Chapter 109: They Won’t Come
Alone, he penetrated the long passage, climbed up along that rope, and Jiang Yang once again arrived in the floating city.
This was his last time observing this floating city, supplementing the previously missing information and enhancing his memory.
At the same time, he still had another thing to do.
Detonate that hydrogen bomb and truly conduct a field test to see if the hydrogen bomb could destroy this place.
After observing in the floating city for several hours, Jiang Yang came before the hydrogen bomb, which resembled a small mixing tank.
He set the timed detonation time, turned to leave, then drove the electric tricycle back to the camp 65 kilometers away in a straight line.
In silent waiting, time quietly passed.
At this moment, there were only the last ten seconds left until the scheduled hydrogen bomb detonation time.
Jiang Yang closed his eyes, preparing to receive the incoming shockwave.
The next moment, the entire camp shook violently, some dust floated up on its own, and an unsecured cup on the table fell to the ground with a bang.
After the vibration, calm returned as before.
“As expected of a hydrogen bomb…
Fortunately, the camp is far away; if it were any closer, it might have been shaken apart directly…”
Back then, precisely because they considered the power of the hydrogen bomb explosion, the astronauts built the camp here instead of closer to that passage.
Although there is no air on the moon, the hydrogen bomb explosion cannot produce a massively destructive shockwave, but it has another unfavorable factor.
The water content in the moon rock is too low, lacking buffering factors, so the attenuation of seismic waves during transmission is less, and the lethal range is correspondingly larger.
After inspecting the camp situation and confirming no damage, Jiang Yang immediately turned on the computer, connected to the satellite, and began manipulating it to film the detonation point.
This explosion, because it was underground, wouldn’t generate an electromagnetic pulse and wouldn’t destroy satellites in space.
Satellite photographs were quickly transmitted to Jiang Yang’s computer. Thus, Jiang Yang clearly saw that the passage location, and the location of the floating city, had their lunar landforms almost completely reshaped.
The gorge disappeared, the hillock flattened. In places that were originally flat land, cracks appeared out of nowhere on the land.
“That floating city should have been destroyed, right?”
Jiang Yang pondered, and once the earthquake caused by this hydrogen bomb explosion subsided, he installed moonquake detectors around the camp, connected them to the satellite, and sent it an orbit change instruction.
Amid the jetting of hot gas, a satellite gradually changed its orbit, then from space, at about 2.4 kilometers per second, suddenly slammed into the area near the coordinates of the original underground cavity.
Another faint seismic wave was generated, precisely captured by the moonquake detector. Its data immediately entered the automatic analysis program.
The computer fan began to hum, clearly entering full-power operation mode.
After waiting several hours, the image rendering was finally complete.
The underground cavity where the floating city was located had disappeared.
Phew…
Jiang Yang let out a long breath.
Clearly, this hydrogen bomb explosion had completely destroyed that underground chamber.
Of course, whether the floating city was also destroyed couldn’t be confirmed. But if even a hydrogen bomb couldn’t destroy it, humans would have no other methods left.
For now, just assume it was also destroyed.
With this, the penultimate thing Jiang Yang needed to confirm had a result.
At least, the hydrogen bomb explosion was effective against the underground chamber structure of this facility, left behind by an unknown super alien civilization, which bore the mission of exterminating all humanity.
Now, only the last thing needed confirmation.
After this underground chamber was destroyed, would aliens come?
The remaining supplies were enough to sustain him for 19 days. If used sparingly, sustaining a month was no problem.
So, continue waiting, and at the same time, further deepen his memory of those images and information.
In the following days, Jiang Yang’s life became leisurely.
Most of the time, he lay motionless in bed or sat at the computer playing single-player games to minimize physical consumption.
Every once in a while, he would stare at the image he had drawn for a while, further deepening his memory.
The only daily work was to maneuver the satellite to take a few photographs when passing the underground cavity coordinates, then feed them to the computer program for automatic analysis to check for changes.
Of course, aside from a few minor changes from tiny asteroid impacts and obvious subtle landform changes from internal collapses, nothing noteworthy happened there.
He waited until the 15th day, estimating that the geology at the nuclear explosion site had fully stabilized, then Jiang Yang drove the electric tricycle again, guided all the way by the satellite, crossed over a hundred kilometers, personally arrived near the nuclear explosion detonation point, and confirmed with his own eyes.
Still no unexpected changes were discovered.
Back at the camp, Jiang Yang spent his last five days on the moon.
Eating the last bag of liquid food, Jiang Yang put on his spacesuit, came again above the gorge, and looked up at the sky.
The galaxy was vast.
After observing for a long time, he saw no signs of alien spaceships descending.
Perhaps the aliens really wouldn’t come.
Perhaps this place was just something they casually set up, like a child passing by an ant nest and casually pouring in a bottle of water—done and forgotten, with no one continuing to pay attention;
Or perhaps it was simply malice, a casual joke, something utterly trivial to them.
In any case, 300,000 years later today, they probably wouldn’t come again.
Jiang Yang stood up and returned to the camp.
He calmly took off his spacesuit, sat in the seat, placed that crucial image before his eyes again, stared at it carefully, and at the same time shoved the muzzle of a pistol into his mouth.
Unlike the astronauts. The astronauts, to preserve equipment and avoid contaminating the camp, could only choose the “cleanest” way to die.
As for whether it was painful or not, that wasn’t within consideration.
He had no such qualms, so of course, whichever way was fastest and least painful.
After comprehensive research, swallowing the gun was still the most suitable.
Once the trigger was pulled, the bullet would instantly penetrate the brain, killing before any reaction or sensation of pain, the most convenient, quick, safe, and painless.
So… now.
Jiang Yang steeled himself, forcefully pulled the trigger, and the next moment his consciousness abruptly vanished.
The moment after that, Jiang Yang suddenly woke up and slowly sat up from the bed.
“Damn, as expected, not a bit of pain…”
Jiang Yang sighed, his heart full of calm.
The image from right before death was still clearly imprinted in his mind. He unhurriedly went to the desk, picked up paper and pen, and carefully, earnestly, slowly sketched.
Only after recording everything that needed to be noted did he pick up the mobile phone and dial that number.
