Chapter 793

In fact, the arrival time of Xiaguang is 79 hours earlier than that estimated by the land boat.

After 41 days and 2 hours of flight, the fiery red planet has been rising on the porthole of the cabin of Xiaguang.

Squinting at the side window, watching the bright sunshine rising slowly from the red outline, watching the billowing sand waves billowing like the sea of fire, Liu Biao sitting in the copilot's seat smashed his tongue.

"It's a mess But the scenery is very beautiful. "

"Yes." Xu Zhenghong nodded his head, not a lot of words, put his hand on his helmet, calmly reported, "this is Xiaguang, we have entered the Mars gravitational system, and successfully entered orbit a-11."

Wait quietly for about five minutes.

With the noise of electric current, the unstable communication sound comes from the earth tens of millions of kilometers away.

"This is the ground command center. Congratulations on your success Now please start the active brake program and prepare to approach Mars. The orbit change navigation will be completed by the onboard computer. Good luck to you. "

"Yes!"

Tens of millions of kilometers away, it is obviously impossible to command the spacecraft to change orbit through real-time communication.

The scheme of orbit change has been written into the pre-set program, and the pilot will complete the orbit change according to his own judgment with the help of the onboard computer.

Of course, although it sounds complicated, it's not so troublesome in practice.

The degree of automation of Xiaguang is still very high. Unless there is a special case, generally speaking, the pilot only needs to keep a close eye on the dial of speed and distance to make sure that the spacecraft does not deviate from the orbit.

Liu Biao: "are we going straight down? Or wait for them to come up? "

Xu Zhenghong: "the new Virginia life support unit has a return capsule installed. They return to the BFS spacecraft that stays in Mars orbit through the return capsule. We recover the target, and then change orbit to return."

And drop the detector.

Of course, this part is a top secret task, which was personally assigned to him by the chief designer of lunar orbit construction committee, Lu Zhou. He can only rot in his stomach for this task. Even if Liu Biao is his deputy, he can't disclose any information

Liu Biao: "OK What if they don't come back? "

Xu Zhenghong pulled down the corner of his mouth: "then I will mourn for them for half a minute Remember to take photos and get evidence. Don't let the Americans throw the pot on our heads. "

"No problem, the law enforcement recorder starts!"

Liu Biao smiled and reached for the button on the console.

"What's the hurry? It's still early."

Xu Zhenghong laughed and scolded.

But just then, the expression on his face suddenly solidified.

Looking at the silvery white spot outside the window, Xu Zhenghong's pupil slightly contracted and put his hand on the helmet.

"This is the Xiaguang There seems to be something wrong with the American spacecraft. "

Another five minutes of waiting.

The voice of the ground command center came from the communication channel.

"What's the situation?"

Xu Zhenghong squinted at the silver bright spot in the distance.

I don't know if it's his illusion. He always feels something is wrong.

Sensing the direction of his vision, Liu Biao cooperatively turned on the active ranging lidar and aimed at the airspace of the target aircraft.

Although this device is used to measure the relative distance of meteorites, it can also target spacecraft.

Looking at the distance parameter on the screen in kilometers per second, Xu Zhenghong took a deep breath and said loudly.

"The BFS is falling Repeat BFS is falling! "

……

More than a month has passed since the signal for help was sent out.

Or, to be precise, 41 days and 2 hours.

The crops in the planting area have completely withered, there is not enough light and energy, these things are just a burden.

In order to save energy, as early as two weeks ago, they limited the scope of activities to less than ten square meters in the experimentation area, cut off the power supply of other functional areas. The reason why we choose to wait for rescue here is that there is only one control terminal that can receive signals from BFS spacecraft, obtain weather information, and use it as signal repeater to get contact with the earth.

But even so, there is not enough energy left.

For up to 42 hours, they will die of lack of oxygen

At this time, a weak female voice with a tremor broke the silence in the experimental cabin.

"Are they coming back to save us?" Helplessly, he looked out of the window of the starboard at the sand and dust blocking the sun. Jones put on some despair in his pupil.

It's almost impossible to expect the sandstorm to stop.

On the current scale, the sandstorm will last at least six months.Johnson, who was leaning against the porthole and holding a picture tightly in his hand, answered subconsciously in a voice of little strength.

"Certainly."

Although at the moment that always very optimistic handsome face, has not seen any optimistic expression.

"Not necessarily," Twain, a tanned man who was huddled in the other corner, hummed, "maybe they'll think it's better if we die."

With his blue eyes wide open, Jones couldn't believe looking this way: "why?"

Tyvee: "you think if we die, we're heroes. We just need a flag and a funeral to get rid of us. But if we're alive, they'll have to spend a lot of Franklin to build another rocket, bring us more supplies or take us home No matter which option, it's too bad -- "

" enough! "

Johnson, with a gloomy face, suddenly growled.

There was a eerie silence in the cabin.

He was stunned by the captain's momentum for two or three seconds, but he soon got up with a frown and a bad tone.

"Hey, what's wrong with what I said?"

He also got up from the floor and Johnson looked at him gloomily.

"I just want you pig to shut your mouth and consume less two milliliters of oxygen. Maybe we can live a few more seconds."

"Oh, what's the point? Anyway, it's all dead. Oh, I see. Do you want to fight with me? Then come on. I've seen your bad face for a long time. " Tavi rubbed his fist and put it in a boxing pose.

Seeing that they were going to fight, Jones got up from the ground with all his strength and tried to stop them.

"Enough! Calm down, all of you! "

But just then, outside the life support unit, there was a sudden dull sound.

The two men, who were about to break out of the conflict, suddenly froze and looked out of the window.

Although through the thick smoke, but the fire that cut through the dust is still clearly visible. At the same time, on the control terminal not far away, the green dot marking the spacecraft's contact signal finally lights up the red light after a series of intermittent flashes.

At the same time, when the screen in standby mode is on, a line of dazzling characters flickers in the upper right corner -

[lost connection]

at the moment of seeing this line of words, Johnson swallows his saliva and gradually writes a trace of panic on his face.

"Shetter, our ship!"

Tavi murmured a word to himself.

“…… God. "

The silence sank for a long time.

Until the flash of fire exhausted the liquid oxygen in the engine, and was finally swallowed by the rolling dust, falling to the unknown place

Jones asked in a trembling voice, gazing out of the window at the dead dust.

"Shall we die?"

No one answered her.

The fuel of the BFS spacecraft is more than enough even if it has been floating in orbit for 20 years, but at this time, there is a "failure"

Raising his trembling index finger, Johnson reached out and made a cross on his chest.

God bless.

Although he also knows that this is ares's territory, even if it is God's old man, there is nothing he can do

But just then, like the sound of nature, it sounded.

At first, he thought it was the electric current sound and didn't care.

Until the noise became clear

Looking at the [connection request] on the screen and the bright green dot on the terminal, like grasping the last straw for help, Johnson rushed frantically to the control terminal and pressed the button to connect the communication.

Whether it's God or aliens

He just hopes it's not his illusion.

It turns out that this is not an illusion.

When the communication is connected, clear and fluent voice flows into his ears like a spring

“…… This is colonel Xu Zhenghong, a member of the Chinese people's Liberation Army astronaut team. How are you doing on Mars