January 28, 2101.

Twenty-ninth of the lunar month.

It is 1365114235.44 km from the Earth.

Titan, Shangri-La Plains.

Cassini Station.

With a heavy click, the lock cylinder withdrew, and the door of the positive pressure airlock chamber was slowly pushed open, and at that moment, the air in the cabin leaked out of the crack in the door, and after encountering the low temperature of minus 170 degrees Celsius, the water vapor, oxygen and carbon dioxide quickly condensed, turning into a white mist flowing close to the ground.

The liquid alkanes in the outdoor air volatilized immediately after absorbing heat, and the rain outside the door was stormy, and it was a dark downpour, and the people who returned from the rain hurriedly stepped into the airlock room, they were fully armed, a group of three, dressed in heavy crimson extravehicular suits, carrying toolboxes in their hands, like a bomb disposal unit and like a team of magnetic explosive infantry.

"Great white! Open the door! ”

The leader pushed the blackout mask up, covered in condensed hoarfrost, and the light illuminated the face of a middle-aged man, who shouted breathlessly towards the inner hatch.

The two men who followed also stepped into the airlock chamber, the outer hatch closed and locked, and they carried a red storage box one after the other. As the bright yellow warning lights flickered, the decontamination system was turned on, and the three of them stood in the water curtain to wash, the residual dust and broken ice on their bodies were cleaned, and at the same time, the air pressure in the airlock chamber began to slowly drop.

"Roger, Mr. Stationmaster, Mr. Liang Jing...... Welcome back, you look like a gang of tomb robbers. A crisp synthesized voice came from the headphones, "I'm opening the door for you, and I've noticed that you've brought back an unknown object, X-rays can't penetrate, not like a mineral specimen." ”

The man glanced up at the camera overhead, then at the box behind him, and smiled, "What?" Are you interested? ”

"Interested."

"I'll tell you later, I'll tell you the truth, we won the jackpot this time, the super jackpot." The man was overjoyed.

"How big a prize?" Dabai asked, "When you went out for a geological investigation, did you dig the winning number of the next two-color ball in the crater?" ”

"What is a lottery? Compared to this thing, the Nobel Prize is not worth mentioning. ”

The hatch in the airlock opened with a bang, and the lights were dazzling.

Someone had been waiting in the hallway inside the door for a long time.

He was wearing a white coat, a pair of tortoiseshell-rimmed glasses, and his head was shining, and he was relieved to see the three magnetic explosion infantry of the bomb disposal unit standing in the airlock room intact, "Jiangzi, you are finally back, such a bad weather, the rain is like the sky is falling, why did you come back so late today?" Hey, what are you carrying......"

"Say less, let let ...... Lao Hu got out of the way, gossip later. Standing on his shoulder, Jiang Zi pushed him away, made a way, and strode forward, "Is the lab empty now?" Old Hu? ”

"Which lab?" Lao Hu pushed his glasses and followed.

The stationmaster gestured to the end of the hallway ahead, "P3." ”

"Empty."

A group of four people escorted the boxes through the corridor quickly, and they didn't even have time to take off the extravehicular suits on their bodies, and everyone wanted to put the things in their hands as soon as possible and properly without delay. They made their way to the lab at the end, passed through two isolation doors, and picked up the crimson storage box and placed it on the lab bench.

The lab security door closed behind them, and the green light lit up.

Lao Hu put on protective clothing, gloves and a mask.

"What's new this time? Look at you in such a hurry, what treasure have you found? ”

In the recent period, the team that went out to investigate can always bring back something new, and every day they have to make big news, as if the next Nobel Prize is about to be born here - every time the station team members are just rotated, Hu Donghai is used to it, in fact, what they moved back is just all kinds of stones, some are indigenous here, some are falling from the sky, these people are tirelessly digging around in the pit, Liang Jing is engaged in geology, and he is naturally interested in these, but his old Hu is doing physics, Working with rocks all day is tedious.

It's normal to say that Cassini Station has been established for almost eight years, and if there are really any major discoveries, they will be the first to make them, where can it be their turn?

When they couldn't post a few CNS articles no matter how much they dug up the rocks, the enthusiasm naturally faded, and then they became a school of titan salted fish...... Hu Donghai thought silently while sorting out the protective clothing on his body.

"Big baby." Jiang Zi smiled, "We estimate that it is worth more than a dozen dynamite awards, and each of us will have extra support for third world countries." ”

"So awesome?" Hu Donghai was taken aback, and then sneered, "Jiangzi, are you dizzy?" That's not how is blown. ”

"Not an exaggeration." Jiang Zi shook his head, "Really, no kidding, this thing can change human history." ”

Hu Donghai looked at Liang Jing and Lou Qi on both sides, their expressions were very serious, but there was uncontrollable excitement in their seriousness, it was obvious that this was not a joke.

"Found in Alexandria's Pit?"

The Alexandria Pit is an old pit, and it has been dug for several years, so how can there be any new big discoveries?

"No, in Napoleon's pit on Alexander's side." Jiang Zi replied.

"Napoleon pits?" Hu Donghai was slightly surprised, "That pit is too deep and steep, and it is forbidden to go down in the station!" You don't want to die? ”

"It's not me, it's Liang Jing, a madman." Jiang Zi pointed to the man next to him, "He jumped in without saying a word, damn it, we can't stop it......"

"I was looking for chondrites, and I dug a little deeper, and I accidentally stepped on this thing and almost slipped." Liang Jing, who was standing aside to rest, grinned and gave a thumbs up, "I thought it was a stone at first, but then I realized that something was wrong, so I asked Jiangzi to help me dig it out...... , that's a weird thing. ”

"Weird?" Hu Donghai raised his eyebrows.

Not a meteorite?

With the seniority of these old fritters, what else could make them feel weird?

"Weird, very weird." Jiang Zi nodded, "I'm so big, I've never seen this kind of thing in decades, just look at it." ”

Old Hu pulled down his goggles.

"Is there any radiation?"

"I've tested." Jiang Zi threw the Geiger counter over, "No radioactivity. ”

"What about biosecurity?"

"I don't know, we didn't check it carefully, we didn't have this condition, so we brought it back, but it should be safe." Jiang Zi reminded, "We completely sealed it in the specimen box, and the temperature in the box was kept at minus 110 degrees, and there was no direct contact, Lao Hu, you had better be careful." ”

Hu Donghai pressed his hand on the box, and there was no label on the box, if the mineral specimen they would usually label it with harmful substances and first-class radioactive substances, and if it was a liquid or gas sample, it would be labeled with drugs or environmentally dangerous substances, but this time there was nothing pasted, indicating that the discoverer did not know how to classify it.

He glanced at the three people beside him, "No...... It can't be a living thing, right? ”

Could it be that the Titan-high life, which has been blowing for decades, has been discovered today? Jiang Zi said that it is worth more than a dozen Nobel Prizes, and if extraterrestrial advanced life is really discovered, it is not an exaggeration.

The three looked at each other and shook their heads in unison.

"Not a living thing, at least not at all."

With a click, Hu Donghai opened the lock of the storage box, slowly opened the lid of the box, and the eyes of the four people widened under the miserable white light, and the white mist of low temperature overflowed from the box, Hu Donghai took a step back, and the mist flowed onto the experimental table, and then slowly sank to the floor.