"It was probably just my imagination..."
Looking at the mission panel, which radiated a pale golden aura of good luck, Lu Zhou shook his head hard, drove the strange feeling from his mind, and focused on the mission itself again.
The requirement was to complete the Mars Crewed Landing Plan before the end of the year.
That was no problem.
A crewed Mars landing was already part of Hua Nation's space program for the year, as well as a prerequisite for the Mars Scientific Expedition Station.
As for the reward being determined by the number of people who landed and the time remaining on the mission...
Faced with this peculiar reward criterion, Lu Zhou fell silent.
If I sent a hundred people up there at once, wouldn't I rake in over ten million experience points?
Of course, he was only entertaining the thought.
Leaving aside the technical challenges, risks, and associated humanitarian issues, even if he really could send that many people there at once, the system might not let him rack up over ten million experience points.
After all, while the reward multiplier might increase with the number of people, that increase would not necessarily be linear.
"In short, I just need to find a way to get people to Mars as quickly as possible... In that case, this mission should be pretty simple."
Not long ago, the Space Launch Center had sent a spacecraft on a cruise around Mars's orbit and brought it back. Now, all they needed to do was figure out how to take life-support equipment along and drop the volunteers down with the landing module.
With that thought, Lu Zhou closed the holographic panel.
Although that faint sense of unease still lingered, worrying over something unknown without a single clue was not his style. He