As the hatch closes, it pulls on the rope that is tied to it outside, passing the power through the rope to a switch on the catapult. Then the squashed spring suddenly returned to its original shape, and its ejection triggered the rest of the continuous switches, so that the whole catapult was activated.

At this moment, Zhao Lan's body slammed into the wall, and he was blinded by the collision for a while, and it took a long time to come back to his senses.

Zhao Lan knew that it wasn't his body that moved just now, but the room he was in moved. Because of the existence of inertia, I will hit the wall hard.

The sudden ejection almost destroyed the entire room. All sorts of debris began to fly around the room, making everyone look dirty. There were even some tools that hadn't been secured before that crashed into the tempered glass, but thankfully, they didn't break through the tempered glass. Otherwise, all the gas in the room will quickly escape, and everyone will die here.

After coming back to her senses, Zhao Lan's first reaction was to look out the window. So Zhao Lan suddenly saw the familiar steel body of the hydrogen bomb spaceship. Zhao Lan instantly understood, the ejection was successful, and at this moment, the room of the maintenance cabin he was in had been separated from the hydrogen bomb spaceship that was destined to die in an earth-shattering explosion, which also meant ...... The lives of themselves and An Liya don't have to end here, their lives have been extended again.

Cruise had his head shattered in the collision, and blood was pouring out of it, congealing into beads of blood floating in the air in the weightless maintenance cabin. But Cruise didn't care about these things at all, he went straight to the window, his eyes glued to the moving Hydrogen Bomb Ship No. 7, as if he was calculating something.

"Visually inspected. We are about 23 meters per second away from the hydrogen bomb spacecraft, and we are still 17 minutes before the hydrogen bomb explodes, and during this time, we can open up about 23 kilometers between us and the hydrogen bomb spacecraft. This distance...... Is it enough? ”

Cruise looked at Zhao Lan with an inquiring look. Cruise is not a physicist, and he doesn't know exactly how powerful a hydrogen bomb can be, so he doesn't know if 23 kilometers is enough.

"It depends on luck." Zhao Lan replied immediately. "This is space, not the atmosphere."

The main means of death of the hydrogen bomb explosion are not radiation and high temperatures, but shock waves. If such a hydrogen bomb were to explode on the surface, the shock wave it would trigger would be enough to destroy all buildings within a radius of 200 kilometers, and buildings 200 kilometers away would also be severely damaged by the huge sound and shock waves. Compared to the shock wave, the radiation and heat damage of the hydrogen bomb are very insignificant.

But this is a space environment, and there is no air here. And the presence of air is a necessary condition for the generation of shock waves, and without air there is no shock waves. This means that a hydrogen bomb that explodes in a space environment will lose its most powerful means of lethality. It can only be affected by high temperatures and very high intensity of radiation. Specifically, it carries extremely high energy gamma rays and visible light.

There is a large amount of harmful radiation in space, if it is a manned spacecraft, it will be equipped with an anti-radiation layer to protect the members who live inside, and the hydrogen bomb spacecraft is not a manned spacecraft, it is only equipped with a little anti-radiation layer to protect the fusion fuel and various instruments inside the spacecraft, but this anti-radiation layer is completely insufficient to protect the human body. In other words, from the moment the hydrogen bomb spacecraft left the Earth Port, Zhao Lan and An Liya were already exposed to harmful cosmic rays.

But there's nothing to worry about. Because now the medical technology of human civilization has developed to an extremely high level. Treating a little radiation sickness is not a problem at all. But...... If the radiation is too high, it can kill people in an instant. Or is it so high that it can destroy the life-sustaining equipment in the maintenance chamber?

To be sure, the intensity of radiation emitted by the explosion of the hydrogen bomb spacecraft must have been very high. However, it is unknown whether the radiation can kill a person twenty-three kilometers away in an instant, or destroy the life-sustaining equipment in the maintenance chamber. That's why Zhao Lan said that it depends on luck.

Look at the three words of luck means the most helpless situation. In such a situation, any efforts made by the individual human will be ignored, and the final outcome of the matter will be completely ungoverned by the will of the individual human being. It doesn't matter what you think, whatever you do. You can't influence the end result, it's just what it is, you can't change it.

After Zhao Lan said the answer "look at luck", there was a brief silence in the maintenance cabin. After a moment, An Liya smiled and said, "This result is good enough." After all. Isn't it enough that our chances of survival were zero percent before, but now that our chances of survival have increased to at least fifty percent? What more could we ask for? ”

At this moment, Zhao Lan had some self-blame in his heart: "It's all my fault." If only I had thought of this sooner. Thinking of this sooner would have meant that we could have a little more distance from the hydrogen bomb spacecraft, and that would have a much higher chance of survival. ”

An Liya comforted: "Zhao Lan, it's not your fault, inspiration is not under our control, it's great that you can think of this method at that time." ”

Zhao Lan shook his head silently, wanting to say something, but he didn't know what to say, so he had to continue to remain silent.

The countdown on the timer was still ongoing, and at this point, the number had jumped to eight minutes. This means that in another eight minutes, the hydrogen bomb spacecraft will arrive at the predetermined location, and its pre-programmed internal program will detonate the hydrogen bomb the moment it arrives at the predetermined location.

"That kind of picture must be spectacular...... Zhao Lan thought silently, looking out of the porthole, looking at the hydrogen bomb spaceship that was about to disappear from his field of vision.

The pod was ejected from the side of the hydrogen spacecraft. In this way, the maintenance bay has the same forward trajectory as the hydrogen bomb spacecraft, and also has a force that moves in a sideways direction. This option was carefully considered, as if the pod were to catapult from the rear of the hydrogen spacecraft, it would have the exact same trajectory as the hydrogen spacecraft, except for its speed. That would cause the pod to be kept close to the explosion site after the hydrogen bomb exploded, and thus to be exposed to more radiation. And this is undoubtedly a devastating ending for the maintenance pod and the four people who survived in the maintenance pod.

In the dark universe, except for a few planets in the solar system that are still radiating faint light, there are no other stars in sight. The arrival of the Scourge of the Stars has left the once bustling night sky empty. In this empty space, a hydrogen bomb spaceship and a maintenance module that sustained the lives of four people were moving forward together.

The countdown ticked to one minute. That is, in a minute, the hydrogen bomb ship will explode, and the fog of fate will be finally lifted. Whether it is life or death depends on that moment.

All the efforts have been made, and all the solutions that can be thought of have been thought of. So, from now on, meet the judgment of fate.

"When the hydrogen bomb explodes, don't look at it." Zhao Lan said, "That light must be very strong, if we look directly, it will stab our eyes in an instant." ”

An Liya and the three nodded silently, and squeezed to Zhao Lan's side with a very tacit understanding, all with their backs to the direction of the hydrogen bomb spaceship.

Zhao Lan stared straight at the timer, watching the number keep jumping, from fifty-nine to thirty, from thirty to ten, and from ten to ...... Zero.

The hydrogen bomb spacecraft exploded silently. The explosion of any nuclear bomb on the ground would be an earth-shattering event, and the ground tremors it caused could be detected by instruments even on the far side of the earth. But this is space, not Earth. As a result, the explosion of the hydrogen bomb spacecraft did not cause any other movement except for a sudden increase in the luminosity of the maintenance compartment by an order of magnitude. There was no sound, no vibration, only a flash of light, and that's it.

But at this moment, Zhao Lan suddenly had a feeling of nausea and wanted to vomit. Zhao Lan knew what was going on. The human body feels this way when it is exposed to a large dose of radiation for a split second. This means that the radiation released by the explosion of the hydrogen bomb spacecraft has already seriously injured his body, and if he is not treated, he will festered his whole body in the next few months, and he will die in a miserable way.

But this did not make Zhao Lan worry in his heart, but made Zhao Lan feel a little more relaxed in his heart, and even secretly relieved. Because I can feel nauseous, it at least means that I haven't been killed in an instant. And since he is not dead, relying on the advanced medical technology of human civilization, he has the possibility of recovering again.

But this time it was clear that the catastrophe was not so easy to get through. Zhao Lan suddenly felt a warm feeling on the wall of the maintenance cabin beside him, and at the same time, he actually felt what seemed to be a wind blowing on his face. Also, the lights in the maintenance bay flickered a few times before they went out. (To be continued......)