The terminal of the "Reptile" all-terrain survey vehicle is a thick laptop computer, and it is also equipped with a signal transmitting and receiving device as large as half a water tank. The signal transmitting and receiving device has been installed by Lu Zhou next to the water tank on the roof of the Institute for Advanced Study. In terms of concealing it from others, it is quite good.
"What's going on with the 'crawlers'?"
Quietly waiting for the countdown of communication response to complete, soon as the signal drifted from tens of millions of kilometers away, lines of dialog boxes jumped out of the screen.
Driving to the garage door, an antenna that looked like an antenna touched the access control, and soon the program pre-loaded into the life support unit started, unlocking the garage door.
[The "Lightning" escape cabin is opened!]
After passing through the warehouse area, he went straight to the experimental area. Looking at the domestic garbage tied up with plastic bags on the ground, Lu Zhou's mind roughly restored the scene of the last few weeks here.
Immediately afterwards, the shell on one side of the box slowly opened, and a remote-controlled car with an angular shape, less than half a person's height, rolled out with three and a half pairs of tires that were as tall as the car. Under the preset instructions, , facing the sky-blocking sandstorm, heading towards the site of the New Virginia marked on the map.
Lu Zhou nodded: "Then start it now."
Xiao Ai: [Yes! (丿·口·)丿]
Although he doesn't believe in these things.
Even a touch of surprise.
In this way, not only can we prepare for resource exploration for future colonization activities, but we can also go to the "ruins" of the New Virginia Colonial Station to see what happened there.
Arriving in front of the laboratory console, the antenna previously connected to the access control system protruded from the crawler's shell again and clicked in front of the console chassis.
Thinking of this, Lu Zhou couldn't help but feel a little funny.
At the same time, Lu Zhou, who was in the underground laboratory, first made himself a cup of coffee, then walked to the experimental table, sat down, and opened the survey vehicle control terminal placed on the table.
When the "reptile" passed through the peripheral planting area, Lu Zhou could clearly observe through the side lens that the "vegetable greenhouse" spread out on all sides had basically been blown down by the high-temperature airflow, and most of the plastic cultivation vessels were buried in the sand.
Looking at the miserable state of this "relic", Lu Zhou recalled the concept drawings published by Space-X on its official website, and couldn't help but sigh for half a second about the Ares project.
Fortunately, unlike the one-time use non-rechargeable nitrogen shield, according to the instructions, this thing can be recharged through solar energy and geothermal energy. When the energy is low, it will automatically enter a low-energy standby mode and wait for the environment. Restart when appropriate.
Xiao Ai: [We have successfully landed on the surface of Mars! Ready to start! (·A·)ゞ]
"… interesting."
Currently, the terminal of the "Reptile" survey vehicle has been connected to Xiao Ai's host computer.
Considering that the lunar space station has been deployed and resource exploration on the lunar surface is no longer an expensive matter, this "reptile" was naturally used by Lu Zhou on Mars.
After the escape capsule was launched, the entire life support unit was basically in a semi-abandoned state. The remaining power is probably enough to keep the life support unit on standby for a while, but this time probably won't last long.
In fact, it is okay to leave this work entirely to Xiao Ai, but Lu Zhou is not lazy to this extent, not to mention that he is also very curious about the life support unit that embodies the most advanced artificial biosphere technology in North America. What kind of cave is there inside
Either use a universal scanner gun, or it can only be used until it is scrapped.
The "Tinder" project was frustrated by an attack by unknown forces. Although there is currently no direct evidence to prove that it was the CIA, I did not expect that the artificial biosphere technology that had stalled in research would return to him in this way.
In order to save living resources and precious energy, the colonists have moved here from the living area, and their food and accommodation are squatted next to the only communication terminal that can communicate with the BFS spacecraft.
As the door slowly opened, the reptile activated the lighting equipment on the roof of the car and drove in with great swagger.
But these are all minor problems. After all, just a few days after the sandstorm occurred, and after confirming that the sandstorm was global, the colonists had already recycled all the crops here, and the entire planting area was basically abandoned. status.
[Terminal connection successful!]
As the last dialog box popped up, a clear picture quickly came from the screen. Lu Zhou drank coffee and quietly watched the reptile move forward despite the harsh weather.
Seeing Xiao Ai clinging to him, Lu Zhou immediately got straight to the point.
["Reptile" wakes up successfully!]
Five minutes after Lu Zhou's order was issued, on Mars tens of millions of kilometers away from this place, a pitch black pyramid-shaped metal box made the sound of air leakage.
Looking at the undefended life support unit through the terminal screen, Lu Zhou couldn't help but sigh.
Maybe, this is the so-called fate or reincarnation.
Obviously this thing is probably the same type of thing as a nitrogen shield.
I don’t know what the faces of these refugees will be like when they board the Xiaguang and find that they can take a shower on the Xiaguang with a cabin.
The return capsule will take away as much remaining oxygen and methane as possible before departure, and the jet's tail flame will burn the shell of the life support unit.
After watching Director Li leave, Lu Zhou took the elevator and went straight to the second underground floor of the main building of the Institute for Advanced Study. He passed through the access control hidden in the sample room and entered the unknown third underground floor—
The so-called "crawler" naturally refers to the "crawler" all-terrain remote control exploration vehicle, which is one of the samples rewarded by the system when he completed the mission in the previous stage.
The wreckage that the system rewarded him with was basically placed here, and Xiao Ai was responsible for taking care of it.
Different from the clothes woven from carbon nanofiber materials, the technological content of this thing is obviously much higher.
Even if you don’t look at the important role Jinling Institute of Advanced Studies plays in the fields of controlled fusion and aerospace, taking the name of the key R&D institution of the Air Force and Navy Equipment Department as an example, it is not easy to find out the secrets here. .
After quickly reviewing the files displayed on the control terminal screen, Lu Zhou gradually calmed down the careless expression on his face, and a hint of seriousness appeared in his expression.
Namely, underground laboratories.
As the progress bar was completed, the data that had been packaged and just waiting to be picked were all taken over by the crawler and transmitted back to Lu Zhou, tens of millions of kilometers away.
Soon, the extinguished screen lit up, and rows of progress bars appeared on it.
Almost the moment he stepped into the laboratory, a four-rotor drone with a display hanging on it flew over and flew around him twice.
He was very interested in its communication device. Lu Zhou tried to disassemble it, but unfortunately he never found a non-violent method of disassembly. The instruction manual also clearly stated that there was a built-in self-destruction program. Words that may have unpredictable consequences.
The person sitting in front of the control terminal only needs to watch the signal sent with a delay of several minutes or even ten minutes, and make corrections to the "variables" that may occur during the inspection mission.
But then again, even if someone finds it strange, they have no right to investigate this place.
According to the description in the manual, its communication radius is theoretically up to 3 astronomical units. Even if Mars and the Earth are at the farthest relative position, the terminal on his side can successfully receive all-terrain signals from the "Reptile" The signal coming from the remote-controlled exploration vehicle is at most a bit weak, and at most the delay is too high, making it impossible to control it in real time.
Without waiting for a long time, the outline of the life support unit had already come into view of the main camera of the "Reptile" through the yellow sand in the sky.
It is obviously unrealistic to remotely control this thing with a delay of up to several minutes. This little guy has a simple "tool-level" level of intelligence. Combined with preset instructions, it can basically control the whole process without anyone. Under controlled conditions, complete the inspection tasks in the task list.