Chapter 121: Successful Moon Landing

When the Kunlun Vessel broke free of Blue Star's gravity and entered the dark cosmic space,

Weightlessness arrived as expected.

Inside the cabin, the bodies of dozens of astronauts drifted upward involuntarily.

For young astronaut Li Wei, this was his first time entering space; the novel sensation made him involuntarily spread his arms.

"This is really space! It's far more real than usual training!"

"Don't get too excited; I'm about to activate the gravity system—please get ready."

An elderly astronaut beside him said with a laugh.

He was Lin Yu Hui, Chief Commander of the team and the first-generation astronaut of Yanhuang Guo, having entered space several times.

As his words finished, a soft electronic prompt sounded inside the cabin.

That was the intelligent system aboard the Kunlun Vessel, abbreviated as the "Intelligent Brain".

【Received command, gravity system activated, environmental simulation begins.】

As the words fell, everyone felt a force from their feet pulling them gently toward the ship's floor.

After a few seconds, the sensation of weightlessness completely disappeared.

Li Wei marveled to find himself standing firmly on the metal floor, his bodily sensation indistinguishable from that on Blue Star's surface.

He tried jumping; the landing feeling was extraordinarily solid.

"This feeling is great—exactly the same as on the ground!"

Li Wei's face was filled with disbelief.

Lin Yu Hui also stretched his limbs, feeling this long-lost steadiness, his eyes likewise filled with emotion.

"Yeah, just like on the ground. I've flown my whole life; on the space station I even had to strap myself down to sleep, never imagining we could walk in space one day—this is the power of technology."

He looked around and saw every astronaut experiencing the same disruptive technology, their faces glowing with excitement.

At that moment, the voice of the Command Center came through the communicator.

"Kunlun Vessel, this is the ground Command Center; all units, report your status."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yu Hui walked to the communications console, picked up the communicator, and said:

"Command Center, Kunlun Vessel received. Everything inside is normal, the gravity system is activated, we can move freely—requesting next instructions!"

"Very good."

The person in charge's voice carried a hint of a smile: "According to the plan, proceed toward the Moon!"

"Kunlun Vessel understands!"

Lin Yu Hui set down the communicator, turned, and ordered: "Intelligent Brain, activate the main engines; target, the Moon!"

Instantly, at the ship's stern, the power of the eight controllable nuclear fusion engines began to rise, and a pale blue particle stream jetted forth again,

The Kunlun Vessel became a silver phantom, tracing a beautiful straight line across the vast starry sky toward the distant planet drifting afar.

After accelerating and decelerating along the way, only two hours had passed when the Kunlun Vessel neared the Moon.

Meanwhile, on Blue Star, the large screen of the ground Command Center showed

the Kunlun Vessel's real-time position data had already surpassed an astonishing figure—380,000 kilometers.

"Report! Kunlun Vessel has reached its predetermined lunar orbit, altitude fifty kilometers above the lunar surface!"

This news, broadcast live, instantly spread across the globe.

The whole world once again fell into a state of collective speechlessness.

"Only two hours? They reached the Moon in just two hours?"

Yingjiang Guo, Bai Gong.

President Wil's aerospace advisor beside him stared at the screen displaying the data officially released by Yanhuang Guo, his hands trembling.

"Mr. President, our Apollo spacecraft would take at least three days at best! Their speed… their speed is dozens of times ours! The technological gap between us is astronomical!"

Wil sat in his chair, his gaze complex.

He knew that these few hours of flight time had completely shattered the last lingering fantasies of all nations.

This wasn't a matter of catching up; it was that we couldn't even see their backs.

Above the Moon.

The Kunlun Vessel hovered silently in the black void of space, below lay a land pockmarked with craters, desolate and still.

"Good! According to the plan, begin landing on the Moon."

The person in charge's order was clearly conveyed to each astronaut's ears.

No complex orbital changes, nor any circumlunar flight.

The Kunlun Vessel's anti-gravity engines at its base glowed blue once more, and the ship descended smoothly and vertically toward the selected landing point below.

Under the live broadcast lens, viewers worldwide held their breath as time ticked by second by second,

they saw the Kunlun Vessel descend like a feather, lightly alighting on the lunar dust, hardly kicking up any moon dust.

The entire process was eerily silent, yet profoundly moving!

When the ship's landing gear made perfect contact with the lunar surface, the Command Center on site instantly burst into thunderous applause.

The hatch slowly opened, extending a metal gangway down to the lunar surface.

Lin Yu Hui, clad in a white spacesuit, stood at the hatch, gazing at the silent world before him and drew a deep breath.

Then he took that historic step.

His footprint was clearly left upon this land that had slept for hundreds of millions of years.

Through the camera on his helmet, billions of people on Blue Star witnessed this thrilling moment.

The Yanhuang Guo flag on his arm's insignia shone especially bright.

After Lin Yu Hui steadied himself, he fell silent for a moment, seemingly calming his excited heart.

Then, he spoke in a tone that was incomparably solemn and filled with boundless pride, addressing the whole universe, his homeland and compatriots, uttering those words destined to be recorded in history.

My name is Lin Yuhui; the land beneath my feet, we call it 'Vast Cold Palace'.

It has appeared in our nation's poetry for thousands of years. Today, descendants of Yan and Huang, we have finally set foot on this land that our forebears have looked up to for a thousand years!

This step is not merely my personal dream, but also the shared aspiration of our 1.4 billion compatriots!

It is also humanity's first step into interstellar civilization; our journey is the sea of stars!

The sound transmitted back to the Blue Star, reaching the ears of every descendant of Yan and Huang.

Countless people, before the screens, hot tears welling in their eyes, raised their arms and shouted.

At that moment, the nation's sense of pride reached an unprecedented peak.

Haha! Our Yan and Huang nation has finally landed on the moon; I don't know if there's really a Chang'e sister in the legends—I'd love to see her!

Are you upstairs still not awake, still talking about Chang'e sister? The moon's surface has nothing, it's all desolate—I really don't know how you learned in nine years of compulsory education.

By the way, our country has newly established a department called Spacecraft Piloting; I'll sign up for it later—maybe I'll get to pilot a spacecraft someday!

……

No matter how the people comment.

And on the side of the Moon Kunlun Vessel, the other astronauts on the spacecraft eagerly stepped out one after another.

They all stepped onto the lunar soil.

After them, dozens of intelligent robots followed, each holding a large box—no need to guess, the boxes surely contain unknown equipment.