With a reply from the Martian side, came.

Everyone in the BNULM command center couldn't help but fall silent.

Sacrificing one's life for righteousness has never been a flirtatious word.

People who give up their lives and choose to adhere to great virtue and righteousness are dignified in their hearts, shining in thought, bright and upright in action, and glorious in their reputation.

For the choice of the four astronauts, everyone in the BNULM command center tacitly stood up and paid their respects in their own way.

Or salute, or gaze, or pray.

Until a long time has passed.

From the Martian side, there is a message that everything is ready.

[All members of the manned vehicle are ready, please ask the BNUMM command center for instructions.] 】

Zhang Shouquan pondered for a moment.

Looking at the serious colleagues and scholars around me, I felt a heavy pressure.

But......

There are always things that have to be done.

He looked at the time of 21:04 and began to give orders:

"Attention to Mars, at 21:30 will try to open the Starry Sky Ancient Road on time, please reply immediately after receiving this message."

"Sun Hongcheng, you just stay next to the Starry Sky Ancient Road and be prepared to improvise."

"Manned vehicles should also be adaptable, be prepared to deal with any situation, and make timely contact with the earth when the situation is stable."

All said and done.

Zhang Shouquan waited anxiously for a few minutes, until the [received] from Mars came into view, and then he let out a heavy breath.

He turned to look at Du Xing, who was waiting for an order with a serious face, and said, "Professor Du Xing, now that the ban on your starry sky gaze is lifted, you will no longer be confined to this command center where you can't see the sky." ”

Because considering Du Xing's special abilities, there may be some impact.

So except for the experiment of looking up at the starry sky with Du Xing's cooperation, most of the time he was locked up here and strictly forbidden to go out.

This is a necessary caution.

It was also thanks to this caution that they deduced that the shock waves that might occur when the Starry Sky Ancient Road was opened did not appear frequently.

And now.

Du Xing needed to raise his head again.

"The order of imprisonment is reasonable, and I have always understood it."

Du Xing nodded and said.

But......

It's a lot of pressure to look up this time.

He loved to look up at the stars, and he had been since he was a child.

He still remembered what the strange man had said to himself on the rooftop:

Everyone is a child of Xinghai.

Curiosity and yearning for the starry sky are reasonable.

Only this time, the action of looking up at the starry sky may be burdened with four lives.

After realizing this.

He felt his shoulders feel a little heavier.

"Then it's troublesome, at half-past nine, do what you have to do."

Zhang Shouquan said, turned his head and motioned to the soldiers beside him to leave with Du Xing.

Soon.

The BNULM command center fell silent again.

Everyone is waiting.

Wait for the passage of time.

Wait for 21:30 to arrive.

The many scholars and soldiers present have never had such a tormenting moment.

The second hand seems to be unusually slow, and every second seems to be struggling in a quagmire, unable to move.

Time seems to have been stretched countless times over.

They don't know what's going to happen next.

All that can be done is to wait.

Until 21:30 finally came.

Change is coming.

The instruments that had been in a monitoring state suddenly began to change their data.

The apparent magnitude of Mars changed instantly.

Ignoring the speed of light propagation, the entire Mars became lit up in the eyes of the earthlings at 21:30.

A few minutes later.

The manned vehicle has lost contact with [Heart Ape Concussion Mecha Change]. Even if there was no conversation, the connection that was silently transmitting the health data of its own device was suddenly interrupted.

The four small orbital probes released by manned vehicles in Mars orbit no longer have any information and data response.

This moment.

The people in the BNULM command center, as they had been half a month ago, suddenly lost any vision of Mars.

The situation there has become a blur.

Apparently.

Just like half a month ago, just as Hansen guessed.

Du Xing's gaze.

Let the ancient path of the starry sky have undergone some kind of change, this change that may trigger a high-energy impact, so that the Martian side has lost contact with them.

There is a high probability that some kind of change has already occurred.

Then next.

It's about praying and waiting.

Pray that the astronauts are safe and sound and wait for the arrival of good news.

Long.

Information has finally arrived from the manned vehicle side.

Broken contact is restored.

[BNULM Command Center, note that this is a manned vehicle.] 】

[Astronauts Chiya Wiebener, Dieter Rong, and Giovanni Gabrieli suffered no casualties, and the outer wall of the manned vehicle was damaged by 30 percent, and no key parts were injured. 】

Such a reply suddenly rang out.

Everyone immediately looked at it excitedly.

According to reports on manned vehicles.

At 21:30, a high-energy shock came from the direction of the Starry Sky Ancient Road.

This force lasted for a minute, and the destructive power on the surface was almost non-existent, but it had a lot of effects on their mechanical equipment.

If it is not based on the latest alloy materials developed by meteorite materials as the main protective measures, supplemented by the [Wuneng Position] provided by Huaguo for defense.

What will happen to them after this high-energy impact will not be any different from those orbital probes that have melted down most of them.

Fortunately, there is a technology that has advanced by leaps and bounds, so that the manned vehicle and the three astronauts on it are basically safe and sound.

But even so.

The outer wall material was also seriously damaged, and it can only be said that it does not endanger the safety of the entire manned vehicle for the time being.

It takes several astronauts to get out of the capsule in time for repair operations in order to ensure that the manned vehicle is foolproof in a real sense.

The hearts of the people in the BNULM command center suddenly relaxed.

However, why hasn't Sun Hongcheng been contacted yet?

The next moment, the manned vehicle also replied again:

[Comrade Sun Hongcheng lost contact]

[The specific information about the opening of the Starry Sky Ancient Road is still unclear. 】

This message is concise and to the point, but it makes everyone's breath stagnate.

Even the manned aircraft have eased up, but Sun Hongcheng, who is piloting the more defensive [Heart Ape Concussion Mecha Change], still hasn't been contacted.

This shows that there is a high probability that something is going on.

It may have been there as the starting point for a high-energy shock wave, so powerful that it far exceeded the damage suffered by manned vehicles.

So much so that the [Heart Ape Concussion Mecha Change] piloted by Sun Hongcheng probably didn't hold up.

It could also be ......

After the so-called Starry Sky Ancient Road was opened, Sun Hongcheng was sent to the destination on the Taiji Map?

Moaning.

Zhang Shouquan gave instructions to the manned aircraft:

"Dieter Yung and Giovanni Gabrielly, the two of you stayed near the manned vehicle to repair the damage and begin the material collection and analysis that should have been carried out in the Mars landing program."

"Kiya Wiebena, you drive a rover to the Ancient Starry Sky Road to investigate the situation."

【Roger!】 】

……………………………………

Time is hard.

It's not just people in the BNULM command center who think so.

At this moment, Sun Hongcheng, who is located in the ruins of the Starry Sky Ancient Road, also thinks so.

Stay where it could be the starting point of a high-energy shockwave.

Even if he knew that the defense of the mecha surpassed that of the manned vehicle, he did not dare to easily be sure that he would be alive after 21:30.

Such a wait.

It's almost not much different from waiting to die.

He is not afraid of death.

But that doesn't mean he wants to die.

Therefore, although his psychological quality is quite excellent, he is still a practitioner of the spiritual cultivation method.

But there is still some suffering.

After all, if you can.

He still hopes that he can return to Earth safely and intact, and reunite with his wife and children, who only know that he is on a secret mission.

Whenever the time on the counter passed a little, he felt a pressure on his shoulders.

Until this moment at 21:29.

He felt his muscles begin to tense, and even his toes curled up subconsciously.

The thoughts of family in my mind are temporarily abandoned.

There is only a determined look left,

Waiting for 29 to become 30.

21:29:57……

21:29:58……

21:29:59……

The next moment.

Everything around us started to change on time.

The power of terror is spreading.

The screen inside the mecha began to frantically display the soaring energy index around it.

And Sun Hongcheng, who is a cultivator of the Spiritual Cultivation Method, can be perceived by its amplification when he pilots the [Heart Ape Concussion Mecha Change].

So in addition to feeling that something is wrong through data, Sun Hongcheng can also use his spiritual power to experience everything that changes around him.

On the huge stone pillar with the word "road" inscribed.

Wisps of energy began to converge, and began to condense in the structure composed of giant stone pillars.

It's a long process, but it's really just a moment's work.

The next second.

The energy that has been condensed to a certain extent spreads out to the surrounding area.

This moment.

Sun Hongcheng felt the pain of pins and needles.

The powerful energy tore through the spiritual power he had exerted and spread all the way to the surroundings.

This made him feel that the next moment he was mentally beaten, he was physically beaten.

The terrifying high-energy shockwave swept in, slamming into the [Heart Ape Concussion Mecha Change].

The structure of its exterior armor is slightly twisted.

It wasn't until the [Wu Neng Position] opened up on its own that the situation eased somewhat.

[Wu Neng Position] is the power researched by the Day-seeking Bureau based on the wild boar demon in the wooden box, which can release a protective ability that can be said to be universal since the current test, and can achieve a certain degree of protection against any known damage.

I don't know how it works.

But just using it is good enough.

And after standing firm in this shock wave for half a minute, Sun Hongcheng forced himself to recover from the pain of being torn apart.

Then he controlled the mecha and walked towards the Boulder Pillar Circle.

He's going to take a look now.

In addition to releasing a high-energy shock wave, what kind of changes have taken place under Du Xing's gaze.

With the defense of [Wu Neng Position], and the fact that this shock wave is not too strong, Sun Hongcheng's forward process is not difficult.

In addition, when Sun Hongcheng was waiting for 21:30 to arrive, the distance from the giant stone pillar circle was not far.

So this is not a long distance.

Soon it was crossed.

After crossing the courtyard wall composed of huge stone pillars and entering the interior, the continuous high-energy shock wave was instantly reduced a lot.

It's as if you've crossed some kind of boundary.

made Sun Hongcheng finally breathe a sigh of relief.

If you have been withstanding such a high-energy shock wave, the energy is not enough for how long the full power of the large energy-consuming [Wuneng Position] will last.

That's just right now.

However, Sun Hongcheng did not immediately reduce the power of the extremely energy-consuming [Wu Neng Position], but instead increased his vigilance and looked at everything around him.

Because he noticed that in the open space surrounded by huge stone pillars, there was indeed a change in the map-like Taiji diagram on the ground.

There is no yin and yang fisheye Taiji diagram.

At this moment, I have an "eye".

Although only the half of the Taiji diagram representing the "other world" has "eyes".

But there is still something that has changed.

has the Taiji diagram of yin and yang fish eyes, as if he has a soul in Sun Hongcheng's perception.

It seems that there is some kind of inexplicable force circulating in it.

And even with the naked eye, there is really some kind of brilliance that is constantly circulating and flickering on the half of the Taiji diagram that represents the other world.

"Looking at the current situation, is the passage from the Starry Sky Ancient Road to another world opened?"

Sun Hongcheng narrowed his eyes and analyzed.

He wanted to transmit everything that was happening back to Earth, but the high-energy shock wave that was still going on outside the stone pillar made it impossible for him to do so.

All electromagnetic communication is useless at this moment.

Ponder for a moment.

Sun Hongcheng chose not to approach the "eye" for the time being.

Although the instructions given by the BNULM command center are improvised.

But all is on the safe side.

If he got closer to investigate at this moment, he felt that he was probably going to have an accident.

Either it could be torn apart by the energy of the riot, or it could just be teleported away.

Anyway, the oxygen reserve of [Heart Ape Concussion Mecha Change] can last for a long time, and he can wait for the high-energy shockwave to disappear completely inside this boulder pillar where the high-energy shockwave is not strong.

When the time comes, you can contact Earth and tell us all the information here.

Then think about whether to let Du Xing look at Mars again, or some other command.

Sun Hongcheng thought so safely.

It's just that things don't seem to be going as planned.

A voice suddenly sounded, it was a voice that I had never heard but could understand inexplicably.

[Creature detected, ready to teleport!] 】

【Detecting the function of the Starry Sky Ancient Road......】

[System-system&*#错误]

[The material cosmic star map cannot be teleported due to unknown circumstances, and is being teleported to its destination: Exotic Qin]

The next moment.

I saw that the "eye" that suddenly appeared in the Taiji diagram without yin and yang fish eyes on the ground was radiant and spread to the surroundings in the next moment.

Sun Hongcheng didn't have time to react.

was swept away by Guanghua.

The wonderful feeling made Sun Hongcheng's whole spirit shut down for a few seconds.

When he came back to his senses again.

In front of you, there are no longer barren Mars and empty starry sky ruins.

Surrounded by a circle of familiar stone pillars.

It's just that it's already covered with moss, full of traces of the passage of time.

Although the map under his feet has not been broken by the years, it has been blurred by countless mottled objects, and it can only be barely seen that it depicts the solar system.

As far as the eye can see, dense and ancient forests envelop everything in sight.

There seems to be a flying dragon in the sky, and it is not real.

There was a roar in my ears that didn't look like that of the creatures of the earth.

Obviously, this is another world.

He was in the middle of the ruins of an ancient road that looked like it had been abandoned for a long time.

And this Starry Sky Ancient Road site is located in a primeval forest in another world.

(End of chapter)