doomsday exile

"Drip, drip..."

Accompanied by regular beeps, a marked red light spot appeared on the huge screen.

There is only darkness around it, and nothing can be seen.

Professor Alvin of the ISIS station tapped the screen with a pen, and the image immediately became three-dimensional.

"This is the sun we are familiar with."

A large fireball continues to burn at the end of the image.

"This is Earth, and here is Mars..."

Blue and reddish-brown light spots light up one after another, the latter being a circle smaller than the earth.

Lu Di searched for a long time on Earth and Mars, but did not find the luminous mark just now.

"What about the meteorite? Is it too small?"

"Yes." Professor Alvin re-drawn the image.

A meteorite with a diameter of 10 kilometers is not a big one among asteroids. The diameter of Mars is 6779 kilometers.

When the planet appears in the form of light spots, this meteorite is very difficult to find.

Professor Alvin added an additional flickering effect to ensure that the position of the meteorite can be marked no matter what the ratio is. Only then did Lu Di see the position of the destroyer who was about to bring doom to mankind.

Since the earth and Mars are not motionless reference objects, three dotted lines are added on the screen to simulate the trajectory within nine months.

"Ah, it's quite far!" Lu Di found that it was sent from Mars, and it took a long way to get close to the meteorite.

Professor Alvin smiled wryly, of course it is far away, if it is close, the Earth Federation has already planned to pull the meteorite on Mars for the second time, and let the meteorite fall on Mars.

However, the latest information shows that this meteorite is not simple, so this thing is like a calculated intercontinental missile, which is going to the target, not only not close to Mars, but also not close to the orbits of Saturn and Jupiter... It has always been firmly floating in the gravitational force outside the effective range.

Human beings have no way to move the earth away, nor can they make the earth go slower.

Professor Alvin said with a serious expression: "I want to know what the final negotiation result between the Earth Federation and the Chinese government is."

"I originally wanted to wait for the meteorite to get closer to the earth to launch a rocket, and use a satellite or something else to detonate it." Yan Long looked around, and everyone had a nervous expression.

Because the near-Earth asteroid defense system urgently built by the Earth Federation and the governments of various countries can only take effect when the meteorite approaches.

The projected interception success rate has now plummeted.

Before the structure of this meteorite is fully understood, no one dares to pat his chest and say that it will definitely work.

"So the possibility of using Mars silos is not ruled out."

The materials are sent from the earth.

This is not to build a precision satellite. Considering the service life, as long as the fuel is enough, it can fly to the destination, and it will explode.

Yan Long looked at the approaching red dotted line, and said in a deep voice: "The meteorite will reach the closest range to Mars in two weeks. According to the order of the Earth Federation, Lu Di and I will maintain communication with Mars throughout the entire process. The connection lasts more than three days...don't hesitate, because the meteorite is about to leave this range at the same time, so you launch the 'impactor [-]' directly. Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, you must not miss this opportunity to attack the meteorite."

Professor He looked at Yan Long and Lu Di, hesitant to speak.

Liao Chen hesitated and asked, "But our emergency spaceship is not equipped with weapons. Wouldn't it be too dangerous for you to go like this?"

"What we are going to take is not an emergency spacecraft for Mars scientific research, but a quantum aircraft."

"what?"

Everyone was a little surprised.

Can this thing go into space?

Of course it can, the high-dimensional particle scour can hold up, and it is still possible to pretend to be a spaceship for a while.

The disadvantage of the quantum aircraft is its small size, but this is not a disadvantage for the spiritual body. Yan Long and Lu Di do not need a complicated life support system, nor do they need food storage.

When the difficulty drops to the "unmanned" level, things will be easy to handle.

Yan Long also deliberately explained: "It's not the one we see now, the aircraft for combat is still under urgent production."

For this design drawing, members of the Federal Academy of Sciences and the Huaxia Quantum Experiment Group worked continuously for dozens of days, working day and night.

It is equipped with a simple version of the warp speed engine to ensure that Yan Long and Lu Di can escape through space jumps after encountering unknown enemies. Even if the shell is damaged, as long as the core cabin where the warp speed engine is located is not broken, they will not drift in space .

Although the spiritual body has no entity, if the carrier is broken, it will live longer than ordinary people.

This is a scouting team, not a death squad.

Even if there are other voices at the top of the federation, and they want Yan Long and the others to become death squads, Huaxia will not agree.

——Without the spider mechs of Yan Long and Lu Di, they can only perform ordinary tasks, and they can't beat the ancient spiritual body like Delta.

How can there be any reason to send the commander to the Death Squad first before the war?

I can't afford it.

Even if they were replaced by other spirit bodies in the training class, they would not be able to perform such demanding reconnaissance missions because of their limited abilities, and they would not be able to activate the warp drive, or even take apart Yanlong Ludi and send only one.

This quantum aircraft that is about to reach Mars may look cool today, but it must be inexplicable in the eyes of future generations, because it is a strange aircraft whose navigation depends entirely on Ludi and radar depends entirely on Yan Long—only he Both can be opened, but in the hands of others, it is a half-finished product or a waste product.

Speaking of it, it is precisely because the shells of the spaceship and the spider mecha are made of special materials that cannot be transmitted through quantum transmission, which makes things more troublesome. Otherwise, just express a simple version of the spider mech and it will be over.

Send mechas through normal channels?Given the distance between Mars and Earth, when the spider mech flies to Mars, the meteorite will almost reach Earth.

The word Lu Di heard the most these days is "time".

Everyone is emphasizing time, and no matter what you do, you must emphasize time.

The time when the meteorite arrived on Earth, the time when the meteorite approached Mars, the completion time of the quantum aircraft, etc.!Everyone is racing against time. If they lose, they will lose the future of mankind.

Fortunately, until now, they have not fallen behind.

He even arrived at Mars [-] days earlier, so he could temporarily join the Mars infrastructure engineering team and wait for the last group of scientific researchers who were in a hurry to finish the combat aircraft.

***

Lu Di stood on the top of the dune, listening to the familiar sax tune.

Although visually speaking, it is a robot standing against the wind and sand.

Today's Martian sunset reveals a strange dark blue, a bit like the hue of Martian blueberries.

Behind him is a group of robots that are taller and more powerful than Lu Di's carrier.

They are carrying heavy boxes to hold down the windshield fabric to prevent sand and gravel from rolling into the dug foundation.

The Federation's new Mars base already has a name, and Lu Di saw it on the construction plan of the computer terminal.

"Why is it called Amazon?"

Lu Di asked the Yanlong robot who had just crawled out of the deep pit in the foundation.

"The god of war, which is where the name Mars comes from, has a daughter in Greek mythology who is the queen of the Amazons."

"It turned out to be like this. I thought they wanted to turn this base into a paradise for green plants!" Lu Di said, spreading his hands.

Yan Long skillfully put down the alloy plate, then checked the robots, and let them go back to the box one by one to sleep.

On a Mars rover in the distance, Liao Chen and the engineers of the Federal Scientific Research Station are in daily contact with the ISIS station through the channel.

Now is a rare time to rest.

Because in half an hour, there will be a sandstorm, and the project can only be temporarily stopped.

Lu Di found that he liked the life of Mars very much, er, for Xianyu, Mars would force everyone to rest.

However, Xueba never knows how to be salted fish. When they are not working, they still learn languages, learn new courses, and play table tennis.

Speaking of table tennis, it's the most popular sport on Mars.

Because it occupies a small space, you don't have to worry about the flying ball breaking any equipment. If you can't do it, you can swing the racket against the wall alone. Therefore, this sport is very popular whether it is in a spaceship or a scientific research station. .

After all, being an astronaut still requires physical exercise, especially in places where the gravity is different from that of the earth for a long time, you need to pay more attention to exercising your muscles.

The treadmill is too boring, and yoga is not confrontational.

Although badminton, tennis, and basketball are good, they need a special venue, unlike table tennis, where a board or two books are enough on the side of the conference table.

The only equipment that needs to be carried is the racket, which is relatively small and easy to store.

The last time I came to Mars, I only partnered with Cao Yan to do infrastructure construction. This time, I went to the Federal Isis Station for three days to do experiments. The result was that Lu Di watched Yan Long pick up the gloves and directly beat the invincible hands of Mars. .

Lu Di was dumbfounded and could only clap seals.

He also went up to try, but the serve was not stable.

Doctor Kang is the one with the worst combat effectiveness in the federal scientific research station, but he is the most addicted, so he simply turned into a fanatical commentator, applauding more professionally than Lu Di, while bragging about Yan Long's skills.

The blow made Yan Long miss two goals in succession, but thanks to his excellent technique, he still won that round.

Cao Yan and Liao Chen also excitedly applauded Yan Long.

Especially Cao Yan, who almost burst into tears, grabbed Lu Di and kept feeling: "Chinese people are good at playing table tennis, just as outrageous as Chinese people are good at kung fu, yes! The three of us have embarrassed the motherland, and we have no If there is no talent in this area, Kang Ke would laugh at me for four full years! I suggest that the country send scientific research personnel stationed in the future, and provide them with a table tennis coach during the training period!"

Lu Di didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and turned his head to secretly ask Yan Long how he practiced this technique.

"Isn't everyone in China able to play table tennis?"

Yan Long was surprised instead.

Lu Di looked at him silently.

After some probing and eye contact between the two, Lu Di knew a cruel answer.

Everyone Yan Long knows can play, and their skills are not bad, including Professor Xia.

After all, there are no entertainment programs in the base, nor in the army.

"Why haven't I seen it before?" Lu Di asked in disbelief.

"Because you've been busy since you came here? Don't you have time for competitions?"

Yan Long thought for a while, and gave an answer that made Xianyu cry.