Son of the Stars

Chapter 165 Emergency Situation
"Okay, keep it up." Zheng Yan's voice from the command cabin came over the radio. Close-range radio actually sounds very clear, not full of noise and interference like in the movies.

"Don't sleep." Nakamura Takuya also said on the intercom, "The commander has glared at me dozens of times - if you fall asleep too, then it will be considered that I have led you astray."

"Okay, I'll try my best." Ruan Hongying said while suppressing a smile, "If I have freshly baked bread and coffee when I go back, I should be able to persist longer."

Nakamura Takuya suddenly became anxious, "Didn't you drink coffee before leaving the cabin? Now only my quota is left..."

"Oh, I'm so sleepy." Ruan Hongying patted the helmet glass near her mouth. The thick astronaut gloves collided with the visor, making a small sound that only she could hear. "I will fall asleep if I stay sleepy any longer." It’s time to sleep!”

Zheng Yan was in a daze in the command module, not caring that the propulsion engineer in her team was blackmailing the software engineer unscrupulously. A software engineer, to put it bluntly, is a single coder. If you are slightly blackmailed by a colleague who you really like, not only will there be no actual loss, but you can even experience a rare peace of mind. Isn't this nice?
In short, after receiving the quota of hot baguettes and coffee, Ruan Hongying quickly felt "no sleepiness at all" and began to energetically start a spacewalk outside the cabin looking for nothing to do.

Ruan Hongying is a propulsion engineer. It is Ruan Hongying's main job to repair and maintain Shuguang-7's various propulsion engines, exposed nozzles and main engines.

Having said that, in space, it is dangerous to maintain the engine from the outside. In order to reduce the need for space walks due to maintenance, space agency engineers deliberately placed the main part of the engine inside the cabin. Unless a micrometeorite flies by and penetrates the engine casing, there is really no need for propulsion engineers to perform spacewalk maintenance on Dawn 7.

Ruan Hongying is tied with two strong thick cables mixed with Kevlar fiber, and the abdominal interface is also connected to the life support system interface covered with insulation. The three thick cables greatly hinder the work of spacewalking, but this connection method is indeed safe - the strength of the thick cables is enough to stop a large passenger plane that has just raised its head and is about to take off, and the life support equipment built into the spacesuit is enough to ensure that the astronauts " "The umbilical cord" was ruptured and was jumping around within four hours.

In Zheng Yan's words, "When we leave the cabin now, it is all to receive radiation health care. There is no need to take risks during the health care process - there is no need to take any risks."

Make sure everything is okay with plenty of security measures to a fault. This is Zheng Yan's style of doing things - mission first, safety first.

Dawn 6, which was three days away from Dawn 7, had just sent a communication. They passed by the wreckage area of ​​Dawn 8 that had exploded. It is said to be a debris area, but in fact there are no debris that can be identified with the naked eye. After the Dawn 8 cabin was blown to pieces, the wreckage of each cabin flew out at high speed in all directions. There was nothing left in the original explosion area anyway.

It was completely empty, with nothing but cosmic dust flying by at high speeds and electron streams from the Crab Nebula.

“Thankfully, their experiences have given us enough warnings.” The commander of Shuguang-6 concluded in the communication email, “Compatriots on Earth have also learned more about quantum release through their experiences. Syndrome. This gives us hope in defeating this horrific disease."

Zheng Yan could tell at a glance that this email was most likely not written by the commander of Dawn 6. How could that old bomber pilot have such a big deal? The most he could do was express his eccentric thanks to the person who tried to cancel the mission after the explosion of Dawn 8. Space Administration. Thanks to them for not being able to interfere with the on-the-spot decision-making of the landing plan, nor for taking the disobedience of Dawn 6 and 7 as rebellion.

Commander No. 6 should have "polished" it with AI, otherwise he might have to come up with a few golden sentences such as "Thanks to our superiors for supporting us in seeking death." As the people furthest from the human world, the pilots of the Mars landing program are gradually showing some psychological discomfort or even abnormality. The most important psychological adverse reactions are depression, depression and abnormal self-confidence. Frustration and depression are understandable, after all, the landing plan did not go well. But the point of "abnormal confidence" is somewhat strange.

Zheng Yan very cautiously asked her crew members to use a fixed connection solution of double cables and umbilical cords. However, both Jin Yuzhe and Nakamura Takuno once tried to bypass Zheng Yan's instructions and directly wear spacesuits to leave the cabin.

There was an incident on Shuguang 6 when the payload crew tried to repair the circuit equipment by themselves, which almost caused a short circuit in the system and damage to the bulkhead. Thanks to the AI ​​on duty at the time, which discovered the abnormal situation and woke up the commander in time, losses were avoided.

I don’t know what these people are thinking, but they feel like “I can do it” for no reason. Zheng Yan shook her head to dispel the thoughts in her mind. Ruan Hongying is checking the jet vent bit by bit, and her physiological indicators look pretty good. In another hour, Ruan Hongying can be brought back.

Zheng Yan's wrist vibrated slightly. She glanced at the screen on her wrist, then sighed and took out the pill box from her pocket to take the medicine. Picking out three pills with her hands, Zheng Yan paused for a moment before putting back another pill.

It is not good to take too much immunosuppressant. It is better to take less to maintain immunity.
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"Is this enough?" Estella raised her head and suggested to Tongxinge, "The village chief's previous ratio was different from this. The enzyme content in the buffer solution is 5% higher than the reference value to achieve a stable effect. "

"The buffers you used in the evacuation area were expired products and the content was not stable enough." Tong Xinge thought for a while and said, "First set it according to the reference value. If the effect is not good, we will fine-tune the enzyme content level here. .”

Yang Weimin frowned and took notes. He asked Lu Chen beside him, "Do you know where they are now?"

Lu Chen stretched his neck, looked at Yang Weimin's notes, and then checked with his own notes, "T4 DNA ligase and buffer, Brother Yang, you wrote the wrong purpose. The purpose of this step is to combine the target DNA with the vector. Mix them up to form recombinant DNA."

"Didi-di-di, di-di-di, di-di-di." Everyone's cell phones suddenly started shouting together. Yang Weimin took out his cell phone and looked at it, and his face suddenly turned pale.

The city of May 0th in the Pampas observed a severe explosion in the north, and communications to Chacabuco are currently completely interrupted. The seismic network determined that a series of intensive low-level earthquakes occurred near Chacabuco, with a focal depth of meters.

So far, there have been twenty-six earthquakes, and they are still continuing. The source point measured by the seismic network is gradually spreading outward - there has also been an explosion on the south side of the town of Colonel Ismanio.

(End of this chapter)