Chapter 2707: Star Core Rescue (IV)

No one expected the situation in Centauri to escalate to this point in just two days.

But in fact, this wasn't entirely without trace; when the first person notified was Turkey Stark, and the second was Turkey Strange, one should have been able to predict the final situation would inevitably become turkeys fighting.

Of course, one also couldn't underestimate the power of Electric-type Turkey Thor; originally Strange was asked by Nick to appease Thor, but the two extremists talked and talked, and ultimately still decided to solve the problem with their fists.

Just Stark going to Centauri alone would have been fine; although he also had no good feelings toward that Kree civilization's Emperor, at least he was willing to search together for the Guardians of the Galaxy members' whereabouts, but once Strange came, he directly fired a magic qigong cannon and flattened their imperial palace, and now the two sides had completely no room for negotiation.

On top of that, Thor was provoked by Strange into a liver-fire surge, feeling this damn little civilization was provoking Asgard, thinking that seeing a tiger dozing meant they could go up and touch its butt, and he absolutely had to let them know the severity.

Once Asgard's fleet arrived, this matter here completely couldn't be wrapped up; as everyone knows, Asgard's spaceships in the universe are death notices, hell's summons — whoever sees them has to immediately sound a Level 1 alarm.

The Centauri star system belongs to a no-man's-land, similar to a Golden Triangle in the universe, right at the junction of three great empires; everyone also needs such a buffer zone and intelligence exchange center.

Asgard inserting a foot here is equivalent to moving the borders of three great empires simultaneously; everyone would have a sense of crisis, so the three great empires' fleets also set out.

Seeing the three great empires were going to make a real move, Earth, which shares weal and woe with Asgard, also couldn't stand by; this might turn into a major diplomatic incident, so Stark had to urgently call in people.

Nick, who directed all this, knew the timing was about right, so he used S. H. I. E. L. D.'s connections to basically call away every powerful hero on Earth who could be called, even the mutants farming in Mexico were dragged away en masse to go to Centauri to hold the fort.

Now Centauri was lively; although the God King hadn't come in person, and the three great empires' main forces were all watching and waiting, just the pressure brought by human powerhouses was already strong enough; the entire star system could be described as storm clouds gathering, and the Guardians of the Galaxy group's whereabouts became the key.

But all this liveliness had nothing to do with Shiler; recently he was nearly driven to death by his students' internship reports.

Before, he never felt he had moments of understanding Arrogance, because in a certain sense, he had never truly brought any students; Peter wasn't majoring in psychology, so he didn't count.

Actually, Greed felt bringing interns was still okay; at least they could support them in doing work, occasionally everyone gathering for meals and chat was quite happy, but once it fell to the textual level, Greed suddenly empathized with Arrogance.

He even suspected many students didn't know Microsoft Office software has a grammar check option, and it's a key where one click can directly mark and correct grammar errors; otherwise how to explain these papers all having such obvious grammar mistakes?

Many people might think Chinese papers are already very hard to write, but in fact, writing papers in Chinese can be said to be the simplest among countless language papers, because Chinese grammar requirements aren't strict, and there aren't many places where grammar can go wrong.

The main reason is Chinese pronouns have no gender, auxiliary verbs and verbs have no tense, "ba" and "bei" have no mandatory emphasis attribute; generally speaking, undergraduate to graduate papers, as long as they aren't translated into English, won't dead-grip on these word types.

But many alphabetic languages aren't like this; taking English as an example, if you add a time expression word to a sentence, then all subsequent auxiliary verbs must change; note, not changing one word in one sentence, but as long as expressing the same thing, all related vocabulary must change.

Some might think English native speakers have spoken like this since childhood, so they must remember it, but the fact is completely not so; humans' forgetting curves are mostly similar; maybe they can remember in the sentence where the time word exists, but later they completely forget.

And in some papers a certain experiment will be repeatedly mentioned, a certain person's certain viewpoint on doing this experiment will also be repeatedly mentioned; they might remember to change auxiliary verbs the first time it's mentioned, but the second time it's cited they've forgotten completely clean.

So Shiler often sees in emails an experiment from the eighties using all verbs and auxiliary verbs not in past tense, results expressed also not in perfect tense, an "is" used all the way through.

Of course there are also disastrous subordinate clauses; maybe writing the first half they still know to distinguish subordinate clause introducers, writing to the second half a single "that" walks the world.

Maybe also because internship reports aren't very rigorous academic papers, many places need narrative sentences, like what happened today, what I did to handle the patient's what situation, etc., causing written expression to be too colloquial, written even worse than Chinese Gaokao English essays.

Shiler corrected grammar facing emails until heaven and earth darkened; at this moment he couldn't help feeling a bit glad Nick didn't let him participate in this matter, otherwise he'd have no time to correct, and later these internship reports might very likely be read aloud at class reunions.

At the same time, he also had to thank that he was a Chinese person; his English grammar was specially learned; if he were a native speaker, some errors might really not be discoverable.

Shiler today spent about 9 hours, finally finished correcting the 30-plus internship reports sent to him; after sending them back, unsurprisingly in the chat group he received all students' praise of "Grammar God above"; Shiler could only send a few angry little red face emojis to express his mood.

Exhausted Shiler was already preparing to sleep, but just at this time Nick called, asking if Shiler's students had come into contact with a patient's family member named Ox.

Shiler, in his dying illness, startled upright; he knew the trouble Charles stirred up would sooner or later retribute onto him.

The phone hadn't even hung up, Ultron opened the TV screen in his bedroom; in the screen's news, the host's tone was extremely urgent.

"Interrupting for a piece of breaking news: half a year ago, humanity's most cutting-edge near-Earth exploration base, the Star Core Space Station, encountered a major electrical accident! Currently, 13 sectors of the space station have had their electrical installations completely stop operating, the oxygen circulation system has also stopped working as a result, remaining oxygen supply is insufficient for three hours."

"As of this station receiving the news, among the 13 sectors, approximately 2000 staff have evacuated to the other 14 sectors, but the space station does not have enough ships to send the staff without oxygen quota back to Earth."

"And the remaining 14 sectors' oxygen circulation devices are insufficient to supply the extra employees; approximately 5 hours later, all employees will face hypoxia..."

"Currently space station order is still okay, but as time passes, panic phenomena are gradually spreading; high-level officials of various countries are flying to Switzerland for emergency meetings; it is heard that participating countries include..."

*Snap*, Shiler turned off the TV, rubbed his forehead, and said to the phone side: "You just had to pick this time?"

"Come on, it's only 9 o'clock! It's prime time!"

Shiler rubbed his somewhat swollen and painful forehead and said: "How is Ox?"

"Alright, actually my arranged people aren't in position yet; this time it really is an accidental accident; heard it seems some electrician misoperated, blew a big one in one go..."

After a while, Natasha and Coulson, these two old partners, came; listening to their explanation, Shiler then knew what this was all about; to put it plainly, it was just a string of unlucky coincidences.

Previously, the tapestries India sent up caused a batch of people to have allergies; senior electrician Ox was one of the unlucky ones.

Chief Electrical Engineer Ben Parker, because of old age and severe symptoms, was on the first batch of planes back; the Deputy Chief Engineer's level was no good, and his popularity was bad, leading to the people below becoming somewhat lax.

Ox was also one of the unlucky ones hit, but because he had previously offended the Deputy Chief Engineer, he wasn't given a spot on the first batch to fly back for treatment, causing him to burn with fever for two days, his body becoming very weak.

On the other side, his wife Lisa's mental condition got worse and worse; every day suspicious and paranoid, doubting her own memory, constantly calling Ox, saying the current world isn't real, all fabricated by others, also saying UFOs landed at their home, someone wants to snatch her child.

Ox had to cope with increased workload on one hand, deal with a difficult boss on the other, his own body was already weak, and he still had to expend energy comforting his wife; this situation persisted for several days, and Ox also became somewhat mentally dazed.

Just at this time, that Deputy Chief Engineer he had offended, with no top boss pressing above him, became even more excessive; Ox was already in a daze, and that day the Deputy Chief Engineer caught a mistake of his, transferred Ox's post, making Ox go inspect the photovoltaic integrated installation.

This thing is installed outside the space station; to go out and inspect, one must wear full gear, and there's a certain danger; it's a job everyone hates, no one willing to do it, so it fell on Ox's head.

Ox's wife currently cannot care for herself; life's heavy burden is all pressed on Ox; so even if work is hard, he has to do it.

Ox had never done repair work; fortunately, the photovoltaic integrated installation was Chinese-made, basically foolproof operation, with complete illustrated manuals; operate by steps and there's no problem.

Just at this time, he himself was mentally dazed; once when drifting out to repair, he forgot to hook his safety rope; he was on top of the space station, the hatch was on the side; without a safety rope it's very easy to drift away and not return, so he could only stand on the space station's ceiling knocking non-stop, hoping someone would hear and come up to check.

Actually, at this time the correct operation is to slowly move to the edge of the ceiling below where there are windows, use a rope or belt or simply some tool thrown down to get attention, or crawl toward the ship entry/exit direction; once a ship comes over, they'd definitely see him.

But Ox's brain was a paste; he knocked for a while, found no one paying attention, then despair arose in his heart, feeling he would definitely die here; anxious emotions filled his brain, making him unable to think of anything.

He felt the only way now was to make the photovoltaic integrated installation have a problem; only then could he make the people inside the space station come up to find him.