Die on Mars - Chapter 192

c192 Day 322 (2) The Collapsed World

At that moment, Maidong felt warm all over her body, as if she was soaked in warm water. This reminded her of the sunshine on the earth. There has never been such sunshine on Mars because it is much further away from the sun than the earth. In most cases, when you look at the Sun from the orbit of Mars, the latter is just a glowing light bulb, with brightness but no heat.

Maidong leaned against the porthole and looked at the golden light in the darkness from a distance.

She suddenly smiled.

The setting sun finally set, the majestic firelight fell into the dark shadow, and the mountain-like shadow slowly rose in front of Ophiopogon japonicus.

It passed slowly and silently over the head of Ophiopogon japonicus, like an alien spacecraft that suddenly arrived, and like a long blunt knife, carrying an irresistible huge force, sweeping over and cutting off the pieces one by one. The space station’s main truss, solar panels, inflatable cabin, super arm, and fragments of the space station’s shell tumbled and scattered, reflecting red firelight, like flying snow above a fire.

It was clearly a violent and shocking collision, but in Maidong’s eyes, it seemed like a slow-motion movie shot, a silent film without sound. Sound cannot be transmitted in a vacuum, and it seems that time cannot be transmitted either. Everything happens within time. outside.

Time stretched out at this moment. The loud noise and vibration of the impact were still slowly crawling on the metal truss. The earphones, papers and pens floating in the core cabin were still flying inertially, and the snow-white shell fragments were still flying in the dark background. , the girl stared blankly at the flames bursting in front of her eyes. The tongues of fire traveled along the gaps in the white bulkhead, burrowing in like snakes. The leaked oxidant was a deadly bait for them. The blue word “Orion” Withered and scorched black in the flames – all of this was only separated from her by a window, and the girl’s eyes showed loneliness and sadness.

This is really a beautiful scene, like the Crystal Palace collapsing in a fire. It is a vast and poignant death.

But she was so sad that she wanted to cry.

The next second, the first loud noise and vibration were transmitted into the crystal cabin. This was caused by the breakage of the main truss. The Orion spacecraft was the first to hit it. The hull of the spacecraft cut off the space station like a knife. The broken part It was the battery pack on the right side of the space station. A section of the truss with a length of more than ten meters separated from the space station with eight solar panels, spinning farther and farther, and was finally swallowed up by the dark void.

Everything in the core cabin was shaken, the instrument panel and control panel separated from the bulkhead, the cables were torn off, and the tiny tears in the girl’s eyes left her eyes and gathered into spheres under the action of surface tension.

This crystal water droplet passed through the core cabin along the inertia, passed through the messy cables, manuscript papers and laptops, was disturbed by the airflow, and turned tremblingly. The breeze gave it a very small angular momentum, so It spun towards the porthole glass.

Looking out through it, everything around is distorted, the light is refracted by the water drops, and the flames that erupt again in the distance are just a bright ring on the teardrop. This ring expands from a vertex of the teardrop, and finally returns to a vertex, until It smashed against the glass with a soft “pop” and broke into countless small water droplets.

They condensed again into small spheres, which looked like golden beads in the firelight.

Then an even greater force was transmitted into the core cabin, and even the metal trusses collapsed in the tremors, and the walls of the core cabin let out a sharp death wail.

Maidong’s body retreated and hit the hatch heavily, and his vision went dark.

The whole world is spinning and tumbling.

She saw the leaked high-pressure water vapor condense in the low temperature of the vacuum. They condensed into flaky ice crystals that shimmered.

The space station could not withstand such an impact and had disintegrated. A broken cabin rolled past the window. Maidong could not identify which cabin it was until it collided with the truss and was cut off in the middle.

Fragments of the incubator were scattered, and Ophiopogon realized that it was the Hope cabin. The moment the cabin lost pressure, all the plants had been frozen to death.

The core cabin was once again illuminated by strong light.

Maidong saw the propellant tanks of the spacecraft smashed into the inflatable cabin at the end of the space station. The propellant tanks were easy to distinguish. They were large orange-yellow cylindrical tanks, four in total, installed on the Orion spacecraft, but at this moment Maidong Only two storage tanks were seen, and the other two had disappeared. The remaining two storage tanks, dragging raging flames, crashed into the inflatable cabin. The inflatable cabin suddenly collapsed, and the fire intensified instantly, leaking methane and liquid. Oxygen caused another explosion.

It turns out that only the light of explosions can be so bright.

As bright as the sun.

The whole world is burning.

Through the explosion and burning fire, Maidong saw that the Silence’s multifunctional cabin was detached, and the half-broken battery sail cut through the shell of the Silence cabin. The service module of Harmony was penetrated by chaotic debris, the broken mechanical arm fell into the module of Silence, and the fresh water tank burst, where most of her survival supplies were contained.

Nearly all of the station’s battery packs were severed and turned into blue broken glass.

There are also countless parts and fragments, which wrap around the space station, cut and penetrate the outer shell of the space station at extremely high speeds, and the space station gradually falls into pieces.

The world that Maidong is in is being destroyed. She stands in the center of the world, and everything around her is burning, falling, collapsing, and burying each other.

The whole world is tipping over.

The explosion used up the last of Orion’s propellant. After it collided with the inflatable capsule, it flew away, dragging the last remaining fire with it. The remaining fire also went out after a few minutes. The funny thing is that the Eagle spacecraft is still hanging on it. , such a violent collision failed to knock it off, which shows that the Ophiopogon japonicus is indeed firmly tied.

The Orion spacecraft disappeared without a trace.

Maidong couldn’t hear anything. The roar of the explosion and impact caused her to lose her hearing. She kept ringing in the ears and her head was buzzing. She couldn’t see anything. The violent collision pushed the space station, and the core module was rotating at high speed. If there is no additional force to counteract this torque, then it will continue to rotate forever, until the oxidant leaking out of the window is exhausted, all the flames are extinguished, and the world sinks into darkness again.

She didn’t know if the core module was losing pressure, or if the space station was falling, or even if she was still alive.

All the lights in the cabin were turned off, the system had stopped working, there was no alarm, and I couldn’t see my fingers.

The whole world has perished.

In Kunlun Station, Lao Mao and Tang Yue still had smiles on their faces, and they were ready to talk to Mai Dong about the Tianzhou and the landing.

One person and one cat stood in a daze facing the communication system.

Deathly silence.

All this lasted only two minutes.

It only took two minutes from the Kunlun Station’s system reminder “Warning: Contact lost” to the computer screen showing “Mars United Space Station has crashed.”