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Mars high-altitude orbit, before the vanguard team departs.

The second batch of teams arrived in the orbit of Mars four days ago. The current situation is that the four artificial celestial bodies "Firefly", "Mars Express", "Noah" and "Noah 2" are connected together. In terms of tonnage and volume, it can be compared with the "Tiangong Circular Orbit Starport".

Before the cooperation between the two parties ends, all actions of the Americans on Mars must be under the command of the Chinese. In other words, on Mars, Commander Li Xingfeng is the boss, and everyone here is under his control, including the old American astronauts. As long as the cooperation is not over, orders must be obeyed.

The price cmsx paid for the formulation of the "Mars Rescue" plan is not small. If the investment is converted into money, it is equivalent to more than 70 billion yuan. The weapons of the armed tactical team are all modified by cmsx. "It can be sent to space in about three months. It is impossible to send it in such a short period of time based on NASA's ability alone, no matter how much money is given.

In addition to other miscellaneous materials, to help Americans send astronauts into space, help Americans send "Noah 2" to Mars, etc., NASA invested more than 20 billion US dollars, and CMSX also exceeded 10 billion US dollars.

Ren Hong wanted NASA to spend more money to pay the bill, but the enemy of his partner is "the enemy is on Capitol Hill", and the old "congress masters" in the United States can't withstand the pressure of local public opinion, and they are reluctant to allocate funds to NASA 16 billion, and the remaining 5 billion US dollars will be raised by SpaceX and Alphabet.

Some netizens on the Internet interestingly described that in the eyes of Matrix Technology, the whole world is poor, Facebook is considered a rich man, and other companies with the top ten market capitalization, including Alphabet, are at best rich, and everyone else is poor.

The gap.

There is also a price for fooling people. Charles Boll looked like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water. After a long time of wrangling, he managed to get 10.7 billion US dollars in funding from Matrix Technology.

NASA can put on an attitude of being rich and technologically capable in front of any institution, but it has absolutely no confidence in saying that it is a rich man in front of others when facing a funder like Matrix Technology.

Ren Hong also has no better way. For the sake of long-term strategic goals, he can only do bloodletting once. Help Lao Mei suppress the heavy treasure first. It will not be so easy to "move" at that time. After all, there is "Master Congress" This "ally".

Before landing on Mars, the relevant crew members came to the centrifuge cabin of the "Firefly Space Station". Six or seven people gathered around to discuss the meeting. Commander Li Xingfeng, Ren Hong's "incarnation" Professor Wang Jiangwang, Chinese and American The captain of the armed squad, the survivor Duncan Jones and his top expert on paleontology, Aislin, were all present.

Basically, all the backbone members who are going to land this time are listed.

"Everyone, this extraterrestrial exploration mission has been upgraded from a scientific investigation to a defense mission, and all the threats have been raised again. In addition to dealing with the harsh Martian environment, it is also necessary to prevent the possible security threats posed by Martian native creatures to us." Looking at everyone in fluent English, he said one by one.

If we really have to fight for qualifications and abilities, here Li Xingfeng is a well-deserved first person. He should have retired, but the birth of replication technology has extended his career life again. The two oldest seniors who came to Mars American astronauts fought with Li Xingfeng on the "Tianzhou".

Therefore, in this cooperation, the Americans are convinced of Li Xingfeng as the supreme commander.

"Before landing in the Pezos area, it is very important to understand the actual situation." The commander added, and he also cast his gaze on the rescued Duncan Jones, who quickly understood it.

Duncan Jones opened the suitcase. It was a personal computer. It was soon linked to the main screen in the conference room. Everyone turned their attention to the main screen. It was all top-secret information and could only be shared by both parties.

"On August 13, 2028, the accident happened on this day. We completed the first landing at the end of June, and then began to build the first Mars base in Pezos Heights. It developed steadily for more than a month without any accidents. Until August 11th, the construction of the outpost base was completed. On the 12th, the 'Orion' spacecraft took off for the third time to send Alex and Dick to Mars, and I was ordered to stay on the 'Noah' to be responsible for the operation and maintenance work."

"That's right, on the first day of landing on Mars, Skovo accidentally discovered a complete biological skeleton." Duncan Jones said, a video appeared on the main screen, which was the camera on Skovo's shoulder at that time From the recorded first perspective, everyone watched Skovo throw away the soil layer one by one in the video, and finally showed the complete biological skeleton.

"Hey buddy, what are you doing? You want me to get the rover off by myself?"

"You better look at this!"

"This is"

"If there is no accident, a Martian creature! A Martian creature that has not died for a long time can be judged from the color and texture of the bone. It should die in about three years. It may be longer or shorter, but all It won't fluctuate much, it hasn't petrified in any way."

Ren Hong folded his arms, raised his head and quietly watched the vod video on the main screen, the conversation between the two Mars landers. At this time, Duncan Jones typed a few times on the personal computer, the vod video ended, and at the same time Called up another message: "The accident happened in the middle of the night on the 13th, when a small storm hit the Pezos area 3 hours ago. Prepare, so even if the storm is ten times bigger, it will not have much impact on the outpost base, but when the storm is over, the signal between the base and the 'Noah' is not stable, and there is an intermittent bad state."

At this moment, everyone looked at Duncan Jones and listened to his memories. He looked at everyone and said: "Dick was sent out to check the signal tower. After half an hour, I completely lost communication with the ground. I was surprised at first and called many times. I didn’t get in touch, but I wasn’t too worried, thinking that there should be something wrong with the signal tower, and I never thought that the ground base would be attacked by native Martian creatures.”

"During the communication terminal, I observed the live weather of Mars, especially the Pezos region. The dust storm is the most threatening thing to us, but there is no sign of a dust storm sweeping the entire planet, so I finished my routine work Then I went to rest."

"It wasn't until the next day that there was still no news. I didn't really pay attention to it. I kept calling the ground information, and I kept calling, but there was still no response."

"Until..." Duncan Jones' eyes were a little red when he said this, he lowered his head and breathed a little quickly, and everyone was silent. With such a reaction, Duncan Jones can imagine what he saw afterwards.

The compatriots around him patted him: "Cheer up, it's okay!!"

Jones stabilized his mood and nodded silently. Everyone looked at him looking down at the desktop. His pupils could not be seen, only a pair of eyelids. Duncan Jones took a long breath, and his gaze circled everyone again. After typing a few times on the phone, everyone subconsciously turned to the main screen.

"When the 'Noah' came over Pezos again, the base became like this, and I was at a loss as if I was facing bad news"

Everyone looked at the main screen. It was a high-definition picture. The base of the outpost was in a mess. The solar panels arranged in an orderly manner were tilted here and there, and some of them were broken. Several inflatable space capsules were sluggish due to gas leaks. Duncan Jones replaced a picture, and many people felt a chill when they saw it. It was fragments of spacesuits scattered on the red soil.

Seeing this, the Americans in the conference room exclaimed: "Number a01202, is that Dick?"

"Oh, God!" He saw Duncan nodding silently. Everyone was shocked. The spacesuit was covered with bloody red stains. This picture all showed that Dick was torn into pieces by something. The fragments, the flesh and blood are gone, the corpses are gone to be exact, only the space suit fragments are left.

Ren Hong looked at the picture carefully, pointed to the main screen and said suddenly: "Is that burnt? Can you enlarge the image? Yes! That position!"

Duncan did.

Ren Hong covered his mouth, stared for a moment, and pondered: "It doesn't look like it's burnt, it should be severely corroded by acid."

Speaking of which, Ren Hong looked at Duncan Jones: "Does he carry acid corrosive substances?"

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