Chapter 19: Napoleon's Pit

Six minutes is six minutes.

Liu Peijia sighed, at this moment, he had no other choice than to believe in Shi Teng.

The two of them moved forward one after the other, advancing in the dark night when they couldn't see their fingers, Shi Teng took the lead, and his psychological pressure was actually very great, like a blind man walking at night.

Humans are visual animals in the end, they can't see anything, and they naturally beat drums in their hearts, Shi Teng and Liu Peijia are such people, even if you put them blindfolded on an empty football field, they are still worried about whether they will hit the steps when walking.

Thick snow and dust reduced visibility to zero.

The two of them called Cassini Station as they walked, and as the distance got closer, the possibility of regaining contact became more and more likely.

"I'm Liu Peijia, I'm Liu Peijia! Call Cassini Station...... Anyone? Anyone? Mumu? Dai Yue? Boss Zhuo? Xiao Zi? Someone's here...... Hey, I said Lao Shi, how long are you step? Liu Peijia suddenly asked.

Shi Teng was stunned for a moment, deliberately took a step forward, and estimated in his heart, "About seventy centimeters." ”

Liu Peijia calculated, "Then it will take three thousand steps to get to the station." ”

"We're not necessarily walking in a straight line." "It may be more than 3,000 steps, I have one leg long and one leg short, and if I walk with my eyes closed, I will definitely not be able to walk straight." ”

"I've worked with you for so many years, and I actually found out today that you are a heavy remnant!" Liu Peijia was taken aback.

"You're the remnant." Stone scolded back, "My left leg is only two millimeters longer than my right leg, and I fell from an accident a long time ago." ”

"That's a disability, too." Liu Peijia said, "Comrade, show your disability certificate, you can't replace your prosthetic leg for free without a disability certificate, what?" You say that you can see that your legs are long and short, as long as you are not blind? That's not good, the rules are the rules, and if you don't have a certificate, you can't change your ......."

Liu Pei babbled trash talk.

"You'll need a prosthetic leg too, Eggplant." "You need to change your electronic brain." ”

After saying this, Shi Teng took a big step forward and proved to Liu Peijia that he had no problem.

But who knew that when he stepped on it, the light flickered suddenly, and immediately there was no human figure.

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Liu Peijia was also taken aback, "Old history? ”

In the blink of an eye, "poof"? Stong was gone.

Liu Peijia thought he was dazzled.

"Old history! Old ......"

The next second he was dragged to the ground by a huge force? Liu Peijia sat on the ice with his buttocks, and then slid all the way down like an ice slide.

Liu Peijia screamed and slipped to the bottom of the slope? Then it crashed into Stern.

"Oh, I'll go...... What the hell is this? "Liu Peijia is dizzy? Helping Steng to get up slowly, "Where are we?" ”

The two of them looked around with their headlamps on? The two took a few steps forward and gradually realized that this was a big hole? And he is at the bottom of the pit.

They used to have a hole like a dry toilet under their feet? Because the visibility is too poor, no one can see, the bottom of the pit is a slope, and the slope leads to the bottom of the pit like a slide. What step did he take extra hard? So he almost fell into the mud with one foot in the air, slipped down on his stomach like a penguin, and slid down with Liu Peijia by the way.

"Why is there a pit here?" Stern pushed the filter mask up, and by the light, he could barely see the steep slope of the pit? Starting from his feet, it stretches upwards at a forty-five degree angle, and is hidden in the thick snow and dust? He looked up and estimated that the pit was six or seven meters deep.

"There's something in the pit? Old Shi, come and see! ”

Liu Peijia pulled up a rusty calibration rod? Throw it into Stern's hand.

"Look? Is this thing familiar? Old history. ”

Stong nodded? He recognized it as a marker pole commonly used in scientific expeditions at Cassini Station, more than a meter long, wrist thick, metal, red and white coloring, with high-beam lights and radio beacons inside, which were very eye-catching in the wilderness.

Twenty years ago, when the crew of Cassini Station went out in the field, they often carried a large bundle of these poles, which were inserted wherever they went, and used to mark their positions, and in the vast ice field of the desert, these marking poles were more useful navigation tools than electronic navigation, and it would not be interfered with by the complex electromagnetic environment on the Titan, and seeing these marking poles, Steng realized that he was not far from Cassini Station.

"Who put this here?" Liu Peijia asked.

"Not us, anyway." Stong looked at the pole in his hand, erasing the ice covering the surface, barely making out the faint English letters, and Steng inserted it back into the ground, "It was left by those people more than twenty years ago when Cassini Station was still around, this should be a scientific research site." ”

"Did anyone dig here more than twenty years ago?"

"Yes, the pit we slid down was specially dug up the slope used to transport heavy machinery." "It's a big research site. ”

"Then we should be close to Cassini Station." Liu Peijia asked, "Old Shi, do you have a signal?" ”

"It's a lot of noise, so you have to lean back."

In addition to the marker rod, there are other traces of human activity left at the bottom of the pit, Shi Teng and Liu Peijia squatted down and groped on the ground, they saw the crimson storage box, nailed to the ground, the box contained a geological hammer, ruler and drill bit, which had fallen with snow, the laser punch more than one person high fell crookedly to the side, the total station for ranging was still standing there like a scarecrow, and the scaffolding scattered and piled up did not know whether it could be installed in the future or had been used up and disassembled, as well as bits and pieces of gadgets, pointed hand shovels, pads, The sealed bags were buried in the snow, and I don't know when they were left here.

Everywhere there are traces of human activity, but everywhere there is no one.

This is an abandoned research base, and Steng can imagine that it must have been crowded twenty years ago, and he didn't know how long it had been abandoned, whether it was an excavation pit that had been abandoned for a long time, or it could have been where the last Cassini Station team members stayed twenty years ago.

"It must have been a lively place back then." Liu Peijia said, "It's like a construction site." ”

"It's quite lively." Ston sat on his knees and carefully observed the nameplate on the storage box, after many years, the numbers and letters on the nameplate were difficult to read, "4001...... 28…… N…… apoleon……”

"What's on it?" Liu Peiqi came over.

Ston let out a long breath, "I know what this place is. ”

"Where?" Liu Peijia asked.

"Napoleon Pit."

"Take ......" Liu Peijia felt that the name was familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere, but it was definitely not because of a certain Corsican dwarf.

"Where they found the black ball...... Here it is. Stong frowned slowly.

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(Author's gossip: I attended the event of reading literature in Haikou, and my real name envied the comrades of the Silver League and the Gold League who were drawn in the lottery last night...... οΌ‰