The three lifeboats were quickly filled, but nearly twenty people still failed to enter the lifeboats.
Jupiter was getting closer and closer, and it was too late to make a decision. At the critical moment, the eight pilots took the initiative to give up their positions: "Captain, let us fly the plane!"
He Dongnan couldn't bear it: "There aren't many planes left."
The aircraft are still fixed on the battleship, but we don’t know how many of them are still intact in the space. If we take the initiative to withdraw at this time, we may lose the opportunity to leave the battleship.
A pilot said: "Fighters are all two-seater. It's okay to squeeze three people into it. If it doesn't work, you can temporarily seat a few people in the bomb bay."
There is another reason he didn't say, that is, the fighter plane is flexible and faster than the lifeboat. Even if the second team cannot rush to the rescue, it can catch up with the speed of the fighter plane itself. The chance of being rescued is much higher than staying in the lifeboat.
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At this time, the situation no longer allowed He Dongnan to hesitate, so he immediately nodded: "Okay, you go right away, the sooner the better!"
"Captain, we have another landing craft!" a Marine suddenly said.
"That's right!" He Dongnan woke up from a dream, "Quick, the lifeboat will leave immediately, everyone else will go to the landing craft!"
The landing craft was placed behind the belly of the ship, which was one of the safest positions on the ship. He Dongnan was convinced that it had received few shots in previous battles.
As for whether the landing craft was intact, He Dongnan no longer had any extra thoughts to think about.
There were several muffled bangs, and several lifeboats flew away one after another.
A minute later, four aerial fighters ejected from the battleship.
After a few more minutes, He Dongnan and the Marines arrived at the bottom cabin and got into the landing craft as quickly as possible.
Everyone sat down quickly, but after the pilot started the escape procedure, the landing craft did not move at all.
"What's going on?" He Dongnan was shocked.
The pilot broke out in a cold sweat: "Captain, the escape procedure has failed, the hatch must be blown open!"
"What are you waiting for!"
"Demoman, follow me!" The Marine Captain of the Dew Bay took the lead and rushed out of the landing craft.
The two people immediately placed themselves in the bottom cabin after leaving the boat. Although the two people moved very quickly, every second of delay made He Dongnan feel more uneasy.
Three minutes later, the two people rushed into the landing craft like their buttocks were on fire: "Get ready to escape-"
Before he finished speaking, the bottom cabin exploded continuously. The tightly closed hatch was severely damaged in the explosion. The broken hatch was immediately blown away by the air pressure inside the ship, and the air pressure in the pressure zone was instantly cleared.
The landing craft was directly blown out of the ship by the dissipated air. He Dongnan let out a long breath: "Quick, fly away, the further away from Jupiter, the better!"
The landing craft immediately accelerated away from the wreckage of the Dew Bay and slowly stopped its downward trend.
Lifeboats and air and space fighter planes were flying not far away. He Dongnan, who escaped from the battleship, finally calmed down: "All units are speeding up to escape..."
"Captain, we are losing altitude!" A voice interrupted He Dongnan.
"What?"
"Speed, our speed is less than 30 kilometers!" The pilot's voice trembled violently, his hands pressed tightly on the joystick, the engine of the landing craft exploded to maximum power, and the blue wake pushed the heavy hull to slowly accelerate.
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He Dongnan's heart suddenly jumped into his throat, he unbuckled his seat belt and floated into the cab: "Is it too late?"
In order to facilitate observation, there are observation windows on the upper, lower, left and right sides of the cockpit. Through the lower portholes, he can clearly see the huge red planet below.
The wreckage of the Dew Bay has turned into a blurry shadow. It is impossible to distinguish the distance between the landing craft and the wreckage, let alone the distance between the landing craft and Jupiter.
The driver shook his head solemnly: "I don't know."
"Where are the lifeboats and fighter jets?"
The pilot said without raising his head: "There are six echoes on the radar, four fighter jets are present, and only two lifeboats have been found."
He Dongnan immediately said: "Order them to leave immediately, and every one who can escape will..."
"The radio interference is serious and we can't contact anyone." The pilot finally became impatient and said, "Captain, I have to concentrate on driving the landing craft, please don't interfere with me!"
He Dongnan was startled, with a hint of anger on his face, but he quickly controlled his emotions and left the cab with a livid face.
Below the landing craft, near the wreckage of the Dew Bay, a lifeboat that lost power was falling with the battleship.
The crew on the boat tried every means, but failed to restore the engine on the boat to work. The desperate crew members opened the door of the boat and took the risk of drifting back to the Dew Bay before the battleship crashed into Jupiter.
No matter how dilapidated the Dew Bay is, it is still safer than a flimsy lifeboat.
The others woke up from a dream, rushed out of the lifeboat frantically, activated their flight bags and floated towards the battleship.
But the first crew member to return to the Dew Bay was named Li Cheng. The first thing he did when he returned to the battleship was to close the airlock, block all the others out of the cabin, and let his desperate companions beat and yell at them.
Just refused to open the door.
Li Cheng's spirit was on the verge of collapse. He kept murmuring that he didn't want to die and wanted to live. His eyes were staring straight at the cabin in front of him without blinking, paying attention to the knocking sound coming from behind.
turn a deaf ear.
People outside had to return to the lifeboat to survive; others were unwilling to give up and flew along the battleship, trying to find another entrance; and some people desperately flew upwards, trying to stay away from Jupiter...
But how can the spacesuit’s flight bag send them to a higher orbit?
But before they could find the entrance, the wreckage of the battleship fell into Jupiter's atmosphere. Air resistance blew away the people outside the ship. The exposed crew members only lasted a few seconds, and their spacesuits were burned by the high temperature generated by friction. In the blink of an eye,
Lost life.
A layer of red flame enveloped the outside of the battleship and the lifeboat. The lifeboat only held on for a short while. After about a few minutes, the high temperature burned through the hull. The frightened crew members in the boat struggled hard in the heat of thousands of degrees.
, but cannot escape the fate of death.
The shell of the Dew Bay soon became red-hot, and countless fragments broke away from the hull due to atmospheric resistance and fell together with the battleship. The heat extended to the inside through the metal shell, but because the pressure zone lost all the gas, the cabin lacked the means to transfer heat.
Medium, the temperature inside the cabin only rises slightly due to infrared radiation.
However, the gas outside the cabin continued to seep into the cabin as the altitude decreased. Fortunately, Li Cheng's spacesuit blocked the temperature. This poor guy who was on the verge of mental collapse did not feel the change in temperature.
In order to protect the safety of the crew, the outer shell of the pressure zone was very thick, allowing the wreckage of the battleship to continue falling into the depths of Jupiter. After an unknown period of time, the air pressure outside the cabin exceeded the endurance limit of the airlock, and the airlock opened under the strong pressure.
One by one they cracked, and the hot, high-temperature gas poured into the cabin like a tide.
The high temperature burned Li Cheng's spacesuit. At the last moment of his life, Li Cheng finally regained consciousness, but it was too late.
