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Just as the ESA announced its exploration of Mars, it also announced plans for Europeans to land on Mars.

As soon as the news came out, Nasa and CNSA showed lukewarm attitude, especially Nasa. The ESA knew that it was worth it, but some key technologies were flawed. At this time, it was naturally going to Nasa to discuss cooperation.

Nasa is very clear that it is OK to cooperate with other space projects, but Mars is not allowed to discuss it.

In desperation, they bit the bullet and went to find CNSA again, and they also hit a wall, which annoyed the ESA. At the same time, they also learned a very critical information. The two super players seemed to have reached a tacit understanding and did not want the third party to interfere in Mars.

It seems that there is something tricky about it, but they will never think that the two sides have secretly divided Mars, especially the large investment in matrix technology has made Nasa firmly believe that Mars will soon become a new habitat for humans in the near future.

Faced with such a vast territory, the temptation is irresistible. I think I am super strong, so what reason do I have to share the cake with others?

Although there are clear provisions in international law that the solar system belongs to humans, this is just a matter of saying. Space exploration and external competition are not based on sayings, but on real hard power.

Just as the ESA announced that it would send an advanced satellite into Mars orbit, both sides were thinking that it would be best if the satellite could not reach its destination.

True and false, false, false and true. In today's situation, the outside world can no longer tell what matrix technology should do on Mars. In fact, matrix technology is playing real in concealment. Ziyuan Crystal is naturally the first priority strategic task, but colonizing Mars is not just for the sake of fooling people.

It will take a moment to colonize Mars by humans. Matrix Technology is just taking advantage of this opportunity to release a layer of smoke bombs.

Three months later, the "Mars Express" came to Mars again, bringing the Americans' 1,049-ton "Noah 3" to the Mars orbit.

Since then, the Americans have also had a Mars space station in orbit, but only more than 600 tons, and a large amount of supplies are still used to build the Mars Dekawak outpost base.

In the past and after the voyage, the Qifengkan has undergone tremendous changes in the past six months, and the outpost base has become extremely large. An outpost base covering an area of ​​more than 2,000 square meters was born in the Qifengkan, and heavy machinery is docked on the red soil.

The most eye-catching one is undoubtedly a 30-meter-high spire, which has become the iconic building of the outpost base. The slowly floating bright flags at the top of the spire indicate the affiliated place of the base.

The purpose of this spire is a defensive device, and its target is naturally the indigenous creatures of Mars. The Firefly 3 satellite in space monitors the wind-knot area all the time, and the life detector is always in operation.

Once a Martian snake lizard beast tries to approach the base at night, the first layer of defense spire will release high-intensity ultraviolet rays, with a coverage radius of up to 47 kilometers. For the snake lizard beast, this is a deadly ray, which will kill as much as you come, ensuring the safety of the outpost base.

The ground drilling intelligence machinery has been working continuously for several months and has opened the tunnel four months ago, and the entire tunnel has been reinforced in the following two and a half months.

The American "Observer No. 5" will pass over the sky of the gust of the wind every once in a while, and come over to fight the autumn wind regularly. CMSX doesn't care about this kind of monitoring behavior. The number of small landbags accumulated in the location of the gust of the wind is increasing, and Americans also found that CMSX was drilling into the ground, but they didn't know what the other party was going to do.

I also asked once and the response was to study the habitat of snake lizard beasts, and there might be underground liquid water under the Old Olympus.

Nasa also knew that through the "Explorer" Mars locomotive, they also discovered that the moisture content underground in Pezos was gradually increasing, and cmsx's response could not find any problems, but the Americans had some doubts but left it alone.

Everyone is just having fun.

Just today, a group of new members and equipment of two Mars landing vehicles carriers entered the blast. One transport ship carried four containers that were basically vacant, while the other transport ship was loaded with an ultra-large heavy mobile device - a mobile condenser cutter.

In the morning, two heavy trucks, weighing 18 tons, entered the plain sand land 4 kilometers away from the outpost base. Two "Red Eagle" transport ships had already stopped on the ground. The two heavy trucks were heading towards their respective spacecraft.

At this moment, the tail cabins of the two transport stations had already been opened.

Several astronauts in protective suits came down from heavy trucks. The landing also brought six members. Under the control of the staff, four basically vacant containers were loaded on the Mars rover, and there were only a small amount of daily necessities in the container.

These fully enclosed containers are very useful to be transported into Mars in a vacant state, and each container can carry about 6 tons of purple crystal ore.

After two hours of energy, the rover began to transport containers to the outpost base.

On the other hand, the "Red Eagle-2" is loaded with a real big guy.

The mobile condensation cutter weighs 47 tons, and it is a whole. After the entire spacecraft is installed, it is basically saturated. After unloading the spacecraft, the rover drags the big guy toward the outpost base.

In the base, Ren Hong stood on the spire and used his wide view to see not far away. Two Mars rovers were moving forward in the rolling world, and he was also a little excited.

The cutting machine is here, which means that it is finally possible to mine crystal ore. Isn’t it the arrival of this moment to put in so much energy, financial and material resources?

At this moment, staff members wearing orange and red protective suits appeared outside the outpost base. One staff member held a flag and spoke the flag, and two Mars rovers continued to enter the outpost base.

The six new members came to the surface one after another, and the tense work continued for a brief meeting. Ren Hong also walked down the spire and came to the scene.

Li Xingfeng was in charge of the work, and the container was properly placed after it was unloaded.

The first priority now is to send the mobile condenser cutter into the tunnel.

"Be careful, this treasure is worth several aircraft carriers, and it's very expensive." Li Xingfeng reminded that in order to make this condensation cutter, the construction cost alone cost 70 billion yuan. The ability to create an environment that is infinitely close to absolute zero inside the cutter is a hard requirement for cutting crystals. The strict requirements on hardware for technical difficulty and mobility are directly reflected in the sky-high cost.

A large group of staff spent half a day to check repeatedly, and after confirming that everything was normal, they finally sent this big guy worth dozens of tons to the track at the entrance of the tunnel.

Seeing this, Ren Hong was ready to go to the control room inside the cutter as soon as possible, and said, "Mingjie, come with me. You have been learning from me for several months during this period. Today, you can see how I control this device."

"Yes, Professor Wang."

Seeing this, an astronaut trotted over and entered the control room with Ren Hong.

After a while, Li Xingfeng and others watched the 47-ton guy slowly penetrate deeper along the heavy track in the straight tunnel. There was no window in front of the control room, but there was a camera, and the control room was behind the equipment.

A few kilometers away arrived quickly.

"The characteristics of purple-source crystal need not be explained much. It also has its unique structure that is uniformly arranged, and the crystal structure of hexahedral..." Ren Hong said while controlling the equipment: "In fact, this cutting machine is a highly automated equipment. What you have to do is to monitor whether the data and equipment are operating normally. There is basically nothing else to do."

As he said that, Ren Hong tapped a button, and outside the tunnel entrance, the front section of the cutter was combined with the purple crystal.

At this moment, the equipment has started to operate.

Ren Hong was waiting anxiously. When he saw a new message popping out of the display panel, he immediately stood up: "Mingjie, look at it, I'll go and take a look first!"

Ren Hong immediately left the control room and came to the storage area behind the equipment.

The first piece of crystal has been cut and is being transported to the rear storage area.

When a dark purple crystal that was a little smaller than half a fist was quietly placed in the storage area, Ren Hong locked the small crystal, he squatted down and picked it up.

Before he could observe carefully, the second crystal of the same size was transported through the tracks, and it was still emitting cold white mist. The temperature on the surface of the purple source crystal that had just been cut was so low that Ren Hong dared to pick it up directly because of the existence of protective clothing.

It was these dark purple crystals that made him dream of, and now he finally got what he wanted.

Seeing the crystals being transported over, Ren Hong, who was used to the big scenes, could not help but feel excited. This is a key material to leverage the wireless energy era and is enough to lay the foundation for a country's space overlord.

Each piece of crystal is congruent. According to the energy storage peak, this piece of crystal of about 200 grams can store high-purity energy equivalent to 185 trillion joules of energy, which is the largest volume that the cutting machine can cut in a single time.

Seeing more and more crystals accumulate, Ren Hong couldn't help but grin. These crystals are worthy of being said to be truly priceless treasures.
Chapter completed!