After patting the dust on his body, Chen Yu rubbed his shoulders and looked at Musk: "It's all done. Let the two astronauts carry the equipment that cannot be dropped."
"A lot of good things!" Musk held Chen Yu's hands and said gratefully: "Mr. Wang, thank you very much for being able to achieve this level of cooperation for us."
"It should be, it's all for the sake of all mankind."
"On behalf of SpaceX, I would like to thank you very much for your efforts. If SpaceX space is needed in the future, we will be obliged to do so."
During the conversation, the two astronauts put on their helmets, lifted a piece of equipment with an extended tripod, and moved carefully.
But when they just approached the portal and were about to cross the space membrane, the Martian world inside the portal suddenly disappeared and turned into darkness.
The astronaut was shocked and hurriedly stopped stepping forward.
Musk, who was chatting with Chen Yu but kept staring at him, was startled: "Wang...Mr. Wang, look at the portal! Why is it dark?"
"blacken?"
Chen Yu turned around in confusion and frowned when he saw the dark metal arch: "Eh? What's going on? Where did you touch it?"
"Did you...did you touch it?" the black astronaut asked his companion.
"NO." The white man shook his head violently: "Did you touch it?"
"NO!"
"Old...boss, we haven't touched..."
"What...what's going on?" Musk gradually had a bad premonition: "Mr. Wang, is it on automatic standby?"
"It's not a computer, how can it have automatic standby?"
Inside the helmet, Chen Yu kept a serious expression and walked to the portal. He looked carefully up and down, left and right, and found nothing unusual. He clicked on the console again and found that the virtual projection could still be used: "Oops."
"What's wrong?!" Musk subconsciously clenched his fists and asked with a slightly trembling voice: "Is there a malfunction?"
"It's not a malfunction." Chen Yu took a step back, turned around and spread his hands: "The portal is out of power."
Musk: "?"
Everyone: "???"
"Yes, the battery is out."
"This thing still uses electricity?!" Musk's voice rose.
"Nonsense, how fresh it is. Find me a perpetual motion machine."
"No... I mean, this future portal ran out of power so quickly?"
"It's not fast anymore." He stretched out his hand and patted the metal outer wall of the arch. Chen Yu sighed: "Since my first official live broadcast, I haven't stopped using it until now. I have started it hundreds of times. It is very difficult to persist until now." It’s easy. And the energy consumption this time is indeed not small. More than two hundred large-mass boxes were thrown from the Earth to Mars. It is normal for the power to be completely consumed."
"Then... let's charge it quickly?"
"It can't be charged. They use antimatter batteries."
"Now what?"
"Don't worry, just change the battery and it'll be over." Chen Yu waved his hand: "You can use it immediately if you replace it with one that has electricity. Are you panicking?"
Hearing this, Musk breathed a sigh of relief: "I was scared to death. I thought the plan was going to fail. How long will it take to replace the battery?"
"Soon, only half a month."
"That's good, let's... half a month?"
"Yes, half a month."
"Half a month?!"
"Um."
"Half a month?!!"
"Are you a repeater?"
"Why does it take half a month to replace the battery?!" Musk couldn't help but roar.
"I don't have this kind of battery. I have to ask the future to send it by express delivery. I said it will be accelerated in half a month."
"But...it can be delayed by half a month, and the first one to land on Mars..."
"It can only be China." Chen Yu spread his hands: "Who would have thought that the battery would run out? Force majeure, force majeure... But fortunately, the materials we have worked so hard to get cannot be wasted, and the Chinese space team can use them directly. "
The faces of everyone present instantly turned blue, red, black, green...
It's not a normal color anyway.
"We humans are one. Who can use the supplies? Just swap the left hand for the right hand. It just so happens that the Chinese Space Force is flying in a hurry, and there must be problems with the logistics supply." Patting Musk on the shoulder, Chen Yu concluded: "Great love."
Musk's hands and feet were cold: "Loss...loss..."
"The Huaxia family has a big business, can they eat the King's meal? I will tell them later that I will pay a 15% increase in the normal price to your company. I must not let my good partners feel cold."
“…”
With the results in front of him, Musk naturally understood that this was all Chen Yu's routine.
From the very beginning when the other party said the words "impossible", he should have known that it was completely wishful thinking to break the originally formulated cooperation plan and harm China's interests to become the first person to land on Mars.
The subsequent "performances" were just punishment for him not knowing how to advance or retreat before...
With this thought in mind, Musk used his superhuman endurance to suppress his negative emotions and bit the tip of his tongue: "Mr. Wang, I understand, let's carry out Mars colonization as planned. We will prepare materials and personnel training again."
"Okay. Since the set time is three months, we must perform it in accordance with the contract. We must have the spirit of the contract." Slide the virtual earth and dock the space of the floating castle. Chen Yu nodded: "The lack of battery today is my negligence. The next time you teleport, the items you carry will increase by another 20%, just as compensation."
Hearing these words, Musk immediately felt relieved: "Thank you, Mr. Wang. It's us who have caused trouble for you this time."
"You're welcome."
Waving his hand, Chen Yu stepped into the metal arch.
"Master UP! Didn't you say that the power of the portal is low? Why can it be used now?" A young and energetic white man in the corner suddenly shouted.
Pausing, Chen Yu slowly turned around, his sharp eyes focused on the young white man through his helmet.
"Well… "
The white man subconsciously took a step back, feeling a little cold all over.
"The energy consumption of connecting to Mars is several times higher than that of connecting to Earth, so the remaining energy is barely enough for me to teleport once on Earth." Chen Yu said in a calm tone: "Is the reason enough?"
"Enough...enough..."
"That's enough, bye."
Passing through the rippling spatial membrane, the metal arch slowly disappears into the darkness under the spotlight.
And in a corner where no one is paying attention, the infrared light of a surveillance camera is flashing...
…
Returning to the principal's tower hall, Chen Yu closed the portal and changed his appearance to its original shape.
The portal screen suddenly went black before, but he activated a function called "Transmission Limitation".
In the future, portals within the star system will be commercial transportation products. Due to cost considerations, the carrying quality will generally be limited. To put it simply, a "fat man" consumes more energy than a "thin man". In order to ensure profits, the transmission will be limited and the "fat man" will not be allowed to get on the bus...
After entering the secret room of the study and taking off his protective clothing, Chen Yu took a quick shower, put on home clothes, and slid the virtual earth to connect to his home.
"Buzz!"
As the twists and turns of the space were connected, Chen Yu stepped in and was shocked to find that Xiao Taohong was not in the bedroom.
The door is also wide open.
Startled, he rushed out of the bedroom, suddenly confused.
…
(Note: There is still one chapter that has not been finished. I will continue to update about 1-2 chapters later.)
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