The walking car crawled in the dense fog, Jiang Zi and Liang Jing sat side by side in the cockpit, the bright headlights shot out only a few steps away, the light pillar was covered with a rich brown-yellow haze, in this kind of place it is impossible to see the road clearly by sight, only radar can be used, the walking car is around the body is millimeter wave pathfinding radar, this band positioning is accurate, but in the atmosphere of high humidity attenuation is serious, the effective distance is not more than five kilometers.

However, the surface of Titan's Shangri-La Plain is much flatter than the Earth's, and the super plains of Titan, like the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, are unobstructed, and radar waves often do not receive any response.

"Eight hundred meters further on." Liang Jing hugged his helmet and glanced at the map on the monitor, "That's the first drilling location." ”

"Roger." Dabai said.

Jiang Zi turned his head and glanced at the rear window, there were faint bright lights in the dense fog behind him, it was a spare walking car, it was customary to take two cars when leaving the cabin, if one broke down, then the personnel could be transferred to the other car.

If there is no heavy haze, Jiang Zi and Liang Jing can see the endless lake surface from the porthole on the left, and the lake with an area of 46 square kilometers does not have the slightest wind and waves, like a huge mirror embedded in the ground, not moving at all, extremely smooth.

Titan is a strange planet, when it's quiet, time seems to freeze, and when it gets irritable, the sky falls apart.

Jiang Zi leaned back, stretched his limbs, and asked casually, "Liang Gong, have you ever driven a boat on the half-foot lake?" ”

"Nope." Liang Jing shook his head, "Can you drive a boat on a half-foot lake?" Liquid methane is less than half as dense as water, and the lake is less than half a meter deep. ”

"It's not dense, it's gravity small, and if the half-foot lake is deep enough, I think we can jump in and swim." Jiang Zi said, "Actually, I'm talking about hovercraft, that kind of small air-cushion motorboat, you can drive forward and drive forward, but the lake with a depth of only 40 centimeters is really funny, I sometimes think this is a Lilliputian country, the residents who live around the half-foot lake are only a few centimeters high, for them the half-foot lake is a super deep water lake, have you seen "The Little Prince"? The one written by the French. ”

"Yes."

"When I was a child, I was very envious of the little prince's pocket planet." Jiang Zi said, "There is also "Dragon Ball", the most classic and oldest one has a king of the world, the king of the world has a very small planet, I think it would be good if I had such a planet, I am the head of the ball, and I am not tired of management." ”

"Most objects with too little mass are irregular, and they cannot become spherical under their own gravity." Liang Jing said.

"Hey, it's hard to talk to you people, I don't know they're unrealistic, huh? But fairy tales, logic doesn't matter, beauty is enough. Jiang Zi pouted, "Just like Titan, you know that when we describe Titan on Earth, it is the same as heaven, what bright starry sky baptizes the human heart, what Saturn's halo is close enough to reach, and the audience is stunned, but for you, we all say that this hellish place is a hell." ”

Liang Jing smiled.

"Hell that eats people and doesn't spit out bones." Jiang Zi sighed.

"In nature, like a woman, the more beautiful she is, the more dangerous she is." "If you want to see their fascinating faces, you have to risk your life. ”

"Then I'd rather deal with women."

"No, no, no, this universe only kills." Liang Jing smiled and said, "Women are heart-wrenching." ”

The breeze carried a cotton-wool mist against the portholes, and all the lights of the walking car were turned on, and the glance looked around like a prawn crawling in the muddy cement sand.

In order to resist this force, the Titan walkers are basically designed in an anti-lift configuration, flat at the top and convex at the bottom, with a huge belly, so that the airflow will generate downward pressure when passing by, pressing the walker tightly on the ground.

There was a sound of rushing water outside the carriage, Jiang Zi leaned in front of the window and looked, he saw rippling ripples under the car, "Dabai, are we going to the lake?" ”

"Yes, we're passing through the edge of the half-foot lake."

The walker stepped into the half-foot lake, forty centimeters deep enough to drown its little short legs, and it fluttered in liquid alkanes, and the bottom of the lake was hard and smooth ice and frozen soil, a little slippery.

"The lake is 46 square kilometers at its largest, and only 30 square kilometers at its smallest." Jiang Zi said, "At that time, this area was all flat land. ”

"What about the rest?"

Jiang Zi pointed to the top of his head, "In the sky." ”

Liang Jing understands that when the storm is formed, the eye of the storm area often produces giant tornadoes, this kind of tornadoes can not be seen on the earth, they have a diameter of several kilometers, more than ten kilometers high, looking at the past from afar as if the pillar reaches the sky, the strong siphon effect will suck tens of millions of cubic meters of liquid methane in the lake into the sky, stored in the thick atmosphere and clouds, at this time the air humidity becomes the maximum, like a giant water storage tank.

Then wait for a rainstorm that fills the world, open the floodgates and release the water.

"I'll just say it's a beautiful planet." Liang Jing said leisurely, "How magnificent and magnificent. ”

"How terrifying, how terrifying." Jiang Zi disagreed with him, "The storm didn't blow on your head, and when it blew on your head, you won't say anything magnificent, you should say that I'm dead when I'm done, and I still have more than ten years of loans to repay...... I've seen many of you naturalistic supremacists, each of whom thinks that nature is above everything. ”

"Isn't it?"

"Of course not, it should be people who are above everything, from ancient times to the present, do you think that human beings really care about anything other than human beings?" Jiang Zi shook his head, "Never, I told you, never been, but fortunately, we can continue until now." ”

Liang Jing frowned.

"From the moment the word 'I' was coined, in the eyes of human beings, the center of the whole universe is human beings themselves, and some individuals may have different thoughts, but human beings as a whole must have such thoughts." Jiang Zi said, "This is the foundation of our survival, and any civilization that does not center itself and uses it to centralize its thinking will eventually perish." ”

"This is what you have been thinking about on the Titan for a long time, stationmaster?" Liang Jing was thoughtful.

Jiang Zi yawned.

"No, it's clear that I'm talking nonsense."