Zhang Fan fell asleep last night.
Damn it!
A stunningly beautiful woman lay intimately in bed with him all night, and he actually fell asleep!
Zhang Fan really wanted to slap himself!
However, through yesterday's experience, Zhang Fan also clearly realized one thing: his physical strength was no match for Katerina's.
If you want to have some strange things happen between you and her in the future, it's best to rule out violence as an option.
The nickname "fighting nation" is truly well-deserved.
Last night, I was thrown around until my body was completely broken, but I still couldn't subdue Katerina even once.
Katerina on the bed was like a mother bear, and you can't conquer a mother bear with brute force.
After getting up and quickly washing up, Zhang Fan went to the driver's seat, where Katerina was already driving, wearing a spacesuit.
Although the Mars rover can drive itself along the set navigation route, the driver still needs to be in the cab at all times to manually intervene and avoid obstacles on the road.
After all, this is Mars, and many dangerous places are not visible on the surface.
"Good morning, Katerina." Zhang Fan felt a little embarrassed; as a man, his performance last night seemed like a complete failure.
"Good morning, Fan." Katerina placed a can of beef in front of Zhang Fan. "It's been heated up, eat it while it's hot."
Zhang Fan sat in the passenger seat, eating a can of beef while looking out the window.
The Mars rover has crossed the "Valley of Mariners" and entered the open plains.
Geologists believe that Mariner Valley was formed by a geological fault approximately 3.5 billion years ago.
The faults are mainly caused by the continuous growth of the Olympus volcano in the northwest. After the molten magma flowed from the Earth's crust into Mount Olympus, the entire region began to uplift, and the surrounding crustal rocks were continuously stretched and fractured, forming faults and cracks.
The underground magma from Mount Olympus intruded into the Valley of Mariners, forming the ridge-like lava pipe system.
Looking at the receding waters of Sailor Valley, Zhang Fan felt a pang of emotion. He wondered if the shelter where he had spent the night was still there, and if "Zeijiba Yong" had managed to escape the lava of Mount Olympus.
Zhang Fan and Katerina took turns driving, allowing them to rest during the day, which greatly shortened the return trip compared to the way there.
It was already noon. Zhang Fan glanced at the route map and roughly estimated that he would be back at the "Bird's Nest" by tomorrow morning.
Zhang Fan's heart has already flown to the "Bird's Nest".
Having been out of contact for so long, and now a week behind schedule, how lonely and terrifying must it be for a girl alone on a space station, with no one to talk to and no food?
If Yui were still alive and well, she would surely be watching from heaven right now, eagerly counting down the moments as the Mars rover slowly approaches the "Bird's Nest" base.
Once you're within the signal coverage area of the "Bird's Nest," you can talk to her.
Yui, you have to wait for me...
Snap—Bang—
After a violent jolt, the Mars rover came to a stop, startling Zhang Fan out of his thoughts.
"Fan, what's wrong?" Katerina poked her head out of the living quarters.
"Sorry, Katerina," Zhang Fan said apologetically, "I was distracted just now, and the rover's rear wheel got stuck in a ditch."
"Wait for me in the car for a moment, I'll go down and take a look." Zhang Fan put on his spacesuit helmet and got out of the cockpit.
Zhang Fan got out and walked around the vehicle, only to find that the Mars rover's rear wheels were stuck in a sand pit.
The sandpit wasn't big, but it was a bit deep and filled with soft sand, so the wheels spun around in there without getting out.
Zhang Fan turned on his communicator and said to Katerina inside the car, "Katerina, back the car up a little and park it properly."
The rover moved back a little, its wheels stopping in a sand pit. Zhang Fan moved rocks from nearby and filled the pit with them.
"Alright, Katerina, now full speed ahead!"
The Martian wheel kicked up dust, and the engine roared at full power, but the wheel remained stuck in the crater.
"Stop, Katerina, the pit is too deep. Let me move some more stones over."
"Fan, you need to hurry!" Katerina's urgent voice came through the communicator as she frantically pounded on the car window and pointed behind her.
Zhang Fan turned around and looked in the direction Katerina was pointing—
Holy crap!
Sandstorm!
The eruption of Mount Olympus released a large amount of heat, which was absorbed by the atmosphere near the mountain, generating strong air convection. This caused severe disturbance in the troposphere, resulting in a dust storm.
As a human from Earth, Zhang Fan's previous impression of sandstorms was that they were just clouds of yellow sand flying everywhere. Now, he experienced the terror of a Martian sandstorm for the first time.
This can no longer be called a "sandstorm"; "bulldozer" would be a more accurate description.
The Martian surface is devoid of vegetation, consisting entirely of desert. Coupled with fierce winds, exposed sand and gravel are easily blown into the air, burying everything in their path.
Zhang Fan's immediate feeling was that a hundred-meter-high earthen wall was pressing down on him.
Zhang Fan sped up, constantly moving rocks and throwing them into the pit. He had to get back to the car before the sandstorm arrived!
"Katerina, quick, full speed ahead!"
The Mars rover sped forward, and half of its wheels were already out of the sand pit, but it just couldn't get out.
Zhang Fan rushed to the back of the Mars rover, braced his hands on the rear of the rover, and pushed it forward with all his might.
"one two three!"
Finally, the Mars rover's rear wheels slowly drove out of the sand pit.
Very good!
Zhang Fan stood there, watching with delight as the Mars rover drove out of the sand pit, steadily and quickly moving forward, forward, and forward, until it was out of the dust storm's reach and disappeared on the distant horizon...
Huh?
etc……
I haven't gotten on the bus yet!
Zhang Fan stood there, completely bewildered.
What's going on?
Zhang Fan opened his communicator and called Katerina, but she did not answer.
The sandstorm's sand line was only a few hundred meters away from where he was standing, and sand and dust were already being stirred up around him. The smell of the sandstorm hit him like a tsunami.
Zhang Fan was completely dumbfounded.
But he didn't want to die; he couldn't die for Yui's sake!
Zhang Fan immediately cleared his mind of all distractions and quickly searched for a place nearby to take shelter from the sandstorm.
A few seconds later, Zhang Fan immediately ran towards the pile of rocks not far ahead.
Wearing a spacesuit, he couldn't run fast at all. The front of the sandstorm was only a few dozen meters away from him, and sand and gravel fell from above, hitting his helmet with a clanging sound.
The helmet is not made of ordinary glass, so there's no need to worry about it being shattered by stones. The spacesuit has a layer of very tough fibers inside, so unless someone is stabbing you with a knife, ordinary scratches will not damage the airtightness of the spacesuit.
As the sandstorm engulfed them, Zhang Fan finally managed to run into a "C"-shaped groove on the leeward side of a protruding rock.
Zhang Fan lay curled up in the groove, the sand and dust engulfing everything around him.
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