Chapter 51: City on Ice
When Xin Silence was woken up by the spaceship's announcement, he felt refreshed, he hadn't slept for so long in a long time.
The broadcast reminded that the destination of the flight, Europa, was about to arrive.
Walking out of the bedroom, Xin Lin found that Lian Chengbi was already sitting in the living room, her spirit didn't look very good, as if she hadn't slept for a long time, and when she saw Xin Lin come out, she nodded slightly and said hello. Xin Lin felt strange in his heart, but this was someone else's privacy, and it was inconvenient for him to ask.
After a few minutes, the ship stopped. As on a ship on Earth, a spaceship attendant waited at the door of the first-class cabin and dropped the two off the ship in an electric car.
Coming out of the spaceship, Xin Lin looked around and found that it was a small spaceport, only a dozen kilometers long, and the volume was less than one-tenth of the Earth's No. 1 spaceport.
In the dim sunlight, Xin Lin saw an almost all-white planet not far from the side of the spaceport, covered with dark stripes, the size of the moon, the surface was completely covered by thick ice, the reflectivity was extremely high, it was the smoothest surface in the solar system, and the interstellar cities shrouded in a semicircular force field could be faintly seen on it - this is Europa!
Xin Lone's gaze only stayed on Europa for a few seconds, he walked forward a hundred meters out of the range of the spaceship, and as soon as he turned his head, he immediately saw the target he was looking for, a terrifying giant wall towering in front of him, almost occupying the entire field of vision, and there was no room for anything else.
This oval-shaped wall is the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, which has a mass equivalent to 2.5 times the mass of the other seven planets in the solar system combined, and its volume is 1,316 times that of the Earth!
Looking at such a huge gas giant, Xin Lin felt that even his breathing was a beat slower, even at a distance of nearly 670,000 kilometers, he could still see with the naked eye that the surface of Jupiter was raging with terrifying hurricanes all the time, and the 3,000-kilometer-thick atmosphere was divided into more than a dozen colorful rings according to the latitude, the most conspicuous being the "Great Red Spot" located on the south side of the equator.
The Great Red Spot is the most striking feature of Jupiter's surface, like Jupiter's eyes, which have existed for more than 1,300 years, like an ovoid counterclockwise rotating red vortex, which is actually an unimaginable super hurricane, it is large enough to hold three to four Earths, and since the invention of the telescope, mankind has not stopped observing the Great Red Spot.
Xin Lone's eyes looked away from Jupiter and looked around space, and soon found several other moons, as well as several space cities built by the Federation, all orbiting Jupiter.
However, whether it is a satellite or a space city, in front of the giant Jupiter, they will always be a small foil.
Jupiter is the only ruler of this space.
Lian Chengbi, who had worked in the Jupiter system for many years, was already familiar with this scene, and was even tired of watching it, so he contacted his assistant as soon as he got off the spaceship, and a few minutes later, a young professional woman came to the two in a flying car.
"Mr. Lian, you've arrived." As soon as she got out of the car, she immediately took Lian Chengbi's luggage and put it in the car, and then stretched out her hand to Xin Lin next to her, and introduced herself: "Hello Mr. Xin, I am Mr. Lian's assistant, my name is Mei Yimin, you can call me Xiaomei or Yimin." ”
Xin Lin shook hands with her lightly and let go, nodded and said, "Hello Yimin, I'm Xin Lone, just call me Xin Lone." ”
From telepathy, I know that this Mei Yimin is an ordinary person, she should be about the same age as herself, although her style is capable, and she is somewhat similar to Lianchengbi, but she still has a trace of college student habits, and it seems that she should have graduated from college a few years ago.
While Xin Silence was probing Mei Yimin, she was also quietly looking at Xin Silence.
She knew that the tall and sturdy young man in front of her was the Force Warrior who was about to represent the company in the Star Cup, and her heart was full of curiosity and envy, judging from the information, Xin Lin was three years younger than her, but as long as she played for the company, she could get at least 10 million in compensation, she had to work hard for decades to earn so much money, it was really more popular than people!
"But this Force warrior still seems to be very easy to get along with, at least on the surface, similar to ordinary people, without much arrogance."
Mei Yimin pressed the thought in her heart, and quickly led the two of them to board the landing plane that was bound for Europa.
Along the way, neither of them seemed to regard Xin Lin as an outsider, Mei Yimin had been whispering to Lian Cheng Bi about the company's situation in the past few days, Xin Lin didn't have the heart to eavesdrop, and shifted his attention to Europa below.
Europa is tidally locked, so just as the Moon is always facing the same side as the Earth, Europa has one half of the moon facing Jupiter forever, and it takes three and a half days to complete one revolution, and one day is 60 hours long.
Because Europa is slightly smaller than the Moon and has only one-ninth of Earth's gravitational pull, the spaceport is orbiting at an altitude of less than 4,000 kilometers, and the landing craft entered Europa's atmosphere in less than half an hour.
Europa has a thin oxygenated atmosphere, but even in the hottest equatorial regions, the average temperature is only -163 degrees Celsius, so the cities on Europa are enveloped in a force field that maintains temperature and air. This faint translucent force field is hemispherical, usually less than ten kilometers in radius, and is upside down on the ice thousands of meters thick, like a huge diaphragm, protecting the humans inside.
Looking down on Europa's urban agglomeration from above, the vast white ice field is covered with huge bubbles, which are like a fairyland on earth.
Lianjia's company was located on the side facing Jupiter, and half an hour later, the landing plane circled half of the planet and quickly approached a city with a diameter of about 15 kilometers, called Binghui City. When the landing plane flew in front of that layer of force field, it did not pause at all, and plunged directly into it, and a hole several meters in size appeared on the force field, which recovered in the blink of an eye, and smoothed it out after a few ripples.
The inside of the force field was as warm as spring, and the air density also increased suddenly, and the landing aircraft was affected by air resistance, and the speed had to be reduced.
High-rise buildings rise from the ground in Binghui City, the streets between the buildings are vertical and horizontal, all kinds of flowers and trees are everywhere, the green grass is like grass, the forest is luxuriant, and hundreds of flying machines in the sky merge into a traffic flow, if you don't look up and you can see Jupiter, which occupies most of the sky, giving people a sense of oppression, this place is exactly the same as the metropolis on the earth.
According to Mei Yimin, Binghui City has a population of more than 10 million, and the scale is in the upper middle of Europa, but the economy is quite developed, and the total economic volume ranks third in Europa.
Because Europa has extremely long days and is often blocked by Jupiter, it is impossible to use the sun's rise and fall cycle as a schedule, so Europa adopts a geosynchronous schedule. At this time, it was the morning of Binghui City, and during working hours, Lian Chengbi asked Xin Lian's opinion to let the landing plane fly directly to Lianjia's company.
Lianjia's company is located on the middle floor of a skyscraper in the center of Binghui, and the landing plane hovered steadily on the building's landing pad. It turns out that an artificial gravity system is installed in the building, so that the gravity is the same as on Earth, otherwise with Europa's own gravity, Xin Lin can fly dozens of meters in one step.
It's normal to think about it, if human beings live and grow in a low-gravity environment for a long time, they will inevitably get some gravity-related diseases, especially bones, because of the lack of pressure abnormal growth, the height will easily exceed two meters in the long run, resulting in osteoporosis, coupled with chest hydraulics problems, the physique will deteriorate.
Lian Chengbi walked into the company, Xin Lin and Mei Yimin followed behind her, and the employees they met along the way saw Lian Chengbi and shouted respectfully: "Lian is always good." ”
Lian Chengbi just nodded lightly in response, but did not make a sound.
"Tsk, the demeanor of a domineering president...... Xin Lin slandered in his heart, and used telepathy to explore the surroundings, and found that most of the employees here were young women, and they were a little in awe of Lian Chengbi, and they didn't dare to stay in front of her for a long time. At the same time, he also noticed that many people's eyes fell on him, and their eyes were full of curiosity.
"The whole company is prosperous and yang, is it because Lian Chengbi doesn't like men, so even employees prefer to use women?" Xin Xiao secretly guessed that he felt as if he had entered a daughter country, and men were like rare animals here.
Although the Federation advocates equality between men and women and equal pay for equal work, and except for a few special positions, the vast majority of women can be qualified for work, but it is still too rare for women to be more than men and the gender ratio is more than ten times different.
All the way to Lian Chengbi's office, she didn't have a moment to rest, and as soon as she sat down, she immediately started to work, and instructed Mei Yimin: "Let the head of human resources and the minister of security come here to go through the entry procedures for Xin Lian." ”
"Okay." Mei Yimin served tea to the two of them and then withdrew.
Xin Lonely sat opposite Lianchengbi, boredly observing this office, spacious and bright, with simple decoration, revealing a sci-fi style everywhere, which is very in line with his own aesthetics. However, this kind of office is generally liked by men, but even Chengbi is also arranged like this, she is really a little different.
"After completing the entry procedures, you can go to the next room to rest if you need to, and I'll take you to the accommodation when I'm done." Lian Chengbi said softly.
"I'm not in a hurry, come at your pace, anyway, I don't have anything to do now, I have a lot of time." Xin Lonely was noncommittal, he had just arrived at Europa, and he was not familiar with the place, so it was better to act with Lian Chengbi.
"Okay, then I'll have to wait." Lian Chengbi nodded and began to get busy.
A few minutes later, a man and a woman knocked on the door, stepped forward to say hello to Lian Chengbi, and at the same time quietly observed Xin Xi, they were very surprised that there was a man in Mr. Lian's office, which seemed to be very unusual.