Ye Han was still looking forward to the follow-up news from Base No. 1, but for some reason, after the last message, Leishan never received any more news from Base No. 1.
Some people believe that no news is the best news, but for Base No. 1, no news means that any situation may happen, including the annihilation of everyone.
The situation is not optimistic, and everyone is speculating about what happened in Base No. 1.
Ye Han also had conjectures in his mind, such as turning off the communication equipment to save power, or the antenna direction was wrong. In the worst case, aliens destroyed the base's communication equipment.
If the base equipment is damaged, even if Leishan rushes to Base No. 1, the communication equipment cannot be repaired unless the equipment on Leishan is removed and replaced at the base.
But that is simply impossible!
A few hours later, Ye Han finally received the news that the aliens were evacuating. He almost pressed his eyes to the screen and stared at it for a while before finally confirming the news.
The entire Leishan was restless, eagerly anticipating new news. Luo Qi called Base No. 1 every few minutes. It was not until more than half an hour later that he received a few vague sounds, but after they were released, there was no sound at all.
I can't hear clearly.
Ye Han called up the analysis software and quickly separated the first audio track. However, the clearest thing about the entire audio track was the word "Biao", and he could not understand the original meaning of this sentence at all.
The separation continues, and the other tracks are not as good as this one. In the end, only one is slightly more complete, but the only words that can be heard clearly are the words "reactor" and "battery". The real content of this sentence is also unknown.
In desperation, Ye Han could only order Luo Qi to continue to pay attention to Base No. 1.
Soon, observations confirmed that the communication antenna at Base No. 1 was intact. In other words, the reason for the loss of contact was not damage to the antenna!
This discovery increased Ye Han's and everyone's worries.
From this day on, Leishan never received any news from Base No. 1. Ye Han could only inform Beiyuezhou about the loss of contact.
However, to Ye Han's surprise, Bei Yuezhou forwarded several messages from Base No. 1!
The situation is really strange. After asking Beiyuezhou carefully, I found out that since the No.1 base issued an alarm, the radio telescope placed on the lunar surface was pointed at the No.1 base. Leishan could not receive the news, but Beiyuezhou was all the time.
Clearly.
The monitoring records of Beiyuezhou are as follows.
"Is this... No. 2... ready to be opened...?"
"So... yummy...!"
“Wish you… good luck!”
"It's not... we... Zi... it's me."
"I wish you... good luck!"
"I hope... Zi..."
"Zi...open..."
"I'm going...Zi...be careful."
Communication records show that there was a pause here, and a few minutes later, the voice reappeared: "Cave No. 2...Zi...!"
At this point in the recording, there is an obvious gap, and there are only a few remaining communications that are slightly more obvious.
One of them was: "Holy shit..."
This sentence contains one more word "I" than what Leishan received.
Next, there is another sentence: "The reactor is finished... hydrate... the same position... hydrate... the battery."
Ye Han's first reaction should be: the reactor is finished.
But if you think about it carefully, it is also possible to say that the reactor is intact.
However, what is mentioned at the end of this sentence should be isotopes. According to the connection between the sentences before and after, the original meaning of the whole sentence should be: after the reactor is finished, we must rely on isotope batteries.
Anyone who knows aerospace knows that isotope batteries play an unusual role in aerospace engineering. Although Base No. 1 has a reactor, before the reactor was built, the base's power was entirely provided by isotope batteries.
Some equipment simply has built-in isotope batteries. Due to the low power of a single isotope battery, these equipment are not directly powered by isotope batteries. Instead, they use one or several isotope batteries to charge aerospace batteries, and then use the power stored in the batteries to drive the equipment.
Even without a reactor, there is no problem in using these devices for ten or eight years, but they cannot be used continuously and sufficient charging time must be left for the batteries.
Ye Han judged that the meaning of the words was probably that it was necessary to collect isotope batteries and accumulators, and then combine the isotope batteries, accumulators and life-sustaining equipment so that the life-sustaining equipment could continue to work.
Ye Han carefully took a look at the communication records and found that all the news was only discovered after the aliens evacuated the asteroid. Only then did he let out a long sigh of relief.
The problem at Base No. 1 is not big. What he needs to do now is to get to the ground as soon as possible and rescue the trapped soldiers.
Two days later, just when everyone thought that there would be no more news from Base No. 1, the Leishan actually received a new signal!
Luo Qi couldn't believe his eyes. After checking it three times, he reported the unexpected news to Ye Han.
Ye Han was also very surprised and quickly asked about the content of the message. As a result, what Luo Qi received was not a voice message at all, but a text!
The message read: This is Cave No. 9 of Base No. 1. The power was interrupted two days ago. Cave No. 2 confirmed that the reactor was damaged. After switching to nuclear batteries, the power was restored, but it is very unstable when it is strong and weak. Preliminary speculation is that the reason is
The total power of the nuclear battery is insufficient.
Seeing this, Ye Han immediately realized what he had overlooked.
He called up the equipment list of Base No. 1 and calculated the number of nuclear batteries. After a simple comparison, he found that the total power generated by the nuclear batteries was only enough to keep one-third of the equipment running.
The following content of the message also proves this point. If we continue to work hard, it is impossible for all hiding holes to persist until the arrival of Leishan. Therefore, Cave No. 9 collectively decided to turn off most functions of the life-support equipment, reduce the air circulation speed, and retain the temperature.
control function, and then everyone is injected with hibernation to reduce consumption and wait for the arrival of the Leishan.
After the No. 9 hole announced this decision, it immediately received responses from other holes, but some people suggested that not everyone should be injected with hibernating hormone, and at least one person should be left to take care of the equipment.
This suggestion was also approved by everyone, so the words sent to Leishan were published.
Ye Han also very much agreed with this decision. Since we can't afford it, wouldn't reducing consumption mean we have everything?
Thinking about it, he and his surviving comrades from the First Fleet relied on this method to persist for several months, and were finally rescued by the Second Fleet.
Ye Han had been hesitant, desperate, and helpless before. It was not until this moment that he had the confidence to successfully rescue Base No. 1 for the first time.
I hope the soldiers can hold on until the Thunder Mountain arrives, and I hope the aliens don't come back again!