All Novel Full Chapter 1151
Chapter 1151: Chapter 1051 “Are you freaking sick?!!”_1 Chapter 1151: Chapter 1051 “Are you freaking sick?!!”_1 “”Control your oxygen consumption, otherwise, you’ll suffocate.” His teammate persuades him gently.
Without hesitation, Xu Shenghan asks, “How much oxygen do you have left?”
“Not much less, why?”
“Can you spare some?”
“What?” His teammate exclaims in shock.
“What do you mean, ‘what’?
Haven’t you ever been diving?
Sharing oxygen during a crisis is a pretty standard procedure, right?” Xu Shenghan retorts.
“I’ve gone diving, but did you actually undergo any training before going into space?” His teammate quizzes back.
“No, I didn’t!
Why?” Xu Shenghan answers defiantly.
At the Aerospace Center’s Virtual Open Day, there is a course to simulate the training that astronauts undergo and where teachers would give lectures on some common knowledge and precautions for space missions.
But Xu Shenghan didn’t attend it.
He tried all the training programs available on the Open Day, but hardly stayed longer than 10 minutes in the simulated astronaut training course because he found it too tiresome.
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A long, deep sigh can be heard over the headphones after his defiant answers.
Finishing his deep breath, it was only then that his teammate Glen replied: “The oxygen supply in the spacesuit is sufficient for more than 6 hours of EVA, which is already far beyond the normal EVA task duration.
Hence, the spacesuits we use simply do not have an EVA oxygen replacement module.
Sharing oxygen is impossible.”
After he attests to that, he couldn’t help but add: “I must’ve been mad, travelling so far to save you.”
“Although you’re not a professional astronaut, amongst all the people I’ve coached, you’re the one with the poorest aptitude.”
“???
” Xu Shenghan blinks, flipping his pinky to activate [Out of Body], and sardonically retorts: “That’s because I’m not a damn PhD!
I don’t even have a Masters!”
“So, what if you just released me?” Xu Shenghan proposes.
Regret saving me?
I wasn’t keen about being rescued in the first place!
“Sigh…” His teammate let out a sigh, “We’re both from Great Xia, I can’t just leave you to die.
You should talk less and conserve your oxygen.”
“Now, set the countdown on your wristwatch to 90 minutes.”
“90 minutes?
Why?” Xu Shenghan raises his hand to set the time as he inquires.
And Glen informed him of an unnerving piece of news: “Based on the measurements from Xiajing, the debris is moving at a speed of 80,000 kilometers per hour.
Based on our trajectory, the debris will strike again in about 90 minutes.”
Seemingly afraid of Xu Shenghan uttering another outlandish remark, he continued to call once he completed his answer, not waiting for Xu Shenghan to speak:
“Xiajing, can you hear me?
This is Glen.”
“Our current position is: approximately 900 meters away from the Explorer.”
“Doctor Xu and I want to find the remains of our Task Commissioner Nick and then return to Nine Heavens.”
“Can we carry out this mission?”
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“When did I say I wanted to look for the remains?” Xu Shenghan raises his pinky, his face full of question marks.
However, just as he finishes his sentence, a mission pops up right in front of him –
[Find teammate remains].
“Alright then, I do want to find it.”
In order to conserve oxygen, he no longer talks, but starts looking for the rumored “900 meters away” spaceship.
This is not easy.
Their current location is on the dark side of Earth, where there is a lack of sunlight.
Even the terrestrial lights are obscured by thick cloud layers.
You can’t see the details of your teammate at the other end of the safety rope, let alone at a distance.
Instead of finding the spaceship and space telescope, he noticed something else–
A fragment of a metal rack and an astronaut attached to the rack by a safety rope.
Xu Shenghan instantly understands that this is the teammate they are looking for– the body of Nick.
Again, it is that peculiar sensation – due to the lack of reference objects, his judgement of distance and speed isn’t accurate.
In fact, he had just managed to make out the image when the next moment, it’s already within arm’s reach.
Caught off guard, Xu Shenghan spreads his arms wide to brace for the collision!
But in space, each collision is unpredictable.
It seems like the body is floating without resistance and can be pulled away with a light touch.
But in reality, each floating object is revolving around the Earth at a very high speed.
Even though Xu Shenghan himself is moving at a fast pace, the relative speed between him and the floating body isn’t too fast to manage.
However, even a slight angular difference in their trajectories can dramatically amplify the kinetic energy when a collision happens.
Xu Shenghan’s embrace failed to take effect, bouncing off after colliding with the corpse.
Their respective posture and direction of movement were both upset.
The good news is that Glen managed to grab onto the metal rack – though only for a brief one to two seconds, but it somewhat reduced the difference in their speeds and slightly evened out their motion trajectories.
After flying a certain distance, Xu Shenghan was jerked back by the safety rope, and Nick’s body also rebounded towards the metal rack under the effect of the safety rope.
Then, unable to control himself, Glen let go of the metal rack.
However, Glen had already undone Nick’s safety rope and held it in his hand, and at the time of their second encounter, Xu Shenghan also grabbed hold of Nick’s safety rope.
They finally retrieved their team member’s body.
This intense movement caused Xu Shenghan to pant heavily again.
The spacesuit issued another warning:
[Beep——]
[Oxygen content is low, currently remaining: 9%, please pay attention to the time spent outside the cabin.]
Xu Shenghan caught his breath and pulled Nick back with the rope, flipping his body around to see how this team member had died.
The back – fully intact.
The front – also fully intact.
The head –
“Holy shit!”
Xu Shenghan abruptly leaned his own body back, almost throwing Nick back out!
– Nick’s facemask had a large hole in it.
That in itself wasn’t scary.
But inside the facemask, there was also a large hole in his face!
Through the large hole, you could even see the Earth behind it!
Even though the large hole had long been frozen under the influence of the low temperature, significantly decreasing the level of gore, the brutal image of a hole in the head still gave Xu Shenghan a massive psychological shock.
And the even more brutal shock came from this face – or rather, the remaining half of this face.
– It was Lincoln’s face.
No matter if there was only half of it left, loyal players would be able to identify Lincoln even if he had been reduced to ashes.
But it was all just big talk, no one wanted to see Lincoln drop dead all of a sudden.
So, without advance notice, on seeing his corpse, Xu Shenghan’s heart pounded furiously, his limbs went numb, and he almost couldn’t breathe.
He was truly scared out of his wits!
Once he recovered, the first thing Xu Shenghan did was to clumsily flip Lincoln’s body over with his trembling hands.
He could no longer bear to look at this terrifying face.
If the terrifying level of having the head shot through and the body frozen into ice bumps was 100%, then half of the remaining face being Lincoln’s face was at a terrifying level of 10000%!
Xu Shenghan instantly broke out into goosebumps!
His hands were still trembling uncontrollably, and though he opened his mouth several times, he couldn’t articulate a single sentence properly.
But soon, an even more bizarre thing happened: Even though he had turned the body over, a photo, which was connected to the front of the corpse through a cloth strip and spacesuit, drifted in space and arrived in front of Xu Shenghan.
According to the plot design, it should be a warm family photo.
As a matter of fact, it did seem to be so.
The only problem was: the people in the photo were Lincoln and Xiaomeng.
“???”
After seeing this photo, Xu Shenghan’s sharply dropped sanity suddenly recovered a great deal!
He not only recovered his strength but also had the energy to vent:
“Are you fucking sick?
!!”