Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 172 A Complexity That Breaks Through the Heavens
After concluding this lengthy but incredibly important meeting, one that could determine the fate of all human civilization, Jiang Yang rubbed his tired forehead and arrived outside the hibernation base.

Zhou Yu followed quietly behind him.

The decades of time spent together—even excluding the repetition within the cycle and the hibernation period, which still amounted to more than a decade—allowed Zhou Yu to immediately understand Jiang Yang's current state of mind.

She didn't speak, but simply held Jiang Yang's hand quietly, silently conveying her love and support.

Jiang Yang remained silent as well.

The sun is rising, illuminating the world. The distant, verdant mountains and the bustling city further away are clearly visible.

He raised his head and looked straight at the sun, which was not yet dazzling.

It has dominated this galaxy for billions of years and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

It shaped everything on Earth.

From the birth of primitive life in the primordial ocean to the later emergence of life on land, which transformed the Earth's environment in unprecedented ways, everything originated from it.

It is its energy that has sustained humankind's energy consumption for millions of years, from the ancient Homo sapiens to the present day.

To put it bluntly, before humans mastered nuclear energy, all energy came directly or indirectly from the sun.

The food that people eat comes from plants' conversion of solar energy;
The meat we eat comes from the conversion of plant energy by animals, which ultimately comes from the sun;

The wind energy that people use is because solar energy drives the flow of the atmosphere;
Hydropower stations built by people are powered by solar energy-driven water vapor evaporation;

The oil, coal, and natural gas that people use ultimately originate from the catalysis of solar energy.

Even today, so-called clean energy sources—namely wind, solar, and hydropower—account for more than 80% of the energy supply for human civilization, and they also rely on the sun.

Clothing, food, shelter, and transportation—almost everything involved in the entire course of human life comes from the blessings of this great star.

but……

What I can create, I can also destroy.

What I can give, I can also take back.

A tiny amount of energy, insignificant to the sun, is enough to overturn the entire world it inhabits.

Looking at the sun, Jiang Yang was filled with complex thoughts.

After a long while, he turned his gaze away and looked at the bustling city in the distance.

The people living in that city at this moment are probably still oblivious to the changes that are about to take place in the world...

Soon, a full-scale mobilization affecting the entire world will arrive. And it is destined to be even greater than the previous one.

In the previous life, there was only the Ion Drilling Project; in this life, there's also the Moon City Project…

This may be somewhat cruel for the individual. After all, no matter how hard one strives or tries in this life, the final outcome of death is already predetermined and cannot be changed.

But for the continuation of civilization as a whole, these sacrifices are necessary and must be made. In such cases, there is no need to talk about justice or fairness.

"I wonder when the planning map for the Moon City Project will be completed."

Jiang Yang's thoughts drifted into the distance: "I hope it can be faster. After all, it's a town, and we only have less than three months."

Planning precedes construction; this is an ironclad rule that must be followed for any major project.

An unprecedented lunar town would involve countless aspects and issues, its complexity likely to be off the charts.

Under normal circumstances, a planning map of this level would not be finalized in less than ten years—and this is under accelerated conditions.

At this moment, people only have one month? Half a month? Or even less time to make plans?
Jiang Yang didn't know. The only thing Jiang Yang could hope for was that the relevant experts were capable enough to complete the planning in the shortest possible time, allowing enough time for subsequent construction.

But to Jiang Yang's great surprise, he received a notification on the third day.

"What? The overall planning map for Moon City is complete?"

He stared in shock at the World Government staff member in front of him.

How much time has passed since that meeting ended and the decision was made to launch Project Moon City?

It was less than two days in total, only about thirty-eight or thirty-nine hours.

Even if you drained all the blood from these planners and designers and replaced it with chicken blood, it still wouldn't be this fast, right?
This is completely contrary to scientific principles!

Faced with Jiang Yang's shock, Sun Changhe seemed to have anticipated this situation.

"Although the Three Gorges Project was started in 94, the idea was first proposed 70 years ago and has been repeatedly demonstrated and planned in the subsequent process."
Although the current Equatorial Clean Energy Complex project only began construction more than 30 years ago, my country had already conceived and planned it at least a century earlier, and had conducted extensive theoretical verification and field exploration in advance.
The current Moon City Project…

He looked at Jiang Yang and smiled calmly: "Long before the first apocalypse, our scientists had already done a lot of preliminary work and completed all the initial tasks, including but not limited to technical concepts, site selection, plans, and so on."

What you see now is the complete plan and design of Moon City produced by scientists in less than two days, but behind it, countless scientists have been working on this concept for at least a hundred years.

What needs to be done now is simply to make slight adjustments to that foundation, adding or removing some institutions to better suit current needs.

Jiang Yang suddenly realized.

All the hibernators came to the conference room to receive an initial explanation from the experts.

"The planned Moon City will be built in a canyon. This canyon is over 100 kilometers long and about 260 meters deep at its deepest point."

The reason for choosing this location was mainly to deal with the problem of electromagnetic bursts in the apocalypse.

Not only is it located at the bottom of the valley, but according to orbital calculations, it will also be on the side of the moon facing away from the sun at the time of the apocalyptic eruption. In this way, the entire moon will become a shield for the lunar city against the sun's energy.

Moon City is long and narrow, with a maximum width of about 400 meters and a length of 5.6 kilometers. The total building area is about 1.71 square kilometers, and the activity area is about 1.06 square kilometers. It is designed to accommodate a maximum population of 1.2 people, but in the plan, the total population of Moon City is 8000.

Based on this design goal, the total mass of equipment, components, and supplies we need to send to the moon is approximately 26 tons. Using our most advanced and heaviest existing rocket, the Giant Torch IV, this would require launching approximately… 5200 of these rockets.

(End of this chapter)