Earth Era

When the hatch is closed, it also pulls the rope tied to it outside, transmitting the power to a certain switch of the catapult through the rope. Then the flattened spring suddenly returned to its original shape, and its ejection triggered the remaining continuous switches, and the entire ejector was activated.

At this moment, Zhao Lan's body hit the wall hard, and he was knocked unconscious for a moment. It took a long time to recover.

Zhao Lan knew that it was not his body that had moved just now, but the room he was in. Because of the existence of inertia, he hit the wall hard.

This sudden ejection almost destroyed the entire layout of the room. Various debris began to fly around the room, making everyone look disgraced. Some tools that had not been fixed before suddenly hit the tempered glass, but fortunately, they did not penetrate the tempered glass. Otherwise, all the gas in the room will escape quickly, and everyone will die here.

After coming back to his senses, Zhao Lan's first reaction was to look out the window. So Zhao Lan suddenly saw the familiar steel body of the hydrogen bomb spacecraft. Zhao Lan understood in an instant that the ejection was successful. At this moment, the maintenance cabin room he was in had already separated from the hydrogen bomb ship that was destined to die in the earth-shattering explosion. This also meant that... he, The lives of An Liya and the three others no longer need to end here, their lives have been extended once again.

Cruise's head was broken in the collision just now, and blood was pouring out from there at the moment, condensing into blood beads floating in the air in the weightless maintenance cabin. But Cruise didn't care about these things at all. He lay directly in front of the window, staring closely at the No. 7 hydrogen bomb spacecraft that was moving away, as if he was calculating something.

"After visual inspection, the speed at which we escaped from the hydrogen bomb spacecraft was about 23 meters per second. At this moment, there are still seventeen minutes before the hydrogen bomb explodes. During this time, we can be separated from the hydrogen bomb spacecraft by about two meters. A distance of thirteen kilometers. Is this distance...enough?"

Cruise looked at Zhao Lan with questioning eyes. Cruise is not a physicist. He didn't know the power of the hydrogen bomb explosion in detail, so he didn't know whether the distance of 23 kilometers was enough.

"It depends on luck." Zhao Lan replied immediately. "This is space, not inside the atmosphere."

The main method of killing in a hydrogen bomb explosion is actually not radiation and high temperature, but shock waves. If such a hydrogen bomb exploded on the surface, the shock wave it would cause would be enough to destroy all buildings within a radius of two hundred kilometers. Buildings two hundred kilometers away would also be severely damaged by the huge sound waves and shock waves. Compared with the shock wave, the radiation and high temperature damage of the hydrogen bomb are very insignificant.

But this is a space environment, and there is no air here. The existence of air is a necessary condition for generating shock waves. Without air there is no shock wave. This also means that a hydrogen bomb that explodes in a space environment will lose its most powerful means of killing and can only affect the surrounding environment with high temperature and extremely high-intensity radiation. Specifically, they carry extremely high-energy gamma rays and visible light.

There is already a large amount of harmful radiation in the universe. If it is a manned spacecraft, it will be equipped with a radiation protection layer to protect the members living inside. The hydrogen bomb spacecraft is not a manned spacecraft, it is only equipped with A little radiation protection layer is added to protect the fusion fuel and various instruments inside the spacecraft, but this radiation protection layer is completely insufficient to protect the human body. In other words, from the moment the hydrogen bomb spacecraft leaves the earth port. Zhao Lan and An Liya were already being exposed to harmful cosmic rays.

But there is no need to worry too much about this. Because the medical technology of human civilization has now developed to an extremely high level, it is no problem to treat a little radiation sickness. But...if the radiation intensity is too high, it can even kill people in an instant. Or is it so high that it can destroy the life-support equipment in the maintenance cabin?

It is certain that the intensity of radiation released when a hydrogen bomb spacecraft explodes must be very high. But can this radiation kill people 23 kilometers away in an instant? Or maybe the life-support equipment in the maintenance cabin was destroyed but it is unknown. That's why Zhao Lan said it depends on luck.

The three words "depending on luck" mean the most helpless situation. In this situation, any efforts made by human individuals will be ignored, and the final result of the matter is completely independent of the wishes of human individuals. No matter what you think, no matter what you do, you have no influence on the final outcome. It is what it is and cannot be changed.

After Zhao Lan said the answer "it depends on luck", there was a brief silence in the maintenance cabin. After a moment, An Liya said with a smile: "This result is good enough. After all, before, our chance of survival was 0%, but now, our chance of survival has increased to at least 50%. Isn’t this enough? What else can we ask for?”

At this moment, Zhao Lan felt some self-blame in his heart: "It's all my fault. If only I could have thought of this method earlier. If I had thought of this method earlier, it would mean that we can be farther away from the hydrogen bomb spacecraft. distance, that way, our chances of survival will be much higher.”

An Liya comforted her: "Zhao Lan, this is not your fault. Inspiration is beyond our control. It's amazing that you could think of this method at that time."

Zhao Lan shook his head silently, wanting to say something, but he didn't know what to say, so he had to continue to remain silent.

The countdown on the timer is still continuing, and at this moment, the number has jumped to eight minutes. This means that in eight minutes, the hydrogen bomb spacecraft will arrive at the predetermined location, and the program preset inside it will detonate the hydrogen bomb the moment it arrives at the predetermined location.

"That scene must be spectacular..." Zhao Lan thought silently, looking out the porthole in a trance, looking at the hydrogen bomb spaceship that was about to disappear from his sight.

The maintenance cabin was ejected from the hydrogen bomb spacecraft from the side. In this way, the maintenance cabin has the same forward motion trajectory as the hydrogen bomb spacecraft, but also has a force to move sideways. This option was chosen after careful consideration, because if the maintenance module is ejected from the rear of the hydrogen bomb spacecraft, it will have exactly the same trajectory as the hydrogen bomb spacecraft, the only difference is the speed of movement. That will cause the maintenance module to continue to approach the explosion site after the hydrogen bomb spacecraft explodes, thereby enduring more radiation. And this is undoubtedly a devastating outcome for the maintenance cabin and the four people living in it.

In the dark universe, except for a few planets in the solar system that are still emitting faint light, no other stars can be seen. The arrival of the Star Disaster has made the once bustling night sky empty. In this empty space, a hydrogen bomb spacecraft and a maintenance cabin that maintained the lives of four people were moving forward together.

The countdown jumped to one minute. In other words, in one minute, the hydrogen bomb spacecraft will explode, and the fog of fate will finally be lifted. Life or death depends on that moment.

All efforts have been made and every conceivable method has been thought of. So, from now on, welcome the judgment of fate.

"When the hydrogen bomb explodes, don't look directly at it." Zhao Lan said, "The light will be very strong. If you look directly at it, it will blind our eyes in an instant."

An Liya and the other three nodded silently, and crowded around Zhao Lan in a tacit understanding, all with their backs facing the direction of the hydrogen bomb spacecraft.

Zhao Lan stared straight at the timer, watching the number keep beating, from fifty-nine to thirty, from thirty to ten, and from ten to... zero.

The hydrogen bomb spacecraft exploded silently. The explosion of any nuclear bomb on the ground will be an earth-shattering event, and the ground vibrations it causes can be detected by instruments even on the back of the earth. But this is space, not the earth. Therefore, the explosion of the hydrogen bomb ship did not cause any other movement except that the brightness in the maintenance cabin suddenly increased by an order of magnitude. There was no sound, no vibration, just a flash of light, that's all.

But at this moment, Zhao Lan suddenly felt nauseous and wanted to vomit. Zhao Lan knew what was going on. The human body will feel this way when it is exposed to a large dose of radiation in an instant. This means that the radiation released by the explosion of the hydrogen bomb spacecraft has severely damaged his body. If he does not receive treatment, his whole body will fester in the next few months, and he will die in an extremely miserable way.

But this did not make Zhao Lan worried. Instead, it made Zhao Lan feel a little more relaxed, and even secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Because he could feel nausea, it at least meant that he was not killed in an instant. And since he is not dead, relying on the advanced medical technology of human civilization, it is possible for him to recover again.

But this disaster was obviously not overcome so easily. Zhao Lan suddenly felt a warm feeling on the wall of the maintenance cabin next to him. At the same time, he actually felt the wind blowing on his face. Also, the lights in the maintenance cabin went out after flashing a few times. (To be continued ~^~)