"Approaching the target."

"Ten Meters"

"Five meters."

"Start slowing down."

"The deceleration was successful, and it entered a relatively stationary state."

"97% of the propellant remains, and 95% of the electricity remains."

In the asteroid belt, an irregularly shaped rocky asteroid is slowly spinning, and not far from it is a small 47-meter-long spaceship, and they are illuminated by a spot of light that looks the size of a coin, which is the distant sun.

The silver-gray spacecraft is connected to four ropes that lead in four directions, and at the end of each rope is a person in a white spacesuit, but the white spacesuit on these people looks a little old.

Lu Ping reported his situation while reaching out and holding the item in front of him.

"It's a mobile phone, blue, straight, palm-sized, this style looks like an antique from two hundred years ago, and it's civilian."

"It's just that it's been in space for too long, and it's more seriously corroded, I don't know if the memory device inside is intact, and I'm going to check it when I go back, this is the first antiquity I found in interstellar archaeology, and I should be able to get a lot of useful information......"

He couldn't wait to observe the object and make his own judgment, but before he could finish his sentence, the basic information of the item in his hand was displayed on his helmet display according to the pattern matching.

"Weiwu P50, civilian-grade intelligent communication items, produced between 2050 and 2059, the first item of the same model was found and 2203...... Hi, I thought I was the first discoverer, but I didn't expect the date of first discovery to be earlier than my date of birth! Boring! ”

It's not an antique found for the first time, and it may be seriously damaged, so it's not worth much research, so Lu Ping was a little disappointed, but he still put the thing in a bag next to him.

The bag is attached to his waist by a safety rope and is dedicated to storing small collections.

"Hahaha, old road, it's not decades ago now, how can it be so easy to pick up the items found for the first time, you can rest assured that you will be your wreckage recycler!" Lu Ping was depressed, and a cheap male voice sounded in the communication channel.

Hearing the voice of this goods, Lu Ping immediately retorted unconvinced: "Da Lacking, you still have time to laugh at me, at least I have collected a wreckage item, and you don't have one!" ”

"Don't worry, Master Zhang said just now, look at the automatic matching information of the database, we have limited time, we have to collect more things with market value, your broken mobile phone more than 100 years ago is not worth anything at all." Shen Youde said calmly in the communication channel, as if he had a chance to win.

"Huh~"

Lu Ping did not refute Shen Youde, but flew towards the next target by himself, and at the same time listened to a mature male voice in the channel constantly guiding them, this is their team leader Zhang Wen.

Master Zhang has been in the line of space wreckage collection for more than ten years, full of old fritters, do not look at the information base to know what is the most valuable, as long as those things are collected, the company is happy at the same time their own salary commission is also high, as a responsible industry seniors, naturally introduce them to a variety of "survival skills".

In fact, Lu Ping's major is interstellar archaeology, and his professional counterpart is to enter the archaeological team to excavate antiquities, and then complete human history through research, while the "survival skills" given to them by Master Zhang, who led the team, are another thing.

This made Lu Ping, who had not fully graduated and was doing a space internship for the first time, very uncomfortable, feeling too sleek and not having a sense of social responsibility.

The main reason is that there is too little demand for professional interstellar archaeological teams, and the requirements are extremely high, so they can only intern in the interstellar salvage company.

After a while, he heard reports from two other students, and they also collected their first internship items, which were all items that Master Zhang considered "valuable".

He pursed his lips and continued to fly towards his target, the two friends had "defected" so quickly, and he was indeed the purest of the three.

So in order to maintain his purity, he decided to continue collecting "worthless" items, and the dignity of interstellar archaeology students would be guarded by him.

Human civilization is not idle at all, as long as there is free time, it will do things, and if there is nothing to create, it will also do things, and war is the ultimate thing.

More than a hundred years ago, humanity fought a war with the artificial intelligence of its own creation, and this battle was fought for nearly thirty years, from the earth to the edge of the solar system, until those renegade artificial intelligence were driven out of the solar system.

Humanity won the battle, but it also filled the solar system with all kinds of wreckage.

These items are very dangerous to float in space, if they all take the valuable ones according to Master Zhang's strength, they don't care about the worthless ones.

The space wreckage will never be cleaned up.

Even the deliberate space wreckage could cause more debris, and if it collided with certain spacecraft and space equipment and caused a chain reaction, then humanity would not want to go into space.

Although the protective measures of various spaceships are very good now, and the armor is hard, but if he picks up one more, the possibility of an accident is one point smaller.

In fact, the wreckage they are dealing with now is the impact caused by the early wreckage, but according to research, it was caused by a discarded fuel tank during the pre-war space exploration period.

Thinking of this, Lu Ping was in high spirits, and felt that the burden on his body was a little heavier.

It's a pity that the spirit is uplifted, but the spacesuit has dropped its chain.

A mosaic appears on the display of the helmet mask.

As soon as I thought that I was in space, if something happened to the spacesuit, he would be finished, so I hurried to call for help.

"Oh no, Master Zhang, there is a big lack of morality, quietly, my helmet mask is full of mosaics, is my spacesuit going to break, come and save me!"

Hearing Lu Ping's call for help, there was chaos in the communication channel immediately, Shen Youde and Qin Tianjing were very anxious, and they both asked Lu Ping to hurry back to the spaceship while there was no accident yet, if it was too late to wait for the spacesuit to have a complete accident.

"Okay, don't shout, you students are too calm, don't worry, it's just because the old-fashioned spacesuit is in poor contact, Lu Ping, you just need to knock on the helmet." Master Zhang's voice calmly came from the communication channel.

"Youde, Tianjing, the same is true for the two of you, if you feel that something is wrong with the spacesuit, knock it twice."

"Is that all?" Lu Ping couldn't believe it, this is something that goes into space, it's very precise, just knock it twice?

But now is not the time to dwell on this, he immediately followed Master Zhang's instructions and knocked on his helmet, after all, others have much more experience in space operations than himself.

With such a knock, the mosaic disappeared, and the display on the helmet panel became clear again.

“……”

Lu Ping didn't know what to say for a while, was the equipment inspection before departure too lax? After all, this is equipment related to life safety.

"I hear you tapping on your helmet, now it's okay." Master Zhang's voice sounded again. "It's not that I'm complaining, now the mainstream civilian spacesuits are already 'exploratory', and the school is still using the old 'pioneer' teaching, which is still basic, and it can't keep up with the trend of the market at all"

"In order to cooperate with your internship, our masters who lead the team also have to wear these old spacesuits, but don't worry, the equipment repair and inspection department is still very responsible, although there will be occasional poor contact, but there will be no problem with use, and there is no problem with safety."

"If you want me to say that you students have been in school for a long time, they don't adapt to society at all, and letting you come out for internship is also a buffer for you, and after two days, when your collection task is up to standard, I will let you change into the mainstream 'exploration' spacesuit, which is what is commonly used on the market now, and this school teaches some outdated things day by day......"

Listening to Master Zhang's words, Lu Ping felt that this person was quite capable, but according to what Master Zhang said, he also felt that the disconnect between school and society was too serious.

Looking at his "experienced" spacesuit, he felt that he should be right for a fledgling rookie to listen to his seniors in the workplace.

However, looking up at the orange cat statue in front of him, which was marked as "very low value", he still reached out and grabbed it.

Ideals and reality don't have to be completely separated, at least I'm just an internship now, and I'm essentially a student of interstellar archaeology, so I should do what I've learned before.

If one more antiquity is found, the history of mankind will be clearer, and mankind will have a better future with "history as a mirror".

One less wreck in the solar system, the safer the human spacecraft will be, and the only way to carry human civilization to the farther sea of stars will be.

"People still have to have dreams, and what do you have to do with salted fish without dreams...... No, people have dreams for salted fish, so I have to have dreams!"

Lu Ping, who cheered himself up in his heart and lifted his spirits again, just got the fist-sized orange cat statue in his hand, and there was another problem with his spacesuit.

This time, instead of a mosaic, a black screen was directly black, and all the systems were offline.

"! What the hell!! ”

"Hey, anyone? Come and save me! ”

"Didn't anyone notice that something was wrong? I'm just collecting space wreckage for the first time, and I haven't really done interstellar archaeology yet, so I don't want to die! ”

Lu Ping was completely panicked, and his limbs were clumsy and stroked, trying to find a support, until he grabbed the safety rope around his waist and was a little relieved, and then pulled it back.

"It's okay, the spaceship is connected to the safety rope, inhale ~ inhale ~ "

"As long as I climb back into the spaceship, I'll be safe, breathe in~"

It was terrifyingly quiet, and without the sound of speech in the communication channel, he could only hear his own breathing and heartbeat.

He could feel his heart beating faster, his breathing heavier, and the oxygen he needed was getting more and more, but all the systems were offline, and all he had left was the oxygen in his spacesuit.

He knew that in this situation he should be quiet, minimize oxygen consumption, and wait for his companions to come to his rescue, but the instinct to survive is not so easy to overcome, even if it is ...... is wrong.

When his consciousness became more and more blurred and his eyes began to darken, he finally saw a person wearing the same old spacesuit flying in front of him, it was what he thought was the old fritter Master Zhang.

"Saved......

He muttered with great effort, and he lost consciousness.

Before losing consciousness, he had only one thought.

"You must save up for a whole set of your own spacesuit, the most advanced kind, and then listen to your predecessors."