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Chapter 24: BEYOND THE SHUTTLE!
Translator: Lonelytree, _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Lucas
The first individual to sense that so the shuttle He was besieged by a flash of preravitational device shut down
Ying brushed the feeling away,it down as tricks of his overly anxious mind After all, it was man’s first expedition onto a celestial body other than the er was to be expected
The range of possible catastrophes included sudden windstorht teens oft-featured in science fiction, or even life-threatening encounters with extra-terrestrial lifefor was justified in dis as unnecessary worry so as to not have it fogging his ravitational systeravity field, so its passengers could round Even after they entered the planet’s atravitational systeravitational force to offset that of the planet’s in an effort to ravitational environment within The descent was smooth, and because of that, only the sers ere particularly cautious wore seatbelts They were all in space suits, but none of theravitational system broke down, those that weren’t strapped into a seatbelt,etting shoved up against the walls or onto the floor
At the height of five thousand ed in full vengeance At onedown safely, but in the next, he could literally see the rooainst the walls or the ground, ian its plu was one of the feore a seatbelt His extra cautiousness that was often chided by his tearace that had preserved everyone’s lives He knew he had to reach the buttons on the panel before him, but because he was crammed forcefully into his seat, it had taken hi the necessary buttons
The buttons fired up the boosters that were attached to the shuttle’s rear, buffering the speed of their drop However, this was about twenty seconds after the shuttle started plu at a treround Even with buffeting from the boosters’ fiery propulsion, it couldn’t overcoain control of the shuttle, a sweat-soaked Ying yelled across the rooround soon and hard! Brace yourselves for a harsh landing!”
That was, however, easier said than done People were still getting flung across surfaces, and the boosters’ propulsionpeople about Only the feere physically trained were able to crawl to their seats and struggle to fasten their seatbelts The shuttle hit the ground with an intense ih the room The shuttle then proceeded to slide severalitself several , the interior was in a completely ramshackle state Thankfully, everyone had space suits on, so their bodies were padded and protected However, because they decided not to wear their helmets, an unlucky few had suffered head injuries, but the fall was basically just a rough turoans of pain, no sound was heard
Co out of his daze, a scientist suddenly issued in alar!”
That whipped everyone into attention Frantically putting on their protective helmets, they rushed to check the shuttle walls for cracks It took them quite some time to realize that the scientist who had issued the alar the walls as they were Instead, he was shaking on the floor and staring intently at a shredded translucent bag before hily unfamiliar object, but once they realized that it was one of the bags that held the planet’s air sample, their faces blanched It was too late; they were already breathing in the planet’s air!
The significance that they had alien air in their lungs shouldn’t be downplayed They were in an alien atmosphere, so no one kneas in it Even if it had just one strain of a ic death because none of the that panic could only be har by quickly added, “Everyone, please don’t worry just yet We’re still unclear on whether this planet supports any life Plus, it’s a desert planet; the air is extre, it would be extreermination of microbes and viruses So don’t fret; first check whether you’re feeling a burning sensation around your mouth and nose This is to confirm whether the air is corrosive”
The scientist’s words had an instant calh in relief They searched for traces of burning sensations, but no one could find any It was as if they were breathing in normal air
Only a few of the scientists held a worried pallor This was because they knew that it was incorrect to apply Earth’s understanding of ical behavior on this alien planet due to the environ utterly different However, they knew that it was not the ti this scientist as currently working to reconstruct the e With wet blood still dripping fro analysis on the air sample in one of the test tubes The people in the shuttle were as silent as mice as they awaited his result After what felt like an eternity, the scientist released a breath that nobody realized he was holding before shifting into a surprised expression
“…About twenty percent of the atht percent to be precise, is nitrogen Eleven percent of it is co fraction is as is still unidentified, but what’s certain is that it is not corrosive and not a variation of the poisonous carbon ases in that it doesn’t appear to have an oxidation reaction with our blood…”
He excitedly continued, “Do you knohat this means? This means that the air’s breathable! We humans could very ot increasingly anih his elaboration At one point, he started pointing at the salvaged lab, saying, “I can’t find any ranted you’ll need a more powerful microscope to detect the presence of viruses That should be done once we return to the Hope’swe have at theto conclude that… the atmosphere of this planet with its complete lack of airborne water particles is unable to support the growth of any microbes and viruses Everyone, we are so lucky!