Jupiter occupies the entire field of view, and the Great Red Spot on its surface stares at them like a red eyeball.
Chen Yue watched helplessly as most of the escape capsule fragments were captured by Europa's gravity and fell towards the planet with a smooth surface and scratches like golf balls.
Countless fragments separated the moment they entered the atmosphere and drifted away. They rubbed against the atmosphere and emitted a faint red light.
One of the larger fragments was like a human figure. Its initial speed continued to increase, and it was squeezed and rubbed against the thin atmosphere, and its color gradually changed to fiery red——
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"Are there also meteorites here? It's really rare."
A metal maze consisting of a group of compressed metals covering dozens of kilometers. Two figures wearing heavy protective suits were searching in a pile of metal.
One of the figures inadvertently raised his head and noticed a rain of fiery red meteorites falling from the sky in the background of Jupiter.
"Hurry up and find resources in this batch of garbage. I don't want to stay outside for a moment. The birds will freeze to death." His companion pushed him and cursed.
Unmoved, he raised his head and followed the largest and most obvious meteorite with his eyes.
This bright star fell down with a long trail like a comet, and its crash site seemed to be only a dozen kilometers away from here.
"Want to take a look?" He was eager to try it, feeling that it would fall to the ground in less than ten seconds.
"It's just a meteorite, what's there to see?" his companion controlled the exoskeleton to lift a piece of scrap metal and threw it aside.
"It doesn't look like... maybe the wreckage of the spacecraft fell?" He hesitated, and then his eyes lit up.
His companion stagnated for a moment, then turned to him, revealing his hideous face covered with scars in the protective suit: "Okay, if not, I will kill you."
…
The humanoid fragment finally approached the ground and fell onto a sheet of ice.
boom--!
The moment the debris hit, a shock wave spread out, followed by sound.
A crater with a diameter of more than ten meters appears on the thick ice layer, and water vapor rises, rendering the area like a hot spring.
"Well……"
A few minutes later, there was a sound from the bottom of the pit, like a drowning person rising to the surface and inhaling sharply.
"It fucking hurts!"
Europa is a planet covered by 100,000 meters of ice, with an ocean underneath. The temperature here remains at -150°C all year round, and the poles are even colder.
Earth’s experience tells us that where there is water, there is life. However, during subsequent detections, humans discovered that there are only basic single-celled organisms here.
It's like early Earth, but with more water.
There may be real creatures under 100 kilometers of ice, but only if humans have the ability and the nerve to dig it out.
Since Europa is extremely cold and cannot modify its atmosphere, and it does not have the supplies needed by humans, most plutocrats use Europa as a garbage disposal plant.
They mine nuclear fusion-related resources in the outer space of Jupiter, and then push useless scrap products to Europa that require a high fee to be destroyed. You must know that littering in space is a serious illegal act.
If your spaceship explodes accidentally, you will not only have to bear the loss of the spacecraft, but also a huge environmental pollution cost.
Therefore, their behavior gave rise to a new profession and group of people.
Gold diggers and escapees.
The former owns his own small broken spaceship, which goes in and out of Europa, focusing on collecting the garbage landing points of various chaebol groups and extracting precious metals from them. The latter committed a crime in the Federation and had nowhere to escape, so he took the horizon and escaped.
Go to an unknown corner of Europa and build your own shelter. And rely on the materials found in the garbage dump to survive.
There is often some trade between the two. The escapees look for precious metals and provide them to the gold diggers in exchange for the resources they need to survive - as well as entertainment facilities.
For example, a female synth.
Only a thousand people live on this icy tundra planet that is less than half the size of the Earth. Considering that new escapees arrive and old escapees die every year, a slow growth balance is roughly maintained.
Let me state up front that all of this is illegal.
Mu Su, who was completely naked, crawled out of the crater in the heat on his hands and knees, humming the Terminator theme song. His clothes were burned when he fell.
He felt that he was not very lucky, at least he did not fall into Jupiter.
When you raise your head, you can see the disgusting Jupiter on the horizon, which almost occupies the entire sky, with layered textures like flowers. The red spot that looks like an eye looks down on Europa.
Mushida shuddered as he climbed onto the ground. Looking around, the extremely smooth planet allowed him to see the end of the horizon at a glance.
During this, Mu Su saw a black spot moving on the ice a few kilometers away, approaching here.
A vehicle.
Mu Su immediately crawled down and slid back to the crater.
He struggled for a while whether to play Terminator memes or Dragon Ball memes, and finally passionately chose to have them all.
"The stars blink, the moon draws question marks. The comet drags its long tail rainbow to build bridges~"
While humming and waiting, Mu Su heard the sound of driving coming from above. He quickly closed his mouth and squatted half-crouched ankle deep in the ice water, with one arm hanging naturally.
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A tracked vehicle with a shabby appearance and a quilt wrapped on the surface was parked more than ten meters away from the crater.
Rowell jumped out of the car first, with a few flakes of ice splashing on the edge of his spikes. His scarred companion followed closely behind. The two approached the steam-filled crater step by step.
As the mist rose, a figure gradually emerged from the bottom of the pit.
"That's... a person...!?" Rowell yelled, goosebumps rising all over his body.
But he saw the figure at the bottom of the pit slowly stand up.
This is a young man with black hair, black eyes, and pale skin. His expression is indifferent, and he doesn't even look at the two people on the edge above him.
He raised his head and looked at the starry sky. Then he bent his knees as if he was about to jump out of the crater.
The two of them quickly retreated in panic.
The young man only jumped a dozen centimeters before falling back into the stagnant water.
He was in a miserable state, half-crouched on the ground, gasping for air, and muttering to himself: "Damn it... Is there not enough chakra?"
He staggered to his feet, and his black eyes turned to fall on the two of them. A pair of black eyes were dull and devoid of any emotion.
"Who are you...?"
The two looked at each other. A man fell from outer space at minus 183 degrees with no trace of his body, but was safe and sound.
"I am Rowell, and this is my companion...Lily." Rowell shouted bravely.
It's stupid to call a man this name. Especially a man with scars on his face.
"Are you...?"
"Sun Wukong." The young man said indifferently.
"Aren't you cold?" After thinking about it, Rowell couldn't help but ask.
At this time, a cold wind blew across the bottom of the pit, blowing away the steam.
"The people of Saiyan are not afraid of the cold..."
