The three people who went to find the "Savior" have completed the "net closing", and now they are carefully controlling their respective spacecraft to complete the final docking work.
In space activities, apart from space walking, the most dangerous task is probably the docking of spacecraft.
This requires astronauts to have ultra-high operational levels and rich operational experience.
Chu Xiaoming, Shen Yinuo and Su Wanxia all have more than five years of experience in outer space work, and have simulated countless times such as spacecraft docking.
But simulation is a simulation after all, and even if it fails, it will only be a loss in simulation data.
Now they are located in the dark realm between the Earth and Mars. Once the operation fails, it will be doomed.
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"Slow down, um, yes, slower." Chu Xiaoming is the commander of the docking work. He not only has to complete the docking between his own spacecraft and Shen Yinuo's spacecraft, but also pays attention to the docking situation of the other two.
Even with the help of a powerful number sequence core, this work is still very labor-intensive.
"Yinuo, your angle is a bit unstable, please stop for a moment and calm down."
"good."
"Wanxia, you are in good condition now. You can complete it first. Don't be timid. Think about the time trial we have during the drill and show your true ability."
"Well, I'm concentrating on it."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a clang and Chu Xiaoming's spacecraft began to vibrate noticeably.
"Ah oh..." The docking is completed, but it is not perfect by any means.
After Chu Xiaoming was "bumped", he said angrily: "You can't be gentler, you'll hurt me!"
Su Wanxia was startled when she heard this, and then laughed: "Damn you, what are you talking about!"
Shen Yinuo: "Hmm! You two, there is a lady here."
"Oh, I'm sorry." Su Wanxia stuck out her tongue, and then said: "Sister Yinuo, I'm done here, and I'm just waiting for you."
"Well, is that bottle of champagne still there?"
"Here, I'll get it right now."
"Champagne? What champagne?" Chu Xiaoming asked.
"If I remember correctly, you are an authentic Chinese. As a Chinese, wouldn't you be able to hear my precise words?" Shen Yinuo rarely complained about Chu Xiaoming, and she also finished it at the same time. Docking work.
[The docking has been completed and the number sequence calibration is in progress.]
As the lights flashed, the three specially-made rescue spacecraft completed the final stage of connection.
Chu Xiaoming clapped his hands: "Okay, it's done, you can celebrate."
"Dong dong dong." Su Wanxia's simulated knock on the door came.
"The door is unlocked." Shen Yinuo took off his heavy space suit and put on a white shirt.
The valve is opened and pressurization is completed.
Su Wanxia walked in with champagne.
I haven't seen him for a few months, and the interior of Shen Yinuo's spaceship is decorated quite "pink".
When she saw the painting at the end of the corridor, Su Wanxia smiled and asked, "Sister Yinuo, is this the work you mentioned?"
After changing clothes, Shen Yinuo came out with three cups: "Yes, it's still idle anyway."
"Hmm... this style..." Su Wanxia looked at the darkness in the painting and the eye-catching red: "It's very abstract."
"Abstract? I'm a realist." Shen Yinuo was very surprised, but after saying that, he remembered that he saw that touch of red at Su Wanxia's position.
"Let me see, what kind of masterpiece is it?" Chu Xiaoming also came.
Although the three of them haven't seen each other for a long time, they share each other's breathing and heart rate every day. This wonderful bond seems to be no different from getting along day and night, so the three of them were not as excited as they imagined when they met, and even Su Wanxia came to Shen Yi When he was in Nuo's spaceship, he had an illusion...an illusion that he came here often...but in fact, the three of them were nearly a million kilometers apart most of the time.
"Oh, stop looking, let's drink champagne first, open it!" Shen Yinuo is not good at wine, but at this moment, she is eager to have a drink.
Su Wanxia didn't waste any time, she immediately shook the champagne in her hand a few times and opened it with a "bang" sound.
The wine foam splashed, and Shen Yinuo and Chu Xiaoming both laughed and screamed and ran away.
Su Wanxia turned into a naughty child, using champagne as a water gun, chasing Shen Yinuo and spraying her.
After a few seconds, the "gas" of the champagne dissipated and there was only half a bottle left in the bottle.
Chu Xiaoming's eyes widened when he saw Shen Yinuo in a wet state.
And Shen Yinuo was not angry. Instead, he showed off his fiery figure in front of the two grown men, laughed at himself and said, "Well, the three of us haven't even had a sip, but this shirt has made us drunk first."
Su Wanxia's state at this time was similar to that of Chu Xiaoming, but he didn't have that much thought about Shen Yinuo. After hearing this, he came back to his senses and said: "Come on, come on, let's celebrate."
Chu Xiaoming also came to his senses, but his eyes still looked a little reluctant to leave.
Until the beauty raised her hand and pushed Chu Xiaoming's pig face away.
The champagne was poured, and the three of them sighed involuntarily after raising their glasses.
This sigh contains too many things...
But none of the three spoke.
After a while of silence, Chu Xiaoming took the lead to break the silence and said: "Come on! Cheers!"
"cheers!"
…
The docking was completed in seven hours.
After a short rest, the three began to work on the recovery.
Although it has been proven that there are no signs of life in the cabin of the "Savior", they still hope to save billions of human beings as soon as possible
hero.
After several adjustments, the spacecraft advanced in a rotating manner and reached the capture distance fifteen minutes later.
At this distance, three people can complete the recovery work without getting off the boat.
At a historic moment, the three decided to press the launch button together.
"three!"
"two!"
"one!"
"Bang bang bang bang bang!"
As a series of inaudible sounds echoed inside the spacecraft, more than a dozen sets of recovery hooks flew silently towards the slowly rotating "Rescuer".
The whole process took about ten seconds.
After the hook is fixed, the recovery operation begins.
But just as the three of them waited with bated breath for the "Savior" to be recovered, a disturbing scene appeared!
The "Rescuer" escape capsule, which was originally determined to have no life signal, suddenly "woke up"!
Not only was the internal lighting of its cabin turned on, but two obvious life signals also appeared in front of Chu Xiaoming and the others.
At that moment, the three of them were shocked, but after a few seconds, their expressions changed.
Su Wanxia was surprised and then excited! Shen Yinuo was shocked and then confused and uneasy! And Chu Xiaoming, he was surprised and then shocked and vigilant!
"They're still alive?! They're still alive!" Su Wanxia said excitedly.
"How could it be? It's been more than half a year. How can they hold on with such little supplies?" Shen Yinuo expressed disbelief.
Chu Xiaoming immediately interrupted the recycling process and said with an indifferent face: "There is a problem."
"Huh?" Su Wanxia also slowly came to her senses.
Shen Yinuo turned aside, and she calibrated the divine signal feedback in the "Savior" cabin again. The results showed that there were indeed two life signals, but the signal radiation intensity seemed a bit abnormal.
"There is indeed a problem! Xiaoming! Interrupt the recycling process!"
Chu Xiaoming immediately followed the instructions, but when he wanted to disconnect the hook and stop recycling, he found that the hook did not obey his command.
"There's something wrong." Chu Xiaoming repeated it several times without success.
Su Wanxia was shocked when she heard this: "How could it be? Didn't you just do it well?"
Chu Xiaoming didn't say anything. He started fault maintenance and inspection, and at the same time stood up and left the cockpit.
"Where to go?" Su Wanxia panicked a little.
"Get weapons." Chu Xiaoming's answer was concise and to the point.
"Take...what to take?" Su Wanxia stuttered a little. He hurriedly sat down and tried to disconnect the recovery hook again, but at this time, the spacecraft seemed to be fascinated by the "savior" and it just refused to "let go" .
Shen Yinuo on the side compared the life signals in the "Savior" cabin and confirmed that there was indeed a problem with the two life signals, so she also got up and went out.
"Sister Yinuo?"
"You watch over here and notify us immediately if you find any problems."
"Ah?" Su Wanxia's ability to deal with crisis situations was obviously insufficient, and he became a little confused.
For a while, maintenance operations were carried out, and for a while, I tried to disconnect, but to no avail. The spacecraft seemed to be out of control.
On the other side, Chu Xiaoming has put on special aerospace weapons. This black outfit was first designed by the Russian military and was originally designed to deal with future space battles.
However, this plan was not favored by people from the beginning, so it died early.
Chu Xiaoming also spent a lot of effort to dig out the design drawings from the old system archives and hurriedly produced three sets.
His view is that you can use it, but you can’t live without it.
When Shen Yinuo arrived, Chu Xiaoming had already picked up the weapon.
"Want to help?" Shen Yinuo asked.
Chu Xiaoming was also very nervous now, but he still said calmly: "It's okay, I'll go over and have a look. If something goes wrong, just pull me back as soon as possible."
Shen Yinuo frowned and said, "Why do I feel like you are setting a flag for yourself?"
Chu Xiaoming was stunned when he heard this, and then laughed: "Really? Well, otherwise, if I can escape unscathed, can you kiss me?"
Shen Yinuo's pretty face turned red when he heard this: "Go, go, there's nothing serious! Go and come back quickly!"
Chu Xiaoming smiled again and walked slowly towards the airtight cabin.
As the pressure adjusted, the dark outer space slowly appeared in front of Chu Xiaoming.
Shen Yinuo stood in the operation room and watched Chu Xiaoming slowly leave the spacecraft with the help of a jetpack.
"be safe."
"knew."
…
System failures continue, and Su Wanxia can't do anything now.
He simply handed over the control to the sequence core, and walked to the front of the cockpit to use the auxiliary vision system to observe the "savior" several hundred meters away.
This cylindrical escape capsule, which is eight meters long, three meters wide and 2.7 meters in diameter, has been floating in outer space for almost a year.
When it was determined that it was the first set of precious data sent to the earth, everyone did not believe it and thought it was most likely a joke played on the whole world.
But the reality is that almost all of its predictions have come true.
So people called it the "savior" and spent a lot of money to build three "fishing boats" to salvage it from the stars with the "largest net" ever woven by mankind.
Su Wanxia, who decided to join this plan at the time, didn't have too many thoughts. In his opinion, this was a glorious journey, and it was worth it even if he suffered an accident and died midway.
But Su Wanxia never expected that such a bizarre thing would happen after she really found her "savior".
Su Wanxia, who didn't find any problems after looking at it for a while, said, "It doesn't look like there's anything wrong with it. Could it be that we're overthinking it?"
It has flown directly in front of the spacecraft,
Chu Xiaoming, who was about to approach the "savior", took a short rest and said: "What can you see clearly from such a distance? You'd better not draw conclusions so early."
Su Wanxia was stunned for a moment, and then she found Chu Xiaoming who was grabbing the recovery cable and heading towards the "Savior".
"Hey! Why are you out?!"
"You can't catch tiger cubs if you don't enter the tiger's den, brother." Chu Xiaoming's tone was very relaxed.
But Su Wanxia was anxious: "Wait a minute, I'll go with you!"
After saying that, Su Wanxia went back.
But Chu Xiaoming didn't intend to wait for him. He said: "Sister Yinuo, keep an eye on him and don't let him come out and cause trouble for me."
Shen Yinuo, who was concentrating on watching the synchronized video carried by Chu Xiaoming, replied: "Understood."
Then, I heard Su Wanxia's voice.
"Sister Yinuo, how do you wear these clothes?"
"Stop messing around and go to the cab quickly to see how to fix the recovery device. It's enough for Xiaoming to go out alone."
"But just in case..."
"Bah, bah, bah, what if something happens! Are you hoping that something will happen to me?" Chu Xiaoming has already walked halfway, and seeing the "savior" getting closer and closer, he is no longer so calm.
"Don't come here, I don't mean that. Hey, sister Yinuo, please teach me. It's too dangerous for Xiaoming to go alone."
However, Shen Yinuo's face turned cold and he only glanced at Su Wanxia. The young man immediately returned to the cockpit obediently.
Three minutes later.
"I'm here." Chu Xiaoming stopped five meters away from the "Savior". He was now very close, so close that he could almost feel its breathing.
"Well, I saw it, be careful."
"receive."
"Xiaoming, I have completed the program repair here and can terminate the recycling process at any time, so if an unexpected situation occurs, you must not show off! Turn around immediately!"
"Okay, okay, mother-in-law, mother-in-law." Chu Xiaoming was a little dumbfounded.
Su Wanxia said seriously: "Don't be careless, Xiaoming. It is already evil enough for the 'Savior' to appear so far away from the earth. Now it has 'pretended to be a corpse' again. Please be more careful."
wrong."
"Hey...is there anything else you can say that no one can listen to? 'Fake corpse'? You can imagine that!" Chu Xiaoming was nervous enough at first, but now he became even more nervous when he heard Su Wanxia say this.
Shen Yinuo didn't want to hear the two brothers bickering, so he said: "Don't be distracted, look at the top of your head."
"Um?"
"There is an observation window about three meters above the left, you can take a look from there."
Chu Xiaoming, who originally planned to enter "The Savior" directly, changed his plan after hearing this.
"Hmm... Okay." Chu Xiaoming glanced at the remaining reserves of the jet device, then carefully adjusted the angle, then slowly rose up to grab the edge of the "Savior".
During the whole process, Shen Yinuo saw it from the first perspective, while Su Wanxia saw it from the third perspective.
The heart rates of the two at this time were similar to Chu Xiaoming's, both exceeding 100.
The only sound left in the communicator was Chu Xiaoming's slightly heavy breathing.
He quietly came to the observation window, but without raising his head, he first observed the integrity of the observation window from a clever angle.
In his imagination, the "Rescuer", as an escape capsule, should have left many traces after experiencing the Shanhai International Space Station incident, even if the capsule was intact.
But when he got close enough, Chu Xiaoming realized that it was much more perfect than he imagined.
Now the observation window, which was only the size of a student's steel ruler, was clearly filled with light and was intact as before, but Chu Xiaoming did not dare to raise his head and look inside.
Shen Yinuo was also very nervous. She said: "Xiaoming, there is a hook about two meters to your right. Why don't you first see what's going on with it and why it can't be taken back."
"Um...Okay." Chu Xiaoming felt a lot more relaxed after hearing this.
He slowly moved to the right.
As they approached the hook, a sudden and noisy voice suddenly broke into the three people's communication frequency band.
For a moment, the three of them subconsciously covered their ears.
Chu Xiaoming was even more frightened.
Two seconds after the scream-like sound appeared, an invisible halo of light burst out from the "Savior" cabin.
Following Shen Yinuo and Su Wanxia, their vision went dark, and the entire spacecraft actually entered a dormant state instantly!
"This?! Xiaoming! Xiaoming!!!"
no respond.
After the spacecraft was forced to sleep by a mysterious force, the communicator stopped working.
Although Chu Xiaoming's space weapon had an independent oxygen supply system, he felt like he was falling into the abyss when he saw that the spacecraft he was riding in was plunged into darkness.
"A promise?!? Sunset??!!!!" Chu Xiaoming panicked. He was not in the mood to care about the "savior" behind him, so he immediately started the jet device and rushed back.
But in the process of returning, Chu Xiaoming suddenly felt as if his body was grabbed by a vague force.
This makes his return process much slower than his previous process of getting closer to the "Savior".
When he noticed something unusual, Chu Xiaoming had no choice but to look back.
So he turned the power of the jet device to the maximum and approached the spacecraft at a faster speed.
Behind him, the "Savior" fell into deathly silence again.
But in the darkness, there seemed to be a response.
When Shen Yinuo and Su Wanxia tried to restart the spacecraft, they suddenly stopped.
The two looked at each other and turned around at the same time.
There was nothing behind me, but...
"Wanxia... Do you feel like something is staring at the two of us?" Shen Yinuo asked, trying to calm down.