……

Mars high-altitude orbit, before the departure of the Striker team. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The second group arrived in the orbit of Mars four days ago, and the current situation is that the four artificial celestial bodies "Firefly", "Mars Express", "Noah" and "Noah 2" are connected together, and they can be comparable to the "Tiangong Orbital Starport" in terms of tonnage and volume.

Before the end of the cooperation between the two sides, all actions of the Americans on Mars must obey the command of the Chinese, in other words, on Mars, the commander Li Xingfeng is the boss, and the people here are under his control, including the American astronauts, as long as the cooperation does not end, they must obey the order.

CMSX has paid a lot of money for the development of the "Martian" program, if the investment is converted into money, which is equivalent to more than 70 billion yuan, and the weapons of the armed tactical team are all modified by CMSX, the Americans' "Noah 2" can be sent to space in about three months, and it is impossible to send it in such a short period of time even if more money is given by NASA's ability alone.

Coupled with other miscellaneous supplies, NASA has invested more than $20 billion to help Americans send astronauts into space, help Americans send "Noah 2" to Mars, etc., and CMSX has also exceeded $10 billion.

Ren Hong originally wanted NASA to pay more money, but the enemy's partner was "the enemy on Capitol Hill", and the "congressional masters" of Lao Mei couldn't withstand the pressure of local public opinion, and he reluctantly allocated another 16 billion to NASA, and the remaining $5 billion was raised by SpaceX and Alphabet.

Some netizens on the Internet have interestingly described that in the eyes of Matrix Technology, the whole world is poor, Facebook is a rich man, and other top ten companies by market capitalization, including alphabet, are rich at best, and everyone else is poor.

What a gap.

There is also a price to fool people, Charles. Bor looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, and after a long time, he finally won $10.7 billion in funding from Matrix Technology.

NASA can put on a posture of being rich and technologically powerful in the face of any institution, but in the face of a financier like Matrix Technology, it has absolutely no confidence to say that he is a rich man in front of others.

Ren Hong also has no better way, for the sake of long-term strategic goals, he can only bleed once, help Lao Mei to press down the heavy treasure first, and it is not so easy to "move" at that time, after all, there is an "ally" of "Master Congress".

Before landing on Mars, the crew members related to it came to the centrifugal module of the "Firefly space station", and six or seven people were discussing the meeting together, Commander Li Xingfeng, Professor Wang Jiangwang, the "incarnation" of Ren Hong, and the leader of the armed team of China and the United States, and the survivor Duncan. Jones and his top paleontologist Esslyn and others were in attendance.

Basically, all the key members who are going to land this time are in the column.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this extraterrestrial exploration mission has risen from a scientific expedition to a defensive mission, and the threat has increased again, in addition to dealing with the harsh Martian environment, but also to guard against the security threats that the indigenous creatures of Mars may pose to us." The commander looked at everyone in fluent English and said one by one.

If you really want to fight for qualifications and ability, Li Xingfeng is the first person who deserves to be the first here, he should have retired, but the birth of replication technology extended his career life again, and the two oldest American astronauts who came to Mars were on the "Tianzhou" to fight with Li Xingfeng.

Therefore, in this cooperation, the Americans are also convinced by Li Xingfeng as the supreme commander.

"Before landing in the Pezos area, it is important to know what is actually happening." The commander added, and his eyes also fell on Duncan, who had been rescued. Jones, the latter quickly understood when he saw this.

Duncan. Jones opened his suitcase, which was a personal computer, and was quickly linked to the main screen in the conference room, and everyone turned to the home screen, which was top-secret and only shared by both parties.

"On August 13, 2028, the accident happened on this day, we completed the first landing at the end of June, and then began to build the first Mars base in the Pezos Heights, and it was a steady development for more than a month without incident, until the construction of the outpost base on August 11. On the 12th, the Orion spacecraft took off for the third time to send Alex and Dick to Mars, and I was ordered to stay behind in the operation and maintenance of Noah. ”

"That's right, on the first day of landing on Mars, Skovo accidentally found a complete creature skeleton." Duncan. Jones said, and a video suddenly appeared on the main screen, which was the first view of the camera on Skovo's shoulder, and everyone watched as Skovo threw away the layers of dirt one by one, and finally revealed the complete skeleton of the creature.

"Hey man, what are you doing? Do you want me to take the rover down by myself? ”

"You'd better check this out!"

"It's ......"

"If nothing else...... Martian creatures! A Martian creature that has not been dead for a long time, from the color and texture of the bones, it can be preliminarily judged that it should die in about three years, maybe longer, or shorter, but it will not fluctuate much, and it does not have any petrification phenomenon. ”

Ren Honghuan crossed his arms, raised his head and quietly watched the VOD video on the main screen of the conversation between the two Mars landers. Jones tapped a few times on the personal computer, and the VOD video ended, and at the same time brought up another message: "The accident happened in the middle of the night on the 13th, when a small storm was ushered in in the Pezos area 3 hours ago, although the wind speed was very fast, but the Martian air was thin, and we were prepared for this, so even if this storm was ten times larger, it would not have much impact on the outpost base, but when the storm ended, the signal between the base and the 'Noah' was not stable, and there was an intermittent bad state." ”

At this moment, everyone looked at Duncan Jones and listened to his recollections, he looked at everyone and said: "Dick was sent out to check the signal tower, and after half an hour I completely cut off communication with the ground, at first I was very surprised, I called many times and did not get in touch, but I was not too worried, thinking that there should be something wrong with the signal tower, and I never thought that the ground base would be attacked by the native creatures of Mars." ”

"During the communication terminal, I observed the live climate of Mars, especially in the Pezos region, where the storm was the most threatening thing for us, but there was no sign of a storm that swept the entire planet, so I went to rest after my routine."

"It wasn't until the next day, there was still no news, I really paid attention to it, I kept calling for ground information, kept calling, and there was still no response."

"Straight...... Until ......" said Duncan here. Jones's eyes were a little red, he lowered his head and breathed a little quickly, everyone was silent, Duncan. Jones had such a reaction and could imagine what he saw afterwards.

The compatriots next to him patted him: "Cheer up, it's okay!" ”

Jones stabilized his mood and nodded silently, and everyone looked at him looking down at the table, not seeing his pupils, only a pair of eyelids. Jones took a long breath and once again looked at the crowd, and he tapped a few times on his personal computer, and everyone subconsciously turned to the home screen.

"When the 'Noah' came to the skies over Pezos again, the base became like this, and I was overwhelmed as if I was in the middle of bad news......"

The crowd looked at the home screen, which was a high-definition image of the outpost base in disarray, orderly solar panels staggered, some broken, and several inflatable capsules languishing due to gas leaks. Duncan. Jones replaced an image, and many people felt a chill at the sight of fragments of a spacesuit, scattered on the red soil.

Seeing this, the Americans in the conference room exclaimed, "A01202 number, that's ...... Dick? ”

"Oh God!" He saw Duncan nodding silently, everyone was shocked, the spacesuit was covered with crimson blood, this picture all showed that Dick was dismantled by something, torn to pieces, the flesh was gone, to be exact, the body was gone, only the spacesuit fragments were left.

Ren Hong looked at the picture carefully, he pointed to the main screen and suddenly said, "That's ...... Scorched? Can you zoom in a little bit? Right! That location! ”

Duncan did.

Ren Hong covered his mouth, stared for a moment, and muttered: "It's not like a scorched condition, it should be a phenomenon that has been severely corroded by acidic substances." ”

Saying that, Ren Hong looked at Duncan. Jones: "He's carrying an acidic corrosive substance?" ”

………

… (To be continued.) )