Chapter 56 Selecting the Scientific Expedition Team

Not only scientists, but also ordinary people's enthusiasm for Mars scientific research exceeded Yu Yifeng's imagination. As soon as the news was released, tens of thousands of people responded enthusiastically, and the government had to establish a special screening process...

Special team member Zhao Yao and a group of young guys are training crazily in the training room. Soldiers are not ordinary citizens and do not need to participate in this selection process.

After all, the army is hierarchical and has a superior-subordinate relationship. There is no need for democracy or equality. Once an order is given, whoever the superior assigns will go. But because of the special nature of this scientific expedition, there are no enemies or particularly big dangers, so recruits will be the main participants in this mission.

In the past few months, the national security department has recruited more than 200 new soldiers. Adding in the original personnel, the number of soldiers in the entire spacecraft has reached 300. The original rank of veteran officers has been increased by one level.

As a member of the veterans, Zhao Yao also became one of the captains, and his military rank was promoted to captain. He is responsible for the training of twenty new recruits, which is actually equivalent to the level of a class.

Under normal circumstances, their training environment is basically concentrated in the high gravity area below the spacecraft. Physical training in high gravity zones is very effective.

However, recently, in order to adapt to the Martian environment, they moved to a medium gravity area. This is to adapt to the gravity of Mars in advance, because the gravity of Mars is only about one-third that of the Earth, which is still a bit different.

The army obtained a total of 30 landing places during this scientific expedition. Zhao Yao is the main commander of this operation, and all soldiers who land must obey him.

Even though he usually looks unreliable, that's because there are more awesome people like Yu Yifeng and Xu Yunjin. However, in China at that time, who could really be selected into China's first special forces force, which one would be unreliable? Zhao Yao is a veteran who has experienced many dangerous missions.

In the training room, the recruits are training with their firearms or engaging in hand-to-hand combat. Sometimes when Zhao Yao's hands are itchy, he will go up and teach the new recruits a lesson, and he can win one on three or one on four. Hey, these new recruits are too weak for him. If there was a real life-and-death fight, he could kill the entire squad by himself. This was entirely due to the difference in combat experience and physical fitness.

Among the 30 spots, he was the only original special team member. There are three others who are former security team members. They are also veterans and have some experience. The remaining 26 are all new recruits.

"Everyone is here! Assemble!" Zhao Yao shouted loudly when the time came. With a roar, all the recruits ran and gathered in front of him, standing at attention.

"Take a break!"

There was another sound of small steps. After this period of training, these recruits finally had good discipline. There is no rule without discipline, so Zhao Yao is quite satisfied with these new recruits.

"It's been two months, time flies so fast." He thought to himself, since he became the team leader, he also had to take on corresponding responsibilities, and the tasks were really much heavier.

"I'm here to announce something. Wait a moment. Our ten recruit brigades will conduct a ranking competition for the overall quality of recruits. The competition items include six items: shooting, fighting, medical, physical fitness, psychological quality, and environmental adaptability assessment. .

Only the twenty-six recruits with the highest grades can go to Mars with me! I don't want our class to fall behind in grades, so please give me a try, do you understand? "

"Understood!" Everyone replied in unison. Their eyes flashed with excitement and excitement, but they all restrained themselves.

These recruits are still very high-spirited. Zhao Yao nodded with satisfaction...

Not only the soldiers were encouraged, but also the people, because there were so many people who wanted to participate in this scientific examination. The government has to select candidates with professional skills or very high comprehensive abilities.

"Everyone should know that the purpose of this operation is scientific investigation, not tourism, and the duration will be one to two months. Comrades who don't have any skills should not send in random resumes! Mars exploration also has certain dangers! "

"Attention, this is not a tourist trip, but a scientific expedition, and there is a certain degree of danger..."

At the volunteer registration point, a fat man was shouting with a loudspeaker. However, there are still many people who submit their resumes with a sense of luck.

The quotas for scientists, soldiers, and doctors have been determined, and the remaining ordinary people need to be screened, which is only one or two hundred people.

The leaders of the geology group, medical group, biology group, and engineering group are constantly reviewing these resumes. Their selection requirements are very strict, whether it is professional standards or physical fitness. If one of them fails, they will be rejected.

After the resumes are selected, interviews are conducted, and only 200 people are finally selected. No matter how strict it is, it cannot be too strict.

"Zhao, I heard that there will be strong winds of level 12 on Mars, which is very dangerous!" A tall white girl was pulling her boyfriend and said with a worried look on her face.

This young man is none other than Zhao Chao, Wang Zhiyuan’s roommate and the one he drank with.

He finally found a girlfriend, she was of Russian origin, she had to have a good figure and good looks, it was a great time...

"Sigh... Victoria, don't listen to their nonsense. The air pressure on Mars is only one percent of Earth's, and even a 12-level wind has no power." Zhao Chao said nonchalantly. He had already understood it.

He was filling out the application form, writing down his resume, including his master's degree from Peking University and Tsinghua University, majoring in geological engineering, and other academic certificates such as architectural engineer and mechanical engineer. In addition to the excellent physical fitness test report, his conditions were relatively good and he should be able to get a ranking.

"But, this book says that there will be big storms on Mars at any time..." Victoria was still a little worried and took out a novel - "Mars Mission".

"Hehe, it's a novel, part of it is fictional, and it can't be taken seriously." After filling out the application form, Zhao Chao checked it again and handed it in directly.

He smiled and said, "If there is really a strong wind, that kind of force can't blow us away. Otherwise, scientists will definitely remind us. Don't worry, Captain Yu Yifeng won't let us die."

"Really?" Victoria blinked, "Then I want to sign up too!"

...

The new human government has very high mobility and organizational capabilities. After the two-day personnel screening officially ended, the spacecraft happened to float to the North Pole, about 1,000 kilometers above the ground, and then the spacecraft began to float in the air and drift with the wind.

Because this planet is likely to be the landing point in the next few years, no matter how cautious you are, it is not excessive. Scientists have already conducted a lot of investigations with experimental instruments in advance, and there are no particularly unusual discoveries.

Five hundred personnel, including engineers, doctors, nurses, soldiers, reporters, and more scientists, are ready to go and line up in front of the "Victory" spacecraft.

Under the gaze of everyone, Yu Yifeng encouraged: "Comrades, you are 500 elites carefully selected from 50,000 people, with professional qualities and skills. I won't say much else. Here, I will repeat your tasks."

"First, build a small base that humans can live in."

"Second, obtain a detailed geological report on the Arctic Circle."

"Third, investigate whether life on Mars really exists."

"Fourth...please ensure your personal safety.

Okay, that's all I have to say, let's set off! I wish you a successful return in advance!"

"Victory!" The five hundred people made a V-shaped gesture together and took a big group photo. Then, they put on their spacesuits and walked into the Victory one by one.

Due to the insufficient carrying capacity, the Victory may have to go back and forth two or three times to carry a large amount of living supplies and mechanical equipment down.

If Noah flew lower, it could use space ropes to directly hang things down, but now at an altitude of one thousand kilometers, this is almost impossible.

Yu Yifeng's mind moved, maybe he could study short-distance transportation facilities with a large carrying capacity, which would be much more convenient...

The average temperature of Mars is -63 degrees Celsius, the atmosphere on the surface is thin and cold, and it has two satellites. For this sister planet of the Earth, the topic of "whether there is life on Mars" has always been the focus of people's attention.

In 2000, a Martian meteorite was found in Antarctica. NASA claimed that some microfossil-like structures were found on this meteorite, and some people thought it might be evidence of the existence of life.

But some people think it is just a naturally generated mineral crystal. Until 2004, neither side of the debate had the upper hand.

The Mars rover Viking once conducted an experimental test to find out whether there are microorganisms in the Martian soil. The experiment was limited to the landing site of the Viking and gave a positive result, but then it was denied by many scientists, which is controversial...

Existing biological activity is also one of the explanations for the presence of trace methane in the Martian atmosphere, but people usually agree with other explanations that have nothing to do with life.

Is there any material suitable for life on Mars? This has always been a mystery that humans have tried to uncover. For this question, scientists gave a positive answer after the Curiosity rover explored Mars for 7 months. NASA once announced that the analysis of Martian bedrock samples by the Curiosity rover showed that the ancient environment of Mars was indeed suitable for life.

However, "suitable" does not necessarily mean "existing". Humans have never discovered life on Mars...

The answer will soon be revealed in the hands of the scientific expedition team.

(ps: Thank you all for your recommendations, collections, and rewards over the past week.

People always ask me questions like whether I will be abandoned. Now I will answer them in one fell swoop.

This book had very poor performance in the first 110,000 words. It took me more than two months to conceive and about 20 days to write. At that time, there were only nine collections. Nine, everyone knows. Among these nine collections, some were from pirated websites, some were from editors, and some were automatically collected by robots. I don’t even know if there is a real reader.

As for the recommendation votes, there is not a single one... Would I say that I voted for myself? By the way, there is a friend in QQ Bookstore who often recommends this book. I don’t know how he found this book. He may be my only reader.

At that time, I still insisted on writing it alone for a month, but didn’t I make it through?

Now, I have more than 400, nearly 500 readers. People often encourage me, reward me, and recommend me. If I abandon it, it would be too damaging to my character. Generally speaking, I won’t. (At least I am very happy with what I write, hahaha.)

Here is a little story. The editor of Qidian tried to recommend my book last week. Generally speaking, it is considered a passing grade if the number of favorites increases by more than 300. But after the first day, I only got 26 favorites (T^T). This means less than 200 in a week. I am definitely being banished to the cold palace.

If I am banished to the cold palace, there will be no follow-up recommendations. I will be drowned in the vast sea of ​​books.

So, I have to shamelessly advertise in the book list area. I don’t want to fail... Dear single owners, some of the advertisements are my own. Please forgive me. I am really sorry. (This week’s results are okay. Now I have changed my ways and don’t advertise anymore...)

Thank you very much to single owners such as Poyang Lake, Jingqi Suoxiang, Changge, and Sanqingfeng. I won’t mention them one by one. I am very grateful for giving me a chance to be on the book list. Without you, I would definitely have failed. I am really grateful.

Novels of interstellar civilization are still too niche. I know this. Qidian has been around for so many years, and there are only seven such fine books. Only seven books, which are really too few.

From the number of clicks, we can see that Marvel, Doomsday, Infinite Stream, etc. are still popular. After being recommended on the web page, they will definitely get thousands or tens of thousands of clicks. However, my book has less than 1,000 clicks (web version), so there are still too few people reading it. If you like this book, I hope you can promote it more so that more people can discover it. The author is very grateful.)