Chapter 38: The Beat
When Shi Teng returned to the P3 laboratory, Liu Peijia was already sitting there eating and drinking, and the latter turned his head to see Shi Teng entering the door, and hurriedly greeted: "Old Shi, are you back?" What did you find? โ
Shi Teng took the dry food from his hand, took a bite, and asked Liu Peiqi to sit down with a little bit, and snorted.
"If there is a figure, you will know nonsense all day long." Ston scolded, "Damn, scared me half to death." โ
Naturally, there was nothing outside Cassini Station, not even the hatch of the airlock room had been opened, and Steng searched all the rooms on the first floor that could be entered, where was there any figure, Liu Peiji was just talking nonsense.
"Lie to you, I'll thunder and thunder." Liu Peijia threw the solid fresh water into his mouth and chewed, "When I was, I really saw a figure standing at my door." โ
"But we never went out." Dai Yue said, he pointed around, "You ask, who of us has been out?" โ
Liu Peiqi raised his head, Zhuo Zhi was eating with his head buried in it, and Ge Zi and Zhao Mumu were huddled in the same sleeping bag.
"Maybe it's the same people from 20 years ago." Wisdom said casually.
"Hell yes." Liu Peijia scratched his head, this thing is really puzzling, since no one has ever gone out, where did the figure he saw come from?
"Eggplant, next time you poop, you'd better find someone to keep you company." Stern said, "I know that you are afraid of the dark, and when people who are afraid of the dark go to a place where there is no light, they will think crankily, and they think that there are people hiding everywhere." โ
"Go, go, you're afraid of the dark."
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Ge Zi opened his eyes, still sleepy to death.
She and Mu Mu shrunk together in the sleeping bag, the number of sleeping bags is actually enough, but Ge Zi still wants to huddle with Mu Mu, she said that it is so warm, don't the people who are trapped in the avalanche disaster also huddle together to keep each other warm? However, the temperature in the laboratory was not so low that the temperature in the room rose and stabilized above freezing when the life support system resumed work, and it would look hot and dry wrapped in clothes and sleeping bags.
Forty-five hours have passed since the spaceship crashed, which is equivalent to two days and two nights, in these two days and two nights, Ge Zi has not slept a single night, she is not the only one who is extremely tired, others are more tired than her, Shi Teng, Liu Peijia, Dai Yue Zhizhi and Mu Mu have undertaken heavier and more complicated work tasks than Ge Zi in the past forty hours or so, and they are all asleep unconscious at this moment.
For the next seven Earth days, they will spend the long dark night in this state, eating less and sleeping more, and reducing the consumption of food and fresh water.
It's ridiculous to think about it, they have the ability to set foot on a planet more than a billion kilometers away, but when faced with the harsh natural environment, the only way to deal with it is still the way of their ancestors - sleep.
Hibernation is a habit that has evolved over thousands of years for life on earth to resist the harsh external environment during sleep.
How many more years will it take for human beings to completely break free from the survival instinct that is no longer dependent on the natural world?
There was no sound in the lab, except for a dim lamp on the floor, like a dim campfire.
The men were all curled up on the floor, their backs to the light in their sleeping bags, like giant black worms that breathed heavily, evenly.
For a moment, Ge Zi thought that she was not an earth creature, but a native of Titan, and she was also a part of the worms, but when she opened her eyes in a daze and saw Mu Mu next to her, her sanity came back - Mu Mu slept very well and deeply, although he was a vigorous and resolute person, Mu Mu had a typical soft girl look, with short black hair that reached his ears, her eyelashes were slender and straight, and her fair skin was very conspicuous in the dim light, which made people want to pinch it.
Worms clearly don't have such pretty faces.
But Ge Zi didn't wake up to pinch Mumu, she got up to drink water.
His throat was so dry that he was about to smoke, the air in Cassini Station was too dry, maybe the air humidifier was broken, Ge Zi fumbled and took out two solid fresh water and chewed it, but still felt that it was not enough to quench his thirst, so he unzipped his sleeping bag and got up, reaching for the bottle of nutrient solution.
The laptop is still propped up on the floor, there is a big white broken case, the computer screen is still on, and it is still contacting the outside world with the communication buoy.
Ge Zi took out an unopened bottle of nutrients from his pocket, inserted it into a straw, took a big sip of "grunt", and then let out a long breath.
She leaned back on her sleeping bag and stared at the floor in a daze.
Ge Zi is 27 years old this year, she has been working for six years, and at the age of 20, she graduated with a master's degree, which is the youngest in the same department. She went to college at the age of fourteen, although she was a young student in this era, it was not uncommon, there were many people who went to college at the age of thirteen or even twelve, in this era, teenagers are not teenagers, old people are not old people, Ge Zi can still be called a girl at the age of twenty-seven, although she is a woman in law.
She is still a girl, she likes to eat and drink, and likes to sing music.
Ge Zi pulled up his sleeping hair, held the nutrients in his hands, and gently patted the floor rhythmically on the surface of his feet.
She was humming softly.
"What song are you singing?" Someone asked softly.
"Mumu?" Ge Zi was stunned, "I'm sorry, I didn't wake you up, did I?" โ
Mu Mu shook his head with a smile, slowly got up, and reached out to touch the solid fresh water, "Drink water, I'm thirsty, the air here is too dry...... Oh my God, I want to put on a mask. โ
She put the solid fresh water in her mouth, and then asked Ge Zi, "What song?" Pretty good. โ
"My great-grandfather builds a nuclear bomb in the basement." Ge Zi hummed a few words while beating the beat, "It's a very popular song, have you heard it?" โ
"I've heard, isn't it the 'give me a gram of deuterium, can I put it in my container, leave a radiation marker, give me a gram ......of tritium, can I put it in my container, let it react quickly', right? Is that it? Zhao Mumu also hummed a few words, beating the beat gently.
Ge Zi nodded, and then sang: "Give me a trigger, can you not, it doesn't matter if you have a nuclear bomb, I am equally grateful." โ
"Come on, come to the queen of the Chinese music scene, use this." Mu Mu gave her a flashlight and asked her to act as a microphone.
When Ge Zi sang, Mu Mu imitated the drummer of a rock band, beating the drum in the void, stepping on the floor to match the rhythm, and "popping" softly.
In the end, both of them burst into laughter.
Mu Mu fell to the floor with Ge Zi in his arms, Ge Zi's song stopped, and Mu Mu's beat also stopped.
But the "popping" beat in the room didn't stop, it still sounded.