August Weiyang.

The edge of the northwest desert is full of yellow sand.

There is a training base covering an area of 1,000 acres.

The base is called the "Mars Survival Simulation Base", and uses the terrain and landforms in the area that resemble the surface of Mars to carry out survival simulation training, so that the immigrants can adapt to the living environment on Mars in advance.

"The gravity of Mars is only 2/5 of that of the blue star, the atmospheric pressure is 1% of the blue star, the average temperature during the day is minus 5 degrees, the average temperature at night is minus 87 degrees, and there is no water to be seen on any surface...... If you want to survive in such an environment, one relies on ability and courage, and the other relies on wisdom, and wisdom is far more important than strength! ”

"You need to find a way to overcome the low temperatures, collect the Martian atmosphere, compress it to half the standard air pressure, fill it into a closed air bag, and use the greenhouse effect to leave more heat behind."

"The second is to find the water, to find the most important groundwater, which requires you to dig 100 meters, 300 meters, 500 meters or even deeper with simple tools, the process will be extremely difficult, but you can't give up easily."

"After you have water, you still have to grow crops to achieve self-sufficiency, Mars is only half the light intensity of Blue Star, how to grow ......"

The burly instructor standing on a slope, holding a megaphone in his hand, said to hundreds of trainees.

Bang Bang~

Bundles of shovels were thrown in front of him.

"The project we are going to carry out today is to dig wells, use rudimentary shovels, dig groundwater under 100 meters, you work in turns, change a group of people every hour, and the replaced people go to the oxygen station to fill oxygen, and cooperate with the action according to the standardized procedures."

"Yes!"

Said the trainees in uniform uniforms.

"Zhang Xingfeng, you're going to work, don't be in a daze."

Someone slapped him on the shoulder, and a somewhat playful voice sounded next to him.

Turning his head, he saw Gu Lanlan, a member of the same team with short ears and a neutral face, who was neither beautiful nor ugly.

"Oh, I know."

Zhang Xingfeng bent down to pick up a shovel, came to the operation site, and began to shovel the sand one by one, but every time it was half a spade, and the frequency was not high, and the work efficiency may not be as good as Gu Lanlan next to him.

And he always looks like he hasn't woken up, is soft, and has weak energy, always half-bowing his head, exuding a "mourning" temperament.

The tough guy instructor questioned, with his appearance, how did he pass the selection and enter the first batch of advance team members, I'm afraid he didn't come in through the back door?

As a matter of fact.

Although Zhang Xingfeng is very sad, but he came out of a famous university, his brain is very smart, in the two years of training and study, the theoretical examination is the first, and the five-person team has always played a commanding role in the assessment, leading the team members to win the first place in the team.

He is really not good at physical fitness, but he is proficient in repair, and he has already obtained a special repair certificate.

Even in the training base, he Zhang Xingfeng is well-known and has the nickname of "decadent genius".

Ay~

As a young man who is only 24 years old, why does Zhang Xingfeng always give people a feeling of decadence and no spirit?

What about the vitality of his youth?

For such questions, Zhang Xingfeng doesn't know how to answer.

Since he was a child, he was very smart, very obedient, and the kind of "other people's child", who never disappointed his parents, but after being admitted to college, he chose a university thousands of miles away, far away from his parents, and on the day he set off to report to the university, he not only did not feel a little sad, but had a sense of relief.

In my four years of college, I spent most of my time in the library, reading one book after another.

I also saw that the girl I often pay attention to has changed one male ticket after another, and has gone to the hospital to have a duo at least three times...... There was no fluctuation in his eyes.

Just graduated from college and heard that the Black Hole Group had launched the "Mars Immigration Plan", he didn't hesitate to sign up and quickly passed.

In a New York minute.

Two more years passed.

In the past two years, he feels that he has gained a lot, but somehow, his heart is always empty.

The most fundamental reason is that he doesn't know what he wants.

Money, he is not interested, the more than 300,000 he has saved in the past two years has been sent to his parents, and the biggest expense is to buy books, and other expenses are very small.

Looking for a partner, the training base does not object to male and female students falling in love, and will even help arrange couple students into the same team, Zhang Xingfeng was in charge of the 10-person group before, there are two couples.

Fortunately, after being selected into the advance team, the team he is in charge of now has only five people, and the number of couples is zero, so he no longer has to be stuffed with dog food every day.

But let him find a partner himself? Sorry, there are no plans to do this at this time.

Dreams, no.

Ideal, no.

None of the aspirations or goals.

Only in the interval of intense training, sitting on the edge of the playground and looking up at the starry sky overhead, he will have a trace of yearning and longing, and whisper: "I have a star in my name, perhaps, I will have a relationship with this starry sky, right?" ”

……

The end of the day's training.

At the edge of the desert, piles of kerosene lamps lit bonfires.

The army hot pot was boiling in the marching pot, and the dinner tonight began in a group of five people.

"I heard that the company's "Mars Migration Plan" has been advanced, and it was originally planned to send the first batch of people to Mars at the end of next year, but now it will be carried out at the end of this year, and the purpose of our 10,000-person advance team is this." Team member Lin Tianshu opened his mouth and said, putting a few chopsticks of cabbage into his bowl.

"Are we really going, how are we going to get there?"

Another team member, Huang Guojie, said with a look of unprepared mental preparation: "Speaking of going to Mars, can we come back in the future, won't we stay on Mars forever?" ”

"I carefully read the contract, which wrote a clause: the work and life of immigrants are all arranged by the company, and those who do not obey the arrangement will have to pay compensation equivalent to three times the cost of training, and the cost of the company on our heads every year is 2 million, and the total cost of three years will be more than 5 million, multiplied by three times the liquidated damages, unless you prepare 15 million, it is possible to get out, otherwise the company wants to arrange you, you have to obediently obey."

Zhang Ning, a female player, analyzed.

"15 million, how much money do we have in our family?"

Gu Lanlan put a duck head into her bowl and muttered, "Isn't this an overlord clause, I can't I come back to see my parents once a year?" ”

She touched her elbow with Zhang Xingfeng, who was not speaking, and said, "Zhang Xingfeng, what do you think about this, what do you think we should do?" ”

"Companies are not philanthropic."

Zhang Xingfeng said lightly: "The cost of training for three years is not more than five million at all, and the salary we are offered is not a decimal, and the usual food standard is 70 yuan per person per day, which is said to be about the same as the air force pilots, but so far, what have we done for the company?" ”

"Our value is on Mars, if we don't create enough value, don't think about coming back, work hard, and think about creating more value."

His words caused everyone to fall silent for a while.