Chapter 118: Forward!
Even if our side in this lifetime overcomes countless dangers and ultimately resolves this apocalypse, for the Reaper Civilization, it is no more than equivalent to one Reaper Machine breaking down.
Just like wheat in a human farmer’s field, after countless hardships, finally pushing a stone into the blade head of the Reaper Machine, damaging the blade head in that way.
For humans, a broken Reaper Machine is just replacing the blade head again. So at this moment, for the Reaper Civilization?
Sun Changhe stood up, his voice somewhat hoarse, but still full of determination.
“We are humans, humans with emotion and rationality, not crops.
We prosper and multiply on Earth, creating brilliant culture. We defeat one enemy after another, overcome one difficulty after another, and we always firmly walk on the path of making civilization develop further and allowing every individual composing the civilization to live better.
Whoever dares to block us, we will eliminate them. Even if the creator who created us descends to block our forward steps, we will unhesitatingly charge at him.
If one charge cannot defeat the enemy, then twice, three times, countless times.
As long as human civilization still exists and continues, we do not fear any challenge.
What’s more, we now have Comrade Jiang Yang and more attempt opportunities.
If the Reaper Civilization wants to harvest us, then come on, we’re waiting.
We can damage their Reaper Machine the first time, we can do it the second time, the third time, until we completely eliminate them!”
These powerful words swept away the heavy atmosphere in the control hall.
Future second harvest, third harvest?
We’re waiting!
It’s just meeting soldiers with generals and water with earth.
Now, still focus energy on this apocalypse.
……
At this moment, not far from the lunar underground passage entrance.
The mechanical spacesuit worn by Zhao Jianguo emitted a faint cold light, illuminating a pitch-black lunar underground passage and also illuminating part of the minibus ahead.
In the dead silence, the minibus advanced quietly, not fast, only about five kilometers per hour.
Zhao Jianguo knew that, based on mechanics calculations, the minibus’s forward motivation at this moment came only partly from gravitational potential energy.
Due to its own weight and friction, its forward movement mainly relied on manpower provided by the astronauts inside.
Twelve astronauts pedaled together, driving the minibus forward while also driving the flow of liquid nitrogen throughout the vehicle, bringing all the heat back and then dissipating it through the radiator connected to that tail.
The minibus advanced slowly, and Zhao Jianguo followed behind, advancing unhurriedly.
He did not just stay fixed behind the minibus, but would occasionally walk ahead, circling the entire vehicle for careful inspection to see if any cold light leaked out.
When building this minibus, the engineers added a layer of fluorescent material inside the body structure.
Under normal conditions, this layer of fluorescence would not leak out. But if the outer material was corroded, it would show, to be seen by Zhao Jianguo.
Zhao Jianguo could then judge where the body was corroded and make corresponding repairs.
Time passed bit by bit, and in the blink of an eye, nearly an hour had gone by.
Glancing at the mechanical watch and mechanical pedometer on his arm, and calculating comprehensively, Zhao Jianguo knew the current depth.
About 4000 meters.
Before this distance, no detectable corrosion appeared on any part of the body, no fluorescence leaked out, and his spacesuit showed no signs of damage.
And according to the intelligence provided by Comrade Jiang Yang, from this moment on, that corrosion would slowly appear.
His mind grew tenser, and his gaze watching the vehicle ahead through the helmet glass grew sharper, like a hawk or falcon.
The surroundings remained absolutely quiet and dead silent, allowing him to even hear his own heartbeat.
Thump thump thump, thump thump thump.
The heartbeat speed was not fast at all. Clearly, even though this was his first time entering this mysterious unknown place, he had well controlled his emotions.
A faint fluorescence leaked from the upper left side of the body.
In the current passage, besides the cold light from his own spacesuit, there was no other light source, maintaining almost absolute darkness.
Precisely because of this, Zhao Jianguo’s eyes entered a state of extreme sensitivity to light. That faint fluorescence, though weak, still could not escape his capture.
That corrosion had indeed come.
Since it had come, it also meant his own spacesuit was starting to be corroded.
Taking a gentle breath, Zhao Jianguo ignored the corrosion on himself and followed the standard operation process from previous training. In a few steps, he reached the side of the minibus, maintaining a state of advancing synchronously with the body, while raising his arm and accurately pulling out a thin metal sheet from the top of the body.
It was so thin that at this moment it did not look like metal, but like some soft paper.
Carefully unfolding it, Zhao Jianguo did not hesitate at all and directly pasted it onto the place where the fluorescence had appeared before.
Carefully scanning around the body and seeing no more fluorescence leaking out, he finally relaxed his heart.
But in less than a minute, he detected fluorescence appearing again.
At the same time, a wisp of white mist appeared at his side.
A gas leak had occurred.
There was no emotional fluctuation in Zhao Jianguo’s heart. His arm remained as stable and accurate as machinery.
A piece of special tape was quickly pulled out and accurately pasted onto the gas leak point of the spacesuit; that white mist disappeared instantly.
After that, he pulled out another metal sheet from the top of the body and pasted it onto the location where the fluorescence appeared, eliminating that point of light again.
In the next few minutes, Zhao Jianguo repeated these actions in this way.
Spacesuit leak, paste tape; minibus fluorescence, paste metal sheet; everything proceeded orderly.
But a few minutes later, the situation changed again.
No fluorescence appeared on the body; instead, the tail behind and the radiator connected to the tail emitted fluorescence.
Due to temperature reasons, it had no PDYY-6 superconducting material shield as protection.
Once the radiator was damaged, the heat inside the body could not be conducted out, which would cause all superconducting materials in the entire body to quench, thereby causing this shield to malfunction.
But facing the radiator’s damage, Zhao Jianguo was powerless.
However, it did not matter.
Casually pasting a newly appeared gas leak point, Zhao Jianguo looked again at the mechanical watch and mechanical pedometer.
The minibus had advanced 4300 meters, soon to reach the predetermined 4500-meter stage.
Ignoring the radiator’s damage, Zhao Jianguo continued busying himself, repairing the body’s damage, until a large piece of steel material directly snapped off from his own spacesuit.
At this moment, Zhao Jianguo felt his body suddenly expand by a circle, with a chill felt everywhere on his body. At the same time, his lungs felt squeezed by something, gas being irresistibly expelled, and the saliva in his mouth began to boil like pop rocks.
The spacesuit was already damaged to the extreme and could no longer be repaired.
His body staggered and he fell to the ground. At the same time, he clearly saw the radiator device behind the minibus body directly disconnect from the body and stay in place, no longer advancing.
And almost simultaneously, the originally dim minibus, with only a few faint fluorescences leaking out, suddenly surged in brightness overall, like oil poured on fire.
He struggled to crawl over, but his strength and consciousness drained from his body quickly like water leaking from a bucket.
……
Inside the minibus.
The mechanical watch and mechanical odometer both pointed to a certain position.
Without any exchange, astronaut Li Hui immediately stood up. Under the gaze of his comrades still furiously pedaling the pedals, he pushed open the door and got out.
Based on previous training, opening the door, getting out, and closing the door took less than two seconds, maintaining the body’s sealing as much as possible.
After getting out, a patch of fluorescence immediately entered Li Hui’s eyes.
But he temporarily ignored this fluorescence and directly pulled out a radiator equipment with pipes from the storage compartment at the lower part of the body, which was also protected by superconducting armor.
In a few steps to the rear of the body, looking at the liquid nitrogen constantly leaking from the pipes, he directly shoved the new pipe onto it.
There were also two clusters of light in the rear passage.
One should be the damaged radiator, the other is… Zhao Jianguo?
Vaguely, Li Hui saw that cluster of light move slightly, as if waving goodbye to him, and then it completely went still.
