Chapter 771:

He tied himself to the seat in the rocket plane and glanced at the thick window. Below them is an earth-sized world. If this world has air and warmth, then this world is almost the twin of the planets in all systems on the earth. The rocket plane hit the hot surface of the first planet Mercury, and after a while landed on the icy surface of the last planet. They have come a long way.
Chapter 17.
Stronghold of the Lost Planet
Along with the turbulence, the three people were pushed back into their seats, the rocket plane pushed out the cargo compartment, and slid into the dark space with their own strength. Behind them, Magellan's metal surface gleamed and then swayed on its tracks. Riding the prosperous rocket, they dived for a long time at low altitude to the mysterious surface below.
Pluto is a broad hemisphere, half lit up in the faint dim light of the sun, and half lit up in the total darkness of outer space. There is a silent, cold, gleaming white river entwined everywhere here. They crossed a sea of ​​cold liquid gas, projected islands of sub-zero rock from it, and moved a lifeless gray and black continent inland. Haynes gently towed the ship low, and finally the rocket plane hit the ground.
It rolled for a few yards and stopped. Three men squeezed to the door, tightened their panels, and forcibly opened the exit. When the air on the ship ran out, the air rushed. Then they walked step by step to the dim surface of the sun's most distant planet.
"I find it very strange." Li Badi whispered. "This planet reminds me of something."
"I feel like I've been here before," Lars said slowly.
Li Badi was surprised. "Yes, that's it!"
Haynes grumbled. "I know what you mean. I can guess. Since we left the earth, we have never really carried the right weight. Even under acceleration, there are differences in one way or the other. But I feel like now It’s the same on Earth. That’s why it gives you a strange sense of reward."
The two young men realized that Haynes was right. For the first time since they left their hometown, they are on a planet where gravity is vertical to them. It feels good, but I feel uneasy in these terrible environments.
Above them is the familiar black, hard outer space sky. There is no breath of breath. But to some extent, the scene is similar to the earth. Said: "It's like a black and white photo of a land landscape."
In the distance there is a field, some hills, a small frozen river and the dark shape of a round mountain peak. Except for the cold faint glow of the sun's star, everything else has no color.
Thin cosmic dust covers the surface, as can be seen in any airless world. Russ dug a hard chip from below.
He held his finger tightly. It cracked and turned into powder. He whistled softly. "Do you know what this looks like?" he said as they approached the frozen creek on the hillside. "It feels like dirt, ordinary dust. Like dirt. And you know... I can already tell you one of the secrets of Pluto."
They stopped at the creek. That is a layer of frozen crystalline gas. Haynes pushed the trekking pole he was carrying into it and scraped off the gas crystals. He said: "I think I can guess, I bet there will be ice under this gas."
Lars said: "Pluto used to be a warm and atmospheric world." "Please pay attention to the round hills and dilapidated peaks. It is an old mountain, weather-beaten. This mountain is round and weather-beaten. This small river. , Those frozen natural gas rivers, they can only follow real warm water rivers, located in the soil under the dust-only in a world that understands day and night, warmth and light, rain and wind. Like home."
Li Badi shuddered. "Here? Far from the sun? How and when?"
Russ shrugged. "We will find out. But the evidence is obvious." They went on.
On the other side of the mountain, there is a low, cracked wall, and a roofless ruin of a stone house stands outside the wall, silent and gloomy in the airless scene.
They waited in surprise and uncertainty. Haynes drew his compressed air pistol, but did not move. The scene was still dead, and the windows of the house were dark.
They moved on, and sparkled in it. That is an empty shell. The unusually wide and low window openings have no glass and no doors.
"They go in and out of the window," Li Bad commented, avoiding one of the openings. "And they didn't build it like us."
Russ said: "No, there is no reason to think that residents will be built like humans."
Seeing nothing inside, they left. In addition, they found a straight depression on the ground, which was filled with a flat vortex of cosmic dust. Haines said: "It looks like a road."
They returned to the rocket plane to make it easier to drive along dead ends. They passed between the low, dark cliffs of the Rocky Mountains and came to a plain with thousands of rock pillars, a few crumbling walls, and many straight depressions that were supposed to be streets. Are the remains of a dead world.
They found that there were many cities when they headed north and landed intermittently. Now, everything is in ruins. There used to be large roads, and now there are debris from outer space everywhere. Once there was a dense forest, now there are miles of petrified black stumps. This is a depressing sight.
At their landing site, they found inscriptions on the walls and carved bas-reliefs on the mountain. They knew what Pluto looked like from this and wondered what happened.
Pluto people are fuzzy like men, fuzzy like spiders. They stood upright on four slender, broad legs with short arms. Their bodies are broad and squatting. They appear to be mammals, possibly warm-blooded. They sucked air from the flat, small nostrils and connected their heads without necks. Two oval eyes are placed under the prominent bald head. They wore clothes, drove cars, and drove planes.
Their vehicles have spherical power plants. They have a globe on their plane, and the wings should have been placed in it. Their cities and engines-now only in pictures on the wall that may have been advertisements-are built according to global principles.
Russ said: "There is no doubt that the culture of striking the sun and the culture of Pluto are the same. We are fighting for the descendants of Pluto."
"But how can they survive?" Li Bad asked. "This world was never part of the solar system when it was warm."
Russ said: "We will know soon." "Tomorrow we will see that we can go deep into their polar fortress. In some way, we must blow up the last station."
Haines said: "I think the three of us will do this." "Magellan will never occupy this place from the air. We must do this from the ground."
Now they are reminded of the earth again. Since they left the United States, night has fallen. They haven't stayed on such a planet long enough. But the impact on Pluto here is slight.
The day is like a bright moonlit night. Then, night means that the dim sun has set, in fact, it just darkens the landscape slightly.
They compared the notes on the rocket plane late at night. At dawn, when the dim light shined again, they reached some very clear conclusions about the planet.
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