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"Standing on Mars" had been a premise I could only fantasize about while staring at the movie channel more than three years ago. Back then, I liked science fiction films, especially ones involving alien planets—yes, the kind where Americans always saved Earth in the last thirty minutes and the protagonists were inevitably one or more pairs of screwing couples. I would always stare longingly at those alien landscapes composited in studios and those barren, bizarre phenomena from other worlds, feeling that they were unbelievably magical.
Now I could only sigh that youth was gone and time flew like an arrow. The innocent boy who could spend half a day marveling at a lunar crater had reached an age where even pissing on Mars and playing with the mud gave him no sense of accomplishment...
At first, Qian Qian had been quite interested in the red planet. Carrying a Laser Cannon, she bounced around insisting on finding a crater to write her name in. But she soon grew bored with the monotonous scenery before her and began grumbling while hugging the cannon. She only settled down a little after I summoned Seven Trillion and we drove toward Impact Crater One.
"What a wasteland. Before I turned thirteen, I firmly believed Mars had aliens."
I glanced out the window and muttered.
Outside lay rugged, uneven land like the Gobi Desert. Iron oxide gave it a murky red hue. Perhaps due to the impact shockwave, we encountered many shattered boulders along the way, their colors completely different from the surrounding soil. The drag marks beneath them were clearly visible, showing that these rocks were newcomers