11. In the dark

The glove controller trembled violently, as sadly as electricity passing through its body.

You must know that the operating system of this robotic arm is established by simulating the human nervous system, that is, at this time, the robotic arm outside the spaceship does not listen to the call, and it ignores the instructions issued by Jin.

It began to swing nervously in small motions, and at one point it was close to knocking the object flying.

Kim's heart was horrified, and he was anxious to remove the gloves, and the slight electric tingling sensation on the tips of his fingers expanded to the entire forearm.

But just as he was halfway through his scrambled stripping, the tingling suddenly waned.

The electric tremor lasted only a few seconds, and the arm was silent as if nothing had ever happened.

Kim's arm also regained the familiar feeling of control he had before, and some cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he turned his head to look at the other two. The two men looked at him in horror, as if to see what was happening from him with their eyes.

"What happened just now, yes? I felt like I had an electric shock......"

Before Jin finished speaking, he was horrified to find that the mechanical arm on the screen was slowly leaning towards the thing, but it was better to say that the thing was actively attracting the mechanical arm to lean up.

Because he hasn't started yet!

Soon, the metal arm finally touched the object, and just as the tip of the mechanical arm touched its surface, an inexplicable sensation came from the gloves it was wearing, and it suddenly made him feel as if he was weightless.

"W-What's going on?"

Kim shouted, and his body suddenly floated up slowly.

The other two hurriedly grabbed the handrail in the cabin.

"It's the gravity system that is out of order, hurry up and grab the handrail!" Kraken shouted, grabbing a panicked Horton by the collar.

It's not the same feeling as it was just now. It's real weightlessness, just like what Kim experienced when he first took an astronautics course.

"No, how can the gravity system show normal? Look at the screen! Holden pointed to the opposite monitor.

"It's weird, it's obviously the artificial gravity problem. Captain, what to do? Kim shouted.

"Wait, the system can't be wrong, it didn't call the police...... This may not be a gravity issue. Captain Kraken suddenly thought of something, and reached out and pressed it on the controller a few times.

The screen switches to the flight status display, and the speed of the spacecraft has reached 1868 km/s, and it is still growing rapidly, and is rapidly moving towards the direction of the Earth.

However, it is important to know that this ship is a mineral exploration ship in the star system, and its maximum design speed will not exceed the third cosmic speed - 16.7 km/s.

"Nope! No way! This has already broken the maximum speed of this ship, and it is impossible to be so high! Kim's tone changed dramatically.

If the speed is any faster, several people will be crushed into a pulp...... But they didn't feel the weight of their bodies at all.

OMG! Astound!

The three of them looked at the growing data, and their eyes were about to pop out.

"What the hell is going on!" Horton exclaimed.

There was a dead silence all around, and darkness descended.

"Buzz! Airplanes! ā€

Two short sounds rang out, the sound of the system suddenly stopping, and in less than three seconds, everything on the ship was plunged into darkness.

It was as if the ship's energy source had been cut off suddenly.

The backup power was only activated for a while, and soon went out again, apparently, the second "buzz" was the sound of the backup power also going out.

The lighting on the spaceship was all extinguished, the surroundings were pitch black, the artificial gravity had failed, and the three people were in a state of weightlessness at the same time.

Their minds seemed to have stopped working at this moment, and they were blank.

This is far beyond their knowledge, and even when they were training at the space center, they didn't learn it at all. Without the slightest clue and unable to think, as if the vision was not intended for humanity.

Everyone on the ship felt as if they had been hit by something, and their limbs were limp and weak, as if something had been pulled out of their bodies.

After a few seconds, Captain Kraken first came to his senses. His brain returned to thinking and broke the silence first. After all, it was the nerves of the captain, who had been trained for a long time to deal with emergency problems calmly: "Don't move yet, everyone, calm down!" ā€

Kim and Horton also resumed their thoughts, "That thing! Something is wrong! Horton said in the dark, his voice trembling a little.

"Damn, what the fuck is this? It must be the! Jin also became emotional, but his voice was not too loud, as if he was afraid of being heard, recalling the feeling of collapse in that moment, and there was obviously a trace of fear in his tone.

"How do you feel? Body, body, right? ā€

"I just had a strange reaction in my body? What about you? ā€

"It's okay now, I felt that way just now...... But now it doesn't matter! ā€

"The power on the ship is out, are we going to try to wake it up? It's so dark that I can't touch the controller...... Looking for it? Horton's voice was deep and careful.

"No, don't! Wait, don't move now. ā€

"Okay, okay, I'm not going to move, God! This situation of being trapped in the dark...... I—I'm a little scared! ā€

"Our energy system seems to be failing, what should we do? It could be a pulse, there must have been a powerful pulse wave just now. ā€

"Well, maybe yes, but I feel that there may be other fluctuations, and usually the power system is very sensitive to it, so there is a power outage."

"I feel less scared now, thank goodness! Oh, and the various organs in the body are still there! There was no discomfort either...... I think about it, if something goes wrong with the energy system, we should use backup energy...... Oh? Wrong! It seems that the spare one is out of order, God! We can't do anything now! ā€

……

Yes, they can't do anything now.

In this way, the three of them kept thinking in the dark, comforting each other to reduce their fear.

At this moment, the topic they discussed was naturally inseparable from the object outside the ship.

Suddenly, "Buzz! With a bang, the lights came on and the lighting system inside the ship worked! Electricity supply restored.

Boom, the three of them fell onto the inner deck of the spaceship, but fortunately, the cabin was not high. The ship's gravity system was also restored.

The voice of the navigation assistance system is clear and bright: "The system self-test is complete, and there is no abnormality." ā€

"What? Nothing unusual? It's not a fucking weirdness! ā€

"Alright, Kim! You check the mechanical arm outside, and turn on the display image, I'm more concerned about that thing right now, and I have to make sure about it. ā€

Kim shook his head, as if he was afraid to touch the thing again, and Holden quickly shifted the display to the outside of the ship, where the thing was.

Captain Kraken looked at Kim and said calmly, "Maybe not, look! ā€

The screen shows that the mechanical arm outside has successfully pinched the little thing in the mechanical claw. Now, it's being held in the metal palm of the front end. Nothing seemed to have happened, and the arm was unmistakable, not even a piece of paint had fallen off.

"Activate the extravehicular scanning program!" The captain ordered the ship's smart computer to MAX4000.

After only a few minutes, the computer analyzed the gas composition outside, pressure, temperature, radiation level, electromagnetic force field, etc., and the instrument showed that everything was normal outside the cabin.

That's all you can do with that object.

The captain listened carefully to the analysis report, and after a long silence, he spoke.

"Alright, now, what we're going to do is just bring it in, it's not difficult, get the research table and the air-lock ready." The captain's tone was as steady as possible, without any fluctuations.

"Oh my God, are we really going to take it in?"