After finishing speaking, Liang Youcheng looked at Lu Zhou and asked him if he had anything to add.
"Mechanically driven?" Lu Zhou hesitated for a moment, then said with a smile, "How is this possible?"
Professor Vernal untied the connection of the cabin's life support system, stood up from the cushioned seat, and staggered out of the cabin. Looking at the vast desert where he saw it, his eyes were filled with indescribable shock.
"Has there ever been civilization here?" Lomonov quickly stepped over the hatch that fell to the ground. He squinted his eyes and looked past the heavy dust to the faint sliver of light above the skyline. There was a light the size of a disc, and then he glanced at the gamma counter on the wrist-mounted computer, "...even if it's Chernobyl, it won't be worse than the situation here."
Watching the alloy door close, Lu Zhou pulled up a chair and sat down as if he were at home. Then he motioned to Fan Tong to find a place to sit, and then he got straight to the point.
When he heard the number 128, Fan Tong's expression suddenly became solemn, he nodded and said.
Hearing this murmur, Lu Zhou smiled and said casually.
"I have been studying this matter for the past month."
"How did you do it?"
The strong wind carried yellow sand from outside the cabin, blowing on everyone.
Although he came to the Jinling Space Launch Center from Moscow with the purpose of studying, and he was already prepared to be shown off, he still did not expect that the gap would be so far.
"God... it felt like I was in Egypt."
Because the landing site itself was near the base, they didn't have to drive for a long time. When they approached the base, they happened to see three hemispherical domes slowly rising from the sky, supported by blue tail flames. It fell down and was slowly deployed in the circled open space next to the scientific research base.
"What do you want to know?"
The name Lu Zhou was somewhat familiar. If he remembered correctly, he should be a researcher of the "128 Anomaly Point Project". Strictly speaking, he was under his own research group.
Fan Tong immediately stood up straight with his head raised and chest raised, and nodded.
They say they are packing things, but in fact there is nothing worth packing. Each person's personal belongings are only a 26-inch aerospace-specific suitcase, which is embedded behind the shell of the landing module.
"It's me, don't be so nervous. What's your name?"
"... I worked there for three years. From the Nile River to the Sahara Desert, our archaeological team's footprints crossed the entire country... However, even so, I have never seen such a spectacular scenery."
Looking at the excited and nervous astronaut, Lu Zhou shook hands with him and said with a smile.
"Besides, I've heard about your mission. If you need any help, just tell me."
"Welcome to the Mars scientific research base. I, Liang Youcheng, am the captain of the scientific research team stationed here. I hope that you can get used to the life here in the next month or even two months. I will take you to your respective places in a while. In the room, dinner time is 18 o'clock sharp, whichever is the time in Beijing. Before that, you can move around freely, or you can follow me to visit the inside of the base."
The car door opened outwards, and an astronaut who was neither tall nor short and agile jumped out of the car and walked quickly in front of Lu Zhou. His voice was so excited that he was a little incoherent.
"Tell me briefly about the situation here."
"Egypt?"
As the alloy door fell heavily, it finally cut off the line of sight that everyone had been reluctant to move away from for a long time, and at the same time cut off the noisy yellow sand outside the car and boat.
"yes!"
From space launch technology to outer planet landing, in all the processes he has experienced, he can't find even one place where the Russian space group is relatively leading.
His knees touched the ground. Professor Vernal, who was kneeling on the ground, picked up a handful of sand from the ground and held it in his hand. He felt the touch from the alien planet through the graphene fiber. His face was full of excitement and shock. expression.
Nothing special but ok.
"As you can see, it's nothing special."
Drop the colony capsule weighing dozens of tons directly from the outer space orbit, use the active jet device to complete the deceleration, and even adjust the landing area slightly to accurately land in the circled area...
At this time, the alloy door on the side moved sideways and opened. Captain Liang Youcheng, the top officer of the scientific research base, walked to the front of the group and said with a smile to everyone.
"From an astronomical point of view, it is still possible," Professor Aubrey said meaningfully, squinting his eyes. "Compared to the age of the universe, our civilization is only a brief moment."
With a violent tremor, the thick alloy hatch opened loudly.
Lu Zhou felt that after this expedition, he would probably have a more say than anyone except the Orbital Airborne Brigade.
"... That's the basic situation. You can have free time before dinner, or follow Captain Liang to visit the facilities here. I have nothing to add." After nodding towards Captain Liang and handing over the arrangements for these people to him, Lu Zhou continued to look at Fan Tong who was standing next to him, "Dr. Fan, come with me."
Thinking of this, Lomonov couldn't help but feel a little sad.
"Everything about Project 128."
"According to academic opinion, maybe three billion years ago, maybe four billion years ago, before the core of Mars cooled down, there used to be an atmosphere thicker than that of the Earth, and there were freshwater lakes distributed on the surface of the planet. The oceans and oceans theoretically have the conditions for the birth of life. On the contrary, the earth at that time was a purgatory on earth, probably like Venus today."
"Let's talk about this later when we get back. You go drive first. I have something to ask you later."
"I also think it's impossible, but there seems to be no better explanation." Fan Tong's face showed a headache. "Theoretically speaking, in two to three billion years, no matter how great the project is, it will Lost in the long river of time. However, apart from human factors, I really can’t think of any possibility that could cause such strange changes in those tunnels.”
Lu Zhou: "Something suspicious?"
When the landing capsule fell into the sea of sand, Lu Zhou felt so intimately for the first time that life was so beautiful.
"Fan Tong!" the astronaut continued happily, "Can I ask you for an autograph?"
Standing at attention and saluting, Fan Tong quickly climbed back into the car.
"Yes."
Fan Tong nodded and continued with a solemn expression.
"There is no indication that regional earthquakes caused such strange and frequent changes in its underground structure. In contrast, it is more like some kind of mechanically driven transport."
Passing by the functional colony module that had just been deployed, the Mars rover slowly drove into the garage of the scientific research base.
After turning on the positioning device and setting the coordinates, Lu Zhou, the last one to step out of the landing module, looked up at the approaching Mars rover in the distance, interrupting the chat in the public channel.
Cleaning fluid was sprayed out from the buffer room, covering every corner of the rover. Then a group of people got off the vehicle and were washed in turns with cleaning fluid and pure water.
"yes!"
Fan Tong
Seeing this scene, several international friends sitting in the Mars rover showed surprised expressions on their faces. Especially Lomonov, an aerospace engineer from Russia, stared straight out of the car window with his eyes fixed, and he was stunned there.
"Let's not discuss academic issues for now. Let's pack our things and get ready to go to the base."
What is it like to fall from an altitude of hundreds of kilometers
as well as…
The Aerospace Science and Technology Research Institute of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study should seriously consider the issue of user experience.
Lu Zhou also turned around and started to ask others to tie their luggage to the rover. Then he took the lead and got into the rover and ordered Fan Tong to drive the rover to start returning.
Lomonov turned his head and glanced at Lu Zhou with a strange expression.
“God…”
"It's almost like... there's life there!"
Separating at the door of the buffer room, the group followed Captain Liang to their respective rooms, while Lu Zhou took Fan Tong to the conference room next to the buffer room.
After the ventilation device filled the buffer room with air, they changed out of their extravehicular spacesuits, stuffed them into their lockers according to the numbers, and took out light clothes to change into.
"Um… "
The feeling of standing on the line between life and death made adrenaline surge in his body. With his hands tightly holding the armrests of the cushioned seat, he could even hear his own heartbeat.
After everyone pulled the suitcases with their own numbers on them from the landing module, the Mars rover in the distance also drove next to them.
"Lu, Academician Lu, are you really here in person?"
"The terrain below the Hell's Gate Mountains changes very frequently. There will be a major change almost every 71 minutes, and a small adjustment every 34 minutes. As for the seismic structure, it appears randomly and has not been found statistically. What's the pattern? At first we thought it was the special geological structure of Mars, but later based on the results of information feedback such as the distribution and intensity of seismic waves, we found that things were not that simple."
"In order to understand why those fractured structures suddenly appeared and disappeared, I tried to send a remote-controlled vehicle to explore the cave underground. However, due to the limited propagation distance of electromagnetic wave signals, wire-controlled technology can only be used to operate, so the remote-controlled vehicle The car’s radius of movement was limited, so I couldn’t go very deep into the area, but I still found a lot of suspicious things.”
Not only have these Chinese people completely taken over the entire industrial chain, but they have even made every aspect of their technology as perfect as they can imagine. It seems that they are indeed so far behind the times that the gap can no longer be described simply in one or two sentences.