Jiang Zi put on the Iron Floating Tu again and went out to repair the communication system.

This is probably the worst Spring Festival he has ever had in his life, volcanoes, black balls, coupled with Hu Donghai's sudden death, wave after wave of unsettled, it was really eventful.

"Webmaster, the evaluation report has been sent to your mailbox."

"Okay, I got it."

According to Dabai's assessment, the source of the fault of the communication system is clear and clear, that is, the volcanic eruption smashed the antenna, and the communication was interrupted due to natural disasters.

The communication antenna is about 100 meters from the main station, it is a cylindrical tower as high as a six-story building, more than two meters in diameter, similar to the column of a wind turbine, there are maintenance stairs inside, and the top of the tower is a high-frequency antenna, Cassini station relies on this to maintain contact with the relay satellites in orbit, but it is also probably the most cutting-edge building on the entire Titan, so it also attracts all the lightning strikes within a radius of hundreds of kilometers.

Middle school students know what is called tip discharge, and the communication tower is the tip of this day thunder, when the thunderstorm occurs, the people in the Cassini station will crowd in front of the window to watch the thunder, because the scene is spectacular, there has never been such a thick lightning on the earth, through the clouds, falling on the top of the communication tower, rolling like a swimming dragon, between the sky and the earth as bright as day.

The charge accumulated in the clouds will form a huge electric field, accumulating tens of billions of volts of high voltage, and the current will exceed 600,000 amperes in the moment the lightning falls, this number does not know which Franklin measured it, I don't know if he is still alive, the air becomes a conductor under the strong electric field, and the huge current penetrates the air and enters the communication tower, and then flows into the earth.

And the sophisticated communication system in the tower can still withstand this divine lightning strike, which can only be said to be the engineer who designed them.

The antenna is in the opposite direction to the energy capsule to minimize the impact of the fusion reactor's strong magnetic field on communications, and a red safety rope connects the communication tower to the main station, which must be followed to get to the communication tower.

"I'm out of the house."

Jiang Zi dragged the toolbox out of the house, it was not enough to repair the communication system, the specific damage was unknown, he might need to replace large parts, so Jiang Zi dragged a bulky sleigh behind him.

"Good luck."

The dense fog outside is still persistent, and the gravity of Titan is only one-seventh that of the Earth on a rare continuous windless day on the Shangri-La Plain, and the particles suspended in the atmosphere settle extremely slowly in the weak gravity environment, and if there is no further strong wind, this fog can continue until the next Earth month.

Jiang Zi looked around, he couldn't see the sky above, he couldn't see the ground below, there was no concept of heaven and earth, and he was surrounded by a mess of muddy water, if there were really any intelligent creatures on this planet, then most of them would not evolve eyes, he grabbed the safety rope and walked forward step by step, the soles of his feet couldn't stop slipping, and the sleigh dragged behind him and stumbled.

He remembered a legend that had been circulating in Cassini Station for many years, about the first person to die on Titan, that was a British environmentalist, at that time Cassini Station was not fully established, and it was also such a foggy day without wind and waves, the Englishman set off from the landing spaceship and went to the warehouse ten meters away, just such a short distance of ten meters, but he went for ten years, and he has not reached his destination yet.

No one knew why he was lost at such a close distance, let alone where he had gone, and Jiang Zi could imagine the lonely Englishman walking desperately on a barren ice field, cut off from communication, and not knowing the direction, and finally collapsed in some corner of the Shangri-La Plain.

Since then, more than one person has claimed to have seen the light of a spotlight in a distant dark storm, and some believe that the soul of the deceased is still roaming the Titan Wasteland, with a faint headlamp, trying to find its way home.

"Stationmaster, can you hear me?" Someone was talking in the headphones, it was Lou Qi's voice.

"I can hear you."

"I'm right behind you on the left."

Jiang Zi was stunned for a moment, turned his head, and found that the devil's claw robot came out of the dense fog with a click, and soon overtook Jiang Zi, crawling in front of him, with a super spotlight on its raised mechanical arm.

"What are you doing with your claws?" Jiang Zi said, "It's not very useful, this thing's little short legs can't climb the ladder." ”

"With you." Lou Qi said, "Don't you think it's weird and scary to be alone outside? ”

Jiang Zidong looked around and smacked his mouth, "It's okay, I'm used to it." ”

The men in Cassini are all qualified to go out in the field, they have been trained to adapt on Earth or Mars, but except for Jiang Zi and Liang Jing, everyone else avoids going out as much as possible - the danger is one thing, the bigger reason is psychological oppression, the visibility in the haze is extremely low, which blocks almost all visual signals, and if you can't see it, it will lead to panic, and panic will be easy to mess.

Cassini station's field work follows the principle of the minimum number of people going out, which means that the fewer people who go out, the better, and don't send two people if one person can do it, the reason why such unconventional regulations will be formulated is because the environment on Titan has been so bad that people have to reduce human losses as the first priority, once they encounter a situation that requires human lives, no matter how many people come to die, once Cassini station follows the experience of the Mars research station, requiring multiple people to cooperate to complete the task, and can help each other in case of emergency, But this set took a heavy toll on the Titan, and the sudden appearance of a cryogenic ice storm devastated the mission team.

"Stationmaster."

"Huh?"

"What's next? I mean, when the Buran arrives, we're going to stay here? Or go back with the spaceship? ”

"After the contact is restored, we will see the instructions of the superiors, but I estimate that we will all have to go back this time, and we will find a hellish ball, Lao Hu is suddenly gone, we will definitely go back to be investigated, and we will have to be quarantined." Jiang Zi said, "But it's not a big deal, it's a vacation...... But I'm also tired and don't want to do it anymore, so I'll quit and change jobs this time. ”

"Where's the ball?"

"Lao Tzu doesn't care, whoever loves wants to go." Jiang Zi said, "Anyway, I'm not engaged in research, and it won't be my turn to win the Nobel Prize, if Lao Hu is still here, he may be able to share a little bit of me if he wins the Nobel Prize, but now that he is gone, this thing is worthless to me...... I've arrived. ”

At the end of the safety rope, there was a communication tower in front of me, a white cylinder, as thick as two or three adults hugging each other, but it was impossible to see how tall it was.

Jiang Zi unbuckled his body, unscrewed the small door on the outer wall of the communication tower, and then got inside.

The claw robot stopped outside, and the robotic arm waved its hand.

The space in the communication tower is quite narrow, there is a small lamp every other meter, Jiang Zi is wearing an iron floating tu, the shoulders on both sides have to scrape the inner wall, it is difficult to turn around, he grabs the vertical ladder to climb up, and the sleigh hangs under the body, this trip is very physically demanding, that is, Jiang Zi, and other people may not be able to hold on.

The communication tower is twenty meters high, with a high-gain antenna mounted on the top, and the volcanic eruption smashed this thing, causing the communication to be interrupted, and Jiangzi's purpose is to fix it.

"Sharpen the scissors, the kitchen knife......" Jiang Zi snorted in a low voice, he stood on the ladder, unscrewed the door above his head like a sewer, and poked half of his body out, "I said Dabai, there won't be thunder today, right?" ”

Jiang Zi was a little worried and looked up.

There is a white dome above his head, like a hemispherical radome, which is actually used to protect against wind and rain, and the antenna is placed under this windshield.

And now this windshield has been smashed through, the culprit is a piece of ice, the size of a basin, it is clear that it is the so-called eruption, it was shot out by the erupting volcano - it was shot out, not thrown away, such a weak gravity on Titan, the parabolic thing is not so powerful, but the ejecta is different, this ice is not a howitzer, but a cannon, obliquely penetrating the windshield from the bottom up, and then smashing the antenna.

"There will be no thunderstorms for the next six hours." Dabai replied.

Jiang Zi was a little relieved.

If he came to the Thunder Fire Refining Tower again, he would be instantly split into a corpse and bones, and he would become an immortal.

"This place is a good place to cultivate immortals." Jiang Zi pulled up the toolbox under him and put it on the antenna platform, "The Tao is not high, I'm afraid it will be destroyed by the Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation, I don't know if Sanqing became an immortal here?" ”