spaceflight manual

Chapter 37 The Cold Equation

A few minutes later, in the warehouse.

Wang Ping'an and Angeli each dragged a refrigerator, and the drone dragged a refrigerator and a washing machine. One person and one machine floated towards the door of the warehouse.

Angeli was still a little worried: "Will it get stuck when entering the passage later?"

Wang Pingan waved his hand: "I measured it, so don't worry."

"Okay, you are the commander, you have the final say."

While maintaining such a conversation, the two drifted away.

Lu Fengxian crawled out of the maintenance tunnel for maintenance robots. Although he was already a big boy, his body hadn't started to move yet, and he was still of a size that could drill through the maintenance tunnel.

"There is an extra open container, it should be throwing the things inside." Lu Fengxian said to his sister, "Let's hurry up! It's far away from the A1 airlock. They can't float so fast with dragging things. Let's take a little less and go to The nearest A2 airlock must be faster than them."

Lu Aolei asked worriedly: "Will it be seen by the computer?"

"Just be careful not to be caught by the computer's camera. We have been hiding for 15 weeks and we have already figured out where all the cameras are. Come on!"

The brothers and sisters helped each other and floated to the newly opened container.

Lu Aolei: "Isn't this an electrical appliance? Won't throwing it away affect the quality of life of people on Mars?"

"Mars can also produce these, they just want to use famous brands! Since the commander decided to throw it away, then we are right to throw it away."

As he said that, Lu Fengxian dragged out a washing machine: "The refrigerator is too big, and it is difficult for us to push it. Come on, let's push this together, using the Z-movement method!"

"Okay!" Lu Aolei readily grabbed one end of the washing machine.

**
The A2 airlock is much closer than the A1, and the brother and sister are quite proficient in using the Z-shaped movement method. After all, they have lived in the warehouse for fifteen weeks, and practice makes perfect.

When they got to the front of the airlock, Lu Aolei stopped her brother who wanted to open the inner cabin door: "Wait a minute! What if there is a problem? Let's go to A1. The Commander looks fierce, but Auntie is easy to talk to."

Lu Fengxian: "Will you recognize your military rank? That's only a second lieutenant, and she has received a silver star, so she was promoted early. She must have just graduated from school and is still a second lieutenant because she doesn't have enough experience. She should be called sister!"

"You can call it whatever you want, let's forget it! Let's go to A1!"

"Why did you get so scared here? Look at this airlock, all the lights are green, and there are no traces of welding, and the paint is very new!"

Lu Aolei: "But the teacher at the summer camp, didn't the retired grandpa say that astronauts generally don't trust equipment with fresh paint?"

"That's all superstition! Believe in materialism!" Lu Fengxian pulled down the opening handle of the A2 airlock.

**
An alarm sounded in Wang Pingan's earphones, along with a notification from the computer: "The inner door of the A2 airlock was opened by an unauthorized person!"

Wang Pingan cursed: "Fuck! It's those two kids! Block the outer gate!"

Because it is not known whether the children have entered or not, it is easy to lock the children inside when the inner gate is closed at this time, and it may even crush people when it is closed.

When the closing mechanism of the airlock is designed, it is specifically required that even if it encounters hands, feet or even a human body, it must be forcibly closed—yes, even if the blocking limb is cut off, it must be closed.Because its most important task is to prevent the spacecraft from losing pressure.

In fact, not only the human body, but most of the parts of the spacesuit will be cut off by the airlock, and this thing is designed in this way.

Therefore, Wang Pingan did not dare to close the inner gate, so he could only lock the outer gate, which was also the most correct solution.

But there's an old saying among astronauts from the pre-space age: "If something can go wrong, it will."

The computer continued to alarm: "The outer cabin door cannot be locked. It is judged to be a mechanical failure. The maintenance robot outside the cabin is dispatched."

Wang Pingan: "Change the task of the maintenance robot to plugging the loophole. Send out the damage control robot, hurry up!"

"The damage control robot is dispatched, and the dispatch is complete. It is expected to arrive outside the airlock in 5 minutes."

The robots that usually carry out maintenance are different from the robots responsible for damage control. Because the damage control robots generally have no chance of dispatching, they will be kept in relatively strong hangars and protected by the spacecraft's anti-meteorite system.

Otherwise, it would be "humorous" for the damage control robot to be destroyed by a meteorite first.

Wang Pingan: "You continue to go to A1, I'm going to A2 to deal with the two little bastards severely."

Angeli: "I'll go too, in case I get hurt..."

"I'm also trained in first aid."

"What if the girl gets hurt?"

Wang Pingan didn't object anymore, and the two of them used the engine to make an emergency stop, stopped the delivered electrical appliances, showed the drone to watch, and turned back along the passage.

**
Lu Fengxian closed the inner cabin door of A2 and said to his sister, "Look, how simple it is!"

Lu Aolei looked suspicious: "Isn't that right? Just throwing this thing will turn it into a meteorite? Shouldn't we dismantle this thing? At least disassemble it into a size that the anti-meteorite system can handle."

Lu Fengxian said nonchalantly: "Don't worry, the anti-meteorite system is very advanced now, and a meteorite of this size will evaporate easily!"

Lu Aolei still looked worried, but Lu Fengxian had already pulled down the handle of the outer cabin door.

The huge washing machine was sprayed out with a puff.

**
"Meteorite Alert!"

As soon as the computer reported, Wang Pingan said: "Mao's meteorite is a home appliance thrown by children, and it was irradiated with laser light! Don't cause trouble for the people behind!"

Angeli looked at Wang Pingan who was furious: "At least nothing happened now, don't be so angry..."

"You're not angry because you're a newcomer. I know it. I know what space is like!" Wang Pingan glared at Angeli, "I'm going to beat them up later, don't stop me! I want to beat them as punishment! I want to beat them like spinning tops in the weightless space!"

"This is a serious violation of military regulations. If you want to go to Centaur, you can't fight!"

"No, I want to fight!"

At this moment, the pressure loss alarm sounded.

**
Things happen in an instant.

Lu Fengxian wanted to close the outer cabin door, but at this moment, an accident happened.

It was just a small gap on the cabin door that was not clearly visible to the naked eye, but after the leak occurred, the airtight glue on both sides of the gap was blown out at once, and the gap became a long gap as thick as a little finger.

The strong pressure immediately pressed Lu Fengxian against the wall, and his nose directly hit the edge of the gap, and it snapped off.

Immediately afterwards, his sister was also sucked over and bumped into him firmly.

When his left hand was pressed, it happened to be in the anti-joint position, so it was dislocated in an instant.

He wanted to scream, but the vocal cords had been squeezed into his mouth by the air in his body——

The moment before he lost consciousness, Lu Fengxian used all his strength to arch his body forward a little.

His nose had been chipped off entirely and was bleeding profusely.

But the good news is that the gap is perfectly blocked by his chest.

The force pressing his sister disappeared in an instant, and the girl floated away from her brother——

Lu Aolei immediately reacted, struggled to grab the handle that closed the outer hatch, and pushed it up——

However, there was no response.

While crying, Lu Aolei pulled down and up the handle continuously, but there was still no response.

Finally, she remembered that she should close it manually at this time.So I slapped the emergency button next to me hard.

The bulkhead covering the manual handle was sprayed up with explosive bolts.

The girl held the handle and asked to step on the specially designed pedals, and then found out in despair that this thing was designed for adults, and an 11-year-old child could not use these two pedals to exert force——

Lu Aolei was quick-witted, turned her body, stepped on the fire valve next to her, tried her best to turn the handle——

However, this thing is not something an 11-year-old girl can push.

Lu Aolei cursed anxiously: "Move! You are so moving!"

At this time, a strong hand held the girl's little hand, and the next moment the huge disc began to spin.

The depressurization alarm finally stopped.

Wang Ping'an's face was ashen, and Angeli rushed to Lu Fengxian who blocked the loophole with her body.

Lu Aolei shrank her neck, covered her face and kept crying.

Angeli: "His internal organs should have ruptured, and stomach acid and bile should have flowed everywhere in his body. I can only prolong his life as much as possible."

Lu Aolei yelled: "Impossible! Isn't modern medicine able to save as long as there is no brain death?"

Wang Pingan said solemnly: "That is in a place with complete medical facilities. You should say that people with completely ruptured internal organs can still rely on the standing emergency equipment on the spacecraft to hang their lives for a period of time. This has fully reflected the strength of modern medicine. Bull fork.

"Space is like this. Those who despise it will be despised by it. It is very fair, and this is its equation."

(End of this chapter)