Chapter 58 Arctic_1

Indeed, Cao Ge had written Murphy's code onto a disk and brought it over using the System Space in the end.

So now, although the robot whose name he still didn't know was gone, there was an additional Murphy, which didn't affect his subsequent plans.

Cao Ge controlled the spaceship while staring at the screen.

"Download successful!"

After the download completed, the download page disappeared.

Looking at the restored normal interface on the screen, Cao Ge tried calling out, "Murphy, are you there?"

About two or three seconds passed, and just when Cao Ge thought the download had failed, a familiar voice came through the microphone.

"Dr. Cao Ge, I'm here. Is there anything you need me to do?"

Upon hearing this gentle and incredibly familiar voice, a smile appeared on Cao Ge's face.

"How do you feel, Murphy?" Cao Ge asked.

"Dr. Cao Ge, the new home you've found for me is rather cramped; I apologize, but I won't be able to assist you with many things anymore," Murphy answered after a second.

Cao Ge immediately understood what Murphy meant; it was complaining that the spaceship's mainframe was too small and lacked computational power.

Cao Ge just smiled and didn't say anything, because compared to Elysium Space, this ship was indeed too small.

The Elysium Space, considering the immense computational power needed for cosmic travel, had specifically outfitted a massive chamber to house the mainframe. It was because of this that the spaceship could always find its direction in the vast universe and chart the optimal course.

"From now on, call me Miller, or Dr. Miller," Cao Ge issued his first command after arriving in this world.

"Okay, Dr. Cao Ge," Murphy immediately responded.

"Now, take control of the spaceship. Destination: Arctic. The mission is to find land," Cao Ge said.

"I have taken control of the spaceship." Almost the instant Cao Ge's words ended, Murphy responded.

Cao Ge let go of the device in his hand and leaned back into the chair.

Traversing was always this thrilling. Although last time was also perilous, at least there was no immediate danger at the beginning. This time, had he not noticed the anomaly in gravity, he might be a corpse now.

It was good that he took off quickly. Had he dithered for even a second or two more, he'd now be keeping that unnamed robot company.

"Hiss" Cao Ge unfastened his helmet and began to walk around in the spaceship, familiarizing himself with the place where he would live for the next several hours or even years.

There wasn't much in the spaceship, aside from some essentials for life and some instruments he couldn't understand at a glance.

He carefully searched the entire cabin, where the most technologically advanced item was the hibernation chamber right in the center of the spaceship.

He had seen the original series, so he knew that this hibernation chamber was different from that of Elysium Space, but since he didn't have specialized knowledge about hibernation chambers, he couldn't tell which was better, which had the highest technology, or which had the least side effects on the human body.

Although he didn't understand, he had plenty of time to compare. The System Space was small, measuring only one cubic meter, so he didn't bring much—just one cubic meter of hard disks filled to the brim with various scientific technologies from Elysium Space, including the technology for hibernation chambers.

Cao Ge found some food in a cupboard and began to eat.

Time passed by, minute by minute.

One hour later.

Cao Ge had arrived at the Arctic Circle of the planet.

The first thing he saw was still the endless, endless ocean, but ultimately near the North Pole, he saw a piece of land.

It was a continent that couldn't be seen in its entirety at a single glance.

Cao Ge knew it might be slightly improper to call this piece of land a continent, but it didn't really matter.

What was important was that this land wasn't the kind you could see the end of at a glance.

No matter the specifics, at least this land seems quite suitable for the life of over a hundred thousand people.

This way, when Kupa and the others from the original storyline arrive, he would have a way to explain the situation.

Even without this continent, he could justify their actions by gravity, accidents, and the inability to retract the message transmitter, but in the end, the reason that they discovered an actual habitable planet for humans would be better.

Dr. Cao Ge looked through the glass window at the continent before him, his face showing a joyful expression.

"Murphy, find a landing spot, let's go ashore and have a look," Dr. Cao Ge commanded.

Soon, Murphy controlled the spacecraft as it descended, its four scaffolds landing steadily on the ground.

Dr. Cao Ge picked up the helmet from the table and put it back on.

He then proceeded to the rear of the spacecraft and opened the first airlock door.

"Click~"

After entering the corridor, he first closed the door connecting to the interior of the spacecraft before opening the second door that led to the outside world.

"Click~"

Dr. Cao Ge looked up at the undulating terrain in the distance, a smile appearing on his face.

This smile came from the heart; in his past life, Dr. Cao Ge was a science fiction enthusiast. Now that science fiction had become science, he was piloting a spaceship, traversing endless star systems to a strange planet.

The sense of achievement was beyond words.

Traverse was not merely a task for him; it was also a form of enjoyment, experience, tourism, and more.

Dr. Cao Ge stepped onto the soil of an alien world.

Soft and spongy, it was soil, covered with a kind of lichen-like organism on its surface.

"Click." The airlock door closed.

Dr. Cao Ge walked softly forward. Eighty percent of Earth's gravity made him feel unexpectedly light.

"Murphy, analyze the atmospheric composition," Dr. Cao Ge ordered while standing on a hillside, suddenly speaking as he saw some plants in the distance. They resembled flowers but were not tall, about thirty centimeters. The plants were red and emitted a dim red glow, quite beautiful.

"Analysis in progress, please wait," Murphy's voice came through the communicator.

The analyzer was naturally not in the astronaut suit but a hundred meters away on the spacecraft.

After about a minute, Murphy's voice rang out again.

"Nitrogen 73.54%, oxygen 23.85%, rare gases 2.56%, carbon dioxide 0.045%, water and impurities 0.005%, similarity to Earth's atmosphere 95.56%, breathable by humans."

Listening to the analysis in his ear, Dr. Cao Ge did not relax but became even more tense.

In space exploration, non-living elements are not scary; it's the living organisms that are truly frightening.

Non-living things are straightforward: what is, is; what isn't, isn't. Just like now, if humans can breathe, it's simply because they can, there are no falsehoods.

Life, however, is different; it can hide.

Humans, as a species, evolved on Earth over millions of years and have long since departed from the animal kingdom, without natural predators. But this place is not Earth.

To determine if a planet is suitable for human habitation, his criteria were not limited to the natural world but also included the realm of biology.

He well remembered "Alien Covenant," where the planet could support human breath, but it was rife with a kind of fungus. When the fungus entered the human body, it would grow and develop into a monster inside the belly— the Alien.

Dr. Cao Ge could not guarantee that this world lacked such strange fungi or whether there might be other lifeforms.

In the face of life, caution is always warranted.