"The Copernicus Crater Traffic Management Bureau reminds you: there are thousands of roads, and safety is the first; The driving is not standardized, and the relatives are in tears. ”

Mark, who was driving a helium-3 mining cart, was drowsy, and suddenly heard this prompt, and couldn't help but feel a spirit, pressing the palm of his hand on the driving ball subconsciously rubbing.

"it!"

The huge helium-3 minecart suddenly made a sharp turn on the rugged lunar surface, and although it was only 1/6 of the Earth's gravity, the vehicle looked like it was in slow motion, but the wrong handling could have serious consequences.

Without warning, the minecart crashed into a large moon rock, and the vehicle shook violently, swayed for several seconds, and then flipped on its side on the ground.

No sound came, because the moon has no air.

However, the car could no longer start, and Mark, who had managed to get up from his seat and finally maintain a sitting position, realized that he seemed to have encountered a serious vehicle traffic accident today.

"Damn...... I shouldn't have played the game last night, I went to bed early! His self-talk was full of remorse: "And this broken car, the brakes don't work at all!" ”

Theoretically, it should take less than ten seconds for the command center to discover the malfunction of the helium-3 minecart and immediately radio to himself as the driver, and then let himself report on the scene.

After confirming that the damage to the base's vehicles was caused by his failure to drive according to the regulations, of course, there was not a penny of this month's performance salary, and it was ...... There is also the possibility of extending their own service on the moon by a month.

This is the most unacceptable!

He still had ten seconds to come up with a reason, a reason to deal with the perverted monitors in the command center.

Otherwise, this boring day like a robot on the moon will have to add another month!

The Copernicus crater is named after the most observable and famous Copernicus crater on the side of the Moon facing the Earth.

It is home to the largest helium-3 collection area on the Moon's front to date, and the first space development base since humans began collecting helium-3 energy on the Moon on a large scale in 2200.

However, it is now 2253, 53 years have passed since the first development, and the Copernicus gathering base, which initially concentrated a lot of manpower and material resources, has long been dilapidated, and the replacement of vehicles is also the worst done on the entire moon.

A large number of second-hand mine trucks are concentrated here, and the people who are sent to work here have gradually changed from the high-level elites of global astronautics, astronomy, and physics to those graduates of the fourth-rate mineral colleges and geology colleges.

Because there is no need for any technology here, you just need to drive a dilapidated helium-3 mining cart and complete the collection task on time.

The earth is already overcrowded, and the development of AI has caused the unemployment rate to break 50%, and now the average graduate wants to find a stable job on the earth?

Especially like Mark, who scored only 350 points in the college entrance examination and graduated from the Pacific Institute of Minerals, in addition to coming to the Copernicus crater collection base as a coolie for half a year, mixing up a good work experience to see if he can try his luck again, where on the earth can there be a company that can give him a job directly after graduation?

The graduates who come to work here are desperate to get through the 180 days of their time here, and that's not counting the 10 days of training that the Moon Labor Outsourcing Company has done before.

But now, it is very likely that this traffic accident will cause this hellish life to be extended on Mark for another 30 days, how can he bear it?

“4…… 3…… 2…… 1......" Mark counted down.

Sure enough, when the word "1" was just counted, the red light of the communicator lit up on time.

"Mark, Minecart 9527 driver, can you hear me? This is the command center of the Copernicus crater collection base, I am monitor alpha, and I found that the minecart you were driving No. 9527 stopped running, is it a malfunction? ”

Although the other party's voice was a standard service tone, Mark could only let out a wail in his heart, and then replied weakly: "There was a car accident." ”

"Was it a meteorite impact, or was it a mistake in operation?" Monitor Alpha began the inquiry following the standard manual.

Mark couldn't help but get irritated and yelled at the communicator: "Enough! Don't go through the program for me, isn't that what ......"

He suddenly remembered his hometown, Zhonghai City in the Chinese Kingdom of Earth.

He wanted to go home, he didn't want to stay even one more day in this broken base.

Even with no work experience, he didn't want to live this kind of life of working 12 hours a day, except for eating, sleeping, and, all of which were working as coolies in a minecart by himself.

I want to go home!

I've had enough!

Mark couldn't help but look up at the sky, because no entertainment was allowed at work, so when driving, the only way to relieve his homesickness was to look at the earth with the naked eye and see his hometown.

But this time, in the cockpit of a crooked minecart, the Earth is seen through the glass......

Why is it different from what you usually see?!

A blue sphere suspended in mid-air is the most intuitive feeling of human beings when observing the earth with the naked eye on the surface of the moon.

But now......

Why does this blue sphere, which has not changed for billions of years, have a cube at the bottom that is the same length as the diameter of half the earth, clinging to the South Pole?!

What the is this?!

This scene is like a round white billiard cue ball, and suddenly there is a large chalk at the bottom of it, which holds it alive!

This ......?!

"Was it a meteorite impact, or was it a mistake in operation? Mine truck No. 9527 driver, please answer within 10 seconds, otherwise we will send a traffic police officer to the scene. Monitor Alpha continued to read the instructions in the standard manual.

Mark was shocked by the anomaly of the Earth: "Stop going through the program! Don't you see what's going on in the sky?! Something is wrong with the planet! ”

"What do you say? Something is wrong with the earth?! For the first time, Alpha, the monitor in the command center, did not follow the manual and continued.

At the same time, the alarm in the command center had sounded, and red light filled the entire hall.

The monitors stood up at a loss, because the red light was the highest level of alarm representing the base!

All the surveillance screens are cut into the same at the same time!

That's what Mark saw in the cab.

The red light flashed, the alarm was piercing, and the command center quickly turned into a pot of porridge!

A rough male voice immediately interrupted the correspondent, who was still talking to Mark: "Alpha, who the are you still communicating with?" Hurry, now, switch channels and connect me to the Lunar Command immediately! ”

Earth, something is wrong!