Chapter 74: Meteor Crash
Three hours later, Gu Changshan strode into the Command Hall and saluted Jiang Yang, Sun Changhe, and the others: “Report to Commander Jiang, control of a total of six Lunar Satellites from foreign countries has been transferred to us.”
Jiang Yang’s pupils contracted slightly.
This impossibly difficult task… was accomplished just like that?
Gu Changshan turned to Jiang Yang and explained specifically: “They are afraid.”
Jiang Yang thought for a moment in his heart and nodded.
“Sometimes, things that seem very complicated are actually quite simple once you actually do them…”
With a sigh in his heart, he looked at Professor Lu Zhaoming and Professor Li Jiaming: “Let’s begin.”
“Yes.”
Accompanied by the uploading of some instructions, one satellite after another began maneuvering in the vast space near the Moon.
The extremely precious and nearly depleted fuel stored inside them began jetting out as if it cost nothing, propelling their orbits to change continuously.
One hour later, the first satellite completed its Orbital Adjustment.
It swept past just over ten kilometers from the Moon on a highly eccentric orbit, then moved to an apogee several thousand kilometers away, returned again, and its extended orbital path intersected with the Moon.
Moreover, this intersection point was exactly in that special area of the Tranquility Plain.
Gradually returning from apogee, its speed also gradually increased, from just a few hundred meters per second at the slowest, rising to one kilometer per second, then two kilometers, up to a final 2.4 kilometers per second.
Like a meteor from outer space, it whistled down in the vacuum environment and, in an instant, slammed heavily into the Moon Dust from the unreachable heavens.
At this moment, at the cost of its own mass, it released energy equivalent to more than one ton of TNT explosives onto the Moon.
Amid the splashing rocks, Seismic Waves were instantly generated, propagating rapidly through the Lunar Surface strata in different modes, then captured by the Moonquake Detector equipped on the Lunar Rover.
A large amount of data was generated accordingly. Soon after, Jiang Yang saw the image representing the Lunar Underground Chamber on the Large Screen in front of him become a bit clearer.
Soon after, the second satellite arrived and slammed heavily into the Lunar Surface, so the image became a bit clearer again.
Then the third, the fourth…
Up to the twelfth.
Because there were too many experiments this time and the data volume was too large, the drawing and analysis Program couldn’t display results in real time.
This required multiple Scientist Teams to complete after more than ten hours of work.
Looking at the image that, though not fully processed yet, was already much clearer than before, a thought naturally emerged in Jiang Yang’s mind.
“Whether coerced or willingly contributed.
In any case, in this Reincarnation, to uncover the Truth of the Apocalypse, it is no longer just our one Nation making the Effort, but the power of the entire world and all Civilization concentrated.
Hope the Apocalypse can be resolved, hope there will be no Next Life. But if there really must be a Next Life… hope this data explored with the power of all Civilization can point the way for us in the next life.”
All work in this life had already been carried out, and next they only needed to Wait.
It was now four o’clock in the morning, with 20 hours of Time left.
“Let’s go.”
Together with Zhou Yu, Gu Changshan, and others, Jiang Yang took the Helicopter back to Apocalypse Base No. 7 again, then returned to the Restroom and quickly fell asleep.
Fate was about to be revealed, and before that, he had to rest well and conserve his energy.
He slept a full ten hours, not getting up until two o’clock in the afternoon.
Apocalypse Base No. 7, like those Cycles in the past, was busy amid a solemn Atmosphere.
Accompanied by Zhou Yu, Jiang Yang once again learned about the Preparation Work in the Base this life and the key points to note in case the Apocalypse still came, and Time reached nine o’clock in the evening.
In one more hour, the Nuclear Bomb strike group would descend upon the Moon, delivering the gift of Humanity Civilization’s most powerful weapon to the Moon.
After more than 20 hours of flight and Orbital Adjustment, these total 400 Nuclear Bombs had now been precisely adjusted into a “plane.”
Their distances relative to the Moon were equal, and their Direction, Speed were consistent.
This meant they could strike the Moon at the same Time and detonate at the same Time. This way, it could eliminate the situation where an early-detonated Nuclear Bomb destroyed the others not yet detonated, and also unleash the greatest Power in an instant, bringing maximum destruction to that Chamber hidden beneath the Lunar Surface.
At this moment, in the Meeting Room of Apocalypse Base No. 7, footage from the depths of Space was being broadcast live.
Jiang Yang saw hundreds of steel-cone-shaped bodies quietly suspended in Space, while the Moon ahead slowly grew larger with the passage of Time at an imperceptible Speed.
Everyone looked solemn.
Everyone knew full well that at this moment, the only hope of surviving the Apocalypse and preventing its arrival rested on these warheads.
If this Nuclear strike failed to work, then…
Jiang Yang withdrew his gaze and looked at Zhou Yu: “Accompany me to stay outside the Base for a while.”
The two left the Meeting Room, under the protection of numerous security personnel, took the high-speed elevator out of the Base, and then, under the cover of night, climbed to the top of a small Hilltop.
The weather was good tonight, with no clouds obscuring and not too much light pollution; the night sky in the mountains was clear and bright, with a full moon hanging quietly amid thousands of twinkling stars.
If he squinted carefully, Jiang Yang could even see the shadows cast by the Tranquility Plain in the upper right part of the Moon.
Its “elevation” was too low, receiving even less sunlight, appearing a bit darker to people on Earth.
The summer wind blew gently, insects chirped, and the roars of wild beasts came continuously from nearby and afar, making one feel peaceful from the bottom of the heart.
Jiang Yang looked straight up at the Moon, as if seeing the figures of those Killer Weapons capable of destroying cities and extinguishing nations.
He knew that, limited by insufficient fuel and the dual Gravity of Earth and Moon, the Speed of these Killer Weapons reaching the Moon wouldn’t be too fast, only less than 4 Mach.
In contrast, when deployed on Earth, their maximum Speed upon re-entering the Atmosphere could reach over 20 Mach.
A full five times the difference.
At 4 Mach Speed, interception would be possible even with Earth’s human Technology.
So… would this operation bombing the Moon encounter interception?
Jiang Yang didn’t know.
He just watched quietly like this, in the serene night, not speaking, not moving, quietly waiting.
The Moon also hung quietly in the Sky as it had for billions of years, sprinkling clean moonlight over this world, serene with an eternal, unchanging ancient meaning.
After an unknown amount of Time, Jiang Yang suddenly saw a bright spot suddenly appear in the upper right part of the Moon.
