Chapter 1,251 Americans Who Successfully "Smuggled"

In the dark and deep starry sky, a silver-white rocket was slowly approaching the fiery red planet. exist

On the side of the rocket, you can see a palm-sized Stars and Stripes flag. Below the stars and stripes are the emblems of NASA and SpaceX.

"This is Ares. We have entered Mars synchronous orbit. Communication is over."

Through the circular glass window, the black astronaut standing in the spacecraft looked at the fiery red planet. He restrained his excitement and reported to the ground command center in a calm and trembling voice.

The silence lasted about five minutes.

For NASA, which has not yet mastered super-light communication technology, it probably takes this long to wait between each communication.

"This is the Boston Ground Command Center. Congratulations to you. You are the pride of America..."

After flying for more than a month, we finally arrived here.

The "Ares", with a total weight of more than 400 tons, was pushed by four "Ares 6" launch vehicles using the latest propulsion engines, and finally crossed the distance of tens of millions of kilometers and crossed the star ring. The technical blockade of trade has arrived on this red planet...

Thinking of this, the eight astronauts standing in the spacecraft couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Is that the Seagull class of Star Ring Trading over there?" A blond, thin white man pointed out the window.

With the dark universe as the background, a long, giant ship floated quietly tens of thousands of kilometers away from them. Through the telescope, they could clearly see every inch of armor on the giant ship. The cold iron and the fiery red planet formed a sharp visual contrast, just like a tempered long sword.

Even though they are tens of thousands of kilometers apart, they can feel their own insignificance and the other's majesty...

Blaise shook his head vigorously to drive this wrong idea out of his mind.

He is the captain of the entire Mars expedition team and the captain of the Ares. They came with the ambition of planting the Stars and Stripes on the land of Mars, rather than coming here to admire the achievements of the Star Ring trade.

"They are very powerful, but we will be able to surpass them one day." A Jewish man walked up to him, put his hand on the black brother's shoulder, and said in a positive tone, "Order the landing. "

"Thank you,

Zabik. "

Taking a deep breath, Brace turned around and faced all the personnel of the "Ares Project" behind him, and ordered in a deep voice.

"All crew members are ready to enter the buffer cabin. Let's land in this new continent!"

"yes!"

Cheers and whistles rang out.

Under Brace's order, everyone lay down in the buffer cabin and prepared for impact.

During the descent and deceleration phase, they had to withstand about 7 g of gravity, but this was easy for them. They had no idea how many days, months, and hours they had trained for this day.

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"UFO discovered entering synchronous orbit of Mars."

"UFO?" Holding the unfinished coffee, the captain of the Expedition walked to the side of the radar observer, looked at the screen in front of him, and ordered, "Turn on the optical observation system."

"yes."

The observer tapped his fingers on the touchpad a few times, and quickly called up the image of the aircraft on the screen. After several magnifications and resolution corrections, an aircraft approximately 25 meters long and five meters in diameter appeared on the image.

Seeing the Stars and Stripes printed on the side of the aircraft, the captain's expression turned a bit amused.

Putting the coffee cup in his hand on the table, he looked at the correspondent in the back seat.

"Get me to the Space Command Center."

"clear."

Walking at the MRT entrance outside the Earth Defense Alliance headquarters in Halo City, Kerwin, who had just finished a meeting, was preparing to return to the Space Department.

At this moment, his watch vibrated. He turned on the holographic screen and saw that it was a call from the ground command center.

After asking about the situation of the staff, Kerwin immediately transferred the communication to the Expedition, looked at the captain standing on the other side of the screen and said seriously.

"Tell me the specific situation."

After giving a military salute to the Minister of Aerospace, the captain spoke quickly and reported the report.

"We found an American spacecraft near the synchronous orbit of Mars, with the logos of NASA and SpaceX on it. Based on the analysis of the size of the spacecraft, we preliminarily concluded that it is a manned spacecraft."

"Manned rocket?" Kerwin frowned and said with a strange expression, "What do the Americans want to do?"

The Americans actually quietly fired a rocket to Mars?

Although Star Ring Trading had never made such an idea, and had even received the news from certain channels, Kerwin, who had personally confirmed the news, couldn't help but feel surprised.

After all, their biotechnology summit had just ended, and they had already made it very clear how dangerous the devil bugs were. What mentality did the White House have that made it decide to launch a manned rocket to Mars, knowing this?

Or did the Americans take their warning as a joke?

"Judging from the way they changed orbit, they should be planning to land on the surface of Mars. Our carrier-based aircraft pilots are already in position on the Electric Ray A-1 and are ready to intercept at any time." The captain said in a sonorous tone.

"What are the chances of being discovered?" Kerwin asked.

"We can first launch an EMP missile to paralyze their exposed communication module outside the spacecraft, and then send out Electric Ray A-1 to shoot it down." The captain asserted, "Unless their spacecraft is equipped with an early warning Radar, otherwise the probability of detecting our attacks in advance is zero."

After pondering for a moment, Kerwin looked at the captain and said.

"Can you figure out where they landed?"

"The approximate area can be determined, and the error is within ten kilometers." As he said that, the captain sent a copy of the coordinates to the holographic screen in front of Kerwin.

Looking at the coordinates on the screen, Kerwin silently made an estimate in his mind.

Even in the closest situation, these Americans are hundreds of kilometers away from the 071 mine, and there is no need to worry about what they will find.

Moreover, the area where they landed seemed to be very close to the area where the devil bugs were active...

"Let the pilots be on standby on the carrier-based aircraft, but don't worry about them." Within half a minute, Kerwin made a decision, "If they are so anxious to die, just let them go."

"Yes!" The captain stood at attention and saluted, ending the communication.

Even if Star Ring Trade did nothing, they wouldn't survive long. Kerwin, who knew how terrifying the devil bugs were, was convinced of this.

After ending his communication with the captain of the Expedition, Kerwin immediately called Jiang Chen and gave a brief report on the whole story.

At the same time, Ares, which had stopped in the synchronous orbit, dropped its last four rockets and a synchronous orbit satellite that served as a communication relay.

Immediately afterwards, Ares, with only one main cabin left, ignited the last stage of the engine and began to slowly fall towards the surface of Mars...