Twenty-four hours ago.

Ge Zi drank the Coca-Cola in his hand, stuffed the empty can into the recycling bin, brewed for a moment, and then burped.

"Brother Shi, Mu Mu, let's ...... Belch...... It's time to call it a day, the first spectral results ...... The hiccups came out, and the free hydrogen content rose by five percentage points, and the results were not bad. ”

There were four people working in the cramped cockpit, all next to each other, arm to arm, arm to head, Ge Zi brushed their backs and floated over, grabbed the handle on the bulkhead and pulled himself into the seat, then grabbed the seat belt that was suspended in mid-air and twisted it, and fastened it tightly in front of his chest and abdomen.

Zhao Mumu on the top of his head casually threw over a piece of chocolate, and Ge Zi reached out to catch it.

"Dove?"

"Indulge in your silkiness." Mu Mu smiled.

There is no artificial gravity in the cockpit, so there is no division between up and down, and in order to maximize the efficient use of space, the seats in the cabin are all placed facing the control panel on the bulkhead, so except for the driver, the rest of the people are working head-to-head, and the crew members are on top of each other's heads.

Only the position of the captain Shi Teng protruded forward, with the best view of the bow of the ship, with the largest glass window, like a viewing balcony, Ge Zi is the operator of the Hades prospecting ship, responsible for controlling the mechanical arm of the prospecting ship, she has a small area of her own, Zhao Mumu is the ship's communication engineer, just above her, in Ge Zi's perspective, Mu Mu is hanging upside down on the ceiling to work, and the other two, Liu Peijia is a flight engineer, Dai Yue is an electronic and mechanical engineer, The crew of the Hades prospecting ship consisted of six people, and only one person was not in the cockpit.

"Where's Boss Zhuo?" Stong asked, "Is Boss Zhuo still in the hold?" ”

"Lao Zhuo is still in the cargo hold." Liu Peijia leaned lightly on the back of the chair, he liked the feeling of weightlessness, so he never fastened the seat belt, Liu Peijia reached out to open the lightshade of the porthole, and outside the window was a hazy tumbling pale yellow - at first glance it looked like a flowing mist, but in fact it was the surface of Saturn.

With the distance between Hades and Saturn, Liu Peiqi can't see the complete outline of Saturn, not even the arc of its edge, this planet with a diameter of more than 120,000 kilometers is too huge, and its volume is so huge: when you sit on the Hades spacecraft, exhausting your field of vision, you can't see the edge and end of this pale yellow wall, it seems to extend infinitely upward, downward, left and right, lying there, dividing the whole universe into two.

Zhuo Zhi is a geology expert on the Hades ship, a doctor of physics from the Department of Science and Technology of China, a proper high-achieving student, but he is not too happy on the earth, so he took the initiative to choose to exile to the frontier, he exiled himself to the orbit of Saturn 1.3 billion kilometers away, Zhuo Zhi is forty-four years old this year, three years older than Steng, he is the oldest in the crew of the ship, Steng called him Zhuo Boss, Ge Zi called him a big guy Zhuo.

"Boss Zhuo, it's time to close when it's over." Stong lazily shouted into the microphone, "It's time for us to get off track, the gods are back in place." ”

"Roger." An insightful reply came from the headset.

A few minutes later, the round hatch at the stern of the cockpit was opened, and a gray-haired, emaciated middle-aged man floated in, wearing a blue coverall, with a tired face, and he and several people in the cabin nodded to each other, then sat down in their chairs and fastened their seat belts.

"Brother Shi, the big guy Zhuo Shen's position has returned." Ge Zi turned his head to remind.

“OK。” Ston nodded and slowly pushed the throttle, "All attention, this is the captain broadcasting, the plane is about to take off, please check whether you are wearing your seat belts......"

At the same time, a slight vibration came along the bulkhead, Ge Zi tied to the seat, staring at the control panel in front of him, the amplitude of the vibration is gradually increasing, not only the control panel, but also the bulkhead, seats, seat belts, including people are vibrating synchronously, everything is shaking violently, if other spaceships start it is the giant awakening, then the Hades start is the old man's wrestling.

Every time the engine of this old ship that knows the destiny of heaven is about to fall apart, it trembles like Parkinson's, and in Liu Peijia's words, "it is like sitting on the landing gear of the H-6-Ω", and Ge Zi is terrified every time.

The Hades fusion prospecting ship, born out of the second space exploration boom and Titan's Cassini research station at the same time of the birth of the energy harvesting project, this crazy project believes that Saturn and Jupiter such gas giants contain inexhaustible fusion raw materials, it must be a transit station and gas station for human beings to go out of the solar system in the future, in that radical era, Pluto funeral business has people dare to invest, human beings seem to have been the master of the solar system, so it is logical to use Saturn and Jupiter as natural gas tanks, how bold people areThe Hades Prospecting Ship was born, along with hundreds of engineering ships and space stations of the same class – a mighty army that set off for a better future for humanity.

As the saying goes, the history of mankind is the history of building wonders, from the Hanging Gardens of ancient Babylon to the Olympus Mountain observation car to the Sinopec Saturn gas station, human beings are always building in different places, and if possible, they will definitely want to string your stars and mine into a concentric circle.

It's a pity that Sinopec overestimated its own ability, and he shouldn't have squeezed PetroChina out of the game back then.

The bursting bubble destroyed everything, all the projects that were hurriedly launched in a frenzy died under the knife, the supply ships sent to the Cassini station of Titan became fewer and fewer, the gas giant energy harvesting project such a large and inappropriate plan was cut off at the first time, and all the engineering ships sent out were decommissioned or diverted for other purposes, and the loss was stopped in time, once the project was dismounted, the status of the Hades prospecting ship became very embarrassing, and it became a historical problem, which was about to face the situation of decommissioning and scrapping, and it was said that even the next home for dismantling was negotiated at that time, but someone cut it off halfway and saved it.

That person is USTC.

USTC bought the Hades at a low price of almost buying scrap iron, as a pure scientific research ship, and continued to study the feasibility of Saturn's energy harvesting.

"I'm going to speed up a few brothers." Shi Teng reminded in a deep voice, "Sit tight!" ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone felt a huge overload fall on them, everyone was pressed in their seats, the fusion engine of the Hades prospecting ship was fully started, and the spacecraft was accelerating away from the low orbit around Saturn, today's work has been completed, they have to go to a higher place to rest, it is not safe to be too close to Saturn.

Liu Peijia looked out the window at the surface of Saturn, the distance between the spacecraft and Saturn was gradually shrinking, but he still couldn't see the silhouette of the other party.

This thing is just too big.

Liu Peijia was suddenly slightly stunned.

"Old history, our old neighbor is here again."

At the edge of the porthole, a small point of light stands out from the gray-yellow background, it is illuminated by the sunlight, it looks like a speck of dust suspended in the air, shining, but in the next few minutes, its volume rapidly increases at a speed visible to the naked eye, from a speck of dust to a BB bomb, from a BB bomb to an Angong bezoar pill, and finally into a yellow tennis ball.

Titan.

They are rapidly approaching Titan.

"Yes, we'll have to borrow from it." "It's going to be a little bumpy, sit tight." ”