Because she had a protective suit to supply oxygen, she didn't panic, but was very excited.
This is an extremely scarce water resource.
As long as there is water, her basic survival problems will be solved. On the other hand, it also means that there are definitely living things on Jupiter.
Where there is water, there are living things, which may be algae, microorganisms or large mammals.
Xu Siqian unbuckled his seat belt and pushed hard to escape from the car, but no matter how hard he thumped, he couldn't float up.
When I clicked on the anti-gravity controller on my chest, there was no response. The gravity bar seemed to have failed in the water.
She now regrets wearing the old protective suit on the moon. By default, there is no anti-drowning function in a waterless environment. She is really screwed. In desperation, she can only add oxygen manually to try to make the protective suit full of air and float.
This trick really worked. As the protective suit expanded, the body got closer to the water little by little.
Just when he was about to be rescued, a terrifying black figure suddenly appeared in his sight, approaching Xu Siqian quickly. The unknown creature had eight legs that resembled an octopus.
After shaking a few times, he swam in front of Xu Siqian, backed up and sprinted, and hit her helmet hard.
The boulder-like weight caused her to fall rapidly.
Turning on the built-in headlight, the octopus is tightly covered, and only the purple suction cup can be seen. No matter how you pull it, it sticks to the glass mask like a gummy candy. It can only be taken out from the function box on the left wrist. The dagger crazily divided the octopus's body.
"Alert! Alert! The exoskeleton is overheating! Please pay attention!"
The system's reminders did nothing but increase her anxiety.
Also, she underestimated the suction power of the suction cups, and they couldn't be released from the helmet without cutting them open.
Just like that, Xu Siqian was pushed back to the bottom of the water by the dead octopus.
The lake was bottomless, and as the pressure increased, her temples suddenly hurt, swelling from the inside out. This meant that her internal organs would soon explode due to the pressure and die.
Buzz! Accompanied by bursts of tinnitus, Xu Siqian fell into a coma.
The seriously injured octopus quietly waited for the death of its prey, but what it didn't know was that the life detector on Xu Siqian's wrist was connected to the Jasmine.
After learning about Xu Siqian's accident, Jasmine took over control of her protective suit and successfully repaired the anti-gravity strip on her left palm with the help of the exoskeleton on her hand.
Jasmine saved Xu Siqian's life. Relying on the remaining anti-gravity strip, she slowly rose to the water's surface. The exoskeletons of her arms and hands dragged Xu Siqian's heavy body and barely climbed to the shore.
She didn't know how long it took before she opened her eyes at Jasmine's call.
Xu Siqian looked at herself in disbelief at the intact metal ceiling of the cabin.
What surprised her even more was that her archenemy Qi Yu knelt down next to her and cleaned the octopus's body tightly attached to the protective suit for her.
All kinds of messy monitoring equipment were attached to her wrists and face. She couldn't bear it and asked: "What are you doing here?"
"I rushed to save you. It doesn't matter if I don't thank you. Why do you still look so impatient?"
"I do not need".
Xu Siqian stood up with strength, pulled off the thread attached to his body, leaving the petrified Qi Yu and went straight to the laboratory.
She just wants to know what the water quality is like now. Since this octopus can survive in it, it must be drinkable.
She sliced the octopus claws on the protective suit and put them under a microscope and a component checker respectively, so that she could determine whether the water and the thing were edible at the same time.
Test results show that although the octopus is edible, the water on its surface contains methane gas.
Light the alcohol lamp, pick up the still dripping octopus meat with chopsticks and place it on the outer flame of the alcohol lamp.
In just one second, the moist octopus meat burned like a fireball, exuding the aroma of barbecue.
As for methane, to put it simply, it is biogas. The water here can still be drunk after being fully purified.
Even if you can't drink it, it is still a fuel of great value.
After finishing handling the octopus, Xu Siqian went to Qi Yu and apologized: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have treated you that way just now."
"To tell you the truth, the Federation has determined that you are missing and banned everyone from entering Jupiter. I had to step forward and take the initiative to save you. Why don't you praise me?"
Seeing his unbeatable expression and mean tone, Xu Siqian's guilt disappeared: "So when can you leave?"
"I can't walk anymore, and my airship is out of order. To make matters worse, it hit a rock when it came down and is close to being scrapped. So I have to stay with you for a while until it is repaired. I hope you don't mind."
"I couldn't get out in the first place, and I had to share half of my limited resources with you. You rescued me, but you didn't bring any supplies and only drove a small airship. Do you think I didn't die quickly enough?"
"...Okay, I admit that I sneaked out, so I didn't even bring any supplies. Captain Hao and the others now not only want to save you, but also save me."
There were only four Chinese characters in Xu Siqian's mind: "utterly speechless".
After a simple night of repairs, she pretended that Qiyu didn't exist. Even if he made tomato scrambled eggs, she just ate her own instant cereal.
Then one person goes out and builds himself a comfortable shelter within the radius of the spacecraft.
Except for the cliff against her back, she used machines to plow the dozens of meters outside the spaceship. Those that were closer were compacted and flattened with a tamping machine, while those farther away were surrounded by fences to form many squares.
She still wanted to try to grow something. The seeds she brought included not only plants from Earth, but also plants from outer galaxies that were more suitable for low-oxygen environments.
Although the edible value is not high, at least it can effectively create oxygen and block wind and sand. If there are any creatures, it is also their food source.
She planted several kinds of glitter grass in different colors on the outermost fence.
They are very adaptable to sandy soil. When immature, they taste like tasteless leeks. They can grow up to half a meter tall. When they grow up, the tops will grow into mosquito coils like vines, and eventually they will grow into transparent transparent leaves that emit a faint light like water droplets. fruit.
The taste of the fruit is indescribable. It is juicy and sour than sweet. When astronauts are short of food on earth, they will use them as a substitute for cherry tomatoes.
Xu Siqian brought a bucket of water back for purification.
But she encountered difficulties in front of the purifier, because her research direction was lunar infrastructure and she had never studied water purifiers at all. Looking at the quaint machine full of densely packed buttons, she fell into brainstorming thoughts.
Although the technician is an all-rounder, her ability to operate machinery is actually not as good as Qi Yu, the maintenance technician.
Qi Yu just watched quietly from behind, waiting for Xu Siqian to speak and beg him for help so that he could show his authority in front of her.
Although Xu Siqian was stubborn, she was not stubborn. She would just put it down and do something else.
She ran to the warehouse to find a simple purification device, but she accidentally overturned a bright yellow scooter.
Although it is much smaller than a pickup truck, it can burn gas and has a roof.
In other words, the entire lake is a natural gas station.
After quickly finding steel plates and paint to modify the car, Xu Siqian used the downward air exhaust method, that is, turning the can upside down and inserting two tubes, one long and one short. The denser air flows along the short tube at the bottom. Pipe it out, and what's left is methane.
Although it was impure, the car started successfully after adding it to the gas tank.
"Qiyu, come to the warehouse for a moment." Xu Siqian suddenly thought of something and pressed the intercom on her wrist.
"What's wrong?" Qi Yu almost ran over, thinking that this stubborn woman had finally shown weakness.
"Do you think this warehouse has something you can use? You can try to repair your airship."
Qi Yu thought he was asked to help, but he didn't expect that he was asked to find maintenance tools to repair the airship.
He searched, but he didn't just look for it. He classified everything into categories and would not dig out things that Xu Siqian didn't even know like before.
Xu Siqian, who was driving a scooter, added a simple dump truck to the back of the car. Half of it was filled with various items for infrastructure construction, and the other half was empty.
She will definitely not be able to get out of Jupiter for a while, and she must not sit back and rest on her laurels. The available resources must be used to the maximum extent possible.
