Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 134 Return of the Remains
Upon hearing these reports, Jiang Yang felt as if he had pressed the confirm button in a game, and a city had been automatically built by the game program the next moment.

"Okay, switch the live stream source over."

That's right, this lunar landing mission was broadcast live globally in real time.

At this very moment, there are probably billions of eyes around the world watching this scene.

Inside the conference hall, the eyes of 100 hibernators were also focused on the large screen.

Following in the footsteps of the astronauts, Jiang Yang once again saw the lunar landscape he had seen before, which had undergone tremendous changes due to the nuclear explosion. He saw the astronauts trekking through the "mountains and ridges," slowly moving forward, and finally arriving at the underground passage.

Seemingly due to the effects of the nuclear explosion, the entrance to that passage was no longer level and showed signs of collapse.

The driverless car then moved forward, revealing the interior to the people one by one.

After confirming that it was generally safe, the astronauts followed, and this process was repeated.

After overcoming several obstacles and trekking along the way, an object with a metallic sheen appeared in the scene ahead, amidst a pile of rocks.

That was the remains of an astronaut!
To protect the image of the astronauts and avoid graphic depictions, the remains were blurred. However, Jiang Yang was still able to recognize who it was from some of the outlines.

That's Zhao Jianguo!
The first astronaut to perform maintenance on the "minibus" during the doomsday operation!
His body was carefully preserved and temporarily moved outside the passage before the exploration continued.

But soon, the astronauts' mission encountered insurmountable obstacles.

Clearly, the closer one is to that floating city, the greater the power of the nuclear explosion and the more severe the damage to the passage.

At this moment, the passage ahead completely collapsed, burying it entirely.

Seismic wave detection also indicated that there were no cavities in front.

All the space ahead has been buried.

The exploration stopped here for the time being, and instead, they began to try to drill a hole from the top to go straight through the cavity.

However, this requires a considerable amount of preparation time.

Jiang Yang went into hibernation again and then woke up again. After several dozen days of hard work, the astronauts on the moon had successfully used the equipment brought from Earth to drill a hole to a depth of about 700 meters.

Based on previous explorations, it can be confirmed that this depth has reached the area where the floating city is located.

At this moment, the global live broadcast of the lunar astronauts' work has stopped—it's been too long, and it's difficult for people to maintain their emotions indefinitely.

However, Jiang Yang and others who are concerned about this matter can still see the live broadcast.

A large amount of grayish-black lunar rock debris was brought up and analyzed on-site by equipment, with the results presented as quickly as possible.

After examining a large number of worthless specimens, one specimen finally caught the attention of the ground science team.

"This lunar rock clearly underwent a process of high-temperature and high-pressure impact melting and then re-solidification in a short period of time."

During this resolidification process, something peculiar became mixed into it. Due to limitations in lunar equipment, we cannot yet determine its exact nature, but preliminary analysis indicates it is a special metallic crystalline compound with a crystal structure completely different from anything we have known before.

The preliminary analysis results have drawn the attention of scientists from almost every field around the world.

A completely new form of crystallization?
Don't forget that the initial exploration of the lunar subsurface cavity revealed that the floating city's materials were extremely tough and unique, and that it even contained a vacuum high-temperature superconductor!
The importance of vacuum high-temperature superconductors is self-evident; simply put, they are enough to change the course of technological progress worldwide!

However, it will still take some time for the astronauts to return, and there is nothing that people can do but wait patiently.

For Jiang Yang, it was another process of closing and opening his eyes, and then it was time for the astronauts to return to Earth.

They carried Zhao Jianguo's remains and a large number of specimens collected from the lunar subsurface into the lunar lander. Intense flames roared through the lunar vacuum, propelling the lander into lunar orbit with fuel consumption several times lower than on Earth for the same mass.

After another acceleration, the lander broke free from the moon's gravity and was slowly captured by Earth's gravitational field, thus beginning its return journey.

According to the laws of physics, during this return journey, the landing capsule—which should now be called the return capsule—will accelerate from its initial speed of only 2.5 kilometers per second when it escaped the moon's gravity to approximately 11 kilometers per second due to Earth's gravity.

It first entered an extremely flat orbit around the Earth, and then decelerated abruptly at perigee.

In a sky filled with stars, a meteor streaked rapidly downwards, leaving a long trail. Before it even hit the ground, the orbit prediction system had already accurately predicted its final landing location.

A large number of helicopters and special vehicles then took off and sped toward that location.

The return capsule finally landed. The hatch opened, and Zhao Jianguo's body was the first to be brought out.

Having already undergone some form of restraint, he now appeared peaceful, as if he were asleep.

A crystal coffin that had been prepared beforehand was opened, and his body was moved inside under the solemn gaze of everyone.

The helicopter then took off.

His remains will be transported to the martyrs' cemetery, which has long been a spiritual anchor for countless people, and placed in the memorial hall, becoming a representative of the space heroes and receiving the respect of hundreds of millions of people.

At this moment, many members of the World Government Council have arrived at the Martyrs' Cemetery, along with a large number of media reporters and ordinary citizens who have been selected, to receive the remains of the martyrs.

In a solemn ceremony, the memorial tablets of Zhao Jianguo and many other martyrs were laid to rest peacefully amidst flowers.

Jiang Yang and others were also there.

After bowing in silence and laying flowers, people left with mixed feelings.

As Zhao Jianguo's body was moved away, another object that had attracted worldwide attention was transported out.

It was a tightly sealed metal box containing over 100 samples from the lunar subsurface, stored in a vacuum.

At this moment, at least tens of thousands of scientists are waiting for this sample to arrive.

Watching the metal box being transported away by plane through the live stream, Jiang Yang felt a renewed sense of anticipation.

I wonder what these remnants of the Reaper civilization's creations will bring to our civilization...

This is not something that can be resolved in a short time. But for me, it's simply a matter of hibernating a few more times.

"I hope our world can develop faster and have sufficient technology before the next apocalypse..."

Back at the base, Jiang Yang once again threw himself into continuous learning.

During the nearly ten years that humanity had been working on to conquer hibernation technology, Jiang Yang had been constantly learning.

Today, his knowledge in physics, mathematics, mechanics and other fields has truly reached the doctoral level.

Their vision and breadth of knowledge in cutting-edge technological development are far beyond what ordinary physics PhDs can match.

Even so, learning cannot stop.

Jiang Yang has made it a habit to spend two days each time he wakes up from hibernation: one day for studying and the other for engaging with the outside world and gaining a better understanding of global developments.

(End of this chapter)