At the end of the hallway on the first floor is the P3 lab.

The two-layer sturdy isolation door took Dai Yue and Zhuo Zhi a lot of effort to open.

The lab wasn't affected much, and the condition was much better than the warehouse and tool room in the corridor, because the lab itself had a separate sealing system, and the volcanic eruption and accident destroyed Cassini Station, but P3 Lab escaped, Dai Yue and Zhizhi jumped through the door and found that the workbench, glove box, and freezer in the lab were all well preserved, and a geological hammer on the workbench even hung on a shelf, as if someone had hung it casually, and then time was frozen for twenty years.

They didn't find the black ball, and the clear isolation box that was supposed to seal the black ball was empty.

"It's not here." Dai Yue circled around the glove box, bent down to look under the workbench, opened the storage cabinet and poked his head in, "Where's the black ball?" ”

Wisdom crouched down on the edge of the glove box.

"It should have been here before."

He had seen this box in the mission log, about forty centimeters long, thirty centimeters wide, thirty centimeters high, transparent material, the base was an extremely precise mass measuring instrument, the team members of Cassini Station put it in it after finding it, and at this moment Zhuozhi finally saw the box in reality, but the black ball was not here.

The two were very disappointed.

They thought they could find the black ball that the crew of Cassini Station found twenty years ago, according to the mission records, the characteristics of the black ball are far beyond people's imagination, it is an object that cannot be understood by human beings, so it must be a product of a higher civilization, if it can be brought back to Earth, it must be a famous move in history, and the crew of the entire "Hades" prospecting ship will become characters like Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong.

But the black ball was gone.

So it all fell through.

Dai Yue sat down, "Why isn't it here?" Did someone take it away? ”

Dai Yue was quite depressed, he originally thought that this was a good opportunity for the salted fish to turn over.

Why do they want to stay on the Hades? It's not because he can't see the future on Earth or Mars, Dai Yue is Chinese New Year's Eve three years old today, and he can already see the head in this life, and he can live another hundred years, 3,650 days, but it is foreseeable that these 3,650 days are just 3,650 repetitions of the same day.

Zhuozhi is a little more unlucky than him, Zhuozhi is forty-four years old this year, the first half of his life used his own personal experience to interpret what is called "genius", at the age of sixteen, he was admitted to the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China, graduated with a four-year bachelor's degree and a doctorate, and graduated from the doctorate at the age of twenty, if life is a roller coaster, then the first twenty years of Zhuozhi's life must be a straight line climb at a vertical angle of ninety degrees, and then reach the highest point at the age of twenty. The big boss was investigated for corruption and bribery, and at the same time the largest academic fraud case in the history of USTC was involved.

That's right, the same megaproject that wants to build gas stations on Jupiter and Saturn.

As soon as Insight regained his strength and was ready to make a big move, a big knife fell and cut down the entire project.

Zhuozhi was transferred to a remote place on Mars where birds don't poop as a project supervisor, and changed from an energy expert to a civil dog, working for several years, only with a cat as a companion, and going out is full of Martian sand.

After the leader repeatedly drew cakes, Zhuozhi resolutely resigned, returned to the earth to follow his friends to start a business, but was cheated of all the project funds, was fooled to become a corporate legal person, and ended up with huge debts, and became a millionaire at a young age - the lowest point of his life was a low-orbit flight crash, Zhuozhi almost got on that flight, and the shuttle plane had an accident in the sky.

Zhuozhi finally recognized his physique, as long as he stayed within the orbit of Mars, it would be fine, so he came to the outer orbit of Mars.

"If it's gone, it's gone, we don't have this life." Zhuozhi sighed and shook his head.

"The record doesn't say where that black ball ended up." "It may have been taken away." ”

"Taken by whom?"

"Tacit?" Dai Yue thought for a moment, "Maybe it's Liang Jing, Wan Kai and Jiang Zi?" ”

"We don't even know if they're dead or alive, we haven't found a single body so far, and to be honest I don't believe there is such an outrageous object." "It's not that the video can't be faked, but what if the ball was faked by someone at all?" ”

"But why are they faking it?" Dai Yue asked, "There is no reason for this, if you are full, you will make fun of others?" ”

Zhuozhi shook his head, he just said casually, he was skeptical about the existence of the black ball until he actually saw the ball.

Twenty years ago, the stationed team members really didn't have a reason to fake the video, so why fake this?

Zhuozhi was confused, his clever brain couldn't figure out what was going on in Cassini Station, the existence of the black ball was a contradiction, the behavior of the team members was also a contradiction, and even the crash of the "Buran" was a contradiction, Zhuozhi and Dai Yue had searched all floors, and no body's body was found, and without a corpse, they would have no way of knowing the whereabouts of those people twenty years ago.

Zhuozhi raised his head, could it be that the corpse was on the second floor?

According to the floor plan of Cassini's main station, the second floor is the hall, office area and living area, and there is an elevator and a rotating staircase between the first and second floors, and the elevator must be useless, and the stairs have collapsed, so they can't go up if they want to.

Although the black ball was not found, the two still had a big gain - they confirmed that the main structure of the P3 lab was not damaged, and that this place could be used as a shelter, and once the captain and Liu Peijia successfully restored the power, they were able to get the P3 lab back to normal operation, allowing the temperature to rise to twenty-five degrees Celsius.

They can take off the heavy iron float on their bodies, this mechanical exoskeleton can't be worn for a long time, and it is easy to strain the lumbar muscles after wearing it for a long time, and Zhuozhi hates this thing very much.

"Call the two girls in the warehouse and let them stay here and rest." Insight looked around, "The environment in the lab is much stronger than in the warehouse. ”

Dai Yue went out and called Ge Zi and Mu Mu over, and a few people came back with a lot of things in their arms.

"Wow-" Ge Zi exclaimed and jumped in briskly, "It's so clean here." ”

"This is a lab?" Mu Mu followed into the door, "Is that the laboratory where the black balls are placed?" ”

Insight nodded.

"Where's the black ball?" The two girls asked in unison.

"It's gone." The two men replied in unison.

They put the only remaining big white server in the laboratory, and then moved the first aid kits in one by one, and the four of them sat around the floor, which was really fortunate that there was still a small peaceful world on this cold and crazy planet.

But whether they can successfully survive depends on whether there is any news from the two people who are outside at the moment.

Lao Shi and Liu Peijia have not heard from him for three hours.