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Chapter 499 Wandering on the Moon?

The troops stationed on the moon were replaced by the first batch of new personnel who had already been prepared.

There are approximately three thousand people.

This is a drop in the ocean compared to the 100,000 people that Daxia has set its latest goal of reaching.

All of this stems from the official launch of the New Moon Palace Project.

[Announcement from the Supreme Command of the Great Xia Dynasty regarding the New Guanghan Palace Project]

With the approval of the Supreme Command, the "New Guanghan Palace Project" is officially launched today.

Given that the slowing trend of Earth's rotation is irreversible, and after a joint assessment by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Daxia decided to use the moon as a platform to implement the project to continue human civilization.

The core content of the plan is as follows:

I. Relying on the existing Guanghan Palace lunar base, comprehensively expand the lunar underground city cluster and construct permanent habitable facilities capable of accommodating a large population.

Second, deploy a planetary engine array on the lunar surface, to be completed within twenty years. This will propel the moon out of the gravitational pull of the solar system and into deep space.

Third, immediately launch the research and development of intelligent construction robots, and strive to achieve mass production and deployment within six months, so as to better carry out work on the moon.

IV. The initial number of construction personnel stationed on the moon will be 100,000, and the number will continue to expand according to the progress of the project.

Priority will be given to recruiting engineering and technical personnel with experience in underground city construction, while a volunteer application channel will be opened simultaneously.

Fifth, the lunar city will be equipped with a complete ecological cycle system, industrial manufacturing system and multi-layered military defense facilities to ensure self-sufficiency and security.

Earth is the cradle of human civilization, but humanity will not remain in the cradle forever.

All citizens should know that this plan is related to the survival of the nation and the continuation of civilization. We hope that all units and departments will fully cooperate, and that the whole country will work together to reach the stars.

Jointly released by the Supreme Command of Daxia and the New Hope Project Command.

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The announcement was spread.

The entire internet in China exploded.

"Wait, the first batch of 100,000 people, does that mean there will be a second or third batch? So many people, are you sure I'm not mistaken?"

"Planetary engine array? Pushing the moon along? Holy crap! Does this mean Earth has to be abandoned?"

"The teleportation portal sends people to the moon. Before, a rocket could only carry a few people; now, hundreds of thousands can go in an instant. Times have changed!"

"The infrastructure-building maniac has really gone all the way to outer space this time! The underground city that was just completed can only be lived in for a few decades, sigh."

"Working on the moon? Wandering the moon? Holy crap, we're practically an interstellar civilization now!"

The selection criteria for 100,000 people are not considered strict.

Thanks to the rapidly iterative new spacesuit technology, workers' safety in the lunar environment is now fully guaranteed.

Priority will be given to selecting engineers and technical workers with experience in underground city construction.

This group of people has experience in the construction of thirty-six underground cities, including enclosed environment construction, underground space excavation, and the establishment of life support systems—all of which are their old professions.

The physical examination was passed, the psychological assessment was approved, and the family members were properly settled.

Within three days, the first batch of 20,000 people had assembled.

Tian Shu Underground City, Teleportation Portal Transfer Cabin.

Twenty thousand people, dressed in spacesuits and carrying standardized equipment bags, lined up in a long queue.

The team was quiet and orderly, but everyone's eyes held an irrepressible excitement.

One step outside, and you're in another world.

The first engineer to set foot on the lunar soil paused for two seconds.

Looking down, I saw that the soles of my boots were stepping on grayish-white powder, light and airy, like stepping on cotton.

It was novel, but it was too quiet; apart from the voice from the communicator, the only sound was my own breathing.

He couldn't help but yell out.

"Holy crap! I've really made it big, working on engineering all the way to the moon!"

"If my dad found out, he'd be turning in his grave!"

The communication channel paused abruptly, then burst into laughter.

The somber feeling of embarking on a journey to an unfamiliar planet vanished completely.

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Once the people arrive, the equipment must follow.

Large-scale engineering machinery, distributed throughout the underground cities of the Great Xia Dynasty, began to converge on the Tian Shu underground city.

Tunnel boring machines, excavators, transport vehicles, lifting equipment, moon brick firing machines...

These steel behemoths once gnawed through granite, hollowed out thousands of meters underground, and built thirty-six underground cities.

Now, they have a new battlefield.

On the main road of the Tian Shu underground city, heavy transport flatbed trucks are lined up end to end, stretching for dozens of kilometers.

Each vehicle is secured with disassembled engineering machinery modules, tightly fastened with shock-absorbing latches.

The convoy continued day and night, rushing towards the transfer cabin in the teleportation portal.

Previously, sending one kilogram of supplies to the moon cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Now, the cost of tunnel boring machine components weighing tens of tons can be reduced to almost zero in just a few minutes.

After all, even if energy crystals are expensive, can they be as expensive as rocket launches, which are priced by the gram?

Whoever sets the score here will be the one who suffers.

Within a month, more than 300,000 pieces of various types of construction machinery arrived on the moon through the teleportation portal.

Most of them are equipped with mature AI autonomous driving systems, which are uniformly scheduled by quantum supercomputing and work according to the design drawings.

On the lunar surface, within a radius of tens of kilometers around the Guanghan Palace base, engineering vehicles covered the ground, and workers in white spacesuits moved among them.

The new Guanghan Palace project has officially commenced!

Thanks to the extensive experience gained from the 36 underground cities, the design team did not start from scratch but directly adapted the lunar environment based on mature solutions.

The city is divided into two main parts: underground and above ground.

The underground is the core.

A fully enclosed structure, excavating deep into the lunar crust, with layers and sections.

The top floor is the residential area.

The standardized living units feature an artificial lighting system in the dome, fully simulating the day-night rhythm of Earth.

The sunrise is at 7 a.m. and the sunset is at 9 p.m., even the speed at which the clouds drift is perfectly simulated.

The second level is the military zone.

Command center, weapons depot, emergency shelters—the brain and fist of the city.

The third layer is the ecological breeding area.

This floor integrates everything from growing grains and vegetables to raising chickens, pigs, and fish, as well as air purification and water circulation systems.

Whether a city can function in the long term depends not on how powerful its weapons are, but on whether it can feed its people.

The fourth floor is the industrial zone.

Heavy nuclear fusion reactor, materials processing plant, and machinery manufacturing workshop.

The heart of the city, from which all energy is pumped.

At the very bottom level, there are warehouses and transportation hubs.

Material storage warehouses, underground rail transit networks, and logistics transfer stations.

Three isolation doors are installed between each floor.

If an accident occurs on any floor, the doors and partitions will be closed to prevent it from affecting other areas.

This design is so advanced that even the engineers of Daxia could build it with their eyes closed.

After all, they had done the same job thirty-six times underground on Earth.

What truly excites everyone is the surface portion.

The above-ground buildings use high-strength alloy frames, and the windows are made of special radiation-proof glass with high-resolution flexible screens embedded on the inside.

What does this mean?

Standing inside the building on the ground, you can see the real starry sky directly through the glass.

The pitch-black universe, the hanging blue star, the blinding sun.

If you don't want to see that endless black screen, just tap the control panel.

It can simulate the sunrise in the morning and the sunset in the evening.

If it weren't for the light, floating weight beneath my feet, I would have thought I had returned to Earth before the catastrophe.

Of course, the surface portion has another core function.

That's defense!