Chapter 1400 As if Alive!

What kind of experience is it to fall from a height of hundreds of kilometers?

Lu Zhou felt that after this expedition, he would probably have more say than anyone else except the Orbital Airborne Brigade.

The feeling of standing on the critical line between life and death made the adrenaline in his body soar, and he could even hear his own heartbeat as he held the armrest of the cushioned seat tightly with both hands.

When the landing capsule fell into the sea of ​​sand, it was the first time that Lu Zhou felt so intimately that life was so beautiful.

as well as……

The Institute of Aerospace Science and Technology of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study should give serious consideration to the issue of user experience.

Accompanied by a violent tremor, the heavy alloy hatch slammed open.

The strong wind and yellow sand came from outside the cabin and blew on everyone.

After unlocking the connection port of the life support system in the cabin, Professor Vernal, who stood up from the cushioned seat, staggered out of the cabin. Looking at the vast desert where he entered his eyes, his eyes were filled with indescribable shock.

"God...feels like being in Egypt."

"Egypt?"

"Um……"

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 hands. He felt the touch from an alien planet through the graphene fibers, and his face was full of excitement and shock. expression.

"...I have worked there for three years, from the Nile to the Sahara Desert, our archaeological team's footprints have crossed the entire border... But even so, I have never seen such a spectacular scenery."

"Will civilization ever exist here?" Immediately after stepping over the hatch that fell to the ground, Lomonov squinted his eyes, looked over the heavy dust, and looked at the only trace of dust above the skyline. Disc-sized light, and then glanced at the gamma counter on the wrist-mounted computer, "...Even Chernobyl, it can't be worse than here."

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

"According to the academic point of view, maybe three billion years ago, maybe four billion years ago, before the core of Mars cooled, there used to be an atmosphere thicker than that of the earth, and freshwater lakes were distributed on the surface of the planet And oceans, theoretically have 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 turning on the positioning device and setting the coordinates, Lu Zhou, the last one who came out of the landing capsule, looked up at the approaching Mars rover in the distance, interrupting the chat in the public channel.

"Let's stop discussing academic issues, everyone pack up and get ready to go to the base."

It is said to pack things, but in fact there is nothing worth packing. Each person's personal belongings are only a 26-inch aerospace-specific suitcase, which is embedded behind the outer shell of the landing capsule.

After everyone dragged the suitcase with their own numbers out of the landing cabin, the Mars rover in the distance also drove to the side of everyone.

The car door opened, and an astronaut who was neither tall nor short, jumped out of the car and walked quickly to Lu Zhou, his voice was a little incoherent with excitement.

"Lu, Academician Lu, are you really 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 continued happily, "May I ask you for an autograph?"

Fan Tong?

The name Lu Zhou is somewhat familiar. If he remembers correctly, he should be a researcher of the "128 Anomaly Project". Strictly speaking, he is under his own research group.

"Let's talk about this when we go back. You go to drive first. I have something to ask you later."

"yes!"

Standing at attention and saluting, Fan Tong quickly climbed back into the car.

Lu Zhou also turned around, and began to call on the others to tie their luggage to the rover, then took the lead to get into the rover, and ordered Fan Tong to drive the rover back.

Because the landing site itself is near the base, they did not drive for a long time. When they approached the base, they happened to see three hemispherical domes slowly flying from the air to the ground under the blue tail flames. It fell down and deployed unhurriedly in the circled open space next to the scientific research base.

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

"God……"

"How did you do it?"

Hearing this murmur, Lu Zhou smiled and said casually.

"As you can see, it's really nothing special."

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

Nothing special was ok.

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

Thinking of this, Lomonov couldn't help feeling a little sad.

Although he came to the Jinling Space Launch Center from Moscow with the purpose of learning, and he was already prepared in his heart to be shown, but he still didn't expect the gap to be so far.

From space launch technology to landing on outer planets, in all the processes he has experienced, he can't find even a place where the Russian aerospace group is relatively leading.

These Chinese people not only completely ate the entire industrial chain, but even achieved the ultimate in the technology of every link that he could imagine. It seems that they are indeed too far behind the times, so that the gap can no longer be simply described in one or two sentences.

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

With the heavy fall of the alloy gate, it finally cut off the eyes of the people who had been reluctant to move away for a long time, and at the same time cut off the noisy yellow sand outside the cars and boats.

Cleaning fluid was sprayed from the buffer room, covering every corner of the rover in an all-round way. Afterwards, a group of people got off the vehicle and received the cleaning fluid and pure water in turn.

After the ventilation device filled the buffer chamber with air, they changed out of the spacesuits on their bodies, stuffed them into their lockers according to the number, and took out light clothes to change into.

At this time, the alloy door on the side moved open, and Captain Liang Youcheng, the chief officer 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. My humble fellow Liang Youcheng is the captain of the scientific research team stationed here. I hope that in the next month or even two months, you can get used to the life here. I will take you to your respective places in a while. room, dinner time is at 18:00, which is based on Beijing time, before that, you can move around freely, or you can follow me to visit the interior of the base."

"In addition, I have heard about your mission. If there is anything that needs help, just tell me."

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

"...The basic situation is like this. Free activities before dinner, or visit the facilities here with Captain Liang, I have nothing to add," nodded to Captain Liang, and after handing over the arrangement of these people to him, Lu Zhou continued to look at Fan Tong who was standing beside him, "Dr. Fan, come with me."

Fan Tong immediately stood up straight with his head upright, nodded and said.

"yes!"

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

Seeing the alloy door close, Lu Zhou pulled a chair and sat down as if he was at home, then motioned Fan Tong to find a place to sit, and then said straight to the point.

"Tell me briefly about the situation here."

"Which aspect do you want to know?"

"Everything about Project 128."

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

"I have been researching this matter for a month."

"In order to find out why those fractured structures suddenly appeared and disappeared, I tried to send a remote-controlled car to explore the underground of the cave, but due to the limited propagation distance of electromagnetic wave signals, it can only be operated by wire-controlled technology, so the remote-controlled The radius of movement of the car is limited, and I can't go deep into the place below, but I still found a lot of suspicious things."

Lu Zhou: "Suspicious?"

"Yes."

Fan Tong nodded and continued with a solemn expression.

"The terrain under the Hell's Gate Mountains changes very frequently. There will be a large change almost every 71 minutes, and a small adjustment every 34 minutes. As for the earthquake structure, it appears randomly, and it has not been found statistically. What is the law. At first we thought it was the special geological structure of Mars, but later based on the feedback results of information such as the distribution and intensity of seismic waves, we found that things are not so simple."

"There is no indication that regional earthquakes cause such peculiar and frequent changes in its underground structure. In contrast, it is more like some kind of mechanically driven transport."

"Mechanical drive?" Lu Zhou hesitated slightly, then smiled and said, "How is this possible?"

"I also think it's unlikely, but there seems to be no better explanation." Fan Tong showed a headache expression on his face, "Theoretically speaking, in two or three billion years, no matter how great the project is, it will Lost in the long river of time. However, apart from human factors, I really can't think of any possibility that could cause such strange changes in those tunnels."

"It's almost as if... there is something alive!"