Annihilation of the solar system

"Commander, I am Hou Peng. I am now 9,000 meters above you and approaching you at a distance of 150 kilometers. The weather conditions are already very bad. Please terminate the mission immediately and join me!"

"Okay, understand. Enter the rendezvous procedure immediately." Lu Yuanzhou tried his best to maintain the stability of the aircraft in the violent airflow.

The conversation between Lu Yuanzhou and Hou Peng was naturally heard by Xia Lan. She stretched her head to the hatch and looked at Wei Xu, who was disappearing and appearing in the sulfuric acid cloud. She switched to wired communication mode:

"Wei Xu, how's it going?"

"The data is already being read. You don't need to come down. It should be ready soon!"

But things are not as simple as what he said. Reading data originally only requires inserting several nanoprobes into the honeycomb lattice. However, if the probes are in contact with the surface of the crystal lattice, they will not work properly.

work, so they need to be kept floating.

Originally, there was an elastic rubber pad in the middle of the probe that could be stuck on the lattice to prevent the probe from contacting the lattice. However, the airflow at this moment was already chaotic and fast. Lu Yuanzhou had already adjusted the speed of the aircraft propeller to

limit, but the aircraft and the hanging basket below are still like dead leaves swaying in the strong wind.

Every bump will cause some of the probes to fail to work properly due to the bumps coming into contact with the lattice surface, and Wei Xu needs to adjust the positions of those probes. The number of working probes directly determines the speed of reading data.

At this moment, another burst of turbulence rolled up a large orange-red sulfuric acid cloud and rushed towards the aircraft. Lu Yuanzhou quickly increased the propeller pitch to allow the aircraft to get out of the cloud and mist, but the violent turbulence caused Wei Xu's hand to

A dozen small red squares appear on top of dozens of small green squares on the screen of the guider, which means that more than a dozen probes have been displaced.

The total progress bar at the bottom of the screen showed only 47%. He quickly went to correct the positions of the probes one by one. At this time, he suddenly discovered that the originally perfect dark gold anti-corrosion coating on his space suit had become mottled.

He didn't care about this, holding on to the boom with one hand to maintain his balance, and adjusting the displaced probes with the other.

Looking at Wei Xu struggling to work below, Xia Lan said to Lu Yuanzhou:

"I'll go down and help him!"

Lu Yuanzhou said:

"No, we will soon release the probe to rendezvous with the shuttle. Moreover, it is so bumpy now that you can't safely go down through the sling. If your spacesuit also leaks due to a collision during the descent, then we

It’s even more troublesome!”

Xia Lan looked anxiously at Wei Xu, who was moving like a bumper ball on the narrow ring-shaped hanging basket, and said to Lu Yuanzhou:

"Then can you fly the aircraft higher? Our current location is too close to the clouds!"

Lu Yuanzhou tried his best to maintain the balance of the spacecraft. Although he did not look back, the helplessness and anxiety on his face at this moment could be judged from his tone:

"After the weather became unstable, I have been raising the altitude of the aircraft and moving away from the storm. But not too violently. Otherwise, your gondola below will not be able to work due to excessive airflow.

And since we are carrying a load of 470kg, accelerating the movement will greatly increase our power consumption."

He glanced at the battery capacity on the screen

"Now the fuel cell reactant reserve is only 27%, which is almost the limit of the fuel we need to complete the rendezvous with the shuttle. The most critical thing is that the speed of the detector we hang can no longer outrun the storm and clouds.

The speed is rising!”

After listening to Lu Yuanzhou's words, Xia Lan clung to the handrail next to the hatch and looked anxiously at Wei Xu below who was still desperately calibrating the probe.

"I'm sorry, Lan Lan. It's all my fault. I was the one who held me back. Not only was I wrong just now, but I'm also sorry before... If we can't go back, I have no regrets...

..It's just...it just hurts you...!" Lin Tianyu, who was sitting paralyzed in the corner and tied by a safety rope, said feebly with his eyelids drooped. He was now standing because of inhaling the toxic gas that seeped in from the breach.

Already very weak.

Xia Lan looked at the dying Lin Tianyu and then at the crumbling Wei Xu below. Two lines of clear tears fell from her eyes and splashed on the inside of the visor of the aerospace helmet.

Wei Xu's calibration probe was swaying on the gondola, like a sailor pulling the sail rope on the deck in a storm, bravely fighting the sulfuric acid cloud. Whenever the total progress bar on the screen of the guide device in his arms rose by one percentage point, he

There will always be crazy laughter, as if challenging this flaming hell world again.

"Yuanzhou! Listen! You must immediately leave and return to join me. My height and distance can no longer get closer to you, and my paraglider cannot withstand the erosion of the airflow. You must stop working immediately and join me.

!Stop working immediately and join me!, I don’t want to fly back alone on the Tianzhou for two or three months! Do you understand?”

Hou Peng, who had always been calm and calm, also let out an emotional roar on the radio.

Before Lu Yuanzhou had time to answer Hou Peng's words, he saw the top of the sloping sea of ​​clouds in front of him. In the distance, an air current wrapped in orange clouds and mist spurted out from the sea of ​​clouds like a carp jumping out of the water, and it continued to diverge and grow.

Like an evil dragon, it rushed towards them with its fangs and claws.

"Execute emergency escape procedures immediately! Immediately!!" Lu Yuanzhou shouted hysterically,

He pushed the joystick that controlled the speed of the aircraft's motor to the top. When Wei Xu heard the "emergency escape procedure" command, he almost reflexively took the safety rope reserved beside the boom and buckled it.

On his own belt. Then he unfastened the seat belt connected to the boom, and held the intelligent guidance device in his arms tightly with both hands.

This was a subject they had focused on during ground training. The propeller stirred the airflow and made a high-pitched roar like a howling wolf. The three booms connected to the aircraft were directly released by the mechanical locking device. The ring-shaped hanging basket carried alien detection

The weapon quickly slipped past Wei Xu's eyes and fell directly into the bottomless clouds, never to be seen again.

The aircraft was like a balloon that had its rope cut off and rushed high into the sky. It immediately jumped a lot of height. Wei Xu, who was hanging on the sling outside the cabin, was thrown greatly and even almost hit him several times.

The underside of the aircraft. But he closed his eyes tightly, holding the intelligent guidance device tightly with both hands, letting his body be ravaged by the manic airflow in mid-air...