"Where are you from?"
"Hubei Province."
"Hubei Province? Isn't that the same hometown as Academician Lu? "
"No, he's from Jiangling, and I'm from Jiangcheng. It's still a bit different."
"Jiangcheng …" A trace of nostalgia appeared in Liang Youcheng's eyes. He was sitting in the passenger seat. His voice had a hint of nostalgia. "I remember that the hot dry noodles there are quite delicious."
Han Kangyu thought for a while and spoke casually without any change in expression.
"It's okay, I still prefer to eat bean skin."
Sixteen days had passed since the departure of the Xu Fu. After more than two weeks of sailing, they were getting closer and closer to their destination.
This also meant that the distance between them and their hometown was getting farther and farther.
Over the past two days, most of the topics they chatted about were related to their hometown.
Liang Youcheng never thought that he would miss his hometown so much.
When he was on Earth, there were many things he didn't even think about deliberately. It wasn't until the moment when Xu Fu completely got rid of the gravitational shackles of the Earth-Moon system that he suddenly realized that there were many things he didn't have time to do, and living on Earth was such a happy thing.
The sound of someone swallowing came from the side.
"What is bean skin? Is it delicious? "
The person who said this was called Fan Tong. Although the name was easy to misunderstand, since he was able to sit on this colonial ship, he obviously couldn't be a "good-for-nothing".
As a PhD in planetary geology who graduated from the Aerospace Research Institute of Jin Ling University, his supervisor's planetary geology research could be said to be one of the best in the world.
Like another bioengineering PhD named Ming Wenzhe, they were temporarily moved from the second batch to the first batch of crew members because of their outstanding performance in training. Because they did not conduct closed training in Biosphere A, the two of them and the other three crew members only met recently, so they weren't very familiar with each other.
Glancing at him, Han Kangyu's eyes were immersed in his memories. After about three to five seconds, he slowly spoke.
"Cut the spiced dried seeds, bamboo shoots, lean meat, and dried shiitake mushrooms and fry them. Then sprinkle them on the egg skin covered with a layer of glutinous rice, brush them with a layer of vegetable oil, and fry them over high heat until they are golden brown. One side is crispy, the other side is soft, and the mouth is full of fragrance … It's a special breakfast in Jiangcheng. "
This time, he was not the only one who swallowed his saliva.
Including Captain Liang Youcheng, the four of them couldn't help but gulp.
For the past few days, they had basically been eating liquid food. Although the taste was not bad, it was still a little lacking compared to the cooked food on Earth.
At this point, Han Kangyu finally paused for a moment and sighed.
"Sigh, I'm hungry now."
"Then don't say it." Ming Wenzhe, who had been silent all this while, immediately interrupted him. "Listening to you, I'm hungry."
Fan Tong also nodded quickly, although he was the one who started the topic.
With an apologetic smile, Han Kangyu closed his mouth and ended the topic.
At this moment, he also began to realize how unwise it was to bring up this topic. This place was too empty, and it was tens of millions of kilometers away from Earth. Liquid food was already a kind of torture. Now that he thought about it, it was even more difficult to swallow.
"The southernmost place I've been in my life is Hubei Province." Liang Youcheng looked at the deep and dark starry sky outside the porthole. He was reminded of the delicious food and said emotionally, "I didn't expect to go to such a faraway place."
These words made many people fall into silence.
For a while, the entire cabin was quiet.
"We'll arrive in about an hour." Liang Youcheng stood up from the space chair and glanced at the wrist-mounted computer. He carefully moved his stiff limbs, then looked at his deputy, Han Kangyu, and said, "I'm going to stay in the cockpit."
"Do you need my help?"
"No, I can handle it alone. You can do whatever you want."
Hearing the captain's words, Han Kangyu nodded and didn't follow.
Because of its single function and the fact that it did not need to engage in other complex aerospace activities, the Xu Fu had a very high degree of automation. A series of tasks from takeoff to landing could be completed by AI.
Most of the time, sitting in the cockpit was just staring at the unchanging scenery outside the window, guarding against almost impossible accidents. Therefore, leaving one or two people in the cockpit was the same.
Everyone in the cabin tacitly returned to their seats and fastened their seat belts.
After waiting quietly for about 20 minutes in silence, a slight feeling of migration came from their backs. The dark deep sky outside the porthole finally had a touch of color that they had never seen before.
It was a scarlet light.
Its surface exuded a muddy luster, like an agate jade covered with dust, left alone in the corner of the warehouse.
"So beautiful …"
"Yeah, it's so beautiful … I heard that billions of years ago, the ecosystem there was more lush than on Earth. I don't know if it's true or not."
"There's no such thing as true or false, it's just a guess." Fan Tong interrupted and said, "The specific situation depends on whether we can dig enough fossils to prove this from the strata formed billions of years ago."
While the astronauts in the cabin were chatting, the scarlet outline in the distance gradually became clear.
Although compared to Earth, its size was still a bit thinner, compared to the maybe-like Xu Fu, it was still so shocking as it stood in deep space.
At this moment, the cockpit door opened.
Liang Youcheng, who had changed into a spacesuit, walked out with a black tablet in his hand.
"There is still half an hour before we enter the orbit around Mars.
"Communication resources are precious. Everyone only has time to say one sentence. Say whatever you want, whether it's to family or friends … Who wants to go first?"
Everyone in the cabin exchanged glances. No one wanted to go first.
Seeing that no one raised their hand, Fan Tong suggested in a low voice.
"Should we draw straws?"
"Where can we find straws here? How about … Let's draw straws according to age? Let's start with the oldest. "
"Okay, okay, you guys don't have to be modest. I'm afraid we'll all be soaked in the sand." Looking at his teammates dawdling, Liang Youcheng couldn't stand it anymore. He reached out and entered the password on the tablet. "If no one raises their hand, then I'll go first. Whoever wants to go next is free. It doesn't matter if you don't have anything to say."
Naturally, no one had any objections to the captain going first.
All pairs of eyes fell on Liang Youcheng.
Everyone was quietly waiting for him to speak and send the news of his victory from tens of millions of kilometers away back to the blue mother planet.
Liang Youcheng felt the weight of the responsibility and knew how important this moment was. He looked at the tablet and was silent for a long time.
At this moment, he obviously had a lot to say, but at this moment, he couldn't say a word.
He took a deep breath.
He finally made a decision and pressed the start recording button.
Then, he spoke.
"Dad, Mom … We arrived safely."
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