What is it like to fall from hundreds of kilometers in the air?

Lu Zhou felt that after this expedition, he would probably have more say than anyone except the orbital airborne brigade.

The feeling of standing on the threshold between life and death made the adrenaline rush in his body, and he could even hear his own heartbeat as his hands tightly grasped the armrests of the cushioned seat.

The moment the landing capsule fell into the sea of sand, Lu Zhou felt so cordial for the first time, and life was so beautiful.

And......

The Institute of Aerospace Science and Technology of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study should think about the user experience.

With a violent tremor, the heavy alloy hatch slammed open.

The wind swept from outside the cabin with yellow sand and blew on everyone.

Untying the connection of the in-cabin health protection system, Professor Vernal, who stood up from the cushioned seat, staggered out of the cabin. Looking at the vast desert where he came into view, his eyes were full of indescribable shock.

"God...... It felt like being in Egypt. ”

"Egypt?"

"Hmmm......"

His knees touched the ground, and Professor Vernal, who was kneeling on the ground, picked up a handful of sand from the ground and held it in his hand, feeling the touch from the alien planet through the graphene fiber, and his face was full of excitement and shock.

“…… I worked there for three years, from the Nile to the Sahara Desert, and our archaeological team traveled across borders...... However, even so, I have never seen such a spectacular view. ”

"Will there ever be a civilization here?" Immediately following him over the collapsed hatch, Lomonov squinted his eyes beyond the dust to the disc-sized light above the skyline, then at the gamma counter on his wrist-mounted computer, "...... Even Chernobyl is no worse than here. ”

"From an astronomical point of view, it's still possible," Professor Aubrey said meaningfully, squinting his eyes, "and our civilization is only a brief moment compared to the age of the universe." ”

"According to the academic community, maybe three billion years ago, maybe four billion years ago, before the core of Mars cooled, there was an atmosphere thicker than the Earth, and the surface of the planet was dotted with freshwater lakes and oceans, which theoretically had the conditions for the birth of life. On the contrary, the earth at that time was a purgatory on earth, probably like Venus today. ”

After opening the positioning device and setting the coordinates, Lu Zhou, the last to walk out of the landing module, looked up at the approaching rover in the distance, interrupting the small talk in the public channel.

"Let's stop discussing academic issues for now, let's pack up our things and get ready to go to the base."

It's said that it's packing things, but it's actually nothing worth packing. The only personal belongings for each person were a 26-inch space-specific suitcase, embedded behind the casing of the landing module.

After the group dragged their numbered suitcases out of the landing module, the rover in the distance also drove next to everyone.

The car door opened outward, and a tall and athletic astronaut jumped out of the car and walked quickly in front of Lu Zhou, his voice excited and incoherent.

"Lu, Academician Lu, did you really come here in person?"

Looking at the excited and nervous astronaut, Lu Zhou shook hands with him and said with a smile.

"It's me, don't be so nervous, what's your name?"

"Fan Tong!" The astronaut happily continued, "Can I ask you for an autograph?" ”

Fan Tong?

This name Lu Zhou is a little familiar, if he remembers correctly, he should be a researcher of the "128 Anomaly Project", strictly speaking, he is still under his own research group.

"Let's talk about this later, you go to drive first, I have something to ask you later."

"Yes!"

Lizheng saluted, and Fan Tong quickly climbed back into the car.

Lu Zhou also turned around and began to beckon the others to tie their luggage to the rover, and then took the lead in getting into the rover, and instructed Fan Tong to drive the rover and start the return voyage.

Because the landing site itself was near the base, it didn't take long for them to drive until they approached the base, and they happened to see three hemispherical domes slowly falling from the sky under the support of the blue tail flame, and unhurriedly deployed in the open space circled next to the scientific research base.

Seeing this scene, several international friends sitting in the rover invariably showed surprised expressions on their faces. Especially Lomonov, an aerospace engineer from Russia, stared out of the car window with both eyes straight, and the whole person was stunned.

"God ......"

"How did you do that?"

Hearing this muttering, Lu Zhou smiled and said casually.

"As you can see, it's not really special."

Lomonov turned his head and glanced at Lu Zhou with a strange expression

Nothing special ok.

Throw the colony module weighing tens of tons directly from the outer space orbit, complete the deceleration through the active jet device, and even adjust the landing area slightly to accurately land in the circled area......

Lomonov asked himself

Thinking of this, Lomonov's heart couldn't help but feel a little sad.

Although he came to the Jinling Space Launch Center from Moscow with the purpose of studying, he was already prepared to be shown, but he still did not expect that the gap would be so far.

From space launch technology to outer planet landing, in all the processes he has experienced, he has not found even a single place where the Russian space group is relatively ahead.

These Chinese people not only ate the entire industrial chain completely, but even achieved the ultimate in the technology of each link to the extreme he could imagine. It seems that they are indeed too far behind the times, so that the gap between them can no longer be described in a simple sentence or two.

Passing by the newly deployed functional colony module, the rover slowly drove into the garage of the research base.

As the alloy gate fell heavily, it finally cut off the sight that everyone had been reluctant to take away for a long time, and at the same time cut off the noisy yellow sand outside the car and ship.

Cleaning liquid was sprayed out of the buffer room, covering every corner of the rover in all directions, and then a group of people got out of the car and received a round of cleaning liquid and purified water.

After the ventilation device filled the buffer chamber with air, they changed out of their extravehicular spacesuits, stuffed them into their cabinets according to their numbers, and took out light clothes to change into.

At this time, the alloy door on the side moved to open, and Captain Liang Youcheng, the supreme commander of the scientific research base, walked to the front of the group and said with a smile to everyone.

"Welcome to the Mars scientific research base, Liang Youcheng, the leader of the scientific expedition team stationed here, I hope that in the next month or even two months, you will be able to get used to life here. I'll take you to your respective rooms in a moment, dinner is at 6 p.m., based on Beijing time, and you can have your free time before then, or you can follow me around the inside of the base. ”

"Besides, I've heard about your mission, so if there's anything you need help with, just let me know."

After finishing speaking, Liang Youcheng looked at Lu Zhou and asked him if he had anything to add.

“…… That's the basic situation, free to move around before dinner, or follow Captain Liang to visit the facilities here, I have nothing to add," nodded towards Captain Liang, and after handing over the arrangements of these people to him, Lu Zhou continued to look at Fan Tong who was standing next to him, "Dr. Fan, you and I will come here." ”

Fan Tong immediately raised his head and stood up straight, and nodded.

"Yes!"

At the door of the buffer room, the group followed Captain Liang to their respective rooms, while Lu Zhou took Fan Tong to the conference room next to the buffer room.

Seeing the alloy door closed, Lu Zhou pulled over a chair and sat down as if he was in his own home, and then motioned to Fan Tong to find a place to sit casually, and then said straight to the point.

"Tell me a little bit about the situation."

"What do you want to know?"

"Everything about the 128 project."

Hearing the number 128, Fan Tong's expression suddenly became solemn, and he nodded and spoke.

"I've been working on this for a month."

"In order to figure out why those fault structures suddenly appeared and disappeared, I tried to send a remote control car to explore the underground of the cave, but due to the limited propagation distance of electromagnetic wave signals, I could only use wire control technology to operate, so the radius of the remote control car was limited, and I couldn't go deep into the special place, but I still found a lot of suspicious places."

Lu Zhou: "Suspicious? ”

"Yes."

Fan Tong nodded and continued with a solemn expression.

"The terrain below the Hell's Gate Mountains changes very frequently, almost every 71 minutes there is a large change, a small adjustment every 34 minutes, and the seismic structure is random, and there is no statistical pattern for the time being. At first, we thought it was the special geological structure of Mars, but later based on the results of feedback on the distribution and strength of seismic waves, we found that things are not so simple. ”

"There is no indication that regional seismic action caused such strange and frequent changes in its subterranean structure. In contrast, it is more like some kind of mechanically driven handling. ”

"Mechanical drive?" Lu Zhou hesitated slightly, then said with a smile, "How is this possible." ”

"I also think it's unlikely, but there doesn't seem to be a better explanation," Fan Tong's face showed a headache expression, "Theoretically speaking, two or three billion years, no matter how great the project, will be lost in the long river of time." However, I really can't think of any possibility other than the human factor that could cause such a strange change in those tunnels. ”

"It's like...... There is the same as being alive! ”

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