Chapter Twenty-Four: Landing on the Ice and Snow Trick
Like a thin leaf, the Lychis shuttle did not have enough energy to fly in an arc gravity, so Gottlieb could only control it to cut into the thin atmosphere of the moon's surface in the direction of the moon's rotation.
"That's why superstorms can form during the day." Wu Feng said as he looked at the ash clouds under the atmosphere that almost covered half of the moon.
"Yes, Mr. Wu. Because of the large amount of ash produced after combustion, they are held up into the air by the hot gases on the surface of the moon, but because the gravitational pull of the moon cannot leave the atmosphere, it forms a cloud of ash on this surface that blocks the sun's ultraviolet rays. It is they that lower the temperature of the lunar surface! Gottlieb looked at the data in his tablet and pointed to the thick sea of gray clouds beneath the porthole.
"Detections show that the current constant temperature of the lunar surface is around minus 60 degrees, and the superstorm cloud has cooled it to about minus 90 degrees." Gottlieb said.
The moon's sky was black, and the sun's rays shone on the sea of ash clouds, and Wu Feng seemed to see an endless silver desert, with occasional flickering huge arcs rolling under the desert, submerging into its white-edged arc.
"Let's go, go down." Wu Feng looked at the rolling sea of ash clouds and said.
Gottlieb nodded, he didn't dare look Britney's eyes. The shuttle slowly tilted downward, plunging into a sea of ashes.
"Mr. Wu, it is said that the environment on the earth has also been extremely bad?" Gottlieb asked.
"Yes, in 20 years at most, the Earth will be what it is now Mars."
"Is it because of the fog?" Britney asked.
"Well, yes, but it's not all. The Earth's magnetic field is slowly disappearing. Even as geophysicists, my team and I still don't get the answers we want. Wu Feng said slowly, he looked at Britney, "Why did you move to Space City?" Wasn't there still a group of base entropy people there? ”
"We ...... It can only be regarded as the lowest level of laborers, and in order to survive, they have to leave their homes. Gottlieb said sullenly. Britney glanced at him, but didn't say anything.
"Labor?" Wu Feng asked puzzled. These days, he has asked the two of them some more sensitive questions from the side many times, but Britney and Gottlieb are like a discussion, and they very tacitly refuse their in-depth investigation through various topics, and only reveal some marginal information to themselves.
But this also made him guess something: these empty carriers from the base entropy people have existed for at least 80 years, and since 1960, there have been earthlings coming to the empty mother one after another. At that time, the earth was not yet enveloped in a mysterious black fog; At that time, the United States had not yet made public manned experiments on the moon. In order to "survive", the earthlings came to the base entropy outside the earth as a "laborer", McEntyre once clearly told himself that YK01 came from the earth, combined with what Professor Steven had said on the earth, Wu Feng was sure that there was absolutely no secret behind these so-called laborers. The information he got was too little, and Wu Feng still couldn't deduce more useful things.
The shuttle slowly sank into the silvery-gray clouds of ash. The surface of the clouds was filled with a large amount of smoke, the density of the gas was very uneven, and the roaring thunder and alternating lightning told humans that this was not the place to be. Affected by the unstable air pressure, the shuttle trembled exaggeratedly, and Gottlieb had to slow down the descent, "Quick, everyone turn on the full gravity engine!" ”
The ash clouds were a rich inky blue, and there was barely anything to be seen except for a halo of lightning that swept in the extreme distance. The shuttle turned on the searchlight, and the straight pillars of light swept through the clouds, scattering countless luminous debris within a radius of tens of meters, which was potassium, but no one knew why they were all over the moon's storms.
"The topographic map is out, sir, look!" Gottlieb pointed to the console as he controlled the tablet in his hand, the image on the console was slowly changing, and Wu Feng and Britney came to the console.
"Look, look! This is the center of Storm Cyclone No. 3. Elemental imaging technology has analyzed that this is a plate with a hardness comparable to diamond, with an area of about 900 square kilometers! And there seems to be a very complex complex underneath it! Gottlieb was thrilled to discover a new world.
"I'll see, where!" Britney scrambled to say.
"Here." Wu Feng pointed to the center of Cyclone No. 3, the huge board that was marked with multicolored colors. "It seems that this is the base of the Lord and the Entropy. It turns out that life on the moon is not easy either. ”
"We can just dock the shuttle!" Gottlieb's eyes widened as he looked at Wu Feng, who nodded at him.
"I didn't expect it to be so easy to find the base of the base entropy." Gottlieb muttered.
The shuttle slowly emerges from the ash clouds. As a result of the continuous self-impact of the lunar crust, continuous mountains appeared in the parts where the tectonic plates joined, and the silver sunlight was refracted gray by the ash clouds, and sprinkled on the snow-covered peaks of the mountains. The sunken basin, the protruding and cracked moon surface, the layers of small plains, the slowly merging giant storms, and the giant lightning connecting the heavens and the earth, Wu Feng and the three of them stared blankly out of the porthole, here, is it really still the moon that once was? Who can believe it or the moon?
The sunlight was obscured by thick storm clouds, and the mountains buried in the hurricane-ravaged mountains resembled extraterrestrial beasts dormant in the darkness. The slender shuttle sailed into the No. 3 storm cyclone, and Wu Feng and the three of them were terrified. With visibility of less than 10 meters, the sky was full of snow and mineral debris slapping on the shuttle, making a loud crackling sound.
The shuttle accelerated, slowly passing through Storm Cloud 3 to the central eye of the storm, where the temperature was lowest in the storm, and the entrance to the elemental imaging discovery was just below the lunar surface. Directly below the shuttle is a ravine, more than 100 meters wide, with a flat bottom, and the rock walls on both sides of the ravine are brownish-gray with layers of texture. At the end of the ravine is the eye of the storm, where a silver storm hundreds of meters high slowly twists and pushes like a wall, and clouds and snowflakes quickly sink with the cold air, flowing down from the top of the eye like a waterfall.
"300 meters...... 100 m ...... Get ready to land! ”
The shuttle lands at a steep corner of a flat-bottomed ravine, a dead end position that protects the shuttle from storm-induced hurricanes. At Wu Feng's suggestion, Britney was left behind in the shuttle to carry out the logistics and response strategies of the two. Heavily armed Wu Feng and Gottlieb stepped out of the tail of the shuttle, the ground covered with snow soaked in the calves, and the wind howled, and the snow was easily lifted into the air, revealing a deep black hard surface.
"It's so weird that these are burned surfaces, where did such a huge amount of oxygen come from? They can actually support the violent burning of nearly half the lunar area! Gottlieb holds a small probe in his hand, which analyzes the composition of the current air, and in addition to nearly 70 percent oxygen, the moon's air contains large amounts of hydrogen, nitrogen, argon and other small amounts of noble gases.
Fortunately, the inside of the base entropy man's armor was at a constant temperature, and Wu Feng couldn't feel the cold, but the cold wind whistling in his ears and the heavy snow fluttering in the sky made his heart feel as if he was about to be frozen.
Gottlieb dropped a telemetry device on the edge of the hard plate, where elemental imaging returned the most complex structure, most likely the entrance to the base entropy's underground base. The most suitable location was chosen to hide the shuttle, and the two were now about 600 meters away from the end of the remote sensing in a straight line, but due to the terrain, this distance was actually extended to 2.3 kilometers.
With their vision still clear at the eye of the storm at the center of the storm, they must cross the 2.3 kilometers in 120 minutes or risk being blown up by the passing hurricane.