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"Standing on Mars" was a proposition that I could only watch on movie channel YY more than three years ago. At that time, I also liked watching science fiction movies, especially those related to alien planets -
-Yes, it is the kind of movie in which Americans can always save the earth in the last thirty minutes and the protagonists must be one or more pairs of dogs and men. At that time, I always watched the kind of alien planets synthesized in the movie studio.
I feel leisurely and fascinated by the sceneries and the desolate and strange phenomena of the other world, and I feel that it is extremely magical.
Now I can only sigh, youth is no longer fleeting. In the past, the innocent boy who could be intoxicated for a long time when he saw the craters on the moon has now reached an age where even peeing or mud on Mars has no sense of achievement...
Qianqian was quite interested in the red planet at first, jumping around with a laser cannon and insisting on finding a crater to write her name on, but soon she became bored with the monotonous scenery in front of her and hugged her.
The cannons began to hum and chirp, and it was quiet until I called out the 700 billion and everyone drove to Crater No. 1.
"It's so desolate. Fortunately, I firmly believed that there are aliens on Mars until I was thirteen years old."
I leaned on the car window and looked out, then muttered.
Outside is the rugged land like the Gobi Desert. The iron oxide makes it look dirty red, probably due to the impact of the impact shock wave. Along the way we encountered a lot of broken land, and the color was completely different from the surrounding land.
The boulders, the clear traces of compression under the boulders, indicate that these stones are new guests to this land. The instruments show that these stones are more or less carrying ghost energy radiation: they were ejected from near the impact crater. The sky is turbid
, the sky is dim, the atmosphere of Mars is thin, but the sunlight is correspondingly weak, and there is too much dust in the upper atmosphere, so even though it is still daytime on Mars, the surroundings still feel a bit dusk. A quick look
Looking at the distant horizon, I suddenly made a great discovery and happily said: "Look! Mountains!"
I looked in the direction of Qian Qian's finger and found that there was indeed a continuous brown "high mountain" there. Their height was so even that there was not even a single discontinuity along the entire length of the horizon.
, I watched curiously, using my enhanced vision, and finally I could vaguely see the surface of the continuous mountains: like a large piece of twisted cotton wool.
"It's a storm."
Shandora knocked Qianqian and I on the head one by one, "I say, as the head of the empire and the mistress of the empire, at least you can add some common sense occasionally! The term Mars Storm was invented by scientists on earth.
How many years!”
"Holy crap! This is a Martian storm? How spectacular is it?" I suddenly exclaimed. The Martian storm is actually such a prestigious thing. I have often seen it in science fiction movies before. But this time I saw it for real. I didn't expect it.
It turned out to be like this. To be honest, it was really different from what I had imagined before. They were... much larger than what I had imagined.
From the extreme distance of the horizon, it looks like a majestic and continuous mountain range. So if you pull it up to your eyes, how big would it be?
Qianqian and I were amazed. Although we had indeed seen many magical or spectacular scenery on alien planets when we were fighting outside, we had witnessed this kind of Martian storm that had felt so mysterious and powerful since we were children.
A little excited, Qianqian's mind became active again, and she began to discuss with Sandora how strong the kite string would be if she wanted to fly a kite in a Martian storm...
I hugged Pandora, who had a dull expression, and Huesca, who had lively eyes, one by one, trying to reduce my sense of existence. I was afraid that Qianqian would come up with the idea to tie a wire around my waist and drag it with 700 billion in the Martian storm.
Put it aside, it's not like she can't do this kind of thing.
"Wait a minute, is that a magical thing?"
Just as I was trying to reduce my sense of presence, Qianqian suddenly stopped talking about flying a kite in a Martian storm, pointed out the car window in surprise and shouted.
Sandora and I immediately looked around. Following Qian Qian's fingers, I saw something suddenly shining in the sunlight on a small highland not much above the ground on the left front.
"Could it be a small fragment that slipped through the net?"
Sandora muttered strangely, "Go over and have a look."
After receiving the order, Qi Qian Yi immediately turned around and slid briskly and silently to the high ground several hundred meters away. We pushed the door down and arrived in front of the flashing thing.
"This was not made by the Empire," Sandora looked at the severely damaged metal object not far away and shook her head slightly, "It's completely broken."
On the ground not far ahead, there was a machine lying in a state of disarray. Half of its body had been buried in the dust, and the exposed parts were covered with reddish-brown sand. The solar panels that might once have been smooth and bright
Now only one-third of the bare brackets are left, and the entire machine is lifeless, as if it has lost power for many years.
Qian Qian stepped forward curiously and kicked the thing, and suddenly the entire metal plate on it fell off, bringing up a cloud of flying dust. Qian Qian didn't mind it being dirty, so she stepped forward and picked up the broken metal plate.
Get up and show me the symbol above.
Flag of the former Soviet Union.
"This is Mars 3." Sandora glanced at the metal plate and said with a somewhat surprised tone, "It's actually here."
I was immediately shocked.
"Are you...sure?" I looked at Sandora in surprise, "This is the first probe built by humans and landed on Mars. How do you know it?"
Shandora shrugged: "I'm afraid I know more about human history than you do. This is Mars 3. I didn't expect that such a coincidence would happen."
Qian Qian blinked her eyes in confusion. She really didn’t know what Mars 3 was. I could only explain to her briefly that this was the first time humans successfully landed on the planet in the initial stage of exploring Mars.
The detector, even though it stopped working after twenty seconds of operation, still became a milestone.
Sandora took the almost colorless metal plate from Qianqian's hand, gently wiped off the dust on it, and then put it back on the ancient detector in front.
Sandora stood less than five meters in front of Mars 3, looking at it quietly, as if paying attention. The ancient machine, almost buried in dust, shimmered in the dim sunlight of Mars, and pulled out a
He cast a long shadow and accepted the greeting calmly like a dying veteran.
"Reconnaissance troops, record the coordinates of where we are now. This is a protected area, avoid here during operations." Sandora ordered the reconnaissance troops who were following up to collect the fallen debris, and then turned around and returned to the car.
In the car, I glanced at Sandora curiously: "I always felt like you were a little weird just now."
"You mean to show respect to a scrapped detector?" Shandora smiled and pinched the corners of my mouth gently, "That's what it should be, because it is a monument, even if it is just a ball of scrap metal, even if it is
There is only one camera, but it is also a monument, and monuments require attention."
"Tradition." Pandora suddenly choked out two words, her words always being concise and to the point.
"It is tradition, and it was once formulated by the empire and is regarded as law in the multiverse." Shandora seemed to be in a good mood, with a smile on her face from just now, "No matter what kind of civilization it is, in the cradle
It is worthy of praise when someone else waves for the first time, so the empire once stipulated that anyone who sees another civilization's first-generation probe used to explore space or other relics with similar significance in a desolate area should salute. In
According to the laws of the empire, one of the important conditions that determine whether a civilization is an enlightened civilization or a closed civilization is the first probe they launch into space."
Qianqian and I both looked surprised, and Sandora continued: "The first space vehicle, the first satellite, the first landing module on an alien planet, these things are all worth remembering.
Yes, the empire even formulated a law specifically for this purpose to clarify the 'civilizational status' of these things. Even the star domain gods are supporters of this law. Some vassal civilizations will also recycle them as the first generation of their own civilization.
The detector is regarded as a sacred object. These monuments are absolutely not allowed to be traded or desecrated. The empire will personally supervise it. In the old empire, there was an incident where the first-generation satellite landing vehicle of a certain vassal civilization was destroyed by pirates on the way to the memorial hall.
, that incident that blatantly violated the laws of the empire ultimately resulted in the deaths of 4.76 billion people."
I almost fell off the chair with a clang: "So many people died fighting pirates? It's too exaggerated!"
Sandora scratched her hair: "It's not like you don't know about the old empire. It started as a fight against pirates, but within seventeen minutes it evolved into a war between two civilizations. One of them was a vassal of the empire, and the other was a pirate.
The barbarian civilization, after the two civilizations declared war, the local guards of the empire intervened. After three warnings and confirming that the civilization to which the pirates belonged was unwilling to surrender, the guards destroyed the enemy's home planet. It was later known as 'Ten in One Hour
Two-point war', because it took a total of one hour and twelve minutes from the pirate attack to the completion of the extermination order. Similar wars were common in the old empire. At that time, we were busy destroying the abyss on the front line, so based on the principle of efficiency first, other places
We strive to end the war within two hours..."
I was wiping cold sweat, thinking that luckily the old empire was over. What kind of lunatics were these? Of course, the "Civilized Monuments Protection Law" they enacted was indeed quite touching.
The encounter with Mars 3 was just an emotional episode. We soon left this highland that had been turned into a cultural reserve, and 700 billion quickly moved forward on the vast and rugged red land of Mars.
Then, soon, a rapidly enlarging blue-black energy cloud appeared in the sky ahead: we were approaching the largest impact crater No. 1.
And the magnificent wreckage that fell from the sky to the ground has also appeared in sight.
Like a mountain that collapsed from heaven to earth, or like the ferocious horns of the earth protruding from the depths of hell, a huge wreckage appeared before our eyes that blocked the sky and the sun, and the top could not be seen at all. Its surface was glowing with a gray metallic luster.
, the released psionic energy occasionally flashed across this dim mountain, like ghostly undead. The armor of the once indestructible battleship was riddled with holes, especially right in front of us. The armor even cracked a hole that was enough to penetrate the entire wreckage.
Huge crack, looking through this horrifying crack, you can only see the dark secondary buffer zone and the charred and deformed mechanical structure buried in the buffer zone. Lightning and thick smoke burst out from the crack, as a warning.
People who want to approach rashly: high voltage is dangerous, non-professionals should not open the back cover...
Well, in fact, I really can't find good words to describe this spectacular crack: how strong a force it is to tear an Eternal-class starship into hundreds of pieces and fall to the main body in such a miserable appearance.
Material plane?
Is it just a failed emergency landing?
Or is it that the spacecraft was being pursued before it made an emergency landing...
I looked at the countless pitted scars on the outer armor of this wreckage and the molten pits left after high-temperature bursts, and my heart started to move.
The reconnaissance force has established a scientific outpost near the largest wreckage, which is a rapidly space-expandable frontline laboratory, several functional towers, and a small military depot. The scale is large enough for Hollywood to regard it as a first-generation Mars colony.
It was clicked to make a movie, but it was a folding house that was built in ten minutes.
Two imperial technicians in white uniforms and some technical soldiers were recording data under the wreckage when we arrived and trying to open one of its passage gates. We did not interrupt their work, but drove around this giant first.
He walked slowly around in a circle and got off the car in front of the wreckage.
It seems to have cut off a section of the starship and thrown it down. It is at least ten kilometers long. In other words, if it were not placed here tilted and a quarter of it was buried underground, this thing would be bigger than the Himalayas.
Still high.
"This is the power section of the Eternal Class, and there is also a quarter of the navigation system section - but the latter must have been destroyed," Sandora led everyone to the pipeline gate where the technical soldiers were busy, while judging
He said, "There are traces of weapon attack on the armor, and there is no life response in the wreckage. All the crew members must have been killed."
"Your Majesty, the gate locked itself before the spacecraft disintegrated," the Imperial technician who had been busy at the pipeline gate for a long time came to us and reported loudly, "Other than this pipeline, no other safe way to enter the wreckage has been found."
Shandora frowned: "What I want is a solution, not what trouble you encountered."
"We plan to cut the gate directly, but if there is still some self-destruction system in the wreckage that has energy, it may self-destruct."
The imperial technician who was scolded by Sandora immediately told them their plan and possible consequences. Obviously, he needed to report this.
I looked at the smoke-filled wreckage of the starship in front of me, thinking that there was a big difference between this appearance and the self-destruction...
"No need to bother, I'll give it a try."
At this moment, Viska suddenly interrupted the technician's report. She blinked at us, a hint of cunning flashed in her blood-red cat eyes: "Brother is so stupid, this is my spaceship!"
When the little girl said something, Shandora and I turned to look at the sky at the same time. Only Qianqian still didn't understand why and kept asking questions.
Viska had already arrived in front of the pipeline gate at this time. This huge and heavy circular gate was marked with the emblem of Viska's Destruction Legion in blood red. The little girl pressed her hand on the emblem and closed her eyes slightly.
, began to connect with the traffic control system that was still running in the wreckage of the battleship. Since the gate was internally locked rather than mechanically stuck, it meant that its opening power was still available. Visca took advantage of this and started
Take over various control rights in the wreckage again.
This process didn't take long. When Pandora's stomach beeped for the third time, her cat-eyed sister let out a long sigh: "It's done!"
"Zizzi..."
Accompanied by the severe friction sound of metal noise, the entrance to the heavy and thick pipe opened automatically. Due to energy leakage, bright sparks kept jumping from the edge when the door was opened, but fortunately the remaining power was still enough for the nearly one hundred tons of metal.
The knot opened enough gaps. What spurted out from the gate was an extremely violent hot wind. Sandora's long hair was thrown in my face on the spot, and Qian Qian coughed for a long time, a full half minute.
, the hot air current calmed down.
"This is an auxiliary heat dissipation channel," Viska led us into the wreckage. "Although the power system has been shut down, the circulation system of the channel is still running. The excess heat from the psionic coil will flow from the front every five minutes.
The main pipe circulates once, and there will be hot air in the auxiliary pipe. This is a very old trick, but I lacked some blueprints in the database at that time, so I had to design it this way."
As a heat dissipation channel, it is not very spacious, and the surrounding walls are covered with complex and inexplicable mechanical structures and conductive cables. Of course, these dark-colored things are very different from the smooth and bright alloy corridors of common imperial warships, but they are
It has a heavy metal sci-fi feel. This is the first time Qianqian and I have entered a "lower" place like the radiator of an imperial starship. Naturally, it feels very novel. Qianqian has left many people to visit here along the way.
I had to help her take a photo with a random nook and cranny on the road: We are not under any pressure, because obviously in such a high-tech place, Qianqian and I can't do anything serious together...
Pandora kept looking around silently along the way. Although her face barely moved, I could still feel the little girl's eyes moving back and forth. Obviously, she also cared about the warships that her twin sister once led.
of.
This pipeline is not straight. Due to the impact of the crash, it has been twisted in many places. There are also wide cracks on many pipe walls. Through the cracks, you can see the broken cables inside. Some of them are unknown.
Large pieces of twisted metal or crystal belonging to certain parts of the original battleship will suddenly penetrate through the walls of the pipe, blocking the way forward. Shandora has already exposed her claws, scratching these obstructions into pieces one by one with great force.
Fragment: Because I really don’t trust Pandora’s safety factor when using naval guns to open a path.
Just like this, we moved forward in a destructive manner. Sandora's claws cleared all obstacles on the way forward for us. In the end, we passed this heat dissipation pipe that sprayed people in the face every five minutes. After breaking through an alloy barrier