Chapter I: Records
"Drop-" clicked, and the video ended.
The picture is finally frozen in the dark night without light, the red light is on, and the blue letters Cassini pop up on the screen.
At this point, all recordings have been played.
But the four pairs of eyes were still staring at the blank screen for a long time, and they couldn't recover from the shock for a moment, and the creepy giggle seemed to be still in their ears.
In the silence, everyone secretly let out a sigh, and the warm breath formed a thin white mist on the cold Iron Floating Mask, and I don't know who was the first to move, he moved the ground in the scattered cables, moved his hands and feet, which were already stiff, and it took a long time to pop out a word: "Damn." ”
There are thin raindrops suspended in the air, which looks like water, but it is actually a liquid alkane at minus 100 degrees Celsius, and the wind and rain blow in through the huge cracks in the roof overhead, and the room is almost pitch black.
"What's the name of this place?"
"Cassini Station."
"Cassini Station ......"
Cassini Station of Titan, an almost completely forgotten remote site, a billion kilometers from Earth, was abandoned twenty years ago, and it is difficult to say how many people in the world still remember this small station today - in this era, people's life circle and attention have long been retracted to the orbit of Mars, no one is interested in these remote and barren planets anymore, people are tired of boring and monotonous space voyages, and they are not willing to invest money in ironclad and fruitless expeditions. Cassini Station is a relic of the last space exploration craze, like the ancient observatories at the North and South Poles of the Earth, who withdrew and never returned, leaving them to be buried by the wind and snow in the long period of solitude.
Steng didn't know if it was the right choice for him to force land the ship here, and as far as he could see, Cassini Station couldn't be used as a temporary personnel settlement, and it was in worse condition than everyone expected. Stong raised his head and looked at the cracks in the walls and roof, the composite material on the outer layer of the wall was torn to reveal the black interlayer inside, and there was damage everywhere that could not be repaired, the building was like it had been hit by a strong earthquake and then stepped on by Godzilla, the supporting tripod broke, and the main structure of the building was almost half sunk into the ice underground.
It's a pity that the ship is in an even worse state.
The Hades prospecting ship plunged headlong into the thick atmosphere of Titan at a speed of 3,000 kilometers per second, and then fell on the hard surface ice, and the huge impact flattened the entire spacecraft, and it was a miracle that they survived.
"Cassini Station was scrapped back in 2101, and no one has been here since, and it's been twenty years since then, and we don't know exactly how it was abandoned, but now we know." Liu Peijia sat in the corner of the room, touched his pocket and wanted to smoke, but immediately realized that he was wearing a helmet and had to give up, "Old Shi, you have picked a good place, damn, my scalp is numb now, and I won't play anymore when the cabinet moves." ”
"There is no place to land in the whole of Titan, there are still people living here twenty years ago, and you may not be able to find a living creature that can breathe if you go back two billion years in other places." Stern spread his hands, the laptop in front of everyone was still lit, he crawled over and took out the hard drive - this is the hard drive they found in the Cassini station, I have to say that the quality is quite good, after twenty years in extreme environments, it can still be read normally.
Inside the hard drive are all the work and video recordings of the Cassini station, which began on January 28, 2101, twenty years ago, on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, until the station was destroyed by a strong earthquake and a volcano seven days later.
"With what we're seeing now, I think it's better to find a place where no one has been in two billion years to land." Liu Peijia pouted.
"Big brother, we are forced to land, forced to land! If we survive, God will bless us more than a billion kilometers away, and you will be able to drive a spaceship if you have the ability. ”
"Comrades...... What do you guys think? Dai Yue, a mechanical engineer, sat cross-legged on the floor and was silent for a long time, he had just recovered from this bizarre story, "That black ball? Is it still here? ”
"If no one takes it away, it should still be here." Stong nodded.
The other three people in the room all took a breath, and they all looked at the corridor outside the door, the haze that filled the air cut off the view, although it was a group of men, they were more timid than the other, for fear that a monster would suddenly appear in the dark, carrying a fire axe in their hands, and grinning.
"To be honest, I don't believe that there is anything absolutely smooth in this world, and I don't believe that its mass can be a natural logarithm." Dai Yue said, "This is completely contrary to the known physics. ”
"But this is the result of the team members in the scientific research station 20 years ago." Liu Peijia changed to a slightly more comfortable posture, and pinched his sore shoulders vigorously through the thick Tiefutu, "The data is still stored in the hard drive, what are the names of those people?" Jiang Zi, Liang Jing, Hu Donghai? Right? They are also serious professionals. ”
Dai Yue frowned and shook his head, he couldn't explain it, and it took a long time to squeeze out one word:
"Evil Sect."
"Whether it's evil or not, these are not issues that we should be concerned about now, comrades." Steng slapped his face, straightened up and stood up, and looked around, "We don't have time for a headache for people more than twenty years ago, our own situation is enough to give people a headache, if the communication system on the spaceship is not repaired, we may have to wait until twenty years before being discovered, if we don't want to die here, we have to get in touch with the outside world as soon as possible, whether it's Earth or Mars, we have to make a phone call and tell the police uncle that we have a car accident." ”
A bright white light appeared at the door, and a black clumsy figure came in with a headlamp, and inside the Iron Float mask was a sweaty young girl's face: "Brother Shi, Mu Mu asked me to inform everyone that the harmless process of the spaceship is over." ”
"OK, I know Xiao Zi." Stong nodded, stuffed the hard drive into his pocket, and then turned around, "Brothers, it's time for us to get to work, rest here, hurry up, GO!" GO! GO! ”
The few people who were sitting and resting all stood up, moved their limbs, rested for such a long time, and the physical strength that had been exhausted was also restored, Shi Teng was right, their top priority was to get in touch with the outside world, as for what happened to Cassini Station twenty years ago, that was not a problem that their prospecting team should consider, and when they brought the hard drive back to Earth, the people on Earth would naturally analyze and get the answer, Liu Peiji closed the laptop and picked it up, like a black suitcase, This thing can resist extreme temperatures of minus 170 degrees Celsius, and it is inevitably made a little thicker.
Cassini Station is dilapidated and old, but it is still the only shelter from the wind and rain on the harsh climate of Titan, and once they leave Cassini Station, they have to plunge headlong into endless cold temperatures and torrential rain.
"Also, what's the name of this computer? Big white, right? Let's move it back to the ship first and see if we can fix it...... A few brothers are here to help, and Xiao Zi is here to help! ”