On the deserted desert.
The two rovers that came from afar converged.
Han Kangyu opened the door and jumped out. He looked at Sun Wenzhe walking toward him. He walked forward in a spacesuit and asked with an anxious expression on his face.
"Did you find him?"
With a solemn look in his eyes, Sun Wenzhe shook his head.
"No. I've searched everywhere in this area, but I can't even find the crack that he fell into, let alone a shadow … What about you? Are there any clues? "
After hearing this bad news, the look on Han Kangyu's face couldn't help but look a little ugly.
"Nothing on my side either."
He searched almost every corner he could find, and he even ventured into the Gates of Hell mountain range for a short distance. However, the result was just like what his teammate Sun Wenzhe said. Forget about finding a person, he didn't even see a slightly deeper crack.
Pessimism gradually arose from his heart. He was now more and more skeptical about whether the missing Fan Tong was still alive.
"This is not good …"
Sun Wenzhe wiped the sand stuck to the mask of the spacesuit. He looked at the mountains next to the two with a headache and said, "It's too unrealistic for us to turn this place over … What's the situation at the headquarters? Didn't the captain ask for support? "
"No support." Han Kangyu shook his head and said in a heavy tone, "The ground command center asked us to use all available resources on the scene to carry out the search and rescue for the missing people. Other than saying that they will use the equipment that has been deployed on Mars to support us, there is no other better way. "
"So there is no support?" Sun Wenzhe sighed. "But speaking of which … It's a two-week voyage. Even if they arrive, most of them are gone."
The equipment that has been deployed on Mars …
Other than a few probes that were dropped a long time ago, the only usable equipment deployed on Mars seemed to be themselves.
Han Kangyu glanced at the time on the wrist-mounted computer with a solemn expression. He couldn't help but frown.
Almost five hours had passed.
Every minute that passed, the hope of survival was getting smaller.
However, just as the two of them were discussing how to proceed with the rescue work, an extremely unnatural black dot suddenly appeared in the depths of the rolling red sand.
Gradually, the black dot came closer, and its outline appeared in the eyes of the two.
The moment they saw the silhouette, the two who were still discussing the rescue work were instantly dumbfounded.
The culprit that they had been searching for for more than five hours was riding an unmanned automatic survey vehicle towards them.
"Thank you."
Fan Tong patted the roof of the investigation vehicle lightly, and he jumped down from the roof. He was so dirty that he looked like he had just entered a coal mine.
As if it had heard his gratitude, the camera on the top of the automatic car nodded like a human. Then, it made a 180-degree turn and continued its previous mission, heading into the depths of the desert.
Fan Tong watched the drone that probably belonged to the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study leave. He then looked at his two dumbfounded teammates. A trace of shame gradually appeared on his face, and he lowered his head.
"I'm sorry to have made you worry."
"Do you know what I want to do now?" Han Kangyu's eyes stared at him as he said, "I want to punch you right now."
"I know, I want to punch myself … But now is not the time to talk about this." The ashamed expression on his face gradually became complicated. Fan Tong took a deep breath and continued with a wry smile, "I have important discoveries to report."
…
Mars scientific research station.
In the activity room that was used as a temporary conference room, Fan Tong, who had changed into casual clothes, sat at the conference table with his four teammates. He told them all about what he had seen and heard in the underground world in a straightforward manner.
After listening to his story, everyone, including Captain Liang Youcheng, was stunned.
Martian civilization?
Holy relic?
It sounded like they were actually living in a sci-fi blockbuster …
"You mean … You saw aliens underground?" Liang Youcheng reached out and pinched his eyebrows. He sorted out his chaotic thoughts and continued, "Then it is actually not with the Martians. It came from a third-party civilization outside the solar system. It has been alive for hundreds of millions of years, and it told you that there was a civilization above the industrial age here?"
Sun Wenzhe, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.
"It is said that people can hallucinate in extreme environments."
"I swear it's not an illusion." Fan Tong continued in a serious tone as he looked at his teammates, who obviously had an expression of disbelief on their faces. He said, "We introduced ourselves to each other. He claimed to be a 'Holy Relic' and mentioned the civilization that once existed on this planet … That is, the Martians. In fact, I did find evidence of the existence of Martian civilization underground. On the way to that place, I passed a corridor with coffin-like things on both sides of the corridor. So it's not wrong for it to claim to be a Holy Relic. In my opinion, it does look like a funerary object. "
Sun Wenzhe captured a key piece of information from his monologue, and he immediately asked.
"What about the sample? You found such an amazing thing, don't tell me you didn't sample it. "
"It's in the sample library, but if you want to extract the DNA on that thing, I think you should give up. Except for the traces of artificial carving on the row of 'coffins', most of the materials have basically weathered into biomass debris. Although I haven't done isotope testing, I can infer from experience that the biomass debris is probably older than the trilobite fossils. "
Sun Wenzhe: "You have to try to know."
"It's up to you. Anyway, this is your profession."
Liang Youcheng looked at Fan Tong, who was leaning back in his chair, and frowned.
"Let's not talk about the Martian civilization … Are you sure you saw another living civilization underground?"
"No, to be precise, I didn't see it. The situation at the time was very strange. I could feel that he was nearby, but maybe he was hiding, I couldn't find him at all. He connected directly to my communication channel, and he was even communicating with me in standard Mandarin. By the way, I also encountered an invisible wall there. In short, there are a lot of strange things … Don't look at me like that, I can swear on my academic reputation that this is definitely not an illusion! "
"Forget it, I'll show you the evidence."
Fan Tong took off the wrist-mounted computer from his arm and threw it on the conference table.
Han Kangyu looked at the wrist-mounted computer and frowned.
"What is this?"
"As I said earlier, after the friendly question marks, we asked each other a question to show our sincerity. I asked him who he was, and he threw a math problem in front of me … This is it. "
Fan Tong opened the information panel in the wrist-mounted computer and read the text message.
The five people sitting in front of the conference table all moved closer.
Xiao Hong, the electrical engineer, stared at the math problem for a while. He said with a strange expression, "It looks like an advanced mathematics question."
Sun Wenzhe, who was standing next to him, smiled bitterly.
"… This isn't an advanced mathematics question."
Liang Youcheng immediately looked at him.
"You know how to do it?"
Right at this moment, Han Kangyu suddenly interrupted.
"If I remember correctly, this should be the ABC conjecture?"
"Yes, it's the ABC conjecture." Sun Wenzhe looked at the four teammates in the conference room and nodded with a complicated expression. He said, "We're just amateurs."
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