Chapter 2 Beneath the Moon

Extract! Powerful suction! Down! Fall quickly! The moment Neil's left foot touched the surface of the moon, he felt the ground beneath his feet disappear instantly, and as soon as he stepped into the air, it was pitch black in front of him, and at the same time, a powerful suction dragged his body all the way down.

A few seconds later, Neil slammed into a hard plane, but the downward process did not end, and then he was thrown away by a strange force that kept spinning, and the whole figure was placed in a high-speed rotating drum washing machine.

Neil's ears couldn't hear, he couldn't see, his body kept spinning, and he kept being slammed against the hard surface while falling all the way down.

Fortunately, he had a thick spacesuit, otherwise he suspected that he would have broken his bones and tendons. After nearly ten minutes of falling like this, the whirling force wore off, and Neil began to plummet down a narrow pipe like a discarded can thrown into a garbage collection pipe, until he finally fell out of the pipe and fell to the ground.

His body and head hit the ground heavily, and just a few seconds before he fell unconscious, he saw a black round hole in the top of his head slowly shrinking and disappearing.

I don't know how long it took, but Neil woke up, and he was still lying flat on the ground, his flesh and bones aching.

He struggled to get up from the ground with his arm support, fumbling to check for air leaks in his spacesuit and his helmet for cracks, but fortunately everything was still intact.

Neil craned his neck to look around, the vapor he exhaled condensed on the inner walls of the mask, blurring his vision.

But even if he could reach into his helmet and wipe it clean, all he could see was pitch black.

After a while, Neil's eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness, and he gradually realized that he was in a huge space.

The space is surprisingly large, frighteningly large. The place where Neil fell was located in a corner of the space.

In the faint light, he saw a dark wall not far behind him, and in front of him was a large open field wider than a football field, and in the center of the empty field stood a tall shadow, behind which was still a dark black wall.

Neil looked up and saw that the ceiling was about ten stories high from him, and he was surprised to realize that he hadn't been killed after falling from such a height.

(Maybe it's because you're on the moon?) Neil had for a moment believed that he had been caught in the spaceship by aliens, but the spaceship was too big, and the wall behind him was ...... Neil struggled to crawl under the wall and touch, and through the glove attached to the spacesuit, he couldn't tell what it was, it just felt like a stone or metal, hard and rough, real.

It wasn't like the interior of a spaceship, but more like a church, a temple, or an oversized burial chamber.

Neil thought of the pyramid, and he felt like a mouse falling into the pyramid at the moment.

After slowly panting and feeling that his brain had regained control of his limbs, Neil slowly stood up against the wall and limped towards the center of the main hall.

Due to the decrease in gravity, he was thrown again, and the way he walked looked a little funny.

Through his helmet, he could vaguely see the tall shadow in the depths of the hall standing like a ghost, but the light was dim there, and he couldn't see what it was.

Neil slowly approached, and the dark shadow gradually revealed. He was astonished to find that in the very center of the main hall was a huge round table-shaped platform carved out of black rock, with a height of three to four meters and a diameter of about eight meters; In the middle of the platform, a hemispherical space was perfectly dug out, and at the same time, inside the hemispherical space, a large black sphere was magically suspended.

Neil shifted his feet to look closer, and found that the ball, which was as large as a Saturn V launch vehicle, seemed to be gently held up by some mysterious force, and slowly rotated in a counterclockwise direction in the center of the giant platform.

Surprised, Neil looked up at the black ball that stood in front of him like a hill with his mouth wide open.

The latter rotates silently, like a huge, elaborate model of the moon. Neil is fascinated by this mysterious device and takes a closer look around it.

The surface of this sphere is engraved with some strange text symbols, densely packed all over the sphere.

Neil had the audacity to touch it with his hand, and the levitating orb was unaffected, still slowly rotating at its own speed.

As Neil walked around the back of the ball, he noticed that in the corner about thirty or forty meters away from him, something that looked like black crystals that he couldn't see clearly was faintly shining.

Neil shuffled towards the flash, only to find that it was actually a relatively small cubic building built in the main hall.

The building was about three meters high, six or seven meters square, and was made of a bright black material that was half crystal and half glass, which was very different from the rough and dull texture of the whole hall.

The whole square building is glittering, but there are no doors or windows, and it is not transparent, so it is impossible to peek inside.

Neil looked around, and there seemed to be nothing unusual in the huge space, except for the ball standing in the center and the mysterious black crystal building.

Neil settled his mind and thought about his current situation, and since he had stepped onto the moon and fallen into this chamber, he had been puzzled by what he had seen, he did not know where it was, and he did not know what he could do next.

He helplessly stroked the smooth square building in front of him with his hand, clenched his fist in frustration and thrashed lightly, and suddenly the building began to glow as if it were breathing, and at the same time, a strange sensation appeared in Neil's mind that he had never felt before: between his ears, in the back and left of his skull, a clutter that hummed like a radio FM began to sound, which frightened Neil and annoyed him at the same time; Then, like a lightning bolt in the dense clouds, a low, dull voice, not heard by both ears, but like a faint electric current directly stimulating the auditory nerve in the brain, came unusually clearly in the buzzing sound: "If you want me to live longer, don't bother me often." Neil was taken aback.

In his 38 years of life, he has never felt this way. The hoarse voice, like an iron ironing clothes, bubbling white air directly imprinted directly in his head, Neil was not sure if the other party was speaking English, but he just received the message the other party wanted to express very clearly, it felt so amazing that Neil's brain went blank and stood in place.

The voice in his head continued, and Neil could even feel the emotions in it, from a little anger at the beginning to a little mockery, and even revealed a trace of sadness: "I hate my old friend for dozens of centuries, I don't know who came to visit me this time, maybe it's a researcher who wants to explore something from me, or maybe it's just a little minion who is responsible for delivering food, no matter what your identity is outside, I can be regarded as your elder after all, I repeat what I have advised you countless times: Although I appreciate your unremitting efforts, you need to understand that in this universe, everything has its own certainty, and on the day when everything is empty, you will understand that any struggle you have made is meaningless, that the pace of fate will not stop, that what should be lost, you have already lost, all grievances will end, that day will be quietly waiting for you and me, and it will not be far away......" Neil grew more and more confused.

When he was in a daze, the voice in his head was still lingering: "What, people outside, don't you want to communicate with me?" I didn't receive your brainwaves, maybe you covered your head with something...... Wait, it feels strange, but I still remember it...... You...... Are you an Earth human? Your brainwaves, your memories are thousands of years old. Ha ha! Thou shalt ...... I still remember your poor little creatures...... Why are you on the moon again? Did you get caught this time, or did you send it to the door yourself? …… Don't you have any 'adults' next to you? I can't catch their brainwaves, and it stands to reason that they shouldn't have left you here alone...... Oops, I feel like your brain is a mess and you don't know what I'm talking about...... If you haven't met them yet, it's best not to let them know you're here in the future, otherwise it might not do you any good......" Neil's head was buzzing, a sign of vomiting, and a little dizzy, as if his consciousness was being pulled away by these incomprehensible words.

Suddenly, he felt weightless again, and his brain, along with his body, suddenly fell into a cloud of fog - just like when he came to this secret room for no reason, the solid ground under his feet disappeared in an instant, and he fell down again unsuspectingly, this time not for a long time, about half a minute later, he felt that he had suddenly burrowed into a long pipe, and there was some viscous liquid around him that washed him and kept flowing down...... While Neil listened to the strange voice in his head, in a black building 200 kilometers above his head, more than a dozen tall and dressed people were looking at each other in a large room around a large screen, among which several people in robes and hoods stood at the front of the crowd, the leader of the group had a grim expression, his hands behind his back and his back to everyone, as if he was suppressing the anger in his heart, and the rest were all standing with their hands down, some were frowning and thinking about something, and some had a look of disbelief on their faces.

Behind them, a stone door silently opened upwards, and a man in uniform hurried into the room and stood before the hooded men.

The hooded man at the head crossed the uniformed man's face with a knife-like gaze, and asked sternly in a low voice, "Gone?" Did it disappear? The uniformed man bowed his head and said, "Yes, the first earthlings who landed on the moon disappeared as soon as they took their first step, and immediately after that, their entire spacecraft was also ...... Gone. ”

"This, this is completely unreasonable, it's ridiculous, you, have you taken any measures to deal with it?"

"So far, not yet. After the human lunar module disappeared, I ordered the convoy to stay on the scene and keep an eye on it at all times. As a matter of fact...... We could have fired an energy shield to control them when they landed, so that maybe it wouldn't be the case now, but ...... We really didn't expect such an accident. In addition, I don't know if the screen in the main control room shows it clearly: before the earthlings disappeared, there were two extremely strong rays of light shining on their area, and the interval between these two strong lights was very short, and the duration was not long, and we didn't have time to react at all; And in addition to that...... Oh...... In short, the unexpected came one after another, and we didn't rehearse how to deal with them, so much so that we missed the opportunity. What needs to be done next by the escort team, I have come to ask you in person. ”

"Hmph, screen", the hooded man sneered,

"What's the matter with those two rays of light you're talking about?"

"I can't say that exactly. The light came from the sky, but no light source was found, the first bright light was a bit like an electron beam from our destroyer spacecraft, and the second light was a lot like the lightning that often occurs in the Earth's atmosphere, but it rarely happens to us. After two rays of light, the two earthlings and their lunar module disappeared. ”

"A bright light for no reason, the human body and objects disappear out of thin air, as far as I know, this is not a technology that earthlings can master."

"You're right." The hooded man who was questioning sat in a chair with a sinking face, the crowd around him whispered and discussed, the uniformed man stood in front of the questioner cramped, the muscles on his face twitched slightly, and after a few seconds of silence, the uniformed man whispered again: "High priest, oh, there is a strange matter, I wanted to report it to you in private, but ......" Seeing the other party nodded lightly to signal him to continue, the uniformed man continued: "Before the earthlings' spaceship disappeared, I was in the headphones, I vaguely heard you give me some instructions. ”

"What?" The hooded one almost jumped,

"When?"

"Just after their spacecraft landed on the moon, their astronauts weren't out of the capsule yet." The hooded man's eyes widened and he said with an expression of disbelief: "How can such a thing be? I've been watching the live stream with everyone in the control hall and have never delivered any instructions. ”

"Yes," the uniformed man muttered,

"I know it's weird, but it's your voice in the headphones."

"What did I say then?"

"You called my name and said, 'I order you to surround the human lunar module and arrest these two Earth astronauts!' You repeated this several times, but the voice signal seemed to come from a far, far away place, and it was very unclear. ”

"Nonsense! This is not in line with the plan that was previously made, and it is simply impossible for me to give such an order. ”

"Yes, so we didn't act rashly." There was silence again, and all eyes in the room were focused on the hooded man in the chair, and the awkward atmosphere made the latter a little annoyed, and he suddenly shouted loudly: "Can any of you tell me how the broadcast signal could suddenly be interrupted at such a critical moment? Finally connected, and even the boat and people disappeared inexplicably? What have you been busy with these days? How can such mistakes be allowed to occur continuously? Do you know how important these two moon landers are to us? Everyone in the room was embarrassed and silent, and the uniformed man bowed his head and said, "It's a dereliction of duty on the part of my subordinates...... I really can't imagine that there will be such a situation. ”

"Hurry up and look for it again! As long as the spaceship and these two humans are within range of the lunar energy field, you must find them for me! ”

"Yes!" The reprimanded uniformed man bowed and hurried away. After a brief silence, another hooded man in the room asked the man in the chair, "High Priest, do you think these strange things are the work of our old adversary?" ”

"It's unlikely, they're busy developing a third cantilever right now, and, like us, they've been sticking to their previous promises, and there's no record of them being in the solar system again for a long time."

"So, what do you think is the reason for all this weirdness?"

"I don't have a clue right now...... It's been like this, and we're left to fend for ourselves. ”