Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Jinling Higher Institute.

Standing at the door of the dean's office, Chen Yunhai took a deep breath, managed the collar, and reached out and knocked gently on the door.

Soon after hearing a "please come in," he opened the door and walked in, respectfully saying.

“You wanted to see me? ”

“Well, something happened," stopped the pen in his hand, and Chen Yunhai, who looked at him standing at the door, laughed, then stood up and made a gesture to the couch and said, "Don't be so polite, please sit down. ”

After sitting on the couch, Chen Yunhai nodded to his secretary, who poured tea for him, and then sat down on the couch and began to measure the drafts stacked on the coffee table.

You can see that there are difficult formulas and symbols on the draft paper, and next to these calculation steps is a curve graph that looks like a ruler.

After watching for half a day, I didn't see a single door. Just as Chen Yunhai was about to give up, he came with a cup of coffee and sat across from him.

“Some personal interest, please don't worry," he said, "the ark swept the draft paper off the coffee table and took out a pile of documents with the printer oil temperature and gently pushed it in front of him on the coffee table," about two hours ago, we cracked the signal from Mars to Earth, and I'm sure you'd be interested. ”

As soon as I heard this sentence, Chen Yunhai's expression suddenly got serious and quickly swept it over after picking up this document from the coffee table.

When he saw those three eye-catching characters, his reaction was almost like that of an ark, slightly stunned and then frowned.

“SOS…? ”

The ark nodded.

“Yes, combined with what's happening on Mars right now, it shouldn't be a problem with our decoding, and New Virginia might actually have a little problem. ”

After a pause, the ark continued.

“This could be an opportunity for us. ”

At the moment of hearing the word Opportunity, Chen Yunhai's eyes moved slightly. Many thoughts flashed in his head momentarily, but half a minute later, he shook his head.

“I understand what you mean, but I'm afraid it's hard to think... from the point of view of the White House, Americans would rather have all of them killed than agree to us interfering in this. ”

If China were to take over the rescue effort, it would not only damage the national prestige of the United States, but also create a series of uncontrollable risks such as technological leakage.

While this statement may not be humanitarian, space itself is a risky thing, and the deaths of several astronauts are not enough to affect the whole picture.

It would be better to let those three astronauts die from the standpoint of the situation than to let China get involved if the rescue effort could not be carried out.

At best, prepare a special funeral for them afterwards.

Perhaps the price of Space-X will be badly hit after that, but the Ares plan will not go down as simple as that. Their researchers will learn from this failure and pave the way for the next success...

“I know," he nodded, continuing, "in theory, NASA's spacecraft is unlikely to be three astronauts in the area, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a trip to Mars… and without certain success. It is more in the interest of the United States authorities to announce the deaths of three astronauts following the ‘accident'. ”

“Exactly.” Chen Yunhai nodded, “so I'm afraid this opportunity will be difficult to take advantage of. ”

“Not necessarily," the Ark shook its head and said with a smile, "If we let the Americans know, what about the three astronauts? ”

Chen Yunhai's pupils contracted slightly and his eyebrows aroused a slight curve of interest: “You mean..."

“Yes, leak the news from our side," the ark nodded, continuing, "there is no way to save it, but if it can save it without saving it...”

“It wasn't an accident, it was a murder! ”

……

America.

NASA headquarters.

Within the Ares Ground Command Centre, staff are busy working in their respective positions.

Standing in the command center, Director Carson's main words quickly reported to a gloomy president on the current situation.

“Dust and sand storms on Mars have been identified as a global climatic event that is expected to take at least five months to stop, and our colonists are facing --”

Strongly interrupting Director Carson's words, the president said in an angry tone of exhaustion: "I don't care if they're having a dust storm or something. I just want to know one thing now. Where's your plan? ”

Director Carson was silent for a while and spoke in a heavy tone.

“Sir… although I do not wish to say this, to be honest, there is little hope. Even if we launch a BFR rocket now and travel to Mars through an unconventional transfer orbit, it will take at least three months to reach Mars orbit. ”

President: "Can our colonists last three months? ”

Director Carson hesitated for a moment and said in a difficult tone.

“There is only a 50 per cent chance… that they will do something conscious to save themselves. ”

“We can't let them know yet," interrupted Director Carson, and the President said categorically, "Tell them we're doing our best to rescue them so they don't have to worry! ”

“But our rocket...”

With the President's gloomy gaze on him, Director Carson, who instantly understood the meaning of the President, opened his mouth and swallowed the second half of the sentence back, nodding his head in a difficult place.

“… I see. ”

It is more important than bringing back the three astronauts alive and having them "shut up”. And shutting them up presupposes that they believe that NASA is doing its best to rescue them.

If they knew they had no chance of survival and the BFS spacecraft with high-power telecommunications equipment floating in Mars orbit was still working...

It would be a disaster for NASA.

At this point, footsteps were heard in the corridor outside the command centre.

Soon after, the secretary of the White House office appeared behind the two.

“Sir…”

After hearing the sound, the president turned back and looked at the thin, tall man, frowned and asked.

“What's the matter? ”

He swallowed a spit and the secretary continued in a heavy tone.

“The news was leaked. ”

The president stunned for a moment and asked subconsciously.

“What news? ”

“News of the new Virginia colony…” A stacked newspaper was removed from the carry-on bag, and the secretary unfolded it and handed it to the president, carefully saying, "… read it for yourself. ”

The newspaper is The Everyman's Daily Overseas Edition.

The newspaper was picked up from the secretary's hand and the president squinted his eyes.

However, he had just placed his gaze on the newspaper and his heart snapped.

Only on the headlines of the newspaper, a prominent line of uppercase letters is printed.

[“New Virginia" is feared to be in unprecedented danger once Mars encounters an unusual climate and global sandstorms cover the globe for centuries!

WTF?!