Liang Jing and Lou Qi unzipped Tiefutu and put on Hu Donghai's extravehicular suit, the latter closed his eyes and lay flat on the bed, looking very peaceful, as if he was asleep.

The rest stood around in silence.

The Director has a high prestige in Cassini Station and has a good relationship with everyone, and although he has an odd temper in some ways, everyone who comes into contact with him will say that he is a man worthy of respect.

Jiang Zi stepped forward and buckled the helmet mask of the extravehicular suit, which also had Hu Donghai's name capitalized: H.

Liang Jing carried Hu Donghai's body on his back and walked out of the room, Jiang Zi and Mo Yu at the door turned sideways to make way out, and the group followed the director's body downstairs, like a funeral procession. They put Hu Donghai's body at the door of the airlock room, Liang Jing and the chef put on extravehicular clothes, and they wanted to put the director's body outside.

Liang Jing and Wan Kai tied nylon straps around the head and feet of the corpse, and fastened them to the waist of the extravehicular suit with locks.

Others bowed deeply behind them.

Hu Donghai will stay in the robot warehouse until the Buran spacecraft arrives, and after returning to Earth, people will judge his life fairly.

"Lao Hu has worked hard all his life." Jiang Zi sighed, "I didn't expect this to be the end." ”

Silence gloomed.

Hu Donghai dedicated his life to Cassini Station, and finally ended in this way, I don't know whether it is to seek benevolence or to be sad and lamentable.

"Let's go, we're going to fix the hole in the communication tower." Jiang Zi patted Mo Yu's shoulder.

The two put on the iron float and checked each other's extravehicular suits, the extravehicular activity clothes are a very complex system, the outer layer is a mechanical exoskeleton, integrated with a powerful battery motor and hydraulic system, and the inner layer is a thermal insulation airtight suit, to ensure that the person wearing this suit is not frozen to death by the low temperature of the outside world, Dabai has done a comprehensive self-inspection, but out of habit and tradition, people will still manually visually inspect once before going out.

Jiang Zi and Mo Yu stretched out their hands and pressed each other's shoulders, and then went down in turn, checking that there was a set of strict procedures to prevent omissions, from the interface of the helmet, to the airtight valve on the Iron Float, to the motor and battery of the exoskeleton, one by one to confirm that there was no problem.

"No problem."

"No problem."

Then the two of them brought a toolbox and repair materials, the material that Jiangzi planned to use to repair the windshield was a roll of stainless steel, it was really difficult to find a material in Cassini Station that could withstand the low temperature of Titan's surface, the only thing that could be used was a roll of 399 chromium-containing austenitic stainless steel produced by TISCO Group, this thing can not produce brittleness at a low temperature of minus 200 degrees Celsius, in Cassini Station was originally used to repair pipes and exterior walls, people value its superb toughness and plasticity, as for low temperature resistance is only incidental, Who knew that now it would have to rely on it to fill the hole.

Silently brought a large toolbox, repairing the windshield was a big job, requiring drilling holes and welding guns, she carried the toolbox behind her back and followed Jiang Zi into the airlock.

Yaxiang lay on the stairs and waved her hand at Moyu, she had no qualifications to go out to work, so she could only stay in the station.

"Sister Moyu, go and come back quickly."

Jiang Zi stood in the airlock room, the hatch opened, and the high-pressure gas in the cabin leaked instantly.

Outside, the white fog has blended with the brownish-yellow haze in the atmosphere, and there is not the slightest sunlight in sight, and the visibility is less than five meters.

This was the first time that Mo Yu had left Cassini Station in a few days, and the thick fog outside was still not clearing, so Mo Yu locked himself on a safety rope and followed Jiang Zi, moving forward step by step. Along the way, she noticed scattered pieces of ice on the ground, which were obviously traces of a volcanic eruption, and until now they did not know exactly where the eruption crater was, and the bad weather prevented remote sensing satellites from observing.

"Keep up." Jiang Zi's voice came out of the earphones, and his back was about to disappear from Mo Yu's field of vision, and he could only vaguely see the roll of steel shaking in the thick fog.

Moyu sped up the pace, repairing the hole requires two people to work together, this is a very troublesome job, you need to make a hole in the original windscreen, and then cut the steel plate to the right size, and fix it with rivets to repair the damage, the windshield was originally a hollow sandwich structure, and the low-temperature resistant resin is infused with aerogel, aerogel is the best thermal insulation material, but Cassini Station has no spare parts, so you can only use steel plates for emergency.

"How does it feel?"

"It's fine." Silent replied, "It's just a little slippery under my feet." ”

There are no magnetic soles outside, so it is light to walk, and the frozen ground itself is smooth, so I take three steps in one step, and even the safety rope is swaying up and down, like walking on a suspension bridge.

"Just get used to it." Jiang Zi said, "When they were the craziest, they drove motorcycles in this hellish place, but the sleigh didn't know where to fly. ”

Acquiescence is staggering, and why are there so few series of foreigners.

"That's half a foot of lake over there." Jiang Zi stopped and stretched out his hand to point to the dense fog on the right, "The eruption crater of the volcano is probably over there. ”

"Why?"

"Because the breach in the windshield is in this direction." Jiang Zi explained, "Liang Gong said that there may be a very large cavity in the ground of the half-foot lake. ”

"An underground methane sea?"

"Yes." Jiang Zi nodded, "According to Liang Gong, if this volcano has a large-scale eruption, this piece of the earth's crust will sink and collapse in a large area. ”

Mo Yu was taken aback.

"When the communication is restored, I will report the intelligence here to my superiors, and all of us may follow the Buran back, and from now on, Cassini Station may really be completely abandoned." Jiang Zi sighed, "It's not safe here, and I won't send people here again in the future, even if Titan has research value, it can only be built in other places, Cassini Station can't work." ”

"Lao Hu is gone, and Cassini Station is gone." Jiang Zi continued, "He didn't leave any last words, and from what I know about him, that old guy is definitely not willing to return to Earth, he would rather be buried on Titan and scatter his ashes on a half-foot lake...... It's a good thing he didn't see the day Cassini Station was abandoned, otherwise how would he live. ”

Jiang Zi kept babbling, in the thick fog where no one could see him, what when he first met Hu Donghai, the guy still had thick black hair, and when he encountered a thunderstorm on the half-foot lake, he rushed out and dragged Hu Donghai back, and in summary, he supported Hu Donghai for rice money, bought him wine, and saved his life, so he almost said that he was his second parent.

But as he spoke, the middle-aged man choked up and listened silently, this is a friendship between two men that has lasted for more than 20 years.

Hu Donghai is probably just such a friend as Jiang Zi, he died, Jiang Zi lost his old partner for many years, and it was not good to cry in public with the style of a tough guy, so he could only tell his sadness to Mo Yu, a female neurotic.

Female neuropathy probably can't understand normal human feelings, so she will forget after listening to it, and Jiang Zi is not worried that she will say this.

"We're here." Jiang Zi got into the maintenance tunnel of the communication tower, removed the steel plate from his body, and then climbed the ladder.

After Jiang Zi climbed the ladder, Mo Yu could get in, she stood under Jiang Zi's feet, looked up, and a series of small orange and yellow lights reached the top.

"I'll go up first and secure the safety rope." Jiang Zi said, "You come up again." ”

Moyu nodded.

Jiang Zi climbed up, and Mo Yu sat alone at the bottom of the communication tower, looking out from the entrance.

She could only see the safety rope fixed pole on the side of the communication tower, the red safety rope extended into the dark yellow haze, there was no end in sight, this was really a magical world, a planet full of dense fog all the time, no matter what it was, as long as you were five meters away, you couldn't see it, Mo Yu stretched out his hand and grabbed in the fog.

It would be a shame if it was a dead and empty planet.

How she wished that there was some beautiful and huge creature hidden in the fog, and one day she could see it break through the fog and spread its huge wings on its back.