Apocalypse: The Stronghold System

Chapter 166: Landing and Exploring Mars

—23 Days Later, MT-990— Aircraft

Only a few hours left before the MT-990 enters the Martian atmosphere, and it will conduct exploration by spreading in different groups.

Each group has its own task, and the most important task is to secure Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in the entire Solar System.

In the past two weeks, Fan Chen collected a lot of Coin© and bought 13 Space Bases as well as 11 Deep Sea Bases. It spent 10,350,000©, looks a lot, but it actually only killed 600,000 to 850,000 Third to Fifth levels, and that's not including from the Decomposer who deciphered their corpses.

The number of 850,000 was nothing with billions of zombies and hundreds of millions of mutant beasts around the world.

The distance between the Space Base itself is 15,000,000 kilometers orbiting the Sun, and when the Solar System has a direction, the Space Base is built in a straight line parallel. Each Space Base has different speeds, adjusting each other so that the distance between the Space Bases does not exceed 20,000,000 kilometers.

Deep Sea Bases exist in the South China Sea, Antarctica, Pacific Ocean, Bermuda Triangle, Mariana Islands, Devil Sea in the Land of the Rising Sun, Blue Hole in the Pyramid Country, Great Blue Hole in the Bald Eagle Country, Gansbaai in the African Country, Indian Ocean, and the Masalembo Triangle in the Country of a Thousand Islands.

The placement of the Deep Sea Base is not only in mysterious places like the Bermuda Triangle, but also in other places that are filled with various kinds of dangers. An example is Gansbaai in the African Country which has a beautiful underwater tour and can swim along with dangerous white sharks. Placement of the base there to research and kill the threatening danger, as well as taking the Space Worm for further research.

The content of Space Worms obtained today can be said to be very deep, but in fact Mingyue Defense still touches the smallest part of the effect, and is still looking for mystery in it.

Especially finding out how Space Worms can live in a vacuum and are able to withstand pressure in space and the deep sea. If it could take it and test it into the human body, it would be an incredible discovery and advancement for mankind.

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Fan Chen was on board a transport aircraft specifically used to explore Mars. The transport aircraft has a cabin the same size as the Mil Mi-26 Helicopter, and in it is already a Magnet Levitation Car with the same design as the Conquest Knight XV; it is equipped with rocket launchers on the left and right sides of which there are three each, and there is a GAU-19 Laser on the roof.

"Xiaochu, control Base No.001/013-MRS to get close and make sure not to enter into the Mars Orbit. If there is any danger that we cannot handle, send a large number of J-18 Space Combat Planes immediately."

The J-18 Space Combat Aircraft is a fighter aircraft of the same design as the Mingyue J-18 Combat Aircraft, having the same material material, but it has different Ion Pushing Machine specifications and slightly larger size. If the Spacecraft is able to lift up out of the Earth's gravitational field and penetrate the atmosphere, then the Mingyue type only reaches an altitude of 25 kilometers from sea level.

If the speed of the Mingyue J-18 Combat Aircraft can reach a speed of 15,000 km/h, then the J-18 Space Combat Aircraft is able to penetrate a speed of 600,000 km/h. Surely able to reach that speed not only from the quality of the latest Ion Pushing Machine, but also because there is no air resistance or gravity in space.

“Good, Master.”

Fan Chen sighed, he stood up from the chair and walked towards Conquest Knight XV carrying a complete weapon on his back as well as waist.

"By the way, how much has the excavation progress on the Moon been?"

“8.34% or 41 kilometers 116 meters 20 centimeters.”

Fan Chen gave a small nod with the corner of his raised lips forming a thin smile. In just 26 days, it had managed to dig that deep. In the past, when building the Underground City, it took 20 days for excavation, but it must be admitted that it was a limitation in tools and manpower, now, now, everything is done by a flexible Robot Worker and excavation can be done using plasma to decompose the blocking stones.

Since this plasma was also excavation at Mingyue Defense could be accelerated, had it still been using the old working system, it would have taken 90 to 190 days just for excavation.

Fan Chen walked into Conquest Knight XV, sitting on the very back bench that was directly next to the hatch. He waved his hand, then from his field of vision appeared a list of tenyata who joined this mission.

Back again, the MT-990 Spacecraft began to slow down, lowering its speed from 600,000 km/h to 300,000 km/h and continuing down until it reached a distance of 2,000 kilometers from Mars, but the plane did not stop, instead it rotates around it until its speed drops to 25,000 km/h.

Only then did the hatch at the rear open, taking out five transport aircraft flying at a speed of 30,000 km/h enters the boundary of the atmosphere and outer space on Mars which according to old data is between 200 — 250 kilometers from the surface of Mars.

It took about four minutes to leave the MT-990 Spacecraft and enter Mars until it lowered its speed to 300 km/h.

“The current altitude is at 28,500 meters from the surface of Mars. For all personnel, it is expected to enter the Car Levitation Magnet, wear seat belts and prepare mentally.”

The hatch door opened slowly forming a descending bridge, then the chain that tied the bottom of the Magnet Levitation Car opened, along with the active car that shot out from inside the aircraft cabin.

The Levitation Magnet is free-falling and with a gravitational acceleration on Mars of 3.71 m/s², it will take 124 seconds to reach the surface.

Fan Chen closed his eyes, he looked calm, but he was actually communicating with Xiaochu. "Remove the Heilong M-001 Telescope to orbit Mars, and point to the Hydrogen Wall. For the Heilong Telescope in Earth's Intermediate Orbit, point to the Sun."

“Good, Master.”

"Sister, is there life here?"

Fan Chen opened his eyes, staring at his sister sitting beside his right. "No idea, but hopefully there's no life here. Maybe scientists three years ago hoped there was life on Mars which meant there was hope for humans to live here, but for now, they definitely don't want any life here. If there is, then it is not a good thing.

As he said that, the Magnet Levitation Car let out a fairly loud buzzing sound along with the falling speed that started to slow down, this meant that the Magnet Levitation Technology was already on, which was already on, but it is not fully activated so that there is no shock for the personnel in it.

Car Levitation Magnet continues to fall, up to a height of 25 meters from the ground level, then 20 Car Levitation Magnet really stop and drift.

Fan Chen waved his hand, revealing a map that was not very clear. There were 20 different coordinate points, but each of the four points was in an adjacent area, so that if something happened and Xiaochu was late to send reinforcements, the nearest team could come first to help.

"Change control to semi-automatic mode."

“Change control mode to semi-automatic.” This time it was not Xiaochu's voice that was heard, but Alena's voice.

Fan Chen nodded and again said, "Fu Shen, go to Mount Olympus."

Fu Shen only nodded his head without answering and controlled the Magnet Levitation Car to move in the appropriate direction.

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