Start with a blacksmith shop.

Even as the anchor read these scripts, his emotions began to fluctuate. Even the scripts he had written about many important events before were not as exciting as these.

The viewers watching the program on television were even more bewildered. They thought that showing a photo for twenty seconds without saying a word was already a broadcasting mishap, but they finally understood after hearing what the anchor said next.

Showing a photo for twenty seconds isn't really that outrageous. What the anchor was saying was the most outrageous thing: Kyushu actually sent a spaceplane to Mars and even successfully landed on Mars.

This news doesn't even seem like news; it's like some tabloid posting fabricated stories to grab attention. If it weren't broadcast on Kyushu News, probably no one would believe it.

Viewers in front of their televisions were all internally criticizing the news. Just as they were still processing what they had just heard, the news anchor's announcement came on again.

"The Zhurong spaceplane captured the entire landing process and, after compression, transmitted it back to Earth."

The spaceplane that has already successfully landed on Mars will have a significant impact on this landing. Our space heroes will stay on Mars for a period of time, although we have not received any specific information on how long.

The main missions of this Mars landing include thorough observation of the Martian environment, creation of a detailed map of Mars, detection of the specific composition of the Martian atmosphere, and analysis of the Martian soil structure, among other scientific research projects.

The ultimate goal is to complete Kyushu's own digital Mars model, which will greatly help future Mars research.

After listening to the anchor's report, the viewers in front of the television were too exhausted to offer any further criticism.

It's really a mismatch in how this is said. It's something that's supposed to be amazing, but when the big streamer says it, it sounds so insignificant.

If Kyushu can actually create a digital Mars model, it might not be too far from Kyushu's ability to terraform the Martian environment.

Once the news was broadcast, both the people of Kyushu and people abroad were stunned and bewildered. Of course, those in other countries who knew about this were not in the bewildered category; they were in a state of anxiety.

Especially the old Mei was the most anxious. While they were still working hard to catch up in order to return to the moon, Kyushu itself actually took another big step forward. How could they catch up with just this one step?

When they first landed on the moon, the launch vehicle they used alone had a takeoff weight of 2930 tons. And that was for the moon landing. Mars is much farther away from Earth, and previous rockets simply couldn't carry people to Mars.

What's more, they later dismantled the original Saturn launch vehicle production line, and now they're struggling even to land on the moon, let alone land on Mars.

What else can they do now? Increase their investment in this area. Of course, they are also very interested in the spaceplane technology that Kyushu possesses. While they are interested, they are trying every means to make Kyushu's technology their own.

Once robber logic becomes a habit, this way of thinking is not so easy to change.

"This concludes our report. A more detailed report on this mission will follow after the program ends. Please tune in for our special feature! That's all for today's Kyushu News. See you tomorrow!"

As the anchor finished broadcasting, the piano version of "Together Again" played on the TV, and the live broadcast room slowly dimmed.

Viewers who watched the program were deeply moved and their hearts remained unsettled for a long time. What should have been an ordinary day became extraordinary because of this news broadcast.

While the audience on Earth was bombarded with this information, Li Zhenhua, who was modifying his car at home, simply smiled after hearing it, because in his view, Kyushu's current performance was entirely within his expectations.

With such a powerful spaceplane, it was bound to cause trouble sooner or later. Since it was inevitable, he wasn't too surprised.

Upon hearing this news, he turned back to what he was doing, continuing to make minor adjustments to the car he was using.

Returning our focus to Mars, the Snowy Owl and his team ultimately used the daggers they brought with them for engraving. Although it severely damaged the daggers, they accomplished the task, and the daggers will now be recorded in history.

As long as the font on the stone tablet was chosen, almost everyone agreed to use the teacher's calligraphy style.

They then used the projector built into their spacesuits to project the words to be carved onto the stone tablet, and then slowly carved them out with a dagger.

As they were scraping the stones with knives, some of the testing equipment that had been set up earlier had already stopped operating, and the data they wanted to test had been obtained.

Various testing devices were constantly performing their tasks, and Snow Owl and the others were not idle either, all of them continuously carving words on the stone based on the characters they could see projected onto it.

Just as the five of them finished carving the words on the stone tablet, all the running machines stopped operating and completed all the tests they were supposed to perform.

The data on the elemental structure of the soil, the composition of the air, and so on, has all been compiled. Once this data collection is complete, the first phase of their mission is successfully completed.

Their follow-up mission is a long-term observation of Martian activity, to see if there is wind on Mars, if there is liquid water, what the land structure is like in different parts of Mars, and whether it meets the necessary factors for plant growth.

These are all things that the five of them will need to do later. Although they may not be able to do them all, they will do as much as they can before they come to Mars.

In the days that followed, they flew their spaceplanes back and forth to various famous locations on Mars.

Some seemingly similar locations observed on Earth were all their destinations on this trip; their main mission was to collect as much information about Mars as possible.

The stone tablet that has stood since ancient times was erected by the five of them, which gave Kyushu a head start. Don't think that this thing is a useless thing.

No one can predict what will happen in the future. If the United States' technology becomes more advanced again and they occupy Mars, and then Kyushu catches up and the two sides reach a point of confrontation, then this monument will be strong evidence, and it will be a topic of discussion once again.

Who can say for sure what will happen next? Anyway, that's what they're doing now.

The exploration of Mars had been progressing smoothly without any unexpected incidents. However, on this particular day, when the five of them arrived at a relatively low Martian mountain, an unexpected event suddenly occurred.

As the five of them disembarked from the spaceplane, admiring the ancient desolation of Mars, they sensed something was amiss.

Because all five of them received feedback from the spacesuits, and an estimate was made of what they would encounter next.

The place they were standing on would soon become a wasteland because the mountain beneath their feet was an active volcano, and an active one at that.

Feeling the vibrations beneath their feet was quite a shock. They never expected that they would experience an active volcano on Mars, something they had never encountered on Earth before.

Knowing the dangers of a volcanic eruption, the five of them returned to the spaceplane and stayed inside, their eyes still fixed on the active volcano below.

Back inside the spaceplane, they hovered it not far from the volcano, all five of them staring intently at the mountain below, wondering what would happen next and whether it would behave like a volcanic eruption on Earth.

Everything here is unknown to them. After all, this is an unfamiliar planet, and they only have a very superficial understanding of the specific environment on the planet.

Even with today's advanced technology, people still dare not say that they have a 100% understanding of the Earth.

They also set up ultra-high-definition filming equipment. The phenomenon they are encountering now is quite rare. Filming all of this will greatly help them to better understand Mars in the future.

Don't think that all the footage captured so far is useless. In fact, what is happening now is very important. Before they came, the idea that there would be volcanic activity on Mars was just a hypothesis and had not been fully confirmed. But when they bring everything they have captured back to Earth, it will be an undeniable fact.

Furthermore, the footage taken and brought back to Earth will be handed over to scientists, allowing for a deeper understanding of the Martian environment.

The camera was pointed directly at the crater below, and they filmed for five or six hours straight, during which time the volcano remained active.

It also began to emit black smoke and some gray dust into the sky, making the environment above and around the volcano hazy. As the volcano became more and more active, their visibility from the plane was also decreasing.

However, this is the phenomenon that occurred, and a large-scale volcanic eruption did not happen.

The crater was still emitting smoke into the sky, and they didn't know what the smoke contained. They stood above the crater, intently watching everything that was happening below.

Several hours passed unnoticed as they waited. Floating in the sky, the five people had already taken turns. Just as Snow Owl lay down on his bed in the living area, he was woken up by his teammates.

When he returned to the cockpit and looked down at the crater below, he discovered that it was indeed the crater below that was finally beginning to spew lava.

The crater, which was originally shrouded in mist, now glows with an orange-red light, and the lava inside looks as if it is about to flow out of the crater.

The lava rose higher and higher, and finally, after more than ten minutes, a stream of hot lava spewed upwards from the crater.

The magma, carrying immense heat and still radiating an orange-red light, surged upwards seven or eight meters before finally falling back to the ground.

When lava falls to the ground from a height of seven or eight meters, what was originally a stream of lava, due to the impact, splashes out in all directions like a shower of flowers.

After the lava fell to the ground, it immediately flowed down the reddish-brown slope of the mountain.

At this moment, the pressure inside the crater was not as great as before. The magma inside was simply rising faster inside the crater and quickly overflowing out of the crater.

The five people on the plane flew a little further away when the volcano was spewing outwards. Although there was an energy shield on the plane, it was still better to avoid it if possible.

The five people were deeply shocked by what they were seeing. They had never seen anything like it before. Even on Earth, it was rare to see a volcanic eruption, let alone an active volcano erupting on Mars.

They were so overwhelmed by the breathtaking scene that they were at a loss for words, marveling at the wonders of nature.

Just as they saw lava flowing from the crater, they also suddenly discovered that the land the lava flowed over was being melted by the heat of the lava, gradually becoming part of the lava and flowing down with it.

After the magma has flowed a certain distance, its color and form begin to change, and it slowly changes from liquid to solid.

Slowly, the color of the lava began to change from orange-red to iron-black. When the lava stopped flowing down the hillside and the color became fixed at a deep black, the five people on the plane realized that this must be what lava looks like after it has solidified.

Seeing that the lava had stopped flowing and eventually turned into a solid, or rather, a large rock of unknown composition, the five of them did not act rashly.

They were waiting for the volcano below to stop being active, and only after the volcano had completely stopped moving would they get off the plane.

Once the volcano has completely calmed down, they will have filmed all the necessary scenes from the sky, and then they can safely go down to collect samples around the volcano that has just erupted.

All the materials ejected from this volcanic eruption were within the scope of their collection efforts—magma, air quality, elemental composition, and so on. They were going to collect all of these, meaning they had a lot of work to do.

The five pilots flew the plane at a safe distance from the crater, carefully checking the environment before finally landing. Fully armed, they disembarked and, carrying various equipment, headed towards the crater.