Chapter 137: Returning to the Moon, the Southern Heaven Gate Plan

The fleet's shadow had just dispersed from global airspace, yet that steel-like chill had not yet faded.

The Ministry of National Defense of Yanhuang Guo once again stood under the world's spotlight.

"Now, I will announce to everyone our country's next-stage strategic development direction—the Southern Heaven Gate Plan."

That general's words remained calm, yet they were like pouring a bucket of boiling oil onto a blazing fire.

As his words fell, the huge screen behind him lit up.

A CG animation, with unparalleled visual impact, unfolded before billions of people worldwide.

The image began in the depths of space, a cerulean planet hanging silently.

Suddenly, a silver line extended from the blue planet, like a sharp sword pointing straight at the moon.

【First Stage: Lunar Outpost】

In the image, a base filled with military style rose from the lunar surface.

Countless buildings rose from the ground, a massive energy shield enveloping all directions.

The narration was icy and clear:

"Establish a permanent military outpost base on the Moon, extending Yanhuang Guo's defense border from the atmosphere to beyond 380,000 kilometers."

At this moment, countless Yanhuang people began to feel excited.

This is not an empty promise; it is a proclamation to the world that Yanhuang Guo's new Great Wall will be built in the heavens.

The scene shifted.

【Second Stage: Lunar Mine】

Countless huge fully automated engineering machines, like steel beasts, moved across the lunar surface. They drilled, excavated, and refined. Box after box of helium-3 isotopes were loaded onto transport ships.

"Deploy fully automated intelligent mining facilities to provide unlimited energy for controllable nuclear fusion."

The narration continued to sound from the image.

Everyone in the world saw, an economic chain driven by energy, unbreakable.

Whoever masters helium-3 masters the lifeline of civilization for the next hundred years, even a thousand years.

Finally, the image froze.

【Third Stage: Guanghan New City】

A splendid lunar city glittered beneath a vast dome. Shuttling magnetic levitation trains, green ecological zones, bustling crowds.

"Establish the first lunar city, 'Guanghan City,' for humanity to take the most solid step toward the stars and seas."

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Capital of Yanhuang Guo, Lao Luo's office.

Lao Luo gazed at the beautiful lunar city on the screen, a faint smile appearing on his face.

"Xiao Qin, military and economy are merely means."

"The true goal is to let our people and our civilization forever maintain an enterprising, upward-looking spirit. This starry expanse will be our new homeland."

Upon this announcement, it provoked a frenzy like a mountain-shouting, sea-roaring uproar domestically.

"Guanghan City! My goodness, in our lifetime we will actually build a city on the moon!"

"I'm signing up for spacecraft pilot studies right now! In the future I'll pilot a spaceship to work on the moon!"

The nation's pride, at this moment, was pushed to an unprecedented peak.

Three days later.

Pangu Fleet, ready.

Under the gaze of billions worldwide, fifty massive interstellar warships began their final loading procedures.

Gigantic prefabricated cabin sections, like building blocks, were precisely hoisted into the warships' cargo holds.

Hundreds of thousands of engineering robots lined up in neat steel torrents, entering the warships one after another.

Several thousand of the first batch of lunar pioneers, dressed in uniform, had faces brimming with excitement.

They are Yanhuang Guo's top scientists and engineers, as well as its finest warriors.

They faced the camera, faced their homeland and families, and gave a standard military salute.

Afterwards, they turned and stepped onto the gangway leading to the stars and seas without looking back.

"Pangu Fleet, all units ready, please advise, special envoy!"

Lao Luo sat in the chief seat of the Command Center, picking up the communicator.

"Good! Then let's set sail! Target, the Moon!"

Boom—

The engines of the fifty giant ships lit up simultaneously, pale blue flames converging into an ocean of light.

The massive fleet slowly rose, breaking through the clouds, transforming into fifty meteors that, under everyone's gaze, headed straight for the bright, round moon.

A journey that once took several days to complete was shortened to less than three hours.

In the global live broadcast, that familiar gray land covered in craters reappeared.

The fifty giant ships descended like heavenly troops, without complex orbital changes or extra maneuvers, smoothly and vertically landing on that plain previously selected by the Kunlun.

When the landing gear of the last warship made perfect contact with the lunar surface, the entire world once again fell into collective speechlessness.

The hatch opened.

What poured out was not human.

But rather, hundreds of thousands of engineering robots gleaming with metallic luster!

Having received orders, the moment they stepped out of the warship they instantly dispersed, forming an ocean of steel.

"Report! Engineering Team No. 1 is in position, beginning to lay the foundational energy grid!"

"Report! Engineering Team No. 2 is beginning to assemble the living modules of Area A!"

Report! The No. 3 Engineering Team has begun deploying defensive positions!

On the Command Center's large screen, countless data streams frantically refreshed.

In the live feed from the Moon, a massive base complex glittering with metallic luster is rising from the ground at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Prefabricated modules were precisely hoisted, joined, and secured.

The whole process went smoothly, without the slightest delay.

This was a construction symphony directed by the intelligent brain, perfect to the point of awe.

"Is... this the infrastructure speed of Yanhuang Guo?"

Bai Gong, President Wil, watching the scene on the screen that could be called a miracle, felt dizzy.

They were still despairing over the ten-year technological gap.

Meanwhile, the other side has already begun building a base on another planet.

"Report! The base's main structure is 90% complete."

"The energy shield generator has been installed and is now charging."

Inside the Pangu mothership, a soldier looked at the data on the screen and reported to Captain Dong Zijian.

Upon hearing this, Dong Zijian nodded and issued the latest order.

"Hmm! Proceed according to the original plan."

"Received!"

At the Moon base site, with a command.

Dozens of tower-like devices at the center of the base lit up simultaneously.

Hum—

A pale blue energy film rose from the ground, rapidly expanded, and finally formed a huge hemispherical dome that enveloped the entire massive base complex.

Cosmic radiation was also completely blocked outside.

"It's really beautiful..."

Everyone kept sighing in awe at the blue dome.

But they didn't forget their duties.

A few days later.

A lunar military base the size of a Blue Star town has been fully completed.

At the same time, a mining base in a resource-rich area not far from the base has begun round-the-clock unmanned operation.

A warship served as a temporary transport vessel, slowly descending onto the mining base's landing pad.

Then large engineering robots were dispatched to steadily load the sealed containers filled with high-purity helium-3 ore into the warship.

"Report to Blue Star Yanhuang Command Center: supplies loaded, requesting return."

"Approval for return."

The warship's engines ignited again, carrying humanity's first batch of strategic resources from the Earth-Moon system, it slowly lifted off and flew toward that distant blue planet.

A new era has officially begun.

Luo Lao and others watched the returning warship on the screen, filled with emotion.

"The Blue Moon Economic Circle has been officially established."

Qin Hao's face showed undisguised excitement.

He laughed and replied:

"This is just the beginning; there's still much left for us to build!"