Chapter 9: No One Survives
"More than 20 years ago, Cassini Station was abandoned for some reason, and no one has ever been here......" Stong looked up from the front of the building, the main building of Cassini Station was crooked in a large depression, it was a long two-story building, red façade, propped up like a biscuit box and stood on the ice with a bracket - but now that the bracket has collapsed, and the ice has been broken, it is hard to imagine what major changes happened to this research station twenty years ago, as far as Steng is concerned, It was as if a giant had grabbed one end of Cassini's main building and slammed it to the ground.
"Why? Because of what? Dai Yue squatted on the edge of the pit, looking down at his feet, no matter what it was abandoned for back then, it was definitely not a good thing.
Because the entire landscape has changed, Cassini Station was originally built on a flat land, but this flat land has collapsed in a large area, and the ground is full of broken and cracked cracks.
It's the first time in 20 years, and it's hard to imagine what happened here 20 years ago.
Ston shook his head, "I don't know, Cassini Station is a multinational project, and its domestic competent unit is the National Astronomical Observatory, how do I know how it was abandoned." ”
"Are you sure this place has been abandoned for twenty years, not two hundred?" Liu Peijia carefully climbed over the shattered ice, slid lightly to the door of the airlock chamber of Cassini Station, and then looked up at the building—he was not unreasonable, in the extremely harsh surface environment of Titan, it has been in disrepair for twenty years, even the permanent fortifications of the Maginot Line Atlantic fortress should be scrapped, let alone a small research station.
The main building of Cassini Station was supposed to be an orange-red building, but now it looks grayish-white, it has not been de-iced for a long time, and the various alkanes rich in the air of Titan condensed into a thick layer of cloudy ice on the cassini station shell, wrapped it, and the huge ice cube fell down, growing until the ground merged with the ice, Liu Peijia knocked on the icicle, which was as hard as iron.
"I've heard some rumors." Zhuozhi sat down on the ground, his age was the largest among the people, and his physical strength was also the worst, and he couldn't bear to escape death from the ship's forced landing, "It is said that Cassini Station once had a serious accident, and even the rescue ship crashed, and no one survived, and since then, the Earth side has completely abandoned the Cassini Station project, and has never sent anyone here." ”
"What accident is so serious?"
"Natural disasters." Wisdom replied, "Volcanic eruption." ”
"There should be an energy pod over there." Stong stretched out his hand and pointed to the side, "There is a miniature fusion reactor, which used to provide electricity for the research station, and we will see if we can get it back to normal work later." ”
"After all these years, it still works?" Insight asked.
"It's better to work." Stong shrugged, "Otherwise we're all going to freeze into ice lumps...... Be prepared for hard work, comrades, we have a tough battle to fight. ”
Energy and electricity are the lifeblood, and if they want to survive for a long time, they need enough food, fresh water, and most importantly, electricity.
With electricity, they have the means to resist low temperatures.
Liu Peijia stretched out his hand to pull the hatch of the airlock room, the hatch was ajar, he bent down and glanced inside, the light swept, "Black, it's black." ”
Shi Teng and Dai Yue also slid down, and they made Zhuo Zhi and the two girls stand on the ice and wait, and the three of them were the first to burrow into the airlock chamber.
The airlock has failed, the airtightness of Cassini Station can be seen to be completely finished, there is no light in the building, there is still a faint fog, Stong pulled out a cold light stick and threw it in, the three of them watched the bright white light source bounce into it leisurely, everywhere they went was a messy ruin, the room was also cold and snowy, and finally the cold light stick rolled into the depths of the corridor and turned into a white blurred point of light.
"The indoor temperature is minus 187 degrees Celsius." Dai Yue glanced at the temperature and smacked his mouth, "Are you sure this ghost place can really live in people?" ”
"Temperature is not an issue." Stong frowned with a flashlight, "As long as there is enough energy, we have a way to transform this place, and the greatest significance of its existence is to give us a shelter so that we will not be directly exposed to the harsh environment...... Although the situation in this place is not too good, something is better than nothing. ”
As he spoke, he stooped into the airlock chamber.
Dai Yue followed behind him.
"Hey, wait, brothers, there won't be a ...... in this There are dead people, right? Liu Peijia stopped them.
Shi Teng and Dai Yue turned their heads together.
"It's the people stationed at Cassini Station before, didn't you say that they had an accident and no one survived? Maybe their bodies are still here......"
"That's right." Stong turned and burrowed into the hallway, "We can just help them collect their bodies and take them back to Earth before they die on another planet." ”
"Then I won't go in, I'll help you ...... at the door"
"the wind!" Stong dragged him in.
"Oops! Don't pull me, don't pull me! Damn, my cabinet has moved, I won't play anymore......"
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The floor was sloping and icy, and the walk was slippery, and the trio crawled on their knees with flashlights, and Stong took the lead, probing through the near-dark hallway.
The first floor of Cassini Station was a long dark corridor that was so long that the flashlight could not reach the end, and there were rooms on either side, and the floor was littered with all sorts of miscellaneous things, some of which he could tell and some of which he didn't know what they were, and the occasional hard black tentacle slashed across his helmet with a clattering sound—it was a detached cable, and to be honest, Steng was a little scared, even though he knew there was nothing here.
This is Titan, a dead planet with no life.
"It's like a haunted house." Dai Yue said, "Do you think those people from twenty years ago are still alive?" ”
There was a dead silence in the headphones.
Even Shi Teng, who was crawling at the forefront, froze, and Dai Yue's casual question made the surrounding atmosphere suddenly weird.
Shi Teng was silent for a long time, and burst out with a word: "Damn." ”
Liu Peijia asked Cassini Station if there would be the corpses of the team members stationed at the station twenty years ago, Shi Teng actually didn't know, he only knew that Cassini Station had suffered an accident, but it was not clear whether there would be a follow-up rescue for him, in that era, there were too many spaceships coming and going, and Zhuo Zhi said that no one survived, so if no one has been here in the past twenty years, the bodies of the team members should still be there.
But they can't still live.
The headlamp circled a small circle of light on the floor in front of Stern's eyes, and he moved one step with him, and no one knew what came into view the next moment, whether it was a wrench or the withered corpses of those stationed at the station twenty years ago, a pair of eye sockets in a black hole under the shattered Iron Floating Massacre mask.
There was a sudden "click" and Steng's hand touched something, and the thing slid a few feet away from the floor, and the thin ice shattered, revealing the black square object that covered it.
He picked it up and held it high and illuminated it with a light.
"What is this?" Dai Yue and Liu Peijia also came over.
"It's ......" Stong wiped the mud and ice off its surface and flipped it over, revealing a faint yellowish trademark "Kingston".
The three of them were a little surprised and looked at each other.
"Hard drive!"