Chapter 134: Corpse Return
Hearing these reports, Jiang Yang felt a sensation in his heart as if he had clicked the confirm button in a game, and the next moment a city was automatically constructed by the game program.
“Good, switch the live broadcast source over.”
That’s right, this Moon Landing Mission adopted a global real-time live broadcast format.
At this moment, there were probably fully billions of eyes around the world watching this scene.
In the conference hall, the gazes of 100 hibernators also gathered on the large screen.
Following the astronauts’ footsteps, Jiang Yang once again saw the lunar surface that he had seen before, which had undergone huge changes due to the nuclear explosion, saw the astronauts trekking between “mountains and ridges,” slowly advancing, and finally arriving in front of that underground passage.
It seemed that due to the influence of the nuclear explosion, the entrance to that passage was no longer flat, but showed some signs of collapse.
The unmanned vehicle advanced ahead, presenting the internal scenes one by one to people.
After confirming general safety, the astronauts followed, repeating this process.
Overcoming several obstacles and trekking along the way, ahead, an object gleaming with metallic luster appeared in the picture amid a pile of rubble.
That was the corpse of an astronaut!
For the sake of maintaining the astronaut’s image and avoiding bloody scenes, this corpse was censored. But through some outlines, Jiang Yang still recognized who it was.
That was Zhao Jianguo!
The first astronaut to carry out the “minibus” maintenance mission in the Apocalypse Operation!
His corpse was properly collected, temporarily transferred outside the passage, and then the exploration continued.
But soon, the astronauts’ actions encountered an insurmountable obstacle.
Obviously, the closer to that floating city, the greater the power of the nuclear explosion, and the more severe the damage to the passage.
At this moment, the path ahead was completely collapsed, completely burying the passage.
Seismic wave detection also indicated that there was no cavity ahead.
All the space ahead had been buried.
The exploration was temporarily halted here, and they began to adopt the method of drilling from the top to attempt direct access to that cavity.
But this required a long preparation time.
Jiang Yang hibernated again, and after awakening again, the lunar astronauts, after dozens of days of effort, had successfully used the equipment transported from Earth to drill to a depth of about 700 meters.
And based on the previous exploration, it could be confirmed that this depth had reached the area where the floating city was located.
At this moment, the work status of the lunar astronauts had stopped the global live broadcast—time was too long, and people’s emotions could not be maintained consistently.
But Jiang Yang and others who cared about this matter could still see the live broadcast screen.
A large amount of gray-black moon rock debris was brought up, then analyzed on-site by the equipment, and the results were presented at the fastest speed.
After detecting a large number of worthless samples, finally, one sample caught the attention of the ground science team.
“This moon rock obviously underwent a process of high-temperature and high-pressure impact melting in a short time, then resolidified.
During this resolidification process, some special things were mixed into its interior. Limited by the lunar equipment, we temporarily cannot determine what it is, but preliminary analysis shows that it is a special metal crystalline compound, with a crystal form completely different from what we know.”
The preliminary analysis results were released, and scientists from related fields almost worldwide focused here.
A brand-new crystal form?
Don’t forget, the previous detection of the lunar underground cavity showed that the floating city material was extremely tough and special, and it also contained vacuum high-temperature superconductor!
The importance of vacuum high-temperature superconductor goes without saying; simply put, it is even enough to change the entire world’s technology process!
But the astronauts’ return voyage still needed some time, so with no other way, people could only wait patiently.
For Jiang Yang, it was just another process of closing and opening his eyes, and the astronauts had arrived at the time to return.
They carried Zhao Jianguo’s corpse, carried a large number of samples collected from the lunar underground, and entered the moon landing module.
Blazing flames jetted fiercely in the lunar vacuum environment, sending the landing module to lunar orbit with fuel consumption several times more economical than on Earth for the same mass.
After another acceleration, the landing module broke free from the moon’s gravity, was “leisurely” captured by Earth’s gravitational field, and began the return journey.
According to the laws of physics, during this return process, the landing module—now it should be called the return capsule—its speed would go from only 2.5 kilometers per second when breaking free from the moon’s gravity, accelerated by Earth’s gravity to about 11 kilometers per second.
It first entered a highly elliptical orbit around Earth, then suddenly decelerated sharply at perigee.
In the star-studded sky, a meteor dragged a long tail and descended rapidly. Before it could land, the orbit prediction system had already quite accurately predicted its final landing location.
A large number of helicopters and special vehicles started up accordingly, speeding toward that location.
The return capsule finally landed. The hatch opened, and first, Zhao Jianguo’s corpse was brought out.
He, who had already been prepared, now looked serene, as if he were asleep.
A pre-prepared crystal coffin opened, and his corpse was transferred into it under the solemn gaze of everyone.
The helicopter then took off.
His corpse would be transported to that martyrs’ cemetery which had long become a spiritual reliance for countless people, placed in the memorial hall, becoming a representative of the aerospace heroes, receiving the reverence of billions.
At this moment, in the martyrs’ cemetery, numerous members of the World Government Council had arrived, along with a large number of media reporters and ordinary people selected, waiting here to receive the martyr’s corpse.
In the solemn and respectful ceremony, Zhao Jianguo and the memorial tablets of many other martyrs quietly rested amid surrounding flowers.
Jiang Yang and others were also here.
After bowing in silence and placing flowers, people left with somewhat complex thoughts.
With Zhao Jianguo’s corpse transported away, another object receiving worldwide attention was brought out.
That was a tightly sealed metal box, storing over 100 samples from the lunar underground in a vacuum state inside.
At this moment, at least tens of thousands of scientists were waiting for the arrival of these samples.
Through the live broadcast screen, watching this metal box being transported away by airplane, a trace of expectation surged in Jiang Yang’s heart again.
I wonder what remnants from the Reaper Civilization’s creation can bring to our civilization…
This was also not something that could produce results in a short time. But for himself, it was nothing more than a few more hibernations.
“I hope our world can develop faster, and before the next apocalypse arrives, possess sufficient technology…”
Returning to the base, Jiang Yang once again threw himself into uninterrupted study.
In the nearly ten years before in the human world overcoming hibernation technology, Jiang Yang had always maintained a state of uninterrupted study.
Now, the knowledge he had mastered in fields such as physics, mathematics, and machinery had solidly reached doctorate level.
His vision and knowledge breadth in cutting-edge technology development were even incomparable to ordinary physics doctorates.
But even so, study could not stop.
Each time after awakening from hibernation, in the two days, one day for study, one day for contacting the outside world to increase understanding of world development, had become a habit for Jiang Yang.
