"Standing on Mars" was still a proposition for me that could only be directed to the movie channel more than three years ago. At that time, I still liked watching science fiction movies, especially weak science fiction movies related to alien planets. It's the kind of movie where Americans can always save the earth in the last thirty minutes, and the main characters must be one or more pairs of dogs and men. At that time, I always watched the alien scene and desolation synthesized in the movie studio I feel fascinated by the weird phenomenon of the other world, and feel that it is amazing.
Now I can only sigh, youth is no longer like the sun and the moon, the simple boy who used to be intoxicated by seeing the craters of the moon has now reached the age where he has no sense of accomplishment in removing urine and mud on Mars. She was very interested in the red planet, carrying a cannon, frantically trying to find a crater to write her name on, but soon she became bored with the monotonous scenery in front of her, and began to whine while holding the cannon , It wasn't quiet until I greeted 700 billion and everyone drove to the No. 1 impact crater.
"It's desolate, thanks to the fact that I was a firm believer in aliens on Mars until I was thirteen years old.
Leaning on the car window and looking out, I muttered.
Outside is the rugged land like the Gobi Desert. Iron oxide makes them look dirty red, which may be due to the impact of the impact shock wave. There are huge boulders, and the traces of pressure and drag under the boulders are clear, indicating that these stones are new guests to this land. Instruments show that these stones are more or less carrying psionic radiation: they were ejected from the vicinity of the impact crater. The sky is cloudy, the sky is dim, the atmosphere of Mars is thin, but the sunlight is correspondingly weak, and there is too much dust in the upper atmosphere, so even though it is still in the daytime of the Martian day, it still feels a bit dusk around. Looking at the distant horizon, Qianqian suddenly had a great discovery, and said happily: "Look! Mountains!" I looked in the direction of Qianqian's finger, and found that there was indeed an endless brown "mountain" there. Their heights are so uniform that there is not even a single interruption in the length of the entire horizon. I watched curiously, brought into play my strengthened eyesight, and finally vaguely saw the stretch of land. The surface of the mountains: like a large piece of twisted cotton wool.
"It's a storm." Sandora knocked Qianqian and me on the heads one by one. "I said, a head of the empire, a mistress of the empire, at least you can add some common sense occasionally! The term Martian storm is used by people on earth. How many years have scientists invented it!" "Damn it! This is Martian Storm? How spectacular is it?" I suddenly exclaimed, Martian Storm is such a famous thing, and I often saw it in science fiction movies before. This time I saw the real thing, but I didn't expect it to look like this. To be honest, it is really different from the ones I have imagined before. They... are much larger than the ones I imagined.
At the extreme distance of the horizon, it looks like a majestic and continuous mountain range, so if it is pulled in front of you, how big will it be
Qianqian and I compliment each other, although we have seen many magical or spectacular scenery on alien planets when we were fighting outside, but we have witnessed this kind of Martian storm that feels very mysterious and powerful since we were young. Still a little excited, Qianqian became active again, and she began to discuss with Sandora how strong the kite line would be if she wanted to fly a kite in Mars Storm. Scar, trying to reduce her sense of existence, I'm afraid that Qianqian will come up with an idea to tie a steel wire around her waist and use 700 billion to drag her around in the Martian storm. It's not like she can't do this kind of thing .
"Wait, is that something magical?"
When I was trying to reduce the sense of existence, Qianqian suddenly stopped the topic about flying a kite in Mars Storm, and pointed out the car window in surprise and shouted.
Sandora and I immediately followed the prestige, and following shallow fingers, I saw something suddenly flashing in the sun just now on a small plateau not much higher than the ground in the front left.
"Could it be a small fragment that slipped through the net?" Sandora muttered strangely, "Go and have a look." Seven hundred billion immediately turned around after receiving the order, and slid briskly and silently to the high ground hundreds of meters away. We pushed the door and went down , came to the front of the flashing thing.
"It wasn't made by the empire." Sandora looked at the seriously damaged metal object not far away, and shook her head slightly, "It's completely broken."
On the ground not far ahead, there was a machine lying in a mess. Half of its body was buried in the dust, and the exposed part was also covered with reddish-brown sand. The solar cells that might have been clean and bright once The board is now only a third of the bare brackets, and the whole machine is lifeless, as if it has lost power for many years.
Qianqian stepped forward to kick the thing curiously, and immediately the metal plate on it fell off, bringing up a cloud of flying dust. Qianqian didn't think it was dirty, so she went forward to pick up the broken and fallen metal plate Get up and show me the symbols above.
Flag of the former Soviet Union.
"This is Mars 3." Sandora glanced at the metal plate, and said with some surprise, "It's actually here."
I was shocked.
"Are you sure?" I looked at Sandora in surprise, "This is the first probe made by humans and landed on Mars. How do you know it?"
Sandora shrugged: "I'm afraid I know more about human history than you do. This is Mars 3. I didn't expect such a coincidence to happen."
Blinking her eyes in confusion, she really doesn't know what the Martian is. I can only briefly explain to her that this is the first time humans have successfully landed on this planet in the initial stage of exploring Mars. The probe, even though it stopped working after twenty seconds of operation, still became a milestone.
Sandora took the almost colorless metal plate from Qianqian's hand, gently wiped off the dust on it, and put it back on the ancient detector in front of it.
Sandora stood at a distance of less than five meters in front of Mars 3, watching the house quietly, as if paying attention, the ancient machine that was almost buried in dust was pulled out from the side under the dim sunlight of Mars, reflecting the shimmering light. A long shadow, like a veteran at the end of his life, accepted the greeting calmly.
"Reconnaissance troops, record our current coordinates. This is a protected area. Avoid here when you operate." Sandora ordered the reconnaissance troops who followed up to collect the fallen wreckage, and then turned back to the car.
In the car, I looked at Sandora curiously: "I always felt that you were a little weird just now." "You mean to pay respect to a scrapped detector?" Sandora smiled and squeezed gently The corner of my mouth said, "That should be, because it is a monument, even if it is just a piece of scrap metal, even if there is only one camera on it, it is still a monument, and monuments need attention.
"Tradition." Pandora suddenly choked out two words, always succinct.
"It's tradition and was once made by the Empire and is considered law in the multiverse"
Sandora seems to be in a good mood, with a smile on her face from just now, "No matter what kind of civilization, it is commendable when it first waved outside the cradle. So the empire once stipulated that anyone who In the desolate area, if you see the first-generation probes or other relics with similar meanings used by another civilization to explore space, you should salute. In the law of the empire, one of the important conditions for dividing a civilization is an enlightened civilization or a closed civilization, It was the first probe they sent into space."
Both Qianqian and I showed a look of surprise, and Sandora continued: "The first space vehicle, the first satellite, and the first landing module that landed on an alien planet, these things are all memorable. The empire even made a law specifically for this purpose to clarify the "civilization status" of these things. Even the Starfield Protoss are supporters of this law. Some Xie Yong civilizations will even recycle the first-generation probes of their own civilization These monuments are absolutely not allowed to be traded or profane. The empire will personally supervise them. There was an incident in the old empire where the first-generation satellite landing vehicle of a vassal civilization was destroyed by pirates on the way to the memorial hall. This incident of blatantly violating the laws of the empire eventually led to the death of 4.76 billion people." I almost fell off the chair with a bang: "So many people died from fighting pirates? It's too exaggerated!" Sandora scratched her hair: " You don’t know that the old empire started with pirates, and within seventeen minutes, it evolved into a war between two civilizations, one of which was a vassal of the empire, and the other was the barbarian civilization to which the pirates belonged. After the two civilizations declared war, the empire The local garrison intervened. After three warnings and confirmation that the civilization the pirates belonged to was unwilling to surrender, the garrison destroyed the enemy's home planet. Later, it was called the "one hour and twelve minute war" because from the pirate attack to the completion The extermination order took one hour and twelve minutes. Similar wars were not uncommon in the old empire. At that time, we were busy destroying the abyss on the front line, so based on the principle of efficiency first, we tried to compress the wars in other places within two hours. end within…”
I wiped my cold sweat and thought to myself that fortunately the old empire is finished, what kind of lunatics are these people—of course the "Civilization Monument Protection Law" they enacted is really touching.
The encounter with Mars 3 was just a small episode that made people feel a little bit emotional. We soon left this highland that has been turned into a cultural reserve, and 700 billion were moving fast on the vast and rugged red land of Mars. Then, soon, a rapidly enlarging blue-black energy cloud appeared in the sky ahead: we are approaching the largest impact crater No. 1.
And the magnificent wreck that fell from the sky to the ground has also appeared in the field of vision.
Like a mountain range that collapsed from heaven to the earth, or like the ferocious horns of the earth protruding from the depths of hell, a huge wreck appeared in front of our eyes that covered the sky and the sun, and the top could not be seen at all. Its surface was glowing with a gray metallic luster. , The exhausted psionic energy occasionally flashed across this dim mountain, like ghostly undead, the armor of the once indestructible battleship was riddled with holes, especially right in front of us, the armor even cracked a line enough to penetrate the entire wreckage Huge crack, looking through this terrifying crack, you can only see the blackened secondary buffer zone and the scorched and deformed mechanical structure embedded in the buffer zone, lightning and thick smoke burst out from the crack, warning people who want to Those who approach rashly: High voltage is dangerous, non-professionals please do not open the back cover Well, in fact, I really can’t find a good word to describe this spectacular crack: How strong is it to turn an eternal star The ship was torn into hundreds of pieces and fell to the main material plane in such a miserable appearance
Is it just a forced landing failure
Or is it that the spaceship is being pursued before it makes an emergency landing...
I looked at the countless pitted scars on the wreckage's outer armor and the molten * left after the high-temperature burst, and my heart became active.
The reconnaissance force has established a scientific outpost near the largest wreckage, that is, a rapidly space-expanding front-line laboratory, several functional towers, and a small military depot, which is large enough for Hollywood to treat it as a first-generation Mars colony Point to make a movie, but it is a folding room built in ten minutes.
Two imperial technicians in white uniforms and some technical soldiers were recording data under the wreckage when we arrived, and tried to open one of its passage doors. We didn't disturb their work, but went around the giant first. The car slowly turned around before getting off in front of the wreckage.
It seems to have cut off a part of the starship and thrown it down, and its length is at least ten kilometers. In other words, if it is not placed here obliquely and a quarter of it is buried underground, this thing is bigger than the Himalayas. Still high.
"This is the power section of the Eternal class, and there is still a quarter of the navigation system section—but the latter must be finished." Sandora led everyone to the pipeline door where the technicians were busy, and judged "There are traces of weapon attack on the armor, and there is no life response in the wreckage. All the crew must have been killed." "Your Majesty, the door locked itself before the spaceship disintegrated." The imperial technician who had been busy in front of the pipe door for a long time came Come up to us, reporting loudly "No other safe access to the wreck has been found other than this pipe."
Sandora frowned: "What I want is a solution, not any trouble you have encountered." "We plan to cut the door directly, but if there is still part of the self-destruct system in the wreckage that has energy, it may self-destruct. "
The imperial technicians who were reprimanded by Sandora immediately stated their plans and possible consequences, which obviously required him to report.
I looked at the wreckage of the starship billowing in smoke, and thought to myself that there is still a hairy difference between this appearance and the self-destructed one...
"Don't bother, I'll try it out."
At this moment, Viska suddenly interrupted the technician's report. She blinked at us, and a hint of cunning flashed in her blood-red cat eyes: "Brother is so stupid, this is my spaceship!" the little girl said. Saying that, Sandora and I turned our heads to look at the sky at the same time, only Qianqian was asking "what the hell" and didn't understand why.
At this time, Viska had come to the door of the pipeline. On this thick and huge round door, the emblem of the Viska Destroyed Legion was marked in blood red. The little girl put her hand on the emblem and closed it slightly. With eyes closed, he began to connect with the traffic control system still operating in the wreckage of the battleship. Since the alarm door is locked internally rather than mechanically stuck, it means that its opening power is still available. Viska uses this At that point, it began to take over the various control authorities in the wreckage again.
This process didn't take long. When Pandora heard the sound of "didi" for the third time, her cat pupil sister let out a sigh of relief: "It's done!" "Zizi..." accompanied by serious metal noise With a sound of friction, the entrance of the heavy and thick pipe opened automatically. Due to energy leakage, bright flames continuously jumped from the edge of the door when it opened, but fortunately, the remaining power was still enough for the nearly hundred-ton metal lump to open enough. gap. What gushed out from the noisy door was an unusually violent hot wind, which made Sandora's long hair slap me in the face on the spot, and made Qianqian cough for a long time, half a minute. Only then did the air flow subside.
"This is an auxiliary heat dissipation channel." Viska led us into the wreckage. "Although the power system has been shut down, the circulation system of the channel is still running. Once the pipeline circulates, there will also be hot air in this auxiliary pipeline. This is a pretty old trick, but I lacked some blueprints in my database back then, so I could only design it this way.”
As a heat dissipation channel, this place is not very spacious, and the surrounding walls are covered with complex and inexplicable mechanical structures and conductive cables. Of course, these dark-colored things are quite different from the smooth and bright alloy corridors of common imperial battleships. But it has a heavy metal sci-fi feel. This is the first time that Qianqian and I have entered a "lower" place like the cooling pipe of an imperial starship. Naturally, it feels very novel, and Qianqian has left a lot of people along the way. , I had to help her take a photo with any random corner on the road: we are not under any pressure, because obviously in such a high-tech place, Qianqian and I can't do anything serious...
Pandora has been looking around silently all the way. Although her face hardly moved, I can still feel the little girl's eyes moving back and forth. Obviously, she is also very concerned about the warship that her twin sister once led. of.
This pipeline is not straight. Due to the impact of the crash, it has been twisted in many places. There are wide cracks on the walls of many tubes. The broken cables inside can be seen through the cracks. Some of them don’t know. Large pieces of distorted metal or crystal that belonged to which parts of the original battleship would suddenly penetrate through the walls of the pipe, blocking the way forward. Sandora had already revealed her claws, and vigorously scratched these obstacles into pieces one by one. Fragment: Because I am really worried about the safety factor when Pandora uses naval guns to open the way.
In this way, we moved forward in a destructive way, and Sandora's claws cleared away all obstacles on the way for us. In the end, we passed this heat dissipation pipe that sprayed people's faces every five minutes. After breaking through an alloy barrier , entered the personnel channel of the starship.