Chapter 139 Wonderful
Earth base.
Including the primary decision-maker, dozens of high-ranking human officials were present. Beyond them were hundreds of uniformed engineers and scientists.
At the front of the hall was a massive screen, its data constantly flashing. In front of the screen were rows of computers. Hundreds of engineers and scientists sat at their computers, constantly working on something.
A heavy and solemn atmosphere enveloped the entire hall. Amidst the approximately two hundred people in the room, there was no sound except for one voice that echoed continuously.
"Earth Base calling Hope, calling Zhou Cheng, please reply."
"Earth Base calling Hope, calling Zhou Cheng, please reply."
…
It had been over an hour since we lost contact with the Hope spacecraft, and during that time, the calls had been repeated without a single pause.
But the voice that everyone was waiting for never came back.
People's hearts are sinking.
More than an hour ago, people detected a sudden explosion on the sun, releasing a large amount of high-energy charged particles.
The Hope spacecraft was the first to be hit.
From that moment on, the Hope spacecraft lost contact with Earth.
People are still waiting in silence.
A moment later, a clear beep sounded. An engineer immediately called out, "Communications have been restored a little! Some information has been transmitted back!"
Several responsible persons rushed over immediately.
This seemed like good news. However, after seeing the content of the message, the expressions of several responsible persons suddenly turned grim.
A responsible person hurried over to the decision makers.
"Report to you, sir, we just restored contact with the Hope spacecraft for about five seconds.
During those five seconds, some high-priority information regarding the spacecraft's status was transmitted."
The first decision maker asked, "Was that a message automatically sent by the spacecraft's intelligent system? Was it not sent by Zhou Cheng?"
"right."
"What's the content?"
"Information shows that approximately two minutes ago, the spacecraft experienced a rapid depressurization process."
The expressions of the decision makers suddenly became solemn.
Although they do not have a professional background in aerospace, they still know what rapid decompression means.
When gases escape from a spacecraft into space in an instant, it is called rapid decompression. What conditions can cause rapid decompression?
Obviously, explosion.
It is very likely that an explosion damaged the hull, creating a hole, and the gas escaped in an instant.
"Keep calling."
"yes."
"Earth Base calling Hope, calling Zhou Cheng, please reply..."
The calls continued, and people observed that the space communication environment was improving rapidly, and it seemed that the solar storm had passed, but the expected response still did not come.
The spacecraft's intelligent system has re-established contact with the Earth base.
Under normal circumstances, Zhou Cheng should have been able to respond by this time.
By reading the spacecraft's operating data, people have determined the location of the rapid depressurization, which is in the middle of the cabin, the same location as the previous first-level failure point.
So...it seems very clear what happened at this moment.
Zhou Cheng, who was repairing the fault, encountered an explosion, which caused damage to the hull and rapid decompression.
Perhaps Zhou Cheng died in the explosion, or perhaps he was just injured and not dead.
But whether he died in the explosion was irrelevant. Even if he didn't die, the subsequent rapid decompression would cause him to be swept out of the spacecraft.
Not to mention that he was not wearing a spacesuit in the cabin. Even if he was wearing a spacesuit, he would be dead if he was blown out of the spacecraft into space.
Moreover, it is a more desperate and painful way to die.
Zhou Cheng will float in the vast space, watching the spaceship getting farther and farther away from him, but he can do nothing.
Because there is no power system on the space suit.
He would float in space until the power and oxygen in his space suit ran out, and then he would either suffocate or freeze to death in the cold.
Low sobs could be heard in the hall.
This space voyage, which carried all the hopes of the people and came at the cost of the space launch capability that had been preserved with great difficulty from its heyday, ended in failure.
The young man who was willing to sacrifice his life for a glimmer of hope for civilization at the cost of never being able to return to Earth, was left in space forever, unable to return.
The first decision maker seemed to have aged ten years in that instant.
"As expected... Is what the Ascending Dimension Teacher said true? There will never be another savior born in the human world, never again..."
"Why……"
With a deep sigh, he forced himself to suppress his sadness and despair, and began to think quickly about how to deal with the matter.
This incident will undoubtedly have a huge impact on the entire human world. How to minimize this impact, how to ensure the stability of the human world as much as possible, to prevent major chaos and further losses, and how to ensure that more people can continue to survive peacefully is his responsibility.
At this moment, he had no time and no right to be sad and painful.
…
Time goes back to more than ten minutes ago.
Zhou Cheng had a wonderful feeling when he instantly entered a vacuum environment from an atmospheric pressure environment.
It was as if his body, his arms and legs, his head and torso had all suddenly expanded in size.
I started to have a buzzing tinnitus in my ears and felt a little stuffy, like when I was on an airplane, but more intense than that feeling.
At the same time, his eyeballs bulged outward uncontrollably. Everything his hands touched no longer felt as real as before, but rather dull, like he was wearing a glove.
Something started to jump in my mouth, as if I had taken a bite of popping candy or a big sip of carbonated cola.
That's saliva boiling in a vacuum environment.
All sorts of unprecedented wonderful feelings came flooding in. But Zhou Cheng had absolutely no energy to pay attention to them at the moment.
He ignored all the wonderful feelings and just pushed his arms lightly, and his body left the spacecraft. Without wearing a space suit or any protection, he entered the vast sea of stars.
Behind him was the huge yet tiny outer wall of the Hope spacecraft, with many facilities, many protrusions and depressions, and several long solar panel wings extending out.
Endless stars are shining here, watching all this silently.
Zhou Cheng pushed forward with his arms again, and his body swam towards another bulge on the hull of the spacecraft like a fish.
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