"Your Excellency, the construction of the planetary base will be completed in two hours, and the life-sustaining device is expected to be activated in two hours and fifteen minutes. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

"It's finally almost done." Hearing the news, Zhou Xin did not relax at all, still frowning and looking at the big screen.

Until this moment of the engineering robot report, more than two-thirds of the people on the Voyager had more or less serious consequences of weightlessness, and the rest were also more or less affected by weightlessness, even Zhou Xin did not dare to do any strenuous activities for the past two days, and Spred was already bedridden two days ago. The daily work on the entire ship can be said to be completely suspended, and only the Voyager can barely survive with a small number of robots. Not only that, but after the first critically ill patients were rushed to base, new critically ill patients still appeared on board the Voyager every day. In desperation, Zhou Xin could only send a shuttle every day to send these newly ill patients to the surface of the planet on time.

Fortunately, this emergency response method has finally paid off. According to the reports of the medical staff who traveled to the surface of the planet together, the condition of all the seriously ill patients who were sent down did not continue to deteriorate without exception, and even they observed slight signs of improvement in the first batch of 50 or so people. This should be regarded as the best news that Zhou Xin has heard in recent times.

But the good news still can't dilute the growing crisis aboard the Voyager. On the ship, there are still more than a thousand patients whose condition deteriorates at any time, and even those who have not yet fallen ill will collapse at any time.

Of course, with the completion of the construction of the base on the planet, the crisis on the Voyager will be eliminated little by little. However, until the crisis is completely resolved, Zhou Xin and they will never be able to take it lightly. Therefore, after receiving the report from the engineering robot on the ground, Zhou Xin was busy again, and he needed to decide on the list of the first people to go to the surface of the planet.

That's right, even if that base had been built, there wouldn't be enough space on it to accommodate all the active personnel on the Voyager. Even if the space of the planetary base is large enough, Zhou Xin will not allow the Voyager to be free of any active personnel, not only as required by the navigation rules, but also for safety reasons. But the problem now is that all the personnel on the spaceship, whether they are showing weightlessness or not, have actually reached the point where they must immediately stay in the gravity environment to recuperate or be treated. But whether to send that part of the people to the planet base that had just been built, Zhou Xin was still a little hesitant.

If most of the patients who have already developed symptoms are sent to the surface of the planet for the sake of treatment, of course, there is no problem. However, if this is done, the "normal people" who remain on the ship will become ill at any time, and it is very likely that it will eventually develop into a situation where everyone on the ship will become ill, which will make the situation even more difficult to manage. But it is not realistic to send "normal people" to the surface of the planet first, they have no problem, but the condition of the mild patients on the spaceship will deteriorate at any time, and the appearance of a large number of seriously ill patients will also make the situation very bad.

Just when Zhou Xin was in a dilemma, someone in the command module proposed another way, that is, half of the normal people and half of the patients who had already shown symptoms could be sent to the surface of the planet. After thinking about it, Zhou Xin felt that this idea was indeed much better than the two he had thought of before. It not only ensures that some people do not get sick, but also prevents the emergence of a large number of critically ill patients, and also allows all patients who are temporarily unable to move to be well cared for. Of course, the only problem is the same as before, and that is the plight of the half of the people who remain on the Voyager, but this method is the most feasible in comparison. After thinking about it, Zhou Xin finally decided to act according to this method, but in order to avoid the most critical situation that might occur, he still asked the engineering team that had just completed the construction of the planetary base to continue to expand the base. If the situation really reached the most critical time, he would not stick to the rigid rules in the spaceship and not let everyone take refuge on the planet together.

After the decision was made, all that remained was action, and in the next two short days, half of the ship's crew was quickly sent to the planet's surface. According to the plan left by Dr. Wren before he fell into a coma, the crew on the surface of the planet will live in a stable gravity environment for more than a month, and then adjust the plan according to the physical condition of everyone after a month.

As the captain of the ship, although he already felt that he had physical problems, Zhou Xin still chose to stay on the spaceship with the other half. However, it seems that the number of people left on the ship has been halved, and the amount of time each person can move within the gravity simulator has doubled. The symptoms of all those who remained on the ship showed no signs of improving, but they miraculously did not continue to worsen. And just like that, they held out on board the Voyager for another month.

"What's going on inside the base?" On this day, Zhou Xin routinely asked Dr. Wren that because he had passed out during the construction of the planetary base, Wren and the group of people who had fallen at the same time as him woke up three days after arriving on the surface of the planet. After a short two-day break, Dr. Wren insisted on taking over the medical work at the base.

"Most of the patients have improved significantly." Although Dr. Wren's words showed obvious fatigue at this moment, the expression on his face was very relaxed, "Except for the group of patients who were in a coma in the early stage, the physical condition of most of the critically ill patients has improved significantly, and other comatose people with milder conditions have also woken up one after another in this month. Although they are not completely cured, they don't need much treatment anymore, and they will be fine as long as they stay on the surface of the planet for a while longer. After introducing the patient's situation, Wren smiled, "As for the remaining awake people, except for some unaccustomed to returning to gravity after staying in a weightless environment for a long time, there is no other problem. ”

Hearing Wren's laughter, after being nervous for more than two months, Zhou Xin was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief. After introducing the situation in the base, Wren asked with concern, "How is the situation on the ship?" Although the two sides kept in touch all the time, basically every time Wren would ask the same question as Zhou Xin.

After briefly briefing Wren on the situation on the spaceship, Zhou Xin asked, "Although the situation on the spaceship has not deteriorated for the time being, it is not the same thing to always drag it like this. A month has passed, and will the personnel remaining on both sides be able to exchange appropriately? ”

After thinking about it for a while, Wren replied, "Those who have behaved normally before can go back for the time being, but judging from the results of their recent physical examinations, I suggest that it is best to let them live on the ground for a while after a while, so that I can ensure that they will not have the same problem again on the next possible long-haul flight." As for those who have just woken up from their coma, I don't think they are fit to return to weightlessness immediately for the time being. If you insist on doing so, I'm worried that the symptoms they've just relieved will return. You should not even think about the rest of the patients who are still seriously ill. ”

Hearing Wren's detailed introduction, Zhou Xin fell into deep thought, just when Zhou Xin was still thinking. Standing next to Wren, Spred, who was also sent to the base, said: "I know you want to leave a group of people on the Voyager to deal with emergencies, but I think that according to the autonomy of the Voyager, you don't need to leave half of the people, just let the group of people who have recovered in the base return to the Voyager." And if everyone who remained on the Voyager was brought back to the ground now, it would solve our current problems more quickly, wouldn't it? ”

After thinking about it for a while, Zhou Xin realized that Spred's words did not make sense, so he decided to follow his method next.

In the next three days, the two sides completed the handover of personnel. After leaving all the affairs on the Voyager to Spred, Zhou Xin followed the last group of people to the surface of the planet they had arrived on for the first time.

During the landing of the shuttle, Zhou Xin took the opportunity to observe the planet from a close distance. As with the images sent back by previous probes, the planet's surface is littered with craters. In addition, perhaps because of the large temperature difference between day and night, in addition to the crater, the surface of the planet is densely covered with a large number of cracks that are visible to the naked eye. Other than that, Zhou Xin didn't find anything worth caring about, and it can be said that this is an extremely desolate world.

After nearly two hours of flying, Zhou Xin's shuttle plane landed on the tarmac in the base. Unbuckling his seatbelt, he fell back into his seat before he could straighten up. Not only Zhou Xin, but the group of people who traveled with him showed almost exactly the same movements after standing up. Even if someone insisted on getting up and taking two steps, they still inevitably fell to the ground in the end.

"Haha, it looks like you're just as good as when we first got to the ground." Just as Zhou Xin was about to try to stand up again, Dr. Wren's voice came from behind him.

Ignoring this sentence, with the help of his hands, Zhou Xin reluctantly stood up. However, in less than a minute, his legs went limped again.

With a wry smile, Zhou Xin said to Ren who walked in front of him: "I didn't expect long-term weightlessness to have such a big impact, I feel that my current body is like a huge scale, I don't know how many times heavier than when I was on the Voyager just now." ”

"It was like that when everyone first came." Wren said, "The people who came with you are not bad, and they were able to stand up for a while, but I woke up and lay in bed for a full day before I slowly got used to the gravity on this planet." ”

While Zhou Xin and Wren were talking, the medical staff who stayed on the planet began to walk into the cabin and helped everyone out one by one, even Zhou Xin was no exception. However, the group of people who were on the same boat with Zhou Xin were still the ones who did not show obvious symptoms of weightlessness after all. As a result, with the help of others, they regained their ability to move on their own after only half an hour of walking around the base. Although he still stumbled a little when he walked, as if he was drunk, he was no longer in serious trouble.

However, this is only the first hurdle that everyone will encounter when they get back to the surface. In the ensuing activities, the group of people who had just arrived on the ground still showed an inability to adapt to the gravity environment. One of the most obvious was during the following dinner, where the food in the base was served on ordinary dishes due to gravity. At first they remembered to put the bowl on the table, but it didn't take long for them to forget. Then they let go of their hands as they did when they were eating on the Voyager. Naturally, the dishes at this time did not float in the air as they remembered, but fell directly on the table or even the ground. Even Zhou Xin almost let go of his hands when he was holding something two or three times, but fortunately, the sound of falling from time to time around him made him react. At this time, he realized what was going on with the strange expression on Spred's face when he entered the restaurant with him before, and the action of sneaking himself into a corner.

It was only at this time that Spred, who was sitting in front of Zhou Xin, burst out laughing. Slightly stunned, Zhou Xin also laughed. Then, laughter came from time to time, and with the laughter all around, the dark clouds that shrouded Zhou Xin during this time were swept away. After laughing, although many people are still a little uncomfortable with the action of eating, the sound of falling has been significantly reduced. In the midst of stumbling, it took almost twice as long as usual for everyone to finally finish their first meal on this planet.

Except for these inconsequential episodes, the next period of time can be described as smooth for Zhou Xin and them. After living on the ground for more than half a month, Zhou Xin can clearly feel that his physical condition is getting better day by day. Of course, not only him, but now everyone's health has also improved significantly, and even the last few seriously ill patients have woken up. In other words, the crisis that suddenly erupted on the Voyager miraculously did not result in the death of a single person. For this reason, even Zhou Xin felt extremely incredible, but at the same time, he felt lucky to have escaped. By chance, he was also deeply aware of the dangers of astronautics.

Now that everything is going in a good direction, Zhou Xin is finally able to shift his attention from the crisis he has just passed to exploration......