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Above Mars' orbit.

There was silence in the cockpit.

Waiting quietly for the results on the other side of the communication channel, Liu Biao took a deep breath and said suddenly.

"captain."

Xu Zhenghong: "What's wrong?"

Liu Biao: "Are we appropriate to do this?"

"Is there anything inappropriate in the exchanges between nations? From the same standpoint, they may not pre-set conditions for rescue," Xu Zhenghong smiled at the slightly younger comrade-in-arms. , Cast his eyes on the sand-buried planet, "Moreover, even in the name of humanitarianism, we cannot run this trip in vain."

Liu Biao asked, "What if they don't find what we want?"

Xu Zhenghong was silent for a while and said.

"It's a loss for us."

However, for the sake of maximizing benefits, they will eventually let them on board.

And this is what Professor Lu explained to him ...

...

At the same time, the surface of Mars.

The alloy door panels on the outside of the life support unit slowly opened, and a red painted Mars rover drove out of it, facing away from the rolling sea of ​​sand.

Looking at the approaching green dot on the radar, Johnson's face was filled with complex expressions.

Obviously, NASA cannot issue such a ridiculous task. The so-called "this is your request" from the Chinese, cannot even say an excuse to comfort him.

But if he wants to go home, he has no choice ...

Guided by the onboard radar, Johnson quickly reached his destination.

The car was parked not far from the center of the explosion. Johnson, who had already worn the outer spacesuit, took out the toolbox from the Mars trunk and walked towards the center of the crash site of the BFS.

"Shett ... all fell into this ghost."

While watching this shocking tragic situation, Johnson sampled the materials of each part of the BFS spacecraft in accordance with the requirements in the mission log and stored them in a special sample box.

The core area was soon approached, and the wreckage gradually increased.

Carefully stepping over the steel fragments, Johnson took the arc cutting gun out of the toolbox, pressed the button against the deformed metal casing, and quickly cut a circular fracture into the casing that could be accessed by humans.

After doing all this, Johnson took a breath and threw the cutting gun into the toolbox and set it aside.

"Huh ... it's time to work."

To himself, he reached out and grabbed the metal bars in the cabin of the BFS spacecraft. With his arms slowly, he passed the metal residue and slid into the cabin.

"The black box ... let me think about it, it seems to be under the seat in the cab. Well, it should be like this ..."

Turning on the flashlight on his chest, Johnson wiped the sand and dust from a spacesuit mask, and started fumbling in the direction of the cab, following the route in memory.

In fact, as Lu Zhou guessed, something similar to a black box does exist on the BFS spacecraft. It will record a series of calculation data from the launch of the BFS spacecraft to the orbit and the communication records with the NASA headquarters.

If the BFS spacecraft encounters an accident, it will fall to the surface of Mars and recover the black box is also one of the work of the ground colonizers.

However, this part of the work does not include the part of giving the black box to the Chinese ...

From the broken driver's seat, he found the green suitcase with a reflective strip. Johnson hesitated for a moment, but finally shook his head and turned to walk out of the cabin ...

Thirty kilometers apart in a life support unit.

Jones and Tave, who were left behind in the experimental cabin, were anxiously awaiting news from Captain Johnson.

I don't know how many times I have looked out of the porthole. Even if there is nothing except the long yellow sand there, Taiwei can't help but stretch his neck and look out.

At this moment, the door of the experimental capsule suddenly opened. Johnson, wearing a spacesuit outside the cabin, with sand all over his body, came in with a green box with a reflective strip and a smaller suitcase.

A smile appeared on Tai Wei's face, welcoming him, but Johnson didn't look at him, pushed him away and walked straight to the console, connected the data cable on the space suit to the next case, and then pressed Connect communication button.

"I have found what you want."

The noisy current sounded for a while.

The answering voice soon came from the communication channel.

"Congratulations, you have already received your ticket to return home. Now please enter the return cabin and start the ignition process. We will arrive in New Virginia in 5 minutes."

"Roger that."

Unplugging the data cable, Johnson looked at the two teammates standing behind him, exhaling as if unloading the burden.

"... We go home."

...

The New Virginia escape capsule is located in the center of the life support unit, directly above the methane generator.

When the condition on the surface of Mars deteriorates beyond control, the colonists only need to enter the return capsule and start the escape procedure. The liquid oxygen and methane in the life support unit will be injected into the engine of the base of the return capsule as much as possible for return. The capsule returned to the BFS spacecraft in orbit.

Of course, now the BFS spacecraft has been actively crashed by NASA.

Although there is no direct evidence to prove that this is done by NASA, Johnson has no other reason.

Even more, he would rather believe that NASA took the initiative to abandon them.

This can also make his guilt slightly lighter ...

Dragging the thick smoke column and flame, the hemispherical silver-white return capsule was separated from the life-sustaining unit, and the rolling dust was broken away.

At this moment, the failed exoplanet colonization, which lasted less than three months, finally established a stronghold with the withdrawal of the colonizers.

Of course, although they failed, the experience and lessons they learned in the failure are enough to pave the way for their successors and help them go further ...

Heading towards a silent starry sky, the return capsule rising into the orbit gradually lost its power and merged into the orbit around Mars. After half an hour of floating, he was finally put into the arms of the Xiaguang.

Extending the lens, looking far away, the large and small spacecraft approaching slowly under the sun's rays are like two light spots shining at the intersection.

"The New Virginia was successfully orbited ... Our oxygen may not last long and we need help."

"Here is Xiaguang. We have received your request. Please wait patiently for rescue."

The hatch opened slowly, and a thick and long mechanical arm protruded from the cabin, slowly pinching the shell of the return cabin. At the moment of contact, the bulkhead of the return cabin shook violently for a while, but soon stabilized and was slowly dragged out of the cargo hold by Xiaguang.

This design was originally used to recover space trash and satellites that failed to crash when they reached the end of their useful life, but it is technically feasible to recover the return capsule for escape.

Almost at the same time, in the city of Jinling, thousands of kilometers away, surrounded by a media reporter, the lunar orbital construction committee held a press conference as scheduled to publicize the latest progress of the rescue operation.

When hearing the news that the BFS spacecraft fell from the orbit of Mars, the reporter at the scene was in panic. The scene was out of control. The wife of Johnson, who came to China from North America, even cried while covering his nose.

But in just a few hours, everything went back and forth.

When the return capsule was successfully in orbit, the Xiaguang arrived in the target airspace, and the news of the spacecraft recovery operation began to flow, reporters at the scene and people from all walks of life waiting for the final result, as well as members of the US embassy and the families of the victims were held. He breathed and waited nervously for the final result.

In the end, when the news of the successful rescue spanned tens of millions of kilometers and a delay of five or six minutes and reached the Jinling Ground Command Center, the news of "successful rescue work" and "all three astronauts survived" were also published on the first It was announced on the big screen at the press conference.

When the exciting lines of words came into view, when all the chants and prayers got a satisfactory answer ...

The scene of a press conference.

In an instant.

Filled with thunderous applause!

"God ... thank you! Thank you! Thank you very much! Sorry, I don't know how to express it, my mood is a bit out of control, ohh ..."

Holding tightly the hand of chief designer Lu Zhou, the crying woman excitedly said thank you, her legs slowly lost support, fortunately, the staff at the side quickly supported her with anxious hands, only to get excited She was about to faint and did not fall to the ground.

Lu Zhou gave her a comforting look, UU reading www. uukanshu. Com then ordered the staff to take her to rest.

The life of his husband is unknown.

For more than a month, she must have suffered a lot.

Now that the stone in her heart finally landed, she finally managed to sleep peacefully.

Standing in front of the reporter's camera, Chen Yunhai, the director of the Organization Department of the Lunar Orbit Construction Commission and deputy director of the China National Space Administration, solemnly announced the victory of the rescue operation, and announced the timetable for the return of Xiaguang.

Standing aside and watching, the embassy staff took off their eyes and wiped the sand around the corners of their eyes with their index fingers and thumbs. Immediately afterwards, like the people next to him, he gave applause for this moment.

Although they lost the game, there is no doubt about it.

but……

He still couldn't help clapping for this moment ...