In July 1969, the universe was vast. The Apollo 11 lunar spacecraft has been in the darkness of space for four days.

Although the cramped cabin and weightlessness have always made people uncomfortable, the three astronauts are still more excited than tired at the moment.

Earlier, the Saturn V launch vehicle, which powered the spacecraft, ignited and propelled the spacecraft forward according to the predetermined plan, and separated from the main compartment after running out of fuel, and the mission proceeded in an orderly manner. And at the moment, the code name is

The lunar module of the "Eagle" with the code name is

The command module of the "Columbia" is finally ready for separation. Plan to stay in

Michael Collins in the "Columbia" hugged Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin respectively, who were preparing to land on the moon, and Neil patted the slightly nervous Michael on the shoulder and teased: "Stay in the lunar orbit and wait for us, don't slip away to hang out somewhere else." Michael was a little excited for a while, his voice was a little choked, and he responded to the commander without admitting defeat: "I'm fine, but you must be careful, if you encounter a monster, you will immediately drive the spaceship back, don't hurt me and parachute to the moon to save you." ”

"Eagle" with

At the moment of the separation of "Columbia", Neil, who once again felt the acceleration of gravity, suddenly felt an inexplicable irritability in his heart, which was not nervous under heavy pressure, but mixed with physical and psychological discomfort: the muscles of his face and limbs began to twitch, his eyelids jumped wildly, his stomach spasmed and refluxed acid, and at the same time he felt dizzy, dizzy, palpitations and even shame.

The flying machine carried him and Buzz down to the huge orb at his feet, but his heart felt as if he was being grabbed by a giant hand and wanted to escape from outer space...... It felt so strange that Neil didn't know why he was the way he was.

After the two modules were completely separated, Michael remained in the command module, wandering around the moon, while Neil and Buzz piloted it

The Eagle landed on the moon while looking for a landing site to prepare for landing. At 8 p.m. on July 20, 1969, Houston time, the lunar module of the Apollo 11 spacecraft finally landed on the edge of the moon's tranquil sea, accompanied by a powerful jet of air jets from the thrusters.

The arrival of the human spaceship brought a brief noise and disturbance to this dead world, like a small pebble thrown into a deep pool, but then it returned to eternal loneliness.

Through the porthole, Neil looked intently outward, his heart full of mixed feelings. The four-day journey finally came to an end, and this mysterious and strange and extremely familiar lead-gray planet was quietly spread out in front of his eyes at this moment.

As I have learned countless times in the materials before, the world outside the window is silent and barren, desolate and primitive, just like the beginning of the universe, but the more such a distant silence, the more it makes Neil feel a kind of awe in his heart, as if there is a nameless force lurking in the void, quietly waiting for the opportunity to devour him.

There was a dimly lit little star in the sky, hanging above the lunar module that twinkled erratically, and under its dim light, the two astronauts in the cabin had already stopped putting on their spacesuits and were ready to leave the capsule.

Neil got up from his seat and half-walked into the decompression chamber, closing the isolation door between the decompression chamber and the inner compartment, and then opening the outermost hatch.

As soon as he touched the vacuum on the lunar surface, the air in Neil's spacesuit swelled him into a bloated balloon, and he grasped the handrail next to the gangway with both hands to try to keep himself steady, and then slowly walked down the gangway to the lunar surface.

Neil looked around, the dark planet was empty as far as the eye could see, the sun was shining like a shadowless lamp overhead, but everywhere he could see was darkness, making it impossible for him to tell the difference between day and night.

Neil looked up at the sky, and in the vast sky hung a semicircular upside-down pale blue bowl, radiating a warm light, it was a beautiful home that he had not left in the past few decades, but from the perspective of this moment, this mother planet that gave birth to all life seemed extremely strange and illusory.

Neil cautiously walked down the gangway, the short nine steps that seemed to condense all his courage and hope.

Finally, his thick soles touched the land of the moon, and he carefully left the first footprints of man on the surface of the planet.

Just as Neil was clumsily stepping forward to move towards the darker place ahead, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a silent light flashing above the lunar module behind him, and the light was extremely dazzling, like lightning that pierced the sky in the night, from mid-air, straight towards their lunar module.

Neil was shocked, a look of horror on his face behind his helmet, but what surprised him even more was yet to come: in the light of that bright light, Neil found that the gangway he had just stepped on was as large as it was behind him

The "Eagle" lunar module disappeared in an instant...... After Neil left the cabin, Buzz, who remained in his seat, kept a close eye on his companion's every move.

Originally, he had suggested to Neil that he should carry out the moon landing mission first after the spacecraft landed, and let Neil stay in the cabin for the time being, but Neil decided to get out of the cabin first according to the previous plan.

Buzz watched through the porthole as Neil walked down the gangway step by step, seeing that the other party's left foot had stepped on the land of the moon, but at this moment, Buzz's eyes suddenly flashed a dazzling white light, the light came so fiercely that it almost burned his eyes, and for a moment, Buzz's eyes were pitch black, and he felt that his soul had flown from the top of his head and fled from his body...... After a brief period of blindness, Buzz quickly regained consciousness, but at this moment there was an illusion on his retina: his entire field of vision, as if a whole piece of oversized, flat jelly had been punched by someone, and Neil, the commander in the center of his vision, bounced into the surface of the moon with the background of the ripples of water, and disappeared in an instant, evaporating like a drop of dew on the soil at the equator at noon, leaving only a white point of light that seemed to be left behind when the CRT burned out, but then it was fleeting.

Buzz was dumbfounded, his consciousness was in a trance, he wasn't sure if that scene had actually happened, or if it was just a hallucination caused by the shock he had received from the previous bright light, because just a second or two later, in that moment, Neal was suddenly again

"Zheng" suddenly returned to Buzz's line of sight - of course, the sound was made up by Buzz's brain. Neil seemed to think for a few seconds with his head down, then suddenly turned back and smiled and waved at Buzz in the cabin - Buzz felt his face smiling in the mask - and then bounced off like a balloon.

Buzz subconsciously looked up, and dimly saw a silver-white shadow flying by the skyline at the edge of his vision...... For more than two hours, a ghostly Buzz and a grim-faced Neil carried out the tasks that NASA had preset for them: the two astronauts first turned on a camera on the sidewall of the lunar module for television broadcasting, and then went on to take pictures, take pictures, place instruments, measure data, collect lunar rock and lunar soil samples, and so on.

During the whole process, the two astronauts were unable to converse and could only communicate through body language such as gesticulating.

Neil was organized and skilled as a robot at his work, and Buzz's heart was still immersed in it

In the "Neil Disappearance Incident", there was always some unease. Time passed quickly, and two and a half hours later, the mission to the moon came to an end, and the two returned to the capsule after Neil laboriously planted an American flag near the spacecraft and took a photo.

The reason for the effort is that the rocks on the surface of the moon are so hard that it is difficult to stick the flagpole into the soil.

In fact, just as they started the lunar module and left, the Star-Spangled Banner was blown to the ground by the air coming from the engine.

"Hey, man, don't you see that light? After the light, I saw you suddenly disappear! All of a sudden, suddenly gone! As soon as he took off his helmet, Buzz immediately asked his questions.

"When?" Neil asked absent-mindedly, without turning his head to look at his companion. Buzz was completely stunned, expecting Neil to have a lively discussion with him about the supernatural experience, but he never expected to receive such a response.

"Just as you stepped down the gangway and stepped out! I sat in the cab and could see clearly. Hey man, what the hell is wrong with you? What the hell is going on? Buzz was panting and looking impatient.

"Actually...... Yes, I was indeed abducted by aliens. ”

"Clams?!" Buzz's face was full of suspicion, and he looked at Neil with wide eyes, and Neil also stared at Buzz with a tense face, but finally couldn't help but laugh.

Lifted off the lunar module with hovering in near-moon orbit

After the rendezvous of Columbia, the three astronauts finally embarked on the journey back to Earth. Buzz was stunned as he recounted the soul-grabbing light he had witnessed, and Neil, who had suddenly and magically disappeared from outside the ship.

Michael asks Neil where he disappeared, and Neil laughs and shakes his head, denying that it was just a hallucination caused by Buzz's excessive nervousness.

Buzz and Michael looked at each other, and it was difficult to ask any more questions. However, Neil on the return trip is indeed a little abnormal, or too normal, the success of the moon landing does not seem to stir up much waves in his heart, and the feat of stepping on the first step on the moon that is destined to be the envy of the world seems to him to be tantamount to an ordinary space mission.

Whenever Buzz and Michael talked about the details of the moon landing, Neil always sat on the side and looked at the two companions with a smile on his face, and did not participate too much in the discussion, and in the few days on the return trip, in addition to the daily operation of the keys and knobs on the spacecraft, and the recording of the space log, Neil always lay quietly in the chair with his eyes closed and thoughtful, and whenever this time, Buzz and Michael could only look at each other awkwardly, shrugging their shoulders and expressing helplessness.

After four days in space, Apollo 11 finally landed in an offshore North Pacific Ocean.

After being recovered, the three astronauts were quarantined for more than two weeks to ensure that they were not infected with an extraterrestrial virus before they were allowed to return to human society.

In the days that followed, they were greeted heroically by the populace. From New York to Chicago to Los Angeles, excited crowds took to the streets to parade and cheer in the glorious welcome to the heroes' return.

The White House also hosted a state dinner, where President Nixon and Vice President Sparrow presented the three astronauts with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of their enduring service to the United States.

Human beings have finally left precious and glorious footprints on another cosmic celestial body other than the earth.

Of course, during the debriefing process, Buzz also reported to NASA officials

"Bright Light Event" as well

The details of the "Neil Disappearance Incident", as for the caliber of Neil's side, he denied it as always.

After discussion and analysis, NASA executives decided to temporarily seal the matter and keep it secret from the public.

In fact, in the process of exploring outer space, astronauts have experienced some so-called supernatural phenomena or supernatural events to a greater or lesser extent, such as the Apollo 11 on the way to the moon, Michael once witnessed a UFO floating outside their spacecraft.

So, like any other mysterious event, the bright light and Neil's disappearance later went away.

After this great moon landing, Neil Armstrong announced that he would not go into space again. For the rest of his life, he traveled abroad, gave speeches, endorsed companies, and served on the boards of large companies, and lived a busy and fulfilling life until August 2012, when Neil died of a heart attack.

In fact, as you might guess from the clever reader, Neil was hiding something, something he didn't want to be known.

He alone knows what he has been through since he set foot on lunar soil; Only he knows best what a strange and bizarre experience it is.

It was an adventure he had never dreamed of before, and even after countless reminiscences, he would feel that it was the most illusory journey he had ever experienced in the most illusory universe; Or was it just a dream he had woven in his head?

- just in that short time

"In a second", what happened.