Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

One hundred and nine Mars.

Analysis of the data taken from the satellite and the pictures and videos sent back by the rover is exactly the same as the Mars before the main universe was transformed.

The atmospheric composition is mainly carbon dioxide, accounting for 95%, with an average temperature of -63°C, unable to maintain stable liquid water, and it seems that there is no life.

However, researchers firmly believe that under the surface of Mars, there is a high probability that there are some anaerobic microorganisms that prefer low temperature and dry environments, and they also speculate that Mars was suitable for life ten thousand years ago, or hundreds of millions of years ago.

Therefore, under the impetus of interstellar exploration and interstellar colonization, and the majority governments of the East and West camps intending to end the century-long confrontation and attempt a peaceful transition, a joint scientific research team was formed.

Manpower, material resources and funds are sufficient, and all preparations are completed in only four years.

Astronauts and living supplies first use the space station for transit, and then use the permanent base built on the surface of the moon to take a jointly funded and built engineering ship and officially sail to Mars (the closest point) about 60 million kilometers away.

This process represents the first public cooperation between the Eastern and Western camps in a century, and it is also the first time that human beings have sailed out of the earth-moon circle, which is of unprecedented significance.

After a three-month voyage, the engineering ship parked in the low-Earth orbit of Mars.

Then, the engineering ship airborne materials and supplies to the designated coordinates.

Then, the five astronauts who best represented the east and west camps took the landing module and followed closely behind, and built a temporary scientific research station on the Chris Plain at the landing site.

The whole process was broadcast live in time delay.

As for the first astronaut to set foot on the surface of Mars, in fact, five astronauts set foot on the surface at the same time, and behind these five, they represent the five most powerful countries on earth.

That's all for now.

Gao Tiankuo couldn't help feeling emotional: Twenty-six years ago, I was just a little captain, but when I saw human beings standing together on the surface of a foreign planet for the sake of voyage and exploration, the feeling in my heart is beyond words.

As he spoke, Gao Tiankuo looked directly at Evelyn, who was sitting opposite him: I don't know if you can understand the excitement that human beings are finally ending their infighting and about to start a new life and a new future.

Of course I can understand this. As I said at the beginning, we are the Otino nation of human society. Evelyn responded with a smile.

See here.

Gao Tiankuo nodded lightly, and then continued to explain: The journey of human beings to Mars was supposed to lead the future, but we never thought that this move would lead mankind to the end...

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after.

The engineering ship continued to dispatch another two groups of astronauts to build a semi-permanent scientific research station on the surface of Mars in the shortest possible time to conduct research and exploration on the Martian soil, atmosphere and areas where underground rivers are suspected to exist.

In the first month or so, all the projects went very smoothly, coupled with the images shown in the delayed live broadcast, the confrontation between countries in the world gradually slowed down.

However, during this period of time, the hatred accumulated in World War I and World War II, as well as some historical issues, were also deliberately mentioned by the five major powers, and they were forced to forcefully attack those defeated countries that did not want to admit it, or chose to forget. pressure.

Facing the end of the confrontation between East and West, and the five major powers who chose to unite...

From the initial ignorance, delay and inaction of these defeated countries, in the end, most of the defeated countries had to choose sincere apology and paid a large amount of economic and resource compensation.

However, the apology made by one of the island's defeated countries is avoid the important and ignore the minor, portraying itself as a victim, expressing and apologizing from the perspective of the victim, let alone substantive compensation.

And this defeated country instantly annoyed the five major powers.

After all, under the general trend, you are still avoiding history, deceiving the people, and keeping the temple of war criminals.

In this regard, the defeated country was lucky, thinking that the five major powers could not really unite the front, and they could still be able to do a job with ease among the five major powers.

The real situation is that the five major powers are already preparing to launch absolute sanctions in military, economic and other aspects. It just so happens that the five major powers also need to make an example of others, so as to resolve the confrontation between East and West once and for all, and lay the foundation for the establishment of a human coalition government.

However, just before the five major powers were about to launch sanctions, the Mars joint team that had been carrying out scientific research and exploration projects for three months suddenly encountered an accident.

For the general public, people only know that the engineering ship cannot get in touch with the scientific research station on the surface due to the Martian storm.

As far as the five major countries are concerned, twenty-five astronauts, scientists and engineers at surface scientific research stations have all been killed.

at this time.

Gao Tiankuo took out a personal computer that was the size of a palm and the width of a coin from a pouch in his girdle.

Flip.

boot.

Turn the screen to Evelyn, and say: When I was invited here by you, I already expected that you want to find out the origin of the alien species, so I will share the information about the alien species in our army that can be relatively made public. Make a copy so that you can understand it more intuitively.

While speaking, the computer screen played the encounters of the twenty-five astronauts for Evelyn according to the established procedure.

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The screen changed from black to twinkling stars.

Immediately afterwards, the screen began to stabilize.

The perspective is first-person, and the photographer is an astronaut named Yang Li.

And because of the angle of view of the helmet camera, Yang Li's face cannot be observed only through the content of the screen, and only through the multi-layer protective cover of the helmet can one see the surface of Mars outside the helmet, which is no different from the desert of the earth.

In the upper right corner of the screen, there is also a helmet auxiliary function similar to the main cosmic power armor, which shows that Yang Li and four other astronauts are driving a closed Mars rover with a decompression chamber towards the coordinates 40.75°N, 9.46°W. location.

At the same time, following the angle of view of the helmet camera, looking out of the car window into the distance, you can vaguely see the end of the front, which seems to be a special mountain range.

During the journey, all five astronauts communicated with real-time translators.

Although most of them are academic and technical exchanges, they will also say some simple and easy-to-understand jokes to warm up the scene. After all, their conversations will be broadcast to the earth nearly 100 million kilometers away through the scientific research station.

subsequently.

The x3 symbol appears in the center of the screen to accelerate.

Back to normal.

At this moment, the car window showed that everyone had arrived at the southern foot of the target mountain range.

Yang Li and his entourage got up and left their seats, and checked the remaining oxygen, and whether the pressure and airtightness of the spacesuit were normal.

After the inspection was correct, they entered the decompression chamber for decompression, and set foot on the yellowed desert one after another.

After walking for a certain distance, a protruding crack gradually appeared on the right side of the camera. After reporting this discovery, Yang Li and his party turned to head towards the crack.

Wait for them to approach.

It can be seen that at the end of this crack is a cave with a width and height of about ten meters, which seems to be able to reach the depths of the mountain range.

The most important thing is that when Yang Li switched the HUD of the protective cover to enhance the photocathode surface at the entrance of the cave, he found a grid pattern, just like...

Floor and wall tiles?

See here.

Phew! It seems that Martians really exist, hahaha! This trip was not in vain!

In the video, it was reported that an astronaut couldn't help laughing loudly.

Pay attention to your words, Mike. But another astronaut immediately said: This is Lieutenant Colonel Gnolev, the scientific research station, we found the entrance of a suspected man-made tunnel, please switch the live broadcast to other team members, and , we will investigate the tunnel.

This is the scientific research station, received.

The conversation just ended.

The astronaut surnamed Gnolev appeared from the left side of Yang Li's perspective, and walked slowly in front of everyone. After a brief observation, he began to issue orders:

Lefevere, Bonnet, you two stay to guard the Mars rover, ensure the normal operation of the base station, prevent us from losing contact with the scientific research station, and use the equipment we brought to scan the mountain range.

Yang, Mike, follow me into the investigation.

Yes, Lieutenant Colonel.

Hearing this, everyone responded respectfully, and the voice of Yang Li, the photographer, was the most obvious.

next.

Gnolev, Yang Li, and Mike walked forward through the ravine-like crack and arrived at the entrance with man-made traces.

approach.

Expand Scan.

According to the preliminary results, these floor tiles and wall tiles are relatively consistent in size and placed regularly.

Relying on this alone, the possibility of natural formation is basically ruled out.

When the surrounding natural light is getting darker and darker, Yang Li, as a video shooter, chooses to turn on the night mode that comes with the protective cover.

After going deeper, the data displayed on the right side of the protective cover showed that the weathering traces of this man-made tunnel were at least tens of thousands of years old, but if they want to know more about the time, Yang Li and the others need to take samples back for research.

It's just that when Yang Li picked up a fragment and was about to put it into a small airtight box, the gap between the floor tiles and wall tiles emitted light, from dark to bright.

? ?

My God! Mike shouted on the communication, Lieutenant Colonel, what's going on?

And Yang Li also placed the fragments, stood up and looked into the depths of the tunnel.

I saw the lights lit up one after another, extending to the core of the mountain range.

Waited for a few seconds.

call!!!

A burst of violent air flow spurted out from the core area, causing Yang Li to almost fall down and causing the video screen to shake violently.

Wait for the movement to stop.

Yang Li looked further into the depths, and saw countless sparkling mirror surfaces, which were gushing out at an extremely fast speed, like...

Mercury tsunami.

! !

Seeing this scene, Gnolev, who was at the oblique front of the screen, paused for a moment, then quickly turned around: Withdraw! Yang! Mike! Hurry up...

Before he had time to yell out the words, the mercury fluid had already completely wrapped Gnolev, and the next moment, Yang Li, who was standing next to him, could not escape the results of his boss.

Hey...!

In the end, only a burst of silver and black star flowers and harsh noises remained on the video screen.

Play ends.

... Evelyn frowned slightly, and looked up at Gao Tiankuo: Is this the source of the heterogeneity?

It should be said to be the source of the solar system. Gao Tiankuo explained: The alien species that raged before were carbon-based organisms, a mass-produced biological weapon, I think you already know this.

But... Gao Tiankuo pointed to the individual computer on the table with his right index finger, But what you saw just now is a silicon-based creature.

Although the time was short, when those fluid creatures attacked our astronauts, they still captured some sample data and sent them back to the engineering ship before the scientific research station fell.

According to the analysis, we can be sure that the creator of the alien species is a silicon-based civilization that exists in theory and has not been recognized by mainstream academics.

Silicon-based... Evelyn was lost in thought.

Before and after the establishment of the Human Empire, the main universe has been in contact with more than 200 parallel universes, and most of the space gates are flash in the pan, either judged by the empire as useless, or the space gates cannot maintain stability for a long time, requiring the emperor or Primarch-level psychic powers to intervene.

On so many worlds, the Empire did find some silicon-based life.

But most of them are not successful. Rather than saying that they are civilizations, it is better to say that they stop at the stage of developing into a race, and they perish by themselves due to continuous development.

Although carbon and silicon can form four covalent bonds, and silicon is much more stable than carbon and more resistant to heat and pressure, the reality is that carbon is much more active than silicon.

Therefore, the silicon-based organisms recorded in the empire were either protected for observation, or samples were taken for preservation.

But now, what Evelyn has to face is the silicon-based civilization in the true sense, which...

This is not a threat to the empire, at most it will increase research projects and funding, and the current empire is bound to completely wipe out the alien species and the silicon-based civilization that produced the alien species.

next.

It is the war between 109 humans and alien species.

On July 22, 2046, the Mars scientific research station lost contact, and 25 top astronauts, scientists, and engineers confirmed their sacrifices.

On July 23, the engineering ship, which was originally in a safe position and wanted to continue to observe the surface conditions, also lost contact. It was later confirmed that it was shot down by some kind of high-speed object.

The entire scientific research team sacrificed and encountered alien life with obvious hostility. Only the five major countries knew the inside story in the early stage.

The general public believes that in the event of a solar storm, the earth and Mars will not be able to re-establish communication in a short period of time.

August 17.

When the social focus was successfully shifted by the five major powers, and they no longer paid attention to the situation on Mars for the time being, a sudden group of meteorites entered the earth's field of vision.

The earth-moon defense circle had not been detected and shortened at all before this, and naturally there was no way to give an early warning. Afterwards, the meteorite group broke through the atmosphere at a minimum speed of Mach 83, scattered and fell on the islands on the west side of the Pacific Ocean...

It is also the location of the defeated country that hesitated and dared not readily admit its mistakes and make an apology.

In the face of the impact of the meteorite, 65% of the cities in the defeated country were instantly destroyed, and the number of casualties was about 34 million.

But that's just the beginning.

The first batch of crystal-covered, rock-like aliens broke out of their shells and began to devour them with their spiked mouths.

August 29.

The island nation gradually turned to purgatory.

The military powers of the five major countries and the East and West camps all dispatched fleets and various military forces to it to rescue them as much as possible while trying to contain the alien species in the island.

However, this is only the prelude to the alien invasion.