Looking down from the air, the ice sheet surrounded by steel structures instantly spread out layers of dense cracks. In a muffled sound accompanied by violent shaking, large pieces of ice were thrown into the air.
Previously, the drilling of L-shaped structures sent low-temperature explosives under the ice sheet and inserted them into the ice layer by layer. The entire project lasted three years, and a neat cubic ice pit was accurately blasted out of fifteen kilometers of ice.
At the same time, the Sventovet, which had embedded itself in the ice, rose up with the huge water pressure below. Fortunately, the titanium alloy armor of this starship is strong enough, otherwise just such a blowout would be enough to crush the Sventovit frozen in the ice.
"The target is rising!"
"Continue blasting to prevent the ice from solidifying!"
"yes!"
Deafening sounds came one after another along the ice. The cryogenic explosives embedded in the nearby ice were blasted intensively, generating huge heat energy in the broken ice, preventing the rising seawater from backfilling the gaps and solidifying.
"Sensor temperature 11 degrees Celsius!"
"Keep blasting!"
Tan Ming's eyes were fixed on the ice layer marked red on the holographic screen.
There is the ice layer where the Sventovit is located. Driven by the current, it is rising rapidly at a speed slightly slower than that of the sea water. Once the ice freezes, all efforts will be in vain. In order to keep the water temperature above the freezing point, in addition to explosives, they even prepared anticoagulants...
Of course, that's a last resort.
Injecting anticoagulants could have unpredictable effects on the fragile ecosystem beneath Europa's ice cap. If possible, he hopes to use those cryogenic explosives to solve the problem. Otherwise, the price of saving these people would be too heavy...
As the ice marked red continued to rise, explosives on both sides of the shaft exploded one after another.
Looking at the constantly beating temperature and water flow speed parameters on the screen, Tan Ming felt that his palms were soaked with sweat.
Several times the ice suddenly got stuck, and his heart almost jumped into his throat.
Fortunately, there was no danger in the end. The red ice layer finally touched the green line at a depth of two kilometers under everyone's gaze.
"The target has reached the safe level!"
Warm cheers erupted in the command room.
Tan Ming felt his legs go weak, fell on the chair, and let out a sigh of relief at the ceiling. Looking at the ice rising at a constant speed, a heartfelt smile finally opened at the corner of his mouth.
The hard work of the past three years has finally paid off.
…
The astronauts sitting on the space vehicle fastened their seat belts and unfolded the memory metal shield on the top of the vehicle.
The ice fragments that had been washed up into the air by water pressure began to fall one after another. Some of these fragments may fly as low as ten meters, while some as high as possible may even be thrown into a low orbit. Although Europa's gravity is only one-seventh of the Earth's, the extremely thin atmosphere means that these heavy objects thrown into the air almost maintain the kinetic energy when they took off and hit them back.
The densely falling ice blocks violently hit the semi-arc memory metal shield, leaving fist-sized craters. The most unlucky car was almost completely buried under the ice, but fortunately the quality of the memory metal shield passed the standard, and nothing happened to the space car inside.
finally!
The blowout comes to an end!
The ice sealing the Sventovet rose up and blocked the hole where ice debris was spewing out. A rectangular icicle rose from the center of the steel structure, accompanied by waves of rumbling sounds that shook the earth, forming a giant rectangular tower thousands of meters high.
At this time, the Sventovit was like a specimen in amber, frozen safely in the center of the "ice tower". The explosives below stopped blasting, and the rising seawater quickly froze the crack. After losing its upward kinetic energy, this rectangular icicle with a vertical area of several thousand square meters finally hesitantly stopped its upward progress.
The hailstorm falling from the sky also gradually stopped, leaving only broken snow and ice shards flying in the air.
The bowl-shaped memory metal shields gathered toward the center, exposing the space vehicles hidden underneath. The astronauts stepped out of the car one after another, took out the equipment from the trunk, and walked towards their colleagues who were buried under the snowdrifts, ready to help them.
At this time, the two astronauts carrying the toolbox stopped and looked in the direction of the icicle.
Fine ice shards slowly drifted down from the surface of the icicle, looking like dense mist from a distance. The soft light from Jupiter in the distance actually reflected a faint rainbow when it passed through the ice mist.
"That thing is a rainbow? This, this is really incredible!" One of the astronauts opened his eyes wide and stared there in disbelief.
I have been working on Europa for almost two years, but this is the first time I have seen such beautiful scenery.
"That should be it... Damn, my camera was left in the staff dormitory."
"What does it matter? Extract the video from the action recorder. You can take screenshots as a souvenir when you get back."
"That's different!"
…
Just two hours after the Sventovit broke through the ice cap, Jiang Chen met Gorovin I again in the holographic conference room of the Future Man Building. Over the past three years, the Earth Defense Alliance has received considerable help from the Sventovet, and now the Earth Defense Alliance has fulfilled its promise to free the Sventovet from beneath the ice cap.
"I hope to discuss our future residence with you." As always, without any pleasantries, Golovin said straight to the point.
"The Earth Defense Alliance voted in Resolution 51 that you can build your home a hundred kilometers away from Tiangong City. There are rich groundwater, graphite ore and aluminum ore deposits there. Of course, if you are concerned about the environment of Mars, If you are not satisfied, we can discuss it again." After saying that, Jiang Chen sent the location he mentioned to Golovin, along with the local topographic map and mineral reserve distribution map.
"No need, we are very satisfied." After reading the dozens of grams of data in about two seconds, Golovin nodded and continued, "Is there any result about your plan?"
"Which one are you referring to?"
"Earth Federation."
Hearing this name, Jiang Chen's expression was slightly embarrassed, he coughed slightly and said, "Thanks to your old friends in the void, the situation on earth is now much more complicated than you think. I said from the beginning that it would take at least five years.”
Because of those remnants in the void, the history of this world has been in chaos since World War II. Although from Jiang Chen's point of view, the history of this world should be the so-called original appearance of history. But if there were no interference from external factors, the current global structure should be that of Pan-Asia, NATO, and the Soviet Union, rather than the current situation where none of them are left...
"Correction, we are not friends with them," Golovin continued, looking at Jiang Chen. "We just promised those poor people to save the last fire for earth civilization in return for their help to us."
"Speaking of which, I've always been surprised, why do you use this statement... I mean, aren't you also from the earth?" Jiang Chen asked, "If you must preserve fire for earth civilization, you yourself Isn’t it?”
To Jiang Chen's surprise, he thought that Golu Wen would give him the answer without thinking as he answered other questions. However, this time, he thought for so long that Jiang Chen began to wonder if there was a malfunction in the quantum communication.
"I can understand your confusion, but I have no choice but to answer you," Golovin said slowly, his pupils so calm that there was no trace of waves, making it impossible to see through his true thoughts, "Maybe among those poor people In their eyes, we have become something else."
"It's really ironic. It's obvious that even my body was destroyed..." At this point, Golovin shook his head and left without saying hello as before.