Chapter III: Rescue
Reilly stared blankly at the radio for a moment, and then a voice inexplicably appeared in his head to tell him.
"Don't go, don't go to save him."
Reilly's first instinct was that the devil in his heart was at work, so he shook his head and shouted, "Devil, get out of the way!" ”
Then Reilly's mind was filled with positive thoughts.
"People should help each other, not to mention that in this kind of difficulty and crisis, Rocky is my colleague, he just complained yesterday, and did not cause me any substantial harm, I should save him, maybe after I saved him, he thanked me from the bottom of his heart, and we became good friends in the future." Reilly nodded in decisiveness.
Reilly stepped out of the escape pod and went to the sea to catch a few freshly swept bubble fish with a scanner, this small alien fish can filter out a small portion of pure water, and when combined with silicone, it can also make an air bag to keep people floating on the surface of the water for a long time, and this is what Reilly is aiming for.
After making the three airbags, Reilly stood on top of the escape pod, roughly confirmed the location of the No. 10 escape pod with his eyes, and then plunged headlong into the water and swam in the direction of the No. 10 escape pod.
Along the way, Reilly also observed the surrounding environment, firstly, to always pay attention to whether there was any danger around, and secondly, to see if the surrounding resources were abundant or not, so as to prepare for the next survival.
Ten minutes later, Reilly found an escape pod on the sea, this escape pod was besieged by several stalkers at this time, the entire escape pod has now sunk half, it is estimated that Reilly will be a little later and the No. 10 escape pod will completely sink into the water.
Scanned data from the scanner shows that stalkers can be found everywhere in the seaweed forests, are usually more than two meters long, and have mouths that account for one-third of their length, and are very fond of biting metal titanium or titanium objects, and are typical carnivorous and dangerous creatures of SCP-4546B.
Now they are besieging Escape Pod 10, probably because the metal shell of the escape pod is made of titanium, and now they have to find a way to lure them away.
It didn't take long for Reilly to have an idea, he dived to the bottom of the sea, found a few pieces of metal around him, and then returned to the surface and threw the pieces of metal around the escape pod.
As soon as the stalkers saw the metal fragments, they gave up the escape pod and swam directly in the direction of the metal fragments, constantly scrambling.
Taking advantage of this gap, Reilly quickly swam to the location of Escape Pod 10, then climbed to the top of the escape pod, and looked inside the escape pod through the hatch at the top, and it was really Rocky and Billy.
Reilly knocked on the glass of the hatch, and Rocky and Billy looked up in horror, and only breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Reilly's face, Reilly beckoned them to hurry up and climb out of the escape pod, and the two looked at each other in the pod, and then climbed out of the escape pod along the ladder.
After both of them got out of the capsule, Reilly also noticed that there were more and more underwater stalkers around, and they were probably attracted by metal shards.
Reilly hurriedly handed them the airbag and instructed, "We need to get out of here as soon as possible, you guys come with me." ”
With that, Reilly jumped into the water, holding the airbag in both hands and swimming in the direction of his escape pod, followed by Rocky and Billy.
Soon Reilly took the two of them back to his escape pod, and the three of them squeezed into the narrow escape pod, and sat down in one corner to relieve a few breaths.
Rocky looked at Reilly's escape pod, then at the supplies Reilly had collected, and asked curiously, "Where did your other companion go?" ”
It's not surprising that Rocky has such doubts as the standard is to carry two people in an escape pod, and Reilly explained: "When I came out, the situation was urgent, so I ejected in the escape pod alone, so I was alone in this escape pod." ”
Lodge continued to ask, "Are the survivors just the three of us?" Has anyone else contacted you? ”
Reilly looked up at the quiet radio and sighed, shaking his head helplessly.
"What do you mean by shaking your head?"
Reilly explained, "I didn't know, the first message I received when I just fixed the radio was from you. ”
After a moment of silence, Reilly stood up and said, "Let's go out and have a look, it's too stuffy here." ”
Then the three of them climbed out of the escape pod, sat on the top of the escape pod, and stared blankly at the huge Aurora spaceship in the distance.
Billy, who had been silent, opened his mouth and smiled: "The hull of the Aurora is still very intact, and the damage is not particularly serious, so if you gather all the survivors to repair it for a while, maybe she can continue to sail." ”
As soon as Billy finished speaking, the PDA of the three of them rang dripping, and the three of them took out the PDA and looked at it, and they all showed a warning message, and all three of them clicked play.
Emergency: A quantum explosion occurred in the Aurora core drive. The nuclear reactor will reach a critical value, the countdown -10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1- (there was a huge explosion on the Aurora)
The three were shaken into the water by the shock wave of the Aurora's explosion, but fortunately the No. 5 escape pod did not suffer any damage, and the three of them hurriedly entered the escape pod through the underwater entrance of the escape pod.
As soon as he entered the escape pod, Rocky grabbed Billy by the collar and pushed him against the bulkhead, scolding, "Billy, you'd better shut up your foul mouth in the future." ”
Billy bowed his head aggrievedly and didn't dare to squeak.
Doot (The radio receives a new signal).
Reilly clicked on the radio.
Radio: Play pre-recorded distress messages...... Second Deputy Commander of the Aurora: This is Jin from Escape Pod 19! The captain is gone. I received his final orders. Before he died, the captain gave me the detected land coordinates and ordered all the survivors to assemble one kilometer southwest of the crash site, we must all work together, be sure to come to the meeting point. Now repeat the message.
Main console: Rendezvous point coordinate data is corrupted. Downloading raw data......
The three of them breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Chief Jin's voice, and finally a backbone stood up, which also gave the three of them a glimmer of hope.
The three of them walked out of the escape pod and looked at the southwest of the crash site of the Aurora, where there was still a vast sea, and there was no shadow of land, and the mood of the three of them instantly dropped again.
Billy asked, "Shall we go now?" ”
Rocky glared at Billy viciously and shouted, "Go, why don't you go, don't you know how to obey the orders of your boss, whatever your boss says, you will do." With that, Rocky jumped headlong into the sea and swam in a southwesterly direction.
Billy looked at Reilly, then at Rocky, sighed, and jumped into the water to catch up with Rocky.
Rocky stopped when he swam more than twenty meters away, turned his head to see that Reilly was still standing on the top of the escape pod and was indifferent, so he shouted: "What are you waiting for, Reilly, hurry up and follow me!" ”
When Reilly was about to follow, there was another radio movement in the escape pod, and it was clear that the radio had received a new message.
In the end, Reilly chose to enter the escape pod, and Rocky saw that Reilly did not jump into the water, so he gritted his teeth and snorted, and then continued to swim with Billy.
Reilly returns to the escape pod to check the radio, and if he does receive a new signal, he clicks play again.