Chapter Twenty-Three: Fragmentation
Sten didn't have time to think so much, he could only stagger and run in the dark according to his memory.
It's not reasonable to say that it's running, the gravity on the Titan is too small, so small that normal people can't step on the ground, and Stong spends most of his time in the air and falling.
He threw himself into the snow and rolled to his feet, just to get to Cassini Station faster.
He regretted it, regretted staying in Napoleon's pit for too long, which caused the Iron Float to run out of power, and regretted not leaving there with Liu Peijia in the first place, causing the latter to fall into the pit with one foot, all of which was his responsibility.
It's all his responsibility!
"Old Shi, slow down." Liu Peijia's slow voice came from the earphones, "It's like a funeral." ”
"Can you see me?" Stone panted.
"I can't see it." Liu Peijia said, "I guessed it." ”
Steng's limbs were cold, not because of the failure of the thermal insulation of the Iron Float, but because he saw the balance of the battery, the pointer that represented the life margin of the two of them was gradually declining.
Thirty-seven percent remained.
Steng estimated in his heart how long it would take him to reach Cassini Station, which was only 1.5 kilometers from Napoleon's Pit to Cassini Station, and it would only take half an hour to walk.
But it takes an hour to come and go.
No, you have to drive a car on the way here!
Driving should reduce the time to ten minutes.
That's forty minutes......
Stong thought silently in his heart, it should be no problem to hold on to the remaining power for forty minutes.
But the next problem almost made his heart cold in half, even if he rushed back in forty minutes, it would take time to rescue Liu Peijia, and it would take time to pull him out of that borehole.
Even if it is pulled out, it will take time to bring Liu Peijia back, and they will not be able to replace the Iron Floating Tu outside the cabin.
It's time again.
Damn time.
Stong could almost feel a pair of unseen hands gradually retracting, clenching his throat, and the minute and second hands on the clock were sharp guillotines that ticked and ticked, little by little, approaching the dead line.
He's going to be out of breath.
"Cassini Station! Cassini Station! I'm Stong! Can anyone hear me? Steng yelled into the microphone, he hoped to contact Cassini Station in advance, it was still too slow for him to run back to the rescue, he needed to answer, and he needed someone from Cassini Station to take the initiative to drive over to pick up.
"! Exercise! ”
Still unreachable, Ston scolded angrily.
"Calm down, calm down, old Shi ......" Liu Peijia said slowly, he actually comforted Shi Teng in turn, "Anger and anxiety can't save anyone." ”
In Napoleon's pit, Liu Peijia knelt on the ice alone? One leg is deep in the borehole.
How long has Steng been gone? It was so dark that he could barely see his fingers, and he looked up? The beams of light from the headlamps lead straight into the dense fog.
Steng fell into the snow again? He struggled to get up, and Liu Peijia was still talking in his ear: "Old history? Are you sure you're on the right track? ”
In addition to the sound of talking, there is also a noisy background sound? A shrill cry whistling by? More and more frequent and urgent.
But Liu Peijia's voice is still steady, he has probably never been so steady in his life.
"Do you remember the way back?"
"I don't remember, but I know the direction." Stone gasped, "Half a foot lake to the west of Cassini Station?" Then Cassini Station is just to the east of us! ”
"Can you find the ruts of the walking car?" Liu Peijia said? "Follow the rut and you'll be back in the station."
"What's your voice over there?" Stong frowned.
In addition to the sound of speech and the sound of air currents, he heard other sounds...... It was a series of crisp, dense clicks, as if something was shattering.
Liu Peijia's voice paused, and then smiled? "I'm cracked."
"I just cracked." Sten said, "What is the sound?" ”
"I'm looking for ...... I'm looking for a source of sound. "Liu Peijia is looking around with his headlamp? Finally he leaned down and stuck his helmet to the ice? "Old Shi, I know? The sound comes from underground. ”
"From underground?" Ston was stunned.
"Yes? It could be that the ice is cracking. Liu Peijia's tone in the headphones seemed casual? They are cracking rapidly. ”
"Can you find a way to get out?"
"I'm afraid not, it's still stuck...... I've been trying and it's sucking too tight. ”
"Damn."
Stong rolled through the snow, rubbed his mask hard, shook the snow powder off his body, and turned his head to look at where he had come.
I can't tell that it was a human who came out.
"Old Shi, you can help me bring a few words back." Liu Peijia said suddenly.
Shi Teng was stunned for a moment, and roared back in an almost angry tone: "Shut up!" I'll get you back! ”
Liu Peijia didn't care about him, and said to himself:
"First say hello to Boss Mumu Xiaozi Dai Yue Zhuo, say hello to them on my behalf, I wish them all the best in their work in the future, and don't come to this kind of ghost place again."
Shi Teng listened to Liu Peijia talking in the channel, and his scalp slowly tingled.
He heard the background sound, the increasingly dense cracking sound, as if there were thousands of people stepping on the glass ballast, surrounding Liu Peijia, ringing in all directions.
"You don't know my wives either, anyway, they don't live with me very much, they all have their own good lives, I won't bother them, they are afraid that they are basking in the sun on the earth now, and they don't know that there is a man so far away......" Liu Peiji's breath was steady, but it was difficult for Shi Teng to imagine the situation he was in at the moment.
The horrible cracking sound gradually developed into a crumbling sound, no longer the sound of broken glass, but the sound of a huge block of ice cracking from within.
"You said that if they were comfortably petting the cat on the balcony, and suddenly a suicide note fell into their arms, it would definitely ruin their mood."
Steng could no longer concentrate on Liu Peijia's words, his attention was drawn to the background, and he heard the ice crumbling, the rocks crumbling, and the ground crumbling.
Click, click!
"That's why Sensei told them."
Shi Teng knew that Liu Peijia had no children and no daughters, and he didn't know who to leave his last words for.
"Looking back on my life, I have been with you for half of my life." Liu Peijia said, "What a fucking failure, old history." ”
He looked down at the ground, then turned off his headlights.
In this world, light has no meaning.
The man sat alone on the ice, closed his eyes, and was in an absolutely dark space, listening to the sound of the world collapsing, and countless shatters were happening around him, and at that moment he actually thought of mice, as if there were billions of rats squirming around him.
Next, Liu Peijia said the last sentence left for the world: "Hmm...... Let's keep the funeral simple. ”
Stong stopped abruptly, looking back in despair, the loud crash that no longer needed a radio to hear, the sound of the sound coming from the dense atmosphere, and the howling wind.
Ston slumped to the ground, staring at the sky in a daze.
He murmured softly, "My God......"