Chapter 131: Jackpot!
Chapter 131 – Jackpot!
With both arms wrapped around his chest, Chen Yu leaned against the Interstellar Portal. He watched the police officers and astronauts working in haste. He then said, “Don’t panic. Slow down. No rush…”
“Mr. K-King, on behalf of Tai’an City, I would like to thank you for your a.s.sistance,” the middle-aged police officer said as he deeply bowed to Chen Yu once more.
“Don’t mention it.” Chen Yu waved his hand casually. Straightening his body, he asked, “It seems you’re done suiting up?”
“We’re ready.”
The four astronauts each grabbed a corner of one of the two large boxes. And under the support of over 20 police officers, they arduously walked up to Chen Yu.
Lowering his head, Chen Yu looked at his own protective suit before turning to look at the bulky and clumsy s.p.a.cesuits the four astronauts were wearing. He then faced the camera and said, “Do you see this? This is the progress of technology.”
[Can you have some humanity?!]
[At least those s.p.a.cesuits are enough to survive on the moon.]
[I’m very curious to find out what will be reported in tomorrow’s newspaper.]
[Cheers to our aeros.p.a.ce industry’s breakthrough! (Doge face)]
“I’ll enter first. You guys follow afterward.”
Straightening himself, Chen Yu scanned the surrounding crowd before taking a step onto the moon.
The instant he stepped through the arch, both sound and gravity disappeared simultaneously. For a moment, Chen Yu even felt as if he could fly just by waving his arms.
“As everyone can see, I have ascended to the moon, and it feels quite honestly.”
After saying so, Chen Yu leaped forward and effortlessly crossed a distance of five meters. While he was still in mid-air, he turned to face the camera and explained, “This place is the Sea of Tranquility, located on the equator of the moon’s front. As to why I chose this place, I’m sure everyone knows why, even without my explanation.
“This place, is none other than the landing point of America’s 1969 Moon Landing Program.”
After saying so, Chen Yu turned the camera angle downwards.
Immediately, what entered the camera’s sight was none other than America’s national flag lying flat on one of the moon’s numerous craters.
Out of America’s numerous moon exploration programs, this was also the only national flag that the country had failed to install correctly. The flag got blown out of position when the lunar module took off…
However, despite 50 years having gone by, the flag remained mostly intact.
Whoosh!
Activating the plasma engine, Chen Yu gradually descended toward the flag and started observing it together with his 900,000 viewers.
“There have always been two major questions about America’s landing on the moon. First, how can the flag flutter?” Reaching out and grabbing the flag, Chen Yu explained, “Can you see it? The flag isn’t fluttering at all. As to why it can remain unfolded, it is because of this steel bar hanging on top of the flag. Um…”
After giving the support bar a squeeze, Chen Yu raised his thumb and said, “Amazing! It’s really a steel bar! Yet, the ones that set up this flag didn’t even bother to straighten it! Their actions are even more perfunctory than when I’m hanging my clothes to dry!”
After saying so, Chen Yu manipulated the pulse engine to accelerate forward by a few meters before landing on the moon’s surface on his feet. After landing, he raised one of his feet and looked down.
A striped footprint could be clearly seen at the location where his foot initially stepped on.
“Next, let’s talk about the second question. Many people say that the moon lacks moisture, so how can a footprint solidify? Well, can you see my footprint? It solidified.”
Spreading his arms, Chen Yu said, “The ground is covered in lunar dust. Without rain or wind, the footprints you leave behind naturally wouldn’t disappear. Hence, there is no need to doubt the validity of America’s moon landing. It is real.
“Fifty years ago, the moon landing’s one billion spectators did not doubt it.
“Of the 300,000 engineers involved in the Apollo moon-landing project, none of them doubted the landing.
“Back then, even the Soviets did not doubt the moon landing as their Luna 15 was right above the Apollo 11 astronauts.
“In the past 50 years, countless experts and scholars worldwide have conducted Lunar Laser Ranging experiments and lunar earthquake a.n.a.lyses, and none of these people have ever questioned the moon landing!
“In 2012, even our own country’s Chang’e-2 has captured images showing the remains of America’s moon landing. Hence, there really is no reason to doubt the moon landing event.”
After saying so, Chen Yu turned around and looked at the four astronauts that had just walked through the Interstellar Portal. He then continued, “Moreover, according to my knowledge, the Apollo navigation computer used back then didn’t even have a decent CPU. It had only a little more than 4,000 integrated circuits, and its memory is only four kilobytes. Even if we include NASA’s mainframe computer, the total memory would only be around one megabyte.
“With just four thousand ICs and one megabyte of storage, the Americans have completed the moon landing, further proving humans’ endless potential.
“Hah…”
After subconsciously sighing, Chen Yu revved up the engine and flew toward the four astronauts.
As for the American flag lying flat on the ground…
Who cares?
Not him, that’s for sure…
“Hey, what are you guys doing?”
After arriving before the astronauts, Chen Yu noticed the group eagerly taking out various tools and instruments from the big box they carried over. They then started setting up equipment, installing sensors, digging, collecting samples, and conducting on-site testing and data transmission.
When one of the astronauts noticed Chen Yu’s arrival through the corner of his eyes, he hurriedly turned around and took out a flag from the box. The astronaut then solemnly handed the flag to Chen Yu.
“Uh.” Chen Yu accepted the flag in a daze. He stretched out a finger and pointed at his own nose after a moment, asking, “Me?”
As the astronaut was unable to nod his head due to the s.p.a.cesuit, he could only awkwardly bend his waist a few times.
“Um… Nice.”
While holding onto the flag, Chen Yu had the faint feeling that he had been caught in a ploy. However, he did not feel opposed to it. Instead, he happily accepted the red flag, found a proper location, and forcefully inserted it into the ground!
The flag, stood still.
As the red flag unfolded, it looked especially dazzling compared to the stars and stripes lying a dozen meters away.
[66666!]
[Awesome! Great! I support! We have hope!]
[Ah This feels awesome]
[I’m br.i.m.m.i.n.g with the desire to live now.]
[Ready! Sing! Me and my motherland.]
[We’ve contracted this moon now. :)]
[I just joined. The special effects look so real. Amazing. I’m subscribing.]
[Newcomers don’t comment. You’re an embarra.s.sment.]
Patting off the non-existent dust on his hands, Chen Yu took a few steps back and nodded in satisfaction. “While this is a small action of mine, it is a ma.s.sive action for the human race. Not bad.”
After seeing Chen Yu planting the flag, the astronaut took out a piece of cardboard and a special black pen and clumsily wrote—Thank you.
“You’re welcome.”
Afterward, Chen Yu grabbed the cardboard and pen and wrote two lines beneath the words “Thank you.”
“When will you guys be done? Do you have enough oxygen? Let me know when you’re ready to return.”
The astronaut was stunned by Chen Yu’s words. With his trembling right hand, he wrote on the cardboard, “We can go back?!”
Chen Yu was similarly stunned. Picking up the pen, he wrote, “You don’t want to go back?”
“Want! Want! Want!”
The astronaut never thought that Chen Yu would wait for them to return. With great excitement, the astronaut hurriedly relayed this piece of news to his three colleagues.
In the next moment, the three other astronauts went crazy and started hugging each other for half a minute. Afterward, they started working with even greater haste.
After setting up all their equipment and transmitting a message back to Earth, the four astronauts each took out a small shovel and frantically filled the now-empty box with lunar dust and rocks.
While filling the box, the four also fanatically mumbled to themselves.
“Jackpot…”
“Jackpot…”
“Jackpot…”
“Jackpot!”
Simultaneously, the hundreds of people sitting inside a certain s.p.a.ce command center back on Earth were also wildly cheering in their hearts.
“Jackpot!”
“Jackpot!”
“Jackpot…”