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Chapter 1: The Virgin's Chapter

Chapter 3: Graceful and luxurious

Section 2: Phantom Limb, Moon Outpost (Part II)

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I don't know how long it took, but suddenly I heard a "swish" sound in my head like a short circuit in the power supply, and an annoying "buzz" created by mosquitoes flying around my ears. Xiao Zhou was dazed and wanted to shoot, but found that his hands and feet were too heavy to obey the call, and after opening his eyes suddenly, he lay on his back on the bed in the room, but the surrounding walls and objects were distorted and disconnected, and the ceiling and ceiling lamp on his head were all in half, and the other side of the smooth white was as endless pitch black as a different dimension!

"Uh......"

Xiao Zhou tried his best to turn over, but no matter how he tossed, he couldn't get out of bed, as if his body was not his own, he barely opened his mouth and squeezed out a few words, not to mention shouting for help, even he himself didn't know what he was talking about.

How so? Myself...... Where the hell is it.

This went on for a few minutes, until the exhausted Xiao Zhou opened his eyes for the second time, and at the same time sat up from the bed suddenly: the objects in front of him were the same as those he had seen before, except that there were no abnormalities that violated the laws of physics today, and the inside of the clean and tidy room was a table and a chair, horizontal and vertical, and everything seemed to be normal.

"Shit..."Xiao Zhou let out a sigh, it turned out that TM was a "ghost press [2]" just now, if you don't come sooner or later, you will find trouble when you enter the phantom limb realm! At this moment, Xiao Zhou looked at the hands that were released after squeezing his fists and was surprised to find that the shape, skin, and texture of his palms and fingers were exactly the same as in real life, and even the scar left by the nameless proximal phalangeal knife wound on his right hand had been reproduced as it was, making him unable to believe that this was the so-called "illusion" created by virtual technology. However, this is not the crux of the problem, the point is that the self under the space quilt is naked, and after a detailed examination, it is confirmed that the most important "parts" on the body are also the same as the body, could it be simulated after 3D scanning in the phantom limb technology laboratory?

Hell, is there any privacy?!

Xiao Zhou got up and was about to go to the titanium alloy storage cabinet opposite to find clothes to wear, when the pressure door was suddenly opened from the outside, and the frightened grasshopper instantly jumped back on the bed, lifted the quilt and hurriedly covered his lower body......

"Hello, Tourist 0027."

Entering the room was a Chinese woman in an ornate uniform, made of what resembled some kind of high-strength plastic, with a well-defined silhouette and a strong fit on every part of her body. In addition to the soft metal structure of the arms gloves, the color is mainly white, supplemented by an appropriate amount of black and yellow as embellishments, and the three transparent skirts on the left and right sides and behind the back are added for purely artistic reasons with their own luminous electronic induction lines, the visual effect is stunning, completely different from the traditional design concept of the country based on simplicity and practicality in someone's image.

"Welcome to the China National Space Administration's lunar base 'Guanghangong No. 1', I am the navigator of this sightseeing project - Shu Yixi. It's a pleasure to serve you. ”

It's also real and illusory, and it's coming...... Xiao Zhou glanced at the name tag on the other party's chest, and thought that it was really a meaningful name, his eyes moved up, and the navigator's appearance and temperament were also extraordinary, but unfortunately the program was not a real person, otherwise he could be introduced to the single brothers when he went back.

"First of all, let me introduce to you the precautions related to being in the No. 1 base of Guanghan Palace......"

“Wait.” Xiao Zhou raised his hand to interrupt the navigator's words, "Don't you think you should avoid it first and wait until I get dressed?" ”

"Hello, tourist 0027. Welcome to the China National Space Administration's lunar base 'Guanghangong-1', I am the navigator of this sightseeing project - Shu Yixi. Glad to serve you......"

I'll go! Why can't you understand people, or is the simulation program not set to communicate with tourists?

"I said, can you wait until I'm getting dressed first? I'm embarrassed that you're a woman here! ”

"Hello, Tourist 0027......"

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"Damn!" Xiaozhou took the repeater in front of her that would only read from the script, and every time she interrupted, she had to repeat it again, tourist 0027, tourist 0027, why didn't she call herself 9527, anyway, it was a waste of life, at least it sounded intimate. In the end, Xiao Zhou had to hint that he was angry, and sat on the bed like a wooden man waiting for the navigator to read everything in one breath, and as for what specific matters needed attention, someone who remained out of body was not listening at all.

After about 10 minutes, the navigator finally stopped disturbing the people, and handed the portable light-sensitive panel in his hand to Xiaozhou, with the text prompting: Do you need the navigator to accompany the whole tour commentary?

Seeing this, Xiao Zhou didn't want to press "no" decisively, what kind of joke, she didn't even give her a chance to wear clothes, she was naked all over her body, was she sightseeing base or she was "sightseeing" herself? You also have a commentary with you...... Although she is beautiful, she is a simulator with no IQ, and she has a cyclic hypnosis style regardless of time and occasion, and whoever is full is willing to listen to her chatter!

After receiving the instruction, the navigator retrieved the light sensor panel and placed his hands in front of him, and bowed 45 degrees with a smile on his face: "I wish you a pleasant sightseeing." ”

Call...... The pressure door opened and closed again, Xiao Zhou took this opportunity to quickly jump out of bed, and searched out all the high-tech clothes from the cabinet, regardless of whether he was holding a set in his hand or not, he just put them on as quickly as possible, and walked out of the room, causing Xinyue who had been waiting outside for a long time to laugh: "Say you're stupid, you're really stupid, children can distinguish different suits, and you are stunned to be mixed and matched into four different suits." ”

"It's called fashion, do you understand mavericks?" Xiao Zhou simply made a mistake, anyway, no one here has the IQ to pay attention to his clothing, just after he finished speaking, he suddenly realized that something was wrong, "Hey, why did you come in too?" ”

"Why can't I come in?"

"You're in, who's in the lab, and we're safe?" Also, who will operate when you leave the phantom limb realm for a while, calling the audience outside the arena for help? Xinyue couldn't help but laugh at the fact that someone didn't forget to ridicule her speech style under any circumstances, and then obtained the vital sign data of the two from the wrist operator: "I can remotely monitor from within the field, and there has never been any accident in the phantom limb technology experiment so far, so don't worry about it." ”

Anyone would say that before any accident happens, and there is always the first person to eat a crab......

In the face of the completely unfamiliar phantom limb technology and the surrounding environment, Xiaozhou always felt a little uneasy subconsciously, but this feeling was soon diluted by the ubiquitous novelty of "Guanghan Palace No. 1": the titanium alloy structure is generally used inside the base, which looks solid and safe and gives people a visual refreshment, with all kinds of electronic instruments and light curtains that can be seen everywhere, it has the taste of cutting-edge sci-fi blockbusters. The staff of the base controlled the heavy robot to walk abruptly from the side of the carrier track, and the circular central hall of the circular ecological living module was fully transparent and the viewing dome was colorful with stars, and the Xiaozhou with bright eyes thought that it was in a spaceship or a space city.

As early as the beginning of this century, the United States, which has the most developed space technology, planned to spend $100 billion to build a temporary lunar space city. From the beginning, it is planned to establish a temporary base that can only accommodate a dozen to dozens of people to conduct mineral mining and smelting experiments on the moon, and gradually expand to a small and medium-sized permanent base that can accommodate hundreds of people, forming a complete production system from mining, smelting to transportation, until finally creating a lunar city that can accommodate 1,000 people.

However, with the opening of the "Pandora's box" of the interstellar gate and the advent of space warping technology, the time and cost spent by human beings in navigating the universe have been greatly reduced, and they can even be seamlessly connected with other planets. The value of the moon, the closest extraterrestrial body to the earth, is only as an outpost defender of the earth and a supplier of lunar ore, and its strategic position is much worse than before.

Xinyue summoned a small unmanned electric sightseeing car that looks like an egg from the holographic console that can be adjusted anytime and anywhere by the carrier track, and carried the boat all the way through the core positions of maintaining the necessary living conditions for the personnel inside the base, such as the lunar soil excavation center, the iron oxide mineral reduction center, the oxygen liquefaction storage center, the hydrogen recycling and reuse center, and the water purification center under the "Guanghangong No. 1". Xiaozhou also learned through the integrated screens of the roof windows on the left and right sides of the sightseeing car according to the data information intelligently displayed in the functional area: 200 tons of lunar soil can extract about 16 tons of oxygenated iron minerals, which can be reduced to water by hydrogen and then electrolyzed to produce 1 ton of oxygen, which is enough for ten people to use for a year, and the remaining hydrogen is collected for recycling.

After touring the oxygen and fresh water self-sufficiency facilities, the sightseeing bus enters another key area of the base, the solar power plant. Due to the small mass of the moon, it cannot generate enough gravitational force to adsorb a large number of gas molecules on the surface to form an atmosphere, which will neither blow nor rain, and there is no absorption and reflection of sunlight by air and clouds, and the solar radiation intensity is about 1.5 times that of the earth, which is enough to support the normal operation of the entire base as an energy supply.

In addition, due to the abundant sunlight, the "Guanghangong-1" base is also equipped with its own space farm, which has all kinds of crops and vegetables, and the plant seeds in the lunar soil in the artificial weightless environment have a higher germination rate and grow faster. Xiaozhou tastes a variety of exotic special foods in the staff restaurant next to the farm, although there is no physical satiety, but because of this, you can eat all the delicious food in one breath without being afraid of breaking your stomach, I have to say that the synthetic beef brisket on the plate is really like that, which not only has the taste and texture of meat products, but also is rich in artificially added high-quality protein. Because of the high cost of raising animals in a lunar outpost, everyone here is a true vegetarian and does not have to worry about their own nutritional imbalance.

After enjoying a variety of space meals, Xinyue led Xiaozhou to the Moon Rock Processing Center and the Earth-Moon Terminal for a walk, and someone's curiosity about his own national lunar base was fully satisfied, and he began to turn his attention to other countries' territories: "After visiting the 'Guanghangong No. 1', let's go to see the other three bases?" ”

"Although the 'Lunar Comprehensive Research Base' of the United States of America has been invested and built by Chinese forces, and China has also sent scientific researchers to participate in most of the projects stationed in the Moon, it has not yet obtained the relevant simulation authorization, and the 'Lunar Transit Base' of the United States Division of the United States Division and the 'Luna Rare Ore Base' of the United Russian Division of the United States Division are not allowed to be visited by other countries, let alone simulated, so the remaining three bases are just empty shelves without internal construction."

Xinyue's explanation undoubtedly poured cold water on someone's head, but then she proposed to drive an outdoor lunar rover to take Xiaozhou to the south pole of the moon, Marabert Mountain, which is a flat plateau with a direct view of the earth, and the best landing site for lunar probes and space vehicles from various countries before the construction of the four outposts, which is only a two-hour drive away, reawakening Xiaozhou's interest in exploring the unknown.

The ground isolation area is infinitely close to a vacuum, and the moon has no atmosphere, and the heat capacity and thermal conductivity of the lunar surface are low, so the temperature difference between day and night on the surface is very large, and the temperature where the sun shines vertically during the day is as high as 127 degrees Celsius, and at night it is reduced to minus 183 degrees Celsius. In addition to overcoming the extreme temperatures around the lunar surface, human beings also need to resist cosmic rays, solar wind and possible meteorite impacts.

Coming to the tubular orbital platform where various motorized vehicles docked, Xinyue put on a full set of dynamic armor with the help of the staff, while Xiaozhou chose a conventional extravehicular spacesuit in order to experience one-sixth of the real gravity of the moon and the earth. Once everything was ready, the two stepped inside the giant pipe and boarded the tracked outdoor lunar rover, which resembled an armored personnel carrier but was designed to be lower to maintain its center of gravity. After the preset sightseeing route, the intelligent driving function of the lunar rover is activated, the entrance of the pipeline platform is immediately closed, and the isolation door set up every 500 meters in front of it is opened in turn with the movement of the car body, and when the last inner door is closed, the position of the lunar rover that has been fixed with the ground orbit has been extended to the outside of the base, and through the multi-layer sealing glass of the porthole and the pipe, the occupants can clearly see the real starry sky without visual obstacles of atmosphere and other factors, as well as the gas and dust that are instantly sucked out with the opening of the pipeline pressure gate......

The unfastened lunar rover quickly got out of the carrier orbit and floated on the smooth and delicate soil on the surface of the moon, the artificial intelligence voice prompt sounded inside the helmet, Xiaozhou could hear it, and the female voice in his ear belonged to the high-value repeater - Shu Yixi, through its popular science introduction to the surface landform of the moon, Xiaozhou learned that the faint black spots on the surface of the moon that we observed with the naked eye on the earth are called "Moon Ocean" and "Moon Sea", although its name is ocean, but the actual dripping does not contain, it is just a vast low-lying large plain area, The surface layer is covered with lunar sea basalt, which belongs to the main geographical unit of the lunar surface, and the total area accounts for about a quarter of the total lunar surface.

Among them, the only moon ocean is called the "storm ocean", with an area of about 5 million square kilometers, more than half of China's territory; The area second only to the storm ocean is the rain sea, with an area of 900,000 square kilometers, slightly larger than China's Qinghai Province; In addition, there are the Snake Sea, the South China Sea, the Zhihai Sea, the Dangerous Sea, the Rich Sea, the Cold Sea, the Humboldt Sea, the Wet Sea, the Qiao Sea, the Island Sea, the Boundary Sea, the Moscow Sea, the Shenjiu Sea, the Cloud Sea, the Oriental Sea, the Chenghai Sea, the Smith Sea, the Bubble Sea, the Quiet Sea, the Wave Sea, and the Vapor Sea. In these 22 lunar seas, except for the Zhihai Sea, the Moscow Sea, and the Oriental Sea, which are located on the far side of the moon, the rest are facing the earth, which together form the lunar kelp on the front side of the moon. Most of the Moon Sea is surrounded by mountains, but the remaining area of the same type smaller than the Moon Sea is called "Moon Lake", the one that extends to the land is called "Moon Bay", and the smallest area is "Moon Numa".

Corresponding to the lunar lowland is the lunar land, which is generally 2 to 3 km higher than the lunar sea, and is mainly composed of light-colored plagioclase with a higher albedo. The lunar land on the front side of the moon is about equal to the lunar sea, while on the far side the lunar land is larger. At the same time, there are also mountain ranges on the moon, which are mostly named after the mountains on the earth, such as the Alps, the Apennines, the Altai Mountains, the Caucasus Mountains, etc. The longest mountain range on the moon is 1,000 kilometers, and the highest peak is near the moon's south pole, about 9,000 meters, which is higher than Mount Everest. There are also cliffs that are hundreds of kilometers long, the longest being the Altai Cliffs.

The landform on the far side of the moon is quite different from the front, the lunar sea occupies less area, there are more craters formed by the impact of small celestial bodies, and there are almost no obvious mountain ranges, among which four craters are named after the ancient Chinese astronomers Shi Shen, Zhang Heng, Zu Chongzhi and Guo Shoujing.

As for the destination of this outdoor tour, Mount Malabert, although it is called a mountain because it is higher than the moon, the terrain is not as steep as the earth's mountains, and there is a large area of wide land at the top, without clouds and snow, it is very easy to climb with boosters, even if it is not equipped with power armor, because the moon has less gravity, the climbing process is much easier than on the earth.

The lunar rover was parked in the open area under the target mountain, and without waiting for Xinyue to check whether the oxygen production function of the armor on her body was normal, Xiaozhou, who had unlocked the upper, middle and lower three fixing devices, came to the rear of the car in a hurry and manually turned the safety valve that controlled the opening of the door, Xinyue only listened to the helmet intercom device from a "Wow", and when she looked back, someone had been pumped out along with the air in the car!

Belch...... Sorry, I forgot to remind you that you have to open the door and deflate before you can unbuckle your seatbelt. Xinyue chuckled and got out of the car, not worried about Xiaozhou who was lying on the ground dozens of meters away, after all, the outer layer of the spacesuit is a high-strength protective suit made of special synthetic fibers, and under the influence of the low gravity of the moon, the acceleration of the object falling from a high place will not be too fast, and this impact will not cause any damage at all.

Xiaozhou got up lightly, he had never received aerospace and gravity training, he was not used to it, even the most basic feet walking upright could not grasp the center of gravity, and finally had to learn from the real-world astronauts walking on the moon, jumping forward like a kangaroo, because this would be more stable and less effort than walking step by step. Xinyue's power armor has its own gravitational adsorption device, and the inside of the armor is constant earth gravity, so the operator will not be troubled by this problem.

After gradually adapting to the moon's tolerant gravity, Xiaozhou began to try to run on the moon, and today's extravehicular spacesuit is more flexible in the design of human joints, and the thickness of the body and the backpack of the life support system are not as bloated as when humans landed on the moon for the first time, making it easier to make more movements. However, due to the small friction between the soles of the feet and the lunar surface, the start becomes very slow, and the subsequent acceleration is also slow, which is not at all like the assumption that the whole process of running on the moon will be faster.

Xiaozhou only cared about burying his head and running hard, thinking that it was just that speed, but the acceleration effect caused by the swing of the arms and legs, which was almost negligible under the gravitational traction of the earth, exerted its power on the moon, making it run faster and faster, and the muscle contraction force was not weakened, and the landing was slow, so there was more time to alternate the legs, so that after the speed was increased, the contact time became shorter, the angle of the human body leaning forward and the stride length under the feet became larger, and finally it crashed into the dark gray moon rock of Malabert Mountain like an out-of-control ground-to-ground missile: “Oh,【s h i t】!!!”

"The friction on the lunar surface is small, and the soil is fine, so you must slow down or turn ...... in advance" Xinyue's explanation with the benefit of hindsight was immediately exchanged for Xiaozhou's dissatisfied complaints: "You only say such an important thing now?!" In this regard, Xinyue said: "How do I know that you ran to hit the mountain with your head?!" ”

After this battle, Xiaozhou didn't dare to experiment with any dangerous actions casually, in case the spacesuit was damaged, he would be able to game over in advance. Xinyue told him that the most convenient way to move on the moon without power armor was to stride and jump, and eventually, Xiaozhou jumped to the top of Mount Malabert in a daze, feeling like a rabbit pounding rice cakes on the moon......

Located at the southernmost point of the Moon, Mount Malabert is exposed to sunlight most of the time, with nights only a few times a year, no more than six solar days each time [3], so China, the United States, and Russia have all established large-scale solar arrays here. Xiao Zhou saw that the Star-Spangled Banner supported by a special flagpole was erected high in front of the most advanced power generation array, and he was inevitably a little unhappy in his heart, so he wanted to take advantage of the fact that he was in the phantom limb realm and was not subject to the law, but he found that there was actually a defensive post at the entrance of the American power generation array, and it seemed that there were two guards equipped with power armor inside?

Make no mistake, you can't simulate a serious American base, and none of these boring NPCs are missing. Someone walked straight to the sentry, and Xinyue asked him what he was doing, and the answer he got was - "say hello". A few minutes later, Xiao Zhou suddenly turned around and ran back, and the soldiers of the E United American Division rushed out of the sentry post behind him, and the metal stick in his hand caught up with it is a sharp knock, and soon the target was knocked to the ground, Xin Yue saw this and quickly used the wrist operation end to stop the surrounding simulator action and reset the system, Xiao Zhou got up and jumped back here panting, she didn't know what happened: "Didn't you say hello, why did they beat you?!" ”

Xiao Zhou propped his hands on his knees, and his expression looked quite miscalculated: "I just picked up a stone and smashed the sentry glass, who knew they would actually do it......"

"Nonsense! Do you greet them like this, they are guards on duty, and of course they have emergency anti-riot functions!! "Xinyue is really convinced of the guy in front of her who is causing trouble outside the ground, thanks to the fact that the E-United American Division Star Wars uses vacuum weapons and does not have relevant data to simulate, otherwise Xiaozhou would have to be beaten into a sieve on the spot!

Xinyue was too lazy to take care of the Xiaozhou again, and walked to the best position of the Malabate Mountain to observe the earth with the naked eye, and the Xiaozhou followed from behind, and looked up in the direction of its stop and the cold light, and was immediately attracted by the rare shock in front of her. In the past, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, people would always sit around with their families, eat moon cakes, look at the full moon, and think about the beautiful myths of the moon in ancient China. But who ever imagined that one day they might be able to see the "earth" rise on the moon?

If you look at the moon on the earth, if you use a telescope more than 20 times to observe, you will find that the myths and stories are all deceitful: there are no fragrant osmanthus trees and Chang'e everywhere, only the waterless and lonely moon sea and craters, there is no Guanghan Palace on the Gobi of the moon rock in a dead land, and there are no so-called mythical beasts such as jade rabbits, toads, and Tianqi, and the more you look at it, the more you feel that it is difficult to hide the desolation.

At this moment, looking at the earth from the moon is a completely different scene: in the deep and bright pure starry sky, the earth without atmospheric disturbance hangs high like a blue white flower disk, and as far as the eye can see, the clouds and storms flow slowly, as if to put a veil of mystery on the earth, wonderful and reverie, under the veil, the refreshing blue ocean and the colorful land reflect each other, and the light of civilization created by human cities is leisurely embellished, and the more you look at it, the more you look at it, the more vibrant.

Looking at the moon on the earth, the moon has clouds and sunny circles, and looking at the earth on the moon, the earth also has clouds and sunny circles, and the two cycles are the same, but they are in opposite directions, and yin and yang complement each other. In terms of real-world dates, it's not fifteen, however, in order to make everyone who comes to the lunar outpost a spectacular spectacle, the Phantom Limb Realm has deliberately set it to be full of eternity.

After being in the earth world for too long, we seem to have forgotten how to appreciate her beauty, and all we remember in our minds is the never-ending pollution and strife, whether it is between humans and humans, or between humans and other life. If the ever-changing star navigation technology is the Noah's Ark that brought the virus of human expansion into the vast starry sky, it at least gives us the opportunity to re-examine our homeland from another perspective.

While entering the universe, it is also saving the earth.

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[2] Ghost press: also known as "ghost press", it is a phenomenon in which a person suddenly becomes conscious but cannot move his body while sleeping, which may actually be suffering from some kind of sleep disorder. This phenomenon is a symptom of sleep paralysis in sleep neuromedicine, the patient is half-awake and half-asleep during sleep, the brain wave is the amplitude of wakefulness, but the muscle tension of the whole body is reduced to a minimum, and some people also have image hallucinations.

[3] Solar day: The solar day uses the sun as a reference, and the earth rotates 360 degrees and 59 minutes on a solar day, which takes 24 hours. In contrast, the Earth Day, also known as the sidereal day, uses the star as a reference, and a sidereal day rotates the Earth 360 degrees (one week) in 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds.