I live in the Martian wilderness!

"Captain? According to current environmental monitoring, the outside temperature has dropped to -62 degrees Celsius, accompanied by intermittent dust storms."

"Extravehicular activity will consume a significant amount of valuable time and combat suit energy. Calculations show that the risk factor for this type of high-altitude operation is far higher than..."

"I don't need it for long," Gu Yu interrupted, his tone as calm as if he were going downstairs to pick up a package.

"...Understood. Command confirmed. Airlock depressurization procedure initiated." Xuanjian stopped insisting and began executing auxiliary procedures.

With a low hissing sound, white condensed mist tumbled and dissipated inside the airlock.

The heavy alloy hatch slid open slowly, revealing the desolate, dark red world outside.

Gu Yu took his first step. Mars' gravity is only one-third that of Earth's, making each push off the ground feel like a slow-motion jump.

He arrived at the dusty, massive mechanical arm of the Tianshuo engineering vehicle and, like a nimble ape, climbed upwards along the complex truss structure.

The journey was far from easy; Martian dust was an astronaut's greatest nightmare! Every push and pull of their boots and gloves sent up extremely fine hematite powder.

These particles, finer than flour, clung stubbornly to the white combat uniform like static-charged smoke, impossible to remove no matter how hard you pat them.

With a few quick maneuvers and rapid breathing, he climbed to the top of the crane arm.

The No. 58 docking locking mechanism, jammed due to the violent impact, was twisted and glaring, like a dislocated joint.

The operating space here is extremely narrow, barely enough for one person to turn sideways.

Gu Yu skillfully secured himself to the main beam with a Kevlar safety rope, adjusted his breathing, and tried to calm his heartbeat after the strenuous exercise.

"Xuan, give me the internal perspective view of node number 58."

"Understood, the 3D model has been covered."

In Gu Yu's field of vision, the real metal buckle instantly became transparent, and a complex red wireframe diagram appeared on the helmet's HUD.

The misaligned locking hook, deformed from deformation, was like a glaring red line, tightly gripping the slide rail.

He extended his right hand, which was covered in a heavy glove, and gently touched the surface of the docking lock that had undergone plastic deformation due to the violent impact.

[Carbon Sequestration and Breathing] Derivative Capability—[Carbon Control]—Activated.

At the micro level, miracles are happening.

The outer material of Gu Yu's right glove is undergoing an amazing reorganization.

A layer of faint blue light, barely perceptible to the naked eye, flashed by; it was the luster refracted by the rearrangement of carbon atoms at extremely high density.

The originally soft fabric surface was instantly covered with a layer of ultra-dense carbon crystal film that is harder than diamonds and more resilient than graphene.

At that moment, his five fingers transformed into precision hydraulic clamps capable of cutting through gold and jade.

Immediately afterwards, he hovered his left hand above the lock, palm down, as if caressing the air.

[Gravity Kingship] Derivative Ability - 'Microscopic Gravity Stress Release', activated.

"Monitoring structural stress in real time..." Xuanjian began assisting with the readings, his voice calm and precise. "Offset 3.2 millimeters... decreasing... 2.5 millimeters..."

This is an extremely ingenious operation, comparable to micro-carving on a grain of rice.

What he had to do was not to use brute force to pry open the lock that could bear several tons of weight, but to use repulsive force to correct its internal twisted mechanical structure.

The gravitational field of the left hand, like an invisible giant hand, pushed the misaligned metal clip, micrometer by micrometer, toward its original "zero position".

"Click".

A very faint, yet incredibly pleasant metallic clanging sound rang out in the silent Martian air.

At the same time, the notification sound of Xuanjian rang in the bone conduction headphones, almost perfectly overlapping with the metallic vibration transmitted from the fingertips!

The bright red fault area on the Guyu helmet HUD instantly changed to a pleasing green indicating "normal working condition".

[Dock lock system No. 58... Deformation has been corrected, and mechanical interference has been eliminated!]

"Well done, Captain," Xuanjian praised.

Gu Yu breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at the time; the whole process had taken less than five minutes.

As Gu Yu hovered high in the air, watching the 12 green dots on the screen representing the lock status, a sense of emotion flashed through his mind.

This is where his true value as the "chosen one" lies. He is not merely an anomaly who can breathe carbon dioxide.

He is also a "top-level on-orbit engineer" who can perfectly combine the most cutting-edge engineering machinery with extraordinary abilities.

If this were 2025, more than 20 years ago, the only way to separate two such behemoths in space would be to detonate a "pyrotechnic bolt".

That was the violent aesthetics of the old space age—using high-energy explosives to instantly sever metal, a one-time, irreversible act, accompanied by enormous impact risks.

But this "Candle Dragon One" from 2047 is different.

It adopts the latest generation of "Tiangong-IV Superconducting Electromagnetic Hard Connection System" from the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

The core of this system is no longer explosives, but a powerful superconducting magnetohydrodynamic chuck, coupled with a purely mechanical "ratchet self-locking safety".

The modules engage when powered on and disengage automatically when power is off, as the magnetism disappears. This design allows the spacecraft modules to be disassembled and reassembled an unlimited number of times, like Lego bricks.

The 58th latch we just saw was stuck in the locked position because the mechanical safety pawl was plastically deformed due to the impact of the crash.

If it is not repaired manually, it will act like a barb and tear open the outer shell of the command module when the magnetic force is lost.

……

Back in the warm cockpit, Gu Yu didn't stop.

Ten fingers flew across the control panel, manipulating the massive crane boom to firmly secure the high-strength slings to the four load-bearing lifting points on the top of the command cabin.

"Xuan, release the first level of electromagnetic adsorption and prepare for physical separation."

"Received. Crane boom pretension has been loaded to 105%... Cutting off power to superconducting coil... Magnetic flux to zero... Separation countdown, three, two, one."

As soon as the command was issued, the 12 sets of superconducting electromagnetic latches connected to the base were simultaneously de-energized and unlocked!

"Buzz—!!"

The entire Tissot car shuddered violently!

That was the collapse of magnetic flux caused by the instantaneous drop of tens of tons of adsorption force to zero, causing all the metal parts on the crane arm to emit a resonant roar at the moment of sudden stress change.

The crane arm of the Tiansuo crane was already taut with the cable. The moment it was freed from the restraints, the command module, weighing several tons, was suddenly pulled upwards by half a meter by the high-strength carbon fiber cable!

"Squeak—"

Outside the window, the enormous thing that had been pulled up hung suspended in mid-air.

The vacuum created by the sudden lifting, along with the highly static-charged red soil, instantly sealed the originally silvery-white chassis of the command cabin, as if it were coated with a layer of dark red scab.

Unlike the heavy, rapid swaying on Earth, its shaking in the 38% gravity of Mars presents a strange sense of "slow motion".

It slowly swung to the left, then reluctantly swung back.

The command module, weighing several tons, was thus completely removed from the Zhulong-1.