Chapter 721: Facing the Dilemma of Mars - Chapter 723: The Swarm

Mars, the second closest planet to the Earth, compared to the thick atmosphere of Venus, Mars has a large amount of displacement of the surface atmosphere by the solar wind due to the cooling of the Earth's core and the disappearance of the planet's magnetic field.

Because there were traces of life on the Martian meteorites that were obtained, Mars should have had a thick atmosphere in the past, but now it has become a desolate planet.

Compared with the earth's 1% atmospheric concentration, and because of the lack of magnetic field and atmospheric protection, it is directly attacked by the solar wind and cosmic rays, so it can be said that the difficulty of survival on Mars is absolutely hellish.

If there is still life on Mars today, there is a high probability that it will also appear underground. Compared to the superposition of negative buffs such as Martian dryness, radiation, storms, and a thin atmosphere, the deserts and seabed on Earth can be said to be a heavenly environment.

The difficulty of modifying is much simpler than that of Mars. However, if there are enough silver mines on Mars, it is logical to complete the mining and construction of the Pioneer Base.

And now, this egg sheath of the Zerg has also fallen on Mars............ In the dark and cold silence of space, Starship II has stopped the process of chemical acceleration, and at this time, the solar panels have also been turned on, relying on the Hall thrusters to occasionally adjust their direction and begin to slow down, and the volume has also shrunk a lot.

Because of the high-power propulsion of rocket engines used in space, and the smaller mass after discarding a few stages, the speed of Starship II at this time exceeded that of the huge Nakshatra-I!

Relying on the contact with the ground command room, it has also entered the deceleration process at this time. In the ground command room of SX Space Exploration, all staff members are monitoring various data in a highly concentrated manner.

Positioning in space is also quite cumbersome, especially when there is not enough satellite positioning in this position.

But fortunately, NASA also has a satellite on Mars, and it is now completely under control under multi-point control.

"Boss, our original design was to land and drill asteroids, and now with the gravitational pull of Mars, we have no problem getting the starship into the orbit of Mars, but it is almost impossible to complete the accurate bomb drop." The researchers, who were recording the various parameters of the starship and making predictions, also gave back some regrettable news.

Preparing to land on an asteroid at the beginning is completely different from landing on Mars now! ICBMs are the heavy weapons of various countries, and even without the positioning of satellites, they can physically complete the 'positioning' of a large range by relying on gyroscopes.

Because strategic nuclear weapons are used to strike, although the error will not be small, it is completely sufficient.

Many cruise missiles also use this type of physical guidance in the middle to reduce the likelihood of themselves being detected.

But the success of the gyroscope itself is because human beings have a good understanding of the parameters of the earth, and the ballistic missile can be regarded as knowing the corresponding physical parameters by using the principle of the gyroscope, and it can land in one direction.

After all, most of the targets of strategic bombing are cities that do not move, and it is enough to ensure that direction.

It is so difficult to achieve this level of accuracy on Earth, and it is undoubtedly even more difficult to control the various parameters of Mars at present.

What's more, when it was first launched, it was never expected that it would be the final choice to bomb Mars, and the equipment and design plans carried were not prepared for this aspect, which would lead to miserable accuracy.

The gravitational pull of Mars alone produces enough tearing and destruction. That is, fortunately, the ESA satellite captured the picture of the asteroid falling, which can be roughly determined to be the approximate area on Mars, and the comparison of the photos continuously transmitted back by several existing Martian satellites can roughly determine the direction.

Otherwise, it can really be said that it is looking for a needle in a haystack.

"If it's not accurate, you have to try, a million-ton nuclear bomb is also acceptable for error, but don't we also carry a detector? Will the probe be able to complete the landing on Mars? "Because it can be launched in space, Starship II has a lot of things reserved for carrying.

Unmanned detectors, nuclear bomb drills, and so on. And there are three probes alone, and there are even mobile mechanical feet that take into account the arrival of the asteroid, as well as the cushion air cushion when hitting the asteroid at high speed.

"Yes, but the situation on Mars was not taken into account at the beginning, although it was because of the large enough protection given the speed of the impact, it was not sure that it would be able to land safely, and the deviation of the landing location would be not small because of the gravitational influence of Mars." The researcher sighed, after all, it was not a specialized Mars exploration device.

"It doesn't matter if there is a deviation, you can just go down to sample and set a position, they all carry detectors, it should be about the same, as long as the number of detectors comes up, relying on Ambrera's data link sharing technology, it can also increase the accuracy of our subsequent bomb dropping." Masra didn't care about the probe's gains and losses, he just wanted to achieve his goal!

"Let's get in touch with each other and see what Ambrera is going to do......" But this time he still knew who the big brother was.

The others are not the size of Ambrera's ship combined. Although they seem to be faster in terms of speed, in fact, it is just that the quality of others is speeding up and slowing down.

And compared with their one-time chemical combustion, the more they burn, the smaller the mass is, and the other people's thrusters use plasma thrusters similar to Hall propulsion, and there are solar sails for assistance, which is completely different in terms of efficiency.

There is a clear generation difference in technology! To put it bluntly, my own family is still the rocket thinking of the past, and the people are the real star thinking!

It's not that he doesn't know the benefits of these structures, it's that Ambrera has long had a corresponding plan based on his own technology, and his own side has to adjust it temporarily.

It would be nice to be able to tinker with Starship II............

"For SX's suggestion, the company also agrees, this time the enemy is very troublesome, everyone who arrives in orbit first can be the first to try to drop bombs, don't wait for us." Ambrera made a public statement of response, and then made some arrangements.

The first few can drop the detector! In any case, let the probes land first, and then complete the signal sharing with each other, relying on Ambrera's satellite data connection technology, the connection between the probe and the spacecraft can be directly completed.

In this way, with the detector as the positioning, the next bomb can be more accurate.

"Our spacecraft has an atmospheric action vehicle, but because the atmosphere of Mars is too thin, the vehicle can't last too long by jetting, and you can arrange for a robot to log in and check after the attack is completed......" However, after Ambrera's response, some twists and turns that had occurred before due to information leakage also reappeared, and some self-funded White Left Virgins began to leave messages asking for their lives.

said that since the person who came was not an abyssal creature, it was completely possible to communicate first. This kind of spontaneous behavior of the Virgin opening her mouth really makes people feel a little funny...... Chapter 722

"Isn't it! Our Lady is a goddamn creature! ”

"It's all burning eyebrows, and you're still talking about whether to blow it up or not? This is going to be the first bomb failure, and the follow-up will be more and more troublesome, which can be regarded as our strongest weapon. ”

"But one thing to say, although I don't support Our Lady, I support that if you have the opportunity to talk about it, you can talk about it first, because if you show hostility directly, it will not be a problem."

"How? How do you gain trust? This is the law of the Dark Forest......"

"So blowing it up is the safest move."

"Ambrera hold on to her heart, we'll help you scold them......"

"......" When a few Marys rose up to appeal, fortunately, most of the people were still normal. Moreover, in Ambrera's style, he didn't care about these moral kidnappings, but just responded casually on the official website.

"Now we are going to build the second batch of detectors, and those who want to come and communicate can sign up now, and we can give you a ride, and you can try to influence them with love." As soon as these words came out, they really reduced the voices of those appeals by half.

What? Do we want to talk about it ourselves? Impossible, impossible! You must be going to talk about it, we are only responsible for appealing.

However, Ambrera's words made the eyes of many people on the old Morgan's side brighten.

"We seem to be able to make some arrangements."

"Yes, we can take a look at those test subjects possessed by spirits and implant chips in their bodies."

"But Ambrera will check."

"They didn't say anything about mechanical inspections, and it's humiliating to do that to people."

"What about humiliation?" Hearing this rhetorical question, I directly silenced them, yes, what about people humiliating you now?

Mechs have come knocking on the door before, and there is no way to do it.

"Anyway, we can try! If this Zerg is really as Lord Enzuo said, then it can be used completely! ”

"Let's see if they can survive the first wave of nuclear explosions......"

"In fact, we all know that as long as they dig into the ground, the first wave of nuclear explosions will not pose much threat to them, and now we are fighting an information gap." All kinds of nuclear fortifications are not decorations, and the direct killing range of nuclear bombs to underground targets is really quite limited, as the previous hydrogen bomb with a yield of 500,000 tons in New York fully illustrated this point.

If you hide in the subway station fifty meters underground, the closest distance is a survivor who is 500 meters away from the heart of the explosion.

Now, in fact, the main thing is that those bugs don't know the power of nuclear bombs, and I don't know if they will dig so deep after they land!

"It's a pity that I don't have a contact right now, otherwise it would be nice to remind them."

"yes, a reminder is enough to show our kindness!"

"It's not impossible, we still have a little influence on the NASA probe, if one can land nearby, maybe we can try!" NASA's detectors themselves are set up for 'dialogue' and 'communication', and they have LED screens, and although they can't display any complex color images, they seem to have no problem showing pixel images of explosions and digging into the ground!

"You can try it, and remember to display our monogram when the time comes, so that they can remember ......" ......

"Boss, are you going to stop them?" Although the organization will guard against artificial intelligence, they took the initiative to communicate with Enzuo in this regard, and naturally the news was still known to Lin Shiqin.

"No, let them go." The Zerg was originally a thing full of survival talents, and if they were not reminded, they would dig into the ground, and Wang Yi never thought that a wave could solve the problem.

It doesn't make much difference whether they get on this gadget or not, and it's better for them to be used as stepping stones......

"The probe is starting to launch."

"Let's prepare for ours, and the transplanetary orbital bombing without satellite guidance will be regarded as a drill......"

"Understand~"...... Mars is directly affected by cosmic radiation, because the atmosphere is thin, the planet is also prone to all kinds of 'dust storms', and although the density of the Martian atmosphere is less than one percent of the Earth, sandstorms can complete the global coverage.

Even some previous Mars rovers needed to take a dormant approach to survive the dim sandstorm.

As the hull led by Starship II arrives in the orbit of Mars, looking down at the planet below, the ultra-high-definition camera produced by Ambrera has also captured pictures of egg sheaths inserted upside down on the surface.

Photographs taken by satellites in Martian orbit are much clearer than those taken by previous satellites in Martian orbit. The long asteroid was like a sharp blade stuck in the land of Mars.

And the point is that it hasn't been long since it landed, but some dark purple substance has spread outward in the upside-down position.

As the lens continues to zoom in and closer, coupled with the clarity of artificial intelligence, it looks like a bacterial blanket formed by slime mycelium.

Some eggs just appeared on those mushroom blankets!

"So fast?"

"Isn't it, it's all eggs? Are there any hatches? ”

"Obediently, let's blow it up quickly, it looks so evil."

"......" With the release of the pictures, most of the voices that were originally shouting to give them a chance not to bomb right away have disappeared.

Why didn't it sound like this in the first place? Because there are examples of the New York invasion here, if it is a creature from the abyss, no matter how much it is iron, it will not make a noise for 'peace', and a very small number of individuals will not affect anything.

Later, someone leaked the news to let them know that this didn't seem to be a visitor from the abyss.

But now this thing's expansion speed, and its evil appearance, are enough for normal people to understand that this is not easy to match!

We give them a chance...... It depends on whether they will give us a chance! At this time, SX also released some footage of their probes.

Because of Ambrera's communication technology and camera technology innovation, Starship II itself is still very smooth in communication and shooting.

From the perspective below the starship that entered the orbit of Mars, the three probes were directly ejected.

This red planet, which is completely different from the earth, can faintly see the sandstorm in the distance in space, full of chaos and ominousness.

Coupled with the fact that the Zerg can barely be seen in orbit. These three dropped probes inexplicably have a sense of tragedy.

The other three permanent spacecraft, which had also arrived in orbit, also dropped the probe synchronously, but none of them did the corresponding live broadcast.

"We have a total of fourteen probes, all of which have landing buffers, and now we are really left to fate, because it was not originally designed for Mars, and the interference we can make to the probes under the gravitational capture of Mars is quite limited, and the main thrusters are used to slow ......down," Masla said in a tweet on social media himself, before saying in a heavy tone

"Less than a third ......of the detectors are expected to be able to work successfully," he said later

"But they have a role, even those detectors that may crash, as long as the signal module is not wrong, it can complete the positioning on the surface, providing more accurate parameters for our next bombs, I personally feel that we can't wait any longer, the speed of these things is a bit beyond expectations, and they must be solved at the source......" Chapter 723 In the desolate Martian basin of the insect swarm, the viscous fungus blanket continues to spread outward like slime molds, and the stones passing by during the climbing of the fungus blanket are also directly wrapped, Then slowly 'level' the stone down.

In addition to the spread of the surface, these blankets are also seeping into the ground. It spreads like water down the cracks in the ground.

The land of Mars, which had been baked by the solar wind for many years due to the loss of its magnetic field, was already riddled with holes, and there were traces everywhere that were enough for these fungus blankets to spread.

And the source of these fungus blankets is the egg sheath of the asteroid that is inserted upside down on the ground. It seems that the egg sheath itself carries a lot of nutrients and resources to complete the first wave of hatching.

And on top of these fungus blankets, there are dense eggs of various insects that contract like a beating heart.

You can faintly see the shadow inside through the sunlight. Whether it is the eggs or the fungus blanket on the ground, the color tends to be dark purple, and it seems that even the sun will be scraped off a layer when it passes by.

Obviously exposed to direct irradiation, there is no slightest increase in temperature, and it still looks cold and damp.

Although due to the thinness of the atmosphere, the thermal insulation ability of Mars is extremely poor, and the temperature is generally tens of degrees below zero or even hundreds of degrees, but the temperature can still reach 20 under the direct irradiation of the sun.

But now there is only a cold feeling on this fungus carpet. Crack~ A huge egg bursts, revealing a fleshy giant worm that is completely tightly connected to the earth.

The bottom of the insect seems to have been embedded in the earth, and there is a lot of slime left behind by the bursting of the eggs on the surface.

However, the mucus is also rapidly absorbed by its surface, and the excess is also absorbed by the fungus blanket underneath.

And above this giant insect are dense compound eyes, constantly flickering. Then they all looked at the sky, as if they were locking on something.

Bang ~ Bang ~ Another continuous burst of insect eggs, and strange insects that can only move appear.

Each one has eight pairs of gastropods, but its head has huge pincers and its body is covered in armor-like cuticles.

As soon as they came out, these insects instinctively broke through the slime molds on the surface of the ground, burrowed into the ground, and soon disappeared.

The hole they burrowed into was also re-covered with a blanket of fungus, and only a slight tremor of digging was occasionally felt.

All genes are full of survival, and for all kinds of minerals can be directly covered and decomposed, then how to keep themselves as safe as possible must also be engraved into the instinct of genes.

There is no need for reminders at all, and there is no need for any prejudgment. Naturally, they began to burrow into the interior of the planet!

Going down the hole that the insects had drilled out, you can find a complex underground terrain that has been covered by a fungus blanket all along.

Obviously, it hasn't been long since it landed, but there are already passages extending in all directions underground! You can also see a lot of bugs 'mining' through a few channels with obvious vibrations.

Some iron ore is ground directly with a mouthpiece and sprinkled on the fungus blanket on the ground, and then the crumbs seem to slowly dissolve in the viscous slime and travel down the pipes on the fungus blanket!

There are no mechanics, all pure biological evolution points, but all kinds of points are taken to the extreme. There are also different resource divisions on Mars, but they can adjust and arrange themselves to form different carapaces and produce different species according to the specific situation of the resources at the landing site and the different elemental divisions!

This is a biological group that has taken the adaptation point to the extreme! And then continue to spread downward, you can see this passage in all directions, and the number of insects mined is already quite a lot.

Eventually, in a relatively large room, a female worm appeared under the arch of the surrounding bugs.

The female worms continue to lay eggs, and the eggs are also carried by nearby workers and transported to various places, some need to go to the surface to absorb sunlight, and some are placed directly around the iron mine.

And beside this mother worm, there is another figure that is incompatible with the Zerg painting style. A four-legged two-handed creature with horns on its head and a dense mouth with tiny teeth.

"Brain worm, aren't you coming out yet? This time the goal does not seem to be simple, and we have already been discovered. The horned creature spoke in the abyssal language, but it didn't get much response.

He himself constantly looked around alertly, looking very vigilant, as if he was guarding against something. He'd done the thing that drove the Abyss Zerg before.

This group was quite easy to control before the brain worm was born, and it would only develop with a dull head, which was easy to use.

But after being stimulated and having a stress response to give birth to brain worms, this will be a species that will take its cunning to the extreme, and its danger and destructiveness will be greatly enhanced.

So the best thing to do is to manipulate the brain worm when it is just born. Bugs without intelligence don't have fear of death, but brainworms do.

But this time, when he was actively stimulated to let the brain worm be born, it suddenly caused the deviation of the egg sheath and fell to this planet where birds don't.

In order to ensure his survival in the event of the fall, he had to give up the search for the brain worm to protect himself. But when he landed, he found that the brain worm was gone.

Only the mother worm is still reproducing step by step...... He knows that now that he has become the target of a brain worm, he will not hesitate to tear or even parasitize himself as long as he has the opportunity.

So it's important to find each other before the swarm is formed!

"Brain worm, your goal is to ensure the reproduction of this group, but if the mother worm dies, what is the purpose of your existence?" The horned creature continued to speak in the abyssal language as it pressed its claws against the fat mother worm next to it.

However, the mother does not seem to feel threatened at all, and is still laying eggs normally, and her fat body is constantly writhing, taking in the necessary elements and nutrients from the fungus blanket.

"How about we talk about a deal? I don't have any ill intentions, I just mean that my master wants to enslave this civilization, and when the time comes, connect to the abyss, open the gates, and you will continue to multiply here, and we just need to get the soul we want......" The claws of the horned creature spread, and a dark red spell model appeared in front of it, and began to make a ziz sound.

But after this spell model appeared, it was flickering and bright, constantly shaking. The appearance of Naziz~ sound has a feeling of poor contact, as if it may dissipate at any time.

This made the horned creature sink in his own heart. Oops, the magic here is so lazy...... Originally, he just wanted to threaten, but he didn't expect the environment here to be so bad.

Almost as soon as a bad thought came to his mind, many insect shadows had already appeared in the passages around the underground hall and began to probe his brain.

Obviously, the action he wanted to threaten before not only did not achieve the effect, but made the brain worm keenly aware of his weakness.

One by one, giant soldiers and insects came out of the passage, approaching, and kept letting out some tentative roars.

"What are you doing! Aren't you afraid that I'll kill the mother worm?! The horned creature took a step back, and then stabbed the mother with its claws directly into the body to signal threat.

Sharp claws pierce into the body of the obese mother, and a large amount of yellow-green mucus bursts. However, at this moment, he suddenly turned his head to look at his wrist.

I saw that the bursting mucus seemed to have wisdom, and it quickly spread upwards along his wrists.

As soon as he was startled, he began to pull hard. But at this time, his hand seemed to be glued to 502, and the slime became extremely thick and tough.

"Damn it!" But before he could react, the female worm's back suddenly cracked, and three sharp tentacles fell from the sky and pierced his skull with lightning speed.

Before he could react, he hung his body and lifted it up. The horned creature that had been pierced through its head by tentacles also lost all resistance at this time, and its scarlet eyes kept rolling upwards and was carried to the wound on the mother's back.

At this time, a petite spider-like insect crawled out of the wound of the mother, which was the brain worm that the horned creatures had been looking for.

"Those who use the swarm will eventually be devoured by the swarm." It was not a brain worm that opened its mouth, but a horned creature whose head had been pierced by tentacles, and at this time, it was constantly devoured and absorbed by the tentacles, and soon the corpse was hung on the top of the cave as if it had become air-dried bacon......————