Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1288 - 489: Toward Asphyxiation_3

First, there was a crackling sound from the other side, then it was quiet for two seconds, followed by a voice filled with joy.

"997-27 received! I am Captain Huang Xubo! That... is it Earl?"

Huang Xubo seemed to be trying hard to suppress his excitement.

Ren Zhong responded with a hum, "Yes, it’s me. Calm yourself and report the damage to your ship and the casualties."

Huang Xubo coughed twice on the other end, but he, worthy of being an elite scout, quickly calmed down and spoke with rapid clarity.

"The spaceship is severely damaged, the control brain has been completely torn apart. Air inside the cabin has entirely dissipated, the life support system has completely collapsed and is irreparable. The energy supply system damage rate exceeds 95%, the fusion reactor has suffered a severe leak, but through emergency repairs, we have preserved the power supply to the repeater. However, the main battery can only support another ten minutes before it shuts down completely. There are five crew members surviving. Another ten have either been sucked into space or sacrificed due to damaged space suits. The technical officer has already been sacrificed, with remaining members being the captain, mechanic, energy allocator, navigator, and reconnaissance equipment controller."

Although Huang Xubo’s tone was very calm, focusing entirely away from his own safety, everyone knows he is fully aware he is doomed.

No, perhaps he still has a ray of hope.

The reserve energy inside the space suit is enough to maintain the life support system for three days, fully capable of waiting for a rescue from 981-27.

But Ren Zhong on this end used an even calmer tone to say: "State your plan, how to ensure the stability of the data link?"

Huang Xubo replied without hesitation: "Report to Earl, before you contacted me, we already finalized a plan. Among the crew members, five were sucked into space and have been captured by a dark energy mass. Of the other five whose space suits are severely damaged, three suits still have intact energy modules. Just now, my colleagues have checked the reserve compartment at the rear of the work ship, there are six more space suits. Adding our own, we can gather a total of 14 space suits. The mechanic told me, connecting the energy modules of 14 space suits in series perfectly meets the power supply requirements of the information flow repeater, keeping the repeater operational for sixteen more hours. As long as during the next sixteen hours, we aren’t unlucky enough to be swept by another dark energy force field, the link can be maintained."

Huang Xubo’s words were still very plain, but actually, this is a path to death.

To meet the power supply of the information flow repeater through the space suits’ energy, all functions of the space suits must be completely shut down, including the air circulation of the life support system.

With the remaining oxygen in the space suits, without circulation, only ten minutes later, they will start to feel oxygen depletion.

At most, after half an hour, all five people including Huang Xubo will be asphyxiated and die.

In the underlying intelligent logic settings of space suits, personnel safety is placed at the highest priority.

When the life monitoring system detects a risk of asphyxiation, it will automatically cut off external power supply, restoring life support power.

To achieve what Huang Xubo described, all five people must voluntarily completely disable the life monitoring system.

But the system is placed at the most convenient finger-operated section, simply bending a finger can reactivate the system.

This means the five people must overcome the survival instinct, despite being able to easily save themselves, while in a state of blurred consciousness due to lack of oxygen, use their will to resist the urge to bend their fingers, until they quietly walk towards death.

This is almost impossible to achieve.

And it still involves five people.

As long as any one of them errs, the data link will break instantly.

There is another plan, letting the other four people first open their masks, dying of asphyxiation, leaving the last person to complete the final step, setting the predetermined procedure.

The last person must hold their breath, remove the space suit, ensuring the survival instinct does not interrupt the power supply.

This is the only plan.

Ren Zhong thought for five seconds, then slowly said, "I trust you, do the preparations. Thank you."