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Just as ESA announced the exploration of Mars, it also announced plans for Europeans to land on Mars as well. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as the news came out, the current NASA and SA showed a lukewarm attitude, especially NASA, ESA knew that it had two pounds, money but some key technologies were hard injuries, so it was natural to go to NASA to talk about cooperation at this time.

NASA is very clear that it is okay to cooperate with other space projects, but Mars is not to talk about it.

In desperation, he went to find SA again, and also hit a wall, which made ESA very annoyed, and at the same time knew a very key information, these two super players seemed to have reached a tacit understanding and did not want a third party to intervene in Mars.

It seems that they have also found something in it, but they would never have thought that the two sides have secretly carved up Mars, especially the large-scale investment in matrix technology makes NASA firmly believe that Mars will soon become a new habitat for human beings in the near future.

In the face of such a vast territory, the temptation is hard to resist, and if you think you are super strong, what reason is there to share the cake with others.

Although there are clear provisions in international law that the solar system belongs to mankind, it is just a matter of talking, and space exploration and extraterrestrial competition do not rely on words, but on real hard power.

Just as ESA announced that it would send an advanced satellite into the orbit of Mars, the two sides were pondering that it would be best if the satellite could not reach its destination and be stillborn.

True and false, false and true, in today's situation, the outside world can no longer distinguish what Matrix Technology is going to do on Mars, in fact, Matrix Technology is playing real in disguise, Amethysis is naturally the first priority strategic task, but colonizing Mars is also not for the sake of fooling.

It was only a matter of time before humans colonized Mars, and Matrix Technology was just using this opportunity to put a layer of smoke bombs.

Three months later, the "Mars Express" came to Mars again, bringing the 1,049-ton "Noah 3" of the Americans to the orbit of Mars.

Since then, the Americans have also had a Martian space station in orbit, but only more than 600 tons, and a large amount of materials were still used for the construction of the Martian Deka Walker outpost base.

In this voyage before and after, in the past half a year, the wind has undergone great changes, the outpost base has become extremely large, an area of more than 2,000 square meters of the outpost base was born in the wind pass, heavy machinery docked on the red soil.

The most striking feature is undoubtedly a 30-meter-tall minaret, which has become the outpost base's landmark, with a brightly colored flag fluttering at the top of the minaret indicating the base's affiliation.

The purpose of this spire is a defensive device, and the target is naturally the native Martian creature snake lizard, and the "Firefly-3" satellite in space monitors the Storm Pass area around the clock, and the life probe is always in operation.

Once a Martian snake lizard tries to get close to the base at night, the first layer of defense spires will release high-intensity ultraviolet rays, covering a radius of up to 4.7 kilometers, which is a deadly ray for snake lizardmen, and it will kill as many as they come, ensuring the safety of the outpost base.

After months of non-stop work, the tunnel was opened four months ago, and the entire tunnel was reinforced in the following two and a half months.

Lao Mei's "Observer No. 5" will pass over the wind at regular intervals, and will come over regularly to fight the autumn wind, and CMSX does not care about this kind of monitoring behavior. The number of small dirt bags piled up at the location of the wind ridge is increasing, and the Americans have also discovered that CMSX is drilling into the ground, but they don't know what the other party is going to do.

I also inquired at one point, and the response was to study the habitat of the snake lizard, and there may be liquid water under the old Olympus.

For this, NASA also knows that through the "Explorer" Mars rover, they also found that the moisture content in Pezos's underground is gradually increasing, and CMSX's response cannot find any fault, and the Americans have doubts but are not clear.

Everyone is still playing their own games.

Just today, two Mars landing vehicles carried a new crew and equipment, one carrying four largely empty containers, and the other carrying an oversized, heavy-duty mobile device, the Mobile Condensate Cutter.

In the morning, two 18-ton heavy truck rovers drove into the flat sandy land 4 kilometers away from the outpost base, and the two "Red Eagle" transport ships had already stopped on the ground. The two heavy-duty rovers headed for their respective spacecraft.

At this moment, the aft compartments of the two transports had long been opened.

Several astronauts in protective suits got off the heavy truck, and the landing also brought six members, and under the control of the staff, four basically empty containers were loaded from the rover, and there were only a small amount of supplies in the containers.

These fully enclosed containers are very useful when they are transported to Mars empty, and each container can carry about 6 tons of Ziyuan crystal ore.

After two hours of effort, the rover began to deliver the containers to the outpost base.

On the other hand, the "Red Eagle-2" is loaded with a real big guy.

The mobile condensation cutter, weighing 47 tons, and a whole, the entire spacecraft is basically saturated after loading this big guy, and after unloading the spacecraft, the rover drags this big guy to the outpost base.

In the base, Ren Hong stood on the spire and took advantage of the high open vision to see not far away, two Mars rovers were moving forward in the rolling red dust, and he was also a little excited in his heart.

The cutter is coming, which means that the crystal ore can finally be mined, and so much energy, financial and material resources are being spent for the arrival of this moment?

At this moment, eight or nine staff members wearing orange-red protective suits appeared outside the outpost base, one staff member held a flag and waved the flag, and two Mars rovers continued to enter the outpost base.

The six new members came to the surface one after another, and after a short meeting, the intense work continued, and Ren Hong also walked down the spire to the scene.

Li Xingfeng directed the work, and the container was properly placed after being unloaded.

The first task now was to feed the mobile condensate cutter into the tunnel.

"Be careful, this treasure is worth several aircraft carriers, and it's precious." Li Xingfeng reminded that in order to drum out this condensation cutter, the cost alone cost 70 billion yuan, and the ability to create an environment infinitely close to absolute zero inside the cutter is a hard requirement for cutting crystals, and the harsh requirements for hardware due to technical difficulty and mobility are directly reflected in the sky-high cost.

A large group of staff spent half a day repeatedly checking and confirming that everything was in order, and finally sent this dozens of tons of big guy to the track at the mouth of the tunnel.

Seeing this, Ren Hong geared up, walked to the control room inside the cutter for the first time, and said at the same time: "Mingjie, come with me, you have been studying with me for a few months during this time, and today you will see how I control this equipment." ”

"Yes, Professor Wang."

Seeing this, an astronaut trotted over and entered the control room with Ren Hong.

After a while, Li Xingfeng and others watched the 47-ton big guy slowly go deep along the heavy track in the straight tunnel, and there was no window in front of the control room, but there was a camera, and the control room was behind the equipment.

A few kilometers away arrived quickly.

"The characteristics of the amethyss don't need to be explained, as well as its special structure of uniform layout, and the crystal structure of the hexahedron ......," Ren Hong said while controlling the equipment: "Actually, this cutting machine is highly automated equipment, all you have to do is to monitor the data and whether the equipment is operating normally, and the rest is basically nothing." ”

As he spoke, Ren Hong clicked a button, and outside the tunnel mouth, the front section of the cutter was combined with the purple source crystal with zero gaps.

At this point, the equipment is already operational.

Ren Hong waited anxiously in his heart, and when he saw a new message popping up on the display panel, he suddenly got up: "Mingjie, you look, I'll go and see first!" ”

Ren Hong immediately left the control room and came to the storage area behind the equipment.

The first crystal has been cut and is being transported to the rear storage area.

When a dark purple crystal that was a little smaller than half a fist was quietly placed in the storage area, Ren Hong locked on a small crystal, he squatted down and picked it up.

Before he had time to take a closer look, the second crystal of the same size and exactly the same was transported through the track, still emitting a cold white mist, and the temperature of the surface layer of the purple source crystal that had just been cut was terrifyingly low, and Ren Hong dared to take it directly because of the existence of protective clothing.

It was these dark purple crystals that haunted him, and now he finally got his wish.

Watching the crystals being transported, even Ren Hong, who is accustomed to big scenes, can't stop the excitement in his heart, this is the key material to leverage the era of wireless energy, which is enough to lay the cornerstone of a country's space hegemony.

Each crystal is congruent, and according to the energy storage peak, this crystal of about 200 grams can store the equivalent of 185 trillion joules of high-purity energy, which is the largest volume that a cutter can cut in a single time.

Looking at the accumulation of more and more crystals, Ren Hong couldn't help but grin, these crystals are truly priceless and deserved. (To be continued.) )