"How many are these?"

"The seventh."

Lu An's tone was gloomy and he answered Su Ruyu's question.

"Where is it this time?"

Lu An looked at the records on his brain, pointed to an area on the driving screen, and said, "Here, this area, the specific coordinates are this." ”

Su Ruyu looked back at the coordinates projected by the hologram and marked the seventh coordinate on the three-dimensional map of asteroid 273.

This three-dimensional map is the information that she and Lu An gathered because of the asteroid when they tried to deceive the warship 20,000 kilometers away.

After the seventh coordinate appeared on the three-dimensional map of asteroid 273, both men looked up at the screen, and after a while shook their heads at each other.

"There's still no pattern."

Su Ruyu sighed: "I knew that we should have taken the opportunity to scan the holographic stereogram of this asteroid in the first place, and we wouldn't be so helpless now!" ”

"Who would have thought of this situation?" Lu An replied with a wry smile: "At that time, I just thought about escaping quickly, even if I couldn't escape, it was very likely that I wouldn't be able to come back, how could we have the heart to do such boring things at that time, and we weren't going to live on this asteroid." ”

"yes, I'm just talking, who would have thought this would be like this!"

It has been three days since Su Ruyu and Lu An fled back to asteroid 273 at the last moment.

After returning to the asteroid and checking the condition of the patrol boat, Su Ruyu and Lu An were shocked into a cold sweat, and they couldn't help but feel a little happy that they had escaped from death.

The two "semi-structural cabins" that had been repaired earlier were naturally all shattered, and the three remaining structural cabins at the rear of the spacecraft were all destroyed by a blow from that warship. If it weren't for the fact that the heat dissipation chamber of the spacecraft's engine just blocked the residual energy of the bombardment, needless to say, the patrol boat would have dismembered the huge energy into pieces the moment it was shelled, directly turned into space dust, and floated in the orbit of asteroid 273 30,000 kilometers away.

But it was precisely because the heat dissipation chamber was destroyed that the patrol boat's engine was exposed, which supported the patrol boat from disintegrating on the spot, but instead broke out the last power and sent the two back to the asteroid.

It's just that this can be regarded as a return to the light of this patrol boat.

By the time the asteroid was still 10,000 kilometers away, the patrol boat had completely lost power, just drifting towards the asteroid, and finally almost missed asteroid 273.

If that was the case, Su Ruyu and Lu An would really have no choice but to cry without tears, so they could only let the patrol boat float slowly in space, and then float out of the orbit of the 273 asteroid 20,000 miles at a certain moment, and were captured by the warship waiting outside. At that time, the warship that only dared to stay 20,000 kilometers away for some reason could take a good time and slaughter the fate of Lu An and Su Ruyu unscrupulously.

Fortunately, none of this happened, Su Ruyu piloted the spaceship and took Lu An to the asteroid.

Now, this patrol boat can no longer be called a spaceship, it can only be regarded as a space station for survival, a "space station" with sufficient supplies.

And after a day of careful inspection, Lu An gave up his plan to repair the spaceship, maybe those professionals who are proficient in ship maintenance can think of other ways, but Lu An is only a student of the Department of Space Information Collection and Confrontation. In fact, Su Ruyu had already given up in her heart, after all, the mottled condition of this spaceship was already visible to the naked eye, and it didn't take too much information to come to such a conclusion.

Of course, giving up the plan to repair the spaceship does not mean that it is left alone, after all, it is still qualified as a space station. Therefore, Lu An plans to at least repair the barely usable capsules, so that the space station can at least be more spacious.

So the next day, Lu An set out alone to find restoration materials.

The place where the two of them "landed" this time was not the same location before, although they were in the same area, but there was still a distance of five kilometers, Lu An was ready to drag back the two half-cabins that had been cut before, and repair the tail of the "space station" that was exposed and kept leaking.

Five hours after departure, Lu An came back empty-handed.

"What's wrong?"

Lu An, who took off the mask of the space suit, was sweating profusely, and after he drank a large bag of water, he gasped and replied: "I was startled, I found out just now that someone was ......"

"Huh? What mess? ”

Su Ruyu casually snatched Lu An's mask, fanned him hard, and asked with a frown.

"Uh, cough, cough, cough......" Lu An calmed down for a while before he said: "I walked for three hours just now, and when I was about to reach the place where we landed before, I found a person, well, to be precise, a corpse. ”

"Corpses? Are you sure he's dead? ”

Lu An nodded and said, "Well, looking at the erosion, it's been dead for several years. Why do you ask? ”

Su Ruyu took a deep breath and said, "You go to the isolation room now, I will disinfect you!" ”

"Huh?"

The so-called isolation room is actually equivalent to a prison on a spaceship.

According to the general rules of interstellar travel, during a long interstellar journey, in the special case of a spaceship in an "island" state, the captain or commander of the ship can take the confinement measure of compulsory isolation, and wait until the landing before the trial by the court. Of course, there are also some extreme cases, the captain and commander will be tacitly granted "temporary promotion law enforcement powers", and they can not help but be imprisoned and isolated or even executed, but after landing, the captain and commander will first face severe scrutiny.

However, that was the general rule of human interstellar travel a long time ago, when long journeys of months or even half a year or even a year were often subject to such customs. Today, the longest interstellar journey is only about two months, and few captains or commanders are willing to exercise this power, after all, the subsequent review procedures are really devastating.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as the fact that the warships in the army still retain this ancient traditional custom. Because of this, Lu An is still very familiar with the isolation room.

Therefore, when he heard Su Ruyu say this, he was immediately startled.

"Go, don't talk nonsense!" Su Ruyu raised the mask in her hand and threatened.

"Well, you're a temporary captain, listen to you, listen to your ......"

The two went to the isolation room together, Su Ruyu closed the airtight valve in the back, and Lu An glared and said, "Aren't you going to disinfect me?" How to ......"

Su Ruyu raised the mask in her hand and said, "I also need to disinfect now!" ”

After more than ten minutes, the low-temperature water vapor gushed out from the sky, and the isolation room was soon filled with white fog, then the buzzing infrared lamp, and then the ultraviolet lamp, and when the white fog in the isolation room dissipated, Su Ruyu dragged Lu An to the sprinkler head, and let the cold disinfectant spray down, and the two of them were suddenly wet.

When the spray was over, Lu An opened his eyes, spit out the strange smell in his mouth and nose, and asked helplessly, "What's wrong with us?" ”

Su Ruyu twisted her wet hair and said, "Wait, the air circulation in the cockpit will also be disinfected......"

"What the hell is going on? Sister, hey! ”

Su Ruyu asked in a serious tone, "Do you know how long the bacterial spores known to humans can survive in space?" ”

Lu An blinked and replied, "Well, if I'm not mistaken, it seems like two years, right?" ”

"Hehe, it's thirty-eight years!"

"What?"

Su Ruyu smiled miserably and said, "It's true, there are experimental records." ”

"But does that have anything to do with me?"

"I suspect that this asteroid may be a space abandonment ......"

"Space Abandoned Field?"

"Well, there are some things that can't be processed, such as space radioactive waste or toxic materials that are difficult to degrade, will be abandoned on some desolate and remote planet......"

Lu An suddenly realized: "Oh, it's like a landfill, right?" ”

"Hehe, but is there a dump for abandoned people?"

Lu An was stunned, what do you mean by this? Immediately, he remembered a possibility, and suddenly shuddered.

He stared at Su Ruyu and asked, "You mean, ...... here?"

"Well, it's possible that it's an abandoned site for some experimental materials."

Lu An suffocated, and then he was embarrassed, and he hurriedly asked, "Then can we disinfect like this?" ”

Su Ruyu immediately glanced at him and said, "You still have to worry about this?" Didn't you dare to gamble before, why are you so afraid of death now? ”

"Well, I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid that I will die ugly, in case I get infected......" Lu An thought, shuddering again.

Su Ruyu wrung out her hair, coiled it into a knot, and then glanced at Lu An and said, "I'm just afraid of this possibility, after all, why did the warship above my head keep staring at it and didn't dare to come in, I have always had doubts in my heart." As soon as you said that, I thought of this possibility for the first moment, but maybe that person just now was just an unlucky ghost like us, just a shipwreck? ”

Lu An laughed dryly, he was also suspicious now, and according to Su Ruyu's thinking, this was still a very likely situation.

Here, this asteroid, this asteroid number 273, if it is really the so-called "space abandonment site" where the anti-smuggling team conducts some secret experiments, then the suspicious whereabouts of that warship can be explained, and they are even so afraid that they dare not approach the range of 20,000 kilometers.

Therefore, this place has become the strange situation I saw before, the kind of very dazzling "airway hole", even if many ordinary spaceships do not know the reason, it is possible to avoid this place because of various rumors and facts.

"Ahem, we're really done with this disinfection?"

Su Ruyu replied angrily: "If this doesn't work, then what are you worried about, just wait for death." ”

"Hehe, I'm just asking, don't be angry."

"Besides, what's the difference between our current situation and waiting for death?" Su Ruyu suddenly sighed faintly.

Lu An sighed secretly, then pointed at Su Ruyu and said, "I'm sorry, it's time for you to change your clothes, you're gone......"

Su Ruyu looked down, then looked at Lu An, who was still wearing a space suit, and suddenly said angrily: "Phew——! ”