[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil":3,"chapter-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-803":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","You were told to build a tractor, but you're building a rocket?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1306056,1735,"Chapter 803 - 757: Puddle (Part 3)","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-803",803,"\u003Cp>The drop from the ice surface to the water surface of the abyss was nearly one hundred meters, and the sub-zero temperature of almost -200 degrees Celsius rose sharply below the depths, almost reaching 10 degrees Celsius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to a good explanation from human geology, as long as the planet’s core is not completely dormant, it will continuously emit heat, either in the form of underwater volcanoes, allowing the bottommost water molecules to remain liquid by relying on this heat and forming an ocean beneath the ice surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The closer to the bottom, the higher the temperature, which might provide a warm environment suitable for microbial life, synthesizing the majority of organic matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is on this basis that people can speculate that Titan may harbor life—there is water, temperature, and organic matter, at least there is some hope near underwater volcanoes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the current situation is clearly not within this category—Titan’s core is not so hot as to maintain the flow of water in such proximity to the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fissure below doesn’t reveal a vast ocean, at least not the one naturally formed a thousand meters below, but merely a negligible puddle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one side of the \"puddle\" near the fissure, a giant irregular geometric body was embedded in the geological strata beneath the ice surface of the mountains, revealing a corner-like protrusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The end of the protruding part continuously released fierce bubbling, the high temperature of hundreds of degrees Celsius constantly vaporizing the water molecules attempting to approach it, forming numerous short-lived cavities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, it radiated a fairly intense microwave emission, continuously heating the surrounding ice until it melted, finally stopping at some equilibrium point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rest of the corner-like protrusion was obviously buried, and the exposed part seemed like a spike, using microwaves and the directly emitted heat to create a \"puddle\" of considerable volume with the tip of the spike as its center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The puddle had existed for who knows how long and had gone through continuous changes but had always maintained its rough shape under the almost constant heat emission of the spike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cracking of the surface ice was clearly not intentional, and Titan’s geological movements often created geological anomalies of different magnitudes, only this time did it happen to involve the existence of the puddle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a low-intensity geological activity, and the ultimate consequence was just the tearing of an already small ice sheet, with the impact limited to this extent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, as the crack slowly widened, the microwave emitted by the \"spike\" finally escaped the hundred-meter-thick ice barrier, fleeing at the speed of light from the puddle that had bound it for uncountable standard times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More and more microwaves escaped from the fissure; they were quite strong, but after multiple barriers, the strength that could be sent out was too weak, only at specific angles was it possible to receive them, and they would decay to indiscernibility after not propagating for long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was just an extremely small part of the microwaves emitted by the \"spike,\" a minuscule fraction that scattered after being diffused by the ice cavity of the puddle, with very low directivity, quickly disappearing into the natural celestial radiation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The microwave radiation from the spike was not random but continuously repeated a very regular short frequency, clearly carrying some information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For more than four hundred thousand standard times, it had been attempting to contact the orbiting repeater—which might not be in orbit at all, perhaps already shattered by a comet or possibly long ineffective, given that it was a hastily assembled small device, which might not last for several hundred standard times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now the only hope for the spike to make external contact was the repeater, as the main part was almost completely destroyed, the communication system was never anything sturdy, the active antenna had long been ineffective, and it was impossible to repair the crucial medium-wave communicator, and the strings of the long-wave communicator weren’t entirely spared either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of all proper communication systems, only one receiving string of the long-wave communicator remained, but its precision after damage was low, and it had no transmitting capability, it could not effectively receive unless the source of transmission was within 90 light-hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>light-hours, which is just enough to cover a star’s starfield, a ship from the Primordial World could find it here without signaling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spike strove to use all that was still operable, but it could only send signals out using the most primitive waves, hoping that the repeater in the orbit of Celestial Body Six remained effective and could receive the signals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This attempt had been unceasing since it was trapped here, for a full four hundred thousand standard times; the fragile primitive waves were mostly blocked by the ice, occasionally leaking a bit during periods of geological activity, but never once receiving a response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the spike was not anxious; it had no life, only loyally executed the commands written into it from the moment of its birth, and would not stop until the moment of death—which was not far off now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had passed the time this way for more than four hundred thousand standard hours, until 30 standard hours ago, when the last string of the long-wave communicator twanged—a signal as weak, but from an extremely close source of transmission. The spike recognized it and responded, as the highest command level in existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The original wave of response was still trapped, so it repeated itself, just as it had for the past more than four hundred thousand standard hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The low-entropy entities that once existed in the main body had long since ceased to be; they had left behind only information and instructions. What the spike had to do was execute those commands and pass on the information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An unceasing stream of microwaves emanated from the cracks in the icy surface of Titan, greatly weakened after passing through the atmosphere, only near Titan’s orbit and through specific windows could there be a possibility to receive these signals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saturn boasts the most spectacular rings in the Solar System, and Titan has its own satellite system, albeit one that is almost negligible and has little impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the direction the microwaves were emitted from the fissures, the space between 1,000 to 5,000 kilometers above the surface of Saturn had the greatest possibility of receiving the signals, because the atmosphere of Titan was as thick as 975 kilometers, while beyond 5,000 kilometers the signal attenuation became too severe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Saturn’s rings, 4,700,000 kilometers away from Titan, a small asteroid zipped by at high speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its surface was covered with ice and other compounds, and from afar it resembled a normal micro-ice asteroid, or it could even be mistaken for a large chunk of ice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the side illuminated by the sun, these compounds heated up and vaporized, then rapidly dissipated into the vacuum, just on too small a scale to form a tail like that of a comet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gases that evaporated from the asteroid’s surface still produced a faint reactive force, causing the asteroid to veer slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The asteroid’s trajectory was constantly being shifted by the gas evaporating from its surface; it should have passed by Titan, but now it might be captured by its gravity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the boundless expanse of space, the asteroid, traveling through the ring of stars, was always in motion under the force of the gases and spinning slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The compounds attached to its sunlit side were nearly completely sublimated, and the trend of changing its orbit began to slow, revealing the asteroid’s slightly reflective grey-black rugged surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the sunlight was about to completely expose one side of the asteroid, it rotated slowly around its long axis by an incredible 120 degrees, exposing the side covered with more ice compounds to the sunlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>New compounds began to evaporate, continuing to maintain the previous approximate acceleration, keeping the change of its own orbit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The covering on the surface of the repeater was dwindling, and it had nearly lost all ability to move. It had always been wrapped in these coverings, in a state of deep silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thirty standard hours ago, a long-wave had awoken it, and the repeater made a logical decision to seek out the nearest ship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ship was on the sixth satellite of Celestial Body Six, also lost from communication, and the repeater needed to move closer in the most fuel-efficient manner possible and confirm the status of the ship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ice compounds adhering to its surface were exploitable propellants; it had been circling Celestial Body Six for many rounds, slowly pulling its elliptical orbit more and more askew, and now it was almost crossing that of the sixth satellite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the long wait it had endured, arrival was almost an imminent affair.\u003C\u002Fp>",1470,"2026-06-05T18:21:16.242Z",1,"novelbin.me","f527cf5692b018ec9c508a9caaa57dac46389439ffc4818d1a1b3ad74de78e96","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-804","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-802",804,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyou-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-cover.jpg"]