Alien Relic Hunter

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"Scavenger, you will be on duty from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-]. Let's go have a meal and take a rest." Braised Dan said to Ke Lan, and Ke Lan defaulted "Scavenger" as the fool's code name At that time, the silence of "beep--" when other people called the Fool in this memory was automatically replaced with the three words "scavenger".

"Okay, got it, you guys go." Ke Lan replied casually.

He doesn't need to be distracted to operate, as long as he subconsciously "forgets" the existence of his hands, his hands will quickly click or swipe on the touch screen as if they have self-awareness, and manipulate the objects that the robotic arm will hit. Meteorite or something to cut open.

Ke Lan has now basically figured out the rules in the memory world: as long as he does not take the initiative to interfere, this memory will be "played" according to the established track like a recorded video; If there is a deviation between the development of the matter and the original memory content, it depends on the magnitude of the deviation.

If the deviation is small and will not affect the original plot direction, then it will be made up based on Ke Lan or the common sense in the memory of the fool. Most of them will touch their heads with a smile, and reply, "I have eaten synthetic food for more than ten years. Like you, I also miss the fried chicken on the ark." Then I will continue to do what I should do as if nothing happened. thing.

And if, like what Ke Lan did in the dressing room before, the mirror is directly smashed, then the memory world will forcibly return the affected part of the things to their original appearance.

Just when Ke Lan was thinking about how to obtain more information from other advance team members through "compliance" means, a piercing siren suddenly sounded in the control room.

"Warning! Warning! An asteroid with a diameter of 60 kilometers has been detected on the preset route and is moving in the direction of the shuttle. It is expected to collide in [-] seconds!"

"60 seconds?!" Ke Lan was taken aback. Logically speaking, the shuttle's detection instruments should have discovered such an asteroid a long time ago... But it appeared very abruptly, as if it came from a space rift. It rolled out of the car and fell into the course of the shuttle.

Before Ke Lan could do anything, Lu Dan and others who had just left the control room rushed back. As soon as they entered the door, before they had time to look at the screen, they shouted directly to Ke Lan: "What happened?"

"There is an asteroid with a diameter of 1 kilometers on the route, and it will collide with us in one minute." Ke Lan said succinctly.

"To be precise, it will be 52 seconds later." Ke Lan glanced at the countdown on the screen again, and added.

"An asteroid with a diameter of [-] kilometers?!" The little girl wearing glasses rushed to the front of the console, and made a pulling motion with her right hand in mid-air, and a virtual keyboard made of holographic projections from " "Void" was pulled out and lay in front of her.

"49 seconds, 48 ​​seconds... It's too late to change the course!" The glasses loli said anxiously.

"Why is it too late?" Lu Dan asked, "There is still more than half a minute, and a diameter of [-] kilometers is not too big, right?"

"Modifying and recalibrating the navigation requires detailed calculations with a computer. For this one on the shuttle, it will take at least two to three minutes." Glasses Loli said seriously.

The computing power of computers in this era is much lower than that of Ke Lan's life. Many computers used for cutting-edge equipment are not even as good as the civilian configuration machines in the civilian market 100 years later.

"Isn't it possible to change the manual operation?!" Braised Dan glanced at the countdown and said anxiously.The number at the beginning has jumped from "4" to "3", and the asteroid has finally entered the range visible to the naked eye, and it rapidly magnifies in their eyes.

"A living person can't be suffocated by urine!"

Braised egg tapped a few times on the touch screen, and a cover under the console slowly slid open, revealing a joystick similar to a racing handle.

Braised egg reached out to hold the joystick, took a deep breath, but did not perform any substantive operations.

Manual operation is not as simple as imagined.

First of all, the shuttle is different from fighter jets and mechas. It has neither a vector engine nor so many posture control nozzles, which makes the actual maneuverability of this thing actually very poor.Secondly, the position they are in is actually very dangerous... Without computer assistance, if the altitude exceeds that critical value, the shuttle will be uncontrollably pulled towards the ground by the gravity of Alpha Star. Under certain circumstances, as long as the angle of the shuttle deviates slightly, it is easy to break through that dangerous height.

But Ke Lan was not in a hurry, he did not participate in the debate, but just watched all this quietly... Anyway, this is just a memory, no matter what the ending is, it will not have any impact on him.What's more, the Fool returned to the Ark alive, which means that the advance team should have successfully resolved this wave of crisis.

The asteroid was getting closer, and there were only the last 20 seconds left in the countdown... Marinated bit his lower lip hard, and carefully pressed down the joystick bit by bit.

The shuttle began to shake violently, and there was a brief commotion in the control room. The little girl wearing glasses slipped and fell to the ground.

The avoidance direction of the shuttle is toward the outer side of the orbit—moving in this direction will shorten the distance from Alpha Star, so that you don’t have to worry about being captured by Alpha Star’s gravity, just be careful not to crash into the outer space Just the space junk belt.

Ten seconds later, the shuttle had completely deviated from its original course, but the collision alarm was still not released.

In five seconds, the shuttle has been pulled to the edge of the asteroid, and the asteroid that is close at hand has occupied the entire field of view transmitted by the camera directly in front.

"Three, two, one..."

Accompanied by the growl of the marinated egg and the joystick being pushed to the limit, the shuttle finally avoided the asteroid, but when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the shuttle shook violently again Got up, and there was a muffled sound from the rear cabin.

"Damn it! The thrusters were still scratched by the asteroid!" Braised egg quickly checked the status of the shuttle, "No. 30, No. [-], and No. [-] thrusters are all scrapped, only No. [-] thruster is still alive... …but hold on for a maximum of [-] seconds, and this last thruster will also fail.”

"Then what should we do?" The team doctor frowned, "Can you fix it?"

"It can be repaired, but it will take time." Lu Dan said in a deep voice, "If we go out of the cabin to repair now, we will crash into the ring of space junk under the influence of inertia, and the situation will only become worse after that. Oops...it is very likely that we will lose the chance to land on Alpha Planet forever."

Ludan paused, and then continued: "There is another option in front of us, and that is to rely on the final power of the No. [-] thruster to complete the turn and fly directly to Alpha Star."

"The chances of survival between the two options are not bad." Ludan said, "I'd rather choose to gamble...it depends on how you decide."

"I choose Planet Alpha." The team doctor said without hesitation, "The purpose of our mission is to explore Planet Alpha. Even if I die, I will die on this planet."

"My choice is the same as that of the team doctor." Said another female player. This is a plain-looking Chinese woman between the ages of 25 and 30. She rarely talks and doesn't have much sense of presence. In Fool's memory, he didn't have much impression of this female teammate.

Three of the five people have expressed their opinions, and they all have the same choice. According to the rule of the minority obeying the majority, the remaining two people have no right to choose.

"Braised Dan is right, let's take a gamble." Ke Lan nodded, he knew that no matter what he chose, he could not change the direction of the plot... He was just an outsider, a "bystander" in the protagonist's first perspective ".

But then again, if Ke Lan had been standing here instead of the Fool, Ke Lan would probably have made the same choice as Bitten and the others.

"Theoretically speaking, choosing to go to Alpha Star has a higher chance of surviving." Glasses Lori nodded, "The reverse propeller at the front of the shuttle is not damaged, and we still have a chance of landing successfully. And if we plunge into As for the garbage ring... In that place, there are more celestial bodies larger than the asteroid just now, and the repair of the thrusters will take at least two days. We must ensure that we will not collide with those asteroids within two days. thing."

"Speaking of which, since there is a reverse thruster at the front of the shuttle, why can't we turn the head and tail around and use the front thruster to replace the damaged tail thruster?" Ke Lan asked on a whim.

The eyes of Lolita, the team doctor, and the passer-by with a low sense of presence all fell into a momentary sluggish expression. This was not because Ke Lan's question shocked them, but because this sentence was not in the original memory. exists, so the self-correction mechanism of the memory is triggered.

"It's useless." Ke Lan replied, "The reverse thruster at the front of the shuttle is used to slow down and buffer when landing, and it is not connected to the same power furnace as the main thruster at the rear. Sex can’t be compared with the main propulsion, it can’t be replaced.”

When saying these words, Ludan's eyes have been in a state of indifference, and all the movements of his hands have stopped - not only him, but everyone else also froze in place, motionless, just Even the jumping numbers on the screen were frozen.

It's as if Ke Lan released the time stop, the only difference is that the stagnant world has not faded and turned into black and white.

This stagnation was fleeting, and everything around them returned to normal. Everyone in the advance team continued to talk about the topic just now, as if Ke Lan had never asked that question.

"I'll control the shuttle, you find a way to calculate the landing trajectory." Braised Dan said to the glasses loli, "It doesn't need to be too precise, just make sure that the place where we land is an open plain, and don't fall into the sea , it's best not to fall in the mountains... This shouldn't be difficult for you, right?"

"I'll do my best." The glasses girl nodded, typing quickly on the virtual keyboard with both hands.

Through the preliminary survey of drones, everyone in the advance team already knew that the ocean on Alpha Planet is very dangerous. Not only is the seawater poisonous, corrosive, and has strong radiation, but the ocean itself also has many strange things-from a safety point of view. If you think about it, the ocean is definitely a forbidden area in the restricted area.

The second is the ruins of the Alpha civilization and the endless mountainous areas... Needless to say about the former, if the latter falls into it, it may not be so easy to get out of the mountains.

There are radiation zones and turbulent electromagnetic fields everywhere on Alpha Planet. Compass and other props are useless, and drones will be seriously disturbed... The complex terrain of the mountain is enough to trap everyone in the advance team to death.

But the good news is that the open plains on the surface of Alpha star account for more than [-]% of the entire planet's area. Even if they randomly choose the landing point, they still have more than half the chance of landing on the plain.

The glasses loli quickly completed the calculation and input a series of data into the console, and the marinated egg constantly made adjustments based on these data, turning the course of the shuttle bit by bit.

Finally, as the icon on the screen that symbolized "Propeller No. [-]" jumped from yellow to red, and then slowly went out, the shuttle completely lost power.

Fortunately, the course adjustment has been completed. Next, the shuttle will slide down to Alpha Star under the influence of inertia, and then under the pull of gravity, it will continue to accelerate——

The process of passing through the atmosphere was without any surprises or dangers. The shuttle itself was designed to land on Alpha Star, and its own defense performance is still excellent. Only two of the six layers of ablative coating were consumed, and it successfully broke through the atmosphere and arrived at Over the sky of a certain plain on Alpha Star.

"Altitude 1000 meters!" Braised Egg said in a deep voice, "Reverse thrusters, No. [-], No. [-], No. [-], and No. [-], all activate and start to slow down!"

The front end of the shuttle that fell straight down suddenly ejected four tail flames that were tens of meters long. Driven by this strong force, the momentum of the shuttle's fall suddenly slowed down.

"Parachute, open!"

Accompanied by the whisper of the marinated egg, a huge parachute was pulled out from the tail of the shuttle. The moment the umbrella opened, it was slowed down by the airflow, and the speed of the shuttle's falling slowed down again.

"Below is the plain, and no suspicious objects were found visually." Lu Dan stared at the screen and said, "The cushion air cushion is ready, and it is expected to land in 130 five seconds."

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