Chapter 172: Complexity Breaking Through The Sky
After ending this lengthy but supremely important meeting that was enough to decide the fate of the entire human civilization, Jiang Yang rubbed his somewhat fatigued forehead and arrived outside the Hibernation Base.
Zhou Yu quietly followed behind him.
Decades of time together—even excluding the repetitions in the cycle, and there were still fully more than ten years outside of hibernation time—allowed Zhou Yu to completely and immediately understand Jiang Yang’s current state of mind.
She didn’t speak, just quietly held Jiang Yang’s hand, silently conveying her love and support.
Jiang Yang also didn’t speak.
At this moment, the morning sun was just rising, and the heavens and earth were bathed in light. The continuous verdant mountains in the distance, and the bustling city even farther away, were all clearly visible.
He raised his head and looked straight at the sun, which was not yet dazzling.
It had dominated this star system for billions of years, and in the foreseeable future, it would continue to dominate.
It shaped everything on Earth.
From the birth of primitive life in the primitive oceans, to life later moving onto land and unprecedentedly modifying Earth’s environment, everything originated from it.
It was precisely the energy from it that supported human energy consumption from ancient Homo sapiens to the present era over millions of years.
To put it bluntly, before humans mastered nuclear energy, all energy came directly or indirectly from the sun.
The food people eat comes from plants’ conversion of solar energy;
The meat people eat comes from animals’ conversion of plant energy, which ultimately still comes from the sun;
The wind energy people utilize is because solar energy drives atmospheric flow;
The hydroelectric power stations people build come from solar energy driving water vapor evaporation;
The petroleum, coal, natural gas, and others that people utilize ultimately also come from catalysis by solar energy.
Even now, humans’ so-called clean energy—namely wind energy, solar energy, hydropower, etc.—accounts for more than 80% of the entire human civilization’s energy supply, and also relies on the sun.
Clothing, food, housing, and transportation—almost everything involved in the entire life process of humans comes from the grace of this great star.
But…
What I can create, I can also destroy.
What I can give, I can also take back.
A tiny amount of energy that is negligible to the sun is enough to overturn the entire world it inhabits.
Looking at the sun, Jiang Yang’s heart was filled with complex thoughts.
After a long time, he withdrew his gaze and looked toward the bustling city in the distance.
The people living in that city at this moment are still completely unaware of the changes the world is about to face…
Soon, full mobilization affecting the entire world will arrive. And it is destined to be larger than the previous life.
The previous life had only the ion drilling plan, but this life also has the Moon City Project…
For individuals, this may be somewhat cruel. After all, no matter how they struggle or effort in this life, the final ending of death is already destined and cannot be changed.
But for the continuation of the entire civilization, these sacrifices are necessary and must be paid.
At such a time, there is no need to talk about justice or fairness.
“I wonder when the planning drawings for the Moon City Project will be finalized.”
Jiang Yang’s thoughts unconsciously drifted to the distance: “I hope it can be faster. After all, that is a town, and we have less than 3 months.”
Construction does not start without planning first; this is the iron rule that any major project must follow.
And an unprecedented lunar town would involve countless aspects and considerations, with complexity probably breaking through the sky.
Under normal circumstances, a planning drawing of this level could not be finalized without a decade—and that’s even under acceleration.
And at this moment, the time left for planning is only one month? Half a month? Or even shorter?
Jiang Yang didn’t know. The only thing Jiang Yang could expect was that the relevant experts’ abilities were outstanding enough to complete the planning in as short a time as possible, leaving as much time as possible for subsequent construction.
But completely beyond Jiang Yang’s expectations, on the third day, he received a notification.
“What? The overall planning drawing for Moon City is completed?”
He looked at the World Government staff in front of him with full shock.
How much time had passed since that meeting ended and the decision to launch the Moon City Project?
Full count, not even two full days, only about thirty-eight or nine hours.
Even if all the blood in these planners and designers’ bodies was drained and replaced with chicken blood, it couldn’t be this fast, right?
This fundamentally defies scientific principles!
Facing Jiang Yang’s shock, Sun Changhe beside him seemed to have long anticipated this situation.
“The Three Gorges Project back then, although construction started in 94, had the concept proposed 70 years earlier, and underwent repeated verification and continuous planning in the subsequent process;
The current equatorial clean energy combination project, although only started construction more than thirty years ago, at least a century in advance, our country already had the concept and planning, and conducted a large amount of theoretical verification and field exploration in advance;
Now the Moon City Project…”
He looked at Jiang Yang, smiling calmly: “Long before the first apocalypse arrived, our country’s scientists had already done a large amount of preliminary work, completing all initial tasks, including but not limited to technical concepts, site selection, plans, and everything else.
What you see now is that the scientists produced Moon City’s complete planning and design drawings in less than two days, but behind it, countless scientists have struggled for at least a hundred years for this concept.
What needs to be done now is nothing more than making slight adjustments on that basis, adding or removing some facilities to better fit the current demand.”
Jiang Yang suddenly understood.
All hibernators arrived in the meeting room to receive the experts’ initial briefing.
“The planned Moon City will be built in a gorge. This gorge is over 100 kilometers long in total, with the deepest point about 260 meters.
The reason for selecting this site is mainly to consider the electromagnetic burst issue during the apocalypse.
It is not only located at the valley bottom, and according to orbit calculations, during the apocalypse burst, it will also be on the side of the Moon facing away from the sun. Thus, the entire Moon will become a shield for Moon City against solar energy.
Moon City is elongated, with the widest point about 400 meters, length reaching 5.6 kilometers, total building area about 1.71 square kilometers, active area about 1.06 square kilometers, designed maximum population capacity up to 12,000 people, but in the plan, Moon City’s total population is 8,000 people.
Based on this design goal, the total mass of equipment, parts, replenishment, etc., that we need to transport to the Moon is about 260,000 tons. Calculated with our current most advanced and heaviest Julingshen IV rocket, it requires launching about… 5,200 units.”
