Chapter 3422 The Son of Midnight (Twenty-one)
The outpost is not big, even smaller than the space station. There are not many people working inside. According to the male employees who opened the doors for them, there have been many more Chinese people recently, and there were even fewer people in the past.
After all, there is no connection to the Earth's network here, and there is nothing to see outside. The main job here is to collect Jupiter data and send it back to the Earth. Although the bus ship comes every week, there is no special situation and cannot leave the job without permission. The work is boring and boring, and no one is willing to do it.
During the staff introduction, Schiller learned about the basic situation of the outpost.
Iobo is a synchronous rotation satellite. Its relationship with Jupiter is equivalent to the relationship between the moon and the earth, and there is always only one face facing Jupiter. That face is equivalent to the front of the moon.
The location of the outpost where they are now is actually equivalent to the back of the moon, that is, the side that does not face Jupiter. Schiller was actually a little curious about why he didn't build the outpost on the front.
But he thought about it and found that Meuvenir was far away from Jupiter. Standing on Meuvenir to look at Jupiter is actually not much bigger than looking at the moon on Earth.
If it is built on the front, it will be the sun and moon that rise every day, but Jupiter, which will have a strong sense of abnormality, which may aggravate the loneliness of employees and affect their mental health.
As the third largest satellite in the solar system, the size of the Meteorological Meteorological Meteorological Meteorological Meteorological Meteorological Meteorological Meteorological Meteorological Meteorological Meteorological Melody, it was still much smaller than the Earth. So even if the outpost was built on the back, it would not take much time to go to the front. Considering the mental health of the employees, it was finally decided to build on the back.
After visiting the outpost, Stark began to ask. The main thing was to ask if he had found any strange spaceships, had he seen any suspicious characters' activities, or the like.
The outpost staff gave no answers. Although they were a little disappointed, they were not unexpected. Roxen was so guilty that it was definitely impossible to sway in front of the official outpost of human civilization.
Stark hid the name of Roxon and briefly told the staff about the current situation. Employees who have worked here for a long time must have a better understanding of this place and should be able to give some useful speculations.
Sure enough, the employee confirmed Stark's previous speculation, saying: "If someone really mines here secretly, he will definitely put the stronghold on Io. On the one hand, there is sufficient heat there, and on the other hand, Io is the large satellite closest to Jupiter."
"If they travel between Jupiter and the satellite through mining ships, they will definitely choose a close one. This saves energy and is fast. If they are afraid of being discovered, the shorter the journey, the more hidden it will be. Overall, Io is the best choice."
"Of course, Europa is actually not far away. And Europa's orbit is better. So there may be some people who choose Europa. I even feel that there may be strongholds on both planets."
"Why?" Stark asked curiously.
"If, as you said, they mine, but they didn't send ships to transport the mine, there must be a place to store resources, right?"
"Io is close to me and has sufficient heat energy, but it has a big disadvantage, that is, frequent geological activities. The volcanoes above Io are the most common in the solar system and will erupt at any time. That is not a good place to store resources."
"Although Europa is a little farther away and very cold, it is relatively calm. You can build warehouses there, store a large amount of resources, and then transport them away at one time."
Stark nodded, thinking that what he said made a lot of sense. Because they knew that the Roxon Company was probably using magical transportation methods, and most likely it was some kind of portal.
In addition to human portals, most civilized portals have one big disadvantage, that is, they need a relatively stable environment. Once the runes and frameworks built are destroyed, the portal will basically be useless.
If Roxson's company is not using Earth technology, but portal technology from other civilizations, it may also be limited by this shortcoming. It means that it is impossible to build a portal in Io, and can only go to other calmer planets. Then it may be in Iopa.
Since these two planets are very suspicious, we can just investigate them one by one. But the order is also very particular. Stark thought about it and said, "We should divide the troops into two groups. The main combat forces first go to check Europa, and the only one left is staring at Iopa."
"Roxson's mining of Jupiter alone doesn't mean anything. If we rush up and interrupt their mining process, we will not only be able to knock them down in one fell swoop, but we may also be bitten back and slandered that we want to occupy the resources of the solar system."
"But if they really use magic to transport resources out of the solar system, then the process of transporting resources is ironclad evidence for them to be traitors. We have to seize the evidence first, and then things will be easier."
Schiller nodded with satisfaction. He thought so too.
Roxon is a dog company that is quite good at abusing legal weapons. In the original comics, he sued superheroes more than once, and even sued Thor and lost the case.
On the surface, they use the law to protect their rights, but in fact they are just setting up traps for others, then shooting some plausible evidence and then bribing the jury. They just bullying superheroes don’t have so much time and energy to sue them.
To deal with such dog companies, you must hit a 7-inch snake. You must first seize the evidence that they are raped and make them unable to turn over in the public opinion field, so that things will be easier to deal with.
Although Stark usually acts careless, he is still reliable in the general direction. He continued: "The other party must also know that the portal is their lifeblood. He will definitely send many people to guard it, and there may be some traps that we don't know."
"It would be better if we could get the evidence secretly in Europa. If we were discovered, the person staring at Io would make some noise. Let them bloom at two o'clock and be careless, and we would be able to get out smoothly."
"Then I will go to Io," Schiller said.
Stark looked at him with some distrust and said, "There is no moon here. Are you sure your spell can be used?"
Although there was nothing under the hood, Stark seemed to see the other person's eyes looking at the mentally retarded.
The Moonlight Knight raised his hand gently, and a moon rose above Jupiter's moon.
"Okay, okay, I know you're amazing." Stark waved his hand and said, "Spider-Man and I go to Europa."
Then he threw a headset to Schiller and said, "You put on this. Once there is a situation, I will shout you in the headset and you will act accordingly."
After discussing the countermeasures, the two sides took action separately.
Schiller flew towards Io. There was no air control here, so he directly teleported at an extremely long distance and came to a place not far from Ioo.
Although he was confident before, he also asked Kong Su in his heart: "Are you sure your ability can be used here? Don't jump down then, and you told me that I can't use it..."
"Don't worry." Kong Su said angrily, "If you can see me, you can use it."
"Why can it be used? There is no moon here?"
"Don't ask so much about magic... Well, if you have to ask the bottom line, there is no concept of galaxies in Egyptian mythology. There is no planet, no orbit, and no blocking relationship between each other."
"The moon and the sun are eternal existences, and the stars are just embellishments among them. The moon and the sun on the magical level are almost unaffected by the state of the planet in your real world."
"If one day the celestial moon in your universe disappears, my magic will not be invalid. Because the moon in the definition of magic still exists and will never disappear."
"Then why did you spend so much power on covering the celestial moon?"
"I also need to spend a lot of power to cover the celestial bodies of Mars, Jupiter, and Mercury. Because I want to use divine power to completely cover the light source of the sun they reflected. Do you know how much divine power you need to use?"
"Then can't you cover them up from a magical level?"
"Can ordinary people see magic? If they can't see the stars at the magic level, what's the use of obscuring them?"
Schiller was speechless.
"I can control the celestial moon because I have divine power, not what special things do I have with your satellites," said Kong Su. "My ability is only in the romantic fantasy of ancient humans about the moon. You cannot recognize the more functions of the moon because your era has developed and you have realized the moon's more functions. This cannot be done."
"Okay." Schiller can only say that.
In fact, he thought it would be good if Kong Su could not control the celestial moon. Otherwise, if the Chinese would run away one day, he would have to chase the moon behind him.
Schiller flew around Io. At the foot of the mountain where the satellite might be the largest volcano, he saw a strange building. It really didn't look like a human creation.
The main reason is that this tone does not seem to be built by humans. Their outpost on the Iopause is white, and the space stations near the earth are blue and white. Even if the new starship is painted black for combat, it is decorated with dark blue.
But the building at the foot of the volcano is purple.
Schiller really couldn't figure out what kind of human architectural designer would design a space building in purple, and it would be purple and black. And it would be perfectly different when taken out and placed in the game settings. It doesn't look like a functional building, but rather a temple.
"Why is this style a bit familiar?" Schiller said to himself.
Schiller suddenly remembered that the style of this temple was a bit like Asgard. But Asgard used gold, so he didn't remember it for a while.
"It's impossible that Asgard, who colluded with Roxon, is it?"
This conjecture was overturned in a second. Asgard looked down on Jupiter's mosquito legs, and there was no need to be so sneaky.
Asgard's mining process is roughly: find a resource planet, send a warship, aim, fire guns, break the planet, then pack up and take it home.
Most advanced civilizations in the universe do this. Basically, only those civilizations that have not yet left the galaxy have built a lot of equipment to mine there.
If it weren't for collusion with Asgard, it might be for collusion with other civilizations in the nine major powers. Because Asgard, as the master of the nine major powers, their aesthetics and culture have greatly influenced other civilizations here, resulting in other civilizations having more or less a shadow of Asgard.
At this time, Schiller remembered that in the comic "War of the Worlds", the Roxen Company exchanged the skull of the King of the Frost Giant, Raffith, and changed the rights to mine all the minerals on his territory from the leader of the Dark Elves.
"Roxson's partner is Dark Elves?"
Chapter completed!