Chapter 1399 Tomorrow's Planet

From Xiaguang to Queqiao, the group of people on the Moon Palace stayed for 24 hours.

With the supply loading completed, they will take Queqiao, which has stronger acceleration capability and is more suitable for carrying a large number of passengers and supplies, to Mars, and land on the surface of Mars through Xu Fu, which floats in Mars orbit and serves as a temporary space station.

At this moment, fifteen days have passed since departure from the Moon Palace.

Since Mars and the Earth are moving relatively far away, it will take them two to three days longer to go to Mars than the first colonists.

However, even so, their current position is quite close to Mars.

If the angle happens to be right, you can even find the bright red spot hidden in the vast sea of ​​stars on the porthole...

"To Aces, I have the last card."

Throwing two poker cards on the table, Lu Zhou shook the last card in his hand, and leaned back on the chair leisurely. Sitting opposite him are Joel Aubrey, a professor of astrophysics from Stanford University in the United States, and Kubo Lomonov, an aerospace engineer from Moscow University.

At this moment, the two people who were staring at the cards in their hands with sad faces had fluffy sticky notes all over their faces.

As for Lu Zhou's bodyguard, Wang Peng, as well as Professor Schultz and Professor Vernal, stood behind the three of them, watching the game with great interest.

In the end, Professor Aubrey and Professor Lomonov looked at each other, and gave up struggling desperately.

"Sorry..."

Lu Zhou smiled lightly, and threw out the last card in his hand without any surprise.

"Looks like I won."

A half-month voyage is quite boring.

There are only three kinds of poker, chess and chess that can pass the time. In the beginning, the nine people (including the two main and co-pilots) passed the time by playing chess. Until Lu Zhou was idle and bored, he used algebraic geometry to build a model of the two sets of chess boards, and solved a game with a winning rate of almost 100%. After a 100% "solution" is found, no one wants to play the game.

In contrast, poker, which still has a large element of luck, is more likely to win against Lu Zhou.

However, this is only in theory.

In reality, except for Schultz who can occasionally win a few games against Lu Zhou, the archaeologist Vernal, who is standing behind Lu Zhou to observe and study, is so pitiful that he has never won.

"Damn it... It was a wrong decision to fight the Landlord with you."

The face was almost covered with notes, Joel Aubrey threw the cards in his hand on the table while cursing, while tearing off a piece of post-it note, carefully glued it to himself on the forehead.

In fact, as a punishment game, the most troublesome thing about stickers is not that the stickers will block the view, but in a zero-gravity environment, if the stickers accidentally fall and fly away, the cabin will be full He ran after the note.

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

Patting Aubrey on the shoulder, Vernal said comfortingly. "Give it up, my friend, how hard it is for you to play this number game with mathematicians."

Aubrey said unwillingly.

"I know... I'm just trying to win."

Professor Vernal laughed and said jokingly.

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

"It doesn't exist, I go there once a year...Occasionally I can win some money."

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

"There's no place for a sticker on your face anymore, unless you want to stuff it up your nostrils, that's it for today."

Hearing this sentence, Lomonov, who was not good at talking, heaved a sigh of relief, pulled out his chair and stood up, but Aubrey said with a dissatisfied expression.

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

"Ten hours."

As soon as he heard ten hours, Aubrey suddenly became frowning.

"Can't you be more generous?"

Lu Zhou smiled slightly and said: "Of course, but the premise is that you are willing to give up the opportunity to go to the underground ruins and stay in the base on the day you set out to explore."

"Sorry, brother, there's nothing to talk about, I won't agree," Aubrey said tragically as he pushed his chair away and stood up, "Those notes are nothing to fear, let the punishment come Let's be more violent!"

Lu Zhou shrugged his shoulders looking at Professor Aubrey who was standing there alone.

"I was just kidding."

"But remember, be willing to bet and admit defeat, don't think about stealing and playing tricks."

Although for a moment, Lu Zhou who said that sentence was sure that he was not joking, but really had similar thoughts.

But think about it, how could you agree to such a thing.

It seems that the only way to get rid of those who are in the way is to wait until it is underground, and then act alone.

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

...

Eighteenth day of departure from the Moon Palace.

The flaming red planet was finally displayed in front of everyone in its complete form.

"Here we are!"

"Oooo!"

Excited cheers resounded throughout the cabin. Standing next to the porthole and looking at the fiery red giant egg, even though the planet has been overlooked countless times through satellites and telescopes, at the moment when it really entered orbit and was captured by the gravity of Mars, , His heart was not only ignited with excitement and desire.

It's like Columbus discovering the New World from the mast.

"...Call the ground command center, here is the 'migratory bird', we have been successfully captured by the Mars gravity system, and are switching to Mars synchronous orbit."

"...The orbit switch is completed, and the orbit altitude is being lowered."

"This is the 'migratory bird', call the headquarters, we have reached the edge of the atmosphere of Mars! The straight-line distance from Xu Fu is 1.27Km, and we are approaching!"

At the same time, the alloy door of the cockpit opened, and the co-pilot wearing a spacesuit in the cabin walked up to Lu Zhou and his party, gave them a military salute, and then spoke.

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

"Wait a minute, why did you go to the Xu Fu first? Isn't it possible here?" Vernal raised his hand and asked nervously, "Also, how do we get down?"

Hearing this idiotic question, Lu Zhou smiled and said.

"Do you need to ask? Of course, I jumped like bungee jumping. Why not here, because there is no rope here."

Hearing this sentence, Vernal's face turned green, Schultz's and Aubrey's faces turned pale, and only Lomonov, who was an aerospace engineer himself, pouted at this, and did not believe Lu Zhou made a joke.

Jump like a bungee jump?

Think about it with your head, is this possible?

After 12 minutes of careful merging, the Queqiao, code-named "Migratory Bird", finally set up a silver-white corridor with the Xu Fu, which was staying in Mars orbit, and completed the docking work.

Although he had the idea of ​​retreating at the last moment, Vernal finally gritted his teeth with determination, and bravely followed the group of people through the silver-white corridor.

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

"Okay friends, we have arrived... At this moment, under your feet is our outpost in the New World, where the dream of the ruins began. You will take the landing pod, living supplies and new function pods to land together, and someone will pick you up there. "

"You should have learned how to use the landing pod during your training, so I'll just send you here."

"Then now, first connect the interface on your spacesuits with the life support system of the landing cabin, and then check whether every button and every seat belt are secure, and think about whether there is anything you haven't said in time , if you need my help to bring it back to Earth."

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

Looking at the raised hands, the co-pilot nodded in satisfaction.

"very good."

"Now that you're all set, let's go!"

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