"According to what I know...these words roughly mean 'a certain number'."

Upon hearing Ji Yang's words, everyone present was stunned.

"What kind of number?" Liao Cheng asked with a frown.

"Yeah." Ji Yang nodded, "It means a rather special number... Well, since I don't know some of the more important words, I don't know yet what the specialness of this number is.

"

"And about this, I might be able to ask another friend of mine."

"Back then, I went to the Mayan civilization ruins with my good friend. He had done more research on Mayan writing than I did."

"Then I'll trouble Professor Ji."

"Haha, you don't need to thank me. After all, I have joined you now, so of course I have to do my part." Ji Yang nodded and said with a smile: "But now, can you also let me know what your purpose is?

"

"Of course." Liao Cheng nodded, and then told Ji Yang their purpose concisely.

After Ji Yang heard this, as an old man in his eighties, he was shocked from ear to ear by the news for a while.

Mysterious rocks on the moon?

And there are mysterious ruins on the earth?

Finally, he couldn't help but said: "I didn't expect that an old guy like me, who has studied ancient linguistics all his life, would be able to come into contact with such things just before I was buried."

"Director Liao, tell me now, what work do I need to do?"

Liao Cheng then smiled and said: "Professor Ji just needs to help us try to decipher these mysterious words."

"Okay, this is exactly in line with my major." Ji Yang nodded immediately and accepted the task.

"Then, everyone, let's continue our work now." Liao Cheng nodded and then announced.

Others nodded and left the conference room, including Ji Yang, and some staff took him to his office.

At this time, Liao Cheng said to Lin Xiao again: "By the way, Chief Lin, there is one more thing I need to tell you."

Lin Xiao nodded, "What's the matter?"

Liao Cheng said: "First of all, I would like to congratulate Chief Lin for successfully developing the Tianan space plane. This can be regarded as an important step in the space layout of our Yueshi Division."

Lin Xiao smiled and said: "The main thing is the magic of YB-1."

Liao Cheng smiled. Of course he knew that although the material of the moon monument was very powerful, the main reason for its research was Lin Xiao.

However, he didn't say much more about this, and then asked: "According to the report given by Chief Lin, Tianan actually still has the ability to go to Mars?"

Lin Xiao nodded and said, "Yes."

The nuclear fusion engine used by the Tiannian has super endurance, so traveling to Mars is a matter of ease.

"That's good." Liao Cheng nodded and said: "Last time, the conjectures of you and Zhang Ming were taken seriously by the higher authorities, so we are now preparing to send the Tiannian there during the next landing window.

Mars mainly accomplishes two tasks. The first is to leave three rovers and three artificial satellites on Mars."

"The second mission is to leave a rover and an artificial satellite on each of the two satellites of Mars."

Lin Xiao raised an eyebrow, "Do you want the satellites of Mars too?"

"Well." Liao Cheng said: "Since we found the moon monument on the satellite of the Earth, maybe there is one on the satellite of Mars as well?"

"I understand." Lin Xiao nodded slightly, but then asked: "Why should there be a next window period? Can't it be done next time?"

Liao Cheng shook his head and said: "It will take at least six months to prepare so many exploration vehicles and satellites, and the next window period is not long."

However, at this time Lin Xiao shook his head and said: "No, for the Tiannian, the window period is not March and April of 2029, but July and August of 2029."

Liao Cheng was stunned, "What?"

Lin Xiao smiled slightly, "Because, for Tiannian, it only takes two months to cross 55 million kilometers from the earth to Mars."

…

After leaving the headquarters of Yueshi Division, Lin Xiao couldn't help but smile. Thinking of Liao Cheng's shocked expression just now, he found it interesting.

In his report about the Tiannian, he did not write down the maximum speed that the Tiannian could reach, because he was afraid that writing it down would scare people.

As long as the Tian Nian continues to throw in hydrogen pellets to cause nuclear fusion explosions, the Tian Nian's speed will only get faster and faster.

As long as you can carry infinite hydrogen pellets and have enough time, accelerating to sublight speed is not a problem.

Of course, if it is a reasonable speed range, it is almost 60,000 kilometers per hour to 70,000 kilometers per hour.

This speed seems very incredible. Of course, there is no need to be too surprised, because 60,000 kilometers per hour is equivalent to 16.7 kilometers per second, which is only equivalent to the speed of the third universe and slightly faster than the speed of the second universe.

5.5 kilometers per second.

Spacecraft departing from the earth must reach at least the second cosmic speed to escape the earth's gravity and then reach Mars.

In other words, other spacecraft that have traveled to Mars will at least reach the second cosmic speed of 11.2 kilometers per second, which is almost equivalent to 40,320 kilometers per hour.

But what is different from other rockets is that if they want to go to Mars, other rockets need to follow the most fuel-efficient path, so for this kind of rocket, they do not use the straight-line method, but follow the Hohmann transfer orbit method to arrive.

, its path is a curve.

Because of this, it takes a long time for ordinary rockets to go to Mars. Otherwise, based on the shortest distance between Earth and Mars, which is 55 million kilometers, and the speed of the second universe is 11.2 kilometers per second, it would take about 56 days to get there.

It will take far longer than six or seven months.

For Tian Nian, since fuel is not a problem, it can completely reach Mars in a straight line. Therefore, excluding some acceleration and deceleration time, Tian Nian can easily reach Mars within two months.

.

It is precisely because of this that Liao Cheng made an immediate decision just now. In June of this year, they will launch Tianan and go to Mars.

"If that's the case, then won't we have to have a space race with the Americans?"

And let the Americans run for three months first?

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao smiled again. It will take more than six months for the American Saturn 9 to reach Mars.

However, the Tiannian only took two months.

By then, which country will be the first to leave footprints on Mars, but it may not be the Americans.

At this time, Lin Xiao was already looking forward to it.

But then, he recalled Professor Ji Yang's interpretation of the mysterious writings in the Mayan ruins.

A special number?

What could that be?

What you need to know is that according to records, the Mayans had relatively high attainments in mathematics, and they were the first civilization to use "0".

However, in that piece of Mayan text, what special numbers are worth recording?

Finally, Lin Xiao shook his head, and then gave Xiaomi a task, that is, let Xiaomi try to decipher other undeciphered Mayan characters.

Maybe this will help them.

Xiaomi also happily accepted this task.

…

Just like that, time passed quickly.

Three months later.

Tiannian's moon landing mission is about to begin.

Of course, the United States' Mars Project is also about to start.

The two incidents occurred less than a month apart, and they immediately attracted worldwide attention.
Chapter completed!