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On the side of this rocket, a palm-sized Star-Spangled Banner can be seen. Underneath the Stars and Stripes are the badges of NASA and SpaceX.

"This is Ares, we're in Mars synchronous orbit, communication is over. ”

Through the round glass window, the black astronaut standing in the spaceship looked at the fiery red planet, restrained the excitement in his heart, and reported to the ground command center in a calm and trembling voice.

The silence lasted about five minutes.

For NASA, which has not yet mastered faster-than-light communication technology, it is probably necessary to wait for so long between each communication.

"This is the Boston Ground Command Center, congratulations, you are the pride of America......"

After more than a month of flying, we have finally arrived here.

With a total weight of more than 400 tons, the "Ares" finally crossed the distance of tens of millions of kilometers, crossed the technical blockade of the star ring trade, and arrived at the red planet under the push of four "God of War 6" carrier rockets with the latest propulsion engine......

As soon as they thought of this, the eight astronauts standing inside the spacecraft couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Is that the Seagull class of Star Ring Trade?" a thin, thin white man with blonde hair pointed out the window.

With the darkness of the universe in the background, a huge long ship floats quietly tens of thousands of kilometers away from them. Through the binoculars, they could clearly see every inch of the armor on the giant ship. The cold iron and the fiery red planet formed a sharp visual contrast, like a quenched long sword.

Even if they are tens of thousands of kilometers apart, they can feel their own insignificance and the greatness of each other......

Blaise shook his head vigorously, kicking the wrong thought out of his head.

He is the captain of the entire Martian expedition and the captain of the Ares. They came with the ambition of planting the Stars and Stripes on the land of Mars, rather than here to admire the achievements of the Ring trade.

"They're strong, but we'll be able to surpass them one day. A Jewish man walked up to him, put his hand on the black brother's shoulder, and said in an affirmative tone, "Order the landing." ”

"Thank you, Zabik. ”

Taking a deep breath, Brace turned to face all the personnel of the "Ares Project" behind him, and ordered in a deep voice.

"All the crew members are ready to enter the buffer cabin. Let's land on this new continent!"

"Yes!"

Cheers and whistles rang out.

On Brace's orders, everyone lay down in the buffer cabin, ready to withstand the shock.

In the descent and deceleration phase, they need to withstand about 7 G's of gravity, but this is easy for them, and they don't know how many days and months they have been training for this day.

……

"UFOs were spotted in Martian synchronous orbit. ”

"UFOs?" With the unfinished coffee, the captain of the Expedition walked over to the radar observer, looked at the screen in front of him, and ordered, "Turn on the optical observation system." ”

"Yes. ”

The observer tapped his fingers on the trackpad a few times, and soon brought up an image of the craft on the screen. After several magnifications and resolution corrections, a flying machine with a length of about 25 meters and a diameter of about 5 meters appeared on the image.

Seeing the Star-Spangled Banner printed on the side of the aircraft, the expression on the captain's face was a little playful.

Placing the coffee cup in his hand on the table, he looked at the correspondent in the back seat.

"Pick me up at the space command center. ”

"Understood. ”

Walking at the entrance of the MRT outside the headquarters of the Earth Defense Alliance in Star Ring City, Kirwyn, who had just finished the meeting, prepared to return to the Ministry of Astronautics.

At this moment, his watch vibrated and he opened the holographic screen to see that it was a call from the ground command center.

After asking about the staff, Kirwin immediately transferred the communication to the Expedition, looked at the captain standing on the other side of the screen, and said solemnly.

"Tell me about the situation. ”

A military salute was given to the Minister of Aerospace, and the captain reported quickly.

"We found American spacecraft near the Mars geosynchronous orbit with the logos of NASA and SpaceX on them. According to the analysis of the scale of the spacecraft, it is preliminarily concluded that it is a manned spacecraft. ”

"Manned rockets?" said Kirwin, frowning and with a strange expression, "what do the Americans want to do?"

The Americans actually shot a rocket at Mars silently?

Although Transwarp Trade has not made this kind of assumption, and has even received news from some channels, Kerrwin, who confirmed the news with his own ears, still can't help but feel surprised.

After all, their biotechnology summit has only just ended, and they have already shown very clearly how dangerous the devil bug is. What kind of mentality did the White House make the decision to launch a manned rocket to Mars knowing this?

Or did the Americans take their warnings as a joke?

"Judging by the way they changed their orbit, it should be that they intended to land on the surface of Mars. Our carrier-based pilots are already in position on the Electric Ray A-1 and ready to strike and intercept. The captain said in a sonorous tone.

"What are the odds of being discovered?" asked Kirwin.

"We could launch an EMP missile to disable their exposed communications module, and then send out an A-1 to shoot it down. "Unless their ships have early warning radars on them, the probability of early detection of our attack is zero." ”

After a moment of silence, Kerryn looked at the captain and spoke.

"Can you figure out where they land?"

"The approximate area can be confirmed, and the error is within 10 kilometers. With that, the captain sent a copy of the coordinates to the holographic screen in front of Kirwin.

Looking at the coordinates on the screen, Kirwin silently estimated in his mind.

Even in the closest case, these Americans are hundreds of kilometers away from the 071 site, and there is no need to worry about what they will find.

Moreover, the area where they landed seemed to be very close to the area where the devil worm was active......

"Let the pilots be on standby on carrier-based aircraft, but leave them alone. Within half a minute, Kerwin had decided, "If they are in such a hurry to die, let them go." ”

"Yes!" the captain saluted, ending the communication.

Even if Transwarp Trade didn't do anything, they wouldn't live long. For this, Kerrwin, who knows how terrifying the Devil Bug's aggression is, is sure of it.

After finishing the communication with the captain of the expedition, Kerrwin immediately called Jiang Chen and gave a brief report on the whole story.

At the same time, the Ares, which had been anchored in geosynchronous orbit, dropped the last four rockets and a geostationary satellite that served as a communication relay.

Immediately afterward, the Ares, with only one main cabin left, ignited the last stage of its engine and began to fall towards the surface of Mars......