Chapter 16: The Great Collapse

Mark clumsily sat in the cockpit to turn on the oxygen supply system and temperature regulation, they were now wearing only basic protective suits, and they were fine in the building, and it was impossible to withstand the cold once they were in the wild.

After fumbling around, Mark plugged the key and detector into the steering wheel, and as the launch screen appeared on the black screen, the engine in the minecart began to roar in a low voice, the car was very powerful, although it was old and bulky, but it was expensive and practical, and there was a wilderness romantic style that men loved. The vehicles around them began to set off one after another, one after another heavy mine carts dragged away with long dust tails, everyone looked full of energy, living on the moon for a long time, people are used to listening to arrangements in advance, living in this extreme environment of many disasters and difficulties, people who do not listen to instructions often ask for their own hardships. Ask less, do more, work hard, this is the golden spirit that the people of the moon believe in, and it is precisely because of the generations of people who have adhered to this spirit, continued to struggle, and faced the challenges head-on, that the great moon new city has been built in such a harsh environment.

After fumbling for a while, Mark also figured out how to drive this thing, its driving style is similar to that of new vehicles, but it is a little more troublesome, Mark then understands why it takes two people to drive this thing, all vehicles on Earth are tightly attached to the ground by gravity, driving is a plane job, you always drive on a plane, but there is no such high gravity on the moon, and it is easy to stall and rush out when the speed is too fast, so you need to install micro jets in all directions of the car, Rely on their fine-tuning to keep the car stable.

Without the assistance of AI technology, this kind of work can only be done by people.

Nina is also very capable, she is not a professional technician, but she has been in contact with it, and quickly mastered the operation skills, Mark is responsible for controlling the general direction, so many years of driving, Mark is also a skilled old driver, and the driving is still stable.

The old minecart driven by the two drove out of the mine's warehouse, using the collector in front of them to continuously harvest the moon dust, and there was a small refining furnace at the bottom of the car that could separate the helium-3 elemental dust from it, such a minecart could be filled with twenty tons of refined moon dust, which could only extract less than ten kilograms of high-purity helium-3 after being sent to the factory, but this was enough to maintain the energy of a new moon city for a day.

Driving is a boring job, there is no radio in the car, when Mark worked alone, he would use the miniature receiver to communicate with Sun Tan code, even if they were caught by the leader, they didn't know what Mark was doing, but now there is another person in the car, especially the relationship between the two people is not very good, and Mark is not good at doing small actions.

"Were you born on the moon?" Mark felt that the atmosphere was too awkward, so he had nothing to talk about.

"How do you know?" Nina was a little surprised.

"Only you aborigines of the moon like to call others dirt buns at every turn." Mark said.

"It's not that I look down on the immigrants of Earth, it's just for you personally." Nina explained.

"Thank you so much......"

"I'm an aboriginal generation, my parents are earthlings, they are bohemian gypsies, and they also used earth culture to educate me when I was a child, so I'm more like an earthling." Nina controlled the dashboard in front of her, and the ornaments on her head swayed gently as the car swayed, colliding with each other to make a crisp and pleasant sound.

"No wonder I can't see who you are."

"Hahaha." Nina suddenly laughed and said: "Because we are not any of us in the first place, Gypsies are actually misnomers, we have always been called Roma, our ancestors have always lived a wandering life, living by divination, acting and smelting skills, we don't have our own city, wherever we go, where we are home, maybe this is our home, you know?" As early as 1,000 years ago, our ancestors predicted the climate of the moon, and many of the terrain and features are very similar to those of our ancient legends. ”

"We have a legend of Chang'e running to the moon 5,000 years ago." Mark was unconvinced, Nina smiled even more, the awkward atmosphere between the two of them eased a lot, and the boring collection task was no longer so difficult.

Nina is very eye-catching, and ordinary people will think she is good-looking, although not to the extent of admiration, but if she walks past someone else, that person will most likely look back and look at it twice, and feel that the other party is not so annoying After that, Mark suddenly realized that he was staying in a closed car with a big beauty, and he had rarely had contact with women for so many years on the moon, and this was the first time that such an opportunity had happened, and he couldn't help but feel his heart beat faster when he thought of this.

"Wait, Mark! Stop, what's the one ahead? ”

When Mark was thinking about it, Nina's exclamation suddenly pulled him back to reality, a deep black crack stretched out about a hundred meters in front of them, spreading around in the shape of a spider web, Mark couldn't dodge, and quickly killed the steering wheel, and the minecart turned a big bend diagonally against the ground, avoiding the crack very dangerously.

"Is it an earthquake?"

"I don't know, but it's always right to run." Nina turned the miniature engines downward, the minecart was weighted to its lightest weight, and Mark stepped on the gas pedal and they flew over a chasm as if they were flying out.

The crack behind him had turned into a deep pit, and the ground began to shake slightly, the original cobweb-like crack was now thicker, and Mark didn't know if the crack he had just seen was the source of the collapse, or if it was just a branch, and now if he scurried around, he would probably crash into a more dangerous place.

"Probe! Head to the place where the lunar soil is abundant, and it must not have collapsed yet! Nina suddenly pointed at the detector and shouted, waking up the dreamer, Mark immediately turned the car around and rushed in one direction, a few meters behind the car, the collapsing ground was chasing them like a dark beast.