Alien Relic Hunter

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"Scavenger, I'll leave the duty from fourteen to eighteen o'clock to you. Let's go have a meal and take a rest." Lu Dan said to Ke Lan, and Ke Lan defaulted to "Scavenger" as the Fool's codename. At that time, the original "beep——" sound when others called the Fool in this memory was automatically replaced by the three words "Scavenger".

"Okay, I understand, go ahead." Ke Lan responded casually.

There is no need for him to be distracted from the operation. As long as he subconsciously "forgets" the existence of his hands, his hands will act as if they have self-awareness, rapidly clicking or swiping on the touch screen, manipulating the mechanical arms to hit the objects that are coming. Cut it open with a meteorite or something else.

Ke Lan has now basically understood the rules in the memory world: as long as he does not actively interfere, this memory will "play" according to the established track like a recorded video; and if because of himself as the "protagonist" If interference causes the development of things to deviate from the original memory content, it depends on how large the deviation is.

If the deviation is not big and will not affect the original plot direction, then it will be compensated based on the common sense in Ke Lan or the Fool's memory - for example, Ke Lan suddenly said to Lu Dan, "Today is Crazy Thursday, V I am 50", Lu Dan Most of the time, they would smile and pat their heads, and reply, "I have been eating synthetic food for more than ten years. Just like you, I also miss the fried chicken on the Ark." Then they would act as if nothing had happened and continue to do what they should do. thing.

And if you smash the mirror directly like Ke Lan did in the locker room before, then the memory world will forcibly restore the affected part of things to their original appearance.

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

"Warning! Warning! An asteroid with a diameter of 5.7 kilometers has been detected on the preset route and is moving in the direction of the shuttle. An impact is expected in sixty seconds!"

"Sixty seconds?!" Ke Lan was stunned. Logically speaking, the shuttle's detection instrument should have discovered such a close asteroid a long time ago... But it appeared very suddenly, as if it came from a certain space. It rolled out of the crack and fell into the path 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 5.7 kilometers on the route. It will collide with us in one minute." Ke Lanyan said concisely and concisely.

"To be precise, it's fifty-two seconds later." Ke Lan glanced at the countdown on the screen again and added.

"An asteroid with a diameter of 5.7 kilometers?!" The little lolita wearing glasses suddenly rushed to the console, made a pulling motion with her right hand in mid-air, and a virtual keyboard composed of holographic projections appeared from " "Void" was pulled out and placed in front of her.

"Forty-nine seconds, forty-eight seconds...it's too late to change the course!" Glasses Loli said anxiously.

"Why is it too late?" Luo Dan asked, "There is still more than half a minute, and the diameter of 5.7 kilometers is not very big, right?"

"Modifying and recalibrating the voyage requires detailed calculations using 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 far inferior to that of the era when Ke Lan lived. Many computers used for cutting-edge equipment are not even as good as civilian-equipped machines in the civilian market a hundred years from now.

"Can't we switch to manual operation?!" Lu Dan glanced at the countdown and said anxiously. The number at the beginning had jumped from "4" to "3", and the asteroid finally entered the range visible to the naked eye, and quickly magnified in their eyes.

"A living person cannot be choked to death by urinating!"

Lu Dan clicked a few times on the touch screen, and a cover under the console slowly slid open, revealing a joystick similar to a racing handle.

Luo Dan reached out and held the joystick and took a deep breath, but did not perform any substantive operation.

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 results in the actual maneuverability of this thing being very poor. Secondly, the position they are currently in is actually very dangerous... Without computer assistance, if the altitude exceeds the critical value, the shuttle will be uncontrollably pulled to the ground by the gravity of Alpha Star. In this case, as long as the angle of the shuttle deviates slightly, it will easily exceed the dangerous height.

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

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

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

The shuttle's avoidance direction is towards the outside of the orbit - moving in this direction will increase the distance from Alpha Star, so you don't have to worry about being captured by Alpha Star's gravity. You just need to be careful not to crash into the outer periphery. Just a space debris ring.

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

In five seconds, the shuttle has been pulled to the edge of the asteroid, and the nearby asteroid has occupied the entire field of view returned by the camera directly in front.

"Three, two, one..."

With Luodan's low roar and the joystick pressed to the limit, the shuttle finally narrowly avoided the asteroid, but just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the shuttle shook violently again. It got up, and there was a muffled sound from the rear cabin.

"Damn it! The thruster was still scratched by the asteroid!" Lu Dan quickly checked the status of the shuttle. "Thrusters No. 1, 2, and 3 were all scrapped, and only the No. 4 thruster was still alive... …But if we persist for at most thirty seconds, the last thruster will also flame out.”

"Then what should we do?" The team doctor's brows knitted together, "Can you fix it?"

"It can be repaired, but it will take time." Ludan said solemnly, "If we go out of the cabin to repair now, we will crash into the space garbage ring due to the effect of inertia, and the situation will only become worse in the future. Oops...it's very possible that we will never lose the chance to land on Alpha."

Lu Dan paused and then continued: "There is another option before us, which is to rely on the final power of the No. 4 thruster to complete the turn and fly directly to Alpha Star."

"The survival chances of the two options are actually very different." Luo Dan said, "I would rather choose to take a chance... 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 the team doctor." Another female team member said. She is an ordinary-looking Chinese woman, about 25 to 30 years old. She usually talks very little and has little sense of presence. , so that in the Fool's memory, he didn't have much impression of this female teammate.

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

"Lu 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" from the protagonist's first perspective. ".

But then again, if the person standing here was not the Fool but Ke Lan, Ke Lan would probably make the same choice as Lu Dan and the others.

"Theoretically speaking, the chance of survival is higher if you choose to go to Alpha Planet." The glasses Loli nodded. "The reverse thruster at the front of the shuttle is not damaged, and we still have a chance of landing successfully. And if we plunge headfirst into As for the garbage ring... there are more celestial bodies in that place that are larger than the asteroid just now, and it will take at least two days to repair the thruster. We must ensure that we will not hit those objects within two days. thing."

"Speaking of which, since there is a reverse thruster at the front of the shuttle, why can't it be turned around and use the front thruster to replace the damaged tail thruster?" Ke Lan asked unexpectedly.

The expressions of Loli Eyes, the team doctor and the passerby with a low sense of presence all fell into a brief sluggish expression. This was not because Ke Lan's question shocked them, but because this sentence did not exist in their original memory. exists, thus triggering the self-correction mechanism of memory.

"It's useless." replied Ke Lan's stewed eggs, "The reverse thruster at the front of the shuttle is used for deceleration and buffering when landing. It is not connected to the same power furnace as the main thruster at the rear, both in terms of power and duration. Sex is incomparable to the main propulsion and cannot replace it.”

When he said this, Luo Dan's eyes were in a state of glazed over, and all the movements in his hands stopped - not only him, but everyone else was also frozen in place, motionless. Even the jumping numbers on the screen were frozen.

It's like Ke Lan released Shi Su. The only difference is that the stagnant world has not faded away and turned into black and white.

This stagnation disappeared in an instant, and everything around them returned to normal. The people in the advance team continued to talk about the topic just now, as if Ke Lan had never asked the question.

"I'll control the shuttle, and you can figure out the landing trajectory." Luodan said to the glasses Loli, "It doesn't have 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 mountainous area... This shouldn’t be difficult for you, right?”

"I'll try my best." The glasses loli nodded, and her hands began to type quickly on the virtual keyboard.

Through preliminary surveys by drones, the advance team already knew that the ocean on Planet Alpha was very dangerous. Not only was the sea water toxic, corrosive and containing strong radiation, there were also many strange things about the ocean itself - from a safety perspective If you think about it, the ocean is definitely a no-go zone within a no-go zone.

Secondly, there are the ruins of the Alpha civilization and the endless mountainous areas... Needless to say about the former, if the latter falls in, it may not be that easy to get out of the mountains.

Planet Alpha is full of radiation zones and chaotic electromagnetic fields. Props such as compasses are of no use, and drones will be seriously interfered with... The complex terrain of the mountainous area is enough to trap everyone in the advance team to death.

But the good news is that the empty plains on Alpha Planet account for more than 50% of the entire planet. Even if they randomly choose the landing point, they have more than half the chance of landing on the plains.

Glasses Loli quickly completed the calculations and input a series of data into the console. Luodan continued to make adjustments based on these data, reversing the shuttle's course bit by bit.

Finally, as the icon symbolizing "Propulsor No. 4" on the screen jumped from yellow to red, and finally slowly extinguished, the shuttle completely lost power.

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

The process of crossing the atmosphere was uneventful. The shuttle itself was designed to land on Alpha Star, and its defensive performance was excellent. Only two of the six layers of ablative coatings were consumed before it successfully broke through the atmosphere and arrived. above a plain on Alpha Planet.

"Height 11,000 meters!" Ludan said solemnly, "Reverse thrusters, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4, all start and start decelerating!"

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 shuttle's falling momentum suddenly slowed down.

"Parachute, open!"

Along with the braised egg's low drink, a huge parachute was pulled out from the tail of the shuttle. The moment it opened, the parachute was caught by the airflow, and the shuttle's fall slowed down again.

"There is a plain below, and no suspicious objects have been found visually." Luodan stared at the screen and said, "The cushioning air cushion is ready, and it is expected to land in one hundred and thirty-five seconds."

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