From Xiaguang to magpie bridge, the people on the Moon Palace stayed for 24 hours.

With the completion of the replenishment loading, they will take magpie bridge, which has stronger acceleration capacity and is more suitable for carrying a large number of passengers and supplies, to Mars, and land on the surface of Mars through Xufu, which floats in Mars orbit as a temporary space station.

At this moment, it has been 15 days since the Moon Palace set out.

Because Mars and earth are moving relatively far away, they will spend two to three more days on Mars than the first colonists.

But even so, they are now quite close to Mars.

If the angle is right, you can even find the bright red spot hidden in the vast sea of stars on the porthole

"Yes, a, my last card."

Throw out two cards on the table, shake the last card in the hand of the boat, and lean back on the chair. Sitting opposite him are Joel Aubrey, a professor of astrophysics from Stanford University, and Kubo romonov, an aerospace engineer from Moscow University.

At this moment, the two men, who were looking at the cards with sad faces, were covered with light and floating notes.

As for Wang Peng, the bodyguard of the land boat, as well as Professor Shultz and Professor vernal, stood behind the three and watched the game with interest.

In the end, Professor Aubrey and Professor romonov looked at each other and gave up their struggle in despair.

"Can't afford to..."

Lu Zhou smiled lightly and threw out his last hand without any accident.

"It looks like I won."

Half a month's voyage was quite boring.

Only poker, chess and chess can pass the time. At first, nine people (including two chief and co pilot) passed the time by playing chess, until Lu Zhou idly built a model of two sets of chess boards with the algebraic geometry method, and solved a "solution" with the first hand winning rate reaching nearly 100%, then no one wanted to play the game.

In contrast, poker, which has more luck, is more likely to win the boat.

But it's only in theory.

In reality, in addition to Schulz occasionally winning several boats, vernal, an archaeologist who is standing behind the boat to watch and study, is pitiful enough to not win at all.

"Damn It's a wrong decision to fight against your landlord. "

The face was almost covered with notes, and Joel Aubrey, while swearing, threw his card on the table, reluctantly pulled off a note paper and carefully glued it to his forehead.

In fact, as a punishment game, the most troublesome thing about stickers is not that they will block the vision, but that in the weightless environment, if they accidentally fall off and fly away, they will have to run after them all over the cabin.

Joel Aubrey did it once, and he didn't want to do it again.

"I patted Aubrey on the shoulder," said fner comfortingly. "Give up, my friend, and play this number game with mathematicians, you have to think about it."

Said Aubrey unwillingly.

"I know I just want to win. "

Professor vernal said with a smile.

"I've seen so many people like you in Las Vegas. You'd better stay away from the casino in your life."

"No, I go there once a year Sometimes I can win some money. "

Listen to the conversation, Lu Zhou shook his head, put away the poker on the table, and dropped a sentence..

"There's no place to put a note on your face anymore, unless you want to put it in your nostrils, it'll be here today."

Hearing this, the speechless romonov took a sigh of relief, pulled back his chair and stood up, but Aubrey said discontentedly.

"Hey, how long do I need to stay like this?"

"Ten hours."

As soon as he heard about it for ten hours, o'brighton began to look sad.

"No grace?"

The boat smiled and said, "of course, but only if you are willing to give up the chance to go to the underground ruins and stay in the base on the day of the expedition."

"I'm sorry, brother, I won't agree with you if I don't have to talk about it," Aubrey said tragically, pushing his chair aside. "Those notes are not afraid at all. Let the punishment be more severe!"

Looking at Professor Aubrey standing there alone, Lu Zhou shrugged.

"I'm just kidding."

"But remember, give in and lose. Don't try to cheat."

Although for a moment, the land boat who said that was sure that he was not joking, but really had similar thoughts.But think about it. How could you agree with this kind of thing.

It seems that we have to wait until we are underground to find a way to get rid of the obstructions and act alone.

Gently stroking the wrist computer on his right arm, Lu Zhou thought in his heart.

……

The eighteenth day of the journey from the Moon Palace.

The fiery red planet, finally in a complete posture, showed in front of all people.

"Here we are!"

"Oh, oh, oh, oh!"

Excited cheers resounded throughout the cabin, standing beside the porthole and looking at the fire red giant egg. Even though he had looked down on the planet through the satellite and telescope for countless times, his heart was not only excited and eager at the moment when he was actually in orbit and captured by the gravity of Mars.

It's like finding Columbus from the mast.

“…… Call ground command center, this is "migratory bird". We have been successfully captured by the Mars gravitational system and are switching to the synchronous orbit of Mars. "

“…… The track switching is completed, lowering the track height. "

"This is migratory bird. Call headquarters. We have reached the edge of the Martian atmosphere! It's 1.27km away from Xufu. It's approaching! "

At the same time, the alloy door of the cockpit opened, and the co pilot in the spacesuit stepped up to the people on the land boat, saluted them, and then opened his mouth.

"We have arrived at the station. After a while, you will follow me to board the Xufu, and I will tell you how to do it."

"Wait a minute, why go to Xufu first? Can't it be here? " Vernal raised his hand and asked nervously, "and how can we get down?"

Hearing this silly question, Lu Zhou said with a smile.

"Do you still need to ask? It's like bungee jumping, of course. Why not be here, because there's no rope here. "

On hearing this, vernal's face turned green, and Schulz and Aubrey's faces turned white. Only romonov, who was an aerospace engineer himself, turned away from the joke made by the boat.

Bungee jumping?

Think about it in your head. Is that possible?

After 12 minutes of careful joint orbit, magpie bridge, code named "migratory bird", finally built a silver corridor between the magpie bridge and Xu Fu, who was staying in Mars orbit, and completed the docking work.

Although at the last moment came the thought of backing out, vernal finally made up his mind to bite his teeth and bravely followed the group through the silver corridor.

Standing in the spacious belly compartment, the pilot stopped and looked back at the group of people who were going to the ground.

"Good friends, we have arrived At this moment, you are at the foot of our outpost in the new world, where the dream of ruins begins. You will take the lander and land with living materials and new function modules, where someone will take you. "

"You should have learned how to use the lander when you received the training, and I will send you here."

"Now, first, connect the interface of your spacesuit in the capsule with the life support system in the lander, and then check whether each button and safety belt are firm, and think about whether there is anything that hasn't been said before, and if you need my help to bring it back to the earth."

"If everything is OK, raise your hand and let me know."

Looking at the raised hand, the copilot nodded with satisfaction.

"Very well."

"Now that you are ready, let's go!" The official account of

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(concerned with the morning star LL) can see the little story behind the curve wrecker. (???)?