Chapter 1438 - Send The Astronauts Home (2/2)

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Just as Jiang Chen drove Lilith to the largest bookstore in downtown, Bris, far away in the Mars colony, was packing his luggage into the trunk of the rover along with the other six astronauts from the UA.

The flight was suddenly delayed some time ago, which disappointed him since he had already packed his luggage. Fortunately, the engine failure of the transport ship had been eliminated. Although he could not make it back for Christmas, he was still very satisfied to reunite with his family.

“Where is Jenny?”

“She can’t go. Celestial Trade does not intend to give up the prosecution of her espionage,” a slightly bulkier-looking man complained in a low voice, “I told her earlier, don’t fool around. This is not Capital. I bet she can’t even find a lawyer.”

“Are we just going to abandon her like this? Leave her here alone?” Another female astronaut looked at the male colleague next to her with disbelief, “She is our companion!”

“It’s not that we gave up her, but she got into trouble herself!” The man who looked silent and hadn’t said a word from the beginning until now said after he put his luggage into the trunk, “Otherwise we might have been able to go back long ago.”

“How can you say that to her!”

The female astronaut’s eyes widened, and she was about to argue with him but was quickly stopped by Captain Bris.

“Enough, don’t argue,” As Bris glanced at the Celestial Marines that were eyeing their direction, Bris said to his companions, “Jenny’s matter will be resolved by the politicians. Let’s not get into this mess since you and I can’t do anything. In addition, I also warned her at the start, but she obviously didn’t listen to me. I’m going to repeat what I said to her at the beginning. Once again, don’t do anything that’s unnecessary! Especially at this point.”

After the female astronaut heard what her captain, said, she also quieted down.

Although she was fighting the injustice for Jenny who was locked up, as Bris said, they couldn’t do anything. Celestial Trade would not listen to their complaints. Those soldiers only obeyed orders and did not even want to look at them for a second longer.

“Let’s cheer up, we will go home soon. When we get back to B City, shots on me.” Bris patted the shoulders of everyone, then squeezed a smile as he was the first one to walk to the opened rover door.

Twenty Mars rovers drove out from the open gate, crossed the steel city wall covered by alloy, left ripples of gray dust on the sand, and headed mightily to the south.

In that distant sky, there was a black line that connected the ground and sky.

Inside the car, Bris opened his eyes bigger.

He recalled that when Ares landed on the surface of Mars, he had never seen this thing before. Unexpectedly, it took less than a year for Celestial Trade to build a space elevator on Mars. The efficiency of the construction was simply astonishing.

What Bris didn’t know was that Celestial Trade had been studying the feasibility of a space elevator at the Mars equator as early as the second half of last year. The project was launched at the end of 2019.

From the beginning of construction to the completion of the main structure, the construction time of the entire space elevator had exceeded one year.

Of course, whether it was the gravitational constant or the orbital height, the difficulty of building a space elevator on Mars was much lower on Earth. With the space elevator below Celestial City as an example to learn from, the construction of this space elevator on Mars was very smooth.

Relying on the large graphite mine found in the crater near the colony, 60% of the materials for this space elevator were manufactured by the Mars colony. The current Mars colony was no longer the child who had to rely on imports from the parent planet. With the opening of fixed flights between Celestial City and the Mars colony, the industrial potential of this city placed above a giant iron ore mine would surpass any city on Earth in the foreseeable future.

This also included Celestial City.

On the twenty Mars rovers, there were not only astronauts from the UA but also 200 Xin researchers that included Dr. Amos. After they completed the inoculation of the Flower of Memory, these researchers, accompanied by nurses, had completed a total of 100 rehabilitation training sessions as they sorted the knowledge in their heads into the database.

Just as Jiang Chen and the others had expected, these Flowers of Memory were not without side effects.

Some people, after they accepted the memory of the Gaia civilization, felt nauseous to all mammalian meats such as pork and beef, but they involuntarily salivated to insects such as snails, earthworms, and even demon worms. Some people even forget how to walk upright, and often used their non-existent tentacles to hit the wall…