Time passed day by day, and before I knew it, it was time for the system to open a new plane again.

At 24:00 pm on October 5, 2019, the system sounded in Pang Xuelin's ears on time.

"The new plane will be opened this month. Please prepare for the host, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one..."

Pang Xuelin lay on the bed and closed his eyes.

The next second, Pang Xuelin's eyes opened again, and what appeared in front of him was a misty dark yellow. To be precise, through a layer of transparent glass helmet, you could see the sky that seemed to have countless silver iodide suspension floating.

Pang Xuelin was lying on the ground, and a memory was injected out of thin air in his mind.

Plane: Mars Rescue

Identity: Pang Xuelin, mathematician, communication expert, member of the Ares 3 mission team. Because of a sudden global sandstorm on Mars, the Ares 3 Project Joint Command canceled the scientific expedition that originally lasted 30 days and ordered eight members of the Ares 3 mission to return on Mars liftoff vehicle (MAV). On the way to enter the MaV from the ward, Pang Xuelin and Mark Watney were hit by a satellite communication antenna that fell from the pedestal. The space suit biochemical monitoring system failed, causing teammates to believe that the two were dead.

Background: The Ares Plan is a Mars landing operation led by the International Astronautics Federation and participated by many countries, aiming to establish an International Mars Joint Scientific Research Base. The Ares Plan first established a giant international space station with a mass of 50,000 tons in the geosynchronous orbit. Then, the International Space Station was used to build the largest nuclear-powered spacecraft in human history. The Hermes was driven by an ionic engine and used the power generated by the nuclear reactor to eject argon atoms at a high speed, giving the huge Hermes a tiny acceleration. This acceleration can bring a considerable speed to the Hermes after a long period of accumulation. The main members of the Ares Plan include China, the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and the European Union as a whole.

Mission: Rescue Mark Vodani and return to Earth alive.

Mission Rewards:

1. The eyes of the astronaut. (As an excellent astronaut, how can I allow 400 degrees of myopia? As long as the mission is completed, the host's vision in the real world will return to normal)

2. Randomly select a technique for this plane as a reward.

"Didi, warning, oxygen content concentration exceeds the standard, Didi, warning, oxygen content concentration exceeds the standard..."

On the wrist monitor, the oxygen concentration is as high as 80%.

Pang Xuelin's face was pale, his head was dizzy, and he felt nauseous.

Pang Xuelin knew that this was a manifestation of oxygen poisoning.

The bottleneck of the life-supporting system in the spacesuit is not how much oxygen you bring, but how much carbon dioxide you breathe out is emitted.

In the Hermes spacecraft or residence cabin, there are large oxygenators that can decompose carbon dioxide into oxygen. However, the spacesuit is different. It can only carry an absorption device equipped with sodium peroxide. Once the sodium peroxide inside absorbs saturated carbon dioxide, the filter will be scrapped.

At this time, the computer equipped with the spacesuit will open the vent to emit excess carbon dioxide, and at the same time, release nitrogen for pressure compensation.

Engineers call this emergency model "bloodletting".

If the nitrogen is released again, the system will perform the last step, using pure oxygen to supplement the pressure, which is equivalent to chronic suicide.

Excessive concentration of oxygen can cause damage to the lungs, nervous system and retina, causing breathing difficulties, retinal shedding, lung fibrosis, and mental abnormalities!

Now Pang Xuelin is in this state.

"No, you must return to the habitat as soon as possible!"

Pang Xuelin barely got up from the ground and staggered for a few steps before he found Matt Vodani fainting. His abdomen was pierced by a signal receiving antenna. Fortunately, the water in the blood evaporated in low pressure and strong airflow, and the remaining viscous residue sealed the hole, reducing the leakage of the space suit to an acceptable level.

"This guy is so lucky. He can survive in this situation!"

Pang Xuelin squatted down and checked Mark Watney's condition. Then, according to his memory, he touched a patch pack from the side of his helmet and took out the high-viscosity gum inside.

Pang Xuelin held one end of the antenna and quickly pulled out the antenna with a slight force.

"ah!"

Mark Vodani was awakened by Pang Xuelin's actions. The severe pain made him tremble all over and even his muscles twitch.

Pang Xuelin quickly blocked the hole with gum and blocked the airflow coming out of Huhuhu.

The air pressure in the spacesuit began to rise, and Mark Vodani opened his eyes wide, gasping heavily, trying to endure the pain.

"Vodani, how are you? Can you hear me?"

Mark Vodani looked at Pang Xuelin with a blank look on his face.

"Vodani, can you hear me?"

Mark Vodani opened his mouth and said a few words, but Pang Xuelin could not hear anything.

"The spacesuit communicator has malfunctioned!"

Pang Xuelin immediately realized the problem.

Pang Xuelin patted Mark Vodani's helmet and pointed to the perch cabin more than a hundred meters away. Mark Vodani seemed to realize the situation of the two and made a ok gesture to Pang Xuelin.

Pang Xuelin helped Mark Vodani up from the ground, and the two staggered step by step to the perch cabin.

Fortunately, the perch cabin withstood the test of sandstorms and is intact.

Pang Xuelin opened the outer hatch door of the airlock room and helped Mark Vodani in. After the air pressure in the airlock room stabilized, he opened the inner hatch door again.

"call……"

As soon as they entered the occupancy, the two of them collapsed to the ground. Pang Xuelin quickly took off the helmet of the space suit and helped Mark Vodani take off his space suit.

"Thank God, Pang, we...we are all still alive!"

Mark Vodani gasped heavily and said with gratitude.

Pang Xuelin said: "Vodani, your wound is okay?"

Speaking of the wound, Mark Vodani frowned and said, "There should be something inside the wound, and it hurts to catch your breath now!"

"Wait a minute, I'll help you with it!"

Pang Xuelin took off his heavy space suit, helped Mark Vodani take off his space suit, and then cut off his T-shirt that had been stuck in scabbed blood, revealing the scarlet wound inside.

Then, Pang Xuelin found a first aid kit, local anesthesia, and used tweezers to remove a small screw in the wound, rinse and disinfect, and suture the wound.

Finally, Pang Xuelin placed a box of antibiotics in front of Mark Vodani and said, "Give it, just take a few weeks."

Mark Vodani looked at Pang Xuelin and said with a wry smile: "Pang, how many weeks can we have? In this ghost place, if the oxygenator breaks, we will suffocate to death. If the water circulation device breaks, we will die of thirst. If the perch cabin leaks, we will be blown away. Even if none of these happens, we will still starve to death in the end! Before entering the perch cabin just now, I found that the mav (Martian liftoff vehicle) was gone! They must have thought we were all dead and evacuated early!"

Pang Xuelin said: "Watney, it's not their fault. There are regulations in our mission that if teammates die, their bodies must be abandoned on Mars, so that the return load of the mav can be reduced and the system's fault tolerance can be increased. In that case, they have no choice. As for how to survive next, it depends on humans. Believe me, we will definitely have a solution!"

Although he said that, Pang Xuelin was also a little anxious.

In the movie, Mark Vodani finally survived a lot of hardships, but this time it was different. This time, there were two people on Mars, and the amount of various resources needed to be consumed was twice as much as the original one.

Moreover, in the movie, the mav prepared for Ares IV had to remove a lot of equipment to reduce the weight of the air because it needed to enter the same track as Hermes.

Even so, Mark Watney almost died in space during the space docking.

Now there is one more person, and then only one person can return to Earth on Mav, which means they must be prepared to live on Mars for a long time.

Of course, hope is not without it.

In the memory that the system instilled in itself, there was a certain difference between the background of this task and the background in the movie.

In the movie, the Ares Project was a mission proposed by NASA. In order to cater to the Chinese market, it specially joined the scene where the National Space Administration of China helped Nasa rescue.

But in this world, the Ares plan has become a project led by the International Astronautics Federation because it requires trillions of dollars in investment (including the Geosync Orbital Space Station and the Hermes spacecraft).

Whether it is the superspace station with a mass of 50,000 tons or the huge Hermes spacecraft, it has condensed the wisdom of scientists around the world.

The Ares 3 mission team is composed of astronauts from eight countries, namely China, the United States, Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Germany and Japan. Pang Xuelin comes from China and Mark Watney comes from the United States.

Therefore, the supplies they carry are different from those in the movie.

In Pang Xuelin's memory, the Chinese payload of this mission contained a lot of pedantic worms, fungal spores and plant seeds used to test space reproduction.

Pang Xuelin's eyes couldn't help but lit up. It seemed that we had to use our racial talent next.

Mark Vodani smiled bitterly and said, "Pang, I don't blame them, but in this case, the chances of our survival are too low!"

Pang Xuelin stepped forward and patted his shoulder and said, "Don't think so much. We must have other ways. Now let's eat something first and sleep for a while!"

"Okay, give me a bag of Kung Pao Chicken Rice!"

Pang Xuelin laughed. In order to adapt to the different tastes of astronauts from various countries, each country's Space Administration has contributed its own unique space meals, and Gongbo Chicken Ding became Mark's favorite food.

Pang Xuelin found a packet of Kung Pao Chicken and Yangzhou fried rice, heated it in the microwave, and made two cups of instant drinks.

The two of them ate voraciously.
Chapter completed!