Taking a deep breath and calming the excitement and apprehension in his chest, Wang Qiang cast his eyes out the window, the flaming red earth. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

If nothing else, he will spend the rest of his life in this new continent.

"Don't gasp, don't wait a while, we'll all be with you when you're out of oxygen. The man sitting across from him smiled and quipped.

Friendly laughter rang out in the colonial cabin, and the tense atmosphere eased considerably.

At a distance of more than 80 million kilometers, the blue planet is no longer visible here. Although they were ready to dedicate their lives to the aerospace industry the moment they stepped on the colony ship, recalling all the things on Earth, the twenty colonists sitting here couldn't help but feel a trace of nostalgia for their homeland.

No one knows what awaits them.

Not only were they the first to colonize Mars, but they were also the first people to set foot on the land. No matter how many space agencies have made observations of this planet before, no one dares to assert that they know 100% about it until human footprints are imprinted on this land.

However, the thought that they are expanding the territory of human civilization has somewhat comforted their hearts.

The colony ship has entered a synchronous orbit and is firmly parked above the landing site, and then the captain can order an air landing just after the command center's order.

Relaxing his whole body on the cushion of the cushion seat, Wang Qiang closed his eyes and prepared to take a nap.

However, as soon as the eye was closed, and the next time it was opened, it was already an hour later.

"Attention to all personnel, the command has given the landing order, and the colony module will separate from the colony ship in ten seconds and enter the landing link. Now start the countdown, 10, 9, 8 ......"

"How can it be so fast. ”

As soon as Wang Qiang opened his eyes, he heard the countdown electronic sound, and he couldn't help but be a little flustered before he had time to prepare mentally. However, the colony ship did not give him that panicked time, and the countdown quickly reached zero.

With a slight tremor, the entire Tiangong split into two, and the belly compartment, which was about two hundred meters long, began to separate from the hull.

From a distance, the entire colony module resembles a flattened cuboid, towed by a six-seat plasma engine, falling towards the fiery red earth.

Mars has a geosynchronous orbit of only 17,000 kilometers, gravity is only four-ninths that of Earth, and its atmosphere is thin, making it slightly more difficult to land than the Moon, but much smaller than Earth.

When the colony module maintained a downward tilt attitude, the moment it made contact with the atmosphere, the six-seat engine turned around and spewed a more intense arc light, dragging the colony module and steadily stopping the momentum of accelerating and falling in the reverse jet.

The high-temperature ions that were sprayed downward were tightly wrapped around the periphery of the colonial module, and from a distance, it looked like a blue meteor.

An arc was drawn in the air, and the two-hundred-meter-long flat cuboid, like a huge foot, fell from the sky and was imprinted on the earth.

Ryu!

With a deafening muffled sound, the red sand was blown in all directions, swinging hundreds of meters away.

Thigh-thick steel needles popped out of the bottom of the colony, nailed into the red sand, and went directly into the rock formations tens of meters below, firmly anchoring the colonial pod to the desert and acting as the "foundation" of the entire colony.

The deployment on the ground was completed, and the movements in the sky did not stop.

In the next decade or so, the colony ship will continue to exert its residual heat as a geosynchronous orbit satellite, providing communications, meteorological observations, crisis warnings, and other services for the Martian colony.

At this point, the deployment process of the colonial pod is finally completed.

The shaking outside finally stopped, and the lights in the cabin came back on one after another.

When the light returned to his vision, Wang Qiang looked around, looked at the captain who was sitting on the left hand side opposite him with a quick breath, and asked excitedly.

"We succeeded?"

The expression on the captain's face is the same, even if he is usually a rigid person, he can't help but be infected by the excitement and glory from the bottom of his heart at this moment.

Not only the captain, but all twenty colonists were in the same mood at the moment.

Isn't it for this day that they've been training for almost a year, practicing day and night for the same thing?

"Yes, we succeeded!" the captain took a deep breath, controlling his unspeakable excitement and commanding in a trembling voice, "Attention everyone, lift the safety lock." Sakoren, go check how the oxygen system is working. Lu Yang, go to the power room, turn on our nuclear fusion generator, there is not much energy in the battery. ”

"Yes!"

"Understood!"

After unlocking the safety lock, the two men jumped lightly from the cushioned seats and walked quickly towards the outside of the room.

Also unlocked, the captain stood in the center of the buffer cabin, moved his sore arms, looked at the colonists who were already lined up for orders, and ordered in a deep voice.

"Yang Yuhan, you go and release the exploration drone to conduct a detailed survey of the geological situation within a radius of ten miles. Liu Rui, Wang Qiang, the two of you take the spacesuit and prepare for attendance, Caris, you and I go to the main control cabin. The rest of the personnel immediately went to their posts, and the time was urgent, and the deployment of the planting unit must be completed within four hours, which is related to the future food problem of the colony!"

"Yes!"

The colonists arrived in unison and immediately went into action.

After arranging all this, the captain did not leave the buffer cabin immediately, but reached out and clicked on the holographic screen, and with trembling fingertips, he switched the communication channel to the earth, which was tens of millions of kilometers away, and sent back the good news to his former home.

"Call the ground command center, we succeeded!"

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“…… We succeeded!"

When this voice was transmitted back to Star Ring City, which was more than 80 million kilometers away, the entire command center was already cheering. People whistled, raised their arms, hugged each other, and celebrated this great occasion.

Looking at the colony in the center of the screen, Jiang Chen's mood at the moment was more excited than anyone present.

If the Moon is an energy base, then Mars is the arsenal of the future "Earth Federation". The whole of Mars is a big iron mine, and the endless desert is not all silica like Earth, but iron oxide!

To put it bluntly, find a dry place on Mars and shovel a shovel of sand and throw it into the blast furnace, and you can make half a catty of iron.

If you want to build an interstellar giant ship hundreds of times larger than the Seagull, you need at least 10 million tons of steel, and it is still a bit reluctant to rely on minerals and asteroid mining on the earth alone. And if you want to build an "invincible armada" in the age of interstellar discovery, without the steel industrial base of the Martian colony, you don't have to think about it!

As an important part of Jiang Chen's space program, the future "Mars Industrial Park" will undertake more than 80% of the shipbuilding capacity of the Earth Union.

In this way, in the face of the imminent invasion, the earth is not without the strength to fight.

In order to celebrate this exciting moment, Jiang Chen announced while the iron was hot.

"I announce that all employees involved in the Mars colonization project, regardless of their positions, will each be rewarded with 500,000 Singapore dollars!

Such a large amount of red envelopes pushed the cheers in the command center to a new round of high tide...... (To be continued.) )