Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

What is the experience of falling from hundreds of kilometres?

The Ark feels that after this adventure, it will probably have a better say than anyone but the Orbital Airborne Brigade.

The feeling of standing on the critical line between life and death makes the adrenaline soar in the body, holding the cushioning seat armrest tightly in his hands and even being able to hear his heart beat.

When the landing pod fell into the sand, the ark was the first time it felt so affectionately that life was so beautiful.

and…

The Institute of Astronautical Science and Technology of Jinling Institute of Advanced Studies, it is time to consider the question of user experience.

With a severe tremor, the thick alloy hatch door opened outward.

The wind clamped yellow sand from outside the cabin and blew on everyone.

Unplugging the connections of the in-cabin health care system, Professor Vernal stood from the buffer seat and stepped out of the cabin. Looking into the desert, his eyes filled with unspeakable shock.

“God… feels like going to Egypt. ”

“Egypt?”

“Mmm…”

His knees touched the ground and Professor Vernal, kneeling on the ground, took a sand from the ground and held it in his hand, feeling the touch of alien stars through the fibreglass of graphene, his face filled with excitement and shock.

“… I have worked there for three years, from the Nile to the Sahara desert, where the footprints of our archaeological team crossed the border… Yet even so, I have never seen such a spectacular view. ”

“Has civilization ever existed here?” Immediately after that, he crossed the hatch that fell to the ground, Romanov squinting his eyes, looking over the heavy sand and dust, looking at the light above the skyline that was only the size of a disc, and then looking at the gamma counter on the wrist-mounted computer, "… even Chernobyl couldn't have been worse. ”

“From an astronomical point of view, it's possible," Professor Aubrey said in a profound way, ”that our civilization is only a brief moment compared to the age of the universe. ”

“According to academia, maybe three billion years ago, maybe four billion years ago, before the Earth's core cooled down, there was an atmosphere thicker than the Earth's, and the planet's surface, with freshwater lakes and oceans, was theoretically living conditions. Instead, the Earth was purgatory, probably like Venus today. ”

Opening the locator set the coordinates, and the last ark out of the landing deck looked up at the Mars car approaching from afar, interrupting the chatter in the public channel.

“Let's not discuss academic issues yet. Everybody pack up and get ready to go to base. ”

Said it was packing, but it wasn't really worth packing. Each person's personal effects consist of only one 26-inch space luggage, embedded behind the enclosure of the landing compartment.

When people pulled their numbered luggage out of the landing bay, the Mars car in the distance drove to the side of the crowd.

The door opened outwards, a small, not tall, mobile astronaut jumped from the car and quickly walked to the canoe, and some of the exciting voices were incessant.

“Lu, Master Lu, are you really here in person? ”

Looking at the excited astronaut, the ark shook his hand and smiled.

“It's me. Don't be so nervous. What's your name? ”

“Fanton!” The astronaut continues with joy, "May I ask for your signature? ”

Fan Tong?

The name Ark is familiar, but he should be a researcher for the 128 Anomaly Point Project, technically under his own project group.

“We'll talk about this when we get back. You go ahead and drive. I have something else to ask you later. ”

“Yes!”

A courtesy was forthcoming, and Van Jong quickly climbed back into the car.

The ship also turned around and began to greet others to tie their carry-on luggage to the Mars cart, then led them into the Mars cart and instructed Fan to start sailing back with the Mars cart.

Because the landing site itself was near the base, it didn't take long, and as they approached the base, they saw three giant hemispheric eggs slowly falling down from the air under the support of a blue tail flame, not so slowly deployed in the open space that had been circled off next to the base of KEKO.

Seeing this scene, several international friends in the Mars car gave a surprise look on their faces. Especially from Russian space engineer Romanov, who stared straight into both eyes outside the window of the car, and the whole person stuck there.

“God…”

“How did you do that? ”

Hearing the muttering, the ark laughed and said casually.

“As you can see, there's nothing special about it. ”

Romanoff turned his head and looked at the ark strangely

Nothing special is fine.

Dropping dozens of tons of colonial pods directly from outer space orbit, slowing down through active ejection devices, or even slightly adjusting the landing area to accurately land in the encircled area…

Romanoff asked himself:

To think of it, Romonov was sad in his heart.

Though he arrived from Moscow with the purpose of learning at the Jinling Space Launch Center and was already ready to be shown, it was not expected that the gap would be so far away.

From space launch technology to the landing of extraterrestrial planets, even a relatively leading Russian space group could not be found in all the processes he had gone through.

Not only did these Chinese eat the entire industrial chain, but they even took every link of technology to the extreme that he could imagine. It seems that they are indeed too far behind to describe the gap in a single sentence or two.

Mars cars slowly entered the garage of the Scientific Base as they passed next to the functional colonial compartment, which had just been deployed.

As the alloy door fell heavily, it finally cut off the sight that people had long been reluctant to move away, as well as the hustle and bustle of yellow sand outside the ship.

The buffer room was sprayed with cleaning liquid, covering every corner of the Mars car in all directions, and then a group of people stepped out of the car and received a rotating flush of cleaning liquid and pure water.

Until the ventilator filled the buffer chamber with air, they changed their outdoor suit and stuffed it into their cabinet according to the number, taking out their lightweight clothes and changing them.

At this time, the side of the alloy door was opened, and Liang, the supreme chief of the science base, had Captain Cheng, and walked in front of a pedestrian, smiling and saying to everyone.

“Welcome to the Mars Research Base, despicable Liang Yangcheng, the captain of the scientific examination team stationed here, hoping that you can get used to life here in the coming month or even two. I'll take you to your rooms later. Dinner time is exactly 18: 00, whichever comes first. Before that, you can move around freely or follow me around the base. ”

“Besides, I've heard about your mission, if there's anything I can do to help, just let me know. ”

After that, Liang Yucheng looked to the ark and asked him if he had anything to add.

“… that's the basics. Freedom of movement before dinner, or following Captain Liang to visit the facilities here, I have nothing to add,” After nodding towards Captain Liang and handing over these people's arrangements to him, the Ark continues to look at standing beside him, “Dr. Fan, come with me. ”

Fan Tong immediately raised his head and stood upright, nodding his head.

“Yes!”

At the entrance of the buffer room, a pedestrian accompanied Captain Liang to his room, while the ark took Fan Tong to the conference room next to the buffer room.

Looking at the alloy door shut, the ark pulled a chair like it was in its own home and sat down, and then the model sat randomly somewhere, then opened the door to the mountains and said.

“Tell me briefly about the situation here. ”

“What do you want to know? ”

“Everything about Project 128. ”

When he heard the number 128, Fanton nodded and said.

“I've been studying this for a month. ”

“In order to understand why the faulty structures suddenly appeared and suddenly disappeared, I tried to dispatch a remotely piloted vehicle to explore the cave underground, but due to the limited distance of the electromagnetic wave signal propagation, it was only possible to operate using wire control technology. Therefore, the remotely pilotely piloted vehicle had a limited radius of motion, and I was unable to get into the lower part of the cave, but found many suspicious places. ”

Ark: “What's suspicious? ”

“Yes.”

Fan pointed down and continued with a condescending expression.

“The terrain beneath the Hell's Gate Mountains changes very frequently, with significant changes occurring almost every 71 minutes, with minor adjustments every 34 minutes, while the seismic structure appears random and statistically irregular. At first, we thought it was a special geological formation of Mars, but later, based on feedback on the distribution, intensity, etc. of seismic waves, we found that things weren't that simple. ”

“There is no indication that a regional seismic effect has led to such peculiar and frequent changes in its subterranean structure. In contrast, it's more like some kind of mechanically driven handling. ”

“Mechanical drive?” The ark hesitated slightly and said with a smile, "How is this possible? ”

“I think it's unlikely, but there doesn't seem to be a better explanation,” Fanton's face shows a headache, "theoretically, 23 billion years, no matter how great the project, will be lost in the long river of time. However, apart from the anthropogenic factors, I really can't think of any possibility that could lead to such a strange change in those tunnels. ”

“It's like... it's alive there! ”