All Novel Full Chapter 1158
Chapter 1158: Chapter 1056 “Can’t they just give me a steering wheel?!”_1 Chapter 1158: Chapter 1056 “Can’t they just give me a steering wheel?!”_1 The colossal space station in Shawn’s view was actually the one built earliest by the Digital Reserve Team, first realized tangibly by Lincoln and Mavis, and was then extensively enriched and modified by the Sci-fi Game Department of Cloud Dream.
The project was still coded with its initial name: Light of Hope.
However, even the few members from the Digital Reserve Team who originally named the station felt that this didn’t quite suit it anymore.
Because the space station of today was drastically different from the one they first built using blocks in “My World”!
So, after applying to Lincoln, they planned to launch a grand operation—
They would allow all global users of Cloud Dream to submit suggestions and vote, collectively deciding the name of this space station.
After all, this space station in the future was destined to be integrated into the virtual world, welcoming all Cloud Dream users.
At the same time, it would also serve as a vital base for the virtual world’s expansion into the universe.
Giving users naming rights was a method that could significantly enhance their sense of belonging.
Lincoln agreed to it without hesitation.
However, he notably reminded them that the detailed rules should be clearly outlined before launching this event— [In special situations, Cloud Dream reserves veto rights].
This was a valuable lesson learned from the player voting event in “Hunter: Call of the Wilderness”.
Peter understood and nodded without hesitation.
–– All Cloud Dream staff still remembered that “large-scale social experiment”.
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Then, when Lincoln was tucking Easter eggs into “Gravity”, he first thought of this space station.
During the closed beta, this occasionally visible space station unsurprisingly attracted the attention of numerous players.
Hundreds of individuals attempted but ultimately failed to land on it.
However, there were only 500 players participating in the closed beta of “Gravity”.
Compared to the tens of millions of players after its official launch, the two were obviously on completely different scales.
Who knows, somebody could potentially create a miracle?
Anyway, without uttering another word, Shawn was all set to give it a shot.
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For the sake of speed, this time when he left, he didn’t close the gas valve, but directly tied the other end of the safety rope inside the air lock cabin and immediately, without uttering a word, pulled the safety rope to return to the air lock cabin.
Then he closed the door, pressurized it, took off his clothes, and turned to the circular gate leading to the interior of the space station.
The first things he saw were the two sets of precautions ––
[Airlock Cabin Use Precautions] and [Precautions for Entering the Inner Cabin]
The titles were both marked in bright red and very noticeable.
“That’s absurd!”
Shawn complained.
But his complaints were empty words.
His body was honest and carefully read through both pages of precautions before officially entering the interior of the space station by opening the gate.
In accordance with the precautions, after closing the gate once again, Shawn’s gaze was immediately drawn to the [Space Station Cabin Structure Diagram] on his right hand instantly.
This was essentially a map of the space station to help him understand the location of each cabin.
However, Cloud Dream didn’t just display the structural diagram to guide the players, there was also a vital hint––
On the diagram, there were eight red exclamation marks, and the top right corner was continually flashing a red warning icon.
Clearly, the Tiangong Space Station had suffered severe damages from a previous debris attack.
Shawn opened up the fault list and found that those eight red exclamation marks were just the most severe eight faults.
The actual number of damaged equipment needing repair was a staggering 26!
Sorted in an emergency, important, minor order, they formed a long chain.
“Oh my God…” Shawn immediately recalled the pain of repairing the communication card.
But he didn’t immediately give up.
Instead, he first clicked on the first and most urgent issue – [Failure of Airtightness in the Dragon Cabin].
The screen immediately switched to show Shawn the complete structure map of the Dragon Cabin, and clearly marked the ruptured location in red.
Beneath it was the [Maintenance Instructions].
Upon opening the instructions, three subcategories appeared:
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[Maintenance Precautions]
[Maintenance Tool List]
[Suggested Maintenance Method]
——
Without another word, Shawn closed this page!
Anyway, his path to the escape pod doesn’t need to pass through the [Dragon Cabin].
When the last batch of astronauts evacuated, many doors between the cabins were closed.
A single experimental cabin losing pressure wouldn’t affect the entire space station.
Shawn returned to the previous total map and checked if there were any faults needing repair along his path to the escape pod.
The answer was––
Of course!
Two emergency faults, one important fault, and five minor faults.
Shawn’s vision went black.
Changing a communication card – not even a repair, just a replacement, had already given him enough to deal with.
Now it was more complex faults needing repair, and there were eight at the outset!
You had to find your own repair tools, choose your own repair methods, and the precautions for different fault repairs were all different…
Each repair required reading no less than eight and possibly even 30 pages of instruction.
To fix everything, you would probably have to read hundreds of pages of instruction books!
“What the hell kind of maintenance nightmare is this?!” Shawn howled in anguish, “Who could handle this?!”
“Can I just skip the repairs and go straight for it?” Shawn asked his live-streamer community.
“After all, the escape pod seems to have only one major fault with the parachute ejecting, shouldn’t be a big problem, right?”
“I’m not returning to Earth with it, just using it to fly in space!
Since space is a vacuum, carrying a parachute shouldn’t have any impact, right?”
The viewers had mixed opinions:
Some felt that if Cloud Dream set up these issues and you didn’t fix them, you would definitely fall into traps.
Some believed there was no big problem, time was pressing, it was better to proceed directly, or else Glen might drift to the moon if delayed any more.
Others suggested a compromise: just fix the two urgent problems and ignore the rest.
There were also those who felt, why not repair the entire space station and then take it away as a whole!
…
Knowing the urgency of the situation and that hesitation wouldn’t help, Shawn finally decided to take a risky dash!
He journeyed through that cabin, entering the chaotic core cabin where all sorts of life necessities floated around—chopsticks, spoons, wrenches, cans, flower pots, hair clips, shower caps, water droplets…
Everything was in disorder.
The sudden onslaught of debris had completely disrupted the orderly rhythm of life for the astronauts.
Shawn cleared these obstructing miscellaneous items, glanced at the cargo bay gates that couldn’t close due to a malfunction, and turned to “swim” towards the experimental cabin.
As he opened the gates to the experimental cabin, faint crackling of electric sparks came from behind.
—Flames flickered in the cargo bay, flying freely in a weightless environment, turning into small balls of fire.
Shawn didn’t notice these; he quickly traversed the narrow passage into the experimental cabin and continued on his way to the escape pod.
However, while passing a display, he suddenly noticed a large red [Warning!!] that had popped up on it.
Then a piercing alarm sounded in his ears.
“What’s going on?” He leaned in front of the screen and discovered that underneath the large red [Warning], the words [Space Station Fire] had appeared.
“A fire?!”
Whirling around, Shawn saw a raging fire ignited right where he had just passed!
“Oh no.” He urgently scanned the surroundings, grabbed the nearest fire extinguisher, and started spraying right away.
But as the fire extinguisher let out mist, Shawn was thrust away by the powerful opposing force and slammed his head hard against the cabin wall.
—He still needed some time to adapt to the mode of movement in space.
The impact, however, brought him back to his senses.
He suddenly realized: It was too late!
Unable to resolve the fire hazard in time, it was now beyond saving.
Especially since several oxygen bottles had somehow sprung leaks, spraying blue flames while getting pushed around inside the cabin due to the opposing forces, even—
Exploding right before his eyes!
“Boom!!”
A large amount of oxygen was released in the explosion, intensifying the fire on the space station!
Massive flames spread rapidly in all directions—given the scale of it now, they could only wait for the fire to consume all the oxygen and extinguish by itself.
There was no chance of stopping it anymore.
Seeing the incoming oxygen canister bomb, Shawn unhesitatingly pressed down the handle of the fire extinguisher, spraying mist at it.
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He wasn’t trying to extinguish the fire, but to use the opposing force to speed towards the escape pod!
Fire and explosions chased behind him as he desperately fled ahead.
—Shawn never thought he would find himself in such a life-or-death race in space!
“Bang!”
He slammed the hatch shut and immediately began to frantically wind down the hatch door to completely seal it off.
“Boom!”
The dull sound of an explosion reached him through the hatch; the entire escape pod shook violently.
The tremendous metallic groaning sound, the unceasing tremors, went on continuously.
Shawn didn’t dare to stop, quickly floating to the front of the console, eager to escape as soon as possible.
But at the next moment, facing the dense array of buttons, he froze on the spot—
“How do I operate this thing?”
“Which one should I press first?”
“Wait—”
A strong sense of foreboding suddenly dawned on him.
Under this premonition, he looked around and sure enough, to the right of the console, he saw a thin manual.
Upon picking it up and taking a look:
“Emergency Operation Procedure Manual for Escape Pod”
“???”
“Why the hell is there another manual!!!”
“There’s a fire pouring at our heels!
Do I have to learn how to operate an escape pod now?!”
“Couldn’t you just give me a steering wheel?!”