197 Beacon of the Stars
After having fun on Earth, Lin Youde and his party returned to the bored Huanyu Mining VIP ship parked in the Earth's spaceport one day in advance.
The captain was surprised when he saw Lin Youde entering the bridge: "Don't he set off tomorrow to return to the Big Arctic? Why did you board the ship today? We did not receive any notice, and many crew members are still on holiday..."
"Don't be nervous." Lin Youde waved his hand, "We just want to go to Mars now. Now the crew on the ship can still maintain normal operation, right?"
"Please" Xia Yongzhi said angrily, "Our human spacecraft can drive as long as there is one person, but it just cannot exert its full combat power."
When humans combine with various auxiliary units to form a whole, the ability they show is far higher than the auxiliary units controlled by computers alone. Therefore, humans have completely gotten rid of the fear of being replaced by robots. Human society has also begun to use robots without any taboos and develop more advanced artificial intelligence. These things can replace humans to a certain extent, but in order to pursue high efficiency, they must rely on the auxiliary unit cluster with humans as the core.
Therefore, to ensure the combat capability of the warship, there must be enough crew members on it, but if the spaceship is just moving for a short trip, it will be enough if someone gives orders to the central computer.
"We set off for Mars now, and only bring the crew members who are currently on the ship, without recalling others."
"Is this okay?" the captain looked worried, "Will there be a fight? I think at least recall the fighter."
Lin Youde couldn't help but frown: "Why did you conclude that a fight would take place?"
"Didn't you fight wherever you go before? Many soldiers on this ship are already impatient and just wait until you start a battle and fight happily."
Lin Youde was speechless. In the eyes of the crew members, what kind of image does Lin Youde have? Is it a mobile disaster?
"There shouldn't be a battle this time..."
"Is that? But there is an old saying among us astronauts: If an unexpected situation has no zero chance of happening, it will almost certainly happen."
"That's just the beginning of the human aerospace industry to warn engineers to take every detail with caution."
As soon as Lin Youde finished speaking, Xia Yongzhi's telecommunications came: "Astronauts are just as superstitious as the Cosmic Army. You may upset them by saying this."
Lin Youde quickly changed his words: "I mean, this is certainly reasonable, but it does not apply to our current situation. Because this time I am very sure that there will be no battle."
The captain seemed to have finally accepted Lin Youde's statement, but he immediately reported: "In fact, I have issued a call order, and the crew closest to us will return to the team within a few minutes. Mr. Lin, are you anxious?"
"Of course not, our trip to Mars is just an ordinary tour-" Lin Youde grabbed the topic halfway through his words, because he had to let the teleportation device on the ship send them down after he remembered. Should he explain to the captain that the destination of the tour was that desert? What should I do to go to that kind of place? If I can only talk about a reason to "enjoy the 'field battle' on the Martian wasteland"?
The captain had already shown a "I understand" expression at this time. He probably thought Lin Youde was going to Mars again this time to carry out some secret mission. As a person who often runs in various galaxies and usually lives in the Bighorn Space Station, everyone on this spacecraft is familiar with Lin Youde's experience in the past year - of course, it was a version that his mother didn't recognize after various deep processing.
So it is normal for the captain to have such an idea.
"It is a great honor for us to be able to participate in your actions, sir." The captain has already begun to say such things.
At this time, the deck officer who was also on duty at the bridge whispered: "The five crew members who just said they could return immediately have boarded the ship. Should we continue waiting for others or set sail directly, Captain?"
"Set the sail and tell others that we will return later. Those who are still on board will take their seats right away."
**
Mars doesn't look like a planet that can live in people at all.
"It was amazing that humans actually used their physical bodies to colonize such a planet." Xia Yongzhi sighed at the Mars on the display screen.
"Yes, I was also surprised. Dock 15 collected an ancient space suit, which was bulky and ugly. Humans were wearing that thing to Mars and colonized on the surface of Mars. At that time, they wanted to transform the atmosphere of Mars and make Mars a little pleasant. For this reason, they released a very primitive nanorobot into the air, but the project eventually failed. People in the Mars colony could only live in huge vaulted cities."
"I know, I know!" Freya raised her hand high like a primary school student rushing to answer the question. "The water and oxygen in the vaulted city are provided by the environmental circulation system, so the person who controls the circulation system becomes the ruling class of Mars. Until one day an Earthling named Arnold came to Mars. He was once an agent of the Earth. After performing his mission, his memory was modified to ensure confidentiality, but-"
"Freya, what you are talking about is the plot in a famous short story by a great science fiction writer named Philip Dick. From the name you mentioned Arnold, you Elalai alien behaviorists may not have been able to get the original novel, but read the novel adaptation of the movie "Comprehensive Memories". This is not what really happened on Mars. However, there was indeed a fierce contradiction on Mars due to drinking water and oxygen supply issues. The person who controls the circulation system wants to be crowned the emperor of Mars and establish the so-called Voss Empire. But when he closed the oxygen supply system in the most intense neighborhoods, people in other neighborhoods shouted the slogan of "destroy the tyrant", broke through the defense of his minions, and threw it out of the central control building of the circulation system."
"Do you know?" Xia Yongzhi stared at Lin Youde, "Sometimes I think, can you be an ancient person who traveled through time from ancient times, right?"
Lin Youde responded with a smile: "It's not surprising. Sometimes I suspect that I am the protagonist of an adventure novel, so that I can explain why I am a simple-looking person and have an empty pocket but I can get a back-paid from a daughter."
Xia Yongzhi also smiled.
Lily coughed: "Flirt with me to tell me about my condition! Don't go into estrus anytime and anywhere. It's like two cats in estrus, it's very annoying!"
Everyone on the bridge laughed, and for a moment, the bridge was filled with joy.
"Okay, let's go down. Mr. Captain, I have a coordinate here. Please teleport us and the guard to this coordinate."
"Okay, please send me the coordinates. Well, I did receive them, but to teleport to this place, our ship has to adjust the track. Our teleporter is not powerful and cannot teleport to too far."
At this time, Freya pointed to the screen and shouted: "What is that in front?"
Everyone turned their heads and looked at the screen together.
Lin Youde was the first to answer: "That is Mount Olympus, the highest peak on Mars. Now we can see it because humans put the first orbital launch facility of Mars on it, because the peak is very high and the energy required to launch a vehicle from above is less."
“In fact, what we are seeing is the solar array at the Olympus Space Center,” the captain added.
"Strange," Lily muttered, "This thing was built after colonizing Mars, right? How should people on Mars return to orbit before they are built?"
"The answer is that if you go down, you won't come up. At that time, chemical fuel rockets were still being used for space launches. The newly established Mars colony had no way to get residents back to space. All the pioneers were ready to spend the rest of their lives on Mars. Therefore, many of the astronauts were lovers, and they were ready to take root when they fell to the ground."
Lily looked completely from the heart with a marvelous expression on her face.
"Our ancestors actually carried out cosmic development under this situation."
"In fact, the first astronaut to land on Mars has only lived on Mars for dozens of hours due to mechanical failure. He left a famous saying-"
"What is the difference between lying on a planet and dying of old age and salted fish?" Xia Yongzhi snatched the white snatch.
"The full version is like this: Don't condemn the SA. I came here when I knew this was a mission without going back. Yes, I just came to die on my own. What's the difference between lying on earth and dying of old age and salted fish? Please step on my body and continue moving forward, and it's over."
In fact, Lin Youde's words were told to Freya. Anyone who has something to do with the history of aerospace will basically know this sentence.
"And," the captain suddenly took over the conversation, "this incident has also given birth to a tradition that every human spacecraft that arrived on Mars for the first time would adjust its route to pass vertically above the location where the pioneer landed. This is also the same for one of our orbital flights, and now we are about to pass that position."
"Photo directly shoot the picture." The detector's controller reported loudly - in fact, in modern times, humans do not need to use sound to convey command information. Most of the time, the bridges in fierce battles are quiet, and all information is transmitted through digital electronic communication. But under normal circumstances, human astronauts have retained the tradition of shouting orders or reporting loudly.
The next moment, the picture on the ground was cast on the main screen, and a huge tower-shaped building was erected on the wasteland. The thing was called the "Stars Road Mark", which looked like a hand pointing to the sky. It was that thing that inspired humans to continue to flow into the universe, and it had become a microcosm of the vigorous large-scale space movement.
Now, the aerospace movement initiated by the pioneer is still continuing. Humans are eager to advance and expand rapidly in space, and their efficiency is so high that it is feared by other races in the Milky Way.
"It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the starting point of the history of universe development."
"Awesome." Freya said sincerely, "Just listening to you, I think this history is awesome. I wonder if we Elalays have had such an era."
"There must be, in fact, every member of the Galaxy Parliament must have such a pioneering and enterprising era, otherwise it would not be possible to eventually join the Galaxy Parliament."
Chapter completed!