Chapter 2 Global Panic
Realizing that there was an anomaly in the landing, government officials quickly cut off the global live stream.
The live broadcast, which was originally interrupted for fear of causing global panic, only made people more restless.
The "Star Outer Star" will stay on the moon for a month, and will not return until it has built a permanent artificial base.
Therefore, during this time, everyone in the global society was worried about what Li Wei had experienced, and the theory of the end of the earth was gradually put on people's lips.
Everyone was holding a bomb in their arms that could explode at any moment.
Workers went on strike, students went on strike, businessmen went on strike, and the world quickly fell in a haze.
The government has stepped up its efforts to regulate the internet and try to avoid the spread of disruptive speech. But with so many people and information around the world, it's hard to pick out the ones that cause panic.
Some experts and scholars began to speculate about what Li Wei had experienced on the moon, and all kinds of suspicions and speculations caused an uproar in public opinion.
Alien Invasion Theory: This view holds that once Earth's technology breaks through the ability to expand extraterrestrial territory, there will be higher civilizations from other planets to destroy humanity before Earthlings develop enough technology to threaten their survival.
It is true that there is no obvious contradiction in this view, but the answer to the question of why extraterrestrial civilizations do not destroy human beings in advance, but wait until the development of technology to a certain extent, has not been convincing to others.
Lunar Native Biology: There are not many people who agree with this view, but there are not a few. They believe that although the moon does not have an atmosphere, the temperature difference does not vary very much. It may be lethal enough for carbon-based life, but the protein structure of the Lunarians may be a much higher element.
Although this assertion is well-founded, the temperature difference between day and night on the moon is nearly 300 degrees Celsius, and in the absence of an atmosphere, the sun's radiation will all be emitted to the surface of the moon, which is enough to kill ordinary life.
Galaxy explorer theory: Some people think that there is no imaginary end of the earth, and after the spacecraft landed on the moon, there happened to be a higher civilization passing by and investigating on the moon. They are more curious about earthlings, but they have no killing intent. Soon, perhaps, they will be able to connect with humans and communicate with each other.
This view was not convincing to many people because of its great coincidence, but a new assertion developed from it is becoming more and more popular.
There have been countless studies on the moon throughout history, but why has only one side of the moon always faced the Earth and the other side always had its back to the Earth?
Why is the interior of the Moon, which is only one-forty-nine times the size of the Earth, hollow?
Originally, all the unsolved mysteries of the moon now all boiled down to the theory of extraterrestrial surveillance.
According to this view, the moon was originally just a satellite of the earth, but after being discovered by later alien advanced civilizations, it was transformed into a space base and monitored the every move of earthlings.
Once the earth's civilization reaches a certain level, it will use the tides of the moon to plunge the earth into an ocean.
And many ancient legends, including Noah's Ark, are the same story.
Since then, all the arguments have slowly moved closer to this side, and the earth seems to have suddenly become a test tube for extraterrestrial advanced civilizations to study the origin and evolution of life.
The moon outside the sky is like being surrounded by an electromagnetic circle, and neither the earth's artificial satellite nor the moon's artificial satellite can capture the light reflected from the direction of the moon, and the moon's position is only a black hole of the same volume!
Under the huge panic, people's spirits began to collapse, and incidents of jumping into rivers and buildings were frequent; Robbery and rape occur from time to time; Strikes, school boycotts, fights, group beatings, homicide, fire prevention......
The end of the earth seems to have arrived!
In the midst of the global riots, the government is powerless to suppress them, so it can only increase the scope of inspections and security to try to control the current situation.
However, just half a month later, at 19:35 Beijing time, there was a flash in the eastern sky.
Then, without warning, a meteor shower streaked across the sky.
People are going completely crazy!
"The aliens have landed!"
"The alien carnage is about to begin!"
"The end of humanity has officially arrived!"
Wait a minute......
Human society has become a mess, and it seems that the civilization of the earth will soon be terminated by itself.
However, after the madness, a week passed, and there was no alien massacre, except for the constant suicides and homicides.
Maybe people are looking away, maybe people are tired, maybe people are dead, and after a week of the meteor shower falling, the madness tends to slow down.
Seeing that people had come to their senses, governments quickly disseminated their claims, claiming that in another week, the "Star Alien" would return as scheduled, and the reason for this would be disclosed to the outside world as soon as possible after studying it.
But then under the pressure of public opinion, it was changed to a live broadcast of the return of the spacecraft and a dialogue with astronaut Li Wei.
Since then, the crazy people have converged a lot.
Because when it is known that there is hope, everyone will look forward to the moment when the answer is revealed.
A month came as promised.
Almost all artificial satellites have focused on the direction of the "Star Outer Star" landing on the moon.
On the road, on the roof of the building, you can see people squatting on the side and staring at the screen everywhere.
Slowly, a little light appeared on the moon, and everyone's eyes widened, staring at the ever-growing point of light.
Soon, a cylindrical spacecraft with the militaristic five-star red flag returned from the moon, and satellites captured the spacecraft, which is powered by nuclear fusion.
"Oh——!" After the spacecraft appeared on the screen, the world boiled into applause, and everyone cheered loudly with tears in their eyes, as if the spacecraft in front of them was their relatives who had not seen them for many years.
Although humans can simply use nuclear fusion to provide energy and accelerate spacecraft to 5/1000th of the speed of light, the distance between the Earth and the Moon is too close, and the energy burst is controlled to a very low level, so it will take about a day to return.
People focused their attention on the "Star Outer Spacecraft", but they did not find that there was a very faint point of light behind the "Star Outer Star".
The spacecraft flew away from the moon and headed for the Earth, but the Earth did not receive any information from the "Star Horn".
Twelve hours later, humanity is still staring at the spacecraft, leaving all the work around them.
At the time of life and death, there is nothing else that is more important than life.
After 24 hours, the spacecraft finally entered the vicinity of the Earth, and not far from the atmosphere, began a nuclear-powered reverse deceleration.
The point of light that followed it disappeared at some point.
Soon, the spacecraft landed on the Inner Mongolia Bell Grassland without deviation according to the predetermined orbit.
The ground personnel who had been waiting for a long time rushed forward to celebrate the smooth return of the space hero.
At this moment, there are 14 billion pairs of eyes in the world, staring at the scene on the grassland.
Soon, the hatch of the "Star Alien" spacecraft opened on its own, and after waiting for a long time, no one came out.
The ground staff swallowed, wiped the sweat from their foreheads, and slowly walked towards the spacecraft.
Outside the hatch, people found Li Wei, who was already unconscious in the nutrition warehouse, without any scratches on his body.
People breathed a sigh of relief in an instant, and medical staff and biologists gathered one after another and took Li Wei to the Scientific and Medical Research Institute on a high-tech stretcher......