Chapter 2 It all started with

It all started when we received a signal from the rescue spacecraft.

The spaceship named "Buran".

Then everything changed, things started to spiral out of control, and what happened next was beyond all of us expected.

We're stuck in a loop, an endless loop, a time loop, and while I can't explain why this is happening, it's incredible, but it's clear that we're getting a signal from the ship that crashed twenty years ago.

No one believed this at first.

But I found proof in the mission records from twenty years ago.

In other words, I found traces of our existence from the mission records of twenty years ago.

As an example, on the third day of the mission log, Chef Wan Kai at Cassini Station twenty years ago felt that someone was watching him while watching a football game...... Who was the man staring at him? At first, we couldn't figure it out, thinking that this was mostly the chef's own illusion, but later when I saw Liu Peijia and Wan Kai staring at each other across the screen, I suddenly realized that the person who was spying on the chef could be us?

This is a bold hypothesis that defies common sense, but you must know that in this strange place, it is common sense to defy common sense.

This idea was later validated.

It's the lost walking car.

Three days ago, Steng and Liu left Cassini Station in the only working KSL 106 walking car in the garage to inspect the damage to Cassini Station in the earthquake, but the walking car was lost due to bad weather conditions — "turned around and disappeared, what a hell of a life," and when they lost the walking car, some of the power still had in the battery.

And when I opened the mission record, I found that Jiang Zi and Liang Jing went out on a mission twenty years ago, and once got lost on the half-foot lake, they found the broken shell of the walking car, and found the KSL 106 walking car, which still had a third of the electricity in it at that time, relying on this walking car, Jiang Zi and Liang Jing successfully returned to Cassini Station - they thought that this walking car was abandoned due to the crazy driving of the former stationmaster Boris three years ago.

In fact, most of the time this is not the case.

With a walker exposed to extremes of minus 200 degrees Celsius for three years, and a huge storm on Titan that can even run away from a spacecraft, it is impossible to have any power left in the battery, let alone a walker...... Mo said that with the remaining electricity, it is impossible for even the car itself to start again.

No one looked into the question at the time.

They were all attracted by Dabai's suspected betrayal, and as soon as they came back, they went straight to Dabai.

In retrospect, this is a huge loophole.

So how do you explain the existence of this car?

Let's think of it this way:

The KSL No. 106 car that Jiang Zi and Liang Jing found on the half-foot lake twenty years ago was actually left outside by Shi Teng and Liu Peijia three days ago.

The KSL No. 106 pedestrian car that Shi Teng and Liu Peijia drove out three days ago was driven back from Banqi Lake by Jiang Zi and Liang Jing 20 years ago.

Pretty winding, right?

I also feel very winding.

The walking car that saved Jiang Zi and Liang Jing's lives twenty years ago was actually lost by Shi Teng and Liu Peijia twenty years later, and the only walking car that Shi Ten and Liu Peijia could drive was the one that Jiang Zi and Liang Jing brought back back that year, and they were each other's cause and effect, like Ouroboros.

If we continue to dig deeper, then there is a deeper problem...... How did the walking car, the KSL106 walking car, appear in this time loop in the first place?

According to the mission log, it was violently piloted by Boris, the former head of Cassini Station, twenty-three years ago, and disappeared into the vast fog of the planet.

I don't know the answer.

I'll probably never know the answer to this question in my life.

For a materialist, this is really a depressing conclusion, I may have come into contact with something terrible, as long as I take a step further, I can see its true face, did Director Hu Donghai, who died tragically in Cassini Station also see this? As long as you continue to dig deeper, you can find something that subverts the three views of human beings, what is it that I can't imagine, a high-level creature that can manipulate time? God or Devil? A super-civilization left over from ancient times? It's crazy.

Okay, next question:

Who was Keir Horton who guided Jiang Zi and Liang Jing to the walking car at that time? Whose lights did they follow to find the walking car?

There is no doubt that it is Shi Teng and Liu Peijia.

I have a guess about Keir Horton's true face.

Twenty years ago, and even earlier, the lights that the crew of Cassini Station saw in the fog...... They were all other members stationed at different times, in other words, they saw themselves.

I don't know if this speculation is correct, but they say that Keir Horton's lights emit Morse code, and considering the people who have died on the Titan over the past few decades, those people must have tried to survive before they died, right?

Okay, let's go to the next question.

Why would Jiang Zi and Liang Jing think that Da Bai betrayed them? Why does Dabai give the exact opposite navigation information? Is it really the failure of the walking car's inertial navigation system that causes the direction to flip? Twenty years ago, Dabai certainly couldn't give the right answer, because it didn't know what was going on.

Now we know that the real reason is that the navigation signal they received at the time was not from the big white.

It's from our big white twenty years later.

At the same time, our Dabai was guiding Steng and Liu Peiji to leave Cassini Station, giving diametrically opposed guidance, and due to the interspersed time, they received the signal we sent, so they got lost on the half-foot lake.

In the same way, when Liang Jing and Jiang Zi returned to Cassini Station, the identity monitoring signal received by Dabai twenty years ago did not come from Jiang Zi and Liang Jing.

It's from Shi Teng and Liu Peijia.

That's why it thinks that the returned Jiang Zi and Liang Jing don't match the identity comparison information in its database.

That's fine.

There's so much hidden in the fog of this planet, but I don't have a chance to explore the truth anymore, I already know my end...... Because we all know that the Buran crashed at the end.

This means that the ship that came to pick us up will eventually crash here, which is what happened in the past and what will happen in the future.

As for why the Buran crashed......

I remembered the "Hades" that turned around and disappeared.

The future that has not yet happened, but we already know its end.

I can't escape this cycle, I can't escape this cycle, that is my final fate, the end that was already predestined twenty years ago.

No changes.

All I want to say about this is: fuck it.