I Have a Mansion in the Post-apocalyptic World Chapter 1543: Blowout on Europa

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Europa, known as Europa in astronomy.

It has nothing to do with the Europa continent. It is named after a beautiful Phoenician princess in ancient Greek mythology. Although the two are spelled the same, the meaning is very different.

And the facts also prove that floating in the deep and dark universe, this planet suspected of gestating life is indeed as beautiful as an exotic princess.

The vast glaciers are flying with layers of fine ice chips, and icicles squirting from fissures from time to time spread out ice flowers like ginkgo trees in the air. The thin atmosphere contains trace amounts of oxygen, although this content is not worth mentioning at all compared to the oxygen content of the earth's atmosphere.

Standing on the white glaciers, half of the sky is occupied by the giant Jupiter, which has been embedded in the horizon from the sky, giving people the illusion that if they have been walking toward Jupiter, they can walk to Jupiter.

Because of plagiarism and lock-in, where is that huge planet hovering forever? Most of the light comes from the sunlight reflected by Jupiter. As for the sun itself, it is just a soft highlight from here. Therefore, the side facing Jupiter is always bright, the snow-white glacier is illuminated, and the side facing Jupiter is never ending darkness.

The temperature of the equator is below minus 160 degrees, and the temperature of the two poles is below minus 200 degrees Celsius. The ice on Europa ’s surface is several kilometers thick, and below that thick layer of ice, it is The earth is deeper than the ocean.

But overall, the climate here is still much better than that of Europa.

Located between two glaciers, it is a black colony.

Why choose black that is out of step with the background? Naturally, it is to draw more light and heat from Jupiter from the limited illumination.

At this moment, the colony ’s hatch slowly opened, and a space vehicle pulled out of the garage, heading for a well not far away.

"Here is the number Z1214. It has arrived at its destination. The drilling platform is in good condition and the battery is being replaced."

"Received ... please report status at any time."

"Understanding."

Wearing a heavy space suit, an engineer jumped from the space vehicle, opened the space vehicle's trunk, took out a battery about the size of a laptop computer, and walked towards the drilling platform.

His name is Tan Ming, who comes from China and belongs to the first group of immigrants in the Earth Defense Alliance's cooperative development program. Before embarking on this land, he only received one month of adaptive training on the moon. As for what is now on his hand, there is a nuclear battery containing helium tritium and tritium, and the outside is wrapped by a thick lead compartment.

The gravity environment on Europa is slightly better than Europa, about one-seventh of the earth ’s gravity, slightly lower than the moon. Anyone who has been trained in spacewalk in Guanghan City can easily adapt to this level of gravity.

Jumping to the stand, Tan Ming took the wrench from behind, unscrewed the bolts fixed on the battery interface, pulled out a data cable to connect to the wrist-mounted computer on the arm, and typed the unlock code.

As the air leak seemed to sound softly, the movable door of the fixed battery popped open.

Proficiently remove the battery from the drilling platform, then he inserted the battery in his left hand into the groove, then closed the battery compartment door again and tightened the fixed bolt.

"Here is the number Z1214. The battery has been replaced and the drilling power supply is normal."

"Check the drill."

"Checking ..." Tan Ming typed a few buttons on his wrist-mounted computer, watched the progress bar fill up, then breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "The drill is in good condition, should I open it?"

"Open it."

The engineer jumped off the rig of the drilling platform skillfully, and the engineer floated steadily to the ground.

With the rumbling noise coming along the soles of the feet, the drilling platform behind him began to operate again.

In the outpost not far away, all scientific researchers, regardless of their country of origin, are now surrounded by the outpost's command room, looking quietly at the red line in the screen that keeps going down. From the moment the drilling platform stood up, they were waiting for this moment, and a month had passed in the blink of an eye.

According to the analysis of the Institute of Extraterrestrial Biology at the University of Koror, suitable seafloor temperature plus abundant oxygen resources and submarine volcanic light, there is a possibility of life activity under Europa ’s ice sheet. All drill bits and detectors are aseptically processed to avoid pollution of Europa ’s ocean by colonies or viruses.

The red dot that marks the drill bit keeps going down, and the returned shock wave starts to change from weak to strong, and it is getting closer and closer to the interface between ice and water.

If there is no accident, today is the moment to break the ice!

At this moment, on another holographic screen, the shock wave suddenly shook violently, the alarm signal sounded, the entire command room was like boiling water, and all the staff were busy immediately.

"The ice is cracking and a large amount of gas is detected!"

"Stop drilling and detonate the perforating device!"

"Received!"

After receiving the order of the chief, the staff sitting at the podium immediately took the red handle and pushed it to the bottom.

On Europa, heat is more important than water. The water resources here are exceptionally rich, even more than the water on the earth. The water on the earth is basically on the surface, but Europa ’s water is all in the belly.

A long time ago, NASA made a horizontal comparison in this regard, using data modeling to stack the Earth ’s water resources and Europa ’s water resources into a sphere, and the final conclusion is the same.

Tidal forces cause Europa itself to be in a state of repeated stretching and contraction. The energy generated by this movement heats the sea water below the ice layer, and together with the seabed volcanic activity provides heat for the life activities of the seabed creatures.

However, it is precisely because of this stretching and contracting movement caused by tidal force that Europa ’s ice sheet is prone to squeeze similar to the movement of the earth ’s plate, resulting in glaciers and cracked glaciers. . On Europa, you can often see hundreds of kilometers of water jets ejected from the cracks, and the spectacular scene that instantly solidifies into ice crystals at ultra-low temperatures is for this reason.

Almost as soon as the handle was pushed down, deep into the ice cap a few kilometers above the drill bit, a flash of fire suddenly flashed. The anchor that was exploded by electromagnetic ejection was slammed into the ice cap squeezing the drill rod, and the drill bit was firmly fixed in the ice.

At the same time, violent shaking erupted beneath the bit, and cracks began to spread upwards from the back of the ice sheet. The ice cap, which was almost drilled, began to rupture from the back, until the moment when a crack touched the drill bit, the entire ice cap was like a punctured balloon. The seawater was mixed with high-pressure bubbles and hit the moment. Drill bit —

"Damn it! The drill pipe is broken!"

"Number Z1214, evacuate the area immediately, repeat it, evacuate immediately!"

Feeling the tremor coming from the soles of his feet, Tan Ming stepped back in a panic. When he heard the sound coming from his ear, he immediately climbed into the direction of the space vehicle without saying a word, and started the engine , Shouting.

"Grass! What did you just do?"

"We didn't do anything ... The following situation may be more complicated than we thought ... In short, you leave here soon ..."

There was something to say on the back of the command post. He did n’t pay attention to it. After sitting in the driver's seat, he launched the space vehicle at the fastest speed, almost stepping the throttle to the limit, and just when he desperately hurried out five or six hundred meters, he only heard a dull loud noise from The chair came underground, almost lifting him from the seat.

"Grass!"

The head rushed forward, and Tan Ming looked back subconsciously, and saw that the drilling platform, which was dozens of meters high, was blasted into the sky by icicles like volcanic eruptions. The water column circling upward spread a circle of white ice chips in the air, like a tornado growing from the ground, flying in the air with a gigantic gesture.

The pedals on the gas pedal are involuntarily loosened, and the space vehicle that has left the dangerous zone slowly stops. The hails of mung beans hit the glass windows gently, and his eyes were frozen there.

Tan Ming can swear.

This is definitely the most spectacular scene he has ever seen in his life ...