After Lin Youde and his entourage had a good time on the earth, they returned to the boring Huanyu Mining VIP ship moored in the earth's spaceport a day in advance.

When the captain saw Lin Youde enter the bridge, he was surprised: "Didn't you just leave tomorrow to return to Arcturus?" Why did you board the ship today? We weren't given any notice and a lot of the crew was still on holiday......"

"Don't be nervous." Lin Youde waved his hand, "We just want to go to Mars now, and now the crew on the ship can still maintain normal operations, right?" ”

"Please" Xia Yongzhi said angrily, "Our human spaceship can be driven by only one person, but it can't exert its full combat effectiveness." ”

When human beings are combined with various auxiliary units to form a whole, the ability to show is much higher than the use of those computer-controlled auxiliary units alone, so human beings have completely gotten rid of the fear of being replaced by robots, and human society has begun to use robots and develop more advanced artificial intelligence without taboos, these things can replace humans to a certain extent, but if you want to pursue high efficiency, you must still rely on human-centered auxiliary unit clusters.

Therefore, in order to ensure the combat capability of the battleship, there must be enough crew on it, but if it is just to make the ship move for a short trip or something, then it is enough for someone to give orders to the central computer.

"We're now leaving for Mars, taking only the crew who happen to be on the ship at the moment, and no need to recall anyone else."

"Is that okay?" The captain had a worried expression, "There will be a fight, right?" I think at least the combatants will be called back. ”

Lin Youde couldn't help frowning: "Why did you conclude that there would be a fight?" ”

"Didn't you fight everywhere you went? Many of the GIs on this ship are already waiting impatiently, just waiting for you to start a fight. ”

Lin Youde was speechless, what kind of image did he Lin Youde look like in the eyes of the crew, is it a mobile disaster?

"There shouldn't be a fight this time......"

"Really? But there is an old saying among us astronauts: if there is a chance that an accident will happen if it has zero chance, it will almost certainly happen. ”

"That's just the initial stage of human spaceflight, in order to warn engineers to be careful about every detail."

As soon as Lin Youde finished speaking, Xia Yongzhi's telegram came: "Astronauts are a little superstitious like the Space Army, and you may make them unhappy if you say this." ”

Lin Youde hurriedly changed his words: "I mean, although this is reasonable, it does not apply to our current situation. Because this time I'm pretty sure one hundred percent there's no fighting. ”

The captain seems to have finally accepted Lin Youde's statement. However, he immediately reported: "Actually, I have already issued a summoning order, and the crew closest to us will be back in a few minutes, Mr. Lin, are you in a hurry?" ”

"Of course not, our trip to Mars is just an ordinary tour-" Lin Youde choked his head in the middle of his sentence. Because he remembered that he had to let the ship's teleporter send them down, should he explain to the captain that the destination of the tour was the desert? What the hell is going to play in that kind of place, can you only have a reason to "enjoy the 'field' in the Martian wasteland"?

The captain had already shown an expression of "I understand" at this time, and he thought that Lin Youde was going to Mars to carry out some secret mission this time. As someone who often runs from galaxy to galaxy and usually resides at the Big Horn space station, everyone on this spacecraft is familiar with Lin Youde's experience in the past year - of course, the version that has been changed through various deep processing to the point that his mother does not recognize.

So it's normal for the captain to have such thoughts.

"Being able to be part of your actions. It was a great pleasure for us to arrive, sir. "The captain has already started to say things like that.

At this time, the deck officer, who was also on duty on the bridge, reported in a loud voice: "The five crew members who just said that they could return immediately have boarded the ship, shall we continue to wait for the others or set sail directly, captain?" ”

"Set sail and tell the others we'll be back later. The people who were still on the boat immediately took their places. ”

**

Mars doesn't look like a planet that can live at all.

"It's amazing that humans actually used their bodies to colonize such a planet." Xia Yongzhi looked at the sparks on the display screen and sighed.

"yes, I'm surprised too, dock fifteen has an ancient spacesuit, and it's bulky and ugly. That's when humans wore that thing to Mars and colonized the surface of Mars. They wanted to modify the atmosphere of Mars to make it a little more pleasant, so they released a very primitive nanobot into the air, but the project ultimately failed, and the people of the Martian colony were left to live in huge vaulted cities. ”

"I know, I know!" Freya raised her hand like a schoolboy rushing to answer a question, "In the vaulted city, water and oxygen are provided by the environmental circulation, so the people who control the circulation system become the ruling class of Mars, until one day an earthling named Arnold came to Mars, he used to be an Earth agent. Memories were altered after the mission to ensure secrecy, but—"

"Freya, you're talking about a great science fiction writer named Philip? The plot of Dick's famous short story is judging by the mention of Arnold's name. You alien behaviorists of the Ilarai people may not have gotten the original novel, but instead watched the movie "Total Recall" adapted from the novel, which is not really happening on Mars, but it is true that there have been violent conflicts on Mars because of the problem of drinking water and oxygen supply, and the person who controls the circulatory system wants to be crowned the emperor of Mars. The so-called Voss Empire was established, but when he shut down the oxygen supply system in the neighborhood where the resistance was most fierce, the people of the other neighborhoods chanted the slogan 'Down with the tyrant', broke through the defenses of his minions, and threw him out of the central control building of the circulatory system. ”

"You know what?" Xia Yongzhi stared at Lin Youde, "I sometimes think, you can't be an ancient person who traveled from ancient times, right?" ”

Lin Youde responded with a smile: "It's not surprising, sometimes I suspect that I am the protagonist of an adventure novel, so that I can explain why I can get the upside down of the eldest lady with my flat appearance and empty pockets." ”

Xia Yongzhi also smiled.

Lily coughed: "**Give me a situation!" Don't estrus anytime and anywhere, it's just like two cats in estrus, it's very eye-catching! ”

Everyone else on the bridge laughed, and for a time the bridge was filled with a joyous atmosphere.

"Alright, let's get ready to go down, Mr. Captain, I have a coordinate here, please teleport us and the escort to this coordinate."

"Okay, please send me the coordinates. Well, I did receive it, but to teleport to this place, the ship has to adjust its orbit, and our teleporter is not strong enough to teleport too far. ”

At this time, Freya pointed to the screen and shouted, "What's that up ahead?" ”

Everyone turned their heads to look at the screen together.

Lin Youde was the first to answer: "That's Mount Olympus, the highest peak on Mars, and now we can see it because humans put the first orbital launch facility on Mars, because the mountain peak is very high, and it takes less energy to launch a spacecraft from above." ”

"Actually, what we're seeing is a solar array at the Olympus Space Center." The captain added.

"Strange," Lily muttered, "this thing was built after the colonization of Mars, right?" How are people on Mars going to get back into orbit before it's built? ”

"The answer is, if you go down, you won't come up. At that time, chemical fuel rockets were still used for space launches, and the newly established Martian colony had no way to return its inhabitants to space, and all the pioneers were ready to spend the rest of their lives on Mars, so many of the astronauts were lovers, and they were ready to take root when they fell to the ground. ”

Lily's look of amazement seemed to come from the heart.

"Our ancestors actually carried out space development under such circumstances."

"In fact, the first astronaut to fall to the surface of Mars only survived a few dozen hours on Mars because of a mechanical failure, and he left a famous saying-"

"What is the difference between dying of old age on a planet and salted fish." Xia Yongzhi grabbed the white road.

"The full version goes like this: don't condemn NASA, I came here knowing that this was a mission with no return, yes, I came to die of my own free will. What is the difference between dying of old age on the earth and salted fish? Please step on my corpse and move on, over. ”

In fact, Lin Youde's words are all addressed to Freya, and as long as human beings have something to do with the history of astronautics, they basically know this sentence.

"And," the captain abruptly continued, "it also gave rise to the tradition that every human spacecraft that first arrived on Mars would adjust its course to pass vertically above the place where the pioneer had landed. One of the purposes of our re-orbit flight is the same, and now we are about to pass through that position. ”

"Shoot straight to the frame." Detection system controllers report aloud - In fact, in modern times, humans do not need to use sound to transmit command information, most of the time, the bridge in the heat of battle is quiet, and all information is transmitted through digital electronic communication. But in general, human astronauts have retained the tradition of shouting out orders or reports.

The next moment, the image of the ground was projected on the main screen, and there was a huge tower-like building erected on the wasteland, which was called the "Star Landmark", which looked like a hand pointing to the sky, and it was that thing that inspired mankind to continue to flock to the universe, and it had become the epitome of that vigorous space movement.

And now, the space movement initiated by that pioneer continues, and humanity is forging ahead in space, expanding at a rapid pace, and the efficiency has reached the point where the other races in the galaxy are afraid of it.

"It's not an exaggeration to say that it was the starting point of the history of space development."

"Awesome." Freya said sincerely, "Just listening to your story, I think this history is awesome, I wonder if we Ilarai people have had such a time." ”

"There must be, in fact, every member of the Galactic Council must have such a pioneering and enterprising era, otherwise it would not be possible to finally join the Galactic Council."

Freya nodded thoughtfully, her expression not even like hers. (To be continued.) )