Chapter 112: Titan

The deep cosmic space brings out a clear arc, and the bright starlight continues to tumble down from the top of the head, but when it reaches the bottom, it has the feeling of speeding across the ground...

Suddenly there was a stillness, and the universe stopped spinning.

The McQueen emerges from the wormhole.

"No matter how many times you look at it, you can feel the grandeur and beauty of the universe." Tony said with a sigh, and Li Mo nodded in agreement.

"Crew members of the USS McQueen!"

Sitting on the captain's seat, Li Mo took a leisurely puff of his cigarette and gently knocked it into the ashtray under the nervous gaze of the emir.

"After another wormhole crossing, we ran most of the galaxy and finally came to the Orion Arm. Located 25,000 light-years from the center of the galaxy, it's a complete backwood, and my home planet is located here. ”

"Wow, I'm home." Tony raised an eyebrow and shrugged.

Scolch shouted, "Boss, let's go, I can't wait to touch the land." ”

"Alright, let's keep going." Li Mo smiled and said.

The co-pilot, Emir, quickly clicked on the holographic keyboard, "Start the jump scanner." ”

"Scan Successful..."

The McQueen slammed into a space-time hole that suddenly opened, and after two space jumps, finally came to the outer reaches of the solar system.

"Start the curvature engine, warp speed level two." Li Mo ordered.

The McQueen then moved towards Kuiper at breakneck speed.

(The warp speed rating is the gear of the curvature engine, level one is the speed of light, level two is 10.0794 times the speed of light, and level three is 38.9407 times the speed of light...) The current curvature engine limit is 9.99. οΌ‰

The Kuiper Belt is a dense ring-like region of the outermost celestial body of the solar system, probably near Neptune's orbit, and contains many microstars that come from the protoplanetary disk fragments orbiting the Sun. Because they failed to combine into planets, smaller bodies were formed, the largest of which were less than 3,000 kilometers in diameter.

After crossing the dense Kuiper Belt, McQueen gradually accelerated, and soon came to the vicinity of Saturn.

"Captain Li Mo, the planetary scanner shows traces of civilization creation nearby."

Just as they were about to continue on their way, McQueen's voice suddenly rang out.

β€œshit! Why didn't you find it last time? Li Mo asked in surprise.

"We were too fast last time, and the nerve sensing center connected to the planetary scanner has not been strengthened by space energy." McQueen replied.

"It seems that the solar system is also quite lively, I didn't expect that there are neighbors so close to us, show the location." Li Mo shrugged his shoulders and said.

As soon as he finished speaking, a large hologram appeared in the air in the center of the cockpit. A moon orbiting Saturn is identified by red light.

"Titan?" Tony immediately recognized it, frowned and said, "This is the only moon in the solar system with a thick atmosphere, also known as the Titan Star. Some scholars deduce that there may be intelligent life on it, but they do not expect it to be true. ”

"Wow, would you like to pay a visit?" Li Mo asked with interest.

"Of course." Tony shrugged.

"Okay, let's go..."Li Mo whistled.

The McQueen swerved abruptly and headed straight for Enceladus 6.

Under the light of the stars, the surface of Enceladus takes on an eerie green and yellow color. After the McQueen entered the orange atmosphere, huge thunderstorms tens of miles long could be seen everywhere.

The surface of the satellite is full of plains, hills, and ravines washed out by the liquid. The McQueen stopped near the plain where civilized buildings were found.

The others were not interested, only Tony and Li Mo got off the ship in nanospacesuits.

The gravity on the surface here is very low, ordinary people can jump seven or eight meters away with a light jump, and the surface temperature of the satellite is also very low, about minus 170 degrees.

The sky was orange and thunderstorms were still flashing. Clouds of orange-red smoke drifted quickly, and visibility was very poor in the seemingly never-ending wind. Saturn, with its huge planetary rings, hangs above the horizon.

"Damn, is this hell? The creatures that live here must have a bad temper. Li Mo complained, feeling a little depressed and decided to open the helmet of the spacesuit.

"What are you doing?" Tony hurriedly stopped him.

"It's okay, my body doesn't need a spacesuit at all in this environment." Li Mo replied with a smile.

"I advise you that you'd better not." Tony said, spreading his hands.

"You're too small." Li Mo opened his helmet as he spoke, "Shit! What does it taste like? ”

Li Mo hurriedly put on his helmet and inhaled oxygen for a long time before recovering his strength, "Why does the air here smell as bad as a fart that has been stored for 1,000 years?" ”

"There's a lot of methane and ethane in the air here, and it definitely doesn't taste good." Tony shrugged.

Then, the two turned to look at the plain where the civilized buildings existed.

It was a large city with only ruins left, and the tall buildings of all kinds were corroded in the wind covered in dark yellow dust, and only the outlines could be roughly discerned.

"It looks like our neighbors may have died out, or simply abandoned this place." Tony shook his head and said.

"Let's go up and take a look." After Li Mo said this, he quickly jumped and ran towards the complex, and Tony hurriedly followed.

After entering this complex, you can feel the desolation and dead silence of this place more and more. Many of the buildings are left with only broken platforms. Some of the remaining half of the walls have been weathered into strange shapes.

"The metal content is extremely high..."Tony said as he looked at the probe and frowned, "a lot of metal was used to construct these walls, and they seem to have undergone some kind of transformation, the building was encased in a thick shell of sand and rock, and then weathered into this..."

"It seems that this is not a low-level indigenous civilization, let's move on." Tony said thoughtfully.

At this time, the wind seems to be more violent, and the orange wind and sand make visibility even worse. Tony was even blown up, Li Mo hurriedly grabbed him, and said loudly: "This TM is just a ruin, let's leave." ”

"No, let's take a closer look." Tony shook his head, "The presence of such traces of civilization in the solar system always makes me feel uneasy. ”

"Okay, listen to you." Li Mo shrugged helplessly, "But it seems that they are all hanging, so there shouldn't be any danger." ”

The wind was blowing even harder, and the gravity here was about the same as that of the moon, but the atmospheric pressure was 1.5 times that of the Earth, and the extreme unevenness of heat and cold made the weather very bad. The two of them continued to walk through the ruins against the strong wind.

Despite the low visibility and the crumbling buildings eroded by the wind, you can still get a glimpse of the civilization as it once was.

As he walked to a plaza-like clearing, the detector on Tony's arm suddenly beeped.

Tony hurriedly observed the detector, and carried out a series of operations and analyses, and said to Li Mo: "There are a lot of metal reactions about 15 meters underground here. ”

"Is there a treasure?" Li Mo's eyes immediately lit up, "This is a common episode in adventure movies, it's really timely." ”

"You're thinking so beautifully." Tony shook his head and said, "I only said there was a metal reaction, and I didn't know what it was, and besides, how do you dig it?" With tentacles? ”

"Don't worry, I've been dreaming of this day for a long time. Therefore, an artifact, a multi-purpose planetary exploration engineering vehicle, was purchased very early. Li Mo said proudly.

Tony: "Uh... Should I praise you for your vision? ”

The excited Li Mo ignored him and directed the McQueen to hover over the square. After the belly compartment was opened, a 15-meter-long multi-purpose engineering vehicle slowly landed in the center of the square with blue flames at the bottom.

The engineering vehicle has a bullet-like streamlined shape, and after falling to the ground, the tracks are retracted, and eight mechanical feet are stretched out to stand steadily.

Through the operation of the emir on the ship, two stout robotic arms cut the ground with a laser while moving the cut rock fragments aside, which is very efficient. When we get close to the place where there is a metal reaction, we start the delicate operation again.

After about two hours, something appeared in front of them, part of a broken ship.

Li Mo was disappointed, but Tony looked at it with interest.

"It seems that this civilization already has the ability to conduct interstellar travel." Tony circled the wreckage of the spaceship and said, "They should have used Titan as a colony star, because the resources here simply cannot provide an interstellar civilization to grow." ”

Subsequently, the engineering vehicle used a laser to cut a large hole in the shell, and Li Mo and Tony walked in.

The interior of the ship was a mess, almost all of the metal had lost its original luster, and the surface was pitted with rust.

The space inside the ship was very high, and there were some large, very human-like bones on the ground, which had become fossil-like. Almost every one of them is more than two meters long, and the bones are unusually thick.

All the instruments in the ship had long since lost any function, and after Tony sampled and analyzed several skeletons, he exclaimed, "These guys have been going through at least a million years. ”

Li Mo, on the other hand, stared at a round platform in the center of the spaceship's cabin, a trace of doubt on his face.

Seeing this, Tony walked over and asked, "What did you find?" ”

Li Mo pointed to a line of alien text protruding from the side of the round platform and said, "When I was studying in Asgard, I saw this letter in an ancient mythological book. ”

"What does that mean?" Tony asked.

"Cronus, the second king of the gods in Greek mythology, the Titans." Li Mo frowned and said, "Do you know what bad things I thought of?" ”

"Mad Titan... Sanos. Tony's expression was a little solemn, Li Mo had already told him everything about the cosmic primordial stone and some things he knew.

"These guys must have an inextricable relationship with the Earth." Tony spun around twice and said, "Greek mythology has been passed down to their names on Earth, and I have no doubt that the Assas gods also existed, although it may not be the same as the mythological record. ”

"Look at their size." Tony walked over to a skeleton, "Earth was an extremely oxygen-rich planet back in the age of the dinosaurs, and biological scientists speculate that there may have been giants at that time, and giants are also known as Titans. And many archaeological discoveries indicate the existence of prehistoric civilizations on Earth. Perhaps, these guys are the survivors of prehistoric civilizations. ”

"The ancient history of mankind has long been blurred, and only some specious clues can be obtained from some myths. Do you think these are the people of the Mad Titan Sanos? Li Mo guessed.

"Probably not, if that kind of powerful existence, how could his people become like this?" Tony was also a little skeptical.

"Who knows, maybe this was originally a planet of birds and flowers, but then something happened to make them like this, and they were forced to leave." Li Mo scratched his head, "Why don't you see Thanos and inquire?" ”

β€œshit! Am I sick in the head? It's best not to see it in this life. Tony shook his head, he hadn't heard of Thanos' name in the universe.

The two of them then stepped out of the broken spaceship, and by this time the wind and sand had become smaller, and the orange sky was covered with heavy red clouds, and huge thunderstorms kept flashing in the middle of the clouds. The huge Saturn hanging on the horizon is also dyed orange.

Tony walked out and sat down on a rock, looking at the huge ruins of the city in front of him, and fell into deep thought.

After Li Mo commanded the engineering vehicle to return to the McQueen, he walked over and teased, "Tony, what's wrong with you, you're stupid by our speculation?" ”

"Tentacle monsters." Tony stood up, pointed ahead to Li Mo and asked solemnly, "Look at this post-apocalyptic city, what do you think of?" ”

Li Mo's expression also became solemn,

"This place is absolutely devoid of oil and water!"