Chapter 1237: The Martian
"How long is the rescue?"
"If you don't say a few words, maybe we'll last a few more hours. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ info" Looking at the remaining power and oxygen bars on the holographic screen, Wang Qiang said tiredly.
The oxygen inside the rover is mainly supplied by two systems.
One is an oxygen tank placed in the trunk, which is stored to sustain the life of the crew for a week. The other is the carbon sequestration device, which automatically activates when the oxygen in the oxygen tank is exhausted, and consumes electricity to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen until the battery is completely depleted.
If the situation is optimistic, you can hold out for two weeks.
Now, however, five days have passed.
Looking at the fiery red desert outside the window, as well as the "centipede" that poked its head out of the surface from time to time, a bitter smile appeared on Wang Qiang's face.
However, at this moment, a black dot appeared in his field of vision, and behind that black dot, there was a cloud of dust.
"Hey, Jaime, wake up!" Wang Qiang immediately kicked the black man leaning against him, waking him up from his new sleep.
"What's going on......" Rubbing his eyes to wake up, Jaime was about to ask what was going on, and then he saw the black spot outside the window.
The drowsiness was suddenly swept away, and he suddenly climbed next to Wang Qiang, squinted his eyes and looked out the window, and after trying to see what it was, he cried out happily, "It's our people! They are back! They didn't leave us!"
"Hurry up and get ready. β
Wang Qiang patted him on the shoulder, walked into the compartment of the buffer room, and took off the spacesuit from above.
At the same time, the action outside the car window began.
The devil worm crawling near the rover raised its head and opened and closed its sharp front teeth at the infantry vehicle in the distance, and just as it was about to plunge headlong into the ground, a rocket suddenly shot out next to the cannon on the top of the infantry vehicle.
Like a flaming iron fist, the rocket struck the devil worm in the abdomen, suddenly bursting with the flames of the explosion.
The green blood and the stumps of the insects exploded in all directions, and the upper body of the devil bug flew out and fell on the sand five meters away.
"Squeak!"
The vocal cords let out a suppressed, mournful howl, and the broken devil worm writhed wildly across the desert, and its internal organs and blood were thrown everywhere.
"You can't die of this damn thing. Looking through the scope at the difficult bedbug, the gunner said with difficulty.
"Shut it up! it's inviting its kind!" the captain scolded.
The 20mm cannon erupted a tongue of fire and made up a shuttle of bullets at the writhing upper body.
The driver slammed the steering wheel and made a 30-degree turn towards the rover's advancing chariot.
At about the same time, dust erupted from the side of the vehicle, and another devil worm emerged from the ground, its scythe like steel teeth grazing the body of the chariot, opening and closing like scissors, making a tooth-aching sound.
"Die!" gritted his teeth, turned the gunner, and pulled the trigger deadly.
The cannon spewed tongues of fire, and the orange-yellow trajectory tore open the belly of the devil bug.
As the devil worm wailed backwards, the entire desert boiled like boiling water.
A succession of devil bugs emerged from the side of the chariot, and after failing to strike a single blow, they quickly plunged headlong into the ground. The cannon continued to spray flames, but it was impossible to cope with four or five targets at the same time.
"Damn, how many of them are there!" exclaimed the pilot.
"Never mind how many of them there are, hit me into the rover's tires!" "The Marine Captain who was standing behind him roared as he clasped the driver's seat with his hands firmly on the driver's seat.
Rushing out of the blockade of the devil bugs, the infantry chariot slammed into the heavy rubber tires of the rover, pushing the rover seven or eight meters away from the sand before stopping, but it did not knock it over.
"Shet, are they going to save us or are they going to kill us?!" exclaimed Jaime, who had been knocked to his feet again.
"The body of the car was damaged...... It's not a big problem, they probably intend to knock us over, but they underestimate the width of our chassis. Wang Qiang squatted in the corner of the wall at the beginning to deal with the impact, so he didn't suffer any damage.
The rescue plan seems to have had an accident from the start.
Seeing that Plan A had failed and the car had not completely stopped, the Marine Corps Captain immediately ordered, "Activate Plan B!"
The infantry vehicle continued to accelerate and pushed forward against the rover, as the roof of the vehicle opened, and a Marine soldier emerged from the inside, took out the hook lock from the compartment, and hooked the two tires of the rover.
"Are they letting us out on our own? Don't even think about it. Jaime exclaimed.
"Then you can stay inside. β
Wang Qiang didn't talk nonsense, and after seeing the soldier's movements outside the window, he immediately reached for the safety lock next to the driver's seat, and after entering the password, he pulled down the wrench suddenly.
The moment the wrench was pulled down, the lid of the safety passage of the rover's chassis popped open. Under the huge air pressure difference, the air inside the rover surges outward. With one foot on the seat, Wang Qiang climbed out of the car from the safety passage of the chassis, grabbed the soldier's hand, jumped onto the infantry vehicle to stand firm, and got into the infantry vehicle.
"It's hitting our tracks!" shouted the driver, pressing on the accelerator.
"It can't hit us! We're much more tonnage than a rover...... Damn!"
Stabilization brackets were added before going to work, and the larger infantry vehicle was not knocked over like the Mars rover, but was lifted from the desert by a centimeter or two. Although the gravity of Mars is not as good as that of Earth, it is enough to highlight how terrifying the explosive power of the devil bug is.
"Hurry, hurry!" Trying to gain a foothold on top of the chariot, the Marine looked nervously at the tumbling gravel beneath the vehicle, and anxiously shouted in the direction of the rover, "Give me your hand!"
Although he was afraid, Jaime gritted his teeth, climbed out of the rover after Wang Qiang, grabbed the soldier's hand and jumped onto the chariot.
However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred.
The devil worm that had hit the chassis of the infantry chariot suddenly stopped, and suddenly sprang out from the side of the infantry chariot, screaming at the two people on the roof of the chariot and opening its incisor teeth like a sickle. Eye-catching with the row of dark green eyeballs, Jaime, who had just helped the soldier to stand firmly, his pupils gradually dilated with a touch of horror.
"Thanksβ"
"Noβ!"
With a screech that broke through the air, the scythes snapped together.
The blood rushed up to a height of two meters, spreading a layer of blood mist in the dusty air......
"Mission failed, Engineer Jaime killed, Sergeant Miller seriously wounded......"
"Sergeant Miller's rescue was effective and not out of danger. β
"Rescue forces are returning to the colony. β
On the large screen of the Star Ring City Space Command Center, the icon of Engineer Jaime has been marked with a red cross.
Looking at the big screen with a solemn expression, Kirwin slowly sat down in his chair, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath.
His political sense of smell told him that things were probably starting to get troublesome......