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He had to hop off the ship before the debris hit the lunar surface, although the lack of air resistance in space would prevent the debris from landing before him after he jumped off.

However, slowing down an object weighing around 100 kilograms (with equipment) is a different matter from slowing down something weighing hundreds of thousands of tons, and there is a certain danger involved, namely, having to stay far enough away from the wreckage.

Because currently, the person, the ship, and the wreckage are relatively stationary at the same speed and in the same direction, but this will not be the case once he begins to decelerate.

With the ship as the origin, it's almost as if Johnny is crashing head-on into the debris and wreckage; his thin extravehicular activity suit wouldn't be able to withstand such a high-speed impact. Therefore, he must get as far away from the ship as possible.

“Relative speed 110.69 kilometers per hour, relative distance less than 20,000 kilometers!” Johnny raised his hand and glanced at the holographic display on his wrist. “Deep breath, deep breath, calm down, and then…”

He took two steps back, grabbed the handle near the door frame, and leaped into the air, landing on the hatch with both feet to accelerate once more.

A broken metal plate drifted silently past him. The young sailor's heart pounded. After drifting a sufficient distance, he activated his jetpack. The miniature electric propulsion engine and helium RCS adjustment allowed him to leave the wreckage at an even faster speed.

“Wreckage density, cubic kilometers 3… Safe!” Johnny turned around as if floating in space, looking at the pale moon, and was quickly spotted by the wide-angle laser beacon on the cargo container, flashing very conspicuously.

After adjusting his posture, Johnny opened the jetpack to its maximum power. With his back to the lunar surface, he seemed to be lying on a pale mattress, facing the planet. The jetpack, opened to maximum power, transmitted a powerful thrust to his back.

It's a very strange and peculiar feeling. Your sight, touch, and even your biological instincts all tell you that you're flying upwards. But in reality, you're just falling into an abyss at an extremely high speed.

In space, where there are no reference points, many things go against intuition, especially those related to motion and orbits. Sometimes you think you are moving forward, but in reality you are just moving backward in a decelerating manner.

"Ion fuel remaining 43%, battery status normal, relative speed 40.3 km/h, relative distance less than 6000..."

"Helium jets activated!" At this deceleration rate, he would most likely crash onto the lunar surface at supersonic speed. Now, everything that could provide thrust needed to be activated, which would result in a violent overload force, like being pressed against a sheet of iron.

"Relative distance 1000..."

"Relative distance 600..."

"Relative distance 10, fuel critically low!" Warnings came one after another. The lunar descent was much better than the atmospheric descent, at least there was no atmosphere here.

Otherwise, Johnny would have already become a bright shooting star in the sky. [Speaking of which, what kind of ancient god was Shepard? How did he manage to leave behind a complete corpse...?]

"Bang!" His back slammed heavily onto the thick lunar dust, and a layer of dust rose up. Terra's moon was only half the diameter of Earth's moon, and its gravity was only about 1/14 of Terra's gravity. As a result, the compressed dust formed a strange radial shape that resembled a meteorite crater.

"He's still alive..." Johnny struggled to get up, feeling as if his internal organs were out of place and his whole body was in pain. He had to use the symbiote to relieve the pain. Fortunately, he had landed not too far from the container. After all, he was a proper starship crew member, and his calculations were not likely to cause any major problems.

"Not too far" means that it wasn't separated by half a moon. In fact, the rocket launched by Lao Xia crashed very cleanly into a shallow area on the lunar sea, and Johnny was near the center of the lunar sea.

The straight-line distance was at least two hundred kilometers. The only good news was that the spacesuit had plenty of power, giving him time to jump over slowly.

Moreover, in a low-gravity environment, if you have learned how to move, you can run very fast.

"Click!" Johnny raised his right hand, and a small catapult opened. The grappling hook with a high-strength rope shot out like an arrow. This is one of the necessary tools for maintenance and extravehicular activity in space. It can effectively prevent you from having to stop thinking when you are thrown out because your hand slips.

"Pfft!" Johnny slid a few meters. His boots with anti-slip grappling hooks barely prevented him from flying off due to the reaction force. The grappling hooks also pierced the moon dust made of titanium iron dust very neatly and got stuck in the rock. Even if it wasn't stuck tightly, it didn't matter. In an environment with 1/14 gravity and no air, a little bit of force was enough.

The winch whirred and pulled the sailors over quickly, just like Tarzan, constantly launching grappling hooks and winching, maintaining a high-speed motion on the lunar surface as if flying close to the ground. Except for the first launch, the subsequent launch process can also be regarded as an alternative deceleration method.

"Bang!" The boots of the spacesuit stepped on the side of the cargo hold, and the knees bent to dissipate the remaining speed and inertia. Johnny was lying on the side of the cargo hold in an extremely awkward position. It took him a while to find the handle on the shell and get back to the ground.

The defunct arc thruster separated after entering orbital flight and has now crashed on the edge of a distant crater, while the cargo container is in a relatively normal position because it has airdrop navigation equipment and forced landing guidance equipment.

However, a very serious problem has arisen: Johnny has discovered that his portable communicator is unable to contact his fellow citizens on the planet due to interference from the Originium Belt. He must deploy this site construct to restore communication, but the problem is that there are no experts to guide him on how to deploy it... He'll just have to bite the bullet and go for it!

The hatch terminal opened with a "beep," revealing a complex operating interface. Johnny could only understand a small part of it as he fumbled around and began to try to deploy the space facility.

According to the specifications, when fully deployed, it is a Y-shaped structure with three hemispherical pods at the three vertices of the Y, which are the living area, working area and life support area, respectively, connected by three corridors to the central tower-shaped command area.

To reduce weight, a significant portion of the equipment and supports were dismantled by Lao Xia, especially the parts located in the lower hemisphere.

After all, it ultimately needed to be deployed on the lunar surface. Perhaps it was sheer luck, or perhaps the equipment itself was designed to be incredibly user-friendly, but Johnny somehow triggered a mechanism that caused eight drones to fly out from the side of the cargo hold and begin automatically unpacking and assembling.

This task takes about 1-2 hours, and Johnny's life support resources are sufficient to support it, provided that he operates correctly. At the very least, it seems that his initial operation did not go wrong, and there were no errors that the VI system could not recognize and correct.

The thin and compact carbon nanofiber fabric and polymer skeleton form a hemispherical cylindrical structure. The rigid carbon nanofiber fabric, which looks like a plastic film, is actually incredibly strong and can withstand pressures of over 300 GPa. Theoretically, ordinary micro meteorites cannot penetrate it at all.

In the airless environment of space, it's not so easy to make it burn.

Conversely, it's unsuitable as armor in the atmosphere due to oxidation and its very low ignition point. In an oxygen-rich environment, its ignition point is only around 800 degrees Celsius. However, in a vacuum, it's over 1000 degrees Celsius.

Even so, theoretically, this cabin still has a layer of titanium alloy and graphene protective panels, but Lao Xia removed them all just to reduce weight. Armor? What do you need armor for? First, make sure it can fly to its destination instead of failing to change course.

Each spherical cabin is approximately 40 square meters in area, with two layers connected by a spiral staircase. This represents the most basic drone assembly work.

As for the subsequent equipment installation, it is semi-manual. Semi-manual means that if you are like Lao Xia, who knows a little bit, you can set the parameters and work-related commands and then go pour a glass of whiskey and watch them do their work.

If they were professional space construction workers, they wouldn't even need to watch them work. Who has the time to keep an eye on each one? Once one site is set up, they have to move on to the next one immediately. As long as the monitoring system doesn't alarm, they don't need to stay in one place and keep an eye on them.

If it's someone like Johnny, the subsequent equipment installation will take a huge amount of time. In any case, after the first compartment is assembled, his survival rate will increase by at least 5 percentage points.

Even if the installation goes perfectly, his survival rate is only 50%. The remaining 50% depends on whether he can use the communication station inside and whether he can find ice on the moon.

If he can find ice, he has an 85% or higher chance of surviving, although he can only survive in three small cabins of less than 40 square meters each, a command tower that can only accommodate two people, and three corridors that are less than 5 meters long.

Meanwhile, in Longmen, in the old town dormitory area, "Anjie, get up! Aren't you going to work today?"

An Suo was banging on Angelina's door. As a delivery girl for Amiya Logistics, Angelina had been promoted to a permanent position due to her good work attitude, high rate of positive reviews, and outstanding performance.

Now they are no longer just temporary delivery workers paid by piecework, but have become regular employees of Amiya Logistics, belonging to a subsidiary of the Xia Group, and naturally enjoy the "minimum standard employee benefits" set by Lao Xia.

The package includes a dormitory room, a daily lunch allowance of 5 Lungmen Dollars and a transportation allowance of 2 Lungmen Dollars, and minimum medical insurance. It only reimburses 100% of the lowest-grade Oripathy agglutination drug produced by Tri-Link (which only reduces food intake and slows down the deterioration rate), and 50% of the time-limited anti-Oripathy vaccine. All other diseases are paid for out of pocket.

For dinner, the company provides a basic free meal in the cafeteria, which consists of only a cup of vitamin sparkling water (which costs very little), a piece of whole wheat bread, and a small fish protein bar. This is enough to barely fill you up and meet your basic needs, and there is nothing else.

Of course, if you want to eat better, the cafeteria also provides a variety of fresh agricultural products at internal prices, which are about 15% cheaper than buying them on the market.

However, most employees who are short of money would rather take advantage of free meals and only treat themselves to a meal occasionally.

For frugal poor people like Angelina and Snow Chick, the attitude was that if the cafeteria could take even a penny out of their pockets, they would consider it a loss.

To be honest, it's understandable for a poor employee like Angelina who has just been promoted to a permanent position to be so frugal, but it's hard to understand why Miss Snow Pheasant, who is already the deputy head of logistics and is known as "a goose that leaves no feathers behind," is still so thrifty—she even picks up and keeps the one-cent coin that falls on the ground.

Since Xuezhi was promoted from assistant to deputy manager due to her outstanding performance, the routine losses in the internal logistics and management of Xia's Group have decreased by at least 8 percentage points, and the warehouse no longer has any wheat grains and sugar granules scattered on the ground.

Even if it gets mixed with dust and crushed underfoot, the snow pheasant will have it swept up and used to feed chickens or something similar.

"Oh, am I going to work today?" Still half asleep, Angelina, wearing a loose sweatshirt and pajama pants, rubbed her eyes and opened the door, only to find her familiar little Ansuo.

She wasn't actually with the Xia Group; she worked for Rhode Island's security department. However, since many of her friends from the slums worked for the group, she simply rented a place nearby so they could look out for each other.

"Are you still half asleep? It's Saturday today!"

"We don't work on Saturdays!" Anjie glanced at her schedule in confusion. "We don't work this Saturday."

"You work five days a week?" An Suo was taken aback. Wasn't it said that the treatment of their lower-level employees was very poor?

"Um, to be precise, it's two weeks and 11 days. This week is a weekend..." Anjie became a little more awake. After all, her line of work is a typical hard-working line. She usually has to get up before seven o'clock to clock in and deliver goods, and then she can't go home until ten o'clock at night. This is just the time to sleep in and have a good rest.

Where is your roommate?

"She has to work, so we schedule our shifts to be staggered," Anjie explained. This also applies to her days off; one of them takes Saturday off, and the other takes Sunday off, so that there won't be a situation where there's no delivery person on any particular day.

Anjie's roommate is a Rembit, a spicy rabbit head lover, a blacklisted customer of Rabbit Fast Food, and also a deliveryman. He comes from an ordinary family and has no tragic past or any messy troubles. His only reason for applying for the job is for the money, without any other reasons.

"But why did the girl upstairs go to work today?" An Suo was a little curious. Angelina's upstairs room was also a dormitory for the Xia Group.

It's a single room, a mid-range employee dormitory, and it's larger than Anjie's, with at least a private bathroom and kitchenette.

“Susuluo? Of course she doesn’t have days off, she’s a doctor.” Angelina added, “The whole floor upstairs is full of doctors from the Sanlian Pharmaceutical Affiliated Hospital. They live here because it’s close to the hospital, so they can quickly return to work and make house calls in emergencies.”

"A doctor? Her?" An Suo couldn't connect the little girl who looked about her age with a doctor. In fact, the girl who looked like a blond little girl was old enough to be her great-aunt.

When Sussuro was still interning at the hospital, it was during the first outbreak of Oripathy. At that time, the disease had just begun to spread in the city and was still an unknown disease.

She experienced a time when no one discriminated against those infected; they simply thought it was an outbreak of plague. She got infected because the hospital was overcrowded, and after working non-stop for three days, she realized she had also been infected.

[That's right. Judging from Susuluo's file, she... is probably already a BBA (BMW, BB, BA). Her file description says: Everything is growing, except for her body.]

"I can't believe she's already a doctor at such a young age..."

"No, Director Susuluo is the chief physician at Sanlian Hospital. She also holds the title of professor at the medical school, and several of her students have obtained their medical licenses."

Because they lived nearby, Anjie, who also went to work early every morning, often left the dormitory complex together with the doctors upstairs.

So, during casual conversations on the bus, I learned a little about these things, things that An Suo, who lived relatively far away, didn't know.

"My God!" Anso exclaimed in disbelief. "Is she like Dr. Kal'tsit? Or is this the kind of advantage that doctors have in this world?" It seemed that Anso was starting to feel a little tempted.

“Um…” Angelina didn’t know whether she should mention that Sussuro’s students were all “exceptionally intelligent”.

"Achoo!"

"Director, are you alright?"

"It's nothing, I'm probably just a bit tired from working night shifts lately..." The fair-haired loli shook her head. "We admitted another batch of late-stage Oripathy patients today, sent by RemBottom, tsk—"

The companies there will also try to take advantage of any opportunity, since Rembitox requires companies to provide certain compensation and benefits to those infected.

However, it wasn't specified that it had to be a local hospital. Those who were diagnosed before the staff could be fired were all sent to Sanlian Hospital after comparing prices.

They are all incurable late-stage cases because the placebo from Tri-Life is the cheapest. One hundred Lungmen dollars can buy enough medication for six months. The company there is only willing to purchase this lowest level of medical insurance. The patients themselves cannot afford the relief agent produced by Rhine Life, nor can they afford the cost of the "decay agent" produced by Lao Xia that forces a rollback.

After all, the latter, like chemotherapy, kills everything indiscriminately. It requires very expensive nursing care and other combined drugs to preserve vital organs. Using it alone is no different from committing suicide by poisoning. Even if cured, life expectancy will be greatly shortened.

In the end, the only option is to use anticoagulants to slow down the rate of deterioration, slightly alleviate the patient's suffering, and then watch them die. Considering the lifespan of late-stage patients, they may not even live more than six months if they only take anticoagulants.

Including medical insurance costs, each person only needs to pay a maximum of 500 Lungmen Dollars, which is almost three times cheaper than other standard treatments. As the triple anticoagulant drugs sell well, other hospitals have begun to follow suit.

[PS]

Sussuluo is probably very old. According to her file, when she graduated from the hospital and did her internship, Oripathy had just begun to appear in the city. Everyone thought it was an unknown disease, and the hospital was overflowing with Oripathy patients.

At that time, doctors were still doing their best to save the lives of patients with carcinoma, through surgery and various other methods, while the patients simply lost hope.

In contrast, when Yelena was born, Oripathy patients were no longer treated like human beings.

In other words, when she was born, Sussurro had already graduated from medical school and was at least 24 years old, while Yelena was 14 years old at the time. When the story begins, Yelena will be 26 years old.

The blond little fox you see was probably over 50 years old when he came under the doctor's wing...

Chapter 51 Persisting with Reason

Chapter 51

The three spherical pods have been fully deployed, but this is only the first step, or rather, a step that any educated Covenant could do. It's essentially similar to playing some survival building games, where all the building skeletons and components are designed as modular structures, and the difficulty of assembling them is no more than stacking blocks in Minecraft.

However, the installation of the remaining equipment is the key point. In reality, there is no such thing as automatic and instant wiring and connection. From airtight doors and air pressure chambers to power systems and battery wiring, a certain level of technical expertise is required.

Fortunately, while these parts were unfamiliar to Johnny, he could still manage to get the hang of them. Civilian sailors didn't have such strict job divisions; carrying a welding torch and fixing things was just one of their standard skills.

However, the remaining tasks, such as reactor installation, power grid commissioning, and the installation of a large number of hydroponic and aeroponic equipment in the greenhouse, require a considerable level of technical expertise.

As for the communication station, command post, and so on, they were beyond Lao Xia's technical support capabilities, so Johnny had to figure out how to put them on himself.

If all else fails, he can install a high-powered satellite dish to communicate with the Terran surface, but he won't be able to encrypt the content, essentially broadcasting it publicly.