Chapter 16: Lights Out
Stern pulled the bike to a steady stop on the lake, and the melted methane froze again beneath his feet.
He looked ahead, and a huge black shadow stood on the ice field, like a giant with a broken foot.
It was a spaceship.
Shi Teng waved his hand to let Liu Peijia stay on the walking car first, and then got out of the car and walked a few steps forward, making two deep footprints in the snow.
"You know what I'm thinking at the moment?" Ston stood knee-high in the snow, looking up.
"What do you think?"
"I'm probably about to take the most important step in human history." Sten said, "When humans found an unidentified spacecraft crashed on Titan, which planet did it come from? ”
"Earth." Liu Peijia said, "Obviously, this is an earthling spaceship. ”
He tilted his hands on the seat, Shi Teng went down, he could put his feet on the main pilot's seat, and the results of further scanning by synthetic aperture radar came out, and Liu Peijia could see it very clearly - it was indeed a human spaceship, the broken cylinder was the hull, and the bow of the ship had been completely shattered when it hit the bottom of the lake.
After the radar expanded the search results, Liu Peijia could still see the remnants of the crash of the spacecraft, the unlucky spacecraft came from the west, plunged headlong into the surface of Titan, and the wreckage dragged all the way out of the radar detection range, like the dry skeleton of a dead fish, and the cabin was the head of the fish.
Now only half of the spaceship was lying in the field of vision of the two of them, and the rest was shattered into slag.
"Which hapless ship's ship fell here?" Stern wondered, "Which two-hundred-and-five-tech technology stinks enough to drop a spaceship here......"
"You." Liu Peijia said.
"Don't say it's our ship." Steng's eyes narrowed, he could only see a vague shadow, "Eggplant, can you identify the origin of this ship?" ”
"No play." Liu Peijia was very simple, "This is broken into a bag of slag, and its own mother can't see it here." ”
Shi Teng pulled out a cold light stick, wrung it up, and threw it forward.
The cold light rod emitted a dazzling white light, and the eyes of the two followed the white light source, which drew a parabola and flew into the dark night, and then crashed into the outer shell of the spaceship, and the bullet fell to the ground.
This time, Shi Teng and Liu Peijia could barely see a part of the spaceship, its outer wall was covered with a thick ice shell, and its original color could no longer be seen.
Stung threw another cold light rod over.
"I don't think it's our ship, I recognize our broken ship burned to ashes." Sten shook his head, "This ship looks like it's been here for years, it's weird...... Who else has fallen here besides us? ”
Liu Peijia thought for a while, frowned and pondered, "Did the spaceship at Cassini Station also crash twenty years ago?" What's the name of that ship......"
"Buran." Stern replied, "You mean it's the Buran?" Did it drop here? ”
"Possibly."
"I'll take a closer look." Stong said.
"I'll go with you." Liu Peijia said that he was about to get out of the car.
"Don't." Stern turned to stop him? "You stay in the car honestly for me."
"Why? What if Optimus Prime was found inside the ship? Then you are famous, the first human in the history of mankind to discover an alien race? Comparable to Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong. "Liu Peijia yelling? " Then didn't I lose the opportunity to leave a name in history? I've got to go too! You cunning old man, don't try to take credit alone. ”
"If I'm Neil Armstrong, you're Buzz Aldrin? Old eggplant. Ston raised his foot and took a step forward, "I made you the first person to return to Earth after the discovery of the alien race?" It's not the same history. ”
"No! You come back first! ”
"What's the matter?" Stong rolled his eyes? "Lots of."
He turned around and climbed back into the walking car, only to see Liu Peijia turning out a roll of rope out of nowhere.
He came up and tied a circle around Sten's waist, tied a dead knot, and pulled hard? Confirm it's securely tied.
"Can I not go along? You alone must be careful. Liu Peijia tied the other end of the rope around his waist, "In case of a situation, call for help immediately, and I will pull you back." ”
Stong nodded.
"Then I will become the hero of the rescue of the first person to come into contact with the alien race." Liu Peijia smiled, and after laughing, he admonished? "If there's anything wrong, run, don't be confused."
"Got it? Lots of. ”
Shi Teng took the rope and touched the spaceship, and Liu Peiji held the rope tightly in his hand? Eyes chasing Stern's back, watching the faint headlamp blur in the mist little by little? He stayed in the walking car? Once Stearns encounters any situation? He was Stern's only rescue.
The ship's damage was not far from the walking car, less than fifty meters, and as the distance to the ship closed, Steng noticed more and more debris at his feet, buried in the snow.
He picked up a piece, I don't know which part of the ship it was, peeling off the ice shell, charred black on the outside, and a broken red word "AFE" on the inside.
AFE?
Stong thought about it.
Probably SAFE.
Safe English words.
"Eggplant, this is a human spaceship." Stong threw the pieces away, "I'm already standing in front of it." ”
He pushed up the dark filtered mask of the Iron Float, revealing the sweaty face inside the helmet, and then looked up, and Stong saw the dead body of the giant, the first time that the lost ship had been unveiled by humans for many years in history.
Steng reached out to wipe the snow off the outer wall, there was a thick layer of ice under the snow, it was difficult to estimate how many years it had been here, if it was really the spacecraft that crashed at Cassini Station that year, then it was at least twenty years old, and the results given by synthetic aperture radar were roughly accurate, it was a cylinder much larger than a giant tanker, four or five meters in diameter, but it was broken in the impact, Steng speculated that it was the ship's living module.
And upside down in the snow, that taller and bigger shadow may be the ship's battery board.
"There's writing on the outer wall of the ship." Stone gasped, his helmet almost clinging to the ship, and the beam of light from the headlamp pierced through the ice shell several centimeters thick, "Emergency exit ......"
"Can you tell where the ship is?" Liu Peijia asked.
"I can't." Stearns shook his head, "We'll have to go in and have a look." ”
He walked along the cabin of the spaceship, the snow on the ground like dust slowly rose, probably the wind, and gradually filled with a person high, Steng didn't know who the pilot of the spaceship was, in all fairness, Steng admired that person, crashed from a high altitude, the hull of the spaceship could still remain relatively intact.
Under normal circumstances, a crashed ship would only be flattened and shattered like an airplane.
This person's skills are at least seventy percent of his Sten's level.
There was a huge hole in the ship's cabin, and Stong stood on tiptoe and shone his headlamp into it.
It was pitch black inside, and the light seemed to be swallowed up when it entered, and it was not reflected at all.
"I'll try to climb in."
"It's not safe." Liu Peijia reminded, "Old Shi, no one knows what the condition of this spaceship is, I suggest making a mark, and I will talk about it when the rescue arrives later." ”
"Okay." Stong thought for a moment and nodded, "Then I'll retreat now." ”
Liu Peijia turned his head to stare at the point of light on the radar that represented Shi Teng and slowly returned, breathing a sigh of relief.
He leaned against the car door, looked around, and looked at the small headlamp that appeared in his field of vision, "Old Shi, hurry up, we should go back, it seems that the wind is about to rise." ”
The other party's headlamp flashed, it was Morse code, which means "OK".
Liu Peijia raised his hand to cover the headlamp, and also sent an "OK".
The lights on the other side went out suddenly.