Chapter 2: Being a Father and Being a Grandfather
Born at four months and twenty-three days.
Su Beidou has grown up a lot more than when he was born, and at this moment he is opening his eyes and looking at the strange old man on the screen.
His mind was still foggy, but he didn't know anything about himself and his surroundings like he had been in the previous months, and his head seemed to be filled with paste.
I'm already able to think simply, and although I'm still confused and always sleepy, I can really think about things once in a while.
Carried in the arms of a young woman who claimed to be her mother.
With short black hair, just covering his ears, he has an outstanding appearance, and he looks like a beautiful woman with a heroic spirit, which can make him feel a lot of good.
For Su Beidou, at least it is more comfortable than being held by that man, every time he hears the man say the three words "call Dad", he always feels like the sky is falling.
The old man on the screen has to look at himself almost every day, as if he is a grandfather or something, and sometimes he will talk about things that sound messy to Su Beidou, such as what mines, such as what voyages, such as health, experts, and so on.
The brain is still not well developed, and sometimes he wants to understand his own situation, but it is difficult to concentrate, so that the information he learns is intermittent, and he wakes up and forgets most of it, and only remembers some things that affect him the most.
One of them is ...... A baby who has become a baby himself and still needs to drink milk.
There are several men and women in orange uniforms standing in front of the screen, they are reporting things separately, some are talking about the growth of vegetables, some are talking about air, minerals or something, Su Beidou dozed off after eavesdropping for a while, looked sideways out of the round window, it was dark outside, and the image of a woman holding a child in her arms was reflected on the glass, and he knew that he was the one who was being held in his hand.
More than half a month ago, when I first developed this cognition, I was worried and scared for several days, and under the panic and fright, I also wet the bed for several days.
I can't help it, I want to hold back, but I can't hold back.
Now, all he wanted to know was what had happened, why it had happened to him, why he had lived in the desert.
During the day, he often saw red dust outside the window, so that he naturally thought it was a desert, and his little head was still developing, and it was difficult to think deeply.
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His father, Su Baichuan, is a doctor of engineering from a prestigious school.
Legend has it that he played programming at the age of six or seven, and built his own supercar at the age of ten, studied for a master's degree in the United Kingdom, and went to the United States for a few years to study for a doctorate, during which he went to NASA for two years for internship.
Life was too smooth, before I came to Mars to find excitement, I met the child's mother, Zhao Xin.
The one on the screen is his son Su Yi, who is nearly fifty years old and has not come to Mars to do business on Earth.
The relationship between father and son is not very good, out of sight and out of mind at the moment, just staring at the baby son who is in a daze and smirking, and he also followed the joy, leaned over and reached out to touch the smooth little face, and was soon slapped away by the little hand, touched again, and was patted away again.
Big joy, small grievance.
Seeing the indignant appearance of his son Su Beidou's face, the father smiled even happier, I don't know why, Su Baichuan always felt that his son was different from ordinary children.
Recently, I don't cry or make trouble, I hum a few times when I'm hungry, and I hum in advance when I and pee, especially these eyes, which are always full of curiosity about everything around me.
As a father, when encountering this kind of worry-free child, how can there be any reason to be unhappy.
Many times he will be happy, worried and worried, he hopes that this child can have a happy and happy life, but under his feet is Mars, a desolate planet that has been proven to have no other life.
Let the mother send the child to sleep, some questions Su Baichuan couldn't ask in front of the child, until he saw the backs of the mother and son disappear, and then he asked the person on the screen: "Still can't send it back?"
"What can I say, there is no way at the moment, I can only stay on Mars temporarily, and it is impossible to even send it to the Ares II transport spacecraft.
He can't bear it when he is out of the gravity of Mars, otherwise he can send it up, judging from the apparent weight of the transport ship, it is more beneficial to the development and growth of Little Beidou, and you don't want him to live on Mars for the rest of his life and never come back. ”
It was Su Beidou's grandfather who spoke, and he was obviously distressed when he talked about this problem, and he had discussed this problem since the child was born, and there was no perfect solution until now.
Sent back from Mars, not from one end of the Earth to the other, considering the baby's physical fitness, staying on Mars for the time being is the best option.
Su Baichuan knew that it was useless to get angry, but he was not on the right path with his own Lao Tzu since he was a child, so he couldn't help but be annoyed: "It's these few sentences every time!
"There's no way now, maybe it'll be done later, the medical experts are ready to let him grow up a little more, so he will increase his physical strength by carrying weight every day. In a few years, if everything goes well, maybe we will be able to survive back on Earth, and then we will think about eliminating the impact. ”
For the time being, I can only do this, Su Baichuan hesitated for a moment, and only replied: "I discussed it with Xiao Xin, we won't leave next rotation, just accompany the child on Mars, don't think about persuading me, just decide, hang ......"
After speaking, he hit a button and ended the call directly.
The rest of the people looked at each other and had seen similar scenes, so they didn't make a fuss, someone patted Su Baichuan on the shoulder, and then left.
As pioneers to land on Mars, almost every astronaut who arrives here is ready to die in this strange land at any time, and a rotation of more than a year, combined with the time spent on the way back, means that it will take at least three years to return after leaving Earth, and some of them are nearing the end of their mission.
I am conscious, so I feel that it doesn't matter, it's worth it, but a human boy was born on Mars, and no one wants Su Beidou to have an accident.
There are so many factors that can cause surprises.
Because it can't adapt to the disease caused by the gravity of Mars.
Deoxyribonucleic acid recombination due to high-energy particles in the universe leads to physical pathology.
Because of the natural changes of Mars, the loss of this Martian base and so on, these are all issues that have to be considered.
For example, the Olympus Mountain in the distance, even if there is even a small situation, it can affect the base here, and an earthquake or something is possible.
It's only been more than seven years since I landed, and I'm still full of unknown and awe about this planet, but it's certain that no life or life has ever existed, just an unlucky planet where even the atmosphere has disappeared.
Martian bases like the God of War base, including it, currently have a total of four.
Two of them are still under construction, and their first landers are expected next year.
To talk about the reason why people have been heading towards Mars in full force since more than 20 years ago, we have to talk about a meteorite rain in 2037......