Annihilation of the solar system

They quickly put on space suits specially designed for the atmosphere of Venus. Lu Yuanzhou led Xia Lan, Wei Xu and Lin Tianyu into the landing module of "Life". Hou Peng stayed in the spacecraft, waiting for their mission to be completed.

Then drive the shuttle to pick them up and return them to the space station.

After everything was ready, Hou Peng issued the command chain on the "Hongyan" for the landing module to escape. The attitude adjustment engine on the landing module started, and she slowly left the space station carrying four astronauts.

A stream of light passed through the atmosphere above Venus, and the landing module fell into the dense Venus atmosphere like a firework, dragging brilliant fireworks. Lu Yuanzhou and Xia Lan could only wait for the end of the re-entry deceleration amid tremors and roars.

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As the speed gradually decreased, the surface of the landing module that had been blackened by high temperature ablation finally disappeared from the flames generated by the high temperature of friction. A set of deceleration parachutes ejected from the tail of the long landing module, followed by

The severe overload that Lu Yuanzhou and the others felt on their bodies was like wearing a seat belt and experiencing a rear-end collision.

The dense atmosphere of Venus quickly stabilized the deceleration process, and the landing module opened the main deceleration parachute according to the predetermined procedure. Three huge circular deceleration parachutes popped out from the tail of the landing module, and the speed soon slowed down enough for the aircraft to be launched.

Standard. At this moment, their landing capsule is like a dandelion gently held up by the spring breeze and floating in the golden sunset.

"Click!" A crisp sound sounded, and the hatch of the landing module was ejected. Then it quickly spun and fell into the sea of ​​clouds below. An orange light instantly coated every part on the aircraft with a layer of darkness.

of gold.

The aircraft's nose hung downward on the slowly falling landing module. Lu Yuanzhou operated the buttons on the control panel, and with the mechanical sound of "Woo-Woo", the four corners of the streamlined rectangular aircraft deployed four cantilevers from the abdomen. The cantilevers moved to the predetermined position.

Later, the folding propeller at the end of the cantilever was also opened. Now the aircraft looks like a quadcopter drone used for aerial photography on Earth, but it is countless times larger.

"The system self-test is completed, everything is normal, the fuel cell begins to respond, and we are ready to enter autonomous flight status!" Lu Yuanzhou said.

The four motors at the end of the cantilever buzzed, and the four propellers began to rotate at high speed. The generated airflow had already caused the landing module, which was originally falling almost straight, to tilt. Lu Yuanzhou pressed the button, and the aircraft and the landing module began to rotate.

The lock was opened, and at the same time he skillfully pushed the throttle lever and pulled up the control stick. The aircraft was ejected from the landing module, and after falling for a short distance, it immediately returned to a level flight attitude.

"The aircraft has entered the normal flight attitude and everything is normal." Lu Yuanzhou reported via radio to Hou Peng of the space station.

"Received, understood!" Hou Peng let out a long breath, and then transmitted the real-time information back to Tiangong-3 and the ground control center on Earth, who were also waiting anxiously.

The vast Venusian high-level officials of the semi-glass cockpit aircraft were just a drop in the ocean. Only when they were in this golden ocean did they realize that the images they had seen in the previous video messages were so distorted and boring.

The sky above the head is intertwined with the faint orange light scattered by the clouds and the black of the universe, like a gradient frosted glass dome. The translucent orange glow is also dotted with starlight, like

Watch the dusk against the sunset on the plateau.

The cascading clouds and mountains around them reflected a dark orange light. Those orange clouds and mountains were as brilliant as the legendary Jinshan Mountains, and the farther away they were, the darker the color of the clouds and mountains became. Directly in front of them, very far away

In the direction, there is a Yunshan Mountain that is much taller than the other Yunshan Mountains, and its color is terrifyingly jet black.

Not far below them was a calm sea of ​​clouds. If you look closely, the bright golden sea of ​​clouds was slowly churning, like a pot of pumpkin porridge simmering over a low fire.

"Senior sister! Look!" Wei Xu pointed to the right front and shouted excitedly.

Xia Lan and Lin Tianyu both looked in the direction of Wei Xu's finger. A few hundred meters away, a huge spindle-shaped air bag was floating there, and there were countless slender streamers floating under him. It was huge.

His body is squirming. On his back, a luminous strip from head to tail is glowing with a dark yellow luster.

That was the Venusian creature they discovered before.

Lin Tianyu, who is usually aloof, shouted in surprise:

"Oh my God! It's much bigger than the one we saw on the video. It's 300 meters long by visual inspection!"

Wei Xu looked at the huge creature, his face froze and his eyes widened:

"Yes, the strip of light on its back was not visible in the video. And it seems to have a head structure at one end."

Xia Lan looked at the creature carefully. As Wei Xu said, there were many dark yellow light spots on one end of the creature, which looked like its eyes. But she did not dare to confirm:

"It seems so! Those glowing dots should be their sensory organs, just like eyes."

Lin Tianyu shouted excitedly like a child:

"Look, there's another one over there!!!!"

Xia Lan looked closely, and sure enough, there was a small black dot far away. The huge size made Xia Lan confirm that it was the same creature. She tried hard to see the appearance of the creature clearly, but it was because the distance was too far.

But he couldn't do it. Wei Xu took out his telescope and looked:

"Sure enough, it's another one, exactly the same."

Then handed the telescope to Xia Lan:

"Their heads were all pointing in one direction, away from the direction we were going."

At this time, the voice of Hou Peng, who was staying on the space station, came over the radio:

"The edge of the storm is still 700 kilometers away from your position, and there is no turning or acceleration. You have enough time to complete the task."

Lu Yuanzhou, who was driving the aircraft, replied:

"Okay! Understood! Pay close attention to the movement of the storm. We are close to the position marked by the cruise aircraft and can start the mission immediately."

Under Lu Yuanzhou's control, the aircraft began to descend, and soon the sea of ​​clouds that looked like the bottom of a high-rise building was already in front of us. From this distance, the sea of ​​clouds did not look so calm, with large expanses of orange clouds moving slowly.

They are squeezing and twisting each other, and occasionally a dazzling light strip can be seen coming from the gaps in the surrounding sea of ​​clouds. It is a violent lightning under the clouds.

The aircraft entered the hovering mode. Lu Yuanzhou carefully looked at the clouds outside the windshield that were almost hitting the aircraft fuselage, then looked at the data on the screen on the instrument panel, and frowned:

"The location provided by the drone is 30 meters in front of us. Why is there nothing?"

Lin Tianyu unbuckled his seat belt and tried to stand up while wearing a bulky spacesuit to take a closer look. As soon as he was about to stand up, he felt weak all over, as if he had a bad cold.

He was startled at first and thought he was sick. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that he had been in the microgravity environment of space for two months, and the gravity of Venus was equivalent to that of the Earth. The sudden gravity made him a little uncomfortable.

He adjusted his posture, struggled to stand behind Lu Yuanzhou's seat, looked at the several screens, and then looked at the churning orange clouds in front of him:

"Could it be blocked by Venus' sulfuric acid clouds?"

Lu Yuanzhou's eyes were still searching outward:

"No, according to the data provided by the drone, it should be 30 meters in front of us with a height difference of 3 meters. There are no clouds at that location. Now, through visual inspection, neither the radar signal nor the thermal imaging signal has found the target."

Xia Lan called up the drone detection report from her tablet, then unbuckled her seatbelt and stood next to Lin Tianyu, looking at the endless sea of ​​orange clouds ahead:

"The detector used by the drone detects the target in the x-ray band, and it should be invisible to the visible light and radar electromagnetic wave bands."

Lu Yuanzhou retracted his gaze from the front and turned to look at Xia Lan:

"That would be troublesome. If I can't see its precise location, I can't get close to it? Our aircraft doesn't have an X-ray detector."

Wei Xu also stood up from his seat with great effort, and took out a small metal rod from a tool box in the back cabin. It was a laser pointer. He handed it to Xia Lan:

"Try this."

Xia Lan turned on the laser pointer, and a bright red laser shot through the windshield toward the boundless sea of ​​clouds. She tried to shine it in the direction described by Lu Yuanzhou.