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"Was the live camera turned off?"

"Confirmed it's off?"

"Yes."

Inside a simple Martian rover, Victor and Mark spoke while wearing spacesuits.

Their simple vehicle wasn't slow, traveling at 25 kilometers per hour, but it was still a bit lacking compared to the Pathfinder Martian rover, which could reach speeds of 35 kilometers per hour.

Although both were "simple" rovers, the level of "simple" was different.

However, their first destination was only a hundred meters away, so they arrived after a few words.

Because the alien camp had already appeared in Tianxia's live broadcast of the Mars landing, they didn't broadcast it again, only broadcasting the process of landing on Mars, delivering the declaration, and planting the flag before turning off the broadcast.

Next were things that needed to be kept secret.

They entered the alien camp for other purposes.

Wearing bulky spacesuits, the two got out of the car, taking light yet heavy steps as they hopped into the alien camp.

The situation in the alien camp was the same as in the video released by Tianxia, equally "shabby," with many signs of repair and patching.

Most of those traces came from parts of Tianxia's equipment, but not a single part from Meriken's small Mars rover could be seen.

"What's going on?"

Victor asked Mark next to him, "Damn it, I can't find any trace of the rover. I originally wanted to take some alien equipment under the guise of recovering our country's scientific research equipment, but now that I can't find the rover parts, what should we do?"

Mark's eyes were constantly scanning the entire camp through his helmet visor. Hearing this, he looked at Victor, then turned his head to look at the camp again: "Don't worry, we haven't finished searching the camp yet. We can confirm that they stole our rover, so we will definitely be able to find it, as long as we have some patience."

Facts proved... patience was useless.

They searched the entire Mars camp, but indeed found no rover parts.

In order to rightfully take alien equipment, they put in a lot of effort, not only having the space agency find the detailed design drawings of the stolen rover, but also storing individual pictures and data of each part in their spacesuit computer.

Their helmet visors had the function of a transparent display, and the cameras on the helmets were synchronized with their line of sight. When their gaze was fixed on a suspicious part, the computer would automatically retrieve the part data from the database and compare it. As a result, after searching the camp, they couldn't find a matching part.

Of course, that was just the camp; they hadn't entered the alien spaceship yet.

However, they stood at the entrance of the alien spaceship and hesitated... for 5 seconds, deciding to try and see if they could sneak in.

Too violent methods were certainly out of the question, as that would be obvious intrusion. Would Meriken do such a thing?

So, they used relatively gentle physical methods, including gently but forcefully pushing the door, pulling the door, prying the door, and other actions. Then, they also tried electronic methods, trying to hack the hatch, but none of them succeeded.

The alien spaceship's hatch remained motionless.

Alien equipment was alien equipment. It clearly looked like it was on the same tech tree as humans, but after actually contacting it, they realized that the things inside were vastly different.

Besides the appearance seen with the naked eye, the encryption methods, program architecture, data formulas, etc., were all different.

The two looked at each other, both seeing the helplessness in each other's eyes.

Before coming, they were all in high spirits, even with a fierce attitude, clamoring for fighting and killing, but things were different once they were actually on Mars.

After several months of flight, they were exposed to excessive cosmic radiation. The space environment was already harmful to the human body, and it was even more dangerous after excessive exposure.

Although they had to persevere in completing the mission, physical factors had completely affected their psychological state. This was an irresistible physiological reason, and it was already good to be able to resist some of it with a firm will.

"Report it. There's nothing we can do," Mark, who came from the army, said.

Victor, who came from the space force, was a little unwilling, but now it wasn't a question of whether he was willing or not, but that they really couldn't handle it, so he could only say, "Okay!"

After reporting the situation, they looked around the camp again while waiting for news, but still found nothing. At this time, news also came from Earth, unsurprisingly telling them to "blitz" Tianxia's Mars base.

Let's go take a look quickly. Tianxia's people often invite aliens to be guests. If they don't go take a look, their trip will be in vain!

Accepting the new order, the two soldiers still went to the landing module to use the toilet before setting off again.

A cloud of red dust also appeared behind their car.

And their destination, Tianxia's "Crimson" Mars base, was where Tang Chao and others were watching TV, still live.

It was the scene of Meriken astronauts driving away with a cloud of red dust.

Everyone sat around a spliced-together large table, on which was a steaming hot pot. Tang Chao first politely picked a piece of green leafy vegetable for Linus, and then pointed to the screen and said, "Mr. Linus, you've seen it too. I said that the people from Meriken have no sincerity in cooperation."

"They do things one way in front and another way behind. The more they say, the less they do. Just like now, they say they want to cooperate with you, but just now they wanted to steal your spaceship. If your hatches weren't tightly sealed, they would have succeeded."

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Tang Chao babbled on, and Linus remained polite, not immediately eating the piece of green leafy vegetable, but listening to Tang Chao speak.

Of course, both of them knew this was acting, but in the eyes of the human astronauts, this was Tang Chao's status!

Especially when they knew the identities of the four aliens.

Linus, the leader of this mission, was also the assistant scientist to the chief scientist of their planet.

The only female alien was a top pilot.

The other two were also senior scientists and engineers.

They were on an exploration mission this time, and came here because of an accident.

Although some information was still unclear, at least their identities had been clarified.

The assistant scientist of a planet-level chief scientist was really not someone that other astronauts could connect with. Only Tang Chao could handle it, and the other party was so respectful and gave Tang Chao so much face, which was his status.

In the eyes of the astronauts, this might be because Tang Chao's identity was also high enough, and his learning ability was super strong. He had already learned to speak their language, and was even discussing science and technology with them.

Exploration ship, exploration mission, only scientists and technicians could talk to scientists and technicians.

And both sides had to be skilled.

Since learning that aliens liked to eat green vegetables in the literal sense, they took out the few green leafy vegetables they had stored to treat their guests.

They had already verified that the living environments of both sides were indeed very similar, and they would not be infected by the bacteria carried by the other party, so they opened their protective masks.

It was much more convenient after opening them.

In the Mars living module, humans only needed to wear indoor casual clothes, and after the aliens took off their helmets and revealed their true faces, the humans were quite surprised.

"It's really a typical alien image, I feel like I've seen it in many science fiction works."

However, in the human living module, they did not leave their "mechs." After some mechanical parts contracted, humans found that the aliens' "body shape" was very suitable for human living scenarios.

So Tang Chao said, "It seems we are natural friends!"