Forty eight hours after the collapse of Hellgate, sandstorms caused by the earthquake are still raging in the desert outside the base.

The dark sky not only affects the light in the planting area, but also affects the morale of all the astronauts in the Mars research base. In these two days, the atmosphere in the base is quite depressing. No one can see a smile on his face, even if it's just a kind of euphemistic greeting.

Romanov did not seem to have recovered from the terrible disaster, and he has been locked up in his room these days. Professor Aubrey and Schulz have recently come a little closer, and they seem to be discussing some problems about topology, functional analysis, and superstring theory.

As for Professor vernal.

He is probably the most stable of all the people who come back from hell.

The samples collected from that relic are like a trillions of treasures in his eyes. The hidden information will open the secrets of billions of years ago for mankind.

According to his own account, he is writing a paper on the biological analysis of civilizations that inhabited the planet three to three and a half billion years ago and the serious problems they faced at that time.

But nobody cares about it now except himself.

No matter what they found in that relic, they can't make up for what they lost there

"How is the situation in the planting area?"

Sitting in the office, looking at Dr. Ming Wenzhe coming in from the door, Liang Youcheng stopped his pen and asked.

"The small problem is that the chip of the main control system of the UV lamp in A1 area is burnt out. I have replaced it with a new one." After finding a chair, he moved to the opposite side of the desk and sat down. Mingmingzhe took a look at the document on the desk and raised his eyebrows. "Mental state report identification?"

"Yes," Liang Youcheng nodded. "Project 128 has a great impact on Dr. Fan's mental state, and there is no psychiatrist here who can help him. He is no longer suitable to continue working on Mars. I intend to apply to the ground command center for him to take the next flight back to earth for a period of rest. "

"Project 128..."

This is definitely the worst loss in China's space history.

The whereabouts of the two members are unknown. One of them is academician Lu, the chief designer of the manned fire landing plan and the moon orbit construction committee. To be honest, up to now, mingmingzhe hasn't had a lot of real feelings, as if all this was just a nightmare, or a joke that academician Lu played with them.

At this time, there was a knock at the door, and Han Kangyu, the deputy stationmaster, walked in from the outside.

Noticing the mixture of anxiety and excitement on his face, Liang Youjian asked.

"What happened?"

"Figures were found outside the base."

With a bang, Liang Youcheng pushed away the chair and stood up with an incredible expression on his face.

"Come on, show me!"

……

In the face of nature, human power is small.

Even if he has made every effort, he can't dig through the several kilometer long tunnel, let alone block the boulder on his way, only relying on the thin equipment on the spacesuit.

Wang Peng once thought that he would use his multi-functional spade to dig all the time, either find him or die in situ. It wasn't until the reminder on the mask screen that he was about to run out of oxygen that he stopped waving his arm like a dreamer.

This is not a matter of determination.

Even if he doesn't eat or drink, he keeps digging. Fortunately, he sticks to it until then. With the oxygen carried by the land boat, he can't wait so long.

Don't talk about yourself.

Even if the power of a division is deployed, nothing can be changed at all.

After giving up digging, he lost his soul and searched nearby. He soon found the oxygen bottle and supply left by fan Tong, and fortunately found a wrist computer with the positioner turned on under the sand

Although the screen is broken, the chip is still inside.

On the side of the wrist computer, there is a line of small but clear text, which he can recognize. This is the man's note.

If anyone finds my computer and it's not on my arm, it won't have to go to me. Whatever happened, please bring it back to earth for me, please. ]Seeing this sentence, Wang Peng changed his mind.

And standing here now

Looking at the screen, step by step, step by step through the sandstorm, towards the base near the figure, Liang Youcheng's face filled with incredible expression.

"This guy You came back on your legs?! "

There is no signal.

No navigation.

There is no substitute.

With only two legs and intuitionHow can this be done?!

Han Kangyu's face is also the same shock, nodded and said.

"It seems that it is..."

"Open the door!"

"Yes!"

The alloy door opens slowly.

Looking at the silent open door in front of him, Wang Peng didn't say a word or even take a look at the monitoring at the door and dragged his tottering body into it.

The detergent spewed out from all directions, washing away the mud and possible germs.

After changing his extravehicular spacesuit, Wang Peng looked at the station master Liang and Deputy station master Han coming from the side of the open cabin door and nodded to them.

"I'm back."

The Adam's Apple moved. Liang Youcheng sighed softly and comforted him.

"I have heard about what happened under the ruins. We are all very sad about academician Lu All in all, just come back. "

Wang Peng took a look at him and didn't answer. He just silently handed the wrist computer whose screen had been broken to his hand.

"Send it back to earth."

In the moment of taking over the wrist computer, Liang Youcheng's heart was slightly shaken.

No need to ask. He knows whose it is

Han Kangyu's Adam's apple, standing beside him, moved and squeezed a word out of his throat.

"Land boat he..."

Wang Peng didn't speak or even look at him. He bypassed the two people standing here and left

……

The earth.

Chang'an Street.

A ministerial meeting is going on.

Standing at the conference table, an old man with gray hair, with a look of sadness and indignation on his face, spat and shouted.

"It was a wrong decision to send him! Now that the task has failed and there are no more people, how can we explain to the people of the whole country! How to account with his parents! "

Sitting not far away from him, a middle-aged man with a slight cough looked thin.

"Well, Minister Wang, don't get excited. It's not who sent him, but he is determined to go! We have done so much ideological work with him and his relatives and friends, but there is no way. You said he had to go. Who can stop him except himself? "

The commander in chief of the manned fire landing office.

Unless it is an administrative order directly from the top of Chang'an Street, no one can really control him. And this kind of administrative order can't be written by opening a note casually. In front of the brand of chief designer, anyone who wants to direct him must be labeled as an expert commander.

It's no use knowing that he's angry here. Wang Bu, who is pounding his hands and feet, sighed and finally sat back in his place.

The atmosphere at the meeting table was rather heavy.

All the facial expressions are not very good-looking.

Looking around at the people at the conference table, the old man sitting at the top of the conference table was silent for a while and said slowly.

"Things have come to this point. Even if we quarrel about it, it will not change anything."

"According to the latest news from Mars research base, the researchers there found academician Lu's wrist computer and confirmed that he lost contact in the operation In addition to mourning and remembering the disaster, all we can do now is to follow his path and keep going unswervingly. "

Reading the heavy expressions on people's faces and the confusion about the future of losing academician Lu, the old man sighed softly, changed his serious look again, and continued.

"In contrast, there is a more urgent matter waiting for us to discuss."

"That's what academician Lu met in the ruins before the accident."

There was a whisper in the conference room. People at the conference table exchanged their surprise and ignorance with their eyes.

In fact, their information is very limited, and even if they want to discuss it, they can't get any results.

As for what academician Lu met in the ruins, let alone they had no clue. Even among those who came back alive from the ruins, no one could give a reliable statement.

Looking at the silent conference room, the old man continued.

"It seems that everyone has no idea. Let me say two words."

"According to the analysis of our astronomy experts, it is an indisputable fact that the cooling of the core of Mars is already, and an earthquake of this scale is definitely not the result of simple tectonic movement. And if it's human factors that cause all this, what academician Lu discovered before the accident is really worth our attention. "

"If what happened to him had something to do with the extraterrestrial civilization, and it was because the other side had taken hostile actions, I think you should know what that means."The conference room was horribly quiet.

The old man did not speak, but left the time for thinking to the people sitting in the meeting room.

Time is passing by minute by second. It's about five minutes.

Finally a middle-aged man in a military uniform and serious look stood up, broke the silence on the conference table, and said in a sonorous and powerful voice.

"If academician Lu's death is related to the extraterrestrial civilization, this brutal killing of our citizens is undoubtedly a war act of CHIGUO! We should fight back firmly! "

When this sentence was said the moment, sitting at the conference table of the people, the expression on the face immediately wonderful.

Acts of war

And with the extraterrestrial civilization

Because it sounds so strange that many people don't even know what to look like.

The old man at the top of the table nodded his head slowly.

"That's exactly what I want to say."

With a serious expression in his eyes, the old man looked around the conference table and continued to speak.

"I know it sounds incredible, but we can't find a more reasonable reason to explain why such a coincidence happened when the best scientists of our civilization just arrived at the gate of hell and came to contact with them with friendly purposes!"

"Peace is based on friendship and reciprocity."

"Now that such a terrible accident has happened, we must plan for the worst without rain."