temperature, and is affected by cold Siberian air (China's winter is affected by Siberian air, and Xinjiang is no exception). The desert covers an area of 270,000 square kilometers. Both the northern and southern edges of the Taklamakan Desert are crossed by spurs of the Silk Road. In 2008, the "best desert in China" experienced the heaviest snowfall and lowest temperature on record, with snow falling for 11 consecutive days. The entire desert is covered in snow and ice, and snowfall of this magnitude is very rare in the desert. The Blue Lagoon Desert in Brazil's Laces Marajeses Brazil is home to the world's largest rainforest, with 30% of the world's freshwater resources reserved. It's unbelievable that we can find deserts in such a country. Located in the northern Brazilian state of Marenjung, the 300-square-kilometre Laxis-Marachses National Park is one of the best in the world with snow-white sand dunes and deep blue lakes. What makes this desert unique is its rainfall, which can reach 1,600 mm a year, 300 times more than the Sahara Desert, and the rain fills the potholes between the dunes to form a clear blue lake. During the dry season, the lake water evaporates completely. After the rainy season, there is no shortage of fish, turtles and mussels in the lake, as if they have never left. There are two hypotheses about this: one theory is that their eggs or eggs are buried under the sand and hatch when the rainy season comes; Another way of saying it is that "tireless" birds bring their eggs and eggs from time to time. Shiobara is one of Bolivia's most iconic landscapes. Located in the middle of a plateau, the desert is vast and almost flat, blending in with the sky. In the desert, there are several lakes whose water takes on a strange color due to the action of various minerals. 40,000 years ago, this area was part of the Ming and Qing Lakes, a prehistoric giant lake. After that, the lake dried up, leaving two large saltwater lakes: Lake Pupo and Lake Ulu-Ulu, and two large salt deserts, the Salline of Uyuni and the Salline of Koipasa, the former of which is larger. In terms of area, the Salline de Uyuni is 25 times larger than the Bonneville Salt Flats in the United States. It is estimated that there are 10 billion tons of salt here, and at present, less than 25,000 tons are mined annually. The White Desert of Egypt When traveling to the Fara Fala Oasis in Egypt, one of the major attractions that you must not miss is the "White Desert". The desert is located 45 km north of Farafara. The sand here is a creamy snow-white color, which contrasts sharply with the yellow desert that surrounds it. The Atacama Desert, located north of the 29th parallel, occupies a large part of Chilean territory. The desert is located west of the Andes Mountains and is in the shape of a long strip along the Pacific coast of the South American continent. However, near the Tropic of Capricorn, near Antofagasta, the sea fog brings a lot of moisture, providing the necessary conditions for plant growth in the desert. Thanks to the sea fog and the ability to "store water", many plants have survived. In drought years, growth is delayed in order to survive and reproduce. The Namib Desert has a desert of elephants. Located in the south of Africa, the Namib Desert is not as large as the Sahara Desert to the north, but it is more impressive. Ancient trees that have been fossilized stand tall in the Namib Desert's Death Valley, with red sand dunes behind them. The country of Namibia is named after the Namib Desert. The Namib Desert is located on South Africa's western coastline, known as the Skeleton Coast, a desolate coastline teeming with wrecked ships. The Namib Desert is considered to be the oldest desert in the world, and it is also home to some of the world's tallest sand dunes, some of which are as high as 300 meters, and these dunes surround Sosuvilai. Also, if you're lucky, you can see elephants in the Namib Desert, which is the only desert in the world where you can see elephants. As the oldest desert in the world, the Namib Desert region is home to many fossils of animals and plants. For many years, the Namib Desert has fascinated geologists like a magnet, yet to this day, little is known about it. The red desert of the Simpsons Desert, Australia. Australia's Simpsons Desert is famous for its vivid red color. Due to the long-term weathering of the iron material, the sand and gravel are coated with a coat of iron oxide, so that the endless desert becomes a fire, and it looks magnificent in the sun. Egypt's Black Desert is located 100 kilometers northeast of the White Desert of Faravra, in a volcanic eruption of mountains full of small black stones. However, the color of these stones is not as black as one might think, but brownish-orange. Sahara DesertWith an area of 8.6 million square kilometers, the Sahara Desert is the largest desert in the world, occupying most of North Africa. About 4 million people live here. The Sahara covers Western Sahara, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Chad, Mali and most of Mauritania. Antarctica has one of the most extreme climates in the world, and for a long time the continent was uninhabited because it was so cold. In 1983, scientists recorded extremely low temperatures there: minus 129 degrees Fahrenheit (about minus 89 degrees Celsius). Antarctica is the driest place in the world, but also the most "wet", not because of its heavy rainfall, but because 98% of its area is covered in snow and ice. Antarctica receives less than 5 centimeters of rain per year, so it can also be called a "desert". 】