Annihilation of the solar system

Xia Lan was startled. This was a situation she had never experienced in previous training. Although she was a little panicked, she was not at a loss. She turned her head and glanced at the screen of the intelligent guidance device, which was rapidly displaying that she had completely seen it.

Symbols I don’t understand.

"Sister, what should I do?" Wei Xu shouted in horror.

Xia Lan looked at Wei Xu's horrified eyes. Then he looked at Lin Tianyu. His forehead was already covered with sweat beads. His eyes were staring at the detector with flying waves in front of him with despair and stubbornness. But they were holding energy matrices.

The posture of the caliper has not changed at all.

Suddenly, a sense of weightlessness made them unable to maintain their original posture, and they all sat down on the hanging basket. Xia Lan was startled, and was about to ask Lu Yuanzhou about his situation, when the hanging basket shook again and finally stabilized.

"How's the situation down there? Is everyone okay?" Lu Yuanzhou's anxious voice came from the earphones.

"I'm fine! What about you?" Xia Lan replied.

After regaining their composure, Wei Xu and Lin Tianyu stood up again while holding on to the boom. The energy matrix calipers in their hands had already moved from their original positions.

"We're fine too."

Lu Yuanzhou breathed a sigh of relief:

"That's good. The aircraft suddenly increased its load just now, so it shook. The instrument shows that the flight weight has increased by 470 kilograms. It should be that the probe we captured has lost power. We are flying with it hanging. Please confirm over there.

"

Only then did the three of them suddenly notice that the translucent shadow just now had now revealed its true appearance to them!

It was a motorcycle-sized triangular double-pointed cone composed of two slender pyramid-shaped triangular pyramids with the base facing the bottom. It was completely black, a black they had never seen on earth. The black was smooth.

It is uniform and pure, but does not reflect any surrounding shadow.

If you don't look at it from a specific angle, you can't distinguish its angular lines with the naked eye. All the light seems to be absorbed by it without any reflection.

"Good guy, he looks like this!" Wei Xu said as he looked at the alien detector in front of him.

"470 kilograms? His weight is so light." Lin Tianyu said.

"If Teacher Zhou's guess is correct, this guy came from the wormhole. The mass of this thing is directly related to the energy level required to open the wormhole. He will definitely not be designed to be a lump of iron."

Xia Lan looked at the position at the bottom of the hanging basket that had just been tightened, and found that it was indeed tightly stuck with the detector.

She said to Lu Yuanzhou on the intercom:

"It does look like it has lost power and is stuck on our gondola."

Lu Yuanzhou replied:

"Okay, I understand. Now our aircraft needs more power to maintain stability. Currently, the fuel cell reactant reserve is 86%, and the reserve is still sufficient. You continue."

Xia Lan picked up the smart guidance device, pressed the voice input on the screen and gave the command:

"The target surface energy network has been closed, please indicate the next step."

The AI ​​voice quickly replied:

"Please use fluoroscopy equipment for internal scanning."

At this time, a box under the instrument stand next to Wei Xu lit up with a green light. Lin Tianyu put the energy matrix caliper still in his hand back on the stand. He carefully walked to Wei Xu from the passage of the ring hanging basket.

Next to the equipment stand, the two of them worked together to pick up a device called a fluoroscopy scanner.

In the gravitational environment of Venus, the weight of the equipment is actually not too heavy, about less than 30 kilograms.

It’s just that they have to carry the equipment from top to bottom to slowly scan each face of the alien detector, and they must also keep the distance from the surface of the detector. In this way, it will be difficult for one person to complete such a job. And on the ground

The training allows them to complete such actions very well.

Wei Xu and Lin Tianyu carried the fluoroscope and began to gradually scan the entire detector from top to bottom. Xia Lan was responsible for untying the safety rope they tied to the boom behind them and hanging it on another boom. They

The three of them slowly scanned the shape detector around the narrow ring-shaped gondola.

It took a long time to finally complete the scanning work. Lin Tianyu was breathing heavily, and Wei Xu was sweating profusely and almost collapsed.

"The scan is completed! The results are being analyzed and the next step is selected," the AI ​​voice said.

Taking advantage of this gap, Xia Lan lowered her head and looked at the churning clouds under the hanging basket. The surge like boiling water was already close to her eyes, and the slightly more violent orange clouds could almost reach the base of their hanging basket.

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He called up the acidity level on the computer on his arm, and the reading at the moment was 3. This meant that the atmospheric environment around them was already a moderately acidic environment. Fortunately, the aircraft and spacesuits were specially designed for acidic environments. This level of

Acidic environments have no effect on them.

"Please use the resonant interference wave array and place it according to the instructions."

At this time, a simplified diagram of an alien detector's triangular bicuspid cone was projected on everyone's helmet visor, and they needed to place resonant interferometers at the upper and lower tips of the detector and the four middle corners.

Lin Tianyu relied on his height and arm length to easily place the interferometer with four claw feet on the top of the alien detector. Wei Xu and Xia Lan, the four-angled detectors in the middle, easily completed the placement.

However, their gondola stuck the detector nearly 1/3 of the way down, which meant that the other end of the detector was now under the gondola, which put them in a difficult position.

"How about we try installing these five interferometers and see if they work," Wei Xu said.

Xia Lan nodded, clicked the button on the intelligent guidance device, and the AI ​​immediately heard a voice:

"The resonant interference wave array has not been installed and the program cannot be started."

Xia Lan shook her head anxiously:

"No, we have to find a way to install the last interferometer."

Wei Xu passed his hand through the invisible signal shielding light curtain at the edge of the hanging basket. Looking at the light curtain that had clearly penetrated his palm but felt nothing, he said helplessly:

"This is terrible. How can the one below be installed?"

Xia Lan pulled up the safety rope behind her, looked at the lower tip of the detector under the gondola and said:

"You use this rope to put me down, and I'll see if I can swing over and install the interferometer!"

Wei Xu looked at Xia Lan with an unbelievable expression:

"Are you kidding me, Senior Sister? You are performing acrobatics on Venus! Below is a strong acid cloud with a large number of free electrons, and we are still hanging on this rickety aircraft."

Xia Lan measured the length of the safety rope in her hand and looked at the tip hanging in the air below:

"Then do you have any other ideas?"

"This is a good idea, but you can't go." Lin Tianyu on the side said calmly.

"I am the lightest and more flexible. It is most suitable for me to go." Xia Lan argued.

Lin Tianyu pointed to the top of his head:

"We can still hang here because the fuel cell above is still responding desperately. Don't waste time. You forgot, I have practiced free-standing rock climbing. I don't want to argue about this matter, but I am the most suitable.

"

Xia Lan couldn't refute Lin Tianyu's words for a moment. She said to Lu Yuanzhou in the cockpit through the intercom:

"Commander, we are about to descend to the bottom of the gondola, which may cause some shaking. Please be sure to stabilize the attitude of the aircraft."

Lu Yuanzhou was stunned for a moment, but his military qualities and trust in Xia Lan and the others prevented him from questioning Xia Lan's decision. He increased the speed of the four propellers. This way, when the aircraft shook, the changes in the propeller pitch would

It can adjust the attitude of the aircraft more quickly and accurately, but the price is increased power consumption.

After completing the propeller speed adjustment, he said to Xia Lan:

"I'm ready, you can start!"