Super technology leader

"Boss, bad news! We've observed the American Mars lander igniting and taking off, and there's still no response to our calls to the aliens!"

The sudden report from a team member caused Tang Chao to appear "alarmed". He quickly ran to the window facing the alien base and, sure enough, saw the light of the lander taking off. Switching to thermal imaging, he could even see traces of the smoke plume.

The window had a transparent display, which was very convenient.

But this wasn't the time to show off, so he "excitedly" slapped the bulkhead and cursed, "Damn it!"

"Prepare the vehicles, we're going to the alien camp to take a look!"

With Tang Chao's order, the entire team mobilized.

The Americans had left, and the aliens might have been "forced" to leave with them. Now that they were the only living people on Mars, they naturally weren't afraid of anyone else coming to tear down their base.

It was already evening on Mars, and the vehicles turned on their headlights, speeding along the previously established path at top speed.

Although they hadn't yet repaired the Martian surface between the base and the alien camp, the path they had originally forged had proven its safety. The vehicles had traveled back and forth many times, and even without a road, a path had formed. Following the obvious road track at high speed wouldn't be dangerous.

On the way, some team members tried to contact the American astronauts and the aliens, but there was no reply. Others recounted the previous events to Tang Chao.

"We sent the aliens our usual goodnight greetings, but they didn't reply as they usually do."

"We checked the communication equipment and confirmed that the message was sent, but there was no response from the other side."

"We then repeatedly sent the message several times, but the result was the same. I started to have a bad feeling. When I sent a message to the American side to verify, I discovered that their lander had ignited and taken off…"

Tang Chao didn't say much throughout the whole process. Although everyone didn't know what Tang Chao's expression was behind his helmet visor, they automatically imagined Tang Chao's grim face. After reporting, they fell silent and silently hurried on their way.

Currently, they hadn't received any information from Earth. Obviously, the Americans were hiding it well, and no one had noticed, not even the American ground control center.

Of course, these were just their guesses, and they didn't know if their guesses were correct. So, under Tang Chao's leadership, the team didn't immediately report the news to the ground control center. Instead, they decided to go to the site to take a look first, and then report based on the specific situation.

Even if the American astronauts were truly dishonorable and kidnapped the aliens, they couldn't return to Earth immediately. Earth would need at least several months to prepare.

Whether it was for a war of words or to make some kind of preparation, several months would be enough.

Catching shadows was not something scientists should do.

Soon, Tang Chao and the others arrived at the original location of the American Mars lander. The lander that was parked there during the day was indeed gone.

The lander had left in less than a day after landing.

Previously, Tang Chao and the others were annoyed that the Americans were unscrupulous and landed directly on the road. Now, they didn't need to be annoyed about it anymore, they had already slipped away.

But looking at the silent alien camp a hundred meters away, other annoyed emotions surged up, because things were likely as they had guessed.

"The Americans kidnapped the aliens right under their noses!"

Sure enough, they then drove their vehicles to the alien camp, but there was still no movement on the spaceship.

"Damn it!"

They had thought the Americans were shameless, and originally thought that people who could become astronauts would have higher moral character and lofty ideals, but they didn't expect them to still be so shameless.

When everyone stood at the alien spaceship hatch door, the others looked at Tang Chao.

In their impression, it seemed that the aliens had exchanged hatch door passwords with Tang Chao.

That is, Tang Chao had told the aliens the opening password of the Crimson Base's gate, and the aliens had also told Tang Chao the hatch door password of their spaceship.

This was a testament to friendship, and a friendship built up over time.

Although this matter had been recorded, it hadn't been sent back yet, but had been kept.

The astronauts had two purposes for coming here: one was the traditional Mars scientific research mission, and the other was to connect with the aliens.

However, in the eyes of some high-level politicians, connecting with the aliens was the top priority, and this time, because of Tang Chao's relationship, their relationship with the aliens was very good, and they took a lot of videos related to "the progress of the relationship between human civilization and alien civilization".

Scientific research mission videos and materials were of course updated every day, but "relationship" videos, which were so subjective, were not updated frequently. They only needed to send back a "task volume" from time to time.

So they had saved a lot of things, and they could concentrate on scientific research.

And Earth was almost in this mode. There was also a certain lag in the information released by Tianxia and the Pathfinder.

This created an information gap.

So people on Earth knew that Tang Chao had already made friends with the aliens, but they didn't know that they were so close that they had exchanged "base passwords".

Tang Chao stood at the front and operated the door opening device, but there was no response. The password device next to him immediately opened the input panel. He entered the password that Linnaeus gave him, and the hatch door opened at once.

Seeing this scene, the others behind him breathed a sigh of relief.

"It seems that the Americans did kidnap the aliens, rather than the aliens voluntarily leaving with the Americans."

The things inside were different. The former was that the Americans were shameless, and the latter was that they themselves did not respond well.

Depending on the different situations, the responsibilities they had to bear were also different.

No one saw that Tang Chao walked into the alien spaceship with a smile.

The others followed Tang Chao in, and the lights inside turned on in response.

They had been to the alien spaceship several times, and the aliens had given them a detailed introduction, so they were clear about some of the furnishings inside. Now, at a glance, they obviously felt that many places had been touched.

"Some equipment and parts have been dismantled and taken away!" someone said immediately.

Tang Chao naturally saw it too, but he was the captain, and a human, who had entered the alien spaceship uninvited, so he had to have some name. "Go around and look for unconscious aliens, and prepare to carry out rescue."

The team members understood the real meaning inside, so they immediately dispersed to find "people".

Before, they called the aliens, but the aliens didn't respond, so as friends, they naturally had to come and see.

What if something happened?

They had to rescue people quickly.

They dispersed, and Tang Chao walked to a porthole, looking at a "star" in the dark night sky and sighed, "After all, we are all human beings, and I don't want to make things too stiff. It's not interesting for human beings to fight human beings all the time, and it makes the aliens laugh at us."

"Now it's better, when your spaceship has a problem and is 'stranded' on the road, and I drive the Spore to save you, and by the way, bring you and the aliens back to Tianxia, it will be more justified."

Tang Chao felt that he was also very worried for the sake of all mankind.

The others searched around, counted the equipment that had been dismantled, and found that they were all small parts. The most powerful one seemed to be a computer, and many information storage modules were completely preserved.

Also, the Americans must have wanted to dismantle the power module, but unfortunately their lander couldn't fit it.

As for why the hard drive was taken away, they didn't know.

"Okay, let's just do this for now," Tang Chao said to everyone, "The aliens have been captured. As friends, we must take good care of this spaceship and wait for them to come back. You will come here more often in the future."

"I will report the mission to the joint command center, and then take the Spore to chase them. You can do scientific research here."

Of course, the others knew what Tang Chao was talking about. If they were studying Mars before, then after that, it would not be just studying Mars. This "unowned" alien spaceship was the focus of their research after that.