My Little Pony: My Little Pony The Martian

AMICITAS Mission Three – Mission Day 345

ARES 3 solar day 340

"Mark, tell me: do you think we'll get any cherries on this trip?"

Of course CherryBerry knew the answer, but she had to ask anyway. She cared for these saplings almost to the point of doting, urging them to grow taller and faster than any creature in the Kingdom of Horses. But despite all the hard work, they are only a few months old, far less than the age when cherry trees in Malaysia usually start to bear fruit in two or three years. And this is the general situation in the Kingdom of Horses, a world rich in magic, not in a cave on this wasteland planet with no magic and no grass.

However, tree age is only one of many issues, which Mark also mentioned. "Unless Starlight's set of transformation spells won't make a hole in the rover, it's impossible." He replied, "Berryberry, I know how much you care about them, but the fact is undeniable. These plants are not enough. Mature. And if they are all the same kind of cherries, there is a high chance that they cannot breed with each other. We don’t have bees here, so every flower has to be pollinated by us. Not to mention all this All must be completed within the next fifty solar days."

"Fifty solar days?" Berry asked. "There are still one hundred and ten days before we leave, right?"

"We still need time to test the modified rover and resolve any problems found in a timely manner," Mark explained. "In order to test the rover and trailer combination, we have to temporarily move the life support system out of the cave, at least every time Lasts a solar day or two. Once we get started, the cave environment will cool down quickly. This will harm the plants. So whatever we plan to plant next must be done before we start the official test roaming Finished before the car. The next round of harvest will also be the last.”

Berry looked inside the cave through the observation window on the airlock. The cherry tree can now touch the ceiling, and most of its dense branches continue upwards against the ceiling, winding towards the sunlight relay crystal on the vault. In the long run—if there is a long-term future to consider—continuing to develop like this will cause a lot of trouble for the light-loving alfalfa. Qianmei carefully picks some fresh and healthy leaves from the trees every week and carefully prepares several pots of cherry leaf tea to give everyone who usually drinks plain water a change of taste. Next, she had to find a way to dehydrate the leaves and preserve them for a long time for use on the way...

She subconsciously stretched out her hooves to wipe away the tears on her face, "Can't we move your machines from the living area to the cave?" She was still unwilling, "Just let it continue to run?"

Mark shook his head, "Part of the air conditioner equipment must be placed outdoors to work properly," he blurted out, "and both it and the oxygen synthesizer are used to remove carbon dioxide from the air. Plants also need Add some carbon dioxide from time to time. Even if we can figure out some way to pump water up from downstream to replenish the discharged water, the water recycling machine will not automatically water the plants. And even if we move all the heaters in the living area, I don't think so. Enough heat will be generated to keep the cave warm and allow plants to grow normally."

Berry was stunned, "You answered without even thinking."

"Because I've been thinking about this for months," Mark replied. "Of course I'd like to keep this farm going as an eternal middle finger to the damn planet. But I can't think of anything that can do it without affecting A way to achieve our goals based on our own chances of survival.”

"I can understand." Of course Berry can understand. She just didn't like the answer. "Please ask Tingting and Feihuo to come over, okay?"

When Mark opened the door inside the airlock and left, Berry watched from the open door as Starlight Glimmer stood next to the life support system equipment box and stared at the flashing indicator light. She used magic to hold a fragment of a broken antenna and wrote hurriedly on the dirt. What are you wearing? It seems that today is the second all-day water and telegraph meeting to continue discussing the technical details of the new sparkling engine main drive crystal; Starlight has decided that instead of continuing to make magic batteries that they may not be able to take away all by then, it is better to Prepare to complete the enchantment on the main crystal in two days.

Berry was reluctant to disturb her at this time, but the two major tasks of the Sparkling Engine and the new boost system would probably keep Starlight busy for several days. Anyway, let’s not mention this matter for now, Berry has another matter to deal with.

After Spitfire and Dragonfly came over, Berry motioned for them to close the airlock door behind them. "What's the matter, Boss Ma?" Tingting asked, "I hope you're not ordering me to walk on the springboard this time."

"Dingting," Berry said, "I don't think you asked me to stop Flying Fire from hitting your head."

Just as Berry expected, the changeling froze when he heard these words; and Spitfire did the same, which Berry didn't expect. "Uh... I don't think I need to tell you that you will come forward to stop it." She replied confidently, but it was still a little short of the mark.

Berry turned to Spitfire, "And I'm pretty sure I warned you to stop this behavior at least once or twice."

Spitfire immediately changed his words to pony language, "Look at her look like this! Is there any face that deserves more beatings than this one?"

Dragonfly grinned, "This is true. Five hundred royal guards unanimously agreed!"

Berry cleared her throat, "You two, please calm down, I don't have time to joke with you," she still spoke in English. She looked at Fei Huo and said, "This is an order: Don't hit Ting Ting again." Then she stared at Ding Ting more sternly, "This is an order: Don't deliberately provoke Fei Huo to hit you again."

Tingting tilted her head, pretending to be confused, "Do you think I want to be hit on the head?"

"I think you're causing trouble on purpose," Berry continued, staring straight into Feihuo's eyes, "and you're taking advantage of it."

Spitfire just shrugged, "Make me feel better."

Tingting nodded, "And everyone will feel better."

"I don't feel it," Berry Berry didn't buy it. "I'm serious: don't do this. If you two still want to make fun of each other, at least please come up with something new."

Dragonfly said dejectedly, "The Queen will definitely allow me to hit my head."

"But she can only be the one holding the stick," Berry retorted, "She's not here now anyway, thank God. Now we should take care of the plants..." She couldn't help but sigh sadly when she thought of this, "...let them be happy for a while longer."