In this way, a group of five people, accompanied by two satellite satellites, landed on the moon.
Even though they had made all preparations in advance, when they set foot on this land in person, they couldn't help but feel nervous.
After all, this was the first time for everyone to land on the moon like this, even professional astronaut Zhao Liang.
Although he has been to a space station before, he has never truly visited an extraterrestrial planet.
Now, he needs to personally lead a team of scientists to the moon. How can he not be nervous?
The same goes for everyone else, and they don’t even care to appreciate the beautiful scenery here.
Their minds are now filled with the training they received in the past few days, and almost all they are thinking about is what to do next.
Fortunately, as time passed, everyone gradually adapted to this feeling, and their attention returned to the surrounding environment.
Even if he had already seen the outside scene through the holographic projection in that spaceship before.
But after stepping here in person, the senses brought to people are still different.
The endlessly deep starry sky, the sun in the distance that looks like a white spot, and the aqua stars emitting blue light are all intoxicating.
"Okay, everyone, adjust your posture. How do you feel? Is there anything uncomfortable?"
Zhao Liang's voice came from the team's communication channel.
"I was a little dizzy just now, but I'm fine now!"
"I'm fine, everything is fine!"
"no problem!"
"OK!"
The team members' answers came one after another. After Zhao Liang confirmed everyone's status, he said:
"Okay, since you can adapt to it, then follow me. The goal this time is to collect lunar soil and collect a specimen of the lunar tree."
After he finished speaking, he led everyone to a small mound of soil, and then began the work of collecting lunar soil.
The collector used by everyone this time is a special space box with a volume of about one cubic meter.
This kind of box has its own disinfection function. It is a professional aviation equipment that Zhao Liang spent a lot of time to acquire.
If it were filled with lunar soil, it would probably hold about two tons.
But people won’t pretend that much, and pretending to 70% is enough.
Faced with this number, everyone was extremely excited.
Especially Mr. Richard, after knowing the amount of lunar soil brought back this time, he was almost crazy with excitement.
You can't blame him for this, after all, lunar soil is so precious. When he was at the research institute, it was almost impossible to apply for one.
This is all limited by humanity's current technology, which makes it impossible to bring lunar soil back to Aquamarine in large quantities.
Over the past few decades, Americans have only brought back a few hundred kilograms from the moon.
Now, this is just the first time for everyone, and they can actually get back more than a ton at once. How can this not make people excited?
The lunar soil on the surface of the moon is very loose and can be picked up with just a handful of hands.
At the beginning, everyone still collected with a sacred mentality.
But as more and more lunar soil was collected, everyone's movements became faster.
In the end, if it weren't for the restrictions of the thick spacesuits, everyone would probably just bend over and use the plane.
On the dawn greeting ship not far away, Zhang Xiaoman couldn't help but smile on his face when he saw this scene.
In fact, he doesn't have to go to such trouble and just order the satellites to collect the lunar soil.
His previous concern was just that he was afraid that this would cause some unknown trouble.
But now that he has professional aerospace and biological guidance, he can easily avoid these threats, and there seems to be no need for Richard and the others to work hard to pretend there is dirt.
The reason for doing this is entirely based on the enthusiasm of these people for their work.
Since they like the feeling of bending down to collect in person, it doesn't hurt for Zhang Xiaoman to help a few of them.
Time passed quietly due to the tireless work of Richard and others.
Five people, more than a ton of lunar soil, it took them more than 20 minutes in total.
After all, space suits are really not the first choice for physical labor.
In addition, several people could not use relevant digging tools, so they could only find some soft soil places to scoop little by little, and the speed would naturally not increase.
Considering the safety of the spacesuit's battery life, the next few people had to speed up their actions, and they could no longer enjoy the task of collecting moon tree specimens.
This so-called moon tree is the ugly purple strange tree that Zhang Xiaoman once saw here.
At that time, there was also a wild insect that came to eat, but he later killed it.
From then on, Zhang Xiaoman would come regularly to check the status of these trees every few days and see if there were any other insects harming the place.
Fortunately, there seemed to be only one bug on the moon, and he didn't find any other bugs.
On the contrary, this forest has expanded a lot in just over a month, and the previous trees have also grown a lot.
At this moment, Zhang Xiaoman had used the spirit detection technique to explore the woods, and no danger was found.
Zhao Liang and others immediately entered it and began to observe the appearance of these moon trees up close.
Previously, it was said to be the home of experts in the field of astronomy such as Richard, but now it is replaced by Tina.
She looked at the moon trees with bright eyes through the thick glass of the space helmet, and her excitement was no less than when Richard and the others saw the moon soil.
I lightly scratched it with a knife, but the surface of the trees was not affected at all.
Tina was stunned for a moment, then increased her strength, but it still had no effect.
Zhang Xiaoman saw her intention and immediately ordered a star guard to step forward to help.
Unlike the other people who had just joined the Star Alliance, Tina had already entered the organization's laboratory half a month ago because of Dane's relationship, and she still had some understanding of these armored warriors.
Seeing them coming, he immediately stepped aside and waited for the other party to take action.
I saw the star guard quickly draw out the long sword from his waist, and then slashed it hard on the branch of the moon tree.
The latter was cut off easily, and a stream of juice spurted out, as if a living thing was bleeding.
"These guys feel like they are alive to me..."
Zhao Liang's voice came from the voice channel.
"I asked, did you hear a scream just now? Why do I always feel like this tree screamed just now?"
Another team member who was closer said.
"Liu Yang, are you stupid? This is the moon. Even if the other party screams, you can't hear it."
However, Zhang Xiaoman, who was not far away, frowned.
Because he felt that the team member heard correctly, the tree had indeed screamed just now.
But it was not a cry in the ordinary sense, but a kind of spiritual transmission.
From his psychic perception, he could clearly find that when the branches of the moon tree were cut off, the overall dark energy fluctuations changed drastically.
Zhang Xiaoman was a little confused.
He remembered that when he first discovered this place, he ordered the satellite guards to destroy the branches of this tree, but it did not produce a similar effect.
"Is it because the size has increased?"
While he was thinking about it secretly in his mind, the sound of the star sequence suddenly came to his ears.
"Alert, five kilometers southeast, a large number of unknown creatures are approaching."
"A large number of unknown creatures!?"
Zhang Xiaoman was startled and instantly thought of Huang Chong.
Sure enough, as the projection played by the star sequence appeared in front of everyone, he saw densely packed wild insects running crazily.
Although the number is not as large as that of the Seventh Fleet last time, it is still terrifying enough.
"Zhao Liang, lead the team back immediately! There are alien groups coming here!"
Zhang Xiaoman gave instructions to the exploration team outside the voice.
Everyone was slightly startled when they heard this, and then suddenly shocked.
They knew something about those alien species. Everyone had even seen their corpses at close range during the moon landing training and knew what kind of terrifying existence they were.
"Why, how could this happen...Can living things really survive in this environment? Is this really..."
A surprised voice came from one of the team members, but he stopped mid-sentence because his eyes saw the two star guards beside him...
The satellite guards did not pause at all. They took action as soon as Zhang Xiaoman's order was issued. They picked up the box containing lunar soil on the ground and walked towards the Dawn.
The members of the exploration team also reacted and evacuated back as quickly as possible.
Before leaving, Tina did not forget to bend down and pick up the branch that fell on the ground.
Fortunately, although the insects were coming with force, they were still some distance away from everyone at the moment, and the remaining time was enough for them to retreat.
As the five people returned to the isolation compartment of the spacecraft, the outermost hatch was immediately closed, and a burst of disinfectant gas was discharged from the cabin and began to be pressurized.
The Dawn took off immediately and immediately increased its altitude to avoid being attacked by the bugs.
After a while, a group of people walked in pushing the space box, and the branch in Tina's hand was preserved by a special glass vessel.
"Star Master, you just said that there are alien species coming over. Could it be those wild insects?"
Tina placed the glassware, and then asked Zhang Xiaoman with fear on her face.
Zhang Xiaoman nodded, and then ordered Xingxue to turn on the holographic mode and project the scene on the moon below for everyone to watch.
"hiss……"
Everyone gasped after seeing the dense swarm of insects.
They have all been engaged in scientific research all their lives, but when they saw such a terrifying swarm of insects, all of them looked ugly.
"These bugs...are there a lot of them on the moon? Will they go to the Aquamarine...?"
Zhao Liang said with some stuttering.
"This possibility cannot be ruled out."
Zhang Xiaoman looked solemn.
What Zhao Liang said was also what he was most worried about.
Previously, I spent a lot of effort to eliminate the bugs on Rebirth Island, in order to prevent them from multiplying rapidly and sweeping the entire world.
But now, the crisis on Aquamarine has just been resolved, and a large-scale insect swarm has appeared on the moon, which is causing a lot of headaches.
After all, this is not Aquamarine. If you want to fight here, in addition to relying on the Dawn, you will only have Star Guards.
The Dawn's ammunition is limited, which is not enough to wipe out large-scale insect swarms.
The large-scale plasma beam attack like last time can no longer be used.
If you rely solely on star guards, killing a small group of bugs is not a problem.
But once the opponent's number increases, the attacks of the Star Guards can only be of no avail.
If these bugs are allowed to develop freely, maybe one day there will really be a scene where an overwhelming army of bugs invades Aquablue Planet.
As for his space program, that won't be affected at all.
After all, there is so much lunar soil on the moon, Zhang Xiaoman just needs to find a place to land, and then let the satellites dig up the soil and bring it back.
With the efficiency of the satellite, it can be compared to a humanoid excavator.
"Is it possible to use a nuclear bomb...?"
Zhang Xiaoman felt a little helpless.
He really didn't want to go to this step unless he had to.
The moon is the main site for his next development, and he does not want the environment here to be damaged.
Moreover, it is a bit unrealistic to use nuclear bombs to attack these insect swarms.
First of all, the Covenant itself does not have nuclear bombs. If you want to use nuclear strikes to attack bugs, you must inform the countries on Aquamarine that have nuclear bombs.
According to normal logic, after learning this news, countries will definitely not sit idly by and ignore it.
However, this would undoubtedly expose the Star Alliance's trump card, which would go against Zhang Xiaoman's original intention of stable development.
Moreover, judging from the current technology of various countries on Aquamarine, it is not easy to detonate a nuclear bomb in outer space, let alone detonating it on the moon, which is almost impossible.
Unless countries are willing to hand over nuclear bombs to the Covenant for use, it is possible to implement the plan to detonate the moon.
But in this case, there are probably not many people who are willing to do this.
It is impossible to hand over something like a nuclear bomb to an organization that does not know its roots.
Moreover, the power of nuclear bombs detonating in a vacuum environment will be greatly reduced.
Because there is no air in space, shock waves cannot be transmitted. At the same time, the temperature in space is extremely low, and the effectiveness of thermal radiation will also drop sharply.
The only thing that can cause damage is the energy released at the moment of explosion.
Therefore, this ultimate weapon that can destroy the world on Aquamarine is just a very powerful conventional artillery shell in space.
In short, it is unrealistic to use nuclear bombs on the moon to quickly eliminate the hordes.
Zhang Xiaoman thought a lot at this moment.
For him, Aquablue Star is his hometown and the foundation of his development. He will never allow anything to go wrong here.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at the system interface opened in front of him, where there was a prop waiting for him to buy.
