[Deep Starry Sky-09]
At 4:00 in the morning, Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce walked into the command room and said, "Senior Brother Zhuo, Xiao Nian, go and rest, I'll change shifts with Pingce."
Zhuo Feng smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll leave it to you."
Zhuo Feng and Zhang Xiaonian turned and left the command room. At this moment, a large number of debris-like things suddenly slipped through the porthole. Zhang Xiaonian stopped, pointed to the outside curiously and asked, "Is it a meteor shower? Follow me. It's different from what I've seen in telescopes before."
Zhuo Feng said: "It's definitely different. We used to watch meteor showers on Earth. Meteors slide through the atmosphere, and friction with the atmosphere will produce light trails."
As Zhuo Feng said, he turned his head to look out of the porthole—
In the distance visible to the naked eye, there are countless large and small fragments flying in one direction as if attracted by some force, and the speed is as fast as lightning. At first glance, it looks like a meteor shower, but after Zhuo Feng observed it carefully for a while, his face changed suddenly: "This is not a meteor shower, it is more likely a sandstorm!"
Yue Xingwen immediately became alert: "Cosmic sandstorm?"
Zhuo Feng nodded: "Well, cosmic sandstorms are composed of such rock-like particles. These particles are also called 'micrometeoroids' or 'micrometeorites', which are characterized by their small size but extremely fast speed."
Zhuo Feng took a deep breath and looked at Yue Xingwen, and said decisively: "Wake up everyone! We have to avoid these meteorites as soon as possible, otherwise, the spacecraft is likely to be crashed!"
According to the law of action force and reaction force, a small bird may crash a flying plane. Although their Thorns spacecraft is made of metal and has a huge and hard hull, once it is hit by a group of micrometeorites, the hull of the hull will be destroyed. As long as a hole is knocked out, the air pressure is out of balance and the oxygen is deficient, human beings cannot survive in the space environment at all.
Thinking of this, Yue Xingwen immediately turned on the voice function of Xiaotu and said, "Xiaotu, go and wake everyone up!"
After the small picture evolves, it can recognize the voices of all teammates and complete the corresponding commands. Hearing Yue Xingwen's words, Xiaotu turned around and walked towards the dormitory area, and released a song to wake up.
As soon as the harsh singing sounded, everyone who was sleeping was awakened at the same time. The doors of several dormitories opened quickly, and the remaining 8 people dressed up as quickly as possible and came to the command room.
Ke Shaobin helped his crooked eyes and asked nervously, "What happened?"
Zhuo Feng said: "A cosmic sandstorm was discovered earlier." Liu Zhaoqing complained with a headache: "Yesterday was a cosmic black hole, and today is a cosmic sandstorm. This interstellar travel is really a fucking luxury VIP package!"
Zhuo Feng said: "Sandstorms are not like black holes. They have no gravitational field and will not attract us to approach them. But sandstorms are usually composed of countless micrometeoroids, which are large in number, fast in speed and wide in range. We cannot follow those debris. Hit it head on."
Jiang Pingce looked at the more and more debris outside the porthole not far away, frowned, and said, "The key at the moment is that we don't know the specific scope and trajectory of the sandstorm. Instead, they are looking for their own way.”
Zhuo Feng thought for a moment, and said, "Open the protective cover and act accordingly! Don't stand still and wait for the meteors to come over, it is no different from waiting for death. Although it is dangerous to walk and hide, there is still a chance!"
Yue Xingwen looked back at Qin Lu and asked calmly, "Can Qin Lu's plate transposition skills be used?"
Qin Lu shook his head: "The plate transposition needs to replace the surface plate. We are in space now, and we can't use it."
Jiang Pingce said: "My parabola formula can't be used either. Because the fundamental principle of parabola relies on the gravity of the earth, and there is no gravity in the universe."
Sure enough, Jiang Pingce knew what he was worried about as soon as he heard Yue Xingwen's question. In the past, when it was necessary to run away, Qin Lu could instantly move hundreds of meters away by changing the position of the plate, and Jiang Pingce could also use the formula to make his teammates fly into the sky. But in today's space environment, many skills are limited.
Yue Xingwen thought about it carefully, and said, "My 'Escape the Shell' is not limited by the environment. Everyone gathers around me. If the situation goes wrong later, I will immediately teleport everyone to the location of the escape pod."
Ke Shaobin listened to everyone's conversation and stared out the window nervously.
Those rocky fragments looked from a distance like the rustling goose feather snow falling in winter. It seems that this sandstorm is more troublesome than the previous wormholes. Although the wormhole has been attracting them to approach, everyone knows its specific location. A few academic masters can modify the route and avoid it in a large circle by calculating the distance and displacement formula.
The scary thing about a sandstorm is that you don't know how big it is. Therefore, you must be fully prepared, and when you really can't escape, you can only open the escape hatch to escape.
Ke Shaobin took a deep breath and asked, "After the escape boat is ejected, should we find where it will land in advance? We can't just float around in the universe, right?"
Yue Xingwen walked to the podium and quickly pressed the voice command on the control screen: "Search for nearby planets."
Thorns' voice intelligence quickly reported the result: "Four planets found."
The galaxy map really marked the names of α-176, α-171 and other planets. Yue Xing Wen said: "Call out detailed information about these planets."
A lot of pictures and text descriptions appeared on the screen.
Ke Shaobin quickly walked over and looked down, and the more he looked, the more shocked he became: "This harsh environment... is not suitable for human survival at all! Even if we land on a nearby planet, it will be difficult for us to survive, right?!"
Jiang Pingce said calmly: "If there was a planet suitable for human survival, human beings would have immigrated en masse long ago, and they would not be hiding in a dark underground base."
Xin Yan said: "It doesn't matter if the environment is bad. After I get the periodic table of elements, I can make water and oxygen."
Lin Manluo agreed: "I can also use my skills to purify the air and plant green trees and lawns. As for the high temperature... We have a young age, and it's a big deal to dig an underground base to nest."
Ke Shaobin thought about it too, and immediately looked back at Yue Xingwen: "Then try to land on the nearest planet α176! Anyway, this course only requires us to live for 30 days, and does not require us to reach what Major General Karen said. Nebula β71. However, if you can't complete the task assigned by the NPC, the final score will definitely not be very high."
Yue Xingwen said decisively: "Dodge the sandstorm first. If you can dodge it, continue to the mission destination. If you can't dodge it, land nearby and find a way later!"
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Jiang Pingce quickly calculated the distance and angle between the α176 planet and the spacecraft, and determined the direction of the ejection of the escape capsule. Following that, Zhuo Feng and Jiang Pingce cooperated again and opened the protective cover of the spacecraft.
Jiang Pingce reminded in a low voice: "Everyone is sitting in the safety chair and stabilized."
After all, he and Zhuo Feng controlled the spaceship to rise sharply.
Almost the next second the spaceship just rose, countless rock-like debris rubbed the bottom of the spaceship and swooped down at lightning speed!
The protective cover made a loud "dong" sound, and a red alarm popped up on the screen: "The protective cover is damaged by 5%, and there are cracks in the bottom of the boat, please pay attention!"
Once the shield is completely destroyed, the porthole is broken, the pressure in the cabin will be instantly out of control, and they will immediately be in an oxygen-free vacuum environment.
Ke Shaobin hurriedly turned on Xiaotu's monitoring system. Xiaotu's monitoring was much more accurate than what the human eye can see. On Xiaotu's screen, densely packed fragments like a bee colony suddenly attacked from the upper left.
Jiang Pingce immediately controlled the spaceship to move to the right, and Zhuo Feng controlled the spaceship to evade downwards. With the cooperation of the two, the spacecraft avoided this wave of sandstorms without any risk, but a spider web-like crack appeared in the upper left corner of the protective cover.
Yue Xingwen stared nervously at the screen, and the other students also looked serious.
This sandstorm seems to have been formed after a planet disintegrated, and the countless fragments are like a blizzard in the cold winter and twelfth lunar month. They shuttled between the sandstorms, and Yue Xingwen could constantly hear the sound of those rocky micrometeoroids brushing against the shield of the spacecraft!
Everyone held their breath, staring at the shield-damaged data in the screen.
Jiang Pingce and Zhuo Feng reacted extremely quickly, and continuously controlled the spacecraft to avoid the impact of several waves of sandstorms. Sitting in the spacecraft was more exciting than the spinning roller coaster.
However, these fragments are too many, with a wide range and fast speed. They are like walking in a hail of bullets, and there is always a time to avoid it!
Ten minutes later, the damage data of the protective cover has reached 80%!
On the transparent protective cover, there are all the cracks like spider webs. As long as the micrometeorite hits the crack again, maybe the protective cover will be completely broken.
As soon as Yue Xingwen thought of this, he heard a loud "dong" in his ears!
The sound came from right above the head. Obviously, when Jiang Pingce and Zhuo Feng controlled the spaceship to hide to the side, the debris that came out of nowhere smashed into the crack on the top of the spaceship.
Like the straw that broke the camel's back.
Like a cracked ice surface, finally unable to bear the weight—
At an extremely fast speed, the protective cover instantly shattered into powder in front of everyone!
A dazzling red alert popped up on the screen: "Warning, warning! The spacecraft shield has been damaged!" "Warning, the spacecraft pressure system is faulty!" "Warning, the spacecraft balance system is faulty!"
Countless red exclamation marks flickered wildly on the screen, Yue Xingwen did not hesitate: "Run!"
The "Modern Idiom Dictionary" in his right hand was ready. As soon as the "Jin Chan escapes the shell" skill was released, 12 people instantly appeared in the escape cabin at the stern.
Before the Thorns took off, everyone figured out the location of the escape pod, and each of them found a cabin. At that time, Yue Xingwen knew that the escape capsule would definitely be used for this trip. I just didn't expect that on the second day, they would abandon the ship to escape!
Yue Xingwen asked the students to go first, he and Jiang Pingce last.
Before getting into the escape pod, Yue Xingwen looked back at Jiang Pingce, just in time to meet Jiang Pingce's eyes.
There is only a tank of oxygen in the one-meter-five-high escape pod. They need to curl up and hide in it, and let the escape pod pop out in the set direction—this is their last chance.
No one knows whether the escape pod can land smoothly.
In case of encountering danger again, the escape pod deviates from the course in the universe, it will be like a small ship washed up on the sea, and it will never find its way back.
The vast universe, once lost, will only lead to a dead end.
Jiang Pingce looked deeply at Yue Xingwen and whispered, "Take care... See you later."
Yue Xingwen's eyes suddenly became sore. He nodded and said in a trembling voice, "You also take care. Be sure to land safely."
The two looked at each other, turned around and got into the escape hatch at the same time, and quickly closed the hatch.
The next moment, the program to eject the escape pods started, and under a strong impact, the 12 escape pods broke free from the shackles of the Thorns spaceship and fell into the dark universe...