Are you worthy enough to listen to what I, Shura Armor, have to say?

"No, your director asked me to bring you food." Haotian raised the fruit in his hand. The researcher opposite was immediately overjoyed. After distributing the pancakes to everyone, he stuffed them directly into his mouth.

They didn't look like they were eating, but rather stuffing food directly into their stomachs, and they used black coffee to wash it down. Haotian couldn't imagine how crazy their mental state was at that moment.

"Is the person who just fell down okay?" Haotian asked curiously as he watched the other person swallow the pancake with great difficulty.

"Oh, it's okay. This situation is very common recently. After all, everyone hasn't slept for a long time."

"Ah? How long is this long time?"

"Let me see," the researcher glanced at his phone with bloodshot eyes. "I haven't slept in seventy hours, and everyone else should be about the same."

Awesome! They are rushing to deliver results to the King of Hell.

Although his best record was staying up all night for a week without sleeping and beating people up, people's physical conditions cannot be generalized after all. Seventy hours is already a lethal dose for ordinary people.

"Don't you want to take a break?"

"Rest for nothing! I'll be mad at anyone who tells me to rest now!" The researcher angrily showed off his muscular build.

"I've worked so hard to build up this muscle just for this moment! Only the strongest can get first-hand information and data. Every second I spend in front of the computer now will get me mentioned in history books. If I discover something, I'll have my own family tree in the future!"

He clenched his fists and said excitedly, "This is a genuine space battleship and a spacecraft that can reach the speed of light. Such information is only worthy of the strong. And the strong are bound to humiliate the weak...weak..."

thump.

He seems old (sad).

Seeing him fall, the researcher next to him just threw him into the "morgue" with an expressionless face and said to Haotian: "I told him to consume caffeine regularly. This guy was so happy eating the pancake that he forgot to drink it."

I understand. After all, black coffee doesn't really go well with Jianbing.

Haotian nodded politely and asked them not to overwork themselves. Although the researchers politely said yes, Haotian didn't think they really listened.

Because they are still pouring black coffee into their stomachs.

As soon as he went out, Haotian saw Yuan Dagu lying beside the fence, marveling at the Atlantis.

Dagu, when did you come?

Haotian subconsciously looked around to see if there was a new city. It was already dangerous for the two of them to be so close to the Atlantis alone, and if the two of them were to get together, something would definitely happen.

Fortunately, this is the base, and the ace duo is not out on the field. One of them will definitely refresh the other's passive within seven steps, so there is no Xincheng next to Dagu.

Hahaha, looks like we can rest easy now.

Dagu didn't know what Haotian was thinking, but when he saw the latter here, he waved and walked over: "Xiaotian, what are you doing here?"

"Protect the Atlantis so that it won't be destroyed by you or people like Xincheng," Haotian replied.

Hearing this, Dagu showed an awkward smile on his face: "Uh... even if I crash more times, I can't crash such a big Atlantis, right?"

"It's hard to say"

Haotian used the summoner to project Victory Swallow No. 1.

"Ahem, ahem, an isolated case, an isolated case!" Dagu was too embarrassed to look at it and lowered his head in shame.

"Beware of massive cases"

Haotian obviously didn't trust the other party, but because there was no new city nearby, he didn't drive the other party away immediately.

After all, these two people have basically never crashed when driving a vehicle alone. They are undoubtedly two excellent pilots.

The only problem is they are rarely apart.

"Come to think of it, why are you here? Are you here for the Victory Team's inspection?" Haotian asked.

"That's not the case. The Atlantis is still a secret. Although we in the Victory Team all knew about it, we didn't realize it was right under our feet."

Daigo explained, "I came here after Dr. Yaoi."

"Dr. Yaoi? The one who invented the Max Power System?"

“Yes, that one.”

Da Gu looked at the Atlantis below and talked about what had just happened.

As the member with the best driving skills in the Victory Team, Lina was naturally chosen as the tester of Max's power system.

In the universe, Lina, a member of the Victory Swallow No. 1, which was equipped with the Max power system, kept approaching the speed of light. However, at the moment of reaching the speed of light, the fuselage showed abnormality, and she immediately requested to stop the experiment.

At this time, Director Yoshioka stood up and raised objections, arguing that conducting this experiment would require a lot of manpower and material resources, and it was unknown when the next such experiment would be conducted.

However, considering the personal safety of Team Member Lina, Captain Iruma Kei and Director Sawai finally issued an order to stop the experiment. At the same time, they asked the most authoritative Dr. Yaoi, "Dr. Yaoi, the Max power system should not have any effect on the human body, right?"

Originally, this was just a normal inquiry, but Dr. Yaoi's answer made everyone in the Victory Team angry.

"That's not certain. This is a drive system that has never been seen in human history. No one can guarantee how it will work."

Upon hearing this, Team Member Horii, who is a scientist, exploded on the spot and said that as a scientist himself, he could not accept Dr. Yao's remarks.

The other team members were also very angry and began to criticize Dr. Yawei. Dr. Yawei was also furious: "The people in the Victory Team are too conservative. If we don't do more experiments, how can such a groundbreaking technology be fully realized?"

After saying that, Dr. Yaoi left angrily.

No one else had a good impression of him, so no one tried to keep him. Instead, Daigu always felt that Dr. Yaoi should be a good person, maybe just not very good at talking, so he followed him and wanted to communicate with him.

Dr. Yaoi noticed his presence, but still pretended to be angry and said nothing. However, he brought Daigu here intentionally or unintentionally.

And here, the moment he saw the Atlantis, Daigu immediately understood why Dr. Yaoi was so radical.

Because Max Power Systems has reasons for him to do so.

A spaceship, a huge spaceship that can carry humans to the distant parts of the universe, definitely has such value.

"Xiaotian, can you understand how I feel right now?" Dagu stared at the Atlantis with fascination, and said with emotion: "I have been a science fiction fan since I was very young. I have no resistance to spaceships, fighter planes, etc. I even joined TPC just to get close to Victory Swallow No. 1."

"Now, the Atlantis, a real, incredibly cool spaceship, is right in front of me. It's like Professor Yaoi is telling me that the things I imagined as a child are really coming true."

I saw the battleships on fire at the edge of Orion, I watched the C-rays blaze in the darkness near the Tannhauser Gate...

This is one of the greatest science fiction movies in the world. The last words of the android Roy in "Blade Runner" are what he calls an event that humans absolutely cannot believe.

As a teenager, Da Gu was moved by this line again and again, and he couldn't help but yearn for the universe that Roy described.

What does the constellation Orion look like?

Does the Tannhauser Gate really exist in the distant universe?

And is it true that humans...are they, as Roy said, completely unable to see these scenes, or even imagine them?

Now, Dr. Yaoi gave him the answer, or rather, gave him a door to the answer, which is the Atlantis.

If you want to see what the constellations look like, go and see them.

If you want to find the Tannhauser Gate, go find it.

Perhaps humans today cannot see such scenes, and may not even be able to see them in ten or a hundred years. But with the Max propulsion system and the Atlantis, one day, one day, humans will be able to see these scenes.

That's why they exist.

"Is this so..."

Haotian also looked at the Atlantis with a smile on his face.

He does not have the same infinite yearning for the universe as Daiko, nor does he have the same extraordinary passion for academics as the researchers at the Space Development Center like Ryosuke, nor does he devote all his efforts and half his life to the Max power system like Dr. Yao.

However, he understands everyone's love and persistence for Atlantis, and understands that this can make everyone better.

For him, that was enough.

"Then you must protect this thing well," Haotian stretched out his fist.

"Yes, we must protect it well," Dagu said as he touched him with a smile.

"So you and Xincheng must stay away from it, ancestor!"

"I don't want to! I was born to drive this!"

Dagu roared like a child and rushed towards the Atlantis, while Haotian desperately pulled his body.

In the distance, Dr. Yaoi watched the two of them playing around, smiled, and returned to his work.

And at the same time

A huge outline appeared above Mars.

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ps: ...Can anyone tell me why Xi·yi·wei·chang is a blocked word?

Volume 84: Chapter : Atlantis, Set Sail

Haotian spent a whole day at TPC and didn't feel anything unusual here. Instead, he felt that the most dangerous person here was not the Atlantis, but the researchers in the laboratory above.

The mental state of this group of guys has reached a level that humans cannot even comprehend. They have absorbed the research data like ice. They often collapse in the middle of their research, and then continue their research after waking up.

Damn, is TPC headquarters some kind of Taoist sect?

If this continues, the Space Development Center will be destroyed!

Haotian was really speechless. While watching out for this group of people to avoid sudden death, he also had to guard against Dagu from touching the Atlantis. Why were all the internal teammates putting pressure on him?

Requesting to substitute a teammate, thank you.

The only one who could heal his heart at this time was Lixi. After she heard that Haotian came here to work overtime, although she only said a few words like "Oh, that's great" and "Work hard and don't lose face", but at lunchtime she appeared outside the TPC door and handed Haotian a lunch box.

Hello everyone, have you seen a beautiful girl with long black hair named Shiina Riki?

She's my girlfriend, she's not lost or anything, she's just cute and I thought you all should get to know her.

Haotian walked to the cafeteria with Lixi's panda lunch box in his hand, smiling, and met Shinjo, who was carrying a three-layer lunch box and looked dejected, and Horii, who was following behind him, waiting for the meal to start at any time.

"Xincheng, what's wrong with you?"

Haotian sat with the two people opposite him. Xincheng lowered his head and just sighed without answering. Horii tied a white napkin elegantly and silently helped Xincheng unfold his three-layer lunch box.

The lunch box was filled with all kinds of expensive ingredients, such as lobster, foie gras, caviar, and even cooked in three different styles from top to bottom: Chinese, Japanese, and French. It looked very appetizing.

In comparison, Haotian's place was a bit shabby, with only a few common dishes like octopus sausage omelets, and the staple food was two rice balls shaped like pandas.

"You're not happy with such good food?" Haotian looked at Xincheng strangely, but the other party still didn't seem to want to reply. Instead, Horii beside him started to explain for him:

"This is something Shinjo's sister... ahem, that racing driver named Takuma prepared for him."

Before uttering that inappropriate word, Horii felt the death gaze from Shinjo, so he changed his words sincerely and then went back to eating.

After all, no matter how delicious these things are, Shinjo definitely can't finish them, so Horii can only help him solve it reluctantly.

"puff"

Hearing this, Haotian couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"What are you laughing at?" Xincheng glared at him.

"I don't have a younger sister, and my girlfriend prepared the lunch box for me, so I'm very happy," Haotian replied.

"You fucking?"

Xincheng, who was already single and now has lost his younger sister, was hit hard.

Shinjo was a tough guy, but he couldn't hold it back and finally cried on Horii's shoulder, tears and snot all over the place. However, his appearance made everyone else in the cafeteria smile, and the air was filled with a happy atmosphere.

At this moment, Shinjo and Horii's communicators suddenly rang, and the commander suddenly called all members of the Victory Team to gather in the conference room.

Shinjo and Horii looked at each other, grabbed some food on the table and ran away. Haotian thought that if something big happened, he would have to be there, so he followed them.

After entering the meeting room, Haotian naturally mixed in with the Victory team members, ran to Dagu and sat half of his butt on his chair.

Perhaps it was because the situation was urgent, or perhaps it was because Haotian's actions were too natural, so no one objected to the situation and began to explain.

This task has always been handled by Ye Rui, and this time was no exception. He turned on the big screen and said, "Carlo Base, Delta Space Station, and TPC Observatory have discovered abnormal gravity conditions on Mars since yesterday, so they have been trying to observe it. Today, they suddenly observed this scene."

On the big screen, a robotic island that was more than twice the size of Mars appeared in the sky above Mars, and the telescope clearly captured the entire picture of this thing.

It was a huge round island like a spinning top, with a surface covered with sand and as bumpy as the surface of the moon, and underneath was a shining metal base.

It is obvious that this thing could not be naturally generated, but is a real man-made product.

At this moment, this huge island is lying above Mars, slowly absorbing something.

...Did it turn out to have reached Mars?

Haotian looked at the huge mechanical island and was very sure that this was the one he saw at that time. After all, there couldn't be a second thing this big.

But its whereabouts are too strange. The last time he saw this thing, it was near the Earth. Why did it suddenly run to Mars now?