Interstellar Mecha Life

Chapter 8

It was 35 hours after the rescue team arrived.

"Passengers, please be patient. There are entertainment rooms, restaurants, and screening halls on the plane for everyone to relax. Please don't be nervous and stay happy. The rescue team has arrived and the rescue operation has begun. Everything is going smoothly..."

Faced with the captain's reassurance, most people's reaction has changed from temporary relaxation at the beginning to questioning and suspicion.

Some people even began to curse: "Fuck it! Let us relax! Where is the rescue? Why didn't we see it!"

"Isn't it just a malfunction, it won't take so long to check it out?"

"Wait, wait! How long do we have to wait?"

"Can you give me an exact time?"

"I'm in a rush to transfer! I'm in a rush for a meeting..."

"Fuck, we all have things to do, so what's the point of being wasted here?"

Questions boiled over, but Qi Yue remained calm.She just needs to make sure that McDull has enough energy to support it.Moreover, there is still a long time before school starts, and she can still afford to wait for a week or two.

Suriel also became very calm after listening to Qi Yue's explanation and comfort.Compared to those people who were restless and completely unknown, she knew more and knew what happened.So not as panicked as they are.

"Qi Yue, why didn't they tell everyone that there were other shuttles that died?" Suriel asked in a low voice, "If they explain, everyone will understand why the rescue hasn't arrived here yet."

While looking at the system blueprint on the screen, Qi Yue said, "Because most people will panic if they know that the matter is so serious, and they won't think calmly."

"That's right." Suriel nodded, "If you hadn't told me, I'm afraid I would..."

Speaking of this, she paused, and then looked at Qi Yue with more and more admiring eyes: "Qi Yue! You are really good, you know everything! Moreover, you can actually hack into the system of the shuttle, even their communication Can hear it!"

"It's also a coincidence. It's luck." Qi Yue said casually.

In fact, she was not as relaxed as Suriel.Although he explained part of the truth to Suriel, it was also selective.Announcing the good news but not the bad news is talking about a person like her.

Rescue has been carried out, and very unsuccessfully.So far, not even a shuttle has been able to leave the planet.Whenever the rescue team's pusher shuttle reaches a certain height, that mysterious gravitational force will appear and pull the shuttle back to the position it was trapped in.No matter how much horsepower the rescue team used, it was of no avail.

And this gravity is selective.That is to say, even if the members of the rescue team are within this range, they will not be controlled by mysterious gravity if they want to leave or stay. Only these seventeen shuttles cannot leave.

Their communication has not been interrupted, and they can even connect to the interstellar network, query real-time information on the network, and contact the outside world.But there is no relevant information on the Internet. They can only contact relatives and friends and tell about what happened excitedly-but no one actually knows what happened.

Power problems, navigation problems... that's all they can say.

Not even sticking to the sides.

Through the inspection of the communication, Qi Yue knew that the first shuttle that died was a personal shuttle, and after calling for help, he didn't get enough attention. It wasn't until the accident of the third shuttle that crossed the star area that the military was alerted.In just one hour, ten shuttles were lost.An hour and a half later, military personnel arrived.At the same time, the last shuttle that died, that is, the shuttle that Qi Yue and the others were on, appeared outside the wormhole.

One and a half hours, seventeen shuttles, and no new victims after that.

"It's been two days." Qi Yue said, "I'm afraid I won't be able to cover it anymore."

Sure enough, on the third day, messages gradually came out, saying that they had seen strange things on the Internet - besides their shuttle, there were other shuttle accidents.

If it was a navigation and power failure, how could it be possible that more than two shuttles happened at the same time and were still trapped in the same place?

"Qi Yue, I heard that someone is finding out the truth." Su Ruier whispered to Qi Yue mysteriously.Compared with Qi Yue, who only knows how to read in her seat, she often goes to the entertainment room to chat with people. "I didn't say it, but now many people know that more than one shuttle is trapped here. The Federation should have blocked the news before, and also filtered the information on the Internet, so it didn't spread... But personal communications were not filtered... One person said his friend was on another shuttle that was stuck...."

Qi Yue didn't find it strange: "Well, what did they say?"

"They?" Suriel thought for a while, "They all feel that they have been deceived, and they are going to make a fuss. But there is no better way for the time being. After all, they are trapped here and cannot leave the shuttle. It is really more troublesome to make a fuss. "

Qi Yue nodded.It seems that after three days, no matter how stupid people are, they will not be easily impulsive.

"Where is the rescue? Does anyone know the news of the rescue?"

Suriel shook his head: "No. But since the military rescue has arrived, it shouldn't be a big problem."

Qi Yue didn't answer, but said, "Two more rescue shuttles entered orbit last night, and there are now twenty rescue mechs on this planet."

"Really!?" Suriel's eyes lit up, "So many people are here, does it mean that they are speeding up?"

Qi Yue raised the corners of her mouth and said nothing.But she thought in her heart: so many rescue mechas, it means that the problem is serious.

The shuttle they were on was no longer visually shielded. From the windows or the floor-to-ceiling glass of the entertainment room, one could see the boundless desolation of the wind and dust outside.It is like a hell without the concept of time or space.There is only one scene.

It's rare for Qi Yue to come out for activities.Holding a glass of orange juice, she stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass, looking at the unchanging horrible scene outside with a cold expression.Her face was pale, her body was thin, and her long bangs and uneven hair made her look a little rough and haggard.Not spectacular.

But maybe because it was a young girl, some people still came up to strike up a conversation, but they were always scared away by her indifference and boredom after saying a few words.

Qi Yue didn't mind this, but enjoyed being alone.

"McDull, can you judge our current position on the planet?" Qi Yue asked.

"Yes. It is currently 520 meters above the equator. It is minus 39 degrees from the point of entry into the atmosphere."

"Where are the other shuttles?" Qi Yue asked again.

After McDull answered one by one, Qi Yue stared at the violent scene outside and murmured: "We... are falling slowly...."

McDull said: "It is true. The current altitude of the earliest personal shuttle that died is about 500 meters, and it is very close to the dense atmosphere of the planet."

The boundary between the atmosphere of a gas planet and the star itself is not sharp.Gas composition and density can be used to distinguish.The height that McDull currently refers to is based on the degree of density.

"Are the people on the personal shuttle still alive?" Qi Yue asked, "Their heat shields should have reached their limit, right?"

"The rescue team helped him repair and strengthen the heat shield."

"That's it." Qi Yue nodded, "I forgot this. Did they try to get out of the warehouse?"

"Yes, but it doesn't work." McDull said in a flat voice, "Everyone who leaves the shuttle is also restricted by the mysterious gravitational force."

Suddenly, Qi Yue saw several abnormally colored lights flashing below, and they showed an absolutely unnatural twisted state.The angle of light bending, the speed of change, and the way of detour, as if someone is manipulating it!
But because the planet's atmosphere itself is too thick and the visibility is extremely low, she can't see what it is at all.

Driven almost by instinct, Qi Yue forgot that he was in the public entertainment room, and began to activate the control keyboard next to the floor-to-ceiling glass.

In this era, almost all glass can be used as a display screen, brushed with a display coating, and can be touched, photographed, sensed temperature, sensitivity, etc.

On the restricted control keyboard, she opened the only search box designated by the system that could be opened, and began to input instructions.

Whenever information interacts, there must be a possibility of intrusion, and there must be loopholes to follow.

The content in the search box will be returned to the system and a search command will be generated.As long as you have a certain understanding of the language used, you can use specific instructions to achieve your goal.

For example, a few simple symbols.

In the past two days, with the help of McDull, Qi Yue has a thorough understanding of the N-type shuttle from software to hardware.She knows that the language used by the entertainment system and auxiliary system of the shuttle is currently the most mainstream squid language, and this language has the advantage of being fast when used for searching, but it also has disadvantages, that is, once the search volume is too large, , the database is too large, too many conditions, etc., will return wrong instructions and expose the internal structure of the system.

Qi Yue easily took advantage of this weakness and found the functions corresponding to the external camera and analysis functions in the system.

She used the highest-performance external camera system on the shuttle and loaded it with a set of image analysis codes that she had purchased and learned about.

Finally, a built-in screen with a diagonal of [-] inches appeared on the floor-to-ceiling glass, and real-time effects were processed layer by layer.The picture also became clearer and clearer.

Qi Yue was still puzzled at the beginning, but soon, her expression turned into astonishment or even fright.

God, what is this thing?Could it be that they were trapped by this kind of thing! ?
"Qi Yue, our altitude has dropped below three thousand." McDull said suddenly.

"McDull, do you know what this is?" Qi Yue asked another question, "Are we captured by it?"

"Without an analog library, it is impossible to analyze." Most of McDull's external libraries were packed and hauled, and only the core code and some common functions were carried by Qi Yue. "Qi Yue, if you don't want to cause panic, please turn off the small screen."

After hearing this, Qi Yue realized that he was not in his own laboratory.She hastily turned off the screen, erasing data and footprints.Looking around cautiously, she breathed a sigh of relief—no one noticed what she was doing.

"Qi Yue!" Suriel ran over quickly, his face was slightly pale, and he said out of breath: "Qi Yue! Quick...Look!" The screen was sent to her.

Qi Yue took it over, took a second look, and found that this page was not an ordinary web page, but more like a page built by some relatively secret organizations that could bypass the federal interstellar network.

This is very similar to what Qi Yue wants to do, but the difficulty is quite high.Not only does it require extremely high programming skills, but also a very thorough understanding of basic knowledge such as space-time and electromagnetic waves.

Looking at the above content carefully, a huge title came into her eyes: "Many shuttles are trapped in P area, suspected to be caused by interstellar monsters"

The article not only detailed the status and number of the shuttle being trapped, but even the shuttle was slowly descending, and the rescue team had no clue.

The state that the shuttle cannot get rid of is described in detail in the article, and it is exactly the same as what Qi Yue understands.The only thing that is not mentioned is that even if they leave the shuttle, people cannot escape the state of being bound by the mysterious gravitational force.

But what Qi Yue cares most about is the word "monster".

Just after appearing on the small screen, that terrifying scene resurfaced in her mind, making her paler and paler.

"Qi Yue, did you see it?" Suriel said: "The person who showed me this said that the shuttle is hopeless, we must leave the cabin and go to the rescue team!"

(End of this chapter)