Chapter 141: The Lonely Ship of Doom
Ten years ago, a European private company announced that it would carry out a Mars migration program and recruit volunteers around the world, but in the end, it failed, for the simple reason that immigrating to Mars with the current earth technology is tantamount to the impracticality and impossibility of fishing for the moon in water. Even so, thousands of volunteers signed up.
Later, one of Midi's e-commerce companies also launched a private Mars immigration program, and the result was the same as the last time in Europe, being scolded as a liar and ending up without a problem.
This time, it is good that someone came out and said that they would send humans to Mars, and this private space company that has just been registered not long ago is actually a poor country in North Africa with constant wars, which is incredible.
Ares Aerospace, abbreviated as MARS, CEO Alex. The company's official website has been established to vigorously promote the manned landing on Mars and the Mars migration plan, and recruit volunteers, engineering and technical personnel and related staff from all over the world.
Four months later, the Ares Space Company's Earth Base, which is actually a deserted place in the Sahara Desert in country L, set up a tall spacecraft launcher. Next to it are some low-rise buildings, as well as piles of steel, non-ferrous metals, cement, masonry and other materials, piled up everywhere.
But such a huge launch rack is empty, and there are no rockets! Of course, it is conceivable, where is such a grass company going to get rockets? As for building such a large launcher, it was a complete gimmick.
A large group of people in the base stood in front of a square platform, and below this one-meter-high platform was a square pit dug by hand to a depth of 30 meters. Now this huge square pit is tightly covered by this huge steel flat platform. The platform was covered with another layer of huge canvas.
There are four watchtowers in the base, with sentries on the towers, and more than a hundred mercenaries on the periphery of the base, all armed with AK47s and RPGs.
There is a three-meter-high platform in front of the quadripartite platform, and Stephen is standing on the platform with a megaphone in his hand.
This is a deserted place in the Sahara Desert in North Africa, but hundreds of kilometers above it, a spy satellite is taking pictures of it.
Stephen cleared his throat and said, "Everyone, be quiet, I'm going to announce an important plan today, you should all be here, right?" ”
There was a commotion in the crowd below. Stephen took the megaphone away and asked in a low voice, "Can you start Big Boss?" ”
"Let's get started," Summer's deep voice rang in his ears.
"Listen," Stephen said loudly into the megaphone, "today is a special day, and we share a common dream, which is to conquer the universe. Our plan is ridiculous and deceitful in the eyes of outsiders, with so much skepticism, so much uncut, so much ridicule. But we all survived. Although our aerospace company has only been established for less than half a year, I want to tell you today that we will start the great space journey ahead of schedule! ”
The crowd erupted again, and they simply didn't care if their boss, Alex, was joking with them.
"What's wrong? Don't you believe me Alex just as much as the people out there? Stephen asked aloud, "Among you guys, there are those who followed the boss at first, the families of the brothers who sacrificed their lives, and the newly recruited volunteers. Before the space voyage is about to begin, I want to tell you one thing, because this space flight may never return, so if anyone is afraid to go, stand up now, and you will immediately push behind the guards over there, and there will be a car there to take you to the city. Then you will leave us once and for all! How, anyone? ”
As the commotion continued, a young man asked aloud, "Alex, we're not afraid to take risks with you, but you told me, that big guy, can it take us off the earth?" ”
"Hahaha......" A laugh came.
Stephen smiled and pointed at the young man, and then said, "You don't care if you can or not, you can say whether you dare to go or not." Don't rush to answer me, give you five minutes to think about it, mind you, it's only five minutes. After five minutes, everyone present had to follow me, and by that time, there would be no regrets! ”
The crowd continued to stir and talk. There were at least 1,000 of them in this group.
Stephen looked at everyone quietly, and the voice of summer came from the headset again: "You have to hurry." There's a United Nations force coming towards you, arriving in about twenty minutes. ”
“OK。” Stephen replied, looking at his watch, and at the end of the five minutes, no one in the crowd walked away. Stephen said, "Okay, it looks like everyone wants to be with me?" Well, get ready to scream! ”
Stephen turned around and faced the huge canvas-covered platform, pressed the next button on his watch, only to hear a loud rumbling sound beneath the platform. The platform also began to rise.
With a loud bang, a swarthy behemoth lifted the canvas, and the big creature gradually rose. In just a few moments, a huge butterfly-shaped alien spaceship appeared in front of everyone, levitating above what was originally a platform. Everyone was stunned and looked at the behemoth in front of them in amazement.
The "Buzz ......" Doomsday Lonely Ship let out a piercing screech, radiating a blue light, and four gangways protruded from the bottom.
"Hurry up and get on the boat, you only have five minutes, there is a United Nations force that will be here in ten minutes, if you don't leave, we won't be able to leave!"
Most of the people were too frightened to go up, until a few young men screamed and ran to the gangway.
"That's right, it's still young and bold, everyone, hurry up, we're going to leave the earth!" Stephen said, "You have to hurry up and get on the boat, and when you're done, the sentries will go up too, and I ask that no one be left behind." After everyone is on board, there are still a lot of materials that will be carried on board. So you're all hurrying up! ”
The lonely ship of Doom was the size of two or three football fields, much bigger than the Doomsday Airship. I don't know how Stephen managed to get such a big guy, or rather, with the help of Summer, how he did it.
Now that it's all come to this, everyone is also bustling and noisy and starting to get on the boat. Everyone boarded the ship, and the rest were the mercenaries, all of whom boarded the ship.
At this time, a huge sandstorm blew up inexplicably, completely isolating the entire base from the UN troops that were about to arrive.