Hardcore crisis

"Huh?" Clara stared at Aurora suspiciously and looked at her a few times.

"Is there any problem?" Aurora asked doubtfully, feeling the suspicious gaze from Clara.

"I just seemed to see a fly flying out of your body." Clara said after hesitating.

"Flies?" Aurora didn't believe it: "How is that possible? Are you blinded?"

"Well, maybe so."

She looked around and couldn't find the black spot that had just disappeared, and Clara also wondered if she was dazzled.

After a while, everyone took off their protective clothing.

Breathing the air of this alien planet directly, everyone actually didn't feel much difference from the air on Earth. If I had to say it, it was a bit cold.

But soon, within a few minutes, they each felt a heaviness in their chests and dizziness.

"Everyone move faster."

Bubbles struggled to pick up the device and secure it with a rope.

Every ten minutes, they have to take a break from work and enter the armored vehicle to breathe fresh air to relieve the physical fatigue caused by excessive carbon dioxide. If it were not for these excessive carbon dioxide, the rich and appropriate amount of oxygen would make them tired. They have more energy.

Working in this way, a group of seven people worked continuously for more than two hours before barely transporting the required equipment and materials to the fault. Then they used ropes to pull people up, and then they were ready to set off. preparation work.

"The rotation time of this planet is about 26 hours, and we still have 7 hours of daylight..."

After looking at the time, Babs announced the number to everyone.

Although the sky is indeed very dark, it is not so dark that it is still much more convenient than complete darkness. Based on my observations over the past month, this area is always shrouded in thick dark clouds. At night, it is so dark that you can’t see anything. You can’t see anything clearly with the naked eye. There is nothing coming from it. The stars and moonlight in the sky can illuminate.

"Then let's get on our way quickly."

After hearing the words from Babs, Nicky cheered up and stepped forward.

One soldier was left here to guard the two vehicles, and the other six people immediately embarked on the journey to the "Black Spire".

It seems that the distance to the minaret is only a few miles. In fact, when walking with heavy supplies, the distance of several miles is also a heavy number that cannot be ignored. Babs and the other two soldiers who were in good physical condition could still hold on. Among the remaining three, Clara had lived in the wild all year round as a zoologist and was in good physical condition, but Aurora and Nicky could not.

He only shared a small part of the supplies, but after walking less than half a mile in the bloated protective suit, Nicky was so tired that he waved his hands and shouted: "Can I take a rest?"

"Can't you hold on anymore?"

Babs, who was walking at the front, heard his shout and turned around to look at him.

"Take a break, my God, I haven't exercised such a long distance in a long time."

Nicky gasped: "The things I carried were too heavy. They were like Mount Olympus pressing on me. My heart was beating violently with every step I took."

"Okay, everyone, let's take a rest."

Seven hours is usually enough time for them to go back and forth. The most important thing is that on this alien planet, you must conserve your energy. Otherwise, if you don’t have the energy to save yourself at the critical moment, no one will be able to save you. .

He knew this, so as soon as Nicky looked tired, he ordered a rest.

After two consecutive breaks, they saw that they were getting closer and closer to the artificial building, and the discussion between them also started.

"What do you think this spire looks like?"

Clara asked curiously.

"Lighthouse?" Aurora spat out the word.

"Lighthouse? Wait, you said like a lighthouse, the kind of lighthouse on the sea?"

"Yes." Aurora nodded, looking at the approaching steeple with a puzzled expression.

"It doesn't look like a lighthouse to me."

Nicki interjected: "Don't you think it's more like a sword? A sword emerging from the ground."

"No need to guess, we will be there soon, everyone, please save your energy."

Babs interrupted their conversation and let the discussion end there.

Indeed, as Babs said, they were almost reaching the spire, and the distance of several miles had taken them more than three hours.

arrive.

It was less than a few dozen meters away from the black spire.

When they looked at the black spire from a distance, they felt that this artificial building was already very majestic and towering. When they were dozens of meters away, they looked up and felt like they were standing at the bottom of a skyscraper. Compared with the conventional shape of a skyscraper, the black spire brings a heavy pressure to everyone because of its weird shape. If you look at it for a few more times, your eyes will be attracted to the spire.

"It's so strange, why I feel like my heartbeat is accelerating." Touching the area of ​​her heart, Clara retracted her gaze from the spire and said in a somewhat muffled voice.

"I feel a little uncomfortable too." Aurora frowned, it didn't seem like Clara's personal delusion.

"89.2nGy/h, the radiation background is within the normal range..."

Holding the radiation dose detector, Niqi reported the background radiation value in the current environment.

This radiation value is normal and will not cause any harm to the human body.

The air detector Aurora brought did not alarm, which means that the nearby atmospheric environment has always been within the normal range. Except for slightly higher carbon dioxide, everything is no different from what it was on the way here.

"Maybe you are too tired."

Babs didn't feel much. He stared at the steeple and walked forward without looking back.

Seeing Captain Babs walking past like this, the others had no choice but to follow closely.

If this minaret building contained a large amount of radiation or emitted other toxic gases, they would have detected it long ago. Since the environment was normal, they had no choice but to breathe a sigh of relief and continue to approach the minaret.

"What is that?"

Finally arriving at the bottom of the minaret, everyone looked up and immediately discovered the parallel stripes engraved on the surface of the minaret, mixed with unknown symbols, gradually spreading towards the top of the minaret, and finally converging at one point.

"What are these symbols?"

Everyone looked at each other, not expecting that there would be stripes and symbols on this dark spire.

"This seems to be obsidian."

Nicky looked closer and took a deep breath: "Such a big piece of obsidian is incredible."

Obsidian is formed by the cooling of magma flowing out of volcanic lava. Generally speaking, it is impossible to have such a large whole piece, so Niqi was deeply surprised.

"Captain, come closer and take pictures of all the symbols on it."

Suddenly, an order from General Hunter came through Babs' earphone.

"okay, I get it."

Babs responded, then turned to everyone and said, "Take out the camera and connect it to the Internet. The general needs clearer images."

While everyone was busy, without noticing, a fly began to rise rapidly and circled around this strange spire.

The general structure is in the shape of a basic cylinder, with a diameter of about two meters and a height of at least more than 110 meters. As Nicky said, the material of this spire may be a large amount of obsidian, at least from the outside. Looks like this.

On the outer surface of the minaret, the circles of circular stripes have no color, but are deeply sunk in. Even the symbols are like this. Therefore, if people are far apart, they cannot detect these strange stripes and symbols. , only when you get closer can you find these deep striped symbols sunken into it.

A group of people were busy trying to take pictures of these stripes below. Due to the limited equipment they carried, they could only take pictures of the stripes and symbols below. Lu Yuan controlled the fly robot to continuously circle the spire, taking pictures of all the stripes without missing anything. trace.

Although it looks like a spire, at least there is currently no passage at the base that can be entered. The fly robot climbed fifty or sixty meters around it and found no passage entrance. It is possible that this spire may be solid. (To be continued ~^~)