As New Year's Eve gradually approaches, gorgeous electronic fireworks bloom like flowers in the sky over Guanghan City, bringing a strong New Year atmosphere to the New Moon people.
"Mom, look, there are many gorgeous fireworks blooming in the sky! It's so wonderful!"
A clear little girl's voice penetrated the glass window and floated out of the eggshell-shaped house.
"Mingyue, this is your first New Year on the moon. Do you know the origin of New Year's Eve?"
Yang Ying was arranging the dishes and chopsticks at the round table, and a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner soon appeared in front of everyone.
"Of course I know, the New Year's Eve festival came from Earth! Am I right?"
Mingyue opened her big eyes and stared at her mother, but when she saw her smiling and saying nothing, she had no choice but to look at her grandma sitting next to her brother.
"This child is quite confident. Let grandma tell you how our New Year's Eve came about." Yang Ying showed a helpless smile and shook her head. Today's children will lose their focus if they are not careful. The inheritance of culture.
"Mingyue, come to grandma! Let me tell you about New Year's Eve." Han Yuting asked her to sit next to her, with a kind smile on her face. "On Earth, when we arrive at New Year's Eve, adults and children start getting busy, hanging lanterns on doors, and then setting off firecrackers!"
"Well, grandma, I know all this! Then why can't you see people lighting firecrackers on the moon now?" Mingyue nestled in Han Yuting's arms, looking at the white hair on her chest, and then looking at her Those bloodshot eyes showed that grandma had not had a good rest recently and seemed very tired.
"Our Guanghan City is under construction, and the ecological environment here is still very fragile. In order to protect our new home, Crescent residents are not allowed to set off firecrackers. They can only rely on electronic fireworks and firecrackers to welcome the New Year!" Han Yuting spoke calmly.
"Well, I understand, grandma!" Mingyue nodded, very well-behaved, "Then what is New Year's Eve?"
"This New Year's Eve, just like the customs on earth, we need to put up pictures on the door, hang lanterns, and then light firecrackers." Han Yuting, wearing a white down jacket, gently stroked Mingyue's short hair, and then looked at Looking at the starry sky outside the window, he continued:
"In ancient times, there was a ferocious beast called Xi, which often attacked villagers and caused disasters on snowy nights.
In order to welcome the New Year, every family will stay in the house and light a long string of firecrackers at midnight to drive away all unlucky things including Xi!
When we were young, we had a particularly deep impression of the New Year. Before dawn, a group of children in the village would run into other people's courtyards to fight for the squibs.
Then, we go back to our respective homes to ask for New Year’s money from our grandparents..."
"Grandma, I want lucky money..." Mingyue showed her cute little face, and her eyes were full of joy.
"Haha...Yuemei, I really belong to you!" Brother Changhe couldn't help laughing at the side.
At the same time, the whole family's happy laughter came and went, slowly floating outside the eggshell-shaped room.
Like this eggshell-style building, the walls are inlaid with large and small arc-shaped glass windows, and they are intertwined with each other through glass corridors like a spider web.
Overlooking the entire Guanghan City, there are thousands of eggshell buildings, with two red lanterns hanging at the door, complementing the electronic fireworks in the sky, making the New Year's Eve very prosperous and gorgeous.
Looking from the International Space Station, the moon seems to have turned into a huge red lantern, hanging high next to the blue earth, making it even more beautiful.
Pan Tianyi stood alone on the roof of the building, looking at the colorful New Year's Eve in Tiancheng City. He faced the bronze building across the street and imagined the happy reunion of Han Yuting and her family on the moon.
"If you miss it, you will lose it. Some family ties can never be recovered."
Pantian lowered his head, feeling a dull pain.
At this time, a woman slowly approached him from behind and gently hugged his back.
Pan Tianyi felt a touch of tenderness and the fragrance of a woman. When he turned around, he was surprised to find that it was her.
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Ah Jiu... Liya! Why are you here? "
"Do you believe that all of this is an arrangement of fate? Time can seal the emotions of every life and weaken everyone's memory! It will bring us endless pain!" Ah Jiu, a holy and beautiful woman, with a cold look on her face, Overlooking every corner of the city.
"Why is this? We have been busy all our lives pursuing a certain belief! In the end, life and death are nothing but nothingness!" Pan Tianyi turned pale, a little painful.
"Hmph!" Ah Jiu's whole body was filled with a cold aura, and she looked at Pan Tianyi with a touch of anger, "Throughout human history, civilizations have experienced ups and downs, and only nations with beliefs and myths will pass on in the cycle of time. Love and eternity."
Pan Tianyi faced Ah Jiu and looked at the sea level in the east, "Each of us has had independent beliefs. In the ancient times when the wilderness was raging, and now when the ocean is rising, our race is fighting against the sky and the earth, creating It has been a period of turbulent history, but the gods in the sky seem to be unable to do anything, and they never seem to appear. I am really disappointed..."
"You and I both grew up in awakening and came to the earth with a mission, and the gods are just higher-level beings than the people on earth! They, we, all advanced beings cannot change the operating laws of the earth's matrix! War, Plague and destruction will always accompany earth civilization."
Ah Jiu frowned slightly, his eyes flickered, and his sight seemed to be able to cross the Himalayas and look to the distant sea level, "There, our high seas fleet was attacked by the North American Combined Fleet's tactical nuclear weapons in the Indian Ocean area. The naval battle was extremely fierce! And our nearest neighbor, the missile system was also invaded by the virus. A small nuclear bomb was launched towards the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and was intercepted by our ladder shield, causing the nuclear warhead to change its attack target and move towards space. Fly away..."
"Does it mean that the ideological gap and racial conflicts between human civilizations can never be eliminated?" Pan Tianyi understood Ah Jiu's thoughts, "So, this is the answer to life and the fate of earth civilization! I really I can’t believe it, it seems like nothing can be changed! Why?”
"Hmph! This is all about knowing yourself from your heart. Everything has the answer!" Ah Jiu glanced at him and became even quieter.
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Looking towards the South Pole of the Moon from space, many craters are dotted with urban light spots. These light spots are actually cities shrouded in huge glass domes. The largest city among them is Guanghan City, covering an area as large as the earth from east to west. At the township level, there are thousands of eggshell buildings of various sizes scattered throughout the city.
At this moment, the streets in Guanghan City are filled with the lively atmosphere of the New Year, and you can see the smiling faces of children playing with electronic fireworks everywhere.
Pan Tianming accompanied his wife as they walked on the concrete streets of the city, where many Crescent residents gathered. They looked at the electronic fireworks above their heads, filled with joy of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new.
When they arrived at the edge of the glass dome, Pan Tianming put on his space suit, and he and his wife took a capsule-shaped lunar rover and sped towards the mountains outside the city.
Guanghan City is located in the Everlasting Day Zone of the South Pole of the Moon. The slopes of the basin a few kilometers away are covered with orderly solar photovoltaic panels, which provide sufficient electrical energy for the entire Guanghan City and the lunar scientific research station.
The lunar rover is driving on the endless lunar surface, and the dust behind the rover rises into the sky quickly like smoke.
Half a month later, they arrived at a hilly highland. Not far away was the dark and deep Grand Canyon, which housed the 2,000-meter-diameter cosmic radio telescope, the Lunar Sky Eye.
The Lunar Sky Eye Observatory is located in the Moon Toad 2 crater, located in the Evernight Zone of the Aitken Basin. The engineers at the station will not see sunlight for more than a hundred days. It is this clean night environment that allows the Sky Eye to better detect distant stars and dark matter in the deep space of the universe.
The rover stopped, its bright lights illuminating the edge of the canyon.
Yang Ying put on the glass helmet for her daughter, stepped off the capsule lunar rover, and came to the Grand Canyon lighting area.
The Milky Way stars in the sky are like silk covered with diamonds, covering the large depression of Moon Toad. The bright moon looks into the night sky from a distance and becomes extremely excited.
They circled the Moon Toad Pit while chatting about work
While doing this, I looked up at the stars in the sky.
Before I knew it, a huge blue crescent moon had quietly hung over the horizon.
"Look, Mom! There is a blue moon in the sky!" Mingyue cheered, seeing such a spectacular lunar night sky for the first time.
"Mingyue, that is the home of our human civilization!".c
Yang Ying stroked her daughter's space helmet and smiled softly, "The earth we see is almost all in the dark night, and only part of the outline makes us look like a crescent blue moon!"
"Why did it become so blue?" Mingyue blinked her big black eyes, raised her head and looked up at her mother, her face full of curiosity.
"This is because global sea levels are rising, resulting in less and less land on the five continents. Now the earth is full of oceans, and the sun's rays are reflected into space, so the earth looks blue!" Speaking of this, Yang Ying looked at Lan Yue and let out a long sigh.
"Mom, in the future the earth will be submerged by sea water. Will humans have to move to the moon and Mars?" Ming Yue saw her mother deep in thought and her voice became softer.
"Yes, we want to build permanent scientific research bases on other planets to cope with various catastrophes in the future of the earth!" Yang Ying moved her sight to the Antarctic scientific research base dozens of kilometers away, and countless historical scenes emerged one by one in her mind. in front of.
China's manned lunar landing began here. They successively established a water and oxygen refining field, a solar photovoltaic power plant, and a nuclear helium-III refining plant at the south pole of the moon.
In the space between the earth and the moon, a kilometer-level Mars transport spacecraft left a long white mist in the dark night and was slowly flying towards the Mars Nuwa base.
This scene looks like a stray comet from the moon, dragging a long white light in space and streaking across the lunar night sky little by little.
When Pan Tianming's family of three got tired from walking, they came to sit on a high ground on the edge of the Eye of the Sky. This place is located in the Yongye District of the Aitken Basin. Without sunlight, the stars in the sky are very dazzling!
The bright moon is nestled in her mother's arms, curiously looking at the three stars of Orion.
Suddenly, a star with six rays of light was reflected in those young pupils. It flickered like a diamond, emitting a faint blue light.
"Haha...it's so beautiful! Mom, look there!" Mingyue looked surprised and stretched out her hand to the night sky, pointing at the magnetic star.
"That's Orion's Belt! They are Rigel, Rigel, and Betelgeuse! Where are you pointing?" Yang Ying followed the direction of her daughter's fingers and looked at the Orion stars.
"I'm talking about Rigel!" Mingyue was a little anxious and her face turned red.
"Well, that's a magnetar, more than 1,500 light-years away from us!" Pan Tianming was attracted by his daughter's curiosity. He also looked at the Orion stars and explained by the way.
"Oh, it's so far away. I'm afraid we'll never get there..." Mingyue said to herself, with a hint of disappointment in her voice.
Suddenly, the star flashed a few times and disappeared from the starry sky.
Mingyue looked at the stars in Orion for a long time, but no trace of her could be found. She pouted and said sadly:
"Mom, she seems to have disappeared forever..."
