As the clock ticked by, the restoration of the Forbes-Soil probe was nearing completion.

The steel hammer placed the "Firefly" flight plane Qì on the Forbes Soil, and then flew out of the "Forbes-Soil" Mars rover with a whoos, and merged into the Dream that flew with it 100 meters away.

More than ten seconds later, the steel hammer slowly revealed its figure in the cockpit of the Dream and said, "Old Bean, it's done!"

Chen Xin squeezed a bag of aerospace food almost like jelly into his mouth, swallowed it before saying, "Good job, let's start it!"

The steel hammer rattled and snapped his fingers, and in the next second, the tail of the Forbes-Soil Mars rover spewed a dazzling blue light, and the probe lightly turned a direction in space, and the engine burst out with surging thrust, quickly accelerating Forbes-Soil to a second cosmic speed of 11.2 km/s.

Forbes-Soil began to break away from Earth's gravity and fly towards Mars, more than 70 million kilometers away from Earth.

……

The capital of China, the National Aerospace Flight Control Center.

"It's moving, look, the Forbes-Soil is moving!"

The staff in charge of monitoring suddenly shouted, and the two separate points of light on the big screen instantly attracted everyone's attention.

Originally, due to the close proximity of the Dream and Forbes-Soil Mars probes, the two appeared as a point of light on the radar image, but now they are slowly separating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Forbes-Soil is still accelerating, 10.3 km/s. 11.2 km/s, 14.5 km/s, 16.7 km/s, oh my God, it's over the third cosmic velocity. ”

"Without the help of gravitational acceleration, the battle must have moved, and the original engine of the Forbes could not have such a fast speed!"

The members of the Council of Elders, who had been waiting anxiously on the sidelines, gathered one after another, and listened to the explanations of the experts next to them, and their expressions gradually became stricter.

……

Russian Federal Space Agency.

"The speed has reached 30 km/s, and now Forbes-Soil does not accept our orders at all!"

Academician of the Russian National Academy of Sciences. Professor Mirnov, the chief designer of the Forbes-Soil probe, watched in amazement. "Oh God, it's incredible, how the hell did they do it?"

"They must have installed similar engines on the Forbes-Soil as the one for the spaceplane, but I still can't figure out how they managed to increase the speed of the probe to this range with so little fuel," a rocket engine expert analyzed.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev, who are also waiting at the Space Agency, also seem to be struck by the unpredictable tactics of the war. I was speechless for a while.

Putin pulled one of the space experts next to him and asked, "Mr. Popovkin." At the current rate. How long will it take Forbes-Soil to reach Mars?"

Popogin quickly mentally calculated and said, "Your Excellency, judging by the current distance between Mars and Earth. It should be about a month to arrive, but I don't know if the Forbes will accept our accusations by then!"

Putin and Medvedev looked at each other and smiled, and Medvedev said: "Whether the Forbes program succeeds or not, at least it's a good start, isn't it?"

It doesn't matter if the Forbes can still be controlled by Russia, now the repair is an unexpected joy, the important thing is that through this cooperation, Russia has finally established contact with the war, as for the four Typhoon-class nuclear submarines, Putin and Medvedev are not distressed, anyway, they will be dismantled and given to the war to be reused.

As for the emergence of another organization with powerful nuclear forces on the planet, Putin and Medvedev do not care, with the current situation of the Russian Federation, does he have any other options?

Compared with the relaxation of China and Russia, the atmosphere at the Pentagon is not so good.

After confirming that the Forbes-Soil has been repaired and even the performance has been greatly improved, everyone's faces are not very good-looking, if the last time the Dream space plane was a test flight, then this time is undoubtedly a real battle.

The results were even worse than Leon Panetta and others had thought, with all of the Dream's actions in the past four hours or so, as well as the leaps and bounds in the performance of the Forbes-Soil Mars rover's engines, all of which showed the powerful ability of the strategic maneuver.

Is it really time to bow to the war?

Leon Panetta opened his mouth, but finally sighed.

Even if these politicians agree, the big business groups probably won't agree.

If the United States cooperates in an all-round way, the United States may still be able to maintain its status as a strong country, but those domestic conglomerates may have to reshuffle the cards, which is absolutely unwilling to see the top conglomerates such as Rockefeller, Morgan, and California, so even if Oguanhai decides to cooperate with the war on a large scale, the U.S. Congress may not agree.

Next, I'm afraid there will be another bloody storm.

Ao Guanhai's face quickly returned to normal, and he said to the White House attendant: "Let NASA redraft a technical report on the Dream space plane for me!"

"Yes!"

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Compared with the last time to show off his skills, the process of returning to Earth this time was much smoother, and Chen Xin did not choose a large airport like Capital International Airport, but landed directly at Nanyuan Air Base.

The Nanyuan Air Base has long been cleared, and the base guards have also been replaced by elite internal security troops, and the defense level of the entire base has been greatly improved.

Since it was already past one o'clock in the morning when they landed, the Great Elder and the others did not come over to disturb Chen Xin.

After Chen Xin parked the Dream in the hangar, he returned to the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse directly by military vehicle.

Originally, Chen Xin planned to stay in the capital until the end of the negotiations, but early the next morning, Vickers called and arrived in Jiangcheng after returning to China from Ukraine to Osborne.

Chen Xin considered that the negotiation team was composed of all anthropomorphic people. The steel hammer can be controlled remotely, and he has some other affairs to deal with in Jiangcheng, so he simply said hello to the General Office of the Central Committee and returned to Jiangcheng directly on a domestic airline flight.

When the Great Elder heard this, he had no choice but to smile and shake his head at Chen Xin's style of coming and going freely.

What made him happy was not Chen Xin's attitude of not treating himself as an outsider, but that before leaving, Chen Xin told Peng Guochen by confidential phone call that during his absence from the capital, China could send someone to survey and study the Dream.

Anyway, with China's existing technology, Chen Xin is not worried that the experts of aerospace science and industry can copy the dream. One engine alone. That's enough for Chinese engineers to study for decades.

However, even if the core technology cannot be learned, China's aerospace department should still be able to absorb a lot of eye-catching designs from the Dream.

After arriving in Jiangcheng, it was naturally another surprise to meet Osborne. Vickers and Osborne didn't know that Chen Xin was the founder of the Strategic Fool Bureau. But he also understood that Chen Xin's status within the war was far higher than that of the two of them. In addition, they had already received a notice from the Lord asking them to accept Chen Xin's leadership, so the two of them naturally respected Chen Xin.

Under the leadership of Vickers. Chen Xin and Osborne visited the Wujiang Science Fiction Film and Television Base, which is under construction.

On the bright side, the core of Wujiang Film and Television Base is a 3,600-meter-long, 60-meter-wide 4F-level runway, which can take off and land all large aircraft, including Airbus A380 and An-225, in addition, towers, terminals, large hangars and other facilities are readily available.

However, the airport will not be opened as a civilian airport, but will be a dedicated airport for the war and a future film base for Cybertron Digital.

The rest of the building is composed of an aerospace museum, a planetarium, a holographic virtual reality theater, a giant optical telescope, a giant radio telescope, etc.

In addition, there are various dioramas of the interior of the spaceship, a space capsule that simulates weightlessness, and a variety of cosplay playgrounds.

However, the most striking thing is a miniature artificial ecological circulation system in the Wujiang base, which was built by Chen Xin in the name of Transwarp in cooperation with the Chinese government, codenamed Biosphere 3, and is based on the actual Yàn facility Biosphere 2, which was invested and built by the United States in the 80s of the last century.

The system is designed to conduct ecological and environmental research in a closed state, to help humans understand how the earth works, and to study the conditions under which the earth's ecological environment is simulated.

In short, this is a large-scale comprehensive base integrating leisure and entertainment, film and television shooting, and popular science research.

This does not include the core factories such as Kailide Machinery Factory and Longshoushan Underground Base.

In order to ensure the power supply needs of the base in the future, the Chinese government has also decided to expand the third phase of the Haizhou nuclear power plant, and Unit 3 will provide power support for the Wujiang base.

Of course, Chen Xin did not put all his wealth on the Chinese government, this time back in Jiangcheng, he plans to build a real nuclear fusion reactor with, and install it inside the Longshoushan underground base, at that time, even if the Chinese government cuts off the power supply, the Wujiang base will not have to worry about energy problems.

This is also a precautionary measure, and Chen Xin will not be used until it is absolutely necessary.

In fact, in the past six months, the construction of Wujiang Science Fiction Film and Television City has already attracted widespread attention in public opinion, and many netizens are curious about this very distinctive film and television base, and have left messages saying that if they have time, they will definitely come to visit.

In particular, the Biosphere 3 project has not only attracted widespread attention from the people, but also caused an uproar in the academic community.

The project is led by Transwarp and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, bringing together experts and scholars from a number of top domestic universities such as Huaqing University, Capital University, and Pearl Jiaotong University.

According to Academician Li Sheng, the chief scientist of the project and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, when the project was launched, although Biosphere 2 failed, it does not mean that Biosphere 3 is meaningless.

It is much more complete than Biosphere 2 in terms of scale and facilities, and will lay the foundation for the future establishment of space cities and extraterrestrial transformation.

It is basically similar to the Earth's biosphere, consisting of deserts, forests, lakes, grasslands, etc., and accounts for more than two-thirds of the water area.

Biosphere 3 is materially closed, and its material transformation with the outside atmosphere and subsoil is forbidden by guò engineering methods.

In terms of energy, it is an open loop, which allows sunlight to pass through the glass structure for the plants to photosynthesize, and at the same time introduces electrical energy for the operation of the technical system. In terms of information, the information loop is also open, and the computer system, telephone, camera, and television are used to exchange information with the outside world, and through the guò television, face-to-face conversations with outside staff and relatives, as well as movies and commercial television programs. Electrical and thermally controlled energy is delivered from the outside through a hermetically sealed device, and no form of exchange or mixing of the internal and external fluids is allowed when the energy is transferred.

Once completed, 100 volunteers will be recruited to stay at Biosphere 3 for about three years to see if the system will collapse like Biosphere 2. (To be continued......)