One Thousand Two Hundred and Nineteen Belated Faith

Ye Han was still looking forward to the follow-up news from Base No. 1, but for some reason, after the last message, the Leishan never received any news from Base No. 1 again.

Some people believe that no news is the best news, but for Base No. 1, no news means that anything can happen, including the annihilation of all the people.

The situation is not optimistic, and everyone speculates what happened in Base No. 1.

Ye Han also has some guesses in his mind, such as turning off the communication equipment to save power, and the wrong direction of the antenna. The worst case is that the aliens destroyed the communication equipment of the base.

If the base equipment is damaged, even if the Leishan arrives at Base No. 1, it cannot repair the communication equipment, unless the equipment on the Leishan is removed and replaced on the base.

But that is impossible!

A few hours later, Ye Han finally received the news that the aliens had evacuated. He almost put his eyes on the screen, stared at it for a long time, and finally confirmed the news.

The entire Leishan was agitated, eagerly looking forward to new news. Luo Qi called Base No. 1 every few minutes. It was not until more than half an hour later that he received a few vague sounds, but after playing them out, he could not hear them clearly at all.

Ye Han called up the analysis software and quickly separated the first audio track, but the clearest part of the entire audio track was the word "rely on", and it was completely impossible to hear what the original meaning of this sentence was.

Continuing to separate, the other audio tracks were not as good as this one, and in the end only one was slightly more complete, but the only content that could be heard clearly was the five words "reactor" and "battery", and the true content of this sentence was also unknown.

In desperation, Ye Han could only order Luo Qi to continue to pay attention to Base No. 1.

Soon, observations confirmed that the communication antenna of Base No. 1 was intact, that is, the reason for the loss of contact was not the damage of the antenna!

This discovery aggravated the worries of Ye Han and everyone else.

From that day on, the Leishan never received any news from Base No. 1, and Ye Han could only inform Beiyuezhou of the loss of contact.

However, to Ye Han's surprise, Beiyuezhou actually forwarded several messages from Base No. 1!

The situation was really strange. After asking Beiyuezhou carefully, I learned that since the alarm was sounded at Base No. 1, the radio telescope placed on the surface of the moon was aimed at Base No. 1. Beiyuezhou could clearly see the news that Leishan could not receive.

Beiyuezhou's monitoring record was like this.

"Is this... No. 2... device turned on...?"

"Good... Ziz...!"

"Good... Ziz... luck!"

"It's not... you... Ziz... it's me."

"Good... Ziz... luck!"

"I hope... Ziz..."

"Ziz... open..."

"I'm leaving... Ziz... be careful."

The communication record showed that there was a pause here for a while. After a few minutes, the sound reappeared: "Hole No. 2... Ziz...!"

There was an obvious fault recorded here, and only a few of the remaining communications were slightly more obvious.

One of them was: "Damn..."

This sentence has an extra word "I" compared to the one received by Leishan.

There was another sentence next: "The reactor is finished... Ziz... isotope... Ziz... battery."

Ye Han's first reaction, the original form of this sentence should be: The reactor is finished.

But if you think about it carefully, it is also possible that it means: the reactor is intact.

However, the isotope mentioned later in this sentence should be. According to the connection between the sentences before and after, the original meaning of the whole sentence should be: the reactor is finished, and then we must rely on isotope batteries.

People who know aerospace know that isotope batteries have an extraordinary status in aerospace engineering. Although Base No. 1 has a reactor, before the reactor was built, the power of the base was all provided by isotope batteries.

Some equipment simply has built-in isotope batteries. Due to the low power of a single isotope battery, these devices are not directly powered by isotope batteries, but use one or several isotope batteries to charge aerospace batteries, and then use the power stored in the batteries to drive the equipment.

Even if there is no reactor, these devices can be used for ten or eight years without any problem, but they cannot be used continuously, and sufficient charging time must be left for the batteries.

Ye Han judged that the meaning of the words is likely to be that isotope batteries and batteries must be collected, and then the isotope batteries, batteries and life support equipment must be combined together to keep the life support equipment working.

Ye Han carefully glanced at the communication records and found that all the messages were discovered after the aliens evacuated the asteroid. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

Base No. 1 is not a big problem. What he needs to do now is to rush to the ground as soon as possible and rescue the trapped soldiers.

Two days later, just when everyone thought that there would be no more news from Base No. 1, Leishan received a new signal!

Luo Qi couldn't believe his eyes. After checking it three times, he reported this unexpected news to Ye Han.

Ye Han was also very surprised and hurriedly asked about the content of the message. As a result, Luo Qi received not a voice message, but a text message!

The message read: This is Cave No. 9 of Base No. 1. The power was cut off two days ago. Cave No. 2 confirmed that the reactor was damaged. After switching to nuclear batteries, the power was restored, but it was very unstable, sometimes strong and sometimes weak. It is initially speculated that the reason should be the insufficient total power of the nuclear battery.

Seeing this, Ye Han immediately verified that he had overlooked something.

He called up the equipment list of Base No. 1 and calculated the number of nuclear batteries. A simple comparison revealed that the total power generation of the nuclear batteries was only enough to maintain the operation of one-third of the equipment.

The following content of the message also proved this point. If they continued to struggle, all the hiding caves would not be able to hold on until the arrival of the Leishan. Therefore, the No. 9 cave collectively decided to shut down most of the functions of the life-support equipment, reduce the air circulation speed, retain the temperature control function, and then inject hibernation hormones for everyone to reduce consumption in this way and wait for the arrival of the Leishan.

After the No. 9 cave announced this decision, it immediately received responses from other caves, but some people also suggested that not everyone should be injected with hibernation hormones, and at least one person should be left to take care of the equipment.

This suggestion was also agreed by everyone, so there was the message sent to the Leishan.

Ye Han also agreed with this decision very much. Since the consumption could not be afforded, wouldn’t it be possible to have everything if the consumption was reduced?

Thinking back to the beginning, he and the surviving comrades of the First Fleet also relied on this method to hold on for a few months and were eventually rescued by the Second Fleet.

Ye Han had hesitated, despaired, and felt helpless before, until this, he had the confidence to successfully rescue Base No. 1 for the first time.

I hope the soldiers can hold on until the Leishan arrives, and I hope the aliens won’t come back!