Without potato planting, Mark became a little depressed.
During this period, Rosen offered to help him solve the food problem several times, but he refused on the grounds that he was not short of food.
As the saying goes: a rushed transaction is not a transaction, so Rosen was offering free help purely out of good intentions.
After being rejected several times in a row, he was too lazy to give any more thankless persuasion.
Anyway, he persisted until the end in the original plot. Rosen believed that even without his help, he would not have died.
In addition, he has gradually made some new discoveries in his recent exploration of Mars, so he did not pay too much attention to Mark.
The 154th solar day.
Mark was eating potatoes in the cabin and complained: "I ran out of ketchup yesterday, so now I have to eat potatoes with vitamins."
Speaking of this , he put the potato in his mouth, chewed it hard, and said: "I really miss Rosen's potato stew and beef stew, as well as the spicy and sour potato shreds, but I haven't eaten them for a long time. Since I refused After hearing his suggestion of helping...or aiding me."
"Okay, I admit, even though I regard him as a friend, he seems to be the same..."< /p>
Mark lowered his head, looked at the small half piece of potato left on the plate, and cursed in a low voice: "Damn dignity, I hope I won't starve to death on Mars because of this ridiculous self-esteem. ”
While Mark was doing nothing, NASA has not been idle.
It is unlikely that Mark will be brought back immediately, but there is great hope in sending him some food.
Especially because this matter is not only related to Mark's life, but also related to the glory of the United States, so under Teddy's supervision, the booster was built and the aircraft was manufactured quickly.
Just waiting for the day of launch, we ran into big trouble.
It went smoothly at first, but not long after, a large amount of food accumulated in the cabin caused the aircraft's center of gravity to shift seriously, and eventually exploded.
The 186th solar day.
Mark sent a message to Commander Louis, hoping that she could do something for him.
For example, if he dies, ask Louis to visit his parents and tell them about his experience on Mars.
He said that he had not given up on survival, but was just preparing for every possibility.
Now he is depressed and very depressed, thinking about the worst possibility pessimistically.
At this time, Rosen had no time to comfort and comfort him, because he was busy with a major discovery.
On Earth,
China National Space Administration.
Guo Ming and Zhu Tao are watching the interview with Teddy and Vincent on TV.
They expected that it would not be long before it took off.The aircraft crashed a long time ago.
"We replaced the standard rations with protein blocks. There was lateral vibration during launch and propulsion, which melted the protein blocks and caused uneven load."
"Vincent, this Shouldn't it have been discovered during the inspection stage?" the host asked.
"In order to meet the launch window, we can only speed up the process..." Teddy explained.
"Their astronauts will starve to death like this." Guo Mingdao.
"Of course, there are other ways, such as asking Rosen for help." Zhu Tao turned to look at him and said with a smile: "But it seems that the astronaut did not do this, otherwise NASA I won't be so anxious."
"American arrogance is normal," Guo Ming said calmly while fiddling with the tea set in front of him.
"In addition, our Helios booster is ready. Engineers have checked the data and its capacity is sufficient to reach the orbit of Mars." Zhu Tao said.
"Why didn't NASA find us?" Guo Ming wondered: "It can't be for the same reason as the astronaut, right?"
"Because they don't know "Zhu Tao smiled and shook his head, saying: "Our data is top secret."
"In other words, if we do nothing..." When Guo Ming said this, Zhu Tao answered. Said: "The world will never know, but we can actually help."
"Well, just for the sake of argument, if we decide to help them..." Guo Ming tentatively said.
Zhu Tao frowned and said: "If we give them the booster, it means canceling the Helios Project. Don't you want to know who Rosen is on Mars now? And How did he get up there?"
"Of course I'm curious, but I couldn't find any information about him. It's like he appeared out of thin air, but I believe he is Chinese. I really want to take him back."
Guo Ming said seriously: "So the problem now becomes very simple. Helping the Americans is helping us. Let us abandon distracting thoughts and solve it only from the perspective of aerospace. Question, seek cooperation."
Zhu Tao suddenly laughed and said: "I think Teddy will be happy to accept our kindness."
"Haha..."< /p>
Teddy should be very happy to have a way to solve the problem, but he has to get help from the Chinese for it. This really makes him proudly claim that the United States can solve all problems without anyone's help. It felt like someone slapped me in the face with a big mouth.
I felt awkward, but finally I had to say honestly: "Thank you."
The 219th solar day.
Mark, who had not visited the house for some days, came to knock on the door, but it took a long time before Rosen opened the door, and there was not even a sound from inside.
If you hadn’t seen that the crops in the glass greenhouse were still in good condition, and even the ground was a little damp, it was obvious that they had just been watered in the past two days, otherwise Mark would say no.You will definitely think that something unexpected happened to Rosen.
He now had great good news in his heart that he wanted to share with Rosen. Of course, he didn’t want to go back like this, so he began to wait patiently.
In the meantime, Mark went back to the living cabin to drink water several times and use the toilet once. It was not until it was getting dark that he suddenly discovered that the lights were on in the container villa.
If he hadn’t been guarding the door all the time and made sure that he didn’t even blink, and it was absolutely impossible for Rosen to sneak in from in front of him, otherwise Mark would have mistakenly thought that he was hallucinating. Or just saw a ghost.
"Rosen, come out, I have something to ask you." Mark knocked on the door twice, both to vent his dissatisfaction and to embolden himself.
Click.
The door opened.
Rosen walked out in a spacesuit.
It could be seen that he had just come back from outside and had not had time to change his clothes, but this made Mark more and more confused: How did Rosen deceive his own eyes and enter the house? Could it be that he still has a secret passage that he doesn't know about?
"You just came back?" Mark asked.
"Yes." Rosen nodded and said, "You just happened to come to the door."
"I have been here all afternoon because I had something very important to do. I want to tell you." Mark looked at Rosen and said, "Rosen, I'm curious how you entered the house under my nose."