Everyone was well-trained and immediately fell down behind the short mud wall that had just been built, wrapping the space suit with canvas and other covers, in order to protect the space suit from being penetrated by sand and gravel!
"Let's go down!" Du Xingyu pulled Xu Lianqiu over, handed her a piece of canvas, and lay behind the mud wall together. At this time, they no longer cared about the rover and the modular robot.
Just as they were hiding, a sudden dust storm had taken shape, and rolling sand and dust came from a distance! The momentum was huge, covering the sky and the sun!
"Be careful and protect yourself. The Yinghuo number monitors the dust storm and prepares for rescue!" Du Xingyu shouted.
"Yes!" Everyone slowed down their breathing and waited quietly.
It is noon on Mars now, and it is close to the Martian equator. It should have been shining with the scorching sun, but at this moment the entire sky is pitch black, and the rolling sand and dust cover everything!
In this boundless darkness, the storm is wrapped in flying sand and rocks, sweeping across all obstacles around!
It was noisy! Even through the space suit and mask, they could clearly hear the sound of sand and gravel impact, especially the "dongdongdong" knocking sound made by them on the rover and module robots, as if there was a terrifying existence in the darkness!
Xu Lianqiu said in the communicator: "Don't move, this dust storm should pass quickly. Protect the space suits and remedy them in time if they are penetrated by sand and gravel... In addition, the Martian dust storm will carry a lot of static electricity, and even lightning will occur! Everyone should try not to speak later!"
"Boom..." It seemed to be to verify what Xu Lianqiu said, a deafening thunder sounded in the dust storm, and lightning disappeared instantly and was covered by wind and sand.
Even if an astronaut with good psychological quality is in pain, he will feel sad when he experiences this situation on an alien planet.
Although Xu Lianqiu was warning his teammates, he also had some tension in his voice. Everyone understands the truth, but when he is in such a disaster scenario, no one dares to be sure that his judgment is correct.
The dust storm became heavier and Du Xingyu felt countless gravels ejected on his body, which made his whole body feel blue. The most terrible thing was that the board he used to cover was blown away because of the increasing wind force, and the sand and gravel were even more painful!
Just as Du Xingyu was ready to endure the pain, he grabbed him with one hand and pulled him into the low-lying area behind the low wall. A canvas from the rover wrapped around his body and wrapped it with another body.
Du Xingyu knew that this was Xu Lianqiu.
Neither of them spoke, hugged each other tacitly, trying to get the canvas to wrap the two of them, and resist the attack of the Martian Dust Storm.
In the Earth Command Center, due to the delay of the signal, everyone had just learned about the occurrence of the Martian dust storm.
At this time, they could only contact the Yinghuo spacecraft, and the astronaut's signals were difficult to receive due to sand and gravel and static interference.
Time passed by minute by minute. Although Du Xingyu and Xu Lianqiu could not feel each other's breathing, they had an inexplicable sense of security, and their nervous heartbeat gradually calmed down. From classmates to colleagues, they were familiar with the Mars mission together.
At this moment, on this alien planet, in the howling dust storm, the fates of the two were connected together.
I don’t know how long it took, every moment in the dust storm seemed to be very long. In the darkness, Du Xingyu heard the sound in the communicator.
"Captain! Teammates, this is the Yinghuo number. Please answer if you hear it." It was Shen Yan's voice. She and Jiao Mengyun were waiting in the spaceship.
The Martian dust storm that had just been swept did not have much impact on the Martian spacecraft weighing more than 500 tons.
"Received, I'm Du Xingyu!" Du Xingyu shouted in the communicator, "How is the dust storm now?"
"According to satellite surveillance, the dust storm has been transferred, and you are safe!" Shen Yan replied.
Du Xingyu had already felt that the power of the nearby dust storm was decreasing.
"The team members report on the situation." Du Xingyu shouted.
"Su Peng received it, I am currently safe!"
"Xu Rui received it. The outer layer of my spacesuit is damaged, the inner protective layer is intact and safe."
"Xu Lianqiu received it, everything is safe!"
...
Except for some external damage to the space suit, everything was fine. Du Xingyu breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that this time the response to the dust storm was quite successful.
The wind and sand became smaller, Du Xingyu lifted the canvas on his body, and the sun shone on him again.
He squinted his eyes, and saw Xu Lianqiu, who was covered in gray, also squinted at him. Through the glass mask, he could see a warm smile on her pretty face.
"Captain!" Su Peng had already run over and asked, "Are you okay?"
"It's okay!" Du Xingyu pulled Xu Lianqiu up and said, "Luckily we discovered it early."
Su Peng watched from side to side and said, "I'll go and detect the rover and the module robot!"
Everyone immediately began to clean up the surroundings. Several people with damaged outer layers of spacesuits drove a rover to the spacecraft to sew and replace them, while the others continued to work.
"Everyone work harder and build the base sooner, so we don't have to suffer this!" Du Xingyu encouraged everyone.
"Xu Rui, let's continue to do wind direction and temperature testing!" Xu Lianqiu also packed up and set off again to do an environmental testing station around him.
"Report to the ground, the Mars mission team is currently normal, and we have resumed the base construction!" Du Xingyu connected to the Earth Command Center.
"Okay! You handled it very well. Remember, always put safety first!" He Jingcheng and others finally felt relieved.
A few hours later, Du Xingyu led his team back to the spacecraft, and today's work ended here. The foundation of the Mars base has just been laid and initially completed, which will happen at least twenty days later.
Lying on the bed, Du Xingyu opened his notebook, wrote down the "Martian Diary", and then posted another short video.
"Hello everyone, we are building a Mars base, and suddenly we encountered a Mars dust storm..." In the video, yellow sand covers the sky and the sun is accompanied by lightning and thunder, giving people a feeling of breathlessness.
"The sense of substitution is too strong, I feel like I've been buried alive!"
"???Is Mars thunder too? Isn't this a special effect?"
"Hello everyone, I picked up this phone on Mars. This video was on my phone at that time."
"@Earth Observation, is the author still there?"
"Oh my God, it's so scary!"
"This is the power of nature. Although we can land on Mars, we humans are still so small in front of the Martian dust storm!"
"All of you are okay?"
As soon as Du Xingyu's short video was released, he received millions of views within ten minutes. During the time he worked on Mars, his fans of trembling sound had reached 10 million, which brought him a lot of energy points.
This short video not only quickly became a hot short video list, but also became a popular search on other platforms. Many enthusiastic netizens sent private messages to Du Xingyu asking about their situation.
There was no choice but to update another one and said, "Do not worry, the Martian dust storm just now was a local temporary dust storm. We have successfully avoided it, and all the people are in good condition."
"In the coming days, we will continue to build a Mars base and carry out scientific research tasks. You can follow my short video account - Earth Observation."
Only then did netizens feel relieved: "Scared me!"
"Observing the earth, observe everything except the earth!"
"Updated, "Survival of Mars"!"
"I wish you peace!"
Chapter completed!