Exotic Battlefield: I Can Activate Dual Talents-Chapter 522 - 407: Space Drifting (Part 2)

The massive meteorites, exceptionally hard, rushed toward the starship at speeds of tens or even hundreds of kilometers per hour, bringing an overwhelming sense of shock.

It felt like a scene from the apocalypse, making people tremble with fear.

"Rip!"

At this moment, Lu Lin heard a different sound.

His spiritual strength quickly located the problem area.

In an instant, Lu Lin’s face darkened considerably.

An externally sharp meteorite had scratched a huge gash at the starship’s tail.

Objects continuously flew out from the crack.

Not good.

Lu Lin even saw a crew member in a spacesuit getting sucked out into the universe by the void’s force.

If no rescue came, he would surely perish in the universe, with not even his corpse retrievable.

Lu Lin moved his spiritual strength, entwining around the detached staff member, resisting the massive suction to pull him back.

In the horrifying suction, barrel-shaped objects were being sucked out.

To protect the staff member, Lu Lin had to multitask, pulling the person while knocking the fuel barrels to the side.

The one whom Lu Lin rescued was the level 3 Fuel Refueling Officer, Jiang Hua.

When he was being sucked outside the cabin, desperation had already filled his heart.

In such a situation, even the rescue robots equipped on the starship couldn’t offer him any aid.

In those brief moments, he hurriedly left his last words.

But once outside the starship, he couldn’t even connect to the internet, so his last message couldn’t be sent out.

For emotional humans, this was the cruelest thing in the world.

Death, I’m not afraid of.

What I fear is dying without leaving a word.

Surprisingly, after flying about two to three thousand meters away, he felt an invisible cord pulling him back toward the starship.

Someone is rescuing me.

A flicker of hope for life ignited in Jiang Hua’s heart.

This wasn’t the time to ponder the reason; Jiang Hua was making every effort to adjust his posture in space to cooperate with the rescuer.

However, since he worked in the refueling center, watching the barrels filled with starship fuel fly away pained him.

This time, the starship’s fuel wasn’t adequately prepared.

Previously, from Blue Star to Alien World, the starship hadn’t specially stocked up on fuel, and it was only after his report that the company agreed to purchase the necessary fuel while stopping at Jupiter and Mars.

But due to this suddenly appearing asteroid zone, the fuel originally sufficient to fly to Mars was now possibly inadequate.

Finally, with Lu Lin’s help, Jiang Hua returned to the familiar fuel refueling center.

However, this time he felt no joy at escaping death.

The distance between Jupiter and Mars is as much as 3.7 astronomical units.

This distance is far greater than the distance between Mars and the sun.

On such a long journey, with no stops on either end, if they run out of starship fuel, the starship can only drift aimlessly in space.

Considering the energy needed to keep the starship’s internal systems running, they might have to halt travel midway, waiting for rescue in space.

Jiang Hua secured himself to the fuel refueling center’s railing with the safety buckle and reported the situation to the captain through the internal channel immediately.

Afterwards, he thanked Lu Lin within his heart for the rescue.

Lu Lin naturally also heard Jiang Hua’s report to the starship cockpit and felt somewhat helpless.

Never imagined that just taking a trip to Blue Star on a starship would encounter such an incident.

However, with space shipping so developed in the federation, as long as the starship isn’t damaged further, rescue will arrive in one, two days at most.

Moreover, the airline company of the starship will compensate them handsomely for this incident.

Of course, Lu Lin wasn’t that caught up with money now.

But he wouldn’t refuse money that’s owed to him; he’d just donate it to some charitable federation organizations after receiving it.

Thinking this way, Lu Lin heard a sharp noise again.

"Screech—"

What’s happening!

Lu Lin was startled and quickly inspected the starship exterior.

There, on the lower part of the starship’s front, was a massive gash.

This crack was much smaller than the one at the refueling center, only about ten meters long, but terrifyingly six meters wide, exposing certain pipelines inside clearly.

Located below the main cockpit, this was precisely the integrated control system of the entire starship.

If something goes wrong here, it definitely won’t be a small issue.

Cables and lines were cut off.

Luckily, no personnel were needed to guard the Integrated Control Center here, so no one was dragged outside the starship like Jiang Hua.

But for some reason, Lu Lin felt that even the starship’s lighting system was flickering slightly.

More problems had yet to be discovered.

But in the main cockpit, the two captains and seven vice-captains were looking grimly at the alerts on their respective screens.

This massive crack mainly damaged some waste, waste filtration, and breakdown systems.

It’s not a major issue; passengers should just minimize intense activities, and defecate in designated public restrooms to avoid using their own rest cabins.

This problem was deemed solvable by all nine captains.

But another situation they were unwilling to see happened.

The spaceship’s communication system, the outbound communication system, had already failed.

Coincidentally, they had just received a report from Jiang Hua that the current starship fuel wouldn’t suffice to reach Mars Air Control Center for correction.

The issue was significant.

If these two problems can’t be properly solved, the entire starship’s nearly five thousand people might all wander in the Solar System together.

Without an external communication system, any issues on the starship couldn’t be effectively resolved.

Without sufficient fuel, the starship must shut down all power systems and drift aimlessly in space.

If their situation isn’t discovered and rescued in time, this starship’s ultimate fate would be as space garbage, a space coffin.

A massive, cold, coffin carrying five thousand people to death together.