Chapter 8: Out of the Cage
Wu Feng looked at the madman Broad with abundant resources in front of him, and suddenly understood why he was sometimes so pretentious.
"Mr. Broad?" Wu Feng called him cautiously.
"Doctor!" Broad suddenly turned his head, "The Americans simply don't have the technology and strength to build a base on the moon, and they simply can't afford that kind of economic pressure and space technology!" You have to go to the moon, right away! All the mysteries are there! ”
"You can rest for eight hours!" Wu Feng was not allowed to speak, and the madman Broad finished his last sentence and left the laboratory. Professor Steven, who was slumped in his chair, immediately opened his eyes, and he seemed to be awake long ago. He motioned for Wu Feng to come closer to him, and said in a very small voice:
"Before you board the ship tomorrow, Broad will have you look for a blue potion in a bottle at the moon base. If you do find it, destroy it, and you must, remember, don't bring it back to Earth...... It's a trap......"
Before Professor Steven could finish speaking, the door to the laboratory was pushed open, and Shining 9 strode in, glancing coldly at Professor Steven.
"Doctor, Mr. Broad has arranged a comfortable room for you, so you can rest well for the night." Shining 9's voice is cold, and apart from the polite use of words, it is no different from Shining 11.
Wu Feng was led by Shining 9 to his room, a completely transparent glass room, which made Wu Feng feel uncomfortable, and he felt like he was being locked up like a prisoner. There was a bathroom in the corner of this room, and Wu Feng took a long-lost hot bath in it, and his fatigue over the past few days was reduced a lot. Shining No. 9 did not leave, but turned around and stood with his back to the room, which made Wu Feng even more uncomfortable.
Wu Feng spent two hours reading the aviation manual and some related materials that Broad had prepared for him. The grayish-brown stone is described in detail in the materials. It was named YK01, and it came from the moon a hundred years ago. YK01 is rich in large amounts of Cripp material and an extraterrestrial mineral named UN6.
YK01 will cause all conscious beings who are close to him to produce illusions, and the content of the illusion will produce different visions depending on the infected person, but without exception, these visions are not good. The effective infection range of YK01 is 90 meters, and this distance will continue to expand as the size of YK01 increases. Currently, only synthetic Element 142 is known to have the ability to stop its phantasmal radiation. In the introduction of the information, Wu Feng found an introduction and pictures about the synthetic element 142, which is a pale cyan metal that exists in liquid form at room temperature. Wu Feng remembers clearly that Broad put away YK01 and it was clearly a black locket.
Wu Feng fell into deep thought.
Perhaps, he had been wrong all along; It is very likely that the autonomous connection between the natural mind and the human consciousness that he believes is just a different manifestation of human beings being infected by the illusion of YK01. However, in China, which is far away, Xu Lu is the only one who senses the illusion of YK01, which does not conform to the law of the spread of the illusion.
Or perhaps, all the illusions, including the unconfirmed lunar base, were nothing more than a hoax concocted by Broad. He himself did not experience any visions, and no one around him, except for Professor Steven, who suddenly went berth, had hallucinations.
General Huang tried to tell himself not to trust Broad and Steven, and then Steven told him the secret of another potion in the gap between Broad's departure. He's a little overwhelmed right now, it seems like everyone is putting a conspiracy on him, he's confused.
Shining No. 9 stood outside the transparent glass wall like an iron tower, Wu Feng extinguished the lights, and the surroundings fell into darkness. It was quiet all around, except for the never-ending roar of thunder outside.
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February 9, 2049, 8:00 a.m. sharp.
In the metal conference hall, eight people, including Wu Feng, sat on a neat row of stools, and these eight people were all the people who landed on the moon. Broad paced back and forth in front of the crowd, his shoes clanging against the metal floor.
Today is a great day.
As Armstrong said, "It's a small step for the individual, but it's a giant leap for all humanity." Broad just quoted this sentence.
"But today's step has a different meaning." Brod paced back and forth, his gaze scanning everyone. "The countdown to human life is about to begin, and as pioneers, we have to pay attention to this. If we can seize this last opportunity, we can hope to reverse the future of humanity as a whole! ”
"All of you here are top talents that I personally recruited, hehe, it's a good feeling to see you gathered here." Broad turned around, and the metal wall behind him reflected an image of three different sizes of reagent bottles containing a pale blue translucent liquid.
"Americans in the '80s were the luckiest, they got a natural explosion of science and technology, and they made leaps and bounds in the field of astrophysics. Finally, in the early nineties, the pioneer troops of the United States left the planet with huge resources. This is a conspiracy of life and life. Who brought the Americans such advanced technology, and who drove the Americans to use this technology to lock down the planet? ”
"Not long ago, my scientific team intercepted a message from outside the earth." Broad paused, he looked carefully at the expressions of the crowd, and said slowly:
"There is indeed a U.S. scientific research base on the moon."
Some of the eight people sitting there couldn't help but whisper.
Broad pointed to the reagent in the picture, "This thing, it is from the moon base, and your final task this time is to help me find them!" This is a synthetic "nano-solubilizer" that has only one use, and that is to ablate secondary clouds! 1 mg of this solvent can ablate 4 to 5 square kilometers of secondary clouds, and as long as 100 mg of this reagent is available, we have the ability to study its synthesis. At that time, the world's secondary clouds will be gone! ”
There was an uproar, and there was a light in Broad's eyes, as if that was exactly what he was looking for.
"Dr. Wu Feng." Broad stretched out his hand and motioned for Wu Feng to stand beside him, "He will be the supreme commander of the moon landing operation for the next fifteen days, he is the key link in this operation, and all disagreements must accept his final decision." ”
10:00 a.m. sharp.
After the final preparations, Wu Feng and the others wore beige pressurized suits and were sent into the 20-meter-high spaceship by a special elevator. Due to space factors, the spacecraft's power system and shield equipment were re-improved, and Broad named it "Mission".
At near-Earth range, the mission's flight will be fully controlled by a ground tower, and after determining the precise time of the mission's contact with the secondary clouds, the tower will activate the anti-electromagnetic device located in the secondary clouds, giving the mission 3 seconds to enter the interior of the clouds. After that, the Mission will switch to manual flight mode, and three pilots will fly at the same time, and follow the planned route to break out of the secondary clouds!
Thirty minutes countdown.
The Mission's cabin has a total of three rows of aircraft chairs. There are three positions in the row closest to the view window, and the three pilots are already sitting on it, and they have begun to operate various instruments and dock information with the ground tower. The three pilots are all from China, among which the main pilot Lao Luo and the co-pilot Lao Chen are both former professional astronauts of the China National Space Administration, and only the third round-faced girl who looks about 25 years old has Wu Feng paid special attention. She's too young to look like someone with a lot of driving experience.
Wu Feng sat in the center of the second row and observed the surroundings. There are also three seats in this row, and they are far away from the first row of seats, so you can clearly see the side of the spaceship and the front view window. To the left of Wu Feng sat Adrian, the black uncle who cautiously observed the surroundings, he was the security guard whom Wu Feng had named to stay. In addition to Adrian, the monkey was also left behind by Wu Feng. Seeing him is like seeing his cousin Jieming, Wu Feng always has an inexplicable feeling that it will not be wrong to keep him by his side.
In the third row sat two paramedics accompanying the ship, both of whom were women, looking to be in their thirties, perhaps for the first time facing a space mission in person, both of whom had unnatural expressions and sat stiffly in their positions. Wu Feng shook his head, he didn't know where Broad "recruited" them, but looking at their expressions, it was very likely that they were kidnapped and coerced like himself.
Countdown to the last five minutes.
"Communication system test complete!"
"Emergency Rescue System Tested!"
"The navigation system is ready!"
"Thruster fuel filled!"
"Open the shroud!"
The cabin was silent, except for the final interaction between the control tower and the pilot. The bottle-shaped shield slowly opened to the sides, and the view in the porthole slowly expanded, and Wu Feng held his breath, feeling the pressure of the unparalleled black clouds on him. The seat belt that fixed his body tightened around him, his arms and legs were firmly resting on the seat, Wu Feng felt that his arms and legs seemed to be unconscious, he tried to relax himself, but the fear of the unknown was easily overcome by humans.
"Adrian, are you afraid?" Wu Feng asked.
"I just felt excited." Adrian's voice trembled, and after a few seconds he added, "I'm scared and excited at the same time." It could also be both excited and scared. ”
Last-minute countdown.
The test report from the ground tower was still repeated in the ship's cabin, and the three spaceship pilots fell silent. Yellow, blue, white, three colors of mixed lights set off the small cabin of the ship in a strange way. Wu Feng looked directly at the black clouds outside the ship's cabin, and it would not be long before he could make real contact with them, and at this moment his heart calmed down, he felt a buzzing in his skull, and he couldn't hear any sound, including his own breathing.
Twenty seconds countdown.
"Mission, everything is working with the system, the autopilot system is turned on, ready to take off!"
The mission was launched.
The sound of the power of the engines in the quiet cabin increased rapidly, the whole space trembled, all the indicators no longer flashed, and remained at the brightest state, and everyone wore pressurized helmets as required. In the small space, Wu Feng stared at the sky outside the porthole without blinking, the glass on the helmet reflected the three-color light, from this angle, the black secondary cloud layer was like a blue nebula, and the flashing thunder and lightning was a symbol of its life.
He suddenly asked the monkey sitting on his right, "Monkey, do you regret coming with me?" ”
The monkey even had his teeth trembling, and he replied vaguely, but Wu Feng understood, and he said: I don't regret it, but I'm really scared to death!
Wu Feng was also scared to death, he couldn't wait to jump off this thing now, he really didn't have the guts to go to the moon and explore some ultimate secret. He regretted it, he regretted that he had chosen such a path, he was now just an ordinary human being, and he really didn't have the courage and strength to bear the expectations of all mankind.
The tremors grew louder and louder, a faint thrust came from below the body, and the power of the Mission continued to increase. In the roaring hum, Wu Feng's ears were the countdown to the end of his life.
Five...... Four...... Three...... Two......
One.
The power system of the mission was instantly raised to the maximum, and the silver-blue flames erupted violently in the tail of the spaceship, and the rumbling loud noise overshadowed the rolling thunder in the sky, and it slowly rose vertically into the sky, struggling to get rid of the gravitational shackles of the earth, with eight lives, one mission, plunged into the black sky!
There was an unprecedented tremor in the spaceship, and a violent thrust formed under everyone, this domineering force suppressed everyone's body, and the air in the body was almost completely squeezed out!
The last medic finally screamed, her voice was sharp and piercing, but in an instant it was drowned out by the furious sound of the engine, and no one could compete with this earth-shattering energy!
The spaceship began to slowly rise, and the flames from the stern of the ship all turned silver, and it emitted a huge light, reflecting everything white!
"Remember, Doctor, that you carry the hope of all mankind in you! You will be glorious pioneers like me! Broad's voice came from everyone's communicator, and it could be heard that he was only excited at the moment, not afraid.
The tremors in the cabin were so exaggerated that they almost tore people out of their seats, "Hold on!" Hold on! The driver, Lao Luo, was yelling. The glow from the ship's tail flame almost turned the sky white, and in the blinding light, the mission spacecraft was getting faster and faster. Wu Feng vaguely saw that at least 100 maglev fighters surrounded the outermost part of the Mission, forming a huge encirclement to protect the Mission to ensure its successful launch.
"Launch successful!"
"Everything is working properly!"
In the control room of the ground tower, Broad stood in the central control position, and he looked up at the process of the spaceship taking off on the surveillance screen. Dozens of staff members in the audience are busy nervously.
Beside him stood a Chinese woman in a flaming red leather coat and leather pants, about 25 years old and with a round face. If you want to say the difference, she is different from the third pilot on the mission, only in clothing.
"Let's go, Tanuki, we're going to move on to the next step."