Chapter 37 Space Elevator
The tires wrapped with thick iron chains rolled over the snow, plowing out two long snow marks.

The shrill roar of the blizzard suppressed the roar of the engine that had been echoing in the ears, making it almost inaudible.

Through the glass of the cab, one could only see ice and snow dancing in the sky, with snowflakes hitting the glass with crackling sounds under the strong wind.

The doors and windows of the narrow cab had been temporarily sealed with tape, and a temporarily modified diesel blowtorch was emitting flames, but it could not bring any more warmth.

The lack of professional thermal insulation materials made the cab as cold as an ice cave. Even though Li Nanke wore two layers of thickened protective clothing, he could not resist the trembling caused by heat loss.

He held his breath and temporarily lifted his oxygen mask, then grabbed a bottle of whiskey from the transfer station and took a few big gulps.

The hot feeling flows into the body through the mouth and esophagus, and flows to every part of the body.

With the help of alcohol, he tried to use the trait he had just mastered, ‘Blood Contract’, to speed up the blood flow in his body, bringing in more heat while shrinking blood vessels as much as possible to maintain the temperature of core organs.

As the blood flow throughout my body increased, my heart rate began to rise, and my whole body gradually became hot as if I had been doing intense exercise. I finally felt a little better.

Alba, who was standing aside, had no extraordinary strength. His hands holding the steering wheel were shaking, and his frozen pale face and purple lips could be seen through the transparent oxygen mask.

“Hold your breath!”

Alba immediately did as he was told, taking a deep breath and holding it. Li Nanke opened his oxygen mask and gave him a few gulps of oxygen.

After taking a few gulps of liquor, Alba’s face looked better.

Gliese 798c has an atmosphere, but there are a large amount of harmful gases in the air, which humans cannot breathe directly. Oxygen masks are essential equipment when going out.

The base of the space elevator is not far from the Deep Pit Prison, but the speed of the carrier is too slow, and it takes nearly an hour to arrive.

The one-hour journey seemed particularly long under the oppression of severe cold, and the only thing in sight was the unchanging sky full of ice and snow.

“Look, what is that!”

Suddenly, a black dot appeared in the white snow ahead.

As the transport vehicle approached, Li Nanke saw clearly that it was an overturned polar heavy snowmobile.

The body of the vehicle was covered with huge and terrible claw marks, and the entire cabin door was violently opened and twisted. There was no living person inside except for the splattering blood.

Alba subconsciously wanted to slow down the car and stop to see if there were any heating supplies available in the snowmobile.

“Don’t stop! Speed ​​up! Take a detour and leave here immediately!”

Li Nanke took a quick look and immediately determined that the snowmobile had encountered an external attack. In addition to the deep pit prison, there are also many large primitive creatures on this planet.

In terms of aggressiveness alone, those large primitive creatures are no worse than ordinary aberrations.

Originally, the mining route from the deep pit prison to the space elevator was sprayed with special repellents all year round, and few primitive creatures approached. It was probably the electromagnetic signals emitted by the underground structures that seriously affected the native creatures, causing them to attack the snowmobiles regardless of the repellents.

“The experimental log also records experiments on non-human creatures. The electromagnetic signals of the construct can affect all living things and transform any dead flesh and blood tissue at the cellular level…”

If a primitive creature that is already highly aggressive were to suffer posthumous distortion, it would inevitably become an extremely terrifying existence.

After hearing the warning, Alba did not dare to hesitate. He immediately turned the steering wheel and stepped on the accelerator to get away from the snowmobile.

After the transport vehicle drove away, Li Nanke heard a deafening roar coming from the blizzard behind him. Turning his head, he saw a terrifying and huge shadow emerging next to the snowmobile in the fluttering snow.

Alba was so scared that his face turned purple. He gripped the steering wheel tightly and wanted to step on the accelerator into the engine.

Fortunately, we accelerated and drove away in time. After the transport vehicle sped away for a while, we could no longer see the monster.

As the carrier gradually approached the base of the space elevator, the howling of the blizzard still echoed in my ears, but the scene in front of me gradually became clearer.

A huge silver structure stood on the snow-covered ground. The base of the space elevator was a huge circular platform with a diameter of more than a kilometer. Forty-eight silver cables made of nano-carbon fiber tubes connected the sky and the earth, connecting six huge closed lifting platforms on the ground. The cables were only as thick as two people hugging each other, and were as thin as silk threads compared to the huge space elevator. However, it was these extremely tough silk threads that could hold the huge space station in the synchronous orbit outside the sky tightly without breaking under the strong centrifugal force of the planet’s rotation.

The transport vehicle slowly stopped, and Li Nanke got off in the severe cold and snowstorm and approached the elevator base.

Two of the six space elevators were nowhere to be seen. They must have reached synchronous orbit outside the atmosphere and docked with the Gliese 798c large space station.

Alba was shivering with cold. He connected the portable optical computer he had stolen from the biological laboratory to the control panel of the base of the space elevator and started to do his old job.

Thanks to the powerful new equipment, a space elevator opened its hatch in just three minutes.

Enter the elevator cabin through a high pedestrian bridge, where there are cargo and passenger areas. The passenger area is equipped with seats and seat belts, and is equipped with an oxygen injection system and a constant temperature system.

After the cabin door was closed, the two finally no longer had to endure the cold. They just felt warm and comfortable when they rubbed their hands.

As the electronic announcement counted down to the start, Li Nanke, wearing a pressure-resistant space suit, tied himself tightly to the seat and fastened all the safety buckles.

“three……”

“two……”

“one……”

“start up!”

The electromagnetic catapult device and high-voltage ignition device at the bottom of the elevator were activated instantly, and the space elevator rushed straight into the sky with four fierce flames!

The cabin seat kept vibrating, and the powerful acceleration overload became more and more intense, pressing Li Nanke tightly against the back of the chair. He turned his head to look at the electronic display screen and saw that the gravity acceleration had reached 6.5G and was still rising.

The sky and the snow outside the porthole continued to fall, and soon the clouds were thrown down by him who was rising into the sky.

The color of the sky changed from light blue to dark blue, the curve of the planet gradually appeared, the edge of the atmosphere became clearly visible, and finally… it was dark.

Through the porthole, the stars are twinkling in the deep and boundless starry sky, and there is coldness and loneliness in the boundless darkness.

As the height continued to increase, the elevator cabin gradually slowed down and finally reached the synchronous track and stopped smoothly.

The electronic announcement came again: “Start docking with the Gliese 798c large space station…”

“…”

“The docking was successful!”

With a noticeable vibration, Li Nanke realized that the robotic arm at the interface had automatically extended out and had firmly fixed the elevator cabin on the space station.

He unbuckled the safety buckle and his body floated up involuntarily. The strong feeling of weightlessness in outer space made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

The two men swam by holding onto the wall and railings and opened the docking hatch.

As the silver metal corridor of the space station appeared, Alba breathed a sigh of relief. It was finally safe here, far away from the ground.

After passing through the docking corridor, you can officially enter the interior of the space station, which has a centrifugal gravity system, so you don’t have to float in the air anymore.

When he reached the metal gate in front of the corridor, Li Nanke suddenly stopped.

I just felt my hair stand on end and goose bumps all over my body!
“Michael, what’s wrong?”

The strong sense of danger made Li Nanke take a few deep breaths, but he couldn’t help gritting his teeth and finally squeezed out a word.

“I’m afraid the station is…full of aberrations!”

(End of this chapter)