It's reasonable for me to have a two-way foil for a second-level civilization, right?

Facing Gao Yang's question, Zhao Zijie shrugged.

"I heard that it is an organic deposit similar to tar tolin."

"Torin? What is this?" Gao Yang's eyes became more suspicious.

Zhao Zijie looked back at his teammates helplessly: "How much astrochemistry did you take?"

"...just passed."

"No wonder you don't know." Zhao Zijie looked relieved.

"Torin, a substance that exists on cold stars far from their parent stars."

"A mixture of simple organic compounds such as methane and ethane formed upon exposure to ultraviolet light."

"It is usually light red or brown, and there should be a small amount of tholin in Titan, so it will show this color."

Gao Yang nodded with a confused face.

At this moment, three ultimate questions of life flashed through his mind.

who I am?from where?Where are you going?

"Okay, I won't talk to you about this anymore." Zhao Zijie turned around and walked towards the locker room, "Get ready, we are about to land."

……

Titan's upper orbit.

The 800-meter-long Luanniao starship slowly passed by.

"Land directly?" Gao Yang looked back worriedly at Zhao Zijie who was sitting on the captain's seat, "Luanniao has never landed on the surface of a planet before."

"Don't worry." Zhao Zijie stared at the holographic image in front of him, adjusting each parameter.

Without Zero's participation, the whole landing process was a bit more risky.

Although there is a weak artificial intelligence one, but in extreme situations, the weak artificial intelligence will definitely not be able to solve the problem.

"Zero simulated before coming here."

"Titan is different from planets like Mars and Earth. It is just a satellite after all."

"According to the detection, its gravity is about the same as that of the moon."

"Coupled with the dense atmosphere, the difficulty of landing is much lower."

While talking, Zhao Zijie entered the last parameter into the onboard computer: "Okay! It's time for us to land!"

The moment the voice fell, the head of the luanniao starship sank slightly, and a sense of deceleration came instantly.

The Luanniao starship, which has been transformed into a streamlined body, slowly descends in height.

At the moment of contact with the atmosphere, a violent shaking came from the fuselage.

Weak artificial intelligence [-] strictly followed the procedure, quickly adjusted the power of each Hall thruster, and kept the balance of the starship as much as possible.

As the altitude continued to drop, the orange outside the porthole became more and more intense.

When the starship was more than [-] meters above the ground, the hull gradually returned to stability.

Driven by the Hall thruster, the Luanniao starship with a size of 800 meters uses a streamlined hull to tear through the dense atmosphere and slide smoothly at an altitude of [-] meters.

"Damn it..." Gao Yang looked at the picture from the camera and muttered to himself, "This is not much different from the structure of the earth!"

The holographic image shows Titan's surface image and various parameters.

Surface temperature: -179.15 degrees Celsius.

Numerous large and small lakes, meandering rivers, and land with less obvious ups and downs...

"Where are we going to land?" Gao Yang looked at the scenery of the other world in front of him in amazement, and asked in a low voice.

"ocean!"

With the sound of Zhao Zijie's voice, the power of the Hall thruster increased a little, and a feeling of pushing back came from the seat.

Chapter 240 Kraken-Marehai

Luan birds speed through Titan's dense atmosphere.

Weak artificial intelligence one quickly analyzes the information from the camera and various sensors.

"drop!"

"Discover the Ocean!"

A stiff electronic sound sounded in the cockpit of the starship.

Zhao Zijie lifted his spirits, and quickly raised his head to look at the holographic image in front of him.

In the picture, the surface of an ocean composed of liquid methane shimmers.

The coastline twists and turns towards the end of the line of sight.

This is the largest ocean on Titan.

Kraken-Mare.

The area reaches 40 square kilometers, and the deepest reaches 300 meters.

Although it cannot be compared with the oceans on Earth, it is amazing enough for a small satellite!

After confirming the data, there was a bit of excitement in his eyes: "One, release the probe and find a suitable landing site."

"Got it, looking for a landing spot."

After the words fell, a small hatch opened in the abdomen of the Luanniao starship, and a series of drones flew out of it in an orderly manner.

Afterwards, the Luanniao starship drew a graceful curve in the air and flew towards the coastline.

……

Kraken-Mare seaside, a piece of relatively flat land.

An 800-meter-long starship slowly landed on the surface with faint blue flames glowing from its bottom.

The high temperature brought by the Hall thruster instantly vaporized part of the liquid methane remaining on the ground.

But then, this methane liquefied again at the ambient temperature of -179.15 degrees Celsius into tiny droplets suspended in the nitrogen-filled atmosphere.

From the outside, a thick white mist suddenly rose around the starship, and the black ostrich was looming in the white mist.

Coupled with the light orange atmospheric environment and the shimmering sea surface under the low light, it immediately constitutes a beautiful picture of alien stars.

"Okay, it's time for us to hurry up and work!" Zhao Zijie looked away from the porthole, unfastened his seat belt and stood up.

"According to calculations, there are still two days before Titan will usher in an eight-day night."

"We'd better get everything done in two days."

(A full day and night on Titan is 15.9 days)

Ten minutes later, the hatch on the side of the ostrich slowly opened.

Two starship pilots in tight spacesuits slowly stepped off the starship and stepped on the frozen ground.

"……gorgeous."

Looking at the endless methane ocean, Zhao Zijie sighed softly in the team's radio frequency band: "It's hard to imagine that this is just a small satellite."

Gao Yang next to him nodded in agreement with Zhao Zijie's words while manipulating the carrying equipment.

Compared with the helium three extraction machine in Jupiter orbit, the extraction equipment on Luanniao is like a baby that has not yet reached the full moon.

But even so, it took two people a lot of energy to drag the extraction pipe with a diameter of two meters into the ocean hundreds of meters away.

"Zijie, where should the extraction device be placed?"

With the help of several robots, a huge piece of equipment was moved out of the starship's cabin.

Zhao Zijie turned his head to look at the surrounding terrain, and then turned on his watch to check it carefully.

Then, he pointed to a flat rock about two meters higher than the surrounding area tens of meters away.

"Just put it over there."

"According to Yi's calculation results, the ocean here also has tidal phenomena due to the influence of Saturn's gravity."

"It should be a safer place over there."

Although these liquid methane will not have any impact on the suction equipment, it can even help it dissipate heat.

However, on a strange planet, it is always right to be safe.

Gao Yang nodded noncommittally, and reached out to greet the robot following behind.

……

After installing all the equipment, the two returned to the Luanniao starship.

Looking at the gradually dimming scenery outside the porthole, Zhao Zijie exhaled slowly.

While pressing the switch of the suction device, he lay back on the seat and said, "Wait slowly."

"We can go back to Mars to rest in a month's time."

"I heard that the next batch of people on duty will be Bart's team."

One month later, there will be a [Glutton] Nebula-class material reserve ship to "pick up the goods".

And they can also take this opportunity to get a chance to go back to Mars to rest.

"It's so boring..." Gao Yang sighed, and put himself down on the chair.

"Be content." Zhao Zijie squinted at his teammates angrily.

"How about you continue to mine in the asteroid belt?"

Gao Yang shivered slightly.

Unlike the ostrich, the cockpit of the hummingbird is extremely small, allowing only one starship pilot to live.

A small living space means greater psychological pressure and a more boring life.

"No, no, I suddenly felt that collecting methane on Titan is also a good job!" Gao Yang waved his hands repeatedly.

The cockpit fell into silence again.

"anyway……"

Just as Zhao Zijie squinted his eyes and was half asleep, Gao Yang's weak voice came from the side.

"There won't be life on Titan, right?"

"..." Zhao Zijie shuddered suddenly, and his drowsiness disappeared instantly, "No, it's impossible, right?"

"What kind of creature can survive in an environment of -179 degrees Celsius?"

While talking, he looked out the porthole.

The searchlights around the Luanniao starship have been turned on.

A few fine waves beat on the methane ocean, and the surrounding ground was nothing but gravel and liquid methane.

Gao Yang was taken aback by Zhao Zijie's actions, and he also stood up from the chair and looked out the porthole.

After scanning for a week, he scratched his head with a smirk.

"I just mentioned it casually."

"You think, this Titan looks about the same as the Earth."

"There is an atmosphere, rivers, lakes, and oceans. Maybe some kind of life can be bred there?"

Zhao Zijie rolled his eyes and stood up from his chair.

"Okay, I'm going to sleep, you can continue to dream."

Seeing Zhao Zijie leave, Gao Yang hurriedly got up from the chair.

"Hey! Wait for me!"

"Our gamble with the spicy sticks is not over yet!"

Zhao Zijie didn't look back, he waved his hand and said a word.

"The game? What game?"