Roaming the universe, all thanks to your many dark skills!

Mark became a little depressed when there were no potatoes to plant.

During this period, Rosen offered to help him solve the food problem several times, but he refused every time on the grounds that he was not short of food at the moment.

As the saying goes: A business that is not easy to deal with is not a business at all. Rosen's help is purely out of kindness and for free.

After being rejected several times in a row, he was too lazy to try to persuade her anymore.

Anyway, he persisted to the end in the original plot, and Rosen believed that he would not die even without his help.

In addition, his recent exploration of Mars has gradually made some new discoveries, so he did not pay too much attention to Mark.

Solar Day 154.

Mark was eating potatoes in the living cabin and complained: "I ran out of ketchup yesterday, so now I have to eat potatoes with vitamins."

At this point, he put the potato in his mouth and chewed it vigorously, saying, "I really miss the potato stew and spicy potato shreds made by Rosen, but I haven't eaten them for a long time, ever since I rejected his suggestion to help... or aid me."

"Okay, I admit that although I consider him a friend, he seems to be the same. It's just that..."

Mark lowered his head, looked at the small piece of potato left on the plate, and cursed in a low voice: "Damn dignity, I hope I won't starve to death on Mars because of this ridiculous self-esteem."

While Mark was doing nothing, NASA was not idle.

It is unlikely to get Mark back immediately, but there is hope if we can send him some food.

Especially since this matter not only concerns Mark's life, but also the glory of the United States, so under Teddy's supervision, the construction of the booster and the manufacture of the aircraft were very fast.

But when the day of launch came, we encountered big trouble.

It went smoothly at first, but soon the large amount of food accumulated in the cabin caused the center of gravity of the aircraft to shift seriously, and it eventually exploded.

Solar Day 186.

Mark sent a message to Commander Louise, hoping she could do something for him.

For example, if he dies, ask Louis to visit his parents and tell them about his experience on Mars.

He said he had not given up on survival, but was just preparing for every possibility.

Now he is in low spirits and very frustrated, and pessimistically thinks of the worst possible scenario.

At this time, Rosen had no time to comfort and console him because he was busy with a major discovery.

on the earth,

China National Space Administration.

Guo Ming and Zhu Tao are watching CNN's interview with Teddy and Vincent on TV.

They expected the craft to crash shortly after it took off.

"We replaced the standard rations with protein blocks. The lateral vibrations during the launch propulsion melted the protein blocks, resulting in uneven load."

“Vincent, shouldn’t this have been discovered during the inspection phase?” the host asked.

"In order to meet the launch window, we can only speed up the process..." Teddy explained.

"Their astronauts will starve to death if this happens," said Guo Mingdao.

"Of course, there are other ways, such as asking Rosen for help." Zhu Tao turned to look at him and said with a smile: "But it seems that the astronaut did not do so, otherwise NASA would not be so anxious."

"It's normal for America to be so arrogant." Guo Ming said calmly, fiddling with the tea set in front of him.

"In addition, our Apollo booster is ready. Engineers have checked the data and its capacity is sufficient to reach the orbit of Mars." Zhu Tao said.

"Why didn't NASA contact us?" Guo Ming wondered, "Could it be the same reason as that astronaut?"

"Because they don't know." Zhu Tao smiled and shook his head, saying: "Our data is top secret."

"That is to say, if we do nothing..." Guo Ming said this, Zhu Tao continued: "The world will never know that we can actually help."

"Well, just for the sake of argument, if we decide to help them..." Guo Ming said tentatively.

Zhu Tao frowned and said, "If we give them the booster, it means that we have cancelled the Apollo Project. Don't you want to know who Rosen is on Mars now? And how did he get there?"

"Of course I'm curious, but I couldn't find any information related to him after searching for a long time. It's like he appeared out of thin air. But I believe he is Chinese, and I really want to take him back."

Guo Ming said seriously: "So the problem now becomes very simple. Helping the Americans is helping us. We should abandon all distractions and only solve the problem from the perspective of aerospace and seek cooperation."

Zhu Tao immediately laughed and said, "I think Teddy will be happy to accept our kindness."

"Ha ha……"

Teddy should have been very happy that there was a way to solve the problem, but he had to get help from the Chinese for it. This really made him feel like he was slapped in the face because he had always proudly claimed that the United States could solve all problems without anyone's help.

Although I felt awkward, I finally said honestly, "Thank you."

Solar Day 219.

Mark, who hadn't visited for a few days, came and knocked on the door, but Rosen didn't open the door for a long time, and there was not even a sound from inside.

If Mark hadn't seen that the crops in the glass greenhouse were still in good condition and even the ground was a little damp, obviously having been watered in the past day or two, he might have thought that Rosen had encountered some accident.

He now had some great news in his heart that he wanted to share with Rosen, and of course he didn't want to go back just like that, so he began to wait patiently.

During this time, Mark went back to the living cabin to drink water several times and go to the toilet. When it was getting dark, he suddenly found that the lights were on in the container villa.

If he hadn't been guarding outside the door and making sure that he didn't blink, and if Rosen hadn't been able to sneak in in front of him, Mark would have definitely thought that he was hallucinating or had seen a ghost.

"Rosen, come out, I have something to talk to you about." Mark knocked on the door twice, both to vent his dissatisfaction and to give himself courage.

Click.

The door opened.

Rosen came out in a space suit.

It was obvious that he had just come back from outside, and he hadn't even had time to change his clothes. But this made Mark even more confused: How did Rosen trick him into entering the house? Did he have a secret passage that he didn't know about?

"You just got back?" Mark asked.

"Yeah." Rosen nodded and said, "It just so happened that you came to me."

"I've been here all afternoon because I had something important to tell you." Mark looked at Rosen and said, "Rosen, I'm curious how you got into the house under my nose."