Chapter 141 Please Instruct

Ignoring the pain in his body, Zhou Cheng tried his best to use his brain, control his body, and floated towards the control room with difficulty.

After entering the control room, the first thing he looked at was the time.

call……

Zhou Cheng finally let out a long sigh, and his heart calmed down.

There was still an hour left before the track change, which was plenty of time.

By this calculation, I was unconscious for about three hours.

Without caring about being thankful for surviving the disaster, Zhou Cheng quickly secured himself in his seat and began to operate the observation equipment on the spacecraft, carefully confirming his coordinates, the relative position of Venus and himself, checking the spacecraft's attitude and propulsion angle, etc., and then combining the data sent back from the Earth, he finally determined the last few parameters of the orbit change plan.

After clicking upload and setting it to auto-execute, Zhou Cheng finally felt relieved.

Next, the spacecraft will automatically adjust its orbit and automatically start and shut down its thrusters to use the gravity of Venus to complete another deceleration.

After finishing all this, he looked at the communication equipment.

It is filled with call messages.

"Reporting to Earth Base, Hope Zhou Cheng received, please give instructions."

A radio wave started from the Hope spacecraft and flew towards the earth tens of millions of kilometers away at the speed of light.

Earth base, control hall.

"Earth Base calling Hope, calling Zhou Cheng, please reply."

The calls continued, as if by doing this, Zhou Cheng still had hope of survival.

But except for the communicator, everyone else in the hall had fallen into complete silence.

It has been so long, several hours, everything that was supposed to happen has happened, the situation... is irreversible, hope has been completely lost.

Thinking back on the days and nights of the past few years, thinking back on the space launches again and again, the inspections and adjustments again and again, people are in a state of confusion.

A secretary came to the first decision maker.

"Sir, here are the rules for the press conference I drafted. Please review them."

The fact that Zhou Cheng encountered an accident and the Mercury scientific expedition mission failed cannot be concealed.

We have to give the public an explanation.

The first decision maker looked at the document silently without looking up for a long time.

At this moment, a voice suddenly appeared in the hall.

"Reporting to Earth Base, Hope Zhou Cheng received, please give instructions."

The first decision maker suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction of the big screen.

There was silence in the hall.

The hope in the eyes of the first decision maker slowly faded, and he looked at the secretary and colleagues beside him with some uncertainty.

This must be my hallucination, right?

With inquiring eyes, he saw that his colleagues were also looking at him with the same uncertain eyes, as if hoping to get answers from them.

After a few seconds, the voice sounded again in the hall.

"Reporting to Earth Base, Hope Zhou Cheng received, please give instructions."

His voice was full of fatigue and hoarseness, but it was also filled with unshakable determination.

This second voice was like flipping a switch. In an instant, everyone, including the decision-makers, subconsciously stood up at the same time and broke into uncontrollable cheers.

"Zhou Cheng is still alive, still alive!"

The first decision maker clenched his fists tightly, and even with his state of mind, his face began to distort at this moment.

He stood up from his seat, crumpled up the press conference manuscript in his hand and threw it away. He rushed to the communicator and said in a trembling voice, "Zhou Cheng, what happened before? Over."

After a brief communication delay, Zhou Cheng's voice came over: "Report to Earth Base.

When I was repairing the sun visor controller earlier, I discovered that the hatch was accidentally locked. Since the time for the track change is approaching, I..."

He recounted the incident in detail.

Hearing that Zhou Cheng had actually carried out an extravehicular walk mission without any protection or safety facilities, and went around from outside the spacecraft to the control room, the base hall fell silent again.

Although we are not eyewitnesses and cannot see this process, just thinking about it makes people's palms full of cold sweat.

Fortunately, fortunately Zhou Cheng succeeded.

"Please undergo a physical examination immediately and send back all relevant data. The Earth Doctor Team will develop a recovery plan for you.

The following three points require your special attention.

1. Radiation dose residual check. The Earth Doctors team needs to assess the radiation dose you received during your unprotected extravehicular activity, evaluate future impacts, and develop a recovery plan.

Second, lung imaging examination: The Earth Doctors team needs to comprehensively assess the damage to your lungs during this process.

Third, imaging and related examinations of the arm burn. The Earth Doctors team will develop a treatment plan for you to strictly prevent subsequent infection.

Over."

"Roger that. I'll conduct the above checks immediately.

At the same time... there is one more thing.

I hope that Earth will keep this matter strictly confidential and not let anyone else know about it. Especially, don't let Liu Yu know about it.

Over."

"Earth understands, over."

After temporarily ending the communication, Zhou Cheng did not rush to conduct a physical examination, but first came to the locked hatch.

The fault is actually very simple. There is a bug in the control chip, so just replace it.

The chips used in space vehicles are specially designed with high reliability and high redundancy.

But even so, it is impossible to completely avoid the possibility of bugs caused by high-energy radiation.

High-energy radiation can directly cause chip data to shift or flip. For example, a byte of data might originally be zero, but after a high-energy particle penetrates it, it becomes one.

The Earth's surface is protected by the atmosphere and magnetic field, so there is no need to worry about such failures. However, the space environment is different.

In the space environment, the probability of such damage always exists, and the probability is even higher during solar wind bursts.

This time, I can only say that I was unlucky.

After simply repairing the fault, Zhou Cheng shook his head as he looked at the small chip that had been replaced.

"You almost killed me."

Zhou Cheng casually put it into the waste collection box. He did not rush to open the hatch. Instead, he put on his space suit and followed the normal procedure to leave the cabin. He covered the gap with a film again before returning to the cabin and opening the hatch.

To avoid accidents, Zhou Cheng checked all the hatches again before starting the physical examination and then sending the information back to Earth.

At this moment, the spacecraft's trajectory change has begun.

Looking at the huge planet covered by thick clouds below, Zhou Cheng took a picture and sent it to Liu Yu.

"We've arrived at Venus! We're maneuvering now. After slowing down, we'll head to Mercury."