Chapter Eighty-Seven: Snow on the Moon
The migration work on the surface of the moon is in full swing, those magnificent lunar cities that have been built for more than ten years, or even a few years ago, have been abandoned in these few days, and the once incomparably brilliant lunar new city has been frozen with a thick layer of ice shell, and the huge statue of the goddess symbolizing the glory of the lunar colony is holding her arms high, and the ice ridge is spreading rapidly in her hand, and soon she will become a giant icicle without any details.
The moon itself has no water and no atmosphere, no matter how cold it is, it is impossible to freeze, but outside of human cities, a large number of underground reservoirs and oxygen systems have been built under these huge cities, and people have not turned them off when they fled, and the sudden drop in temperature quickly caused the water pipes to freeze, and the reservoirs did not flow smoothly and exploded, and a large amount of water in the collapsed underground reservoirs was frozen into ice before it could be raged.
The same is true of the leaked gas, a large amount of gas leaked from nearly 100 lunar cities is scattered over the moon, this cold and silent earth satellite has its own short and thin atmosphere for the first time, it is thin to the limit, and it is also short to the sign.
One is the reason that it is far away from the sun, and the other is that the spacecraft inside the moon began to cool the surface in order to prevent the overheating brought by the hyperspace engine, and under these combined effects, the temperature of the moon began to plummet again in less than ten minutes, falling below minus 218 degrees, and the thin atmosphere above the moon began to solidify.
This is perhaps the most absurd scene ever witnessed in human history, with the moon having its first snow ever, and people have imagined what snow and rain would have been like if the moon had been fully terraformed.
Due to the low gravity, it is difficult for water droplets and snowflakes to fall, they will move through the air at a very slow speed, and finally come together, only when it forms an oversized water ball, it will start to fall, and finally smash into the ground at a slow speed, like a sticky bouncy ball.
Now this fantasy scene finally happened, the people hiding in the spaceship, through the monitor saw the snowflakes scattered in the sky, that is the light blue ice crystals condensed by oxygen, they gather in the air like flying small creatures, they gather more and more, like millions of blue-white butterflies waving their wings in the air, from the Xiaoice crystals gradually condensed into large ice crystals, the color is getting deeper and deeper in the air, and finally becomes crystal clear, and begins to slowly fall from the sky, falling into the white moon dust, The regular diamond-shaped crystals are like carefully carved works of art, and each smooth surface is like the product of careful polishing by craftsmen.
"It's beautiful." Minsk looked at the lunar plain in the distance, and countless crystals rained down on the surface of the moon, and this strange and beautiful snow would last for about three days, and the crystals that would eventually fall would be half a meter in diameter.
Minsk's face was much less hostile and stubborn, he was wearing a black coat and standing in a makeshift observatory, the glass shield in front of him was constantly freezing and melting, this place was at an exit of the Lost Civilization spaceship, so the temperature could still be kept within the normal range, and the abnormally low temperature on the surface of the moon would not affect the interior of the spacecraft, which could be regarded as the last guarantee given by the lighthouse to the human inhabitants.
"How did you get here? It's dangerous outside, so you might as well go back. The assistant walked up to him with some concern.
Minsk now feels very strange, since the launch of the lunar spacecraft, his whole personality has changed dramatically, this iron-cast careerist seems to have withered overnight, the burning fire in his eyes has cooled, the determination to do whatever it takes to power has disappeared, Minsk looks a lot shorter, his head that is held high even in times of danger is now down.
"It's okay, I'll take a look at it for a while, I've been in power for two terms as the chief executive of the moon appointed by the earth, and before that I was a councilor for two years, ten years, a full ten years, I've spent one-fifth of my life here, but I haven't taken a good look at it." Minsk's tone was filled with frustration and emotion, he took a step forward, but was forced back by a biting cold, he looked down at his frozen skin and said, "Have you ever thought that one day you will see such a scene?" The hijacking of the earth is very shocking, but after all, I don't empathize, I have buried my vision in the words of the document for ten years, and the whole person is deeply trapped in the conspiracy and can't extricate myself, I know that I have only now woken up. ”
"......" His men were all standing behind him, not knowing what to say, and they all had their own feelings about the scene before them, but they did not react as much as Minsk.
"I realized that what I did before was meaningless, power was just a flash in the pan, no matter how hard I held it, it was just the wind that blew and it dispersed, you see, is the wind strong enough now?" Minsk said with a wry smile.
He turned around and the biting cold pierced his clothes and pierced his back, and the vast ice field outside froze the city they had built and lived in, and from here there were still traces left by the war between the ** army and the rebel army, the huge war armor had turned into ice lumps, and the barrel of the gun that had once burned red was now frozen like dry clay, shattering at the slightest touch.
There are still craters on the ground, which have now been buried by the crystals falling from the sky, and everything will disappear in this cold snow, and if the moon can one day return to its original orbit safely, all that has happened now will also be quietly buried, and the people on the moon seem to have staged an absurd farce.
"How's the placement" Walking back into the spaceship, Minsk felt the cold on his body and reached out to wrap his coat tighter.
"It's going well, most of them are very cooperative, the inside of the spaceship can breathe directly, and I don't know why, as long as I wear it inside, I don't feel hungry all the time, the environment inside is suitable, and you can live normally without modification, and now we are already working on building the city inside the spaceship."
"I didn't bring a lot of material with me, I remember it was an urgent transfer." Minsk asked.
"So we're all focusing on light buildings, and using the structure of the ship itself, it's still enough for now." The subordinate reported meticulously.
"However, the current situation on the surface of the moon makes it difficult to live again." Minsk shook his head, the land for which he had worked so hard had become a cold and icy hell where nothing was grown, and in the face of advanced foreign civilizations and powerful natural forces, human wishful thinking seemed to have no value.
"The ice will melt, sir, though it may be a long, long time, but it will melt, and we will wait until that day."
"Let's go back, it's time for us to go."