Vol 2 Chapter 2: suicide
A special reconnaissance spacecraft quietly left the port of Jupiter and entered the boundless deep universe.
Special reconnaissance spacecraft is a small combat spacecraft, known for its fast speed and strong concealment, and it can also fly faster than the speed of light in interstellar space. The small ship at the checkpoint took two hours to reach the heavy transport, while the special reconnaissance ship took only fifty minutes to reach the heavy transport from the base located in the star system.
In front of this heavy transport spacecraft, the special reconnaissance spacecraft and the small spacecraft of the checkpoint are like two small mosquitoes beside the elephant, but in this empty space, including this huge heavy transport spacecraft, even Mosquitoes are not counted, only boundless silence.
A radio wave was sent from the reconnaissance spaceship and entered the small spaceship.
"I'm Wang Hao, the leader of the investigation team for the Nimbus spacecraft incident. Please open the docking port of the spacecraft, and our reconnaissance spacecraft will dock with the Nimbus spacecraft."
The small spaceship quickly responded: "Okay, please wait a moment. Hmm...something unbelievable may have happened inside the spaceship, which may be dangerous. For safety reasons, we recommend that the The robot inspects it on your behalf."
The reconnaissance spacecraft was silent for a moment, and responded: "We already know enough about its dangers and have conducted a sufficient demonstration of the necessity of this operation. You don't have to worry about this."
"Since you insist, please feel free." The small spaceship replied.
With the issuance of several messages, the docking port of the Nimbus spacecraft was opened, and the special reconnaissance spacecraft that Wang Hao was riding in docked with it.
Standing in front of the cabin door, Wang Hao took a deep breath and turned to look at the members of the action team behind him who were also wearing full-body isolation suits. His voice was solemn and slow: "You still have a chance to go back."
The players were all silent. Wang Hao continued: "There may be some unknown risk factors in the Nimbus spacecraft, which may lead to our death or disease. And, for safety reasons, once entering the Nimbus spacecraft, then in the event of Until the investigation is clear, we must all be quarantined without contact with anyone else. If the incident remains uninvestigated, we will be quarantined for life."
The players remained silent. Wang Hao smiled slightly: "In that case, let's go."
Wang Hao pressed a button, and the hatch in front of him slowly opened, revealing the interior of the Nimbus spacecraft to Wang Hao.
As an infectious disease expert and microbiology expert, Wang Hao has seen many festering and distorted human bodies in research and clinical practice. After seeing the scene inside the Nimbus spacecraft, Wang Hao was still shocked.
At this moment, Wang Hao felt like he had come to hell.
The first thing that caught Wang Hao's eyes was more than thirty corpses. The corpses were placed in different positions, but it was obvious that they had all experienced great pain before dying. Their expressions were grim and contorted, and their bodies were contorted at various unimaginable angles. Under the pale yellow light, it looks like a death exhibition hall.
If that's the case, it's not enough to shock Wang Hao. What really shocked Wang Hao was that he found that these dead astronauts... Most of them committed suicide.
Thirty well-trained, experienced, and mentally tough astronauts died here. They did not die of disease, not of cosmic catastrophe, not of sudden failure, but of suicide.
"The temperature here is minus one hundred and fifty-eight degrees, so their bodies are still well preserved." A team member said in the communication channel.
Wang Hao nodded slightly, shook off the emotional fluctuations in his mind, and began to examine the corpses from the perspective of a medical expert.
A corpse was lying ten meters to the left of Wang Hao. The forehead of the corpse has been sunken, and there are some things in the sunken that do not know whether it is blood or brains - of course, they have been frozen into solid. There were also some splattered liquid residues on the walls, like blood, but they had all turned black.
Wang Hao observed it carefully, and in a moment, he had already come to a conclusion in his mind.
"There is no sign of violent coercion on its body, and it is impossible for others to push it to hit the wall with its forehead. Then there is only one possibility, that is, when he was still alive, he hit his forehead himself. Become like this, and then die." Wang Hao said slowly, his heart was slightly cold.
Wang Hao didn't know how ruthless a person would have to be to end his life in this way. Wang Hao only knew that the astronaut must have wanted to die very urgently before dying. He must have hit the wall with the greatest force he could use in his life, as if there was a flame there and he was a moth.
Another astronaut stabbed a fork into his chest and killed himself. Wang Hao, who has also dabbled in forensic science, can clearly see that the process of the fork entering the human body was not smooth, and the astronaut must have made great efforts. Through constant rotation and cutting, the fork finally came into contact. to his own heart and took his own life.
Another astronaut stabbed a steel pipe into his mouth, and it came out directly from the back of his head; another astronaut stabbed a pen into his temple.
"Are they crazy? Why did they end their lives through such cruel means?" Wang Hao kept asking in his heart, but he couldn't find the answer.
During the constant observation, Wang Hao made another discovery.
The astronauts all seemed to be suffering from some kind of disease before they died. Wang Hao saw that there were large festers on the limbs of the astronauts exposed outside their clothes. In some places with severe ulceration, bones can be vaguely seen.
Arms, head, legs, chest and abdomen... all of them.
Because of the extremely low temperature, those festering parts have been frozen into the same bluish-black color as normal skin, with a layer of frost attached to it, which can't be seen without careful observation.
This discovery made Wang Hao's heart move: "I don't know if these festers formed before death or after death? If it was before death, then... what could be the reason for this? Are these astronauts because of this unknown The torment of the disease can't wait to end his own life, in order to seek relief?"
Until the specific test results come out, Wang Hao can't confirm this for the time being. After observing for a while, Wang Hao carefully took out some sample bags, wanting to take some samples from the festering parts of the dead astronauts, but the extremely low temperature made this process very difficult, these frozen corpses were as hard as glass, as Brittle, ordinary sample collectors are not useful at all, and finally the laser knives carried by the team members succeeded in removing the samples.
The accompanying staff also carefully took photos and video records on the premise of not destroying the scene. It took nearly an hour to complete the observation here.
After collecting the information here, Wang Hao led the entourage into the next cabin. This cabin seems to be a place for astronauts to exercise and play. The scene here is much more normal, but it is a little bit run down, but there is nothing else.
The next few cabins were like this, and nothing of value was seen by Wang Hao.
Turning on the portable computer and looking at the spaceship map handed over to him by the industrial department, Wang Hao thought for a moment, then said: "Electronic reconnaissance team, follow me to the main control room of the spaceship to obtain all the records of the spaceship, and the rest of the members continue to search for the spaceship. Report to me as soon as you discover anything."
"Yes!" The entourage agreed in unison.
The members of the investigation team immediately divided into two teams One team followed Wang Hao directly to the main control room of the spacecraft, while the other team dispersed and began to search the spacecraft as a whole.
The Nimbus spacecraft is a heavy transport spacecraft with a total of thousands of different cabins inside the hull, and tens of thousands of passages that travel back and forth like a maze. If it wasn't for a map to guide him, or someone who was very familiar with the internal structure of the spacecraft to lead the way, Wang Hao would easily get lost here.
Passing through the dark and long corridors, through the thick cabin doors, through the cabins with different purposes... Wang Hao's thoughts were shrouded in a strange feeling.
This is a spacecraft that belongs to human civilization and shows the characteristics of human civilization everywhere. At this moment, what it brings to Wang Hao and his teammates is strange and strange.
The members of the electronic reconnaissance team who followed behind silently grasped the energy guns in their hands, and made an alert, as if some monsters would jump out at any time.
Of course, the monster did not appear, and Wang Hao also successfully walked into the general control room of the Nimbus spacecraft. After opening the main control room with a special password, Wang Hao finally made a new discovery.
Wang Hao saw a corpse again. The corpse slumped on the chair in front of the console, leaning back and drooping his arms. Like the other corpses, this corpse had long since been frozen stiff by the extremely low temperature.
Opposite the corpse was a still-working display. On the screen was playing what seemed to be a little girl's life clip.
There seems to be a playground in the picture. The little girl, led by another young woman, is experiencing different rides. The little girl kept laughing, obviously very happy, but the audio playback equipment here seemed to be broken, so no sound came out.