I don't know when it began, it was no longer a downpour outside the window, but a white expanse, they were not thin mist, more like heavy cotton, so thick that the headlight column of the out-of-cabin activity clothes could not penetrate, and these milky white smoke flowed and rolled against the glass window, as if it had life, looking for a gap and waiting for an opportunity to get in.

Yaxiang was a little frightened, took a step back, and reached out to hold her shoulder.

"Don't be afraid." Mo Yu whispered.

Jiang Zi leaned forward again, his mask glass almost attaching to the observation window, and he stared at the white mist outside, his eyes wandering with them.

Jiang Zi was very curious about this thing, he always thought that the white mist might be some kind of living object, or that there was something hidden in the white mist, Jiang Zi slowly reached out his hand, but before his finger touched the window pane, it was blocked by Liang Jing, who cast a slightly warning look.

"Big White." Mo Yu asked, "What is this fog?" ”

Dabai still didn't know what to ask.

"Unfortunately, I don't know."

"Are you the most rubbish of your kind? That's why the people of Earth have exiled you here. Mo Yu said.

"On the contrary, I am the most advanced artificial intelligence at the moment." "If you change to other AIs here, they will give you the same answer, because we don't have enough information and data, but we'll soon find out if this white mist is harmful to people, because I've sent robots." ”

When the team members entered the main hall to rest, Dabai had already sent out robots, these small rovers usually stay in the warehouse, when folded they look like the size of a trolley box, after receiving the action command, they will spread six small short legs - almost all vehicles are on foot, this is the characteristic of Cassini Station, in fact, in the early days of the station, people also used wheeled and tracked robots, but they either could not move an inch on the ice field, or were swept into the sky by the storm, and the battle damage rate remained high.

Walking rovers can go deep into the harsh environment that humans cannot enter, they are provided by the huge starlink network in Titan's low-earth orbit, Titan's low-earth orbit is scattered with more than 1,400 microsatellites, they are brought by the transport spacecraft in several times, and then thrown into orbit like turtle eggs, satellites have their own ion thrusters, capable of maneuvering orbit changes, these more than 1,000 satellites can almost seamlessly cover the surface of the entire Titan star after networking, to support the investigation and exploration work on Titan.

But even so, the attrition rate of robots is staggering, Titan's bad weather and thick atmosphere can seriously interfere with the signal, and the rover often never returns, not to mention that there is another troublesome big guy close at hand, and Saturn's magnetic field and radiation have a fatal effect on the satellite.

Soon Mo Yu and Ya Xiang saw a red glimmer in the white mist flickering past the window.

Dabai told them that it was a walking patrol robot, and Dabai released all the ramps, and these robots were as tenacious as cockroaches, and they also crawled around Cassini Station like cockroaches, stretching out their detection rods to detect atmospheric composition.

"Six robots." Yaxiang pointed to the image on the wall, Dabai projected the operation status of the rover on the wall, the blue square represents the building, the largest and longest of which is the main station, and the moving red dot is the patrol robot, there are six in total, they move slowly around the main station.

Jiangzi, Hu, Donghai, and Liang Jingdu sat on the sofa, looking at the wall with Erlang's legs crossed, and they couldn't do anything until Da Bai did a complete inspection.

If Cassini Station is really fatally damaged, then they need to go into a state of emergency and stop working to wait for rescue.

"Do you think there's some monster hiding in the fog?" Jiang Zi asked, "We'll see these robots lose contact one by one in a moment." ”

"Stationmaster, what were you thinking about just now?" Liang Jing glanced at him, "There's a monster hidden in the mist?" Is it like Stephen King's The Mist? ”

"Don't you think it's a great horror movie?" Jiang Zi nodded, "Look at that window, maybe there will be a black tentacle on it the next moment, have you heard of the Cthulhu Mythos?" ”

Lou Qi turned his head and glanced at the observation window, there was no light, it was almost dark outside the window, and he quietly moved to the inside of the sofa.

"If there really are any black tentacles, it's a great discovery, and it shouldn't be us who should be scared, but monsters." Liang Jing said, "Because tomorrow all the media headlines on the earth will be this, and then the countries of the world will gather a huge alien creature capture brigade, with a giant whaling cannon, in order to catch the big octopus on the Titan, I think those biologists can step on Titan, airborne armored vehicles are not impossible." ”

Jiang Zi thought about it, and said that in terms of horror, what else can compare to the terrifying Homo erectus?

Whatever the creature, exposing yourself to the gaze of the terrifying Homo erectus is the most unwise option.

If it could still be spicy, it would be even worse.

or, in fact, no one believes that there are really any monsters in the white fog, Titan was once considered the most likely planet in the solar system to have extraterrestrial life many years ago, but when the scientific expedition team actually landed, people still found themselves overly optimistic and underestimated the difficulty of evolving life.

Complex organisms exist on Titan, but this is billions of years away from the simplest forms of life.

The Cassini project team intends to expand the detection range, and the fact that complex life does not exist in the Shangri-La area does not mean that it does not exist elsewhere, and unfortunately the project funding has been cut, and it is already difficult to maintain the Cassini station, and other plans can only be stillborn.

Mo Yu leaned back on the sofa, on the topic of a few men, and his mind was in a revery without bounds, the atmosphere on Titan is dense, the air pressure is very high and the gravity is extremely low, if there really is a higher life, then it is very likely to evolve a very romantic animal...... Atmospheric mayfly creatures.

As long as the creature is large enough and dense enough, then it can be suspended in the atmosphere like a balloon, and Silent even gave this imaginary animal a name, called the Flying Whale. It was a huge blue creature like a whale, and its fins turned into huge wings, and they leaped high above the clouds under the bright and dark starry sky, drawing an arc as if they were about to fly to Saturn in the distance.

It's a dreamlike sight, but that's not the case in real life.

In the projection, six robots are still moving, one of them crawled around the main station several times, probably to check the shell and structure of the building, and the other stayed on the edge of the energy cabin for a long time, and the rest of the robots ran irregularly, like Brownian motion, no one knew what they were doing, and one robot had been dancing in place for more than 20 minutes, and Jiang Zi named it Little Bee.

"What the hell is that guy doing?" Jiang Zi couldn't help it, "Da Bai? It keeps moving in a figure-8 shape around a point, is it attracting bees and butterflies? ”

"Mr. Stationmaster, do you mean Rover 5? It is X-raying the detection target, and the figure-8 movement is to cover all directions without dead angles. ”

"It's been more than twenty minutes, and it's still not done?"

"The analysis was completed five minutes ago." Dabai replied.

"And why is it still spinning?"

"Obviously, something is wrong with it." Dabai was very dry, "I'm trying to fix its path control program, but it doesn't work for the time being. ”

Everyone is speechless, Cassini Station has been a poor day or two, a walking patrol robot official price of 16 million US dollars, the total cost of use is more than 28 million US dollars, the normal working life is only 24 months, this price was acceptable three years ago, but now the funds are almost halved, so I have to save money, the working hours of the little bee are close to life, but the project team can't afford to change the money, so I have to force it to be old and strong.

Finally the little bee stopped dancing, and it seemed that the correction of the big white had taken effect, and it slowly crawled towards the warehouse.

At this time, Dabai finally fed back the results.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I already know what the white fog of the outside world is."