Instead of rushing to land, Earthfire released a quantum satellite in the geosynchronous orbit of Mars, which covers positioning and communication functions.

The atmosphere above Mars is very thin, the gravity is about half that of the Earth, and the gravity cancellation rate of the Earth's anti-gravity device is only one-fifth, at which time the Earthfire received a quantum beacon from Mars, which was sent by Minsk, and the first station of the Earthfire landed near the Mars base in Minsk.

The Martian base established in Minsk is called Nikolai Nation and is said to be in honor of his idol Nikola Tesla. Minsk believes that there was a human civilization on ancient Mars, and that earthlings may be descendants of Martians, and he said that he wants to build a great kingdom on Mars and restore its former glory.

People from all countries of the earth can live in the country of Nikolai and allow them to set up their own countries in the country of Nikolai, and Minsk regards the establishment of the country of Nikolai as his own responsibility, he said: "When the country of Nikolai shines on Mars and even the universe, I will leave quietly in Minsk, leaving only the glory of Nikolai." ”

In fact, Minsk built a platform on Mars, and then invited like-minded humans on Earth to build Mars together, and he chose a large area near the equator in the southern hemisphere of Mars. The area where China has established a Mars base is near the equator in the northern hemisphere of Mars, and the two are more than 1,000 kilometers apart.

Shi Hao thought about sending things to Minsk first, pulling silica Akashi, and then transporting the materials to the Huaguo base, helping the staff there to expand the Mars base, and then returning to Earth.

As the Earth Fire gets closer to the Martian land, the gravity cancellation rate of the anti-gravity device becomes larger and larger, until it is equal to the gravitational pull of Mars and descends smoothly to the surface of Mars.

As you can see from the air, the place where the Earth Fire landed is a huge crater, with a diameter of more than ten kilometers, and it seems to be a crater as a whole.

The Earthfire stopped a kilometer next to the base, and Minsk brought two people to wait below, and through the video, they were seen wearing space suits, which were tightly wrapped in a layer and had some orange-red Martian dust on their bodies.

Opening the mission hatch, the three of them walked in, after the mission hatch was closed, they took off the outer layer, and outside the mission module was a large circular cabin, and then a corridor of more than ten meters, and the corridor used to be a small circular cabin. After they took off the outer protection, they came to the corridor and stood still according to the instructions, and the ionic wind blew to dust them in all directions, and after a few minutes, they came to the small cabin inside.

After the hatch opened, Shi Hao took Wang Ping and Laura to greet them behind the door.

The three people in Minsk had already taken off their helmets at this time, and they saw that all three of them had long hair and unshaven beards.

Shi Hao had already learned that the people at the Minsk Mars base were ordinary people who came to Mars after genetic modification.

"General Shi Hao, it's a great honor to meet you, thanks to the Haoshi you sent back to Earth, I was able to come to Mars as I wished, thank you so much. Welcome to Mars! Minsk said to Shi Hao very enthusiastically.

"Mr. Minsk, even if there is no Haoshi, with your strength, it will only be a few days later to land on Mars, and we are just icing on the cake." Shi Hao is very humble in the face of this legendary figure.

Laura smiled on the side and said, "Don't praise each other at the door, please take a seat." ”

Minsk laughed and said, "This lady is really good at talking, but I would like to correct it, in your Mandarin, it should be a charcoal in the snow rather than the icing on the cake." As he spoke, he followed Shi Hao and them to the Earthfire Hall Hall.

In order to alleviate the tension and loneliness of long-distance voyages, there is a restaurant on it, which is of great help to regulate emotions.

After the three of them sat down, Tian Ying immediately served the freshly fried steak and the best red wine. After the three of them saw it, their eyes lit up, and after a few polite words, they began to gobble up, and as for the etiquette of knives and forks, they had long been forgotten.

In order to avoid embarrassment, Shi Hao, Wang Ping and Laura took the red wine glass and poured some wine to make a show, they couldn't drink it, but it was okay to smell it.

The three of them each bit three steaks and a bottle of red wine, and then wiped their hands and mouths, and raised their red wine glasses embarrassedly to Shi Hao and the three of them.

Minsk explains: "They first brought a lot of fresh food from the earth, but it didn't take long to eat it, and then they relied on artificial greenhouses to grow vegetables with culture fluid, but there were only a few kinds of planting, and they got tired of eating it, and then many people simply took concentrated nutrient solution to maintain their daily needs." ”

"After a few months, some beetles crawled out of nowhere to sneak up on the base, and many people died, and we finally managed to kill the beetles and withstand the attack. Later, beetles would still crawl and attack us in twos and threes, and when we built a base on a meteorite cave, we used the hole to build it, and then gradually moved it underground, and we couldn't grow vegetables. "Minsk is not as ambitious as Shi Hao imagined, but has a kind of helplessness.

Shi Hao was surprised to hear the beetle attack and asked, "Are there many creatures on Mars?" Why isn't there much coverage on the planet? ”

Minsk smiled bitterly and said: "I'm not afraid of your jokes, when I first found out, in order to let more people follow me to Mars, and in order to keep the population of Mars growing, I concealed these truths." Later, I felt that it was not advisable to harm people, so I temporarily stopped accepting earthlings, but there was still no news of the Martian beetle, and I wanted to find a way to solve the beetle, and then recruit people from the earth to build Mars. ”

"Am I a little selfish?" Minsk looked at Shi Hao and asked.

Shi Hao didn't expect such a secret to have such a secret, so he had to say: "It's not easy for anyone, this is not your intention, I think the great kingdom of Nicholas will be built in the end, there is a famous saying that 'Rome is not built in a day.'" ’”

"Do you all live underground now? Can't do anything out there? How strong are those beetles? Is it hard to kill? Shi Hao diverted the topic.

"For safety, we usually live in a meteorite cave, which is small and has an oxygen supply device. But the construction of the base has not stopped, although it has slowed down a little, but it has gradually taken shape, and I will take you to visit it later. "Minsk gave a presentation on the current state of Mars.

"Those beetles stand up half a human height, and their heads and necks are protected by carapaces, and a person like me can't beat them, and the only way to see them is to run, two people can fight, and three people can kill. We have studied their corpses, and theoretically it is possible to kill them by cutting the spinal canal connected to the head and neck with a dagger, but this position is protected by layers of carapace, which is difficult to do. Hitting a laser gun other than the head will affect its mobility, but it won't kill it, they don't seem to feel pain, and when they break their legs, they crawl and crawl over to attack us. So if you want to kill them, you have to hit them in the head with a laser gun. ”

Shi Hao understood the purpose of their need for laser guns and laser cannons.

It is understood that there are currently 287 people at the Mars base in Minsk, and there were originally more than 500 people, but half of them died due to the beetle attack, which can be described as a heavy loss.

When Shi Hao proposed to visit the base, Minsk said embarrassedly: "General Shi Hao, I would like to propose a non-divisive feeling, can you sell me some steaks, I want to bring them back to taste." With so many brothers and sisters dead, the rest of the people are depressed, and I think the food should make them happy. ”

Hearing Minsk's words, Shi Hao's heart was quite touched, he fantasized about the delicacy of his hometown more than once on the B52, and when he was in the army, he especially liked the small crispy meat in Luoshi, which is said to be an ancient court delicacy, tender, refreshing, fat but not greasy.

There are not so many steaks on the Earthfire, after all, the Chinese people like Huaguo food, so the preparation of Western food materials is limited, so Shi Hao asked the chef to make four big dishes, each of which is enough for fifty people, plus steaks, rice and bread, put them in the space insulation car, and transport them down the Earthfire with the materials.

"Mr. Minsk, there are less than 300 of you, and you need so many oxygen generators, oxygen generators and oxygen cylinders, which is estimated to be enough for 1,000 people." Shi Hao looked at the space vehicles full of supplies and said.

"We've tried many other ways to attack those beetles, and we've found that they're very afraid of oxygen, which is a necessity for humans, but it's poison gas for the Martian beetles, so we're going to make some 'gas bombs'," Minsk said happily. ”

From a human point of view, oxygen is a beneficial gas, so we think that oxygen is good for many other organisms, but from the point of view of the Martian beetle, human thinking is preconceived and a bit one-sided.

Shi Hao looked around, only to see a small boxy city located a few hundred meters away, the layout is a bit like an ancient Chinese fortress, surrounded by walls, there is a door to enter and then a wall, the innermost is the building, these walls and buildings are all built by construction robots.

The outer wall is 1,000 meters long, 10 meters high, and about 3 meters thick, with a passage of 20 meters between the inner wall and the outer wall, and the inner wall is one step higher than the outer wall. The outer wall of the whole city has been built, the inner wall is only half built, and there are three buildings in the city, which have just been capped, and the materials have been transported to one of the buildings, and the material warehouse is planned here.

In a clearing in the city, there are many broken space capsules, planting pods and other equipment and equipment that Minsk originally transported to Mars to build a Martian base, which were destroyed by beetles, and are now covered with a layer of orange Martian dust, sitting there and looking very sad.

The materials used to build the city here were all locally sourced, and the stones were mined from the nearby mountains, cut, and then transported to bind them together with special building glue brought by the earth.

The whole city was orange and red, like iron rusted and mottled.

Before coming down from the Earthfire, Minsk told Shi Hao that they should do a good job of protection, Martian dust is corrosive to human skin, easy to stick to clothing, corroding clothes, spacesuits are no exception, but because the material is better and the corrosion resistance is stronger, Shi Hao They put the protective clothing directly outside, and just did a test.

Just as Shi Hao and the others were visiting the entire base, a shout came from the loudspeaker: "The beetle is coming." ”