Start with a blacksmith shop.

After a long period of effort, he finally managed to get the Iveco, his main vehicle for getting around, sorted out. Instead of waiting at home, Yang Yu took the initiative and went to Kyushu Divine Beast Company again.

He took the initiative to direct the various aspects of bus manufacturing. Because the soldiers had prior experience assembling the Blue Ox Bus, the production speed of the bus increased significantly under his command.

After all, the buses that these guards are building are somewhat different from the Green Ox buses they built before. They often stop to carefully check the operating instructions when they encounter different places.

With Li Zhenhua present, the situation was significantly different, and the pace quickened considerably.

Meanwhile, at Changzi Auto in Qingdao, they are speeding up the production of a cargo truck based on an armored truck, which is also being manufactured for Li Zhenhua.

However, this vehicle only had a reinforced cab; the cargo compartment was no different from a regular truck, except that the cargo compartment was designed like a trailer.

The main purpose of this vehicle is to tow Li Zhenhua's spare car. Next to this vehicle, another bulletproof Iveco van is being manufactured.

These two cars will eventually form the backup vehicle group in Li Zhenhua's travel plan, which can be regarded as Li Zhenhua's double insurance for his safety.

Everything is proceeding smoothly, and judging from the manufacturing progress here, it should be completed at the same time as the bus in Li Zhenhua's workshop.

As for the two reserve vehicles, Li Zhenhua only uses them as insurance, so there is no need to modify them further. In other words, they will be put into use directly after the Changzi Automobile is completed.

After guiding the soldiers in the workshop to build the bus and answering all their questions, Li Zhenhua returned to the blacksmith shop and made two more spare holographic camouflage projection devices.

This was also a way for Li Zhenhua to fill in the gaps in his plan and patch up his travel itinerary.

While he was peacefully manufacturing his travel gear, at the Kyushu Space Bureau Center in Beiping, the experts brought by the bureau's leaders were all watching the compressed footage that Snowy Owl and his crew had sent back to Earth from Mars.

These experts were deeply captivated by the images; they had never imagined that one day they would witness a volcanic eruption on Mars.

Based on this footage, they analyzed the specific condition of Mars and concluded that Mars was still active and its core had not been extinguished.

Since volcanic eruptions exist on Mars, it means that the core of Mars is still alive, just not as active as that of Earth.

Furthermore, through detailed analysis, it was discovered that water exists in the surface soil of Mars. This is because extremely faint images of water vapor rising were captured when the magma was flowing. Even though the scene was so faint, the experts still discovered this phenomenon.

However, the current state of Mars determines that there are no rivers or lakes on its surface.

This footage has once again refreshed the understanding of Mars among experts in Kyushu.

Mars and Earth have many similarities, and experts have calculated that Mars was actually no different from Earth in its early stages. It was only in later development that Mars' magnetic field disappeared for some reason.

The disappearance of the magnetic field caused the internal environment of Mars to gradually deteriorate. Like early Earth, it lost its water resources, atmosphere, and other features, resulting in the Mars we see today.

If Mars hadn't encountered any unforeseen events in its early history, it would have undoubtedly given rise to life, just like Earth. However, Mars was unlucky, and some unknown accident occurred along the way.

If Mars has a magnetic field, then its atmosphere would not become thin, allowing it to have a thick atmosphere.

With the protection of a magnetic field and atmosphere, the water on the surface of Mars will not disappear. Given the presence of the source of life, the emergence of life will become inevitable.

The footage of the volcanic eruption captured this time is extremely important for experts studying the situation on Mars.

The fact that Mars is still active and volcanoes are still erupting proves that the Martian environment is recovering, a conclusion that has excited all the experts.

Experts are not limiting their thinking to the current situation; they are all considering the same question: is it possible to restart the Martian iron core that has stopped moving?

If Mars' core can be restarted, it will once again have a magnetic field like Earth's. With a magnetic field, Mars' atmosphere will gradually recover, and liquid water is expected to appear later.

With liquid water, an atmosphere to lock the water vapor inside Mars, and water beginning to circulate over time, the ecological environment on Mars will inevitably improve.

All of this is still without human intervention. If someone were to intervene in the restoration of the Martian ecosystem, the recovery process would be much faster.

The current challenge facing Mars is how to restore its magnetic field. Rebooting a planet's magnetic field is not an easy goal to achieve.

Currently, these experts can only make a calculation and summary of the current state of Mars, and update the current numerical model of Mars based on their previous understanding of Mars.

As for how to restart the Martian core or magnetic field, that's beyond their capabilities, because these experts are only theoretical experts, not experts in specific implementation plans.

To solve the problem of restarting Mars' magnetic field, we still need top-notch physics experts to conduct research.

After the experts explained the situation on Mars, many high-ranking officials at the Kyushu Space Agency immediately sent their conclusions to experts in astrophysics, geomagnetism, and other fields, asking them to start looking for solutions.

After learning about it, the bigwigs of Kyushu also realized that this trip to Mars had yielded many things they didn't know before. It can be said that in terms of current control over the situation on Mars, Kyushu is undoubtedly number one, with no one claiming to be second.

After the bigwigs learned about the current situation on Mars, the military leader made a suggestion: whatever information they obtained on Mars, they should send a copy to Li Zhenhua.

Upon hearing the military leader's suggestion, all the bigwigs present at the discussion unanimously agreed with it, as Li Zhenhua had given them such an amazing impression before.

No one knows if Li Zhenhua has some way to solve their problem, but what if he really does? Even if he doesn't, what if he's interested in things on Mars?

It's worth noting that in their past interactions with Li Zhenhua, Li Zhenhua never failed to provide anything that interested him, often leading to unexpected and delightful results for them.

So, without any objections, the conclusions reached by the various experts, as well as the images transmitted back from Mars Mountain, were all sent to Li Zhenhua.

While Li Zhenhua was completely unaware of anything and was still fiddling with the vehicle he would be using for his trip, a group of soldiers were escorting these extremely confidential documents toward him on the road from Beiping to Dongshan.

Our gaze returned to the interior of Mars. After Snow Owl shoveled a bucket of lava and returned to the spaceplane, the five of them began taking turns on duty on the plane.

All their energy at this stage is focused on the previously erupted volcano. They will not proceed to the next project until they have thoroughly understood the volcano.

Two more days passed, and Snow Owl and his team felt the time was right. They resumed their volcano exploration mission, but this time they were not as reckless as before. They hadn't even left a single person to guard the aircraft before. Looking back, they were really foolish and daring.

The five of them used the most primitive method to select one person from among them to carry out the mission of staying behind on the plane. As for what this method was? It was black and white matching + rock-paper-scissors.

The spaceplane landed again at a safe distance from the volcano, and the four people, fully prepared, disembarked.

Because of their previous experience, they proceeded very boldly this time, only stopping when they reached the spot where they had previously dug for lava.

This time, the snowy owl was much more cautious. It took out its entrenching tool again and used it to dig around the lava in the spot where they had previously dug.

This time, however, the shovel did not work as well as before. Last time, the shovel was inserted directly into the solidified lava, but this time it made no progress at all. The shovel struck the lava and made a clanging sound.

They continued to dig with the shovel, but it still felt like digging into a rock. With this feedback, they realized that the lava had indeed solidified completely this time.

After solidifying, the magma changed from being soft like mud to its current hard state.

Knowing that the magma had solidified, they were able to proceed towards the crater with peace of mind.

Although they were heading in that direction, the snowy owls and their companions moved with extreme caution, stopping every ten meters to assess the safety of the path ahead.

Only after confirming that it is truly safe will the four of them continue forward. The closer they get to the crater, the more frequent these assessments become, with everything done under the premise of ensuring their own safety.

After proceeding with extreme caution, conducting countless tests and safety assessments along the way, they finally arrived at their destination – the crater.

Upon arrival, they began conducting various tests on the surrounding environment, collecting all sorts of data, just like the data collection they had done after their first visit to Mars.

After turning on all the testing equipment, the four of them conducted a safe observation of the crater.

When the four of them looked into the crater, they were truly shocked by the sight inside. The volcanic eruption had created a cone-shaped crater, located 20 meters below the crater.

The orange-red magma emitted a slightly whitish glow as it churned within the volcano, with occasional small eruptions of magma rising due to the pressure inside.

It's like an artificial fountain, where the magma is pushed into the sky by internal pressure, and then in a very short time, it reaches the highest point it can reach. Then, the magma turns into water droplets and begins to fall downwards.

Finally, the lava that had been pushed into the sky fell into the lake formed by the lava, like a celestial maiden scattering flowers.

The sight of the crater made the snowy owls think they were watching a movie, because they had never seen anything like it before.

Once they all got used to the shock, they weren't surprised anymore. Suddenly, the snowy owl realized that the shock of the volcano was not as impressive as the scene on the ground called the Eye of the Devil or Hellfire.

After the initial shock, it was time for them to get to work. The snowy owl fixed another air composition detector on the crater and began analyzing the environment around it.

Time passed slowly, and the purpose of their visit was revealed; some of the testing instruments had already obtained the test data.

Snowy Owl and his team quickly uploaded this data to the server on the spaceplane. The communication environment on Mars is simply too good; there's practically no complex electromagnetic environment on this desolate planet.

So their communication with the spaceplane was really good. Snowy Owl kept an eye on the air monitoring instrument in the crater, which could be said to be the ultimate goal of this mission.

That would allow us to know what the air exchange is like inside the crater, and what elements are contained in the lava that the volcano is erupting from.

Beep beep beep... The detection instrument that the snowy owl had placed on the crater beeped. The snowy owl immediately took the instrument and transmitted the data back to the aircraft server in the first instance.

It's not that they're not interested in the content and composition of air, but rather that they simply don't need to understand it. That's the work of air scientists and basic scientists; even a lowly astronaut like him wouldn't understand it.

Thanks to the efforts of Snow Owl and the others, all the tasks were proceeding in an orderly manner, but there was still one problem: after a long period of collecting data from the outside, they were getting a little hungry.