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The space-time outside the Mysteries universe.
September 12, 2030, Hainan Wenchang Space Launch Center.
According to the weather forecast, the next few hours will be a rare launch window.
As the three astronauts boarded the spacecraft in the elevator inside the "Mobile Launch Platform," which is more than 140 meters high, the lunar landing program officially entered the launch phase.
Command Center: "Now entering the launch countdown, ten, nine… three, two, one, ignite!"
Rumble—
With a loud roar, the five high-power aerospace engines at the tail of the "Shenzhou-10" carrier rocket, which is more than 100 meters high, successfully ignited. In the dazzling light, amid the cheers of people outside the launch site, the rocket quickly ascended.
The first-stage rocket accelerated to 9,300 kilometers per hour, and the engine was shut down at an altitude of 70 kilometers, and the first-stage rocket separated.
Immediately afterward, the second-stage rocket ignited, taking 6 minutes and 30 seconds to accelerate to 25,000 kilometers per hour, and separated at an altitude of 175 kilometers.
Finally, the third-stage rocket ignited, operating for only about two minutes, sending the spacecraft into Earth orbit.
At this point, Commander Yin Xuejiang reported to the command center: "The launch operation was a complete success."
Applause came from the command center in the communicator, but this was only the first step in the operation, so everyone just applauded and celebrated for a while and then remained on standby.
After the spacecraft circled the Earth three and a half times in Earth orbit, it found a suitable switching position, and the third-stage rocket ignited again, and the spacecraft left Earth orbit and headed for the moon.
At this time, the protective shield at the front end of the rocket opened, revealing the "Dream Boat" spacecraft used for this lunar landing mission. The spacecraft separated from the rocket and headed to its destination alone.
The speed of "Dream Boat" has reached about 40,000 kilometers per hour, but it still takes three days to reach the Earth's only satellite: the Moon.
On the spacecraft, the three astronauts finally breathed a sigh of relief. For the next three days, they only needed to constantly monitor the orbit and maintain contact with the command center at any time.
These tasks could be completed by one astronaut, so they could take turns to rest.
The youngest astronaut, Ma Shen, was the first to leave his seat and looked out at the space through the porthole in a state of weightlessness. He couldn't help but sigh: "It's so beautiful."
Outside was a dark cosmos, as if filled with infinite tranquility and profundity.
There is no light corruption here, and there is no obstruction from the atmosphere, so the field of vision is very clear. As long as you are not facing the sun, you can see a beautiful star sea.
It's just that this star sea seems to be immersed in a distant world, and looks very deep, which seems to be a little different from the star sea seen on Earth.
In this way, under alternating monitoring, after more than two days of travel, the moon has occupied a large part of the field of vision. At this time, through the porthole, you can even see several huge craters on the surface of the moon.
At this time, "Dream Boat" made a posture adjustment and turned 180 degrees, with the head of the spacecraft facing the Earth.
After sufficient preparation, at this time, the "Dream Boat" spacecraft with its tail in front ignited its thrusters to decelerate and successfully entered lunar orbit.
Because the gravity of the moon is small, the lunar orbit is much lower than the Earth orbit. At this time, "Dream Boat" is flying around the moon at a distance of tens of kilometers from the lunar surface.
They have to make final adjustments in lunar orbit, and then officially start the lunar landing operation.
Ma Shen, as usual, took advantage of his rest time to lie on the porthole and look at the scenery outside.
That is a desert-like planet, which looks as if there is no life at all.
Suddenly, something seemed to move in a certain crater. Ma Shen quickly adjusted his position to find the moving object.
Nothing was found.
Soon, the "Dream Boat" spacecraft circled the moon again, and Ma Shen carefully observed the crater just now, but still found nothing.
Ma Shen wondered if he had just had a hallucination?
Suddenly, a hand patted Ma Shen, scaring him.
Looking back, it was Commander Yin Xuejiang: "Boss, you scared me to death."
Yin Xuejiang smiled and said: "Are you so timid? Go to the service mod and get box No. 6."
The "Dream Boat" spacecraft is mainly composed of three mods: the lunar landing mod, the command mod, and the service mod.
A series of operations on the spacecraft are mainly completed in the command mod. The service mod is composed of two parts, one part is the aero engine and fuel tank, gain antenna, four-way thruster, oxygen tank, etc., and the other part contains some necessary materials and supplies.
When Ma Shen brought box No. 6, Commander Yin Xuejiang said to Luo Rui, another astronaut on duty: "Temporarily turn off all communicators."
Luo Rui was slightly stunned, but immediately executed the order.
After all the communicators were turned off, Yin Xuejiang said: "Before you rest, I want to relay a top-secret document to you and explain Order No. 0!"
Ma Shen and Luo Rui were slightly stunned and immediately realized that there was a secret mission in this lunar landing operation.
Yin Xuejiang began to tell: "During the 'Chang'e-3' mission, the camera captured an object moving at high speed on the surface of the moon.
Because the picture was relatively blurry and fleeting, it was uncertain whether it was an extraterrestrial civilization creature, so the news was not made public.
Therefore, in the 'Chang'e-4 and 5' missions, there were tasks to find high-speed moving objects.
In the 'Chang'e-5' mission, the relay satellite finally observed the object again, and we named it 'Lunar Moving Object'.
After a 48-second observation, it was basically determined that the object had no intelligence, but the target's destructiveness was very great. If the lunar landing spacecraft was hit by it, it would suffer very serious damage.
So, if you want to start the lunar landing operation, you must first investigate clearly what it is? And how to solve this problem.
Immediately after that, another problem appeared. People who have repeatedly watched the videos sent back by the relay satellite have experienced mental problems to varying degrees, and some even went crazy directly two weeks later.
It can be basically determined that the mental problems that appeared on them were caused by watching the video about the 'Lunar Moving Object'. The appearance of the other party may cause unknown mental harm.
Finally, the National Space Administration determined that the news and the video were not suitable for public release."
Ma Shen and Luo Rui were a little surprised. This type of cause was the first time they had heard of it.
The commander continued to tell: "At this time, the National Space Administration established contact with the US Space Agency and asked them if they had encountered similar situations during the lunar landing in the last century.
As a result, the Space Agency did not make any reply.
After we inquired many times, the Space Agency replied: Why do you think we stopped the lunar landing operation?"
Luo Rui understood: "They also encountered the same problem."
"Obviously yes." The commander said: "And obviously they failed to solve the problem, and therefore interrupted the lunar landing plan and failed to establish a temporary base on the surface of the moon.
"Then we have to solve this problem ourselves. We have launched 3 more artificial satellites to monitor the 'Lunar Moving Object' in turn and make a more detailed analysis of it.
"First of all, the researchers discovered that the 'Lunar Moving Object' actually has illusory characteristics, and often does not seem to be in the real world.
"At the same time, the satellite has also made many attempts, and conventional weapons, electromagnetic weapons, and radioactive weapons have had almost no impact on it.
"For a time, it became the biggest problem for the lunar landing operation, and we have not made any progress in our research on it."
Yin Xuejiang took a deep breath and continued: "At this time, a civilian named Zhou Mingrui said that he knew very well what it was.
Initially, the Space Administration didn't pay much attention to the other party's remarks, but because they couldn't find a solution to the problem, they invited Zhou Mingrui to join the research team.
The solution he offered was also very strange, actually launching a copy of the 'Constitution,' which we are currently using, towards the other party.
Ma Shen opened his mouth: "Is it the 'Constitution,' not scriptures?"
Luo Rui also laughed and said, "I also think that launching a Buddhist scripture seems more reliable."
Yin Xuejiang smiled: "This is indeed a strange suggestion. When no solution had been found three months after the suggestion was made, the Space Administration, with the idea of treating a dead horse as if it were still alive, carried a copy of the 'Constitution' on the experimental spacecraft while conducting other experiments.
"The result was very surprising. The same batch of weapons used for the experiment still yielded no results, but when the 'Constitution' was launched towards the other party, it clearly made a dodging motion.
"To verify the experimental results, we sent several more copies of the 'Constitution' to the moon. The 'lunar moving object' made a dodging motion every time."
This time, Ma Shen's mouth opened even wider, and Luo Rui also felt very surprised.
Yin Xuejiang said: "Only then did the Space Administration begin to pay attention to Zhou Mingrui's suggestion. The director even personally asked about the principle behind it.
"According to Zhou Mingrui's introduction, the monster on the moon is a projection of a monster from another universe."
Seeing that the two team members didn't understand what he meant, he further explained: "You should all have heard of this hypothesis.
"The universe we are currently in is actually a projection of another higher-dimensional universe.
"It's like a three-dimensional object being filmed with a camera and then displayed on a screen as a two-dimensional image.
"The monster's projection is similar to this theory.
"According to Zhou Mingrui, in another universe, this monster is on the moon, turning the moon red.
"Because it is very powerful, by chance, it left a projection on the moon in our universe.
"In another universe, the hero who defeated this monster used abilities that included the 'power of order.'
"And the 'Constitution,' which we have been using for decades, already has the abstract power of 'order,' so when the monster sees the 'Constitution,' it instinctively dodges."
The two astronauts had many questions and raised their hands to ask after the commander finished speaking.
Ma Shen asked: "Chief, is Zhou Mingrui also from another universe?"
Luo Rui then asked: "Commander, what is the other universe like?"
Yin Xuejiang said: "That belongs to a higher level of secret."
The two astronauts smiled helplessly.
The commander continued: "With Zhou Mingrui's participation, we have researched a solution to that monster.
"Because it is only a projection, it can be contained with a mirror that has a dark-colored characteristic.
"'Chang'e 7' and 'Chang'e 8' have proven that this method is indeed feasible, but because there is a signal delay between the lunar rover using the mirror and the ground, we have not been able to solve the monster after several attempts.
"However, those few experiments made us understand a fact: it is almost impossible to complete such a complex operation with intelligent robots, so that's why we have Mission Zero this time!"
Yin Xuejiang's expression became serious: "The above content is top secret!"
The two astronauts immediately stood at attention in the weightless state: "Yes!"
Then Ma Shen said: "It sounds very fantastical."
Yin Xuejiang said: "Human probes have not yet left the solar system. In fact, we are not very clear about what the universe is like."
Then he added: "The content of Mission Zero is: The most important task of this lunar landing mission is to contain the monster on the moon, laying a good foundation for us to establish a lunar base in the future."
He paused and then said: "I want to remind you that after coming into close contact with the monster, there is a high probability of going mad within two weeks.
"So you can choose whether to carry out this mission. Those who are unwilling to carry out the mission can stay in the command mod.
"Before the spacecraft launched from Earth, I had already chosen to carry out this mission, now it's your turn!"
Ma Shen smiled and said: "I was going to land on the moon anyway, count me in."
Luo Rui followed suit: "I didn't expect that I could also land on the moon to carry out a mission, then I definitely want to go."
According to the original plan, the commander and Ma Shen would board the lunar lander "Lanyue" to land on the moon and carry out a series of tasks on the lunar surface.
Luo Rui would stay in the service mod in lunar orbit, and after the lunar surface mission was completed, he would dock with the "Lanyue's" "ascent stage."
However, the docking process can also be completed with an intelligent computer. Leaving Luo Rui in near-Earth orbit is just in case. The lunar lander is not very crowded, and the fuel is enough to take three people back and forth to the lunar surface.
After confirming that the other two were willing to carry out Mission Zero, Yin Xuejiang opened Box Six and took out three small boxes from it.
Each small box contained a mirror that looked somewhat dark, and a brand new copy of the 'Constitution.'
Yin Xuejiang said: "Our spacesuits have a holder on the left chest, which is used to secure this 'Constitution.'
"As long as we have this 'Constitution,' the monster on the moon cannot harm us.
"After successfully using the mirror to contain the monster, put the mirror and the 'Constitution' back in the box. Under the effect of the 'Constitution,' this monster will be sealed in the mirror forever.
"Bring the box into lunar orbit for further processing."
Ma Shen suddenly realized a problem: "Commander, that is to say, if we hang a copy of the 'Constitution' outside our lunar landing spacecraft, our lunar landing spacecraft will not be attacked by the monster?"
"Yes."
Ma Shen was stunned for a moment and then asked: "Then, then why must we contain that monster? This task sounds very dangerous."
Yin Xuejiang smiled slightly: "How can we allow others to snore beside our bed!"
Ma Shen also smiled: "I have no questions."
So the "Mengzhou" spacecraft reopened the communication system. After the three took turns resting, the lunar lander separated from the spacecraft and began the lunar landing operation.
The "Lanyue" lander is mainly divided into two parts, the ascent stage and the descent stage.
The three astronauts operate the landing operation in the ascent stage. The main function of the descent stage is to decelerate during landing and provide a launch platform for the ascent stage.
After completing the lunar surface mission, the ascent stage and the descent stage separate. The engine of the ascent stage starts working, sending the ascent stage into lunar orbit to dock with the "Mengzhou" spacecraft under the not-so-great gravity of the moon.
Under the skillful operation of the three astronauts, "Lanyue" successfully landed.
Next, the lunar surface mission will begin. Yin Xuejiang ordered: "The three of us will be divided into two groups, one group will stay behind, and one group will carry out extravehicular activities.
"Luo Rui and I will carry out the first extravehicular activity, and Ma Shen will stay behind."
Ma Shen, who was about to put on his spacesuit, asked a little unacceptably: "Why?"
Luo Rui smiled and said: "Because you are the youngest."
Yin Xuejiang took a deep breath: "That's right, if both of us go crazy while carrying out the mission, it proves that we should have had close contact with the monster.
"Don't worry about us, retrieve the mirror containing the monster, and immediately operate the 'ascent stage' to return to near-Earth orbit. In the 'Mengzhou's' Folder 10, there is a follow-up mission outline."
Ma Shen was stunned for a second or two before saying: "Yes!"
So Yin Xuejiang and Luo Rui put on their spacesuits and carried out the first round of extravehicular missions.
The first to step off the landing gear was Yin Xuejiang. After trying to walk a few steps on the moon, he said: "After 56 years, mankind is visiting the moon again."
"This time, we will bring new surprises to the moon. After that, we will establish temporary and permanent bases in an organized manner. In the future, we will also grow vegetables on the moon."
At this moment, in the command center of the Wenchang launch site, all the staff excitedly stood up and applauded. Although they showed smiles, most of them had tears in their eyes.
Once upon a time, they could only watch others travel in space, land on the moon, and explore deep space.
Now, those who set off early are still standing still, but this Oriental dragon has caught up quickly and steadily.
After that, a series of actions such as sampling, taking photos, and preliminary geological exploration began, but no lunar monsters were encountered.
One round of extravehicular activity lasted for four hours. After returning to "Lanyue" to rest and replenish some food and water, the second round of extravehicular activity began.
When the established tasks were basically completed, the alarms worn by Yin Xuejiang and Luo Rui suddenly sounded.
Ma Shenhui reported in "Lanyue": "According to satellite monitoring, the 'lunar monster' is coming towards us, and the estimated trajectory is about eight kilometers away from you. Please move to the north immediately!"
Yin Xuejiang and Luo Rui immediately stopped their work, quickly boarded the lunar rover, and after looking at the compass and confirming the direction, immediately took action.
More than ten minutes later, the lunar rover traveled about six kilometers, and they could already see the rapidly moving shadow in the distance.
If the trajectory of the monster hadn't been calculated in advance by the satellite, unless the monster was rushing towards them, there would have been no way to encounter it.
The moment they saw that shadow, both of them felt their scalps tingle, and their spirits seemed to have been impacted.
Fortunately, this was just a projection. If they had seen the main body, the two of them would have lost control and died.
The two immediately got out of the car, and while opening the box to take out the mirrors, they moved towards the two directions to block the monster.
As for the "Constitution", they had already placed it on their chests in advance.
But soon they realized something was wrong. The monster was actually adjusting its direction.
The two immediately understood that the monster was afraid of the "Constitution", so it wanted to escape in other directions.
Astronaut Luo Rui immediately made a decision. He tried his best to throw the "Constitution" in the new direction the monster was moving, and shouted, "You little bastard, come to Grandpa here!"
The monster seemed to understand Luo Rui's humiliation and actually came towards him.
Yin Xuejiang in the other direction tried his best to rush over, but the moon's gravity was small, making it very difficult to move, and it was obviously too late.
Luo Rui held the mirror horizontally in front of him, staring at the monster in front of him.
As the monster approached, his mental activity became more and more intense, and his emotions were at risk of getting out of control, but he still held the mirror steadily in front of him!
In an instant, Luo Rui seemed to enter a dreamlike space.
He saw a huge figure representing everything standing on the horizon. Suddenly, the figure collapsed, and part of it formed the shadow in front of him.
Immediately, distorted and crazy thoughts appeared in Luo Rui's mind one after another. Finally, he tilted his head and fainted.
But he still maintained his standing posture, with the mirror steadily held in front of him.
Not far away, Yin Xuejiang, who was also under tremendous mental pressure, saw the huge shadow drill into the arm-high mirror while breathing heavily.
At this point, the huge mental pressure disappeared.
Luo Rui slowly fell to the ground.
Yin Xuejiang rushed over as quickly as possible, stumbling, picked up the mirror, and there was only a blurry black shadow in the mirror, not his reflection.
He immediately stuffed the mirror into the box, then put the "Constitution" on his chest into the box, and locked the box.
Yin Xuejiang went to check Luo Rui's condition. His face was pale, and he seemed to have stopped breathing.
At this time, Yin Xuejiang felt as if he was shedding tears and snot. When he reached out to wipe them, he realized that he couldn't wipe them through the helmet.
In fact, it was not snot and tears, but blood flowing from his nose and the corners of his eyes.
He was too close to the "lunar monster" just now, and his body and spirit had suffered irreparable damage.
Yin Xuejiang quickly went back to drive the lunar rover over, and then, with blood constantly flowing from his nostrils, the corners of his eyes, ear canals, and corners of his mouth, he put Luo Rui and the small box on the lunar rover.
When driving the lunar rover back, Yin Xuejiang felt that his spirit was a little trance, but the last trace of sanity made him operate the lunar rover to continue driving towards "Lanyue".
Suddenly, Yin Xuejiang saw a figure in front of him. Yes, there was a person there! A person who was not wearing a spacesuit, but wearing a suit of Earth clothes!
That was a young man with short hair, unremarkable facial features, and a fairly gentle appearance.
The only impressive thing was that he looked both young and experienced, which seemed a bit contradictory.
Yin Xuejiang, who was already a little trance, seemed to come back to his senses after three or four seconds: How could there be someone dressed like this here?
This is the moon! This is space! Even if the temperature here is not considered, this is also a place without oxygen and humidity. Exposure will kill you instantly and turn you into a dried corpse.
The young man slightly raised his hand, and in a trance, Yin Xuejiang's vision seemed to become a little illusory.
At this moment, their fate was "fooled", and all the mental and physical harm they suffered was "transferred" to the surrounding rocks.
When the illusion disappeared, he seemed to suddenly come back to his senses, and the physical and mental discomfort disappeared just like that.
Yin Xuejiang hurried to look for it. Where was there any young man around?
At this time, he suddenly remembered that the young man just now was Zhou Mingrui! As the commander, he had met this "civilian".
Just as Yin Xuejiang was wondering if he had just had a hallucination, Luo Rui's voice came from the communicator: "Commander, we succeeded."
Yin Xuejiang turned his head and saw through the helmet's mask that Luo Rui had woken up. His face was ruddy, and his voice was full of energy. He seemed to be fine.
"Yes, we succeeded." Yin Xuejiang still felt a little unbelievable. He had just had the determination to die and planned to get off the lunar rover after being close enough to "Lanyue" and let Ma Shen retrieve the suitcase with the mirror and the "Constitution".
At this time, he took a deep breath and said to Ma Shen through the communication system: "Start preparing to return to lunar orbit!"
There is a launcher on the "Mengzhou", which will push the box containing the monster away from the moon and eventually leave the solar system, drifting in the quiet, dark universe until forever.
More than an hour later, Zhou Mingrui, standing on the surface of the moon watching the "Mengzhou" spacecraft lift off, whispered: "Not having extraordinary power is not necessarily a bad thing."
After speaking, he disappeared from the surface of the moon, from this universe.
Four days later, the "Mengzhou" successfully returned to Earth, and China's lunar landing mission was a complete success. None of the three astronauts who carried out Order No. 0 showed signs of mental breakdown.
Later, these three astronauts witnessed the construction of the lunar base, witnessed the breakthrough in technologies such as using lunar soil to produce pure water, and also witnessed the beginning of lunar immigration.
The era of developing the solar system has begun.
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