"The energy is exhausted. Are you ready for an emergency landing?"
"The energy is exhausted. Are you ready for an emergency landing?"
"Energy is exhausted, are you ready..."
Red lights flashed in the cockpit and mechanical sounds warned people over and over again.
The man in the driver's seat crossed his legs and leaned back in the driver's seat. Even in such a critical situation, he did not seem panicked. He stared at the slowly rotating gray planet in the driver's window for a long time.
After a long while, as if he had finally made some difficult decision, the man combed his hair behind his forehead with one hand, leaned forward slightly, and slowly covered the eye-catching red button with his muscular palm and pressed it.
A deep voice echoed in the cockpit: "Emergency landing!"
"Emergency landing procedure is being initiated, please fasten your seat belts..."
The high-speed shuttle ignited the last of its fuel, the thrusters roared, and it rushed towards the gray planet at full speed.
On the garbage planet B3024, a meteor streaked across the long night. Then, deep in the mountain-like garbage dump, a huge explosion was heard.
The residents at the edge looked up, then looked away as if nothing had happened. On this planet, such a sight was no longer surprising.
As the name suggests, B3024 Garbage Planet is the waste treatment center of the Capital Planet. The mountains of waste transported from the Capital Planet are always processed in the middle of the night, and there are often explosions that disturb the people. They are no longer surprised.
Only one person was attracted by the sound of the explosion. He hesitated for a while and groped his way towards the source of the sound.
Ruan Shiqing trudged through the mountains of waste, one step deep and one step shallow. When he got tired, he stopped to rest for a while, and then continued on his way after he had recovered.
This body was severely malnourished and had skin wounds of varying sizes. Ruan Shiqing had only been here for three days and had not yet adapted to the unfamiliar feeling of weakness.
After 40 minutes of trekking, his violently beating heart began to contract and ache, protesting, so he had to stop again to rest. Fortunately, not far away was the source of the explosion he was looking for - a crashed aircraft.
The shuttle-shaped fuselage was broken into several pieces by the explosion. The silver-grey paint turned into a burnt black due to the explosion and high temperature. The glass window in front of the cockpit was completely shattered. The door was wide open. There was no one in the cockpit. The air was filled with the smell of burnt food and a strong smell of blood. A clear bloodstain meandered to the right, as if someone had left the cockpit.
I didn't expect that someone could survive such a violent collision. After thinking about it for a while, Ruan Shiqing decided to go and take a look.
In the huge waste disposal site, discarded aircraft hulls were piled up into tall towers, casting ferocious shadows under the cold moonlight. In the interweaving shadows of light and dark, a figure lay diagonally, his head lowered, his face blurred by the shadows, as if he had fallen into a coma.
Ruan Shiqing approached, and the faint light of his homemade flashlight dispelled the darkness around him, and he could see the person in front of him clearly. There was a fist-sized blood hole in the waist and abdomen of this person, with the skin and flesh rolled up, and the edges were faintly burnt and blurred. It was very likely that the abdomen was pierced by some weapon, and the rolled skin and flesh were caused by the high temperature attached to the weapon.
The white military uniform on his body was covered with blood and dust in such a miserable situation, but it was still worn very neatly, and the buttons on the collar were neatly bitten, without any looseness.
This person must be a very disciplined soldier, but I don't know what happened to him that caused him to end up here.
The closeness and trust in the soldier made Ruan Shiqing move closer, and he squatted down to feel the other person's breath.
Just as he stretched out his hand, it was grabbed by a hand like an iron clamp. The man who should have been unconscious suddenly raised his face and looked at him with a hawk-like sharp gaze: "What do you want to do?"
Caught off guard, Ruan Shiqing's gaze moved from his unusual dark golden eyes to the black horns on his forehead and the long white hair neatly tied behind his head. Only then did he realize that the man in front of him was not of the same species as him - even if he was a soldier, he might not be a good person.
His wrist was pinched and it hurt so much, and he couldn't understand the language the other person was saying. Ruan Shiqing pursed his lips and shook his head, trying to look harmless to show that he had no ill intentions.
Rong Heng narrowed his dark golden eyes and looked at the person in front of him.
The restrained man was skinny and had a sallow complexion. His resistance was very weak and he did not know the interstellar language. It was most likely that he was an illegal immigrant who was born and raised on this garbage planet and was attracted by the noise of the shuttle crashing. He had nothing to do with the group of people who assassinated him.
He sneered, let go of the man, and gestured for him to leave: "Get lost."
Although I couldn't understand the other person's language, I could understand their movements.
Seeing that he asked him to leave, Ruan Shiqing didn't want to provoke this man of unknown origin any more, so he quickly got up and left, in case he suddenly changed his mind.
Rong Heng kept staring at his back until he was sure that he had left. He frowned and looked at the wound on his waist and abdomen. After thinking for a moment, he staggered to his feet and turned back to the shuttle...
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After returning from the depths of the garbage mountain, Ruan Shiqing was always thinking about the crashed aircraft.
Although the damage was very serious, such a large aircraft could still be disassembled to have some usable parts. If the valuable parts of the aircraft were disassembled before being discovered by others and resold, it should be possible to exchange them for some coins or food.
His original world was highly technologically advanced, and humans had broken through the limitations of Earth and were exploring the universe. He was a researcher at the military weapons research institute, and was familiar with the structures of various high-tech weapons and vehicles. Although the level of technological development in this world was not yet clear, as the saying goes, "A master of one thing can master all", these basic operations were not difficult for him.
The only problem now is the language barrier. He cannot communicate with the indigenous people here and get the information he wants.
Moreover, the original owner of this body was extremely poor. Not only did he not have a place to live, but even the food stored was only enough to last for three days.
From now on, he has to find a way to make a living on his own.
After much thought, I couldn't help but set my sights on the aircraft.
The man was so badly injured yesterday that he might not survive the night; or he might have contacted his companions and was taken away. In any case, the crashed aircraft was most likely abandoned where it was.
Thinking of this, Ruan Shiqing ate the little remaining food, avoided the crowd, and walked towards the depths of the garbage mountain along the same route as last night.
He deliberately moved quietly and first took a look at the place where the man had hidden last night. Seeing that there was only a pool of oxidized black blood left there, he breathed a sigh of relief and walked briskly towards the direction of the aircraft.
The aircraft landed headfirst, and the head was the most severely damaged, while the middle and tail parts were relatively intact. Due to occupational disease, Ruan Shiqing did not rush to dismantle the aircraft, but first roughly inspected the entire aircraft. He was like a child who had just got a new toy, and would study any part that he found new and interesting for a long time with great interest.
It’s a pity that the technology here is very different from that of his original world. Although it makes him itchy to see it, he can’t figure it out for the time being.
After spending most of the day studying the general structure of the aircraft, he began the disassembly work.
The most core components of an aircraft are the drive and engine. The drive ensures the flying speed and the engine generates propulsion power. These two are naturally the most valuable parts of the entire aircraft.
He first removed the drive and engine and hid them carefully, then began to disassemble the remaining parts. This aircraft had been overloaded for a long time, and although the damage to the middle and tail was not very serious, many parts inside were damaged due to excessive load. Ruan Shiqing could not repair it, and could not move so much, so he had to give up with great pain.
By the time he finished his work, night had once again enveloped the planet, with two crescent moons hanging symmetrically in the sky, shining coldly and intimidatingly.
It seemed to remind him all the time that this was no longer the world he was familiar with.
With a light sigh, Ruan Shiqing rubbed his protesting stomach and searched around in the aircraft, trying to find some food to fill his stomach. But he found no food, and his fingers touched something. The smooth bottom of the aircraft suddenly split apart, and an elliptical sealed capsule rose up.
The sealed cabin had no apparent purpose and only one button. Ruan Shiqing pressed it with a desire and expectation for food.
The three-meter-long elliptical sealed cabin slowly opened from the middle, revealing the empty interior.
——In fact, it wasn't completely empty, there was a bloodstained white military uniform thrown in there casually. But it made no difference whether it was there or not.
Ruan Shiqing: ...
Happy for nothing.
He was about to close the sealed cabin when he suddenly noticed that at the other end of the cabin away from him, there was a small, fluffy, snow-white ball curled up, with its snow-white fur almost blending into the snow-white cabin wall.
Ruan Shiqing walked to the other end, bent down to take a look, and was surprised to find that it was a weak animal cub.
The cub has fluffy snow-white fur, with its small head tucked under its belly and its fluffy tail wrapped around its entire body, rolling itself up into a snow-white ball. Only a pair of triangular ears are visible on the top of its head. The ear tips are blunt and soft to the touch, much like the pet dog Snowball that he once had.
Snowball is a Samoyed, and was also a white and fluffy ball when he was a child.
The familiar feeling made Ruan Shiqing's heart soften. He carefully picked up the puppy and found that he was not asleep, but injured. There was a fist-sized blood hole on the puppy's tightly curled abdomen. The skin and flesh were rolled up, and the oxidized blood stains coagulated into black blood clots on the fur around the wound... Such a horrible wound almost occupied the puppy's entire abdomen. If it weren't for the warm body temperature and the imperceptible rise and fall of the abdomen, people would almost think that he was dead.
Ruan Shiqing thought of the man he had seen last night. He also suffered a very serious injury in the abdomen. However, he might have been rescued by his companions at this time, but this poor little cub had to be abandoned on the aircraft, struggling alone, and finally died.
It was as if he was struggling alone in this strange world with no future. Ruan Shiqing felt a pang of pain in his heart. He held the puppy in his arms and said softly, "Since no one wants you, come home with me."
The author has something to say: Xiao Ruan: Today you let me go, tomorrow I will let you roll around qwq
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