Ice apocalypse, I hoard tens of billions of supplies

Zhang Yi did not hide the fire in his eyes.

He squinted at the marked "origin" like a hunter eyeing a perfectly cooked piece of meat.

"In other words, this Martian origin is a place overflowing with wealth!"

"The best landing site that Elon Freeman chose saved us a lot of trouble in finding energy-rich areas."

He pointed to the Martian origin: "We just need to follow their trajectory and land in this area, right?"

"That's the theory."

Yang Xinxin continued scrolling down.

The footage documented Freeman and his "volunteer team".

In the scene, dozens of humans wearing old-fashioned hard-shell spacesuits stand in two rows.

The equipment looked crude, but it could barely be considered an "early immigrant kit".

In addition to the life support system, there are also a batch of biological community samples in the cryogenic chamber.

Germination-forming soil bacteria, nutrient algae, and radiation-resistant micro-moss.

This is not an expedition.

This is the pioneering team.

They didn't just go to take a look; they went to create a civilization.

If civilization is established, they will become the gods of creation in myths and legends.

Yang Xinxin said softly:

"The records of the Pupil Organization at the time said that Freeman claimed to have 'established a second life base'."

"He wasn't just saying that offhand. He really intends to establish a colony on Mars."

"And he was very clear that something would happen to the planet; he had been making relocation plans for more than a decade before the end of the world."

Zhang Yi remained silent.

He simply leaned back in his chair, his knuckles tapping lightly on the table.

He was deeply impressed and admired by the person who could have conceived of all this decades ago.

Yang Xinxin then pulled up the second set of documents.

Those were deep space monitoring data and Mars orbit reports that she compiled herself.

She is the smartest person in the team and Zhang Yi's advisor in every operation.

In front of Zhang Yi, she is often the one who "translates complicated things into something you can understand".

She straightened a section of the coordinate curve with her fingertips.

"Next is our plan to land on Mars."

Zhang Yi nodded: "Go on."

Yang Xinxin clicked on the first one.

The relative distance between Mars and Earth, based on their current orbital positions, is narrowing.

She pulled up a simple, intuitive number.

"Seventy-eight million kilometers away, Mars is only this far away from us now."

"At this distance, if we upgrade the Dreamer's engines, optimize inertia compensation, and take into account deceleration and trajectory correction, theoretically..."

She paused, then looked up at Zhang Yi.

"It will take less than a month to arrive."

Zhang Yi raised an eyebrow and said calmly:

"A month? It's a bit long, but still acceptable."

He joked, "I originally thought it would take more than half a year, eating compressed biscuits on the road until I wanted to die."

If it really takes that long, he'll probably have to change his plans.

Because if it takes a year to travel back and forth, who knows what might happen on Earth.

Li Yangyang was leaning against the sofa armrest, sunbathing her legs, her nails painted with a new iridescent silver.

Upon hearing this, she gently patted her fair and tender calves, which were even more slender and long than a woman's.

However, generally speaking, men's legs are always thinner than women's.

Her eyes crinkled beautifully as she whispered to Fatty Xu:

"Oh dear, I still need to prepare clothes."

"You can't be too sloppy when you're living on a spaceship for a month."

Fatty Xu swallowed hard, and while applying body lotion to her, he whispered, "I like black stockings, you know. Tianhai Family stockings are pretty good."

Yang Xinxin was not interrupted and continued with the second point.

She pulled up a cross-sectional image of the Martian crustal faults.

She and Lu Keran made it together.

They used anomalies in Mars' gravitational field, magnetic field debris, and heat distribution to deduce underground cavities.

She circled a dark area with a laser pointer.

"The surface of Mars is not quite what we imagined. It's not a solid red rock. It's hollow underneath, and there's a lot of hollow space."

She lowered her voice as she said this.

There are underground tunnels.

"It has a dome."

"There is a fluid layer."

Zhang Yi narrowed his eyes: "So..."

Yang Xinxin turned to look at him and casually gave the most straightforward conclusion:

"Something lives beneath Mars!"

The basement of the villa fell silent for a moment.

Lu Keran was typing rapidly, but her hand stopped hovering in mid-air.

Li Yangyang's smile also faded by half.

Deng Shentong gently placed the teacup on the table, his posture still elegant, but his eyes were noticeably more focused.

Zhang Yi clutched the back of his head with both hands, laughing and exclaiming, "So, there really is an underground civilization after all?"

Yang Xinxin nodded.

“We cannot be 100% certain that it can be called a ‘civilization,’ but it is at least an ‘organized long-term inhabitant.’”

"It's not like a haphazardly stacked insect hive. It's a structured, planned cluster of chambers. In other words..."

She exhaled softly:

"That place has most likely already been occupied."

Zhang Yi clicked his tongue softly, leaned back, and crossed his arms.

"It means that if we go to Mars to mine, we might have to compete with the natives. Well, I'm prepared for that."

"However, there's nothing to be particularly worried about."

Zhang Yi's confidence stems from his understanding of ancient civilizations.

After Elon Freeman landed on Mars, he gradually lost contact with the planet, rather than disappearing completely.

This shows that the Martian civilization did not launch a direct attack on them.

This is clearly not the approach of an advanced civilization that can control the overall situation.

Secondly, Zhang Yi had not heard anything about Martian civilization from advanced civilizations such as the Dragon Clan or the Lunarian Empire.

Therefore, their threat level is not particularly high.

With the current strength of Zhang Yi's team and the technological level of the Dreamer spaceship, even if they encounter an ancient civilization and cannot defeat it, they can still protect themselves.

"anything else?"

He stared at Yang Xinxin and asked.

"The third question is whether it's worth it for us to go."

"These are graphs of energy responses around the Martian origin, which we detected based on interstellar spectra. Please look at the big screen."

She projected the three-dimensional structure of the "Mars Origin" onto the large screen again.

The mineral veins inside resemble clusters of converging lines, concentrated in the deepest, darkest areas.

The energy density label next to it is a string of exaggerated, unrealistic numbers.

On Earth, even high-level energy mines don't have a single-point density that can reach this level.

This is no longer the concept of "rare mineral".

Rather, it is the concept of "the cornerstone of civilization".

Zhang Yi stared at the string of parameters, his eyes gradually brightening until they burned.

"Mars' energy resources are very limited, and compared to the crowded Earth, its resources are ridiculously abundant!"

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