Chapter 549

Cao Xiong frowned and asked the technician, "what do you mean we can't fly away? Hasn't the system been restored?"

The technician nervously looked at the reported damage again, and then carefully replied: "what our system recovers is only the anti gravity device, that is, the suspension is no problem, but the power system can not recover temporarily. Without power, we can't escape the planetary gravity well. If we can't break the critical value, we can only suspend to a height of 40000 km..."

The co pilot saw that he was very general and quickly added: "In fact, the anti gravity device is like an electromagnet. You think of the whole planet as a big magnet. In turn, our small magnetic poles repel each other to float. However, once the distance is far beyond a certain standard and the planetary magnetic force is weak enough to support this force, we will fall down instead. This is the limit height of the anti gravity device. If we want to fly up again, we have to rely on the self support of the spacecraft You can fly away from Uranus only if you have physical power... "

"Well, there's only one way left for us to drill directly here!" Cao xiongyuan thought and said, "anyway, too high a height will cause an explosion of suspended gas in the upper layer. If we drill from the stratosphere, won't there be a similar situation?"

"That's no good. There are a lot of methane clouds floating in the atmosphere at this height. Once heated and exploded by laser, it will be more frightening than the explosion in upper space. You know, the atmospheric density here is much thicker than that in outer space. It's a fluke that we haven't been directly smashed by the atmospheric explosion!" the technical analyst said.

"Well..." Cao xiongyuan made two turns in the cabin, like a lion trapped in a cage. He looked at his watch. It was only 40 minutes before Uranus flew to the predetermined position. If he dragged it down, he couldn't even complete the basic drilling task.

"Let's descend! Reach the planet's surface, find a place where there is no methane cloud, and directly drill near the ground!" Cao xiongyuan waved his hand.

"But Captain, Uranus still receives a little infrared radiation from the sun in the stratosphere. Up here is the warming layer, that is, there is a little temperature. If we fall, we will be completely away from the sun radiation when we enter under the clouds. That place is almost absolute zero. People can't stand it. Even if the spacecraft works in that environment for 20 minutes, it may be destroyed Frozen... "

"What can we do?" Cao xiongyuan answered impatiently. "We can't go up or down now. Are we floating in the middle?"

"You can ask al Qaeda to send a spaceship to pick us up!" the staff officer advised carefully.

"Is it useful? If you send another one, the only thing you can accomplish is to pick us up from this damn place. He can't solve the situation that it's impossible to drill in the middle and high altitude!" although Cao xiongyuan seems irritable, he doesn't get out of touch with the problem and reveals the secret.

"But once we descend, we may never fly up again! I'm afraid it's impossible to repair the propeller at a low temperature of minus two Baidu!"

"Don't think about these things!" Cao xiongyuan completely showed his arbitrary and bold character. "When we came, the task we accepted was to drill and blow up Uranus. That's all the base said, isn't it? They didn't say that we must go back alive as long as we finish the task, and the rest!"

"..." everyone was speechless, so they had to gradually reduce the height according to the captain's order. The energy of the anti gravity system was fine tuned. The whole battleship turned sideways and drilled into the thick clouds, like throwing into a thick bed of cotton wool and disappeared.

It was dark, and the dense clouds were like a cotton curtain, blocking the weak sunlight 3 billion kilometers away in outer space. Except for a small part reflected by the refraction of atmospheric molecules, they were all blocked outside the door.

Fortunately, the atmospheric explosion just caused by the upper space provides enough fire support. The part of the red atmosphere that is still burning will shine slightly around, like the dawn on the earth.

The red sky light is mixed with the blue of methane and acetylene in the atmosphere, which turns the surroundings into a strange purple. The purple halo covers the vast land, with gentle mountains and hundreds of millions of square kilometers of methane sea. Thousands of miles of blue snow fields accumulate hundreds of meters of "methane snow", which is endless

Due to the crystallization effect formed by ultra-low temperature, light blue snowflakes fall in the air. Each snowflake is the size of a baby's palm, but it is thin and transparent, with different shapes. Due to the lack of air flow, all snowflakes keep falling slowly and vertically, and rotate and dance very smoothly. This rare landscape is amazing.

The spacecraft continues to descend, and the absolute height displayed on the data monitoring platform has been decreasing. Slowly, they are close to the "surface" of Uranus. It is said that the surface is not the real ground, but the sea level.

A frozen sea level filled with ice sand is far away from the sun, and Uranus's satellites are too small to form gravitational tides. The ocean here is eight times the size of the earth's Pacific Ocean. There are no waves and all the "sea water" They are metal hydrides liquefied under low temperature and high pressure. They are much denser than water and will not flow easily. If you can pinch them, they are actually more like viscous slime on the earth,

A dark blue transparent, boundless muddy ocean is like an infinitely huge mirror embedded on the surface of the planet. At the moment, Hao Zhi and them are floating over the dark blue mirror. In a trance, they feel that there is another world below the mirror, like a dream, like a kingdom in a fairy tale.

"Captain, the temperature of the hull is too low and the air pressure in the cabin decreases sharply. If we don't think of a way, I'm afraid the liquid filled outside our bridge will also freeze. In more than ten minutes, once the rupture of the ship's shell leads to low-temperature intrusion, even the air we breathe will be liquefied in an instant, let alone the personnel..." the staff officer nervously reported to Cao Xiong's distant ship captain.

"Then hurry up and find the hole we've just drilled and finish the task!" Cao xiongyuan didn't seem to hear what he said and stubbornly commanded his ship. "Let the person in charge of the machinery cabin rush to repair the power equipment, otherwise, we're all finished!"

Hao Zhi doesn't know what he's thinking. At present, everyone is trapped here. Even if he completes the task, he will be dead. Does he really not consider the way back except completing the task?

The spacecraft was slowly sailing towards the predetermined coordinates. Fortunately, the explosion did not lift everyone far away. Soon, everyone found the hole just drilled on the planet's surface. The originally melted ice at the hole had begun to close, like an automatic healing wound, shrinking from more than four meters in diameter to only half an opening.

Adjust the fuselage and continue drilling! Cao xiongyuan stared coldly at the ice flowers that had begun to bear on the porthole, and a little white breath came out of his mouth