Jean Of Bright City 13

September 13, 2085

"Dolly!"

The sky is a bit dim, and the wind and sand are very heavy. The afterglow of the setting sun illuminates the land full of yellow sand. The criss-crossed mountains have undulating terrain. The whole land is as if it has been grilled. A small man in a thin spacesuit The girl was sitting on the edge of a cliff, watching the sunset in the distance.

Next to him is an intelligent guided robot with a crawler. The little girl seems to be in her early 20s. She is holding her hand on her cheek, and her expression is a bit serious, but there is bitterness between her brows.

"Dolly, you should have a good talk with your parents."

The tank-like robot next to it was dark gray, with a square raised head on the surface of Changxing’s mobile body. Dolly ignored the robot’s greetings. After all, tomorrow is her 20th birthday, and she misses the days on Earth. It’s been 9 years since I came here.

This is Mars. There is nothing but boring study and work every day. Dolly can’t stand it anymore. She really wants to return to your aqua-blue planet in her memory. When she was 10 years old, Dolly was excited. Followed my parents and joined the Pioneer Project.

It was a plan that mankind planned to start a long time ago, but because of the unstable situation in the world, the plan did not start until the beginning of 2076. Dolly and her parents, who are researchers, took the spacecraft 3094 together. It took more than a year to reach Mars.

A total of 100,000 people came to this plan. A total of 100 spacecraft carrying various materials and processing and production machinery were launched towards Mars. However, only 79 spacecrafts finally arrived on Mars, and 15 of them were in During the voyage, there was a collision with floating objects in the space. 6 ships had problems when they arrived and crashed during landing.

The past nine years have been extremely difficult. For Dolly, on the one hand, she needs to learn all aspects of knowledge, on the other hand, she needs to do almost the same work every day. The most important task is to take care of the crop fields.

The main food here is potato, corn and wheat flour. It was good at the beginning. Dolly feels fresh about everything every day, but now, Dolly is tired of everything. Like Dolly, many people are the same. .

But now there is good news. Pioneer No. 3 base found oil, indicating that they may be able to rely on oil extraction to obtain enough fuel and then return to the earth.

It’s just that this idea is very difficult. Many metal deposits are difficult to mine and require a very long mining and digging process. Many times they can only rely on manpower. Dolly no longer wants to dig. Such days are really very tormenting. This is true for most human beings who come here with the hope of establishing a better life.

I don’t know when, longing for a good life on Mars turned into resentment. Dolly is one of them. She misses the taste of fried chicken burgers and the taste of soda, and she used to go to the cinema with her parents to watch movies. .

Everything from nine years ago in my mind kept coming up. At that time, Dolly was extremely excited after hearing that her parents were selected. The students in the school also held a special farewell party for Dolly. During the journey, in addition to chess and card games, the entertainment activities on board the spacecraft include computer games and small sports fields.

The journey is not boring, because everyone is looking forward to the establishment of a beautiful human homeland after arriving on Mars.

When I first arrived, everyone was happy. They were working hard every day, making serious detections. But in the third year of this day, Dolly felt extremely tired. She walked today. It was a little farther, far away from the Pioneer Base No. 9 where they were supposed to be, more than ten kilometers away.

In the past nine years, Dolly has spent most of the time in the spacecraft, which is similar to everything he did during the voyage. Now there are 1031 people in their spacecraft, and some farmland has been established outside. No food is needed temporarily. worry.

The only thing to worry about is the sandstorm, which is a very annoying thing. Every time a sandstorm strikes, some facilities will always be destroyed. The extracts of the repair facilities need to be refined and manufactured at a mine station more than 30 kilometers away. Then transport it back to Pioneer Base No. 9.

Dolly glanced at the time. It was almost 7 o'clock, but the sun would not set until after 8 o'clock, because there was nearly an hour longer on Mars than on Earth.

A few days ago, there was a severe sandstorm. Dolly was asked by her parents to go to the ore mining station with other peers to get repair materials. Dolly was in a bad mood today and had conflicts with some of her partners. When her parents came to persuade her, Dolly had another quarrel with her parents. She also said that she wanted to return to Earth and didn't want to stay on Mars anymore. The moment she said this, most people were silent.

Dolly’s words seem to say what most people are saying, but it’s obviously impossible now. Every spacecraft has machinery for making high-energy fuel, but it’s not easy to find the raw materials to make this high-energy fuel. , Where oil is a must.

Most of the pioneer bases can only communicate with signal-transmitting robots driven by electricity. On this piece of nearly 100 square kilometers of solid rocky land, there are 79 pioneer bases built around spacecraft.

"Dolly, go back. I have observed that there may be a small-scale dust storm around here. It is better to go back."

The guidance robot beside her eagerly urged, Dolly smiled disapprovingly, and then shook her head.

"I won't go back."

Dolly is still full of fire, and her parents have taught herself in front of many people. Her parents are one of the managers of this base. Their daily food rations and all aspects of rationing are extremely strict. Dolly can't stand this kind of life.

"I'm not a robot."

Dolly glanced at the same guiding robot next to her, she sighed, and then Dolly raised her arm. The crystal screen above had the remaining amount of oxygen and the temperature in the spacesuit, including the outside temperature, and wind speed.

Dolly once heard from a doctor who taught herself that according to the current progress, they would not be able to return to the earth in their lifetime, and the gap between ideal and reality was too great.

And what worries everyone the most is that as a message sent back from the space station that communicated with the earth, it had lost contact with the earth nine years ago.

This is the point that many people feel panic. Some people feel that they have been abandoned. As the first group of pioneers who landed on Mars, once an environment conducive to the stable survival of mankind can be established, the second group and the third group will continue. come.

Because there are countless resources on Mars, the output of Mars surface exploration in the past few decades has drawn a general conclusion. Humans only need to establish their own survival bases, and then rely on science and technology to change the Martian atmosphere. Reach the standard of the earth, and then Mars may become the second earth.

Dolly has no longer believed in such a beautiful idea over the years, and may be able to see it when she is dead.

Dididi

It was detected that the wind had begun to strengthen, and the nearby No. 8 monitoring station sent an early warning.

Dolly just heard the sound of guiding the robot, she stood up immediately, turned around and rushed. The sandstorm is not a joke. Once it is blown away, it is impossible to survive.

The guiding robot continued to make sounds, guiding Dolly to run on this dry and hard ground. Gradually Dolly saw the Pioneer Base No. 9 in the distance.

An elliptical metal spacecraft is surrounded by a lot of translucent glass covers. Those are crop fields outside the spacecraft, and some are experimental fields. There is plenty of sunshine here.

The reason why I chose this area where there are always sandstorms is because there is a huge lake nearby. The water reserves are enough for everyone to live. If you leave the water, everyone will not be able to survive, so you can only endure the scorching sun. It’s hard to leave this wasteland because of the burning and wind and sand, which is why many people are becoming more and more unbearable.

Once a sandstorm strikes, you need to be vigilant. High-speed metal objects in the wind can easily penetrate the outer shell of the crop field, and the hull is often damaged.

Dolly ran gently, running here is not too laborious, because the gravity on Mars is much smaller than that on Earth, and it only needs to run lightly to move fast, so Dolly can come to more than ten kilometers away from the base. local.

Dididi

The siren suddenly sounded, and Dolly accelerated her steps. She was stunned as soon as she looked back, because there was already a large gray area behind her, and she was approaching at high speed.

"According to the current speed calculation, it is impossible to escape the sandstorm and find a shelter!"

Dolly felt a chill in her heart. She looked around, and a wave of coolness rose on her back. If she encountered a sandstorm outside, she would most likely die.

"There is a bunker at 198 meters to the northeast. Please go to the bunker. There are 108 seconds left for the sandstorm to arrive!"

Dolly ran over quickly, and soon saw a large uplift of rock. She quickly ran to the north side of the rock, and then squatted on the ground next to the rock, and the guiding robot followed.

There was a rumble, and for a moment Dolly felt fear. For a moment, there was only wind and sand around her, and she couldn't see anything. She closed her eyes and felt the situation was very bad. Such a dust storm is Dolly’s daily life. Need experience in two days.

At present, the people in the Pioneer Base can't find a good way, and being unable to leave the water source is a big problem.

Every week, she went to the lake in the center of the base community to fetch water. She fetched enough water for 1,000 people to live. Dolly has been there too many times.

The sound of the wind and sand is loud, and Dolly just wants to go home now, take a good rest, and maybe feel better tomorrow.

But at this time, the wind and sand seemed to show no signs of stopping, and Dolly heard a violent roar from outside.

"what happened?"

Dolly murmured, ten minutes have passed, and the power of sandstorm has not diminished, but has become stronger and stronger. Dolly became anxious and felt the constant rumbling from her back.

Suddenly, Dolly saw a black shadow passing over her head, and then moved quickly. It lasted for nearly half an hour before the wind and sand finally stopped.

"It's over, such a big dust storm, I don't know how many days it will take to clean up the sand."

Dolly complained. At this moment, Dolly saw that the ground in front of her was in a mess. Some stones larger than her were everywhere. Dolly swallowed and returned to the back of the raised rock, and found that the surface of the rock was already A lot of places were cut off, and Dolly watched with trepidation. She immediately followed and guided the robot to continue towards the base.

"Lost coordinates! Continue searching for signal source."

Dolly looked at everything in front of her in horror. I don’t know why this dust storm lasted so long. This is something Dolly has never experienced before. Generally, the dust storm ends in more than ten minutes at most, but this dust storm lasts for a long time. It took half an hour.

Soon after, Dolly planned to open the front cover of the guiding robot to check the signal receiver, but when Dolly's hand just touched it, the guiding robot immediately issued an alarm.

"The velocity of the air changes, and the dust storm is coming."

Dolly looked at the place behind her in horror, the sun was almost out of sight, and the distant place was a large area of ​​gray.

"Look for cover."

Dolly knows very well that this place can no longer stay. The next sandstorm will most likely destroy this bunker. Some hard metal ores carried in the wind can easily destroy this kind of rock that has been eroded by wind and sand all year round. .

Dolly ran eagerly. The guiding robot was still looking for a shelter. Dolly looked around anxiously. Soon Dolly saw a horizontal ditch. She ran over and found a **** down. She immediately Sliding down the sand, then found a raised rock on the slope, directly opened the work bag behind the spacesuit, took out the fixed cable, and fixed himself to the rock.

Dolly tied the guiding robot directly with a rope, and quickly pushed it into the sand.

The gust of wind blew Dori's head instantly, and the sand was pouring frantically like a torrential rain. Dori felt her body being continuously pulled in the frantically flowing sand.

After 17 minutes, the dust storm ended. Dolly looked at everything in front of her with lingering fears and the falling rocks around her. She was lucky. She was not hit by some of the big rocks that fell, and she was lying on one piece. The underside of the raised rock.

Dolly immediately pulled out the guiding robot, and the robot began to measure the signal. At this time, a flying vehicle slowly came over in the distance. Dolly stood up immediately, took out the signal flare, and quickly accompanied it. With the red flare that lifted off, the aircraft in the distance slowly landed nearby, and Dolly ran over.

"father!"

Coming to this long small four-person aircraft, Dolly lowered her head in embarrassment, like a child who had done something wrong. There were three people on it, her father Rodin, and the technician Joeyna. Teacher Dr. David.

"Dolly, I'm sorry, what Dad said this morning was a bit harder."

Dolly walked over and hugged her father. Joyna laughed and patted Dolly on the shoulder.

"You are right Dolly. It's just a fact that many of us have not said. Everyone is exhausted because we don't know when we can build a base suitable for human survival."

David smiled kindly and shook his head.

"If you can produce enough fuel, you still have a chance to go back."

Soon the four people took a small aircraft towards the Pioneer 9 base, which was partially covered by sand.

A large number of people have begun to clean the sand with automatic shovel. After Dolly went back, many people greeted Dolly, and Dolly worked hard.

Dolly's father Rodin and the other two returned to the spaceship and soon returned to the spaceship control room. At this time, the head of the room and some other managers were there, and everyone looked solemn.

Just an hour ago, they received an information briefing from the space station with only a few short text descriptions, but these contents shocked everyone and were unbelievable.

The Earth had problems in the Asteroid Landing Hope Project and encountered a violent impact. Now life on the Earth is almost extinct. This is an information briefing from the space station country Asgard, and the attached signal identification code.

"Do you think this is true?"

The 60-year-old head of the room asked, everyone was silent, and no one answered. Now all the people in the Pioneer Base should have received such news.

No one knows the specific situation, but think of it as long as 9 years, have not received any news and contacts on the earth, it is certain that this news can be believed at least, but no one is willing to accept such things, pioneers Most of the people in the base want to return to Earth.

Many problems and even **** incidents that have occurred in the base in recent years have been created in this environment where there is only uninterrupted work and sandstorms all day long. Many people can no longer stand it and want to return to Earth.

Some people have even said that it is possible to combine the fuel of all spacecraft, enough for at least 30 spacecraft to return to Earth. Such a problem is always raised in every room director meeting.

But everyone did not agree to this approach, because everyone wanted to go back, and it is almost impossible to find a place that is not often hit by sandstorms and has a water source. Although there is a lot of solid water at the poles of Mars, The temperature over there is too low, it is impossible for them to establish a base.

The temperature here is at most minus 20 degrees at night, but the poles of Mars are different. It may reach minus 100 degrees. This is not the temperature at which humans can survive.

At this time, everyone’s expressions are stern. Everyone knows that the next meeting of room directors should begin soon. Although oil has been discovered, it will take at least 5 years to produce machinery that can be exploited. You must also find some corresponding metal deposits.

"I can not stand it any more."

At this time an observer stood up, pressed his forehead in distress, and said with a sad expression.

"I still have a wife and children on the earth. I just wanted to exchange 10 years of work for future stability, but it has been 9 years now, which is different from what I said at the beginning."

"Calm down Bob!"

Rodin looked at the emotional observer and walked over to comfort him. At this time, the observer curled up against the metal wall and sobbed silently. Most of the people who joined the Mars project signed contracts with energy companies for ten years or even With permanent contracts, most people will leave Mars and return to Earth when the second batch of employees arrive.

It is possible to get a house, and a large sum of money is already available, including medical insurance for life after the age of 50.

Many people think that as long as they work hard for 10 years and return to the earth, the earth will be turned upside down, because they hope that the asteroid plan will make the earth better.

Despair quickly diffused throughout the control room. No one was saying anything. Rodin just sat quietly on the chair. He recalled what his daughter had said in the morning and said most of the things that were suppressed in his heart. Come out, this is what everyone suppressed in their hearts.

Life on Mars is not as beautiful as everyone built during the journey at the beginning. Now everyone is exhausted if they can survive. For 9 years, everyone has done the same thing almost every day, but it won’t work. , Because if you don’t do it, it means death.

Water supply, metal refining and manufacturing at mining stations, sand cleaning, crop field maintenance, as well as internal facility repairs, robot repairs, many tasks are very heavy and boring.

Some people have begun to think about the significance of this. Energy companies just hope that they can find more efficient and stable new energy sources on Mars, as well as some more rare energy sources, and then send transport ships over and allow them to adapt and transform humans to a large area. Survive the environment, but according to the current progress, it is impossible to do all this.

Although there are water sources in some places far away from the wind and sand, it is impossible to establish bases in those places. The terrain of those places is too regional, and the structure of the rock formations is also unstable after investigation.

Nowadays, just cultivating the soil for planting makes everyone feel exhausted physically and mentally. With the addition of food, there will always be only so few things, and the things that you see will always be the unchanging soil. It’s hard for people to accept, and many people have the idea of ​​going back to the area.

"Don't announce this news for the time being. Once it is announced, some people may not be able to stand it, especially those who have relatives on earth!"

The head of the room spoke, and Luo Dan gave a hum. After the brief meeting, everyone left the control room and returned to the outside, taking tools to join the work of cleaning the sand.

"Dad, I'm sorry."

Dolly leaned over and said, Rodin smiled and shook his head.

"It's okay, the days in the future are still growing, and you will grow up too!"

Dolly looked at her father suspiciously and found the sadness and bitterness in his eyes, but she didn't ask much.

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