Chapter 1: The 90th Day of the Aurora's Voyage
"Voyage Diary: Ninetieth day, we have been trapped on this boring starship Aurora for ninety days, according to the initial estimate, in two days we will arrive at the site of the mission to begin the construction of the interstellar phase gate, after the completion of the interstellar phase gate, the entire Arm of Ariadne galaxy will fall into the control of our Altra group.
The Aurora is a newly built flagship spaceship, this voyage is her first voyage, carrying 148 employees of the Altera Group and 9 Mongolian passengers, these 9 Mongolians do not communicate with us much, we do not know the purpose of their ship, it is estimated that only the senior employees of the command team know the truth, what makes me even more puzzled is why the company would let the hostile Mongolians on board, alas, forget it, I don't want to, this is not something I should understand, I just need to do my job. ”
At this time, a big round head poked out of the door, looked at the person sitting in front of the computer in the room and tapped the buttons, and asked, "Reilly, what are you doing?" ”
Reilly's whole person was shocked, as if he was startled by the sudden sound, and then he looked back at the big head outside the door, and said with some complaints: "Mori, can't you knock on the door first?" ”
"Knocking on doors is not Maury's style." With that, the man named Murray walked straight into Reilly's room, came behind him, and checked the computer screen.
"Oh, so you're keeping a diary, let me see."
Reilly quickly closed his laptop, looked at Maury and asked, "Is there anything you're looking for me, Maury?" ”
Maury stood up straight, tapped the watch on his left wrist with his right index finger, and said with a smile: "It's almost past lunchtime, I'm here to go to lunch with you, I heard that today's cafeteria is especially serving steaks, oh my God, my saliva is flowing down when I say these two words, I haven't eaten real meat since I got on this damn Aurora, I eat synthetic food every day, I'm going crazy, don't say it, let's go to the cafeteria quickly." With that, Maury pulled Reilly out of the room and ran towards the cafeteria.
When they came to the door of the cafeteria, Murray and Reilly accidentally bumped into a muscular strong man, the strong man stabilized his body and looked back, when he saw Reilly's face clearly, he frowned, and asked the people around him, "Billy, who is this person?" ”
The man named Billy next to the strong man sneered and replied to the strong man, "Big Brother Rocky, this is the non-essential system maintenance engineer of the support team, Reilly Robinson. ”
Rocky looked at Reilly's eyes with even more contempt, and continued to ask, "Does the support team also have engineers, what do you mean by non-essential system maintenance engineers, and what are they responsible for?" ”
Billy continued: "Literally, it should be responsible for maintaining some non-essential systems, and the simple explanation is that with him, the Aurora we are on can continue to sail, and without him, the Aurora can continue to sail." ”
Rocky let out a long "oh" as if he suddenly realized, then stared at Reilly with a disgusted face, reached out and pushed Reilly to the ground, and scolded in disgust: "It turned out to be an idle eater, and you are also worthy of being called an engineer?" Get the hell out of my way. After scolding, Rocky swaggered into the cafeteria with Billy.
Reilly stood up with an angry face, Mori hurriedly grabbed Reilly, and explained in a low voice: "Reilly, don't mess with him, we can't afford to mess with him, he is a senior engineer of the engineering team, one level higher than us, and most of the people on this spaceship are from the engineering team, we can't beat him no matter how we fight, forget it." ”
Hearing these words, Reilly then held his anger back in his stomach, he also knew about these situations, the entire Aurora spaceship, a total of 157 people, including 85 people in the engineering team.
After adjusting his mentality, Reilly and Mori walked into the cafeteria together, lunch time was almost over, and there were still six people in the cafeteria left, in addition to the two annoying ghosts just now, there were also two engineers of the engineering team, and the second deputy chief Jin was also eating in the cafeteria at this time, and he was eating at the same table as a very young Asian woman wearing the uniform of the engineering team, and the two were chatting about some work at this time.
After the two sat down, Maury saw that Reilly had been looking at the Asian woman, so he leaned in and whispered, "Take your eyes back, don't look." ”
Reilly withdrew his gaze and looked at Mori suspiciously.
Murray continued to explain in a low voice: "That's Miss Yu, the chief technology officer, and the head of the engineering team, and more importantly, Chief Jin seems to be a little interesting to her, so you better die of this heart." ”
"I'm just curious to look at her a few more times, but I don't like her." Reilly explained.
Soon after, the cafeteria waiter brought the food to the two, and the two chatted while eating.
Halfway through eating, everyone's PDA rang, and the people in the cafeteria took out their PAD to check the information.
After casually glancing at the information on the PDA, Reilly put the PDA aside and continued to eat the steak, and the other people in the cafeteria moved their eyes to Reilly after reading the information, and Maury happily patted Reilly's shoulder and smiled: "Congratulations on your promotion, Reilly, oh, no, I should call you Chief now, right, Sir Reilly." ”
The information from the PDA was just sent by the administration, and the general content was that Reilly discovered a serious vulnerability in the Aurora system a few days ago, which prevented a serious accident on the spacecraft, and after the administration's evaluation, it was decided to promote Reilly to the head of system maintenance.
Chief Kim put down the PDA and shouted, "Let's give Reilly a little applause and congratulate him." Then Chief Kim took the lead in applauding Reilly.
The others applauded, and Rocky and Billy applauded reluctantly because of the presence of Chief Kim and Yu.
At this time, Chief Kim's PDA rang.
Chief Kim tapped the PDA's screen a few times and asked, "What's the matter?" ”
"Chief Jin, there's a commotion in the scanning room, come and take a look." The voice in the PDA said.
Chief Jin sighed helplessly, turned off the PDA communication after saying the word "got it", turned his head and smiled: "I'm sorry, I have to go first." ”
Yu smiled slightly and said, "It's okay, you go and get busy, I'm full anyway." ”
Chief Kim nodded, then stood up, put on his hat, and hurried out of the cafeteria.
Yu Ye stood up and said to a few engineers next to him: "There are still a few days to arrive at the execution location of the mission, after you are full, come out of the shrimp placement to gather for a while, I will arrange the work after that." ”
Rocky didn't have the swaggering attitude in front of him, and replied respectfully, "Okay, boss." ”
At this time, Chief Jin came to the scanning room on the Aurora, and saw that the two people in the scanning room were still arguing, so he shouted: "You all shut up for me!" ”
After both of them were quiet, Chief Jin asked, "Tell me more about what just happened?" ”
The scanning room operator explained: "She gave me the wrong coordinates! ”
The navigator explained: "He didn't give me clear instructions! ”
Chief Jin said angrily: "Okay, then I'll put it another way, you are all waste, now, we have lost precious rescue time, and at the same time we are closer to the planet, so if the information of the Degas is scanned, we should have received it." ”
The navigator was puzzled and asked: "Why are we helping the Mongols?" Aren't they competitors? ”
Chief Jin said impatiently, "Then what do you want?" Enjoy your retirement leave at the headquarters? Oh my God, now run the scan right now, and tell the Mongols that we didn't find anything, and get out of here, clear? ”
*Noise coming from the computer*
The scanning room operator quickly sat down and pressed the keyboard a few times, and then said, "Sir, the system has scanned something strange. ”
Chief Jin walked over and bent down to check, and said, "I'll take a look." ”
At this time, the computer is still ringing.
Chief Kim said angrily, "Turn off that damn voice for me first." ”
Outside the cafeteria, Reilly and Maury had already finished their lunch at this time.
"Reilly, are you going to go shopping with me?" Maury asked, touching his bulging belly.
Reilly shook his head and smiled, "No, I still have to check the system, it's my job." ”
"Okay, then I'll go on patrol first." Maury waved his hand at Reilly and walked away.
Maury is one of the few security personnel on the ship, and his daily job is to patrol everywhere, and he belongs to the same support team as Reilly.
After separating from Maury, Reilly went to his office, and was about to turn on the computer to work when the Aurora suddenly seemed to hit an asteroid, and the entire hull shook violently.
Then the shaking of the hull did not stop, and suddenly the bow of the Aurora sank downward, and Reilly fell directly to the wall without standing firmly, at this time all the alarms inside the hull went off, and the voice of Captain John came over the radio.
"Dear crew and passengers, please note that the Aurora spacecraft suffered an unknown attack when passing through the atmosphere of planet 4546B in the Arm of Ariadne system, the engine of the spacecraft has stalled, I can no longer control this spaceship, and now the Aurora spacecraft is falling towards planet 4546B, please go to the escape pod storage room immediately, take the escape pod to get out of here, and the emergency broadcast has been completed."
Even Reilly, who has always maintained an optimistic attitude, was nervous at this time, and he immediately searched for the location of the escape pod storage room in his mind, and after finding it, he didn't bother to pack his luggage and ran directly towards the location of the escape pod storage room, after all, this is a life-and-death moment, and delaying time is to hasten death.
At this time, although the spacecraft was still shaking violently, the ground was basically stable, and it seemed that the pilot crew of the spacecraft was still trying to stabilize the attitude of the Aurora.
When I came to the interment place, there were already a lot of spaceships that had broken away from the escape pod, and there were still four or five engineers waiting to board the escape pod, and the person in charge of dispatching here was the ship's chief of affairs.
When it was Reilly's turn, the chief of affairs looked behind Reilly and found that there was no one, so he said, "There are still two escape pods left here, Reilly, you go up first, and when you get out of the spaceship, I will take another escape pod to follow." ”。
Reilly quickly climbed onto the roof of the escape pod, opened the hatch, slid down the ladder, hurriedly sat on the chair and pressed the controller next to the chair a few times, the safety guard fell down to protect Reilly, the escape pod moved violently and broke away from the Aurora, Reilly looked up from the glass of the escape pod cover, only to see the Aurora spacecraft from large to small, and then there was a loud bang, and the Aurora exploded in the air.
Reilly retracted his gaze, the escape pod kept shaking in the fall, the fire extinguishers hanging on the wall fell and flew around, and an iron plate on the wall also fell off, and the iron plate bounced a few times before hitting Reilly's face, knocking Reilly unconscious.