Chapter 64: Moon Construction Plan

Then, on the afternoon of the next day, when the last agreement was closed, Cao Fanrong still wore that refined, easygoing smile on his face.

He personally sent these pharmaceutical tycoons to the airport, watching their complex expressions of pain and relief, needless to say how delighted he felt inside.

Half an hour later, Luo Rui Xiang's office.

"Special envoy comrade, you have not disgraced your mission." Cao Fanrong gently placed a stack of documents on Luo Rui Xiang's desk.

"Those foreign gentlemen are more generous than I imagined; this is the preliminary cooperation intent letter we have reached.

"To show sincerity, they vied to prepay the deposit, a total of seven hundred sixty-six billion US dollars. Moreover, as we requested, it is non‑refundable."

Having said that, even he couldn't help laughing.

In his life he had never fought such a wealthy battle; the other side not only delivered money to his doorstep, but feared he would refuse it.

"You've worked hard, Comrade Fanrong."

"Luo Rui Xiang's gaze did not linger much on those astronomical figures, but fell instead on the huge lunar map on the wall,"

"This money comes just in time. Our new plan needs fuel."

Cao Fanrong froze for a moment, then immediately understood.

Compared with that grand goal, a mere few billion dollars is indeed only fuel.

"As for trade matters, you still need to put in more effort; let's leave it at that for now!"

After Luo Rui Xiang saw Cao Fanrong off, he picked up the phone and dialed a number.

"Hey! Comrade Haitang, please have Xiao Qin come to Conference Room No. 5 tomorrow for a meeting, and you come too! This is the higher‑ups' instruction."

"Good!" came Cheng Haitang's voice from the other end of the phone.

……

The next day, in the underground Conference Room No. 5.

At this moment, the high‑level officials of Yanhuang Guo, military bigwigs, and the persons in charge related to aerospace engineering had gathered here.

When Qin Hao and Cheng Haitang entered, everyone's gaze instantly focused on him.

"Please have a seat."

Luo Rui Xiang pointed to the seat beside him.

After everyone was seated, he wasted no time on pleasantries and went straight to the point: "Xiao Qin, regarding the replication function of System 2.0, there is a crucial detail we must confirm completely today."

"The system manual says placement can be arbitrary within a five‑hundred‑meter radius around oneself; does this 'arbitrary' have any limits?"

"For example, must you personally see the placement spot? If there are obstacles like walls or floors in between, will it affect placement?"

As soon as this question was raised, everyone in the conference room turned their gaze to Qin Hao.

An aerospace engineer even stood up directly, his expression tense:

"Exactly! This question is crucial! If placing an item requires an unobstructed straight‑line path, then to construct on the Moon we would first have to launch a probe,

"to conduct surveys and real‑time image transmission in the target area before we can proceed to the next step. This process would increase the difficulty and complexity of the entire project by a hundredfold or more!"

Everyone understood the weight of this question.

This determines whether their upcoming mining plan will be in "hard mode" or directly unlock "god mode."

Qin Hao looked at everyone's tense expressions and roughly had an idea in mind.

He thought for a moment and replied:

"In theory, there should be no limit. The system interface feels to me more like a three‑dimensional operating space rather than being based on my naked‑eye vision."

Luo Rui Xiang shook his head, saying, "We want proof of concept. Right now, here, let's run an experiment."

Next to the conference room there is a room, separated by a specially reinforced concrete wall half a meter thick.

It is sufficient for the experiment.

"Xiao Qin, right here duplicate this pen and then place the copy directly on the table in the adjacent room."

Luo Rui Xiang pointed to the pen on the table.

"I'll go check." someone volunteered, and after speaking rose and walked toward that room, waiting eagerly.

Not only him, but several others likewise went over.

Everyone's gaze once again focused on Qin Hao.

Qin Hao nodded.

The next second, a system interface visible only to him appeared before his eyes.

Then he scanned the pen and issued a command to the system in his mind.

Instantly, a three‑dimensional virtual map appeared, showing everything in the neighboring room clearly.

In the system database, an image of a pen appeared; Qin Hao, using mental "drag‑and‑drop," easily moved this icon through the virtual model representing the wall.

【Confirm placement?】

"Confirm."

【Placement successful.】

The whole process took only two or three seconds.

"All right." He nodded at Luo Rui Xiang.

Meanwhile, the few people who had just entered the adjacent room hurried out.

On each of their faces was shock and delight that could hardly be concealed.

"Haha! It really succeeded!"

"Good! That's wonderful!"

This result brought smiles to everyone's faces in the conference room.

Zhang Xianzhong slapped his thigh hard, his face flushed with excitement as he burst into loud laughter:

"I knew it, I knew it! This isn't copying; it's basically super‑range spatial deployment—an existence like a cheat."

A space researcher muttered to himself, his eyes shining repeatedly:

"No need for relay satellites, no need for the landing craft's robotic arm, no need for a lunar rover... As long as the coordinates are precise, we can just 'throw' the modules directly onto the lunar surface."

"If we have enough power, expanding this range from five hundred meters to three hundred eighty thousand kilometers, Xiao Qin could sit at home and simply place building modules onto the moon like building blocks."

Zhang Yunfeng looked at Qin Hao, his voice full of shock.

"That's right, exactly like that, and the whole process is just like playing the 'Red Alert' game, very easy."

Qin Hao gave an affirmative answer.

And he also made an analogy.

The conference room fell into a brief silence again.

But this time, it wasn't worry, but being dazed by an overly brilliant future.

"The biggest transportation problem is now solved, but other problems remain; replicating past facilities still needs installation and debugging—how should these be accomplished?"

After coming to their senses, someone quickly analyzed.

As his words fell, people kept raising various problems.

"That's correct, not only that, but we also need to solve the various effects of the lunar environment on equipment; this needs to be redesigned."

"Besides that, we also need to consider secrecy; if built on the near side of the moon, it would definitely be discovered by other countries, so it should be placed on the far side, but it could still be spotted by deep-space satellites."

"There are also site selection, communication, meteoroid impact protection, etc., all of which need to be considered."

……

The dozens of people present said everything they could think of, leaving Qin Hao with a headache.

He thought, even with a cheat, it's not that easy to accomplish.