Chapter 122 There are pirates here
In the cabin, Jiang Ping sat in his seat, looking at the appearance of the wild stone star below through the porthole on the side of the ship.
This Mangshi Star is an asteroid with no atmosphere, no water, and no life. On its surface, there are many strange mountains and rocks, with different shapes, as if they have naturally formed after tens of millions of years of weathering.
Therefore, some scientists infer that a long time ago, this Mangshi Star should have an atmosphere, water, and even primitive life. However, for some reason, the atmosphere disappeared, and water and life also disappeared, leaving only these landforms formed by millions of years of weathering.
Of course, these are not important. What is important is that this Mangshi Star is an ore star. The metal content in the soil is very high, and most of it is iron ore. More importantly, in many iron ores, there is a metal ore called cadmium 178, which is a hot and important raw material for the manufacture of high-temperature alloy materials in the aerospace field today.
Therefore, several large metal mineral companies have set up mining companies on this planet, mainly exploiting cadmium ores.
Because this planet is rich in metal ores, the planet's density is relatively high, and the gravity acceleration on the surface is almost 2.5 times that of the earth. Such a large gravity acceleration is naturally not suitable for human survival.
Jiang Ping learned that this time the club came to Mangshixing camping adventure, it is said that one of the important activities was mountaineering. After knowing this, he felt ridiculous and crying.
Under such a large acceleration of gravity, it is difficult for ordinary people to walk, let alone climbing. Isn’t this just because I have nothing to do when I am full, but because I am purely asking for trouble.
Although he was heartbroken, he, a member of the club, had no right to obey the club's decision.
In the main control room of the spacecraft, the correspondent continued to request landing from the sender at the base airport below. After waiting for more than ten minutes, he finally got the echo from the airport below, agreed to the spacecraft's landing and successfully connected to the navigation system.
However, the careful correspondent found that there was an extra piece of seemingly unnecessary information in the echo of the airport this time, and this piece of information was transmitted using a quantum encryption.
The correspondent was very surprised about this extra encrypted information. Out of caution, he still took some effort to decrypt and translate the encrypted information.
When the encrypted information displayed on the screen was clearly seen, the correspondent suddenly turned pale and stayed there.
I saw a line of words clearly displayed on the screen, "Danger! This place has been occupied by a group of interstellar pirates!"
"What's wrong, Cage, isn't there any response from the base airport below?"
As he spoke, a burly middle-aged man walked into the communication room and shouted loudly to the correspondent that it was the captain of the interstellar spacecraft.
The correspondent turned around, pointed at the screen in front of him with a pale face, and said to the person who came: "Captain, look!"
The captain walked up and swept his eyes to the screen. When he saw the lines of words on the screen, his face changed and he asked in a deep voice: "What's going on?"
The correspondent said truthfully: "Captain, I have contacted the airport on the ground just now. They agreed to us to land, but in the echo, there was an encrypted message mixed with it. After I translated it, this passage was displayed on the screen..."
After a pause, the correspondent held a hint of luck and said, "Ship, Captain, is this a prank..."
"Nonsense! No one will joke like this with us! These damn interstellar pirates actually came here!"
The captain's face was solemn, but he remained quite calm, and began to instruct the correspondent: "Cage, you continue to contact the other party, just say we are preparing to land, and at the same time inform George to start landing..."
The correspondent was stunned when he heard this, obviously not passing through this kind of situation, and asked hurriedly: "Captain, if this information is true, and it has been occupied by a group of interstellar pirates, why do we still have to land and fall into the trap instead of running away?"
The captain sternly said: "Stop talking nonsense, execute the orders!"
Seeing the captain's serious and fierce expression, the correspondent did not dare to ask any more questions. While continuing to contact the base below, he issued an order to start landing to the spacecraft pilot George.
Seeing him finishing all this, the captain said in a deep voice: "Cage, do you think we can escape now? All our actions are under the surveillance of the other party. Their warships only take a few minutes to take off and catch up with us. If we don't escape, we still have hope of survival. If we escape, we will only be dead."
The correspondent was silent. He knew that what the captain said was correct. Their interstellar spacecraft was just an ordinary passenger spacecraft, without any attack power, and in space it was just an object of mermaid meat, without any counterattack power.
If you want to enter a space jump and escape, it is impossible. If this spacecraft wants to enter a space jump, the charging time it prepares will take at least half an hour. This half hour is enough for the battleship below to fly up and destroy the spacecraft.
Moreover, most of the other party has already set up space quantum field interference in nearby star fields, and the spacecraft cannot enter the space transition.
"Captain, do we need to release a message for help?" the correspondent said tentatively.
The captain pondered for a moment and said, "You can try it, but the information needs to be encrypted so that the pirates below will not find it."
The correspondent immediately began to try to release help information out. He began to use quantum information space transition technology, but soon he discovered that the surrounding airspace was indeed covered with quantum field interference, and information could not be released by the means of space transition.
In desperation, he had to use electromagnetic waves to release the help information.
However, even at the speed of light of electromagnetic waves, it will take at least several days to reach the nearest transit base station in the nearby star field.
This undoubtedly confirms the content of the information on the screen. The following was really occupied by a group of interstellar pirates. Otherwise, how could this star field have no reason to arrange space quantum field interference?
The captain ordered again in a deep voice: "Cage, you will issue an emergency assembly order immediately. Except for the necessary personnel, all other personnel on the spacecraft will be on standby in the cabin."
After saying this, he turned around and went out.
In the cabin, the club students were sitting in their seats, waiting patiently for the spaceship to land. At this time, a harsh alarm sounded, and then they saw the captain of the spaceship leading a group of staff members in.
These people all looked serious and could tell at a glance what big thing had happened.
Chapter completed!