Crisis Era Year 112, Geosynchronous Orbit, Verne Island Spaceport 1

A century ago, Wallface Taylor experimented with ball lightning near here, and ETO hijacked a spacecraft carrying ball lightning and crashed it into this spaceport.

Fortunately, there were professionals in the spaceport at that time who activated the ball flash magnetic restraint system in the spacecraft to prevent the ball lightning from erupting, thus saving all the survivors.

However, the spaceport and the space elevator below were therefore abandoned. As for the ball lightning inside, no one cared about it, because the magnetic confinement system was enough to work for centuries.

And even if the magnetic constraint is scrapped, it won't be a problem. ETO has set the spectrum of ball lightning to humans, but this space elevator has been deserted for a long time, and it is impossible for anyone to appear.

What's more, after the spaceport was abandoned, the PDC closed all the cabin doors and dismantled the space elevator below.

Therefore, even if ball lightning escapes from the spacecraft, it cannot leave the spaceport.

The two worlds no longer care about the past a century ago, nor are they under martial law. However, because it is far away from several modern earth-moon routes, no one has ever been close to this space port.

However, there were a few unexpected visitors today. They drove a small scavenger spacecraft and approached this long-abandoned space city.

As humans enter space on a large scale, a large amount of space junk is naturally produced. Especially the near-Earth space, which is the first place developed by humans, is filled with a large amount of space junk.

Since the beginning of the First Cold War, humans have begun to launch satellites into geostationary orbits, and in addition, those experimental spaceships and space bases in the early days of the Crisis Era were abandoned.

Therefore, the space scavenging industry has been stimulated. In this era when individuals can afford space travel, they drive simple spaceships to recover space junk between the Earth and the Moon systems.

The Earth International government also encourages this, because it can save money on recycling space junk, thereby improving the safety factor of the Earth-Moon route.

"Boss, let's find out. There is such a big abandoned space port here." After the radar scanned the space port in front of him, a man with a deer-headed and rat-like eyes said excitedly.

The bearded man known as the boss pushed the younger brother away, stared at the data on the radar and said: "Let me see... Damn, this thing is not small! Send a drone over and take a look."

After receiving the order, the scavenger spacecraft released a DJI unmanned spacecraft, which quickly hung on the metal shell of the spaceport.

"The shell is composed of heavy elements, mainly ancient titanium alloys, and a small amount of nanomaterials. Judging from the volume, the mass of this thing will not be less than 1 million tons." The man with the deer head and rat eyes reported the data.

"Hurry up and get ready to slow down, turn on the magnetic field docking device, and start docking with this space city." The boss said excitedly, he is probably going to make a fortune this time.

Millions of tons of metal alone are enough to make them billionaires, not to mention that such a large spaceport must also contain expensive antiques, supercomputers and various high-tech equipment.

Because of the vacuum environment in space, the equipment inside will not rust, and because of the Trisolaran technological blockade, computer technology will not make great progress.

Therefore, as long as computers and sophisticated equipment from a century ago can be preserved in space, they are still suitable for modern times.

The scavenger spacecraft quickly began to slow down and remained almost relatively stationary with the spaceport. The docking work was not difficult. As old scavengers, they quickly "glued" to the outer shell of the spaceport.

Then the spacecraft began to use a high-energy laser cutter to neatly cut the metal shell of the spaceport, and then several people wearing a space version of the powered exoskeleton jumped in.

"Hey, boss, there are really nanomaterials in here!" A rough woman said excitedly after testing the "load-bearing wall" with a light energy measuring instrument.

"This spaceport is the synchronous orbit station of the space elevator?" the boss asked doubtfully.

"It seems that the main structure of this spaceport is basically made of nanomaterials, and even the metal shell is made of high-performance nanosilicon boride."

"How could the space elevator be abandoned?" the boss asked curiously. He has a master's degree in materials science from Tsinghua University and knows that the space elevator has a lifespan of five or six centuries thanks to anti-radiation nanomaterials.

In addition, the cost of each space elevator, especially the Earth space elevator, is astronomical, and no political body will take the initiative to retire the space elevator early.

"Boss, there is a space elevator on Verne Island that was abandoned. It seems that there were two wall-facers who were active in this area at that time." The deer-headed and rat-eyed man next to him explained.

"Oh oh oh, I remembered it." The boss suddenly realized: "That Luo just stayed in this space port before, when ETO hit it with a spaceship."

"If this is a synchronous orbit station for a space elevator, wouldn't we be able to make a lot of money?" the rude woman said excitedly.

"Yes, quickly go to the supercomputing center and remove the large computer that controls the elevator. We will get the other things later." the boss urged.

Then they quickly turned on the jet thrusters and flew towards the supercomputing center located in the core of the space port, but they were soon blocked by a door.

"Which idiot closed the door? Use a laser cutter to cut this broken door open!" The boss ordered as he looked at the thick door in front of him.

After the spaceport was hit by a spaceship, they could take a detour through the hole next to it, but there were a lot of debris of the spaceport outside, and they didn't want to take the risk and take a detour.

"Yes!" After receiving the order, the deer-headed mouse used a high-energy laser cutter to try to cut open the door, and soon a hole was cut out of the door.

"What is that?" After the door was cut open with a laser, the boss saw a faint purple light and a pile of twisted metal garbage in front of him.

That thing looked like a spaceship, but it was twisted out of shape, as if it had been melted in the high temperature. The strangest thing was that there was a strange purple light like a will-o'-the-wisp coming from inside.

"It seems to be the spaceship used by ETO to hit this spaceport." The rude woman replied.

"What is that purple light inside?" The boss asked again. For some reason, he subconsciously felt that the purple light was dangerous.

Especially when there were only two people next to him, and in a spaceport that had been abandoned for a century, encountering this weird light could be considered the plot of a horror movie.

"I don't know." The two younger brothers shook their heads. They were both old scavengers, but no one had ever seen such a situation.

"This thing feels weird..." The boss muttered, but the rough and arrogant woman suddenly realized it and exclaimed: "No, that thing is ball lightning!"
Chapter completed!