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Ground floor, interview room.
On the stage, the host and the official expert sat face to face on a single sofa, with a huge screen behind them.
"Contacted!" The host said excitedly when he heard the answer from the topic in the expert's hand.
The expert did not chat with the three astronauts for long. He simply asked about their physical condition and whether the Xuanniao was operating normally, and then hung up the communication.
Putting down the microphone, he saw the host staring at him and said with a smile, "Don't worry, we have plenty of time when the Xuanniao arrives at its destination."
As soon as these words were spoken, the host and the viewers who flocked into the live broadcast room couldn't help but speculate.
Interview after arriving at the destination?
The Xuanniao said this just after leaving the atmosphere. Does that mean its mission is still to collect navigation data near the Blue Planet?
Everyone was a little disappointed and confused.
The early publicity was so huge, and it even had manned flights, but it turned out to be just to test the performance of the spacecraft in space?
It seems a bit anticlimactic.
Then I thought again and felt something was wrong.
If it is just for collecting data, there is no need to deploy astronauts. The data collection instruments on the spacecraft will be enough.
There must be other tasks, what are they?
The host was itching to ask, but the manuscript issued by her leader prohibited such questions, so she could only answer the prepared questions one by one.
Recalling the script he had memorized, the host looked at the expert and said, "We all know that the Xuanniao's first flight will be a manned flight. This is different from our usual process. What is the reason?"
The expert didn't keep anyone on suspense, and crossed his fingers on his lap: "I believe everyone in the live broadcast room has noticed that there is a person flying next to the Xuanniao."
"Xuxianren?" the host asked knowingly.
"Yes." The expert nodded, "I think before the launch of Xuanniao, everyone must have been very curious about why the authorities directly launched manned flights, because in the past, they were unmanned first and then manned.
That’s why.”
He picked up the water cup on the glass coffee table and took a sip: "I am honored to have participated in the initial theoretical verification and later stage of Xuanniao..."
As soon as the words came out, the screen of the live broadcast room was suddenly flooded with scrolling comments.
"Fuck, that's not what you said last year!"
At that time, the cave base on the NH side had just been completed, and the official and the mountain gate had established preliminary contact.
Originally, the public was unaware of these developments. However, Kunpeng first crossed the land of China, attracting everyone's attention and focus on where its destination would be.
Later, another disaster struck and raged in the coastal mountains, causing the earth to tremble and the mountains to collapse.
Such a noisy commotion was immediately known to nearby residents and then spread.
Ordinary people would certainly not make unfounded associations and would at most think it was an earthquake. However, Kunpeng flew to NH openly and honestly. Anyone who was not a fool would connect the two things.
Later, some people tried to explore the mountains near NH to find out what caused the earthquake.
However, when they arrived at the scene, they found that the mountain range had been designated as a military restricted area, and no unauthorized personnel were allowed to enter or leave.
After that, the director organized a lottery for the three-day tour to Jinshui Town.
At that time, Immortal Xu walked out of the light gate in the sky, and everyone understood why the officials were so mysterious at the seaside. It turned out that the entrance to the mountain gate was here.
So people left messages on the official website of the Bureau of Investigation to ask - what on earth are you doing?
Tourists who have been to the beach know that although the site is open, entry to the mountain area is still prohibited.
In order to prevent anyone from sneaking in, a large number of soldiers were deployed directly outside the mountain, lined up at intervals of one meter along the foot of the mountain, ensuring a no-blind-angle security.
With such tight security, who would believe that there is nothing inside?
The Bureau of Investigation played dead at the time and ignored the questions. Later, when it could no longer bear the questions, it pushed out the expert who was responsible for the interview today.
Even the experts are confused. How could I know this?
He felt helpless, but he had to obey his superiors' orders, so he rushed back to Kyoto overnight and participated in a military program to respond to public opinion.
He thought about it all the way but still couldn't figure out how to explain it.
The audience didn't care about that and started to use their imagination to guess, asking whether there was some kind of black technology in the mountains, such as reusable rockets.
Although it was far from the truth, it still scared the experts so much that they kept shaking their hands and saying “How is that possible? How is that possible?”
People's impression of the mountain gate is still that it is for cultivating immortals, so the expert seemed a little flustered, and did not doubt that he had guessed it correctly, so he just passed it by.
Who would have thought that a year later, you actually said that you participated in the construction of the Xuanniao spacecraft, and everyone was unhappy.
"My goodness, you made my leg crippled!"
"It doesn't matter. I'm really looking forward to the mission of the Xuanniao. Such a big move is definitely not just for collecting navigation data!"
"Uh, could it be the moon landing?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the netizens who were quietly watching the live broadcast also excitedly joined the discussion.
"It's not impossible. The current aviation goal of all countries is to land on the moon, right?"
"I agree that given the current endurance of spacecraft and the limitations of human life span, the only target is the moon."
This statement was recognized by everyone.
How far humans can fly in the universe, besides the endurance of the spacecraft, the most important thing is lifespan.
One hundred years, the life span limit that most human beings cannot reach, may seem very long, but when considered in terms of the distance between planets, which is measured in light years, it seems so short.
Science fiction works have proposed a solution to this problem - hibernation technology.
Using a cryogenic hibernation chamber, human life can be frozen at a certain moment in order to survive a long journey.
Human hibernation technology is not yet mature and we do not have the ability to travel long distances in space, so everyone believes that the destination of the Xuanniao should be the nearest moon.
Or maybe Mars.
The host saw the discussion on the screen at the back and asked, "What is the mission of the Xuanniao? Landing on the moon?"
The densely scrolling barrage of comments on the screen suddenly stopped. It was obvious that the viewers crowded in the live broadcast room were very concerned about the answer.
"Yes," the expert admitted without reservation, "but it's a little different from the moon landing that you all know."
A little different?
What's the difference?
Everyone pricked up their ears and waited for follow-up, but the expert remained silent.
"Fuck! Say it, say it now!"
"Be born! Be fucking born!"
The expert didn't look back at the comments. He knew in his heart that the fans must be very anxious, so he consoled them: "Don't worry, you will know soon."
"We'll know soon?! It will take at least several years for the Xuanniao to reach the moon... No, look at the Xuanniao!"
On the screen, the Xuanniao, which had just flown out of the atmosphere, was heading straight for the moon.
The picture seems normal, but it actually goes against common sense.
After a spacecraft enters outer space, it does not fly directly to its destination, but must first orbit the blue planet and adjust its orbital parameters.
The actions of the Xuanniao are clearly inconsistent with this process.
The expert turned his head and glanced at the Xuanniao on the screen, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, as if an old father was looking at his child with a doting look.
"You should have noticed that the flight trajectory of the Xuanniao is different from all previous rockets."
The host asked at the right moment: “Why?”
"Power system." The expert's face turned red, and his excitement was beyond words. "As a new generation rocket, the biggest breakthrough of Xuanniao is not its appearance, nor its transparent hull, but its brand-new power system!"
"Uh, nuclear fusion?" The expert's words touched upon the host's blind spot of knowledge, and she could only guess.
"No, it's not!
It is a new energy source that has never been discovered by mankind. "
The host suddenly realized, "The energy used by the extraordinary?"
"Yes, and no." The expert sat up straight with excitement, "The energy used by the extraordinary is also unfamiliar to humans, but it is different from the Xuanniao's.
The power of the Xuanniao comes from a piece of stone, which the mountain gate named the Floating Stone.
As we all know, spacecraft are not flexible, and turning in the sky is a very difficult action. The floating stone perfectly solves this problem.
We used... uh, sorry, I can't say that."
He almost blurted out the method of using the floating stone, but fortunately he reacted in time. The expert patted his chest in fear and said: "In short, the Xuanniao will not look bulky at all.
Not only can it turn flexibly, it can even perform drift.
Oh, the speed is also very fast. According to our calculations, it will take about five hours to reach the surface of the moon."
Five hours doesn’t sound short, but compared to the several days it used to take, it’s a huge improvement.
The netizens who had been quiet became active again.
"I'll have to stay up all night and wait for this."
"I have to wait, otherwise I won't be able to sleep tonight."
"Well, what do you think the Xuanniao will do after landing on the moon? Dig up some lunar soil or something and bring it back?"
"The Xuanniao is quite large in appearance, so the internal space must be large. Should we... dig more lunar soil?"
Time passed slowly amidst everyone's discussion, and five hours finally passed.
"Amidst everyone's anticipation, Xuanniao enters the range of the moon's gravity!" This means that Xuanniao is about to land on the surface of the moon, and the host's voice was full of passion.
The sleepy netizens who were waiting suddenly woke up and stared at their phones with wide eyes.
The silver-white figure of Xuanniao gradually approached the surface of the moon, with no visible reverse flames ejected from the bottom, and slowly landed next to a crater.
After a moment, the side hatch slid open, the stairs were lowered, and three astronauts in heavy space suits walked down the stairs to the ground.
"Oh!" The three of them waved to the camera, and the viewers were posting comments excitedly.
"Here it comes, the answer will be revealed soon!"