wandering planet

In addition to the planets of the Graia series and the Rust series, there are a large number of planets of different shapes in the Sirius planetary belt.

The planet Song Junxing mentioned is named Virgil, and it is a very special planet in the Sirius planetary belt.

In the space telescope, Virgil presents a very beautiful and transparent light blue as a whole, as if it is a sapphire suspended in the universe.

Virgil was actually discovered by people on earth first, and its name was a combination of English characters and numbers at that time.But in the "Great Evacuation", when humans arrived in the Sirius planetary belt, they obtained an extremely important material from Virgil, which saved everyone's life.They decided to give this life-saving planet a nice, loud, easy-to-remember and teachable name.

"What material?" Jiang Che likes to listen to this kind of mysterious story, which makes him feel that he can know more about Marseille and the changes in this world.

Pierre and Tang Mo, who were sitting beside him, replied in unison: "Tanshui."

The two looked at each other, and Tang Mo added: "But we don't know if there are any fish. Virgil is a planet that cannot be entered casually, which is also written in the additional clauses of the Life Covenant. If one day there is insufficient water resources on Marseille, Virgil is our last reservoir, so it must not be polluted."

Jiang Che's heart skipped a beat and he couldn't help standing up.

"Linney, Ovid!" He stepped out of the cooking table and walked to the cab, "We forgot to get fresh water from the Greia F."

Lin Ni and Ovid looked at each other, and wondered: "Didn't Pierre and Tang Mo go to get it?"

Pierre: "We are guarding the ship. Aren't you the ones responsible for collecting supplies?"

Ovid looked at Linney: "That should be you."

Linney: "Don't pass the buck, Captain."

Now Virgil must go.

Lin Ni didn't want to talk or look at Song Junxing, so he turned and walked to the cooking table.

"Can it be cut into strips?" he asked.

"Yes." Jiang Che said, "You cut it."

Lin Ni picked up the knife and cut the thick green aquatic plants into strips, then picked up the fungus and looked around.

Neither Pierre nor Tang Mo knew that the food was still edible, let alone how to deal with it. They watched Lin Ni waiting for his next move.

Then Linney cut the fungus too.

Everything was cut into strips, according to Jiang Che's method, he chopped the garlic into pieces, and poured some soy sauce and vinegar into the basin with water plants and fungus. "Is there any salt?" Linney asked.

Tang Mo and Pierre nodded indiscriminately, and he just grabbed a little and put it in.

Stir everything evenly, the salt grains have melted into the vinegar and soy sauce, and the things in the basin exude the aroma of seasoning.The water plants were only slightly scalded, but they were still very green. Lin Ni picked one up and put it in his mouth in doubt, and quickly spat it out with a frown.

"It's unpalatable."

Both Tang Mo and Pierre ate happily: "It's very crispy. It makes a crunch."

Lin Ni slumped on the chair, swallowed silently, and began to think about the kind of fish Song Junxing was talking about.

Ovid asked Song Junxing about Virgil, including the double-edged fish and important fresh water he said.Having received basic education, he knows Virgil, and he also knows that Virgil is a planet covered with a lot of fresh water, but how to land is a problem—because there is almost no land on Virgil, and 96% of the surface is covered by water. The rest is 4% sandy land. The weight of a lifeboat cannot land, otherwise it will sink deeply into the sand and cannot set sail.

At that time, all the ships in the "Great Evacuation" landed on the sea surface using air cushions.But the lifeboat does not have the equipment to land on the water, and this road will not work.

"Use a rope ladder." Song Junxing said, "Throw people down, and then catch them up."

This is feasible, and there are very strong rope ladders on the lifeboat.

Ovid stared at Song Junxing on the screen and narrowed his eyes: "Are you familiar with Virgil?"

"Isn't this basic knowledge?" Song Junxing said with a smile, "You must have poor academic performance."

The thoughts in Jiang Che's heart are the same as Ovid's.Even Pierre, a graduate of the Marseille Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, doesn't know about double-edged fish. Why does Song Junxing know that there is such a fish in Virgil and that it is delicious?Did he ever reach Virgil?Had he ever landed on Virgil's sea with a rope ladder?

But obviously he said before that there is only one administrator in the Black Sea, so he can't leave the Black Sea for ten years.

Another question that once appeared in Jiang Che's mind resurfaced again: Since it has been decided to abandon the Black Sea Transit Station, why does Marseille send an administrator there, even for ten years?

Since Virgil was only three days away, everyone felt that there was no need to worry too much.

Linney used the star map to determine Virgil's location and set the lifeboat to sail automatically.

The most important part of the daily life of the people on board was to persuade Jiang Che to feed them whole shrimps and enoki mushrooms.

"This needs to be lit." Jiang Che refused, "Isn't open flames strictly prohibited on ships?"

Having said that, he still used the kettle on the ship to cook boiled prawns for them twice, until Pierre bit his tongue.

They collected so many ingredients from Greia F that they couldn't finish them in a short time.Tang Mo held back his saliva, put the shrimps into the small and narrow refrigerator, and counted all the supplies, and carefully arranged various matching foods for everyone's three meals a day.

Lin Ni was very dissatisfied: "I protest, Tang Mo's self-serving. How can you eat ten packs of butterfly crisps a day? I only have three packs!"

Tang Mo leaned against the door, very weak: "I'm thin, I'm so thin that I have no strength."

Linney: "You didn't look like this yesterday when you robbed the boiled shrimp with Ovid."

Tang Mo: "...I'm on my period! I'm in a bad mood, I want to eat something sweet to make myself happy!"

Everyone retreated immediately.

During the rest of the day, Tang Mo found a pile of unopened food beside the door of her room, all of which were sweet, and all of which she assigned to the rest of the people to eat during the day.

On the second day, Tang Mo adjusted everyone's recipes, and Lin Ni finally stopped protesting.

"This means we have to catch more fish in Virgil." Jiang Che said, looking at the new recipe, "otherwise we will starve to death before we reach the Black Sea. There are too many people on board to eat."

He suddenly thought of the story Song Junxing told.

"Why is that planet called Virgil?" he asked Ovid. "Is there any significance?"

"No?" Ovid said, "I think people at the Marseille Science Bureau generally only follow the two points of being easy to remember and easy to teach when it comes to naming stars."

Tang Mo, who followed Ovid with Jiang Che to learn how to use the console communication equipment, disagreed: "The name Virgil is meaningful. Before arriving at Virgil, because of the 'Great Retreat'"

With the crash and disappearance of the material transport ship in Li, fresh water is gone.Almost everyone has symptoms of lack of water, so when they found that they could get water from Virgil, really, the whole fleet cheered.Said in the documentary. "

The task of naming the pale blue gemstone was given to an astronomer at the Science Agency.He is a devout religious believer that the fleet can approach Virgil only under the guidance of God.

"Almighty God gave his name and number to the stars." Tang Mo said, "This poem was written by Virgil. The namer believes that every star we encounter should be bestowed by Almighty God Name. So after thinking about it for ten days, he refused the job of giving a name.”

Jiang Che, Ovid: "..."

After listening to it for a long time, I thought there would be some wonderful ending, but in the end - I rejected the job.

"The person in charge of the Science Department refused to agree and scolded him." Tang Mo recalled the content of the documentary with relish, "The astronomer was furious, and remembered the poem he had been chanting all day, so he took Virgil's The name was handed in. The result was passed immediately."

"It's ... quite dramatic," Ovid said.

"Isn't this wonderful?" Song Junxing, who accompanied them to test the communication equipment, listened silently for a long time, and suddenly interrupted, "'Almighty God gave his name and number to the stars', this is Virgil's "Agricultural Poetry" A line. I like it very much.”

Tang Mo turned to look at him: "Do you know this poem?"

"It's boring, here." Song Junxing sat cross-legged on the ground eating french fries, "I have nothing to do, I read a lot of books."

Tang Mo stared at the french fries in Song Junxing's hand with piercing eyes: "Your bag...is it mustard?"

"Yes."

Tang Mo immediately bent down, and took out a pack of French fries in a similar package from the small box under his feet: "This pack of mine is tomato curry!"

Song Junxing was stunned for a moment, and was so excited that he almost spilled all the French fries in his hand: "The tomato curry flavor that was discontinued 17 years ago!"

Tang Mo: "Stop production? Oh, yes, we are 30 years behind you."

Song Junxing raised the bag of French fries in his hand; "I still have a pack of this mustard flavor. It is an improved cucumber mustard flavor. It was only produced ten years ago. You must have never tasted it. You bring the tomato curry flavor over here. We exchange."

Tang Mo: "Deal!"

The two quickly reached a consensus across a long distance.

Lin Ni walked in and waved his arms to drive Tang Mo away: "Change shifts. Take your snack box away."

Tang Mo packed up the food, and walked out of the cab with the box in his arms.

Lin Ni glanced at her: "If you're not feeling well, you don't have to be on duty. Don't worry about studying. I can teach you when you recover."

Tang Mo: "I'm not uncomfortable."

Linney: "Aren't you on your period?"

Tang Mo: "My menstrual period has passed long ago, and the next cycle hasn't come yet."

Lin Ni: "...Tang Mo, don't be like that trash in the Black Sea, don't lie, and don't lie for food."

As soon as he finished speaking, the cab suddenly went dark, and the screen that originally displayed Song Junxing's big face suddenly went dark, and then a flat star map of the Sirius planetary belt was displayed.

Ovid and Jiang Che didn't do anything, and were taken aback at the same time.

[Find an unregistered communication frequency, do you want to access it?WARNING: Access may lead to adverse consequences.Found an unregistered communication frequency...]

As the warning was played, all the lights on the lifeboat were extinguished, and then the emergency indicator lights under the wall and on the side of the corridor turned on.

"Are you connected?" Captain Ovid turned his head and asked Linney.

Linney propped his hands on the console, as if he didn't hear Ovid's inquiry, staring at the star map on the screen.

Pierre stumbled out of the room: "How did you trigger the second-level warning?"

"We found an unfamiliar ship." Linney answered it, "The other party is using the communication frequency to search for other ships in the star field. Can't answer! It will reveal our position."

Pierre was stunned: "Is it from Marseille? Or Song Junxing?"

"Neither." Linney completely turned off all the lights on the lifeboat. From the outside, the lifeboat looked like a pitch-black iron block, almost at rest in the void.

He activated the video camera in front of the lifeboat, and the screen began to display the image in front of the lifeboat.

Three hundred kilometers ahead of the lifeboat, a rock almost the size of three Fausts was slowly passing through their line of sight.

However, on closer inspection, the rock is covered with potholes and small windows, and it looks like a huge ship with strange shapes.

Everyone held their breath.

They encountered alien creatures.