Chapter 100: Shelter
The first thing carried out was still the satellite launch. After completion, Jiang Yang and his group came to the astronaut restroom again.
Seeing those familiar faces again, a flicker of excitement flashed through Jiang Yang’s heart.
The experiences of the previous several lives made him firmly believe that these astronauts were comrades who could absolutely be trusted.
In the previous life, they had died together with him in that lunar underground passage. Being able to see them again now was truly great.
After a mobilization, Jiang Yang came to that massive rocket again.
“……0, ignition!”
The massive overload pressure suddenly assaulted, pressing Jiang Yang’s entire body firmly against the floor.
“I hope in this life, I can suffer fewer instances of rocket explosion torment…”
Just as this thought arose in Jiang Yang’s heart, the next moment, a thunder-like creaking sound entered his ears. Before he could discern it clearly, his consciousness suddenly vanished.
The next moment, Jiang Yang sat up abruptly on the bed in his rental room.
“Damn it, failed again, try again!”
Several days later, Jiang Yang sat inside the spaceship again, and then, boom!
Try again!
This time, the rocket launch finally succeeded.
Looking at the vast blue land beneath his feet, looking at the moon hanging quietly in space like a silver disk, Jiang Yang’s palm gradually clenched into a fist.
“Wait for me, I’m coming…”
This time, the astronaut docking with Jiang Yang’s spaceship was Zhao Jianguo.
And from his mouth, he learned that the astronaut Li Hui who had docked with him last time had failed in the rocket launch this time and perished in the sea of fire.
Although the person had changed, it was obvious that the level of professionalism had not decreased.
Wearing a spacesuit, Jiang Yang quietly stayed inside the spaceship that had been pumped into vacuum, watching Zhao Jianguo make trip after trip between the two spaceships, transporting supplies over.
After the supplies transportation was completed, that spaceship moved away on its own, while the spaceship Jiang Yang was on started acceleration after a period of preparation work.
The massive blue planet underfoot gradually shrank, while the silver-white planet ahead gradually shed its mysterious color, becoming increasingly real in his vision.
Several days passed in a flash. Jiang Yang went through another space orbit change, deceleration, and landing program, successfully landing on the moon.
Different from before, this time’s landing location was farther, a full 65 kilometers from that lunar underground passage.
Based on the intelligence observed in the previous several lives that the astronaut located 700,000 kilometers from Earth managed to avoid the apocalypse, the angle at which that underground chamber faced Earth releasing high-energy neutrinos could be determined.
Then, by retro-thrust from that angle, it could be known which places on the moon would be affected when the high-energy neutrinos erupted.
So theoretically, as long as their landing location avoided these areas, they could achieve the same effect as that astronaut back then and avoid this apocalypse.
In the following time, they only needed to quietly wait here for the apocalypse to arrive and the human world to be destroyed.
Because they arrived at the moon earlier this time, the astronauts obviously had more ample preparation time.
Thus, Jiang Yang saw that with box after box of supplies arriving, the total 14 astronauts who successfully reached the moon this time became busy again.
They set up a ground base station, established contact with those satellites orbiting the moon, and arranged many things Jiang Yang could not understand.
When there were still more than 20 hours until the apocalypse, they even used the environment of a nearby cave to build a simple shelter.
Using some kind of thin film material, paired with simple building materials, sufficient cables, and power generation facilities, the internal area of this shelter reached over 60 square meters, and it had complete energy, water, oxygen, and temperature control functions.
As for radiation protection and asteroid impact protection functions, they naturally did not have them. But in this cave, there was no need to consider those things.
Passing through the airlock into the shelter, Jiang Yang finally could take off the heavy spacesuit.
Under the warm lights, the 14 astronauts each lay on the ground, seizing the time to rest.
Time slowly passed, and in the blink of an eye, it was 11 p.m. on the tenth day of the cycle.
If there were no accidents, the apocalypse would arrive in 1 hour.
Tong Zheng, still serving as astronaut captain, stood up: “Everyone, assemble!”
“Yes!”
Including Jiang Yang, all 15 people stood up from the temporary beds and formed neat ranks.
Tong Zheng’s gaze swept over every face: “Put on spacesuits!”
The 15 people moved together.
With the help of the other astronauts, Jiang Yang quickly put on the spacesuit.
“Exit the cabin!”
Following the pre-formulated program, one astronaut after another entered the airlock, then came to the outside.
20 minutes later, all 15 people assembled outside the shelter.
The people silently left this cave and came to a flat ground outside, standing quietly.
Jiang Yang raised his head and once again saw that blue planet the size of a plate. Looking closely, he could even vaguely see the flowing clouds on it.
Only less than half an hour left.
What were the people on Earth doing at this time? Were they, like in the previous several lives, quietly staying in the underground base, waiting for the apocalypse to arrive?
Were the people who did not know about the apocalypse still enjoying the night’s tranquility at this moment?
At this moment, many thoughts flashed through Jiang Yang’s mind.
He had experienced the apocalypse many times, even so many that he could not count them clearly. But observing the apocalypse from the perspective of a bystander this time was the first.
“Earth calling Moon, please report the current situation.”
The voice of the ground command base commander clearly came through his ear. Tong Zheng’s voice followed: “Report Earth, our status is good.”
“Received.”
Time continued to pass, gradually reaching 11:59:50.
In ten more seconds, the apocalypse would arrive.
Jiang Yang’s heart couldn’t help but lift slightly, his gaze firmly locked on that blue planet.
In this final moment before the apocalypse arrived, he heard Sun Changhe’s voice once again.
“Comrades, wish you good luck, and wish our nation, our civilization good luck.”
At this moment, the emotion surging in Jiang Yang’s heart could no longer be controlled.
All 15 people shouted that phrase together at this moment.
“Guarantee mission completion!”
Time quietly reached 00:00:00.
A faint chaotic sound came through his ears.
Communication was not cut off, but no more human voices came.
Jiang Yang carefully sensed himself and noticed that the pain did not descend on his body.
His companions were all as usual.
He looked toward Earth and saw that Earth was still quietly hanging there, no different from before.
Tong Zheng’s arm slowly raised, his voice low: “Salute!”
