Chapter 70: Wait for Me
"Something is wrong, nothing is right, if we were on the right path, we should have gone ashore long ago." Liang Jing was a little anxious, "Half a foot lake is only two kilometers away from Cassini Station, if we are really only five hundred meters away from Cassini Station, why are we still in the lake?" โ
Jiang Zi was also aware of this problem, they believed in the path map given by Da Bai too much, so they just followed the route, and didn't even notice the surrounding environment, and only when the communication was interrupted did the two realize that they were lost.
They tried to walk a few hundred meters further, but what they could see was still an endless lake, and the half-foot lake under their feet became boundless at some point, as if the entire Titan had become an ocean planet, and no one could walk out of this liquid barren desert.
"It's the end of the calf." Jiang Zi's scalp was numb, "I can't find the south, south, west, and northwest, and I'm completely lost." โ
Liang Jing was even more at a loss than Jiang Zi, he had encountered such a fatal problem the first time he came to work on Titan, and he quickly recalled the training he had done before...... What to do if you lose contact with Cassini Station during extravehicular operations? What to do? the training doesn't seem to have this entry?
Just as skydiving training will not teach you how to save your life when you jump off the plane but do not bring your umbrella bag, Cassini Station will not teach you how to save yourself when contact is interrupted, everyone defaults that contact cannot be interrupted, and it is also tacitly accepted that if the contact is really interrupted, there is no way to save yourself.
"Which side is the South?" Liang Jing asked.
"Probably in this direction?" Jiang Zi stretched out his hand and pointed diagonally ahead, and after a moment changed directions, "No, it should be in this direction." โ
Titan does not have a geomagnetic field, the compass used by earthlings for thousands of years does not work in this ghost place, no one can identify the direction on the surface of a foggy lake, the walking car has a way to determine the east, west, north and south, although it doesn't know how to return to Cassini Station, but it has a way to point you out which direction is the geographical South Pole of Titan, hell Liang Jing and Jiang Zi have already lost the walking car, and now it is unrealistic to go back to find the walking car, because Jiang Zi and Liang Jing don't know which direction they came from after pressing it.
"Walk in a straight line." Liang Jing said, "No matter which direction, let's leave the lake first...... The total area of the lake is only 40 square kilometers, and as long as we don't go around in circles, we will definitely be able to get out. โ
Jiang Zi nodded, this is the only way at the moment, they must leave the lake as soon as possible, it is not a good choice to soak in the icy lake water all the time, as long as they can reach the lake, and then the two of them will walk along the shore of the lake to both sides, they will definitely be able to find the calibration pole standing by the lake during the previous scientific expedition.
Once the calibration rod was found, it would no longer be difficult to get back to Cassini Station.
"Just go forward, keep going, don't turn back, don't turn, most likely we're very close to the shore of the lake." Liang Jing said that the snow in the sky was getting heavier and heavier, he shook his shoulders, shook off the snowflakes on his body, and then stood up straight and looked around, "How big is the area of the half-foot lake?" โ
"Forty-six square kilometers." Jiang Zi replied, "It is an approximate quadrilateral, the shortest side of which is only six kilometers long. โ
"It's good that the lake isn't that big." Liang Jing gasped, his physical strength was far inferior to Jiang Zi, and he couldn't hold it anymore after a whole day of high-intensity work, "If it's any bigger, it's really over." โ
"How's your Iron Float doing?" Jiang Zi turned his head and asked.
"Okay...... Ok, hell! Liang Jing's feet slipped and fell into the lake, Jiang Zi wanted to come over to help, but he waved his hand to signal that he didn't need it.
The two of them stopped to rest and sat down casually in the lake, both Jiang Zi and Liang Jing were exhausted - this was still when Tiefutu shared most of the physical work, and although the gravity on Titan was small, it was still just as tiring to work.
They escaped the banshee, but they didn't expect to get lost on the half-foot lake.
"Do you know how those who get lost out there die?" Jiang Zi sat at the bottom of the lake, half of his body soaked in liquid low-temperature alkanes, and the snow fell heavily, looking like a snowman.
"Frozen to death?"
"It should freeze to death, as soon as the battery of the insulation system is exhausted, the Iron Float will turn into an ice coffin." Jiang Zi nodded, "In this ghost place, the speed of freezing to death is much faster than suffocation, more than 100 degrees below zero, and it only takes more than ten seconds to freeze into ice...... The microbes in our bodies will also freeze to death, so the corpse will not decay, and we will always remain the same as before we died. โ
"In that case, Keir Horton can't be out and about." Liang Jing smiled.
"Why?"
"The battery on his body should have been exhausted a long time ago, so he should be an ice brick now, and it will shatter if he moves."
Jiang Zi thought about it, and this is indeed the truth.
Exposed to Titan's ambient temperature, the human body is a quick-frozen dumpling, frozen hard from the inside out, and the arms and thighs are broken as soon as they are broken.
If Keir Horton is determined to move his hands and feet around, then the moment he forcibly moves his body, he will be torn apart into a ball of ice.
Liang Jing and Jiang Zi continued to get up and hurry, the Iron Float was running out of power, and if they couldn't return to Cassini Station before the battery ran out, they would be transformed into two ice sculptures standing on Titan. Liang Jing remembered the corpses on the road to Mount Everest, now climbing Mount Everest is a common tourist project, no one has died on Mount Everest for decades, most of those bodies are left a hundred years ago, and their bodies will not decompose, just lie quietly on the side of the road, gradually withering in a deep sleep.
Large snowflakes fell, each one the size of a person's palm, and they fell on the bodies of the two of them and piled up like a coat, Jiang Zi hummed and chirped in the channel, "Lonely boat, fishing alone in the cold river and snow." โ
The only remaining physical strength in Liang Jing's body is being drained away little by little, and now it is all up to Tiefutu to support him so that he will not fall to the ground, he gradually can't keep up with Jiang Zi's speed, the distance between the two is getting bigger and bigger, one meter, two meters to five meters, and soon he can only see a red back in the fog.
Jiang Zi's steps still looked vigorous, and he waded across the lake in great strides.
Liang Jing wanted to shout out to Jiang Zi and ask him to slow down and wait for himself, but his throat was so dry that he couldn't make any sound, and his lungs no longer had the strength to compress, so he tried to take a breath, but he felt dizzy, nauseated and wanted to vomit, and almost fell headlong into the lake.
Jiang Zi ...... Jiangzi! Wait for me......
Wait for me...... Jiangzi!
Jiangzi!
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In fact, Jiang Zi is also the end of the crossbow, and he is not a superman, so how can he have any remaining strength after tossing such a big circle today? I'm too tired to take a step.
But Liang Jing can't hold it, he can't hold it, if he also falls, the two of them will die 100% outside.
"...... Why didn't you think this lake was so big? I can't get to the end after walking for so long, and there's no end to it? Jiang Zi was panting, he raised his eyes and looked forward, after the thick fog was still thick fog, after the lake was still the lake, his mood suddenly became annoyed and irritable, he wanted to curse, why can't this damn lake go to the end?
"Liang Gong, are you okay? Can it still hold up? How much electricity does Tiefutu still have? Jiang Zi asked.
There was no echo in the channel.
"Liang Gong?" Jiang Zi turned his head, creepy, he realized that there was no one behind him for a long time, he was standing alone in the middle of the thick fog, and there was still lake water on all sides.