Mars orbit.
A black, rectangular block-shaped object silently glides across Mars' geosynchronous orbit.
"Calling ground control center, Xuan Nu II has reached Mars geosynchronous orbit, please provide instructions!"
Bai Yixuan's voice was transformed into an electromagnetic wave and transmitted to Earth, 82 million kilometers away.
"Alright, now it's just a matter of waiting for a reply." Bai Yixuan shrugged and said with a helpless expression, "We now have a full nine minutes of rest time."
Before Bai Yixuan could finish speaking, Hong Fan had already unbuckled his seatbelt and stood up from his chair.
"This spacesuit is really well designed!"
Hong Fan walked through the cabin wearing specially made electromagnetic boots.
Under the influence of magnetism, Hong Fan's body was firmly attached to the floor of the cabin.
Although there is no gravity in outer space, the meticulously calculated magnetic force can perfectly simulate the feeling of walking on Earth.
Xia Wanyi, standing to the side, touched the silver-white spacesuit she was wearing, which was several times lighter than before, and the corners of her mouth turned up slightly.
"you do not say!"
"I heard from the ground crew that this spacesuit uses Professor Lü's latest research and development materials, and the cost is almost three times that of the original!"
Hong Fan clicked his tongue in amazement.
Three times the cost!
Just as he was about to say something, a loud static suddenly came through the radio.
"Hiss... hiss..."
"Ground command center received. Commence mission!"
Lu Yongchang's slightly distorted voice reached everyone's ears.
Bai Yixuan's expression turned slightly serious. He turned around, sat back in his chair, fastened his seatbelt, and then grabbed the fully enclosed helmet that was placed to the side and put it on his head.
"Everyone, get ready, we're about to land!"
After his two companions fastened their seatbelts and put on their helmets, Bai Yixuan pressed a few buttons on the control panel and pulled the lever.
Xuan Nu II made a slight adjustment to its flight attitude and plunged headlong into the crimson fire!
...
"Andrew, can you take a look? Are there any areas where we haven't carried out drilling operations yet?"
Bruno's listless voice echoed in compartment number one.
Andrew, sitting in his chair, struggled to sit up, tapped a few keys on the keyboard in front of him, and glanced casually at the computer screen.
"Um?"
Andrew's spirits lifted: "Guys, great news! We only have one more spot to drill in!"
As soon as he finished speaking, two teammates jumped up from their chairs and ran to his side.
Bruno's eyes shone with hope as he asked eagerly.
Where?
"How far is it?!"
Andrew typed some more on the keyboard.
The image on the computer screen transformed into a satellite map.
Upon seeing the map, Andrew fell silent.
He hesitated for a moment, then said with a troubled expression, "The distance isn't far, but... we might need to climb a mountain."
"???" Bruno looked bewildered. "WTF? Hiking?"
Joey, standing to the side, was equally bewildered: "Andrew, are you sure?"
Faced with his teammates' doubts, Andrew sighed deeply and then zoomed in on the satellite map.
The entire crater was revealed to the three of them.
"The crater is about a kilometer away from us, which is not very far."
"However... the crater is about one thousand meters high."
"The bottom of the pit is about 1,500 meters deep."
"I have to say, we were lucky."
"At least, this is considered a relatively small crater on Mars."
As Andrew rattled off a series of detailed figures, Bruno's lips twitched slightly, and the hopeful light in his eyes gradually faded away.
Andrew looked at his two dejected teammates with a wry smile, about to offer them some comfort, when a sudden, piercing alarm interrupted his words.
Hearing the alarm that had never sounded before, Andrew's expression changed slightly, and he quickly looked in the direction from which the sound came.
"This is……"
Upon seeing the machine that had sounded the alarm, Andrew's expression changed drastically, and he muttered to himself, "WTF..."
“Andrew?”
Andrew's tone made his two "lying down" teammates realize the problem.
Bruno quickly stood up from his chair and walked towards Andrew: "What happened?"
Andrew did not answer Bruno's question, but simply pointed to the screen in front of him.
On the radar image, a "huge object" was charging straight toward them!
“Holy shit…” Bruno’s pupils contracted sharply, his eyes filled with terror.
After a brief moment of stunned silence, he cursed, "Damn it! What the hell is this thing?!"
Andrew had already sat back in his chair, staring nervously at the computer screen, his hands flying across the keyboard.
Ten seconds later, he swallowed hard.
"Damn it... this thing is almost eighty meters long..."
"Flight speed reached Mach 2!"
Joey's trembling voice came from the side: "This, this can't be an alien, can it...?"
As the "unidentified flying object" drew ever closer to the Mars capsule, fear filled everyone's eyes.
Andrew gritted his teeth, grabbed the radio device beside him, and roared at the top of his lungs.
"Pathfinder calling Houston! Pathfinder calling Houston!"
"We've spotted an unidentified flying object! Repeat! We've spotted an unidentified flying object!!"
"It's coming for us!!!"
As the "unidentified flying object" displayed on the radar hovered above the Mars module, the fear in Andrew's voice seemed to materialize and echoed in the cramped No. 1 module.
One minute later.
"Has it...has it left?"
Joey asked, her eyes tightly shut and her voice trembling.
Andrew mustered his courage, slightly opened his tightly closed eyes, and glanced at the radar screen.
He was stunned.
"How is this possible..."
"Huh? It's gone?!" A hint of excitement flashed in Joey's eyes as she quickly opened them and looked out the window.
"No...it didn't leave! It's...it's circling above the Mars capsule!" Andrew gasped, staring at the scene before him in disbelief. "What does it want?!"
“Andrew…I think we’ve made a mistake…”
Joey, standing by the porthole, turned around with a complicated expression and pointed to the sky: "These aren't aliens."
"It's a spaceship from the Xia Kingdom!"
Andrew and Bruno were slightly taken aback.
After realizing what was happening, the two of them jumped up from their chairs and rushed to the porthole, looking up at the sky.
A rectangular spaceship, entirely black in color, hovered above the Mars capsule.
On the side of the spacecraft, a bright red flag pierced the eyes of the three American astronauts.
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