Planet X (unnamed), interstellar number A3321d5, although it is a rocky terrestrial planet, is in fact an interstellar orphan, at the beginning of the planetary system, it was thrown out of the stellar gravitational range by hot Jupiter (a Jupiter-like planet with an orbit very close to its host star) and the strong force of the star, and never had to orbit any star.

There is no sunlight here, it is extremely cold, the low temperature of more than 200 degrees below zero, almost freezing the molecules, this is a frozen world, empty, dead silence.

When the Rogue Ship landed on the planet, Audrey activated the ship's scanning device and analyzed the planet's specific structure.

"Well, do you have the energy mine we need?" Pei Hao couldn't wait to know the answer, and his face showed anxiety.

At this time, many lines of data were displayed on the light and shadow screen, and they kept changing, which was like being blind to Pei Hao.

It wasn't until the data was rolled that Audrey turned to Pei Hao with some disappointment: "Brother Hao, after my exploration just now, I found that this planet, although there are some rare ores that reflect the signal, are not suitable for energy mines."

"Aren't they suitable, so aren't we here for nothing? And I'm curious, do all ships need this energy mine to power it? ”

"Theoretically, if it is best to get energy ore directly, after all, as long as the energy ore is slightly separated, pure energy can be obtained, and other ores are very troublesome, and the extraction of this kind of energy requires a huge and sophisticated device, and a spaceship of our size cannot do this."

Pei Hao felt disappointed, even desperate, he looked at the frozen world on the screen, and looked at the energy bar on the left side of the screen, and couldn't help sighing: "We're finished, the spaceship has no power, how can we leave, I know that the place far away from the stars is a cold hell, once the spacecraft runs out of power, we will definitely freeze to death!"

"No, Brother Hao shouldn't be so pessimistic, I just did a preliminary exploration just now, this kind of scanning is only limited to the surface of the planet, after all, its ice is too thick, the penetration of the detector is limited, it is difficult to reach the bottom layer to form a reflective surface, you can't better understand this planet, Brother Hao, why don't we go down and see if we can find anything?"

"Go down! You're not kidding, this planet is so cold, as long as we leave the ship, we will be frozen in an instant! If I don't go, even if I starve to death, I don't want to freeze to death outside! ”

Audrey stared at Pei Hao with strange eyes for a while, but after a while, she laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Pei Hao was a little angry and glared at her.

"I laugh at you and don't look like a thief, it looks like you were caught by them, right?"

Pei Hao was stunned for a moment, and said in a low voice: "You guessed this right, it was that guy Carl who took me to the thief base, I was still in the Treya Armor Academy before, and when I woke up, I arrived at the damn Kaida Star!" ”

"So, so you're not a thief, you can't even do such a small thing as piloting a spaceship by yourself, and as for breaking into the headquarters of the Second Empire, it's a lie?"

"Ang ......" Pei Hao saw Audrey's smiling face suddenly become low, and his eyes vaguely revealed a trace of hatred: "No, no, no, I went to Prison Mars with them, we entered the imperial base together, and I woke you up with a liquid, as for what that thing is, I don't know, but I dare to swear, it was really me who fused the two liquids and had some reactions to save you from the container, if you don't believe it, I can tell you the situation at the time, And I have a clear picture of the environment of the Imperial Command......"

"Hehehe" Audrey laughed again: "Okay, I know, I never doubted my brother's character, and you have to be responsible for me if you take possession of my body, so I won't disbelieve you." ”

"I, I possess your body? What the hell, when have I ever taken possession of your body? Damn, this looks like Grandpa Hao, and you don't need to find this kind of JB reason, the women of this world really don't understand, do you want to go on when you see a man?! Pei Hao was stunned, and sighed in his heart.

Suddenly, Audrey grabbed his hand: "Brother Hao, come on, I have something for you." ”

"What?"

"Come here, we need to get out, you have to put on your hazmat suit."

This time, Pei Hao didn't show fear, after all, in front of a woman, he was really too inferior, as a man, he couldn't show cowardice in front of women, that would only make women look down on him.

There were a lot of very thin protective suits on the thief ship, and when Pei Hao put them on, he felt as if he didn't wear them, only his head was covered by a transparent helmet, and the style of the clothes was the same as the one Carl had worn before.

"Brother Hao, don't worry, this is the thieves' protective clothing, this kind of clothing can resist a certain range of high and low pressure, and can also resist extreme cold weather, and there is a miniature air circulation system inside the helmet, which can provide us with sufficient oxygen throughout the day."

Pei Hao nodded his head and said with a smile: "I understand, under any circumstances, we can't give up, after all, it's not the time to despair, although no energy mines have been found on the surface of this planet, it doesn't mean that they don't exist." ”

"You're right, death isn't terrible, it's terrible that we don't do anything before we die, isn't it sad?"

Pei Hao nodded his head, but did not answer.

……

Soon after, the hatch opened, and the two men navigated the abrupt mountain ahead in an armored vehicle with metal spikes and powerful chemical excavation tools and reconnaissance equipment. Along the way, Audrey conducted a detailed reconnaissance of the ground along the way, but the surface layer was covered with ice blocks with a thickness of more than thousands of meters, or even tens of thousands of meters, and there was no ore.

The "squeaky ......" machine excavates from the bottom of a mountain and rushes into its interior, which is an extremely tedious process, but also a kind of psychological torment, it is hard to imagine that what they see in front of them is only a huge iceberg, and there is no trace of rock inside.

Pei Hao was very irritable, many times he had the idea of wanting to give up, feeling that all this was useless, how could such a barren and desolate wandering planet find that magical energy mine?

Of course, Audrey has always been by Pei Hao's side to give encouragement, and Pei Hao is guided by the vanity and dignity of men and never gives up.

The ice digging vehicle does not smash the ice cubes, but through the molecular reconstitution device, the ice cubes are temporarily converted into a liquid state, and the liquid will magically suspend and stagnate, and will not affect their bodies. Of course, the liquid will be reduced to ice again as the ice diggers move forward, and in fact, their path is always blocked by ice, and there is no tunnel to be seen.

"Audrey, it's been a while since we've been in, haven't we?"

"It's been an hour, and we've been lucky to see the rocks so quickly."

"Well, then we're working harder and digging down to see if we can find anything useful."

Pei Hao was about to start the stubborn ice car, but Audrey pressed the stop button: "Brother Hao, this device can only turn ice into water, but it can't change the composition of the rock, since we have found the rock formation, why don't we take a walk and take a look?" ”

"Let's go?" Pei Hao looked at Audrey and hesitated for a moment: "Okay then." ”

It was a huge mountain tunnel, very long, without sunlight, and it was dark, but the special clothes on the two of them provided them with light to move forward.

However, after advancing for more than ten minutes, Pei Hao suddenly stopped: "Audrey, is it really okay for us to walk in like this?" After all, we don't know anything about this planet, and if something happens, and we don't have any equipment around us, how can we deal with danger? ”

"What's there to worry about, I've already explored this planet before, its size is very small, and the inner core has already cooled, the geological structure shows that it should be a relatively stable planet, besides, in such a cold place, everything is frozen, even if we walk inside for a few hours, what accidents will happen, Brother Hao, are you afraid again?"

"I, I, I'm not afraid, I'm just ......" At this moment, a muffled sound of "bang" suddenly came from the tunnel in the distance, Pei Hao's nerves suddenly tightened, and his hands clenched into fists: "What's the situation, did you hear it, what is that sound?" ”

Audrey hurriedly pointed the detector in the direction of the sound, but the data showed that it was very stable: "It's nothing, this should be the normal sound produced by this planet, Brother Hao is fine, let's continue walking." ”

Even so, Pei Hao somehow had a not-so-good feeling in his heart, in this huge frozen world, would it really be absolutely safe?

"There must be a problem, the voice just now will not be inexplicable, there must be something here, could it be said that there will be strange life in this extremely cold place?" Pei Hao has always had a strong feeling of uneasiness in his heart, and he firmly believes that it must be something other than the planet.

"Pop" something dripped on the right side of Pei Hao's helmet, he wiped it with his hand, and found that it was a blue transparent liquid: "Audrey, look!" ”

Audrey looked at the liquid in Pei Hao's hand in surprise and put the detector in front of it, but soon after, the answer that the tester got turned out to be unknown.

"How so, is there anything that can't even be analyzed by a detector?"

"I don't know, maybe it's because this device is too old, and all the new substances haven't been recorded yet."

"It would be better than that, but I always felt that something was wrong here, maybe this is some kind of monster's lair, and we are already in danger?"

This time, Audrey stared at him with that strange look, but soon laughed again, of course, she didn't hate Pei Hao's attitude of dragging her mother forward, but felt that Pei Hao himself was a joke, a joke that could amuse her: "If there is a monster, it is the biggest discovery of this century, and there are creatures that can survive at minus 257 degrees, I think this is enough to win the biggest discovery award of this century." Of course, this award must be given to Brother Hao, and perhaps a cranky award can be awarded, it is Brother Hao himself who created this virtual ......"

"Knock ......" This time, the muffled sound lasted for a long time, and it was clear, it was coming from the tunnel directly in front of them.

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