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Chapter 62 The Martian Rescue
Mars is the fourth closest planet to the sun.

Its orange-red appearance is because the surface is covered with hematite (iron oxide). The diameter of Mars is about half that of the Earth, and the inclination of the rotation axis and the rotation period are similar to the Earth.

Since the development of aerospace, Mars has been a second home that humans have longed to transform.

NASA's Ares-[-] exploration project sent a small team of scientists to Mars to begin preliminary research.

As a botanist, Mark Watney focuses on water temperature soil science and environmental science. His research work will be the key to whether humans can complete plant cultivation and obtain food stably.

But after living on Mars for 135 days, Mark Watney is not in a good mood.Because his teammates dropped him and left Mars when the research mission reached No. 18 days.

On the 18th day of the start of the research mission, he and five other astronauts encountered a huge storm, and the trip to outer space had to end prematurely. During the evacuation, Mark was shot by the building rolled up by the storm, and the anchor penetrated him. life detector.

He was left on Mars after being mistaken for not surviving, becoming Space Robinson.

Like Robinson, he has the materials left over from the entire spacecraft, but these materials can only support him to survive for more than 90 days.

Mark played everything a botanist could do. He used the poop left by himself and his teammates to make fertilizer, and rocket fuel to make oxygen and water, and successfully cultivated potatoes on Mars.

If the plan goes well, during the next Homan transfer window, he can take the Ares IV rocket and return to Earth.

But this is if the plan goes well, and he will survive on Mars for 868 days alone, with the potatoes he grows.

However, all plans were shattered last night.

On the night of the 134th day of life on Mars, when Mark went to check his potato cultivation warehouse, the cultivation chamber lost pressure because of the rupture of the isolation material.

The plants died, the total loss of pressure caused the plants and the surrounding water to vaporize, and the bacteria that survived in the poop as fertilizer also died in the sub-zero temperature of Mars.

Losing the breeding warehouse, Mark can no longer plant, and can only eat his leftover potatoes, strictly following the rationing system, allowing himself to survive until the 609th Martian day.

And the next spaceship rescue will take 868 days on Mars, and it has become a foregone conclusion to die on Mars.

It takes 414 days to fly a rocket from Earth to Mars.Earth's efforts became key.

Mark can only pin his hopes on the efforts of the earth. After cleaning up the plantation, he only cares about the wounds on his body.

While talking to the monitor, Mark recorded his mental activities and life, which can be used as research materials for latecomers, and can also be used as proof that he has lived.

While dealing with the injury in the corner of his eye, Mark said in a slightly rambling manner: "On the 135th day, my cultivation warehouse exploded. I can only place my hope on the earth. I know in my heart that I have done everything I can, and I hope that the goddess has given up. me."

With a self-deprecating laugh, Mark continued: "I don't know if it's an illusion. After I recognized the reality, I could already feel death knocking on the door, just like the loneliness of flying alone on a space station. Knocking on your hatch door..."

"like this……"

Mark knocked on the table while talking, and the knocking sound gradually overlapped with the sound he 'heard'.

With a swipe, Mark bounced up and roared: "This is not an illusion! Something is really knocking on the door!"

But this is on Mars!Mars without life!How could someone knock on his hatch!
Mark, who was terrified, quickly got on his Mars protective suit, and the weak protection provided by the protective suit gave Mark a little confidence.

Trembling to the cabin door, Mark indeed heard the knocking outside.

'Tom~tom~tom~'

Regular, rhythmic, even patient.

In order to ensure safety, the hatch of the Mars base does not have an observation window.

Mark can only do psychological construction for himself through the hatch.

Things have gone bad to this extent, how could it go any worse?Meet aliens?

Mark thought of this and suddenly smiled.He turned on the camera on the protective suit, ready to start recording.

After taking a deep breath, Mark began to adjust the pressure of the isolation chamber, and then opened the door.

"Oh my god, big brother, you've been thinking for so long!"

After Mark opened the hatch, before he could see the surrounding environment clearly, such a sentence appeared in his ears.

The atmospheric pressure of Mars is between 500 and 700 Pa, and its density is less than one percent of that of the Earth. However, with such a close-up call, Mark successfully distinguished that this is the language of the Earth.

Relieved, Mark was in the mood to look around at this time, a team of 11 people.They are all wearing full-coverage spacesuits. The spacesuits look similar to those used in the space station, but the lightness has surpassed the spacesuits of the space station.

After all, an extravehicular spacesuit weighs 120 kilograms. No one can keep knocking on the door after wearing it to move freely on Mars.

When Mark was in a daze, a hand slipped in front of his eyes, and the person who had just communicated with him was waving in front of his eyes, trying to awaken his consciousness.

"Are you ok? Tell me a few words from old Nuofu, my English is not good!"

"It's no wonder you've always been an airplane pilot at your age. Teacher Wang asked you to learn, so you don't want to."

Zhang Peng looked at Galakdionov with a sad face, and said, "Blame me. At first, I only had to memorize a few sentences and shout out from the air. Later, I joined the coalition government. There is no need to learn it if I have a translator." ..."

Mark didn't know how he got back into the cabin. The original small Mars base became lively in an instant.

When he took a small earplug and put it in his ear according to the instructions, Mark finally understood the words that made people cry.

"I said it's not easy for you to live here alone, wait a while, take our spaceship, and we will send you back to Earth properly!"

Zhang Peng's carefree voice gave Mark the best comfort.

Finally back to Earth!Although it is not the power of NASA, as long as they are earthlings, they are all family members.

Mark was not hypocritical either. After being moved, he began to pack his things.The recorded video of life on Mars and the results of later experiments were imported into a USB flash drive by him and carried with him, and then he only carried a potato seedling that froze to death.

There are strict standards for the rocket's payload. With him alone, I don't know how much material will be dropped.Life on Mars made Mark feel very difficult. This dead potato seedling was his only thought.

However, seeing Mark's cautiousness, Zhang Peng persuaded him, "Bring some more things. After a hard time, you can't bring some souvenirs back? If it wasn't for the bureau's request, I would dig a stone and bring it back. To show off to that boy Pei Qiang..."

Mark asked suspiciously: "Is it okay to load the rocket?"

Zhang Peng squatted down and fiddled with the potatoes in the box, and said carelessly, "Hey! What's the matter? Even if you take all these potatoes back, it's fine. Your potatoes look good..."

Suddenly Zhang Peng turned his head, looked at a person in the crowd and asked, "Director, can we have beef stew with potatoes tonight? I haven't eaten the potatoes grown on Mars yet..."

(End of this chapter)