Chapter 6: Unconsciousnessed
Just as Zhou Xin was thinking, Spred also fell into deep thought, and after a while, they raised their heads at the same time, they glanced at each other, and then Zhou Xin spoke: "According to the situation we have investigated now, I think it is unlikely that the Atlantean base is on the surface of the planet, and their base is more likely to be hidden underground like the previous planet. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Spred nodded, "I think so too, but then the workload of the probe will be greater, and it will not be easy to find a base to hide underground." ”
"Maybe that's what the Atlanteans think, too, to reduce their chances of being discovered." Zhou Xin said slowly, "But we may not need to explore the entire planet. Seeing Spred looking at him in bewilderment, Zhou Xin reminded, "That vehicle similar to a weapon platform will take us there." ”
Under Zhou Xin's reminder, Spred remembered the platform, "Good idea, but can that vehicle still be used?" And if we can, will we use it? ”
"Don't think about it, it's broken, and apparently I can't do it." Zhou Xin replied, "But isn't there still a movement trajectory of this platform on the surface of the planet?" ”
"Is that okay?" Spred asked, "Can a trajectory last that long?" ”
"I guess so." Zhou Xin said uncertainly, "There is no air on this planet, and it should be difficult for this trace to disappear." Zhou then sent a probe to the site where they first discovered the platform.
After a few minutes, the probe arrived there, and there, Zhou Xin saw two obvious traces, the narrower one was caused by the probe, and the other wider one was obviously the trace of the platform's movement. Zhou Xin asked the probe to identify the direction, and then followed the traces of the platform in the opposite direction of the previous platform escape. After walking along that trail for more than ten minutes, Zhou Xin was puzzled to find that the previous platform's movement path seemed a little strange, it was not going in a straight line before, but every three or four kilometers it would randomly change directions, and the change in this direction was irregular, and even a turn was close to 180 degrees, and the detector almost went back to the front point before turning to a new direction.
After watching the camera of the detector for nearly half an hour, Zhou Xin and the others were very puzzled. Finally, Zhou Xin asked, "What's going on with this strange path, it feels like that platform is running around like a headless fly." Is this really the platform that the Atlanteans manipulated, and where exactly does she want to go? ”
Spred shook his head helplessly: "I don't think even the Atlantean himself knows, this route gives me the feeling that she is running away in a panic, but there are no other terrible creatures on this planet, what is the point of her running like this?" ”
"It seems that it will only be possible to wait for the Atlantean to wake up." Zhou Xin was also helpless. Seeing that they couldn't figure out why the Atlanteans were moving in such a strange way, Zhou Xin and the others turned their attention to the screen in front of them again.
While they were discussing, the detector turned two more corners, and just as the probe continued to move forward, Zhou Xin and the others suddenly saw that several intersecting traces appeared in front of that trace, and Zhou Xin and they suddenly became excited. However, when the detectors walked in front of the intersecting traces, they were instantly disappointed, judging by the width of the traces, the other traces were clearly from their own detectors, and a few seconds later, the detector that traced the traces came up with the same result. Seeing this result, Zhou Xin had no choice but to let the detector identify the traces of the platform from a few traces, and then move on. The probe then turned three more times before finally coming to a halt in front of an ice crevasse.
Zhou Xin and the others saw that the trace disappeared at the edge of this ice crack, as if this ice crack had cut the traces of the platform with a knife, which was obviously not a normal situation. Zhou Xin asked the probe to investigate the ice crack, and found that the ice crack was cracked not long ago, so Zhou Xin and they understood, and then he asked the probe to try to bypass the ice crack, but the probe walked more than ten kilometers along one of the directions of the ice crack, and still did not find the end of the crack.
In the lens of the satellite, Zhou Xin saw that the length of this crack was hundreds of kilometers, and the location of the trace was just near the middle of this crack, and no matter which direction it went around, it would have to move a very long distance. So Zhou Xin came up with a compromise solution, calling a detector from the opposite side of the crack and letting it continue to investigate on the opposite side of the crack, and a few minutes later, in the lens of the first detector, another detector appeared on the opposite side of the ice crack. So Zhou Xin asked the newly arrived probe to look for traces of the platform on the other side of the ice crack, but it seems that this time the ice activity is a bit violent, and the probe has been looking for a long time, but there is no trace of the platform moving within a kilometer nearby.
This result made Zhou Xin very disappointed, but because there was a living Atlantean on the ship, they were disappointed for a while, and Spred was still teasing Zhou Xin: "The traces of good words won't disappear, where are they now?" ”
Zhou Xin replied depressedly: "Who knew that such drastic geological activities would occur on this planet, otherwise it would not be a problem for these traces to remain for tens of thousands of years." He sighed slightly.
"Forget it, if we can't find it ourselves, we can ask the Atlantean." Spred reassured.
"That's all it can be."
At this moment, Ralph ran in in a hurry, and as soon as she entered the command cabin, she shouted loudly, "Uncle Captain, Uncle Captain, I heard that they found an Atlantean?" Take me to see it. ”
Looking at the enthusiastic Ralph, Zhou Xin said: "It's better to wait for a while, that Atlantean is still in a coma, you can only see her lying on the hospital bed in the past, let's wait for her to wake up before going." ”
"And when will she wake up?"
"Maybe it's just a day or two." Zhou Xin guessed.
However, to Zhou Xin's surprise, the Atlantean had been in a coma for three days and still hadn't woken up. This made Zhou Xin a little worried, and on this day, Zhou Xin, who was worried about the condition of the Atlanteans, came directly to the medical cabin.
Entering the medical cabin, Zhou Xin saw that Dr. Wren was busy around a hospital bed, and it was the Atlantean lying on that hospital bed. Walking to the side of the hospital bed, Zhou Xin did not disturb Dr. Wren, who was busy, but watched his work from the side.
When Zhou Xin first came in, Dr. Wren was still holding a report that seemed to have just come out, he read the report for a long time, then frowned, and then he walked to an instrument in front of the hospital bed to observe the data, and after reading it, he walked to a medical machine not far away to operate the machine. During this process, the Atlantean remained lying flat on the hospital bed, hands at his side, and Zhou Xin did not see her move except that his chest was still slowly rising and falling.
At this time, Wren seemed to be busy, he looked at Zhou Xin, and before he could say hello, Zhou Xin hurriedly asked: "It's been three days, isn't there any sign of this Atlantean waking up?" Could it be that something is wrong? ”
Wren also said helplessly: "I have also done a detailed examination for her in the past few days, and the results of the examination show that this Atlantean has no other problems except for slight malnutrition in her body, and I have specially injected her with some nutrient solution for this problem." At the same time, it was found that the body structure of the Atlanteans was very similar to yours, except for a few minor differences, the rest of the body was almost identical. This was a great convenience for my examination, but even so, I still didn't find anything wrong with her. ”
"And what about the reason for her coma, do you know?"
"It's obvious, there's a clear bruise on the front of her forehead, and there's a scar of impact in the same place as her hazmat helmet, so the cause of her coma is probably the impact on her head."
Hearing that the Atlantean had a head injury, Zhou Xin suddenly became nervous, and he hurriedly asked, "Does that have any effect on her brain?" ”
Wren's tone became strange, "I used various instruments to test her brain, and everything was normal except for that bruise, but I don't know why this Atlantean has been in a coma. ”
Hearing this conclusion, Zhou Xin also felt very strange, and at the same time he also felt very helpless. However, he had no better way to deal with this situation, so he had to instruct Wren: "Then she will continue to hand it over to you, and if there is any situation, no matter what abnormality occurs, or she wakes up, you must notify me as soon as possible." With that, he departed.
Back in the command cabin, Spred asked about the Atlantean with a concerned face, and Zhou Xin truthfully told him what Wren had said. After listening to Zhou Xin's words, Spred frowned and said to himself: "Can't you wake up without being injured?" Then he said worriedly, "I'm worried that what if that Atlantean never wakes up, then our trail will be broken, and we can only wait for her to wake up before we can continue to explore the planet?" ”
"That's what I'm worried about." Zhou Xin said helplessly, "Now the only clue we find on the planet is this Atlantean and the vehicle she drives, even if that vehicle is repaired, we won't use it, not to mention that the damage is so serious, and only that Atlantean is left." ”
"What then?" Ralph became anxious after hearing the words of the two of them, "Are we just going to wait for her to wake up?" ”
Zhou Xin sighed slightly, "It seems that we can only use the stupidest way, Voyager, has the probe's search for the surface been completed?" After receiving confirmation from the Voyager, Zhou Xin continued, "Then let's start investigating the underground, hoping that we can find an underground base or something." ”
"If you want to search for an underground base on a planet of this size that you don't know where to hide, you're looking for a needle in a haystack." ”
"What else can be done then?" Zhou Xin said helplessly, "Even if you can't find the underground base, it's good to find some other clues." And I think I've always been lucky, didn't we find a little clue before we found the underground base on that planet before? ”
"That's right." Spred thought for a moment, "Anyway, we don't have anything else to do now but wait for that Atlantean to wake up, and it's not bad to find some clues on this planet." ”
"Hmm." Zhou Xin nodded, "I hope I can find a clue......
Over the next half month, Voyager launched more probes to explore the frozen planet, but sadly, this time their luck seemed to run out. The probe didn't find any clues that could point to Atlantis, the Atlantean appeared as if out of thin air, and the probe didn't even find any traces of the Atlantean life on the planet, except for the marks left by the previous escape. What's more, what's even more frustrating is that the Atlantean seems to have really become a sleeping beauty, and he has been in a coma for more than half a month and still hasn't woken up, and now he can only rely on nutrient infusions to maintain his life activities.
One night half a month later, after receiving the news that the probe had found nothing new, Zhou Xin collapsed in frustration in his seat.
"It's been more than half a month, and I haven't found anything for more than half a month." Zhou Xin said weakly, "That Atlantean can't have jumped out of hyperspace, why haven't we been able to find any clues for so long." He began to think crankily.
"How is it possible, if they can build such a small hyperspace jumping device, they don't have to fly away in such a large spaceship. They must be hiding somewhere on this planet, we just haven't found it yet. Spred reassured.
"And where do you think they'll be?" Zhou Xin looked helpless, "We have basically turned over the ice of this planet, but now, we still haven't found anything at all." ”
"Maybe they're hiding deeper." "It wasn't like that on the previous planet. ”
"I can only hope that is the case." Zhou Xin sighed, "That Atlantean hasn't woken up until now, it's really worrying. ”
Just as he said this, an emergency communication came from the command module, and when the communication was turned on, the figure of Dr. Wren appeared on the screen. Now, there was a worried look on his face, and seeing his face, Zhou Xin was shocked, and suddenly had a bad premonition.
"That Atlantean is awake." Dr. Wren spoke......