Chapter 1,244 Reinforcements Arrive!

Transforming the Martian atmosphere.

This sounds like a thousand-year project.

What needs to be solved is not only the oxygen content in the atmosphere, but also the introduction of greenhouse gases to increase the thickness of the atmosphere, and at the same time finding an alternative to the geomagnetic field to prevent the newly generated atmosphere from being blown away by the solar wind.

Moreover, Jiang Chen's positioning of Mars is originally the arsenal of the Earth's fleet. For him, transforming Mars into an Earth-like planet is not very attractive.

But having said that, Jiang Chen finally remembered what Verdale Taylor said.

When he first arrived at the underground ruins, he seemed to have observed from the air monitoring component of the drone that the oxygen content in the ruins was higher than on the surface of Mars.

At first, he thought this was the atmospheric environment of Mars 3.7 billion years ago, but he ignored that it was several kilometers deep underground...

After reporting the research progress to Jiang Chen, Verdale Taylor even excitedly applied to him for a flight to Mars, but Jiang Chen decisively rejected him.

Perhaps these scientists are ready to devote themselves to science, but he cannot afford the risk of losing such a scientist.

If you want to defeat your enemy, you must first understand your enemy.

It can be said that while the Star Ring Trade was still immersed in farming, these more than fifty scientists were already at the forefront of resisting the invasion of the harmonious civilization. Every time they understand more about biological civilization, the Earth Defense Alliance's chances of winning in the decisive moment will increase.

What's more, before the Martian ruins are developed, Jiang Chen cannot send any uncontrolled factors to Mars.

After all, Verdell Taylor is a German and represents the German government behind his back, not the New Country or Starlink Trade.

Finally, Jiang Chen proposed a compromise plan, which was to find a way to get more specimens of devil bugs from the Mars colony and send them back.

According to Captain Hong Zewei, the manager of the Mars colony, there seem to be a lot of these bugs near the 071 mine? As long as the infantry are not allowed to dismount and the specimens are recovered using vehicles and robots as much as possible, the risk should not be great.

At the same time, Jiang Chen also sent a text message to Kerwin, asking him to instruct the staff of the Mars colony to pay attention to see if there is in the stratum of Mars what the biologist Verdale Taylor suspected. "Oxygen supply layer" geological structure.

If it exists,

Uncovering some anaerobic fungi growing in the oxygen supply layer may be another discovery that is enough to shock the academic world...

If things go well.

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Mars colony.

Rolling yellow sand is raging on the desert.

Several large shed-like buildings that were originally located near the colony cabin were now in a mess.

Standing in the captain's cabin, Hong Zewei looked at the ruins outside the window and sighed with a headache.

As for what is going on in the ruins outside.

It all started with a "stupid" order...

Four days ago, Marines were again on duty from the colonies.

This time they made careful plans and drove their infantry vehicles to park far away near Mine Point 071. Immediately afterwards, they used a remote control car to lure the devil bugs out of the ground, and then detonated the explosives in the remote control car, killing two devil bugs from a distance.

In accordance with the requirements of the Space Command Center, they tied the bodies of the two devil bugs with hook locks and dragged the two fresh specimens back to the Mars colony.

In the next two days, they followed the same pattern and killed a total of ten devil bugs.

Just when they thought these bugs were nothing more than that.

Eventually, they succeeded in irritating the monsters.

The ruins outside the colony are the most intuitive expression.

The devil bug has learned its lesson and no longer bites those remote-controlled vehicles, and even stops touching infantry vehicles that cannot chew. Following the scent of the same kind of blood, they tracked them to the Martian colony. And then, the bugs were shocked by what they saw.

For more than three billion years, no living creatures have appeared on the surface of Mars, so much so that they have completely forgotten the existence of the surface. However, now, they have thrived by eating fungi and other arthropods underground, but they are surprised to find that there are so many neighbors on the originally barren surface?

The floor of the colony cabin is too thick for them to drill through.

However, other buildings other than the colony cabin are not so lucky.

Numerous holes were drilled into the farm sheds of the Mars colony, and the newly built Mars ranch was turned into ruins, and all the crops and livestock inside were eaten up without any suspense.

If the colony had not wisely put all its eggs in one basket and still retained the indoor breeding center in the colony cabin and the open-air farm on the top of the colony cabin, I am afraid that the future rations of the more than 500 colonists in the colony would have become question.

Fortunately, these devil bugs are only interested in moving creatures. Otherwise, if the brine desalination device is damaged, there will be big trouble.

They eat marrow and know the taste, as if they have discovered a new world. They will come here every day to see if there are any new prey.

Now let alone normal work, even the normal travel of staff in the colony has become a problem. Except for the Marines who are on duty, all work involving outdoor activities has been terminated.

No one knows where those bugs will come from, and no one dares to bet on their presence.

"The research on Mine Site 071 was a wrong decision. If we had not awakened those monsters from deep underground, we could have been in peace." A white woman with blond hair and blue eyes stood in front of the Marines and said in a tone of voice He said excitedly, “And now, everyone’s jobs are affected!”

She is a colleague of James and an employee of Futureman Mining. To the employees of Futureman Group, these Marines are quite polite. But orders are orders, and no one standing in front of them can change this.

"Go and explain this to the headquarters. Star Ring City needs more specimens, and we are on duty in accordance with the headquarters' orders." Buttoning the last button of the exoskeleton, Zhang Hai checked the safety on the Gauss rifle. He gestured to the soldiers behind him and walked around the white woman.

Zhang Hai is the captain of this Marine Corps, and he is directing the actions these days.

He was well aware of the unrest that had been spreading in the colony recently, and he knew exactly why.

He also didn't have a good feeling about the bugs that suddenly emerged from the ground. No one knows better than him how annoying and difficult these bugs are. Soldiers have died on the job, and a brother is lying in the emergency room receiving treatment for limb regeneration.

Perhaps the only way to ease the tension in the colony is to wait for reinforcements to arrive, right?

However, Zhang Hai estimated that even if the expeditionary force arrived, it would probably be difficult.

Those bugs won't fight you head-on at all. They are like seagulls skimming across the water. They will leave with just one strike and will not stay on the surface at all. Even if more Marines land on Mars, what can they do if they can't drill holes?

However, at this moment, Zhang Hai, who was about to board the infantry vehicle, saw the [mission terminated] icon appear on the AR screen of the helmet.

It wasn't just him who saw the icon.

The other six Marines who were already lined up in front of the infantry vehicle and ready to go also saw it.

"The mission has been cancelled? What's going on?"

"have no idea……"

"It's an order from the Space Command Center."

Just when Zhang Hai frowned and was about to contact the captain's room and ask Hong Zewei whether he wanted to continue today's mission, an exclamation sounded from his ears.

"Wait...look at the sky! What is that!"

Hearing the exclamation, Zhang Hai suddenly raised his head and looked along the lines of sight of his comrades.

Looking through the transparent graphene dome, I saw black shadows emerging one after another from the sky above the colony. Just like a meteor shower falling from the sky, the figure gradually enlarged in everyone's surprised eyes.

"Reinforcement?" someone asked in a low voice with a hint of surprise.

"Shet, they are finally here!" a soldier said with relief.

It's reinforcements!

A hint of emotion appeared on Zhang Hai's face.

The transport ship carrying a thousand Marines finally reached Mars synchronous orbit!

Although he did not think that these people could bring much change to the situation on Mars, even he could not deny that this would be a great boost to the morale of the colony.

And so far, the stone weighing on his heart has finally been lifted.

In the days to come, at least he and his people no longer have to fight alone.