The front side of the moon, the depression of the still sea

Here is an "ocean" where you can never find half a drop of water. (Note)

Towering craters, deep shadows reflected in the distance. The vast, low-lying plains are full of eternal desolation.

This is the real moon that has lost its romantic coat, a harsh and merciless forbidden area of life, a desert of death that has been silent for thousands of years - there is no Qionglou Yuyu, no Jade Rabbit pounding medicine, no Chang'e fairy, and no osmanthus tree...... Well, now it seems that there is finally an osmanthus tree.

Behind an angular rock, a large pile of disorganized man-made buildings stands abruptly, reflecting a few looming lights.

Most of these man-made structures are metal, but some are made of cement, and some are suspected to be made of plastic panels. And the shape is also strange, there are spherical, mushroom-shaped, cylindrical, hemispherical...... But no matter what kind of building materials are used, what kind of appearance, above the building, without exception, there is a small five-star red flag, and some buildings have decorations similar to cornices and bucket arches.

-- Relying on the time-space wormhole that spanned a distance of 360,000 kilometers, and Wang Qiu, who was forced to work continuously without sleep and almost died of overwork, in just a few days, the frenzied Chinese built a lunar village on the moon...... Or Chinatown.

In a hemispherical greenhouse shaped like an Eskimo snow house, two Chinese astronauts, Xiao Huaidan and Peng Youzhi, who are haggard, look at a miniature osmanthus tree in the flower garden in front of them. There are all kinds of flowers and trees around, and I can't help but smile with satisfaction.

This hemispherical lunar creature Shiyan chamber does not occupy a large area, with a diameter of only four meters. The height is only two and a half meters, but on the barren and dead moon, it is already a very large garden - or rather, the only garden of life on the entire moon where there are green plants.

In order to assemble and debug this biological Shiyan room on the lunar surface, the return flight was temporarily canceled, and the two astronauts Xiao Huaidan and Peng Youzhi, who were in charge of construction and maintenance on the lunar surface, plus the experts from the ground command center who assisted them. It's really a broken waist while being tired, and a broken heart.

“…… Whew, it's finally up and running. Lao Xiao, if we don't talk about it again, we will really have a nervous breakdown! ”

Peng Youzhi said with a wry smile while wiping the sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief. “…… In order to take care of these hard-won plants. It's really hot in this greenhouse! Fortunately, it's not in completely weightless space, otherwise just collecting this sweat will have to be tossed again. ”

While looking at the beads of sweat that were slowly falling at a slow speed that was recognizable to the naked eye, like a movie in slow motion, he teased with his colleague Xiao Huaidan.

-- Although the gravitational force on the moon is much smaller than that on the earth, and objects fall more slowly, there is still gravity.

Another astronaut, Comrade Xiao Huaidan, reached out and stroked a penguin pattern engraved on the bulkhead. His face was full of incredulous admiration, "...... Alas. Speaking of which, the guys on the ground who made this thing really have some skills! This miniature automated greenhouse, which was originally designed for use in the Antarctic unmanned research station, was urgently modified by them for a few days, and it can still be used when it was moved to the moon...... I don't know how they solved the troublesome problems of sealing, pressure resistance and heat dissipation......"

“…… Cut, what is this, you have to believe in the subjective initiative of our Chinese! I heard that some comrades from special departments sent to the Middle East have the ability to change chemical fertilizers and water pipes into rocket artillery, and agricultural machinery into chariot sniper rifles! ”

Peng Youzhi pursed his lips a little disappreciatively, "...... What's in it? On the ground, five automated greenhouses were sent up before and after, and four of them were either broken or exploded, which were obviously shoddy and inferior, and they didn't care about anything in order to catch up with the construction period! It's barely usable, and it's also full of problems, so that we are tired like a dead dog in order to repair it. And half of the flowers and plants in the greenhouse are dead...... "He said regretfully, pointing to the withered blades of grass on the anhydrous tank...... It's not easy to see a little green in the universe! ”

- Creatures without special abilities usually have a mortality rate of up to one-third to one-half each time they pass through a wormhole, and plants in greenhouses are no exception.

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Like the problems encountered by their Japanese counterparts, the first problem encountered by China's space department after the wormhole was sent to the moon was that it was unprepared in advance, there was no detailed and complete lunar development jihua at hand, and there was no completed lunar exploration equipment in the warehouse.

Realistically speaking, if it can calmly plan and design, arrange experiments and development plans, and order and manufacture all kinds of prefabricated parts and construction machinery, China's space department will definitely be confident that it will build a real Guanghan Palace on the lunar surface.

But the problem is that now there is only a short period of one or two months at most from the moon landing to the disappearance of the wormhole, which naturally makes those aerospace experts chaotic for a while - seeing that the convenient passage to connect to the moon has been opened, but they don't know what to do on it, the entire space agency is in a hurry!

Therefore, this "moon village" standing at the foot of the crater is actually a hasty product -- because it is impossible to get a completed lunar base in a hurry, the experts and leaders of the aerospace department have no choice but to cross the sea to show their magical powers for a while, and hurriedly get a bunch of spaceships with dismantled power plants, space orbital stations with an iron foundation installed, and even urgently modified high-pressure boilers and urgently poured cement cubes, as well as several ships from 2012. The Mayan prophecy of the end of Shijie has been piled up to this day, claiming to be able to survive the catastrophe of the "Ark of Doom...... The space agency has all been able to get its hands on all the sealed cabins as quickly as possible, and no matter whether they can adapt to the vacuum environment of the universe or not, in short, they will be sent up first, and then the next one will be replaced if one cannot be used.

And the consequences of this crazy and brutal work are naturally similar to the "big steelmaking" of the year - due to shoddy work, patchwork, and the fact that they have not undergone the minimum test at all (there is really no spare time), more than half of the lunar base buildings that have been teleported over are either leaking from the ballast chamber or the pipelines are faulty, and they cannot be used normally at all. There are even ...... of collapses on the surface of the moon that are overwhelmed by the internal air pressure

-- I don't know which guy whimsically moved a miniature submarine originally designed for use in the deep sea to the "Moon Sea" without a drop of water after dismantling the engine, because submarines and spaceships are relatively similar, both have a complete pressure-resistant shell, and they are all fully enclosed and self-circulating enclosed spaces...... Then, when the submarine mistakenly passed through the wormhole and sailed towards the sunny "Moon Sea", it was not long before it was unexpectedly blown open from the inside by air pressure and became a mess of tangled metal popcorn......

-- A submarine roaming in the dark depths of the ocean and a capsule soaring through the universe are two different things.

The pressure-resistant shell alone is a counter-external high pressure and an isolated external vacuum, which has basically opposite effects and cannot be mixed.

Therefore, today's moon village, which seems to be on a grand scale and fully embodies the "speed of China", is actually a big ruin that makes people cry, or an even more tragic "lunar garbage dump", and a "moon unfinished real estate" that is also full of Chinese style......

-- In fact, if given the choice, China's space department would not want to build a pile of bizarre ruins on the surface of the moon and smear its own face like the real estate on Hainan Island that failed to be developed in the past...... Unfortunately, the duration of the wormhole is too urgent, and it can only be done where it goes. Even if they were ridiculed by the Japanese personnel and said that "crude Chinese products still explode even if they are in the universe", they really can't care about it at the moment.

Fortunately, in this pile of devastated ruins on the lunar surface, there are still a few sealed cabins that can be saved...... As a result, Xiao Huaidan and Peng Youzhi, two Chinese astronauts, were arrested on errands and became a lunar rescue team, riding around the lunar rover all day long, responsible for repairing these "moon village" space buildings full of problems.

Fortunately, this zuihou, a space greenhouse that has been judged to be "repairable", has finally been debugged, and then it will be able to rest for a while.

However, they had just left the lunar greenhouse, walked into the attached airlock module, prepared to breathe pure oxygen for a few hours, and then changed into low-pressure spacesuits, exited the capsule and took the electric lunar rover, and returned to the Wu Gang 13 lunar spacecraft, which served as a residence hundreds of meters away. The red siren lights on the bulkhead suddenly began to flicker brightly and darkly, and a sharp and loud electronic voice came from the loudspeaker:

“…… Alert! Alert! There is an abnormal drop in air pressure in the cabin! A leak is suspected and the automatic detection program has been initiated......"

“…… Oh hell! What the hell is going on with this?!! ”

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Note: When we look at the past with the naked eye on Earth, we can see some dark patches on the surface of the moon, and these large dark areas are called the moon sea. The lunar sea is the main geographical unit of the lunar surface, accounting for about 25% of the total lunar surface.

However, although the Moon Sea is called "the sea", it has no name, in fact, it does not contain a drop of water, but is just some relatively flat, low-lying large plains. Its surface layer is often covered with rocks similar to Earth's basalts, known as the Lunar Sea basalt, and there are also large accumulations of lunar soil or dust rich in helium-3 particles - a popular raw material for nuclear fusion and the most valuable mineral resource on the moon at present. (To be continued.) )