Chapter 1227 Prerequisites for Mass Immigration

"It's really cold in here."

Looking at the outside temperature value projected on the helmet on a piece of gray lunar soil, the young man in a heavy space suit said with some emotion.

"Heh, wearing a space suit can freeze you?"

Walking beside him was the captain of the engineering team of the lunar scientific research station, named Wu Gang. People in the engineering team usually teased him about whether he came to cut trees on the moon, while he himself teased that he was a contractor on the moon.

In fact, it is indeed the case. There is only such an engineering team in the entire scientific research station.

The things thrown from the Moon Palace are all unloaded, installed, and deployed by them.

He was the one who repaired the solar array, and he was also the one who repaired the lunar collider. It can be said that the artificial facilities on the entire lunar surface are the space construction equipment operated by him with the engineers of the engineering team. tile" cover out.

As for the person next to him at the moment, it is the engineer who was recently assigned to the team. His name is Xu Chengli. It is said that he graduated from Jinling University with a master's degree in aerospace engineering.

Due to the close cooperation between Jinling University and the Institute for Advanced Study in the research and development of aerospace technology, this resume can be regarded as very popular in the aerospace industry, so that Wu Gang is a little confused why he came to this kind of nonsense. place.

"I'm just saying it casually, don't get excited."

Hearing the voice from the communication channel, Xu Chengli smiled a little embarrassedly.

Because he just arrived here, he always feels that everything is very novel, so many teammates feel that he is a bit talkative. But most of the time, he doesn't feel it himself, and instead regards it as an advantage.

After all, on this silent moon, it is too difficult to hear a little human voice. He always felt that if he didn't say more, he might be driven mad one day.

However, Captain Wu didn't seem to agree.

"You talk too much."

Seeing that he seemed to be hated, Xu Chengli had a helpless smile on his face.

"Well, I will control myself to talk less nonsense... Hey, when I was on Earth, I didn't talk so much."

"...Your last sentence is superfluous."

The two continued to walk for a while, and stopped on a flat ground.

After stepping on the ground with his feet to confirm that the lunar soil was strong enough, Wu Gang reached out and took the navigation beacon from his backpack, skillfully set the efficiency parameters, and then firmly inserted it on the ground.

So far, their work has come to an end for the time being, and the rest is to wait for the cargo spacecraft to drop the landing module, then disassemble and disassemble the cargo placed on it, and carry out correct deployment.

The two of them just stood in the deserted wilderness, quietly waiting for the arrival of the goods.

Time passed minute by minute, just when Xu Chengli was already bored and hesitant to talk about something, Wu Gang suddenly spoke.

"You are only twenty-five."

Seeing that the captain actually took the initiative to talk to him, Xu Chengli quickly answered.

"Yes what's the matter?"

Wu Gang: "Why do you come to this kind of place?"

"Do you need to ask? The salary is high. The salary of the same type of work is three times that of the ground. And it also takes care of food and lodging, and the work intensity is not high. There is a rotation in half a year and a three-month break. The only thing that makes me a little uncomfortable is the Internet. The latency is too high, the communication bandwidth is limited, and... no nightclub is a bit boring. What about you?"

Wu Gang was silent for a while, as if hesitating to answer this question.

But seeing the expectant eyes of this chatterbox, he finally sighed and spoke.

"The reason seems to be the same as yours... but I am not the same as you. I have a family to raise, two children to go to school, and a mortgage to pay... A piece of advice, young people should not waste their good youth here Farming places. These jobs are for people like us."

Xu Chengli frowned: "How can you say it's a waste? Don't you think working on the moon is a cool thing?"

cool?

What is that?

Hearing this sentence, Wu Gang was obviously slightly taken aback.

Do young people nowadays actually think so?

He felt that not only was he unable to keep up with the times, but he also seemed to be a bit behind with the ideas of young people.

At least in his opinion, there is no more fun here except for a piece of bare gray land and too many craters that have no aesthetic feeling at all.

"You don't want to talk about your girlfriend?"

"It's boring, I've been tired of it for a long time, I'm still comfortable alone, I can go wherever I want, why bother myself. By the way, when you said this, I remembered one of the benefits of working here, at least If you come here, no one will urge you to get married, haha."

With a hearty smile, Xu Chengli looked up at the deep and dark sky, and suddenly said with emotion, "Every time I look up at this sky, I always think that the fate of a person is insignificant in front of the universe. Not to mention that there is no throne to inherit, even if there is, what is it in front of him?"

Wu Gang glanced at him.

"If everyone thought like you, we would have died out long ago."

"Sooner or later... I mean standing at the height of time." Xu Chengli looked at the electronic clock printed on the upper right corner of the transparent surface, and said impatiently, "Speaking of time, the clock on the Moon Palace Don’t those people have any sense of time? When will our goods come, we have been waiting here for a long time.”

"Probably something happened." Glancing at the time counter on the helmet, Wu Gang frowned and said, "But it shouldn't be serious, at least there is no additional notice from the headquarters."

Xu Chengli: "Speaking of which, what was sent this time?"

"Sample item Dr-111 active substance...I don't know much, so let's leave the extra stuff alone, it's enough to do the job at hand...here."

The moment the voice fell, Xu Chengli raised his head and looked in the direction Captain Wu was pointing at.

I saw a flickering green dot suddenly drilled out of the deep and dark sky.

Like a merchant ship sailing from a distant world, the green dot gradually approached, flickering according to a special frequency, and gradually approached the area that the two of them could see with their naked eyes.

The shadow grew bigger and closer.

Finally, the broad chassis slammed firmly into the lunar surface, kicking up billows of lunar dust.

"Start to work."

Patting Xu Chengli on the shoulder, Wu Gang walked in front, taking the lead towards the silver-white landing module with the green signal light flashing above his head.

"You are late."

Watching the astronauts walking down from the landing module, Wu Gang raised his right hand and tapped twice on the side of the helmet, connecting his signal to his own communication channel.

"... It took a while to correct the orbit. Let me introduce myself, my name is Yang Xingyu," the astronaut who walked off the landing module explained while coughing and wiping off the dust on his mask, "Recently we are Replace the navigation system, don't mention stability in all aspects, just wait for this period of time."

Xu Chengli asked curiously, "Replace the navigation system?"

"Yes, recently all our computing services have been handed over to Xinghai No. 1. You should have heard of it, the world's first quantum computer."

Wu Gang frowned and said, "Is it okay to withstand such a high delay?"

"Delay is not a problem. It is said that the problems caused by this part can be covered by algorithms. And after a while, Xingkong Technology will install an extension for us on the Moon Palace, and this problem will be perfectly solved."

As he said that, the astronaut patted the landing module next to him, and continued, "That's it, and I'll leave the work of deployment to you... I'm a bioengineer, so I don't know much about it. If it doesn't bother you Can you contact Captain Ma for me? I remember that he is in charge of the scientific research station."

"He's already on his way," Wu Gang said after glancing at the landing module, "If it's convenient...can you tell me what this thing is?"

"It's not inconvenient, anyway, you'll know soon." Reaching out and clicking on the wrist-mounted computer on his left arm, Dr. Yang selected the data to be transmitted and clicked the send button.

After reading the progress bar, a project briefing of about 200 words was quickly presented on the visor of Wu Gang's astronaut helmet.

"Dr-111 active substance... Metabolite purification project in a low-gravity environment... Is this thing—"

"It seems that you have already guessed it," Dr. Yang smiled and continued, "If the project goes well, mass immigration to the moon may not be a problem."

"Come on," Wu Gang smiled lightly, tapped twice with his index finger on the wrist-mounted computer on his left arm, and turned off the project briefing, "Except for some people with abnormal brains, who would come to this kind of nonsense? The place?"

"Hey, what do you mean?" Xu Chengli replied dissatisfiedly, "Am I out of my mind?"

Wu Gang gave him a look of "Isn't it?", and then said with a blank face.

"Stop talking nonsense, you are still in the probationary period, if you don't want to get a C, go to work quickly."

Upon hearing this sentence, the young man was immediately frightened, and walked towards the landing module without saying a word, carrying the tools.

Looking at the young man's back with a smile, Dr. Yang said, "You can't say that. In addition to the troubles in front of you, there are poems and distant places in life. What you see now is bare land and craters that don't shit. But If you look at it more than ten years later, I believe you will miss these distant landscapes."

Wu Gang: "You mean after I retire?"

"I think it's the same whether you retire or not."

Hehe, I hope that after you stay here for a month, you can still say such things.

After glancing at Dr. Yang, Wu Gang smiled faintly, shook his head and went to work with his tools without saying anything.