The Memory Lost in Space - 190. Chapter 190

A person who can live alone for thirty years on a dark, unmanned planet, and a person who has survived all kinds of cruel creatures, can behave normally no matter how maverick.

Boundless space, vast galaxies.

A small private expedition spacecraft flies silently in the unmanned star field.

The ship’s owner, Ulysses, is an unknown interstellar explorer and biologist. He is adventurous and haunts the unmanned star field without human activities all year round, but what fascinates him is not the wealth that may become rich overnight, but the process of the unknown and the discovery of the unknown.

There are eleven people in their expedition, and they have worked together for many years.

Because of the financial constraints and the limited space of the spacecraft, we all get along like a family without looking up.

This day is like the old days, it is a very ordinary flight.

Some people are playing cards and betting money around the round table, some are running to exercise, some are reading gossip news on the star network, only Salazar and Vera are sitting in front of the workbench, chatting and staring at the flight data.

Suddenly, a strange series of ripples appeared on the screen of the signal monitor.

Salazar adjusted the audio, and the earphone made a sound of “dididi”, “click” and “dididi”. After a pause, “dididi”, “takada” and “dididi” sounded again.

The cycle repeats, very regularly.

“what is this?”

Sarah looked at Vera inquiries, Vera shook her head and said she didn’t understand.

Salazar hesitated for a moment, and decided to report to the captain immediately.

But after a while, Ulysses with wet hair rushed over, apparently in the shower just now, and he didn’t even have time to dry his hair.

After listening to the repeated signal tone, Ulysses said: “This is Morse code, SOS, a distress signal that has been eliminated. Check the source of the signal.”

“I checked it, from an unnamed planet.” Vera pointed to an unremarkable asteroid on the star chart.

Ulysses had already studied the data of this star field over and over again, and he was so memorized that he said in confusion: “This should be a planet that is judged to have no development value at all.”

“Yes.” Vera opened the star map, “Because of its location, this planet is dark throughout the year, lacks light, and no plants can grow. However, geothermal activities are frequent, and the oxygen content in the air is maintained at about 7%. There are a lot of disgusting arthropods, which are very aggressive. Although there are minerals, the value of the minerals is not high, the environment is too harsh, the development cost and the value obtained are not equal, so no one has been paying attention.”

“A distress signal from an uninhabited planet in an uninhabited star field?” Ulysses touched his chin in thought.

Salazar said: “There is no overlap with our route. If we check in the past, the energy consumed between one trip and one trip will seriously affect our original voyage.”

Vera said: “The Morse code has already been eliminated. If a person needs to call for help in this primitive way, the spacecraft must be seriously damaged. On a planet where there is no sunshine all year round and the ecological environment is bad, he is afraid that he will not be able to persist. How long? The person who sent this distress signal is dead.”

Ulysses looked around and found that each team member had temporarily stopped what was at hand, waiting for him to make a decision.

“After the voyage is affected, it is not only the energy loss, but also the loss of our expedition. This is not my business alone. Let’s vote for it! But…” Ulysseston paused and said “This is an unmanned star field, and even the interstellar pirates will not come. Maybe he is the only person in the entire star field. If we leave, it may take a few more decades before another spaceship may pass. I know , It is very likely that I will make an empty run, but I just hope that if one day I send out a distress signal, someone can respond to me.”

“So…” Ulysses raised his hand. “I voted to see it.”

Vera shrugged and raised her hand: “I agree, the big deal is to continue to be a poor man.”

“I agree.”

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One after another, all eleven team members voted to go to Unmanned Star to check it out.

Twenty-two hours later, the spacecraft landed on an unnamed unmanned planet.

Everyone looked at the picture on the monitoring screen and couldn’t help but be speechless——

The entire planet is shrouded in darkness, and the surroundings are full of icy atmosphere. The planet’s surface temperature is around minus 100 degrees Celsius all year round.

Salazar said hopelessly: “Can anyone really insist on us to save him on such a planet?”

“I’ll know if I go to see it.”

Ulysses had already put on the interstellar adventure suit, carrying the necessary life-saving tools.

The two security team members, Whitt Physical A-level and Xavier Physical B-level, both put on space combat suits and held weapons.

The three people left the spacecraft, positioned according to the coordinates of the signal, looking for the signal transmitter.

In the darkness and tranquility, the three people walked more and more depressed.

Obviously nothing happened, but I just felt that there was a suffocating sense of depression around him.

Ulysses murmured: “After I go back, I’m going to find a beach where the sun won’t go down to bask in the sun.”

After more than twenty minutes, they saw the signal transmitter.

A pile of tattered metal pieces welded and assembled, looking like they had been taken apart from a crashed lifeboat. After difficult and meticulous modification, it became an original signal transmitter.

Because of the limited energy, even the ubiquitous solar energy between the stars is not available. In order to save energy, the modifier of the signal transmitter only set the simplest distress message: SOS.

Whitt looked around vigilantly, acting as a guard.

Xavier shouted: “Is anyone?”

No one responded.

Xavier muttered: “I’m afraid it’s already dead.”

Ulysses illuminates something with an energy-saving lamp.

“Here is a signpost.”

A triangular bone and a T-shaped bone, frozen together by blood, combined into a perfect arrow symbol.

Ulysses took a closer look and said: “The triangular bones are polished from the carapace of a certain arthropod. The T-shaped bones are arthropod pliers. It seems that the arthropods here are all Not small.”

He stretched out his hand and shook the T-shaped bone. He found that it was very firm. He sighed and said, “The temperature is too low and the soil is too hard for digging. He directly put the bone on the ground, poured blood on it, and frozen the street sign On the ground.”

Whit and Xavier looked at the simple and rude street signs and were speechless.

Ulysses said excitedly: “Let’s go! I can’t wait to see this dark warrior.”

Not long after they walked in the direction of the sign, they found a mountain col.

There was a gurgling sound in the darkness.

They followed the sound of the water and saw that on the mountain walls on both sides, large and small hot springs were staggered and scattered, and they could not see the end at a glance.

The heat steamed up and filled the col, dispelling the chill.

Around the mountain wall there is a large swath of luminous gleam, which is estimated to be low-level plants such as chlorophyll-free fungi, relying on parasitic and saprophytic survival.

Ulysses held the energy-saving lamp and looked around in amazement.

Because of geothermal activity, a small ecological area where organisms can survive is formed here.

Suddenly, a large arthropod in the shape of a centipede emerged from a gap in the ground and rushed straight to Ulysses.

Whitt raised his gun and fired. Although he forced the “Big Centipede” back, the “Centipede”‘s carapace was so hard that it couldn’t be shot through for a while.

They were rushing to deal with the big centipede, and another large arthropod like a spider crawled over from the cave and regarded them as a feast.

Whitt dealt with “Big Centipede”, Xavier dealt with “Big Spider”, Ulysses was guarded by them.

I thought it was foolproof, but I didn’t expect a large arthropod like a lobster to sneak out of the hot spring pool, brandishing two pliers, and attacking Ulysses.

Seeing that Ulysses was about to be clamped in two, a man suddenly leapt down from the rocky wall and landed on the back of “Large Lobster”. The dagger was inserted diagonally into the carapace between its neck and head, and the head burst.