From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 520 Mars Crossing
For the three of Alexander Wolf, they never expected that the matter behind this would actually have something to do with the Secretary of State.

Originally, in their eyes, the Secretary of State was a very friendly person to them, but now Jayden Armstrong said that the Secretary of State told him the method?

All three of them had expressions of disbelief on their faces.

Doesn't this mean that Mr. Secretary of State is the black hand who dominates all this?

When the Secretary of State was discussing with them before, he was obviously very talkative, but in the end... it was all just pretending?

However, if you think about it carefully, it is entirely possible.

After all, it is only possible for a person at the level of the Secretary of State to be able to master the method of absolutely controlling the engine system.

And the Secretary of State has every reason to do so. After all, their Mars Project is playing the title of being the first in the world to land on Mars.

Previously, because they were worried that Huaguo's Tianchao would arrive at Mars ahead of schedule, they urged them to consume the remaining fuel to speed up, which also made perfect sense.

Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, they never expected that the Secretary of State is actually such a despicable person.

Alexander Wolf and the others all showed extremely angry expressions on their faces, but in the end, the angry expressions turned into helplessness, and there was nothing greater than heartbreak.

So what to do, they are the Secretary of State, and they are just astronauts who happen to be selected.

What's more, the Secretary of State has more power than their vice president, and he is completely the number one brother of their president, and the number one brother has done such a thing, how could the boss, the president, not know?
Maybe this matter was requested by the president.

So if you think about it this way, their president is probably the real mastermind behind the scenes.

But obviously, with their rank and status, whether they can bite the president is a problem.

Therefore, it is impossible for them now to think about anything related to revenge.

Even to some extent, whether they can go back now is a question.

Of course, if they knew that their president was already ready to abandon them, and even asked to slow down the construction of the Mars Rescuer, which was originally used to take them back to Earth, they might be Really expressed anger.

However, it is a pity that it is obviously impossible for them to know such news.

However, at the same time, when the three of them were silent, James King on the other side showed surprise on his face, and then hurriedly said to Jayden Armstrong: "Why did you tell this matter to me?" Come out? Mr. Secretary of State will know by then, once the blame is on us, I see what you will do!"

And Jayden Armstrong also calmed down at this time, thinking that he had said the name of the Secretary of State just now in a fit of anger, his face suddenly showed panic.

For a big figure like the Secretary of State, he still maintains awe in his heart, and when doing these things, the Secretary of State has also asked not to reveal that he did it.

As a result, now... let these guys know?
He couldn't help but glanced at the three of Alexander, and said sternly: "Now you know about this matter, but I advise you not to reveal it, otherwise...Mr. Secretary of State is not something you can provoke."

Hearing Jayden Armstrong's threat, Alexander and the three of them snorted coldly.

Bisky sneered: "You don't need to worry about this matter. Anyway, after we return to Earth, there will be a prison to take you in."

Tenia didn't give him a good look at all.

And only Alexander, although he also didn't have a good face, still advised: "Jaden, since you also said that the Secretary of State gave you the method, it obviously shows that the Secretary of State is using you behind your back."

"And now we have failed, and the Huaguo people have become the first people to land on Mars, so you should be clear that now, you have no value to the Secretary of State."

"So now, the five of us had better cooperate and strive to survive on Mars, so that we can go home."

"Now, you should all know that going home is the most important thing for us right now."

The words of Alexander Wolf caused a little sadness on the faces of others. Yes, right now, whether they can return to Earth alive is the most important thing.

However, when Jayden Armstrong heard Alexander's words, his eyes flickered.

It was really important to go home, and he didn't worry about what they said, as long as he returned to Earth, he would be put in prison.

Because he knew that the only people who would be put in prison would be Alexander and the others.

But the problem now is that if he really went back, if Alexander and the others revealed that the Secretary of State was the mastermind behind the scenes, he might not be at peace after returning.

There is a good chance that the Secretary of State will simply abandon him.

Thinking of this, his eyes couldn't help turning cold.

However, the little Jiujiu in Jayden Armstrong's heart must not be known to others.

Seeing that Jayden Armstrong didn't say a word, they didn't bother to continue persuading them, and began to think about what to do next.

How will they be able to return to Earth without incident.

And at this time, Alexander Wolf suddenly stood up and said, "By the way, we can contact the Chinese Tianchariot!"

"According to the news from the command center, the Chinese people on the Tianchariot discovered the underground ice that exists on the Utopia Plain, so their mission period has been extended, and they have not left Mars yet."

Thinking of this, Alexander slapped his thigh and said, "So, now we just need to contact their Tianchao and ask them to take us back to Earth, so that we will all be safe!"

Hearing Alexander's words, the faces of the others also lit up.

Yup!

There are also Chinese spaceships on Mars, so they can ask the Chinese people for help.

Although because of the issue of the country, plus the Chinese people also took a step ahead of them and became the first country in the world to land a man on Mars, but if you tell your heart, the Chinese people are really better at talking.

Come to think of it, the Chinese people on the Tianchariot will also help them, right?

Their hearts suddenly became excited.

And Bischi immediately said: "Then what are we waiting for, contact them quickly!"

But at this moment, Jayden Armstrong stood up suddenly and said, "No! You can't do this."

Hearing what he said, Bisch sneered: "Jaden, if you want to die, you can just leave the spaceship right now. What we want to do is up to you."

Alexander also frowned. Originally, he had persuaded with kind words just now, hoping that everyone would share the difficulties and get through this final difficulty. He, who was called a "good man" by many people, still hoped that Jayden would wake up.

But now, Jayden seems to be trying to thwart their best chance of surviving?
However, Jayden said at this time: "Don't forget the Wolfe clause."

Hearing this sentence, the faces of the people present all changed suddenly.

The Wolf clause is a clause that restricts cooperation between NASA and China.

And they obviously all belong to NASA astronauts, so naturally they are all subject to this clause.

Jayden's mouth curled up.

They must not let Alexander go back like this, so they must not cooperate with the Chinese people.

Although he was also very entangled in his heart, obviously after contacting the Tianchariot, it is safest to return to Earth directly, but thinking that once he returned, Alexander and the others might expose the Secretary of State, he——

Choose a more insane path.

Of course, he believed that when the Secretary of State knew what he was doing, he might think highly of him. If he could cling to the Secretary of State, his future and money would definitely be great.

Although he also knew that the Secretary of State was using him, whoever made the Secretary of State use him before was completely in line with his purpose, so the Secretary of State was still a "good guy" in his eyes at this time.

However, although the Wolf clause does have a restrictive effect on them, Alexander Wolf said at this time: "Don't worry, I am the captain, and I have the responsibility and obligation to bring everyone back to Earth safely."

"Even if the command center blames us at that time, you will say that I asked for it, and I will bear all the responsibilities."

Hearing Alexander's words, except for Jayden, everyone else looked at Alexander with admiration, even James King.

"Captain, you are my eternal captain." Bisch patted Alexander on the shoulder and said seriously, "Even if NASA really blames me, count me in."

"Count me in." Tenia also said.

"I... count me in." James King on the side slowly raised his hand at this time, and when faced with the questioning expressions of the three people, he hurriedly said: "This time I sincerely , absolutely never discussed with Jayden, a racist."

Obviously, he still hasn't forgotten the "Nige" that Jayden scolded him when he was acting with Jayden.

After all, although it is acting, Jayden can use other words.

At this time, he was also completely overwhelmed by Alexander.

Alexander nodded, and then said: "Okay, let's not talk about these nonsense, but we still need to contact the command center first, if they agree, it is naturally the best."

"But if they don't agree, we will contact the Hua people immediately."

"it is good!"

The others responded.

Then, they started me to act.

Seeing this scene, Jayden Armstrong's expression became very gloomy, but the problem was that Alexander asked Bisch to stare at him to prevent him from being a demon, which also made him lose his way.

But no matter what, he still breathed a sigh of relief deep in his heart. It would be best if he could return to Earth safely.

Soon, they sent the ground command center what happened and the plan to contact the Tiancarriage.

But the reply from the command center gave them a chill.

Because, they still have to land on Mars before they can ask the Tianchariot for help.

Since Tianren does not have an interface for docking with other spacecraft, even if there is, the interface technologies of different countries will not match, just like the Tiangong Space Station and the International Space Station, the interface technologies of the two are different, and they cannot be docked.

Therefore, if they want to board the Tianchao, they have to land first, and then board the Tianchao that also stays on the surface of Mars.

Finally return.

As for whether it can cooperate with Huaguo, it is clear that in the end, although NASA did not express it, it obviously acquiesced.

This made Alexander and the others a little happier.

At least NASA didn't send them to their deaths.

Of course, the most important thing is that when NASA knew that they were still able to contact the Tianren, they were immediately afraid that they would discredit Alexander, Bisch and Tenia on the earth, and praise Jaden Armstrong and James King. The truth of the matter is known by Hua Guo.

And they can't gamble, if they don't let Alexander and the others contact the Tianchao, whether Alexander and the others will violate their orders and secretly contact the Tianchao.

Therefore, NASA can only choose to agree to them, and then contact the two parties with two statements.

They asked Alexander not to disclose the specific things that happened during the process, saying that this is their own country's business, that is, the family scandal should not be publicized.

And they contacted the Huaguo Space Administration and asked the astronauts of the Tianren not to disclose to Alexander and them the news on the earth about discrediting the three Alexanders and praising the two Jaydens, and in the pretense of avoiding damage during the spaceflight. Their camaraderie.

Therefore, they can only gamble now that there will be no accidents in the middle, otherwise, once the truth is known by Hua Guo and then announced, their NASA reputation and support rate may plummet again.

There is really no way, who let the Tianren go to Mars first?

Moreover, the Tianchariot would leave after staying for five days. Who would have thought that it would be out of luck to discover underground ice on Mars, and it would stay for so long.

This really puts them in a dilemma, so they can only gamble in this way.

Anyway, it only takes two months for the Tianren to return to Earth, and the speed is fast enough. They can only hope that the secrets that happened on the Mars will not be revealed during these two months.

In this way, the Mars contacted the Tianchao, and Zhang Wei and the others on the Tianchao also received the notification from the command center, and naturally agreed.

After all, in this way, the fact that they, the Chinese astronauts, rescued the American astronauts of Mars will definitely help their international reputation.

What's more, this is also an opportunity to embarrass the US aerospace industry, and they naturally have to better grasp it.

After some communication, the Mars spacecraft finally started to land.

It would be a dangerous landing, and their fuel had reached the dangerous line, leaving them no buffer margin.

Therefore, whether they can land safely has become the last difficulty they must face.

And just like that, their login process, begins.

"Landing module, start to separate."

Sitting in front of the console, Alexander's mind became extremely calm.

Although he was the deputy captain before, he has always been the main pilot of the spaceship because his technology is the best.

Jayden was sitting in the co-pilot.

However, his operating skills are relatively poor. Who told him to always waste part of his time shooting short videos when training on Earth.

"Engine brake ignition, start!"

At this time, Alexander said again.

Then, they suddenly felt the resistance from the seat belt.

Their speed began to drop, from 3.6 kilometers per second to slowly falling below 3 kilometers per second, which also means that they have left the threshold of the first cosmic speed of Mars, and the centrifugal force provided by the orbiting speed can no longer be used To balance the centripetal force provided by gravity, the altitude of their landing module began to drop.

In this way, as time passed, at last, they entered the dusty atmosphere of Mars.

Today's Mars is not a good weather. The dust in the air is very serious. After they entered, the field of vision was greatly restricted, and the visible range was almost less than 500 meters.

This can be said to be very dangerous for their landing capsule, which has a speed of nearly 2000 meters per second.

As the main driver, Alexander is responsible for controlling the engine and the entire landing module. As the co-pilot, Jayden needs to use the radar to detect the surrounding situation to remind Alexander.

To land in this environment, someone has to be responsible for monitoring what is out of view.

Of course, they have just landed now, so they will not encounter any danger yet, so Jayden just stared blankly at the situation outside the porthole.

Looking at the environment in front of him, Jaden felt a little panicked. This environment is really terrible.

If it was on Earth, he might not have felt this way, but they are now on Mars, which made him a little flustered.

Now he is afraid of something unexpected happening.

In fact, he will have the idea that he will be diagnosed with Mars syndrome in the future, that is, when he lands on Mars for the first time, he will have a kind of anxiety caused by the environment of Mars, which has a small probability of happening.

But obviously, the current human beings don't know that there will be such symptoms.

I don't know how long it has passed, but Alexander's voice suddenly came from Jayden's ear: "Jayden! What are you doing?"

Jayden snapped back to his senses.

"What... what's wrong?"

"Don't be distracted! How dare you be distracted at this time?"

Alexander scolded.

"I..." Jayden opened his mouth. Although he felt uncomfortable being reprimanded, he was indeed a little distracted just now.

But at this moment, he looked down at the radar map, his face was startled, and he shouted: "Get out of the way! The 2000 meters ahead is..."

Before he could finish speaking, the speed of the landing module allowed them to see what was in front of them.

Mars, Olympus Volcano!
Olympus Volcano, the tallest known volcano in the entire solar system!
It is 1000 meters above the base of Mars, higher than the two Mount Everests combined.

And their current height is over 20 kilometers high.

This also means that they are about to collide!

Everyone in the cabin was stunned. Of course, Alexander reacted quickly, and he quickly ignited the fire, consuming nearly half of the remaining fuel at once.

Fortunately, they finally avoided the impact after rubbing against the top of Mount Olympus.

Looking at the volcano that was thrown away by them, they all felt a shock.

All of this was caused by Jayden's distraction just now.

But at this time Alexander was in no mood to blame Jayden.

The ignition just now has already consumed too much fuel, and the next landing...

Dangerous.

The altitude began to drop again, and Alexander began to try to expand the windward area as much as possible to increase the resistance, so as to avoid too much kinetic potential energy converted from the gravitational potential energy during the descent, causing their speed to be too fast.

But the air on Mars is too thin, even if the windward area becomes the largest, the resistance it can provide is too small.

The only good news is that the gravitational acceleration of Mars is only 0.38 times that of the Earth.

In this way, they are getting closer and closer to their destination, which is the landing site of their material spacecraft in the Chris Plain.

However, their speed was so fast that Alexander simply wasn't sure of dropping it low enough.

But at this moment, he found a hill ahead.

Finally, he gritted his teeth and shouted, "Shockproof posture!"

Hearing Alexander's words, the people in the cabin could only listen to him, and took a posture of anti-shock.

And the pressure mountain aimed the bottom of the engine at the hill, and then——

"Output power four! Ignition!"

He adjusted the output engine output power to the maximum, and then pressed the ignition again.

The remaining fuel was output crazily, and the engine also emitted a strong tail flame.

At this moment, they all endured the gravity of 11g, which almost made them faint.

But it works.

The speed of the landing module dropped sharply, and when it was about to hit, the fuel had just run out.

But in the end, they still hit the hill at a speed of 60 meters per second.

A huge impact came immediately.

But fortunately, the surface of this mountain is basically sandy soil, so they were greatly cushioned, and what is even more surprising is that there is a cave in this hill, and they directly smashed through the wall of the cave. Crashed into the cave.

In the end, their landing pod smashed into it.

As for this cave, it is the cave of the second mysterious relic discovered in the United States.

After their landing capsule crashed through the cave wall, it also happened to hit the mysterious ruins.

It was a relic similar to an altar.

And because the landing module hit on it, a crack was smashed out, and after a while, there was a glimmer of light in the crack...

(End of this chapter)