Chapter 173: Charge! Charge! Charge!
Jiang Yang knew that the current Julingshen No. 4 Rocket could already achieve a single launch, sending approximately 100 tons of mass into the Earth-Moon Transfer Orbit.
The initial manned landing Mars mission was based on the Julingshen No. 4 Rocket.
Such a rocket was 133 meters tall, equivalent to 44 stories. When fully fueled, its total mass could reach an unprecedented over 4200 tons.
No matter from which perspective, it fully deserved the title of the king of rockets in human history.
Correspondingly, its cost was extremely high, and the process was precise and complex.
Even though the human world’s aerospace industry had developed on an extremely large scale now, not many such rockets were in reserve.
This number of 5200 made all the attendees fall silent.
Jiang Yang subconsciously looked toward Chen Yusheng.
During the first apocalypse, under Chen Yusheng’s organization, the human world accomplished the industrial miracle of manufacturing 292 Giant Spirit God II Rockets within five days.
Now…
As if sensing the inquiry from his companions, Chen Yusheng shook his head: “This time, we probably cannot replicate the miracle from last time.
The Julingshen No. 4 Rocket is too big and too heavy; its precision and complexity significantly exceed that of the Giant Spirit God II Rocket back then.
Even if we still use the previous plan, without testing and debugging, even if its success rate can reach 10%, we would still need to manufacture a full 52,000 Julingshen No. 4 Rockets to complete this transportation mission.
52,000… Impossible, not the slightest possibility. No matter how great human engineering power is, it is impossible to complete this mission.”
Although he said it was impossible, Jiang Yang clearly noticed that Chen Yusheng’s face was not heavy; he seemed to have a plan in mind long ago.
“In this life, we have no need to execute the mission in such a simple and crude way. We have a better alternative plan.”
The attendees each breathed a sigh of relief.
It was good to have an alternative plan.
Jiang Yang’s attention refocused on the expert ahead who was explaining the Moon City planning.
“According to the plan, Moon City will use lunar soil as the main building material.
We will transport lunar soil brick-making equipment from Earth, collect large amounts of lunar soil to manufacture bricks for constructing the main body of Moon City, radiation shielding layers, etc., which will save a lot of building materials;
Lunar soil and moon rock contain relatively abundant hydrates; during the brick-making process, we will separate this water for subsequent use in Moon City;
Moon City will construct three 30MW thorium-based molten salt nuclear fission power stations as mutual backups. Waste heat can be used to support base heating;
…”
Having roughly understood the construction plan for the future Moon City and knowing the kind of environment in which they would work in the future, the Hibernation Team’s attention turned to reviewing the list of personnel for Moon City residency.
Both the World Government and the Hibernation Team clearly knew that the selection of Moon City personnel must be mainly scientists.
The main significance of Moon City’s existence was to provide a shelter for these scientists, allowing them to conduct comprehensive observations and research on the Sun and Earth after the apocalypse, to find ways to confront the apocalypse.
Of course, if it was ultimately confirmed that the apocalypse could not be confronted and the fireseed plan was chosen to continue the flame and rebuild civilization, these scientists would also become the scientific inheritors of the “new generation” of humanity.
This meant that the number of scientists not only needed to be large but also cover various disciplines.
The modern scientific system is vast with numerous branches. It is impossible to cover all disciplines with a number of 8000 people.
Thus, choices had to be made, selecting as much as possible those scholars with broader research scopes.
Once again beyond the expectations of the Hibernation Team, the scientific researchers seemed not very enthusiastic about whether they could be selected to go to Moon City; it was more of a resigned attitude, going if selected, and it didn’t matter if not.
People had originally thought these quotas would be fiercely competed for. After all, in a sense, being selected for the Moon City list meant a certain probability of hope to continue living after the apocalypse.
After further in-depth understanding, Jiang Yang found that the reason for this situation was very simple.
Even if one could avoid this apocalypse in Moon City, the selected people still had to bear inevitably heavy work in a desperate situation with no hope at all.
Even if the fireseed plan was activated, who knew how much pain and torment existed in the process of rebuilding human civilization, and how immense the mental pressure would be.
Compared to that… was dying cleanly in the apocalypse really so hard to accept?
If selected, then work hard and fight desperately on behalf of human civilization. If not selected, it means there are better candidates, so let them struggle.
Facing this situation, Jiang Yang sighed inwardly.
“This is also good, also good.
At least this way, during the personnel selection process, external interference will be minimized, and we can completely select the most suitable candidates based on standards.”
Under this situation, the list of the first batch of 100,000 people was submitted, covering experts and scholars from various disciplines, engineers and technical experts from various industrial sectors, etc.
Jiang Yang and his colleagues from the Hibernation Team then threw into the final candidate selection work.
Outside the Hibernation Base, the World Government once again held a mobilization announcement facing all global people.
This time, the World Government finally decided to reveal limited information about the impending apocalypse, but conceal key points such as time and form.
This way, it could both ensure the situation remained stable and controllable, and maximize the mobilization of the entire human world’s power to provide foundation for the Moon City Project, Mantle Plan, and Lunar Ark Plan.
“… Our scientists have discovered some signs, which indicate that the Reaper Civilization is very likely preparing to launch another invasion against us.
To ensure civilization’s continuation, to ensure we can still prosper and multiply on this blue planet, the World Government decides that starting today, the world enters martial law status and synchronously launches the Moon City Project, Mantle Plan…
…”
The entire human world began to boil at this moment.
The past peace and harmony were suddenly shattered at this moment. A solemn and killing, tense atmosphere enveloped the entire Earth.
Watching compatriots whose lives instantly changed completely under the World Government’s organization, Jiang Yang seemed to see a scene.
A knight standing alone on the land.
No companions, no allies, no reinforcements.
Only one person, one horse, and the sword in hand.
The enemy ahead was enormous like a mountain, with power strong beyond the limits of human imagination.
The knight raised the sword high, then… charge!
No matter how weak oneself was, charge!
No matter how powerful the enemy was, charge!
Charge! Charge! Charge!
