novel bin Chapter 491 If it weren't for you, we probably wouldn't be here today.
Chapter 491 If it weren't for you, we probably wouldn't be here today.
"Commander Han, hello!"
Li Qinghe's voice rang out again on the channel.
He stood at the inner edge of the portal and waved to the lunar rover outside.
Han Shujia pushed open the car door and walked to the light gate with the ethereal steps characteristic of low gravity.
He stretched out his heavily gloved hand, hovering it tentatively outside the blue light screen, not daring to touch it at all.
"Correspondent Li, how... how did you do that?" Han Shu's fake Adam's apple bobbed.
"The materials have already been sent to you, haven't they?" Li Qinghe smiled and explained.
"This is Commander Lin Molin, the head of the New Hope Project, and the overall head of Terra Continent."
Han Shujia immediately saluted.
"Good day, Commander Lin!"
Lin Mo was still chanting incantations and casting spells, nodding slightly as a response.
Several young men from Blue Star, seeing the already large teleportation portal, couldn't contain themselves. After consulting with their leader, they carefully stepped through the portal.
The moment his boots touched the soft, warm earth, the young man tentatively jumped lightly.
Whoosh-!
He leaped four or five meters into the air.
"Holy crap! This weightlessness is amazing!" The comms channel erupted with excited shouts from young people.
"I've been to the moon!"
"This is one small step for me, but one giant leap for my family! Hahaha!"
Watching these young men from Earth hopping around on the lunar surface like rabbits, the veterans at the lunar base had tears in their eyes.
Zhang Tao was panting heavily as he stared at the glowing door.
"Old Han, I want to go and take a look." His voice was hoarse.
Han Shujia was somewhat surprised, but now that they were in contact with Blue Star, he finally felt relieved and suppressed a smile, saying:
"Go."
He's waiting to see what happens.
Zhang Tao took a step forward, took a deep breath, and stepped through the portal.
The surrounding environment had changed; it was no longer an endless night and a deathly silent starry sky, but a bright, hard metal cabin.
But he didn't even have time to put on a smile.
"Bang!"
A muffled thud.
Zhang Tao slammed his knees heavily onto the metal floor, kneeling down in a deep bow to Lin Mo, who was not far away.
Lin Mo: "???"
Then, Zhang Tao collapsed like a lump of mud.
"Old Zhang! Are you alright?" Han Shujia called out from outside the door.
The staff of Blue Star rushed over to help him.
After spending several months in the low-gravity environment of the moon, surviving on inferior nutritional pastes every day, Zhang Tao's bone density would decrease even with exercise, and his muscles would atrophy.
The standard gravity of Earth was like a mountain to him.
"Don't worry, I'm fine!" Zhang Tao's voice rang out in the communication channel.
He waved away the staff member's hand, and through the mask of his spacesuit, Zhang Tao trembled all over, tears streaming down his face.
"It's the gravity of Earth..." He carefully sensed everything that was so familiar, and he could almost smell the fragrance of plants.
"I'm back, I'm back... Motherland has not abandoned us!"
God knows how much pressure he's been under for the past month.
When Da Xia ordered them to destroy other countries' lunar bases, everyone else was stunned.
When he confirmed that a nuclear war had broken out on Earth, his mind went completely blank.
Because, most likely, he can't go back!
He will never see his children, his parents again.
Despite the immense psychological pressure, he still took up arms and fought against other bases.
The battle on the moon was won. With the enemy's intentions being met with surprise and the disparity in strength, victory was inevitable.
However, none of the Daxia people at the entire lunar base felt any joy. After completing their tasks each day, they would quietly stare blankly at the blue planet outside their windows.
Looking at that blue planet, it turned gray and hazy in the nuclear winter.
Because of nuclear radiation, they were completely cut off from Earth.
Every day, every hour, every second from then on was torture!
How is our motherland?
Did they win?
Are my family members still alive?
Is there any point in them staying on the moon?
Fortunately, it is meaningful.
After a week of being disconnected, the connection was re-established, and I learned that my country was safe and my family was safe.
He remembers everyone crying that day.
I thought everything would be fine after that and I could go home.
They received devastating news that the rocket could not be launched due to the destruction of surface infrastructure, and they would have to continue waiting.
They didn't say exactly how long it would take.
But Zhang Tao knew that under massive nuclear radiation, even with radiation protection suits, the construction of a launch site would proceed at an alarmingly slow pace.
Once it's built, they'll likely starve to death on the moon.
A lunar base capable of sustaining several thousand people consumes enormous amounts of resources every day.
Even if some food is grown on the moon, it will still be insufficient to cover expenses.
He felt like he was about to break down.
Fortunately, everything is fine now.
Everything is alright!
"Waaaaah—"
On the communication channel, Zhang Tao's sobs could be heard.
Everyone around quieted down.
Several young people who had been jumping around just moments before stood still, silently turning their heads away, their eyes reddening.
Mortals may traverse the Milky Way, but their only true home is their hometown.
Secretary Li opened her eyes, composed herself, and changed the subject:
"The portal diameter has been expanded to seven meters."
"Commander Han, prepare to receive the supplies!"
"Huh?" Han Shujia was taken aback for a moment.
Secretary Li smiled and said:
"In the past, we used Long March rockets to deliver supplies, which were delivered by the gram, and that wasn't efficient enough."
"Now... let's pull it by the ton!"
Behind the transit cabin, the heavy sound of hydraulic pressure on the airtight doors could be heard.
The second door slowly opened.
To Han Shujia's astonishment, two heavy industrial forklifts rumbled in.
The forklift forks were neatly stacked with supplies as high as a small mountain!
It was full of all kinds of meat, boxes of medicine, daily necessities, and even dozens of boxes of fresh and crisp vegetables and fruits!
"God..." Han Shujia was so excited he almost cried.
Good heavens, how long has it been since he ate meat and fruit? He's been dreaming about it!
He feels nauseous every time he brushes his teeth because of the taste of synthetic nutritional paste.
"Quickly! Notify everyone at the base who is available!" Han Shujia yelled at the top of his lungs over the channel.
"Bring all the vehicles that can hold cargo, everyone assemble!"
"Come on, move some supplies for me!"
Soon, thousands of lunar base personnel, dressed in tattered spacesuits, drove lunar rovers of all sizes and swarmed to the portal like worker ants.
Truckloads of supplies passed through the portal and were continuously transported to the Guanghan Palace base.
There is no burning rocket exhaust plume, and no expensive launch costs.
With just this one door, Daxia directly extended its logistics line to the surface of the moon.
more than three hours later.
The portal, which had reached a height and width of twenty meters, finally stabilized and stopped expanding.
Lin Mo put down his staff and exhaled a long breath.
"Commander Lin, thank you for your hard work." Secretary Li expressed his sincere gratitude with a slight bow.
Lin Mo waved his hand, looked down at his spacesuit, and after confirming that everything was alright, he followed the crowd to the moon.
The feeling of weightlessness on the moon instantly enveloped my entire body.
The sensation of gently stepping on the rough lunar soil was strangely peculiar.
Lin Mo turned around and looked up.
The pitch-black depths of space resemble a giant curtain.
In the center of the curtain, a hazy, gray planet hangs.
That's Blue Star.
Due to the effects of nuclear winter, the surface of Earth is covered with a layer of gray haze, like a giant that is terminally ill, exuding a sense of desolation.
And further away, there is the blinding, eternal sun.
Han Shujia, who was directing the moving of supplies, saw that Lin Mo finally had some free time and immediately jumped over to Lin Mo.
"Commander Lin, on behalf of the 3,110 people at the lunar base, I sincerely thank you!"
"If it weren't for you, we...we might never have been able to go back."