Chapter 25 A Distant Habitable Planet

The old chief and we stood in the capsule workshop for a long time and explained carefully, and then we realized that what he said about "two missions at the same time" turned out to be like this. These two tasks actually have to start with Shen Guojian himself: about two months ago, Shen Guojian, who worked in the observatory at the top of the nameless peak deep in the Himalayas, was actually like many foreign illusionists, constantly searching for a planet suitable for human habitation in the vast universe. In fact, Shen Guojian himself is just a very ordinary astronomer, and it is because he has found a planet suitable for human habitation in the universe that he is fortunate to work in a national strategic department. Moreover, as the first person to discover this habitable planet named 'Taoyuan Star', Shen Guojian, with his rich astronomical knowledge and strong sense of responsibility, made him fortunate to be able to receive aerospace training with us today. It seems that the reason why Shen Guojian received aerospace training was not to go to war on Titan with us, but to go to the habitable planet named "Taoyuan Star" with another group of astronauts. The second mission is our plan to land on Titan. This plan was originally to use the "Mir" super fighter as our special fighter, but after passing the resolution of the head of state, it was decided that the Mir super fighter will carry the space capsule on the way to the habitable planet called "Taoyuan", and when it passes through the orbit of Saturn, the space capsule carrying several of our combat team members will be dropped on Titan. What depressing news this must be! We thought that as long as we relied on the superior ability of the "Mir" super fighter to travel freely through space, and the unique Doomsday missile on board, it would be absolutely easy to complete the mission! Now it seems that our mission to land on Titan this time is only a subsidiary mission, and now I estimate that our importance in the eyes of the chief is not as important as Shen Guojian. But then again, since Shen Guojian and their regular extraterrestrial object missions are more important and arduous than our extraterrestrial object spy operations, then it seems that our mission is simply not worth mentioning compared to other people's tasks! Thinking of this, I don't have so many unfair feelings in my heart at this time, but on the contrary, I still feel that Shen Guojian and them are the protagonists in this operation, after all, they are going to reach the most edge of the universe, how far away it must be! The "Peace" super fighter will definitely come in handy at this time in terms of time-traveling performance.

But I thought to myself, but I also have to plan for our actions, and it's easy for us to go, so how do we get back? I then asked Commander Zhang: "Chief, are we only the four of us in this operation?" "Two months before that, there was already a Long March launch vehicle carrying four special forces on its way to Saturn. When you land on Titan, after all the mission plans and actions are well arranged, the crew module of the Long March launch vehicle will secretly land on Titan, carrying support team members, food and water, and various combat preparation materials......" Commander Zhang Lao explained the plan of action to us in detail, and at the same time walked with us in the workshop, talking and looking at the space capsule in the workshop.

"So how do we get back? There's no return capsule here, right? I asked. As soon as Big Yellow Tooth heard me talk about the return capsule, he came to his senses, because he was most concerned about the return capsule, so he only heard him ask: "Chief, why don't you leave the "Angel" military plane for us, this guy is so good, let's not return to the capsule!" As soon as Big Yellow Tooth talked about the "Angel" military aircraft, Commander Zhang immediately responded with a refusal attitude: "That's absolutely not good!" The reason why the 'Angel' military plane was arranged on the 'Peace' is just in case there is a preparation, and the conditions you ask for are not allowed! Big Yellow Tooth closed his mouth and stopped talking. Commander Zhang Lao continued: "Regardless of whether your operation on Titan is going well or not, whether you can win the prelude to the war (the success of the spy mission), you must stay on Titan for at least five days, because then the Mir fighter will be able to return from the habitable planet at the edge of the universe. Commander Zhang's words were naturally very clear to us. It seems that our actions this time are nine deaths, and our safety cannot be guaranteed. In fact, there are many things I didn't know at the time, and I only learned after this mission: the original reason why the country asked us to carry out this extremely dangerous and arduous mission was to let the "Peace" fighter safely reach the habitable planet named Taoyuan Star at the edge of the universe, and the reason why our country chose this way is because the earth we live on now has gradually declined, and the country's greatest wish is to transfer all the people to that habitable planet. Leave a world that is depleted and war-ridden. Although each of us feels very inappropriate about such an action, there is no other way but to do it, and one thing that we as soldiers always remember in our hearts is: to defend peace! The "Peace" super fighter that stayed on the runway has undergone the most sophisticated changes in the Ordnance Department of the Lhasa Military Region, including replacing the original non-renewable antimatter engine with a more advanced engine powered by a black hole, making corresponding program-compatible changes to the Doomsday missile deployed in its weapons bay, and making a series of modifications to its subsidiary aircraft, the "Angel." The most important thing is that the fuselage of the Mir super fighter is sprayed with a layer of high-temperature vaporizer similar to that on the special bulletproof spacesuit we are equipped with, but the vaporization paint sprayed by the "Mir" super fighter is more advanced, and the bright silver material can effectively reflect the strong laser of the alien fighter.

On the day of our departure, Commander Zhang Lao came to us, and he said to us earnestly: "Comrades! We must not be afraid of difficulties and hardships, and have the courage to complete the tasks assigned to us by the party! ......" Commander Zhang stood in front of the Mir super fighter on the runway and gave us his final instructions, and finally Commander Zhang walked up to us and said solemnly to us: "Children, I will wait for you to come back safely!" With that, he patted Colonel Tariq, who was standing at the front of the team, and said, "Take care of everyone!" ”

Colonel Tariq naturally understood Commander Zhang's intentions, because he himself was the veteran with the largest military rank and the most extensive battlefield experience among us, so Zhang Lao specially explained this when we were leaving. So Colonel Tariq straightened his back, stood up straight, and said loudly: "Guaranteed to complete the task!" Heads! When we entered the interior of the Mir super fighter again, somehow, I suddenly had a feeling of going home in my heart, although I knew that this was going to the battlefield, but in so many years of military career, it seemed that only on the battlefield could we soldiers find a home in our hearts, in other words, this should be called "seeing death as home", right? However, at this time, I found that Big Yellow Tooth and the others were talking and laughing, as if our trip was like traveling abroad, and they were looking at the newly modified "Peace" super fighter in the cabin one by one. I only heard Big Yellow Tooth say happily: "It's still our furniture (referring to the Mir fighter) to use, you see, such a large space capsule can be easily loaded into the carrying module, and there is no need for any booster rockets and space shuttles!" Shen Guojian took over the conversation and said: "Yes, I used to think that foreign aerospace equipment was advanced, but now it seems that even if foreign countries work hard to develop for a few more years, it will not be able to catch up with us." Luo Xiaoming shouted loudly: "Which one is the captain?" Come and tell us about the journey! Since the mission I carried out with Big Yellow Tooth, Luo Xiaoming, and Tariq was a subsidiary mission, and the focus of the current operation fell on Shen Guojian and his group, all the arrangements in this Mir were decided by others, and the pilots, pilots, and captains of the Mir were all in the making. We're just a hitchhiker. I could only hear the voice from the cockpit coming from the loudspeaker in the passenger compartment: "Attention teams!" The Mir fighter is about to take off, so please be quiet! We were all familiar with the speed of the Mir Super Fighter and its ability to travel through time and space, so we hurried to fasten our seatbelts and sit down. Group A was led by Shen Guojian, and because they had traveled a long way, they sat in the front row of the Heping Hao crew cabin. In Group B, I was the head of the operation, and since we were going to prepare for the Titan landing immediately after takeoff, we sat in the seats near the entrance of the cabin for the time being, so we could move.

The Mir Super started its engines and began to glide slowly. There was no singing and dancing send-off group outside the runway, and there were no comrades-in-arms to see them off. The speed of the fighter plane is getting faster and faster, and the scenery outside the porthole has begun to fly away, and then it becomes blurred, in this blurred scene, I suddenly saw the figure of Commander Zhang, only to see him standing alone and silently standing on the lawn at the end of the runway, looking at us farther away from him......

I tried to keep my tears from falling, because we were about to face a life-or-death task, and we couldn't show our weakness at this time. So I closed my eyes and lowered my head and thought silently in my heart: now that we have no choice to face all this, we must have the courage to face all this, and our purpose in this world is not for what we will do in the future, but for how our families will live in the future. Thinking of this, my heart is a little calm, for the sake of our family, for the sake of our family, for the sake of peace, let the battle begin! The Friendship spacecraft in the far reaches of the universe pinpointed our landing site on Titan, and the station-based telescope monitored it in real time to ensure that our actions were foolproof. We are about to reach Saturn's gravitational range shortly after we break out of the atmosphere. Because the Mir superfighter has the ability to travel through time and space, it does not need to rely on the gravitational pull of nearby planets when it reaches any planet in space, so the combination of the two factors makes our arrival at Saturn very short.

At this time, the whole picture of Saturn can be clearly observed outside the porthole, and the huge air vortex on the surface of the earthy yellow planet is constantly tumbling; The halo was like a giant disc disc wrapped around the periphery of the earthy yellow planet, and on the back of the ring, there was a large area of darkness that was not illuminated by the distant sun. I observed on the monitor that Titan was not in this dark area, and I seemed relieved that although the operation was extremely difficult, it was fortunate that I was not fighting with a flashlight in a dark place. The Mir Super Fighter enters Saturn's domain from the edge of Saturn's rings close to the ring belt from the periphery, and Titan is located at the edge of the ring belt, which is actually far away from Saturn, and overlooking the whole picture, such a large galaxy definitely looks like a mini-solar system, or more like a small universe. The huge blocks of ice (or small planets formed of ice) embedded in the halo shimmer in the sun's rays, like countless diamonds falling to the ground. Titan on the display screen has appeared in front of our eyes, Mir will aim its nose at Titan in a dive to prepare to enter the high-altitude area of Titan, in fact, the whole process at this time is very fast, unlike the usual spacecraft to approach a planet that can take weeks or even months or years, but at this time the Mir super fighter in the gravitational range of Saturn to enter the empty area of Titan and the surrounding ring area actually took only a short time to adjust the mechanical program, It felt as simple as piloting a helicopter on a hill to find something, and while we couldn't feel how fast we were in the Mir Super Fighter, our speed was as fast as a meteor in the sky to the personnel of the ground-based command office. Although we are in the range of the sun's rays at this time, but Saturn is so far away from the sun, that the light is dim as if it is a soybean-sized oil lamp, I look out of the porthole, Titan is getting closer and closer, it is almost within reach, that impulsive curiosity and the tense prelude to war make each of us heart beat faster, never calm down, at this time the loudspeaker in the crew compartment came out of the driver's prompt: "The members of Group B are beginning to get ready, Ten minutes to reach Titan! What? Only ten minutes left? It's unimaginable! At present, it takes several days for the world's most advanced and fastest space spacecraft carrier rocket to reach the Moon, the closest extraterrestrial body to the Earth, but now it only takes half an hour for Mir to reach Saturn! We know that Mir has the ability to travel through time and space, but it must have come too quickly, right? It's amazing.

I stood up and gave an order to everyone: "Go!" So I, Luo Xiaoming, Tariq, and Big Yellow Tooth stood up together, and with a gesture to the members of Group B in front of them, they were ready to take care of their equipment and enter the space landing module in the cabin. However, Shen Guojian did not wave goodbye to us happily, but looked at us with solemn eyes and walked over. It is estimated that because they don't seem to have the feelings of those of us who are soldiers who regard death as home, for a while, I saw several of them with tears in their eyes, holding our hands tightly and refusing to let go. To be honest, at that time, in their group A, we had never seen a few other people except Shen Guojian, even so, at this time, it felt a little like saying goodbye to a comrade-in-arms who was a friend of life and death. Shen Guojian is a person who practices martial arts, with a frank and arrogant spirit, he said to us with concerned words: "I hope you will complete the task victoriously and come back safely!" "See you on Earth! Comrades! Take care! I said solemnly to the members of Group A. With that, the four of us lined up in a row and saluted them to say goodbye. "Take care!" "Take care!"