"Country M will officially start landing on the moon in five days. They will send ten astronauts to the moon at once!"

This news stunned Han Xu and the three of them.

Nangong Yue reacted quickly and said: "This means we only have five days, and we must speed up the progress of the moon landing!"

Han Xu and Chu Fei both nodded silently, but at this moment, they could do nothing but wait for the space capsule to accelerate around the earth.

The process of orbiting the earth did not last long, because all they needed was to use the earth's gravity to accelerate.

During this process, Nangong Yue is checking various equipment over and over again. This is the second moon landing in human history. If there is even the slightest mistake, they will all die.

Chu Fei kept checking her task list. She was assigned a very important task in this moon landing plan.

Han Xu, on the other hand, had nothing to do. He asked: "Country M launched the moon landing plan in such a hurry after seeing us landing on the moon. What is on the back of the moon?"

The two people obviously paused after hearing Han Xu's question. Team leader Nangong Yue said: "I don't know either, and it is precisely because of this that we need to go to the back of the moon."

Chu Fei also said: "What is on the back side of the moon? You will know it when you get there."

Afterwards, everyone continued to work on their own tasks. Han Xu wondered whether it was because he joined temporarily, or because the two of them knew some core secrets, so it was inconvenient for them to communicate too much with him.

However, a few minutes later, Nangong Yue was the first to break the calm. He said: "There is indeed something on the back side of the moon. During the last lunar exploration, they took incredible photos, but because the photos were too blurry, someone needs to go and check them in person."

Nangong Yue feels that everyone is a teammate traveling together, and it is better not to hide many things, because no one knows whether she can come back alive from this trip.

Han Xu nodded: "Actually, I also found out some secrets. It is said that after arriving at a certain area on the back of the moon, contact with the earth will be lost, and the command center will not be able to know what is there and what happened, so someone needs to personally

Go."

Chu Fei looked solemn: "They must have discovered something, otherwise they wouldn't let me come with you, maybe..."

She did not dare to say her guess out loud. She kept looking through her notebook, which recorded a lot of biological knowledge. During this trip, she also brought many instruments for extracting biological tissues with her.

"Perhaps, we should find another linguist."

Chu Fei said with a wry smile.

The topic ends here, and the atmosphere solidifies again. After all, they have not been teammates for a long time. Nangong Yue has entered space several times and completed many manned space missions.

Han Xu and Chu Fei were participating in a manned space mission for the first time. Although Han Xu was a substitute astronaut, he should not have joined such an important mission based on his qualifications. He was still younger than Nangong Yue for many years.

There are many substitute astronauts between him and Nangong Yue.

Chu Fei, on the other hand, does not have a professional background at all. She is just a biologist. Although she is the youngest biology academician in the country, she should not be selected into this moon landing team anyway.

But something like this happened, which made the three people have deep doubts in their hearts.

What is on the far side of the moon?

Han Xu and others waited anxiously. After the space capsule circled the earth for one and a half times, the third-stage sub-rocket suddenly ignited and launched the spacecraft towards the moon with the help of the earth's gravity slingshot.

At this moment, the three people finally saw the gray planet through the circular window. It was the destination of their trip, a satellite that revolves around the earth for 4.6 billion years.

"It took Country M five days to get from the earth to the moon, but it only took us five hours." Team leader Nangong Yue said with emotion. He looked at the gray sphere in the distance and felt proud of the power of his motherland.

Chu Fei said worriedly: "Then how long will it take for Country M to catch up with us?"

In five days, Country M will start its moon landing plan, and they are only five days ahead!

Han Xu looked in the direction of home, and he saw that the beautiful blue sphere was gradually getting smaller.

Chu Fei took out the camera and took a photo of the earth and the moon every hour. In the photo, the earth is getting smaller and smaller, while the moon is getting bigger and bigger.

"If I can go back alive, maybe these photos will be displayed in the museum." Chu Fei was playing with a small camera, her fingers were trembling slightly, and she seemed a little nervous.

Han Xu didn't know which brand or type of camera it was. He just silently took out a hexagonal amulet made of sterling silver. This was a sterling silver amulet passed down from generation to generation by Han Xu's ancestors. It had elusive carvings on it.

The opaque pattern has stained the amulet with the black color of time due to the passage of time.

Just like copper producing patina and iron rusting, silver exposed to the air for a long time will also react with oxygen and hydrogen sulfide in the air, thus turning into black substances such as silver sulfide and silver oxide.

Han Xu stroked the sterling silver amulet with black spots, feeling the power of the years on it. There was also one thing that made Han Xu strange, that is, the amulet seemed to be brighter than when it was on earth.

But Han Xu only thinks this is a psychological effect.

Five hours passed quickly amid their own strange thoughts and worries.

The three of them did not get enough rest. It was already midnight on September 12th, ten hours had passed since the rocket took off.

Nangong Yue was always nervous. The moment the space capsule entered the lunar orbit, he pressed the deceleration button. Then, under the control of an intelligent computer, the space capsule continued to decelerate and was captured by the moon's gravity.

The three people waited patiently. The space capsule was slowly slowing down and they began to rotate around the moon. Soon, they saw the back of the moon.

On the far side of the moon, there is a shadowed, extremely deep crater, located within a larger, huge crater with a width of 32 kilometers.

It is obvious that these are two huge impact craters, which overlap one another and create two craters, just like a ring.

Nangong Yue looked solemn: "Our destination is here."

Because the ringed mountain range is too high, no matter which direction you look at it, the interior of the impact crater is shrouded in the shadow of the mountain range. Therefore, no matter how the three of you look, you cannot see what is in the shadow.

Unless you arrive inside this crater in person.

A few minutes later, the space capsule finally entered the moon's orbit.

It was also at this time that bad news came again from the Earth Command Center:

"M country's manned moon landing plan has been advanced again. They will launch the launch vehicle in three days!"

This news made both Han Xu and Chu Fei feel unbelievable. The speed of country M was much faster than they imagined.
Chapter completed!