[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil":3,"chapter-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-693":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","You were told to build a tractor, but you're building a rocket?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1306336,1735,"Chapter 693 - 674 Stirring","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-693",693,"\u003Cp>\"Sherwood, this is Sky Canopy-4 from Union Mining, we have inserted the key properly, request next move.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...squeak squeak...Understood, Sherwood, proceed with the evacuation as planned, quickly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Union Mining, understood, permission for evacuation granted, please dock at the space station within 3 hours, over.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside Base B, Ye Changsi and others were listening to the voice communication broadcasted from the Capital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Theoretically, the person with the highest responsibility for the ’Sherwood’ action is Union Mining’s CEO Wu Yi, but in practice, it’s controlled by the Aerospace Development Committee, and the Royal Air Force is in charge of issuing the specific detonation command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Ye Changsi wasn’t paying much attention to the Sherwood action; based on his experience, he didn’t foresee any major issues. The base was currently busy with the aftermath of Death Ray No.1 (formerly known as Thousand-Jun Stick No. 1).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After receiving more information from above, the base immediately mobilized \"Mountain and Sea\" to conduct a large data analysis again, concluding that Death Ray No.1 had a 55% chance of being compromised, with the second most likely possibility being a 30% chance of an ultimate spy situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be cautious, the base was issuing orders for Death Ray No.1 to continue ascending orbit. There was still a lot of fuel left for the ion thruster, which would keep it flying outward over the coming time towards the Lagrange L1 point, between the Sun and Earth, using the Sun as a background to conceal itself, while probing whether its existence had been briefly leaked by accident or had been fully grasped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Changsi tended to believe the former scenario, but he was somewhat concerned that if the higher-ups from both sides made further contact, uncovering the secret of Death Ray No.1, that would be troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Xie Liaofu was rather indifferent about this:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t worry. Although they are bluffing now, they are also the least willing to break the façade. They must fear that we’ll deploy Death Ray No.1 directly into combat if things get out of hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such matters are most likely communicated through insinuations. If it comes to light, the disadvantaged side will definitely not be us, as long as John is not out of his mind to court his own disaster.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s hope so...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, Ye Changsi decided to trust Xie Liaofu’s judgment since \"Mountain and Sea\" had provided a similar answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What about Departing Fire? Will the original decoy plan change?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After discovering the enormous misunderstanding known as the \"M Event,\" Ye Changsi and others immediately realized the great value of this situation, which could possibly help achieve certain goals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the most important thing was whether to reveal this misunderstanding, but in the end, everyone unanimously agreed that maintaining the illusion of alien existence was more beneficial. It would provide a clear and direct chance to interfere with America’s development path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In light of this, the two original signal leaks seemed a bit inadequate, which led Xiao Okada to propose the \"decoy\" plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is, to create another \"accident\" at the right moment, making NACA even more convinced of the existence of aliens, with this \"coincidence\" needing to happen within the next two to three months to have the best effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The decoy plan was already controversial, and with these troubled times, Ye Changsi’s instinct was to avoid stirring more trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Xie Liaofu clearly didn’t see it that way, and the two of them simply started discussing this matter, as time swiftly flew by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Capital, at the Union Mining Headquarters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ju, Zhong Cheng, and numerous high-ranking officials from both Union Mining and the Aerospace Development Committee had all stood up, with only a few staff members as exceptions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The expression on everyone’s face was very solemn, out of the due respect and etiquette for the person on the other end of the video link.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I, as the sovereign of the Federation comprised of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia... and 56 other countries, order the glorious Royal Air Force to carry out the following directive:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I appoint the current Air Force Minister and Chief of Defence Staff, Sir Trafford Mallilah, to act in the Queen’s name on the Moon...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching a slightly younger \"old friend\" slowly deliver a long-winded speech, and Sir Trafford Mallilah kneeling on one knee with a splendid sword resting on his shoulder, Lin Ju found himself somewhat speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The UK had gone all out for this operation, claiming that each hydrogen bomb needed a supreme command before it could be used, and held such a cumbersome ceremony two hours in advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of the gimmick surrounding the lunar nuclear explosion, such a boring self-congratulatory gathering had surprisingly garnered high levels of attention, successfully satisfying the vanity of old-Star-Spangled Banner folks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indulging the British vanity just this once wasn’t too bad, but if everyone started doing this, it would be torture—it was just mining, after all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t until past six o’clock in the evening, as dusk began to set, that Sir Trafford Mallilah finally formally received temporary command. After a long and disordered speech and another long wait, he looked at his watch and gave the order five minutes ahead of time to issue the ignition command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The signal was sent from the UK, relayed via near-Earth orbit satellites to \"Peregrine Falcon\" far away on the Moon, and then sent again to \"Robin Hood.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About 1 minute later, the Aerospace Development Committee received notification that ’Robin Hood’ had successfully received the command, and the ignition was irreversible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Moon’s surface transmission not visible to the public, the ’Robin Hood’ lying in a shallow crater began to light up with red glows regularly, like the breathing of a giant beast continuously expanding and contracting, as if it were endowed with life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it wasn’t his first time, the sight of such rich details on the actual surface of a nuclear bomb still excited Lin Ju.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, he even contemplated the idea of convincing Ye Changsi to let Base make its own hydrogen bombs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the face of the power of the Sun, it was hard for anyone not to be moved and want to get closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dozens of people at Union Mining Headquarters also quieted down, except for the sounds of electronic equipment working; everyone tacitly remained silent, afraid of missing something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment in lunar orbit, the Black Rabbit Space Station had also crossed the border between the visible and the dark side, and the test mine had completely disappeared from the space station’s view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from the five who had already returned to the Tiangong Space Station aboard Dawn One, the remaining 12 astronauts were all clad in tight-fitting spacesuits, with the station’s delicate external electronic devices shut down, leaving only the main systems operating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 12 astronauts stood in lines facing each other, with only the meaningless white noise in their radios, also silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, this time the nuclear explosion had no direct human observers; Yushu Base, 200 kilometers away from the blast center, couldn’t see anything due to the curvature of the Moon, especially without an atmosphere to conduct light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the running speed, by the time Black Rabbit Space Station passed directly above the blast center it would be an hour later, and theoretically, they should be able to see a small crater, which was still far less significant than other impact craters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"1 minute!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The image Lin Ju was watching had switched to a camera set a few kilometers from the epicenter, completely out of sight of the nuclear bomb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The countdown was provided by the Royal Air Force, though they hadn’t considered the delay correction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"30 seconds!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The screen remained as calm as a static picture, but after Lin Ju counted two numbers, at the border of the yellowing gray-white lunar surface and the dark outer space, there suddenly burst forth a dazzling, slightly bluish super-bright white light, which turned the huge LCD screen into a blanket of white, causing a bit of eye strain for the audience who had been watching intently for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pale and intense light lasted for about less than 10 seconds; when the light gradually faded away, the screen was completely overtaken by gray-white, which was the lunar dust rising to tens of kilometers high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of the Moon’s low gravity and absence of an atmosphere, the dust spread out rapidly while failing to clump together like on Earth due to air currents, instead dispersing uniformly in all directions like dense bubbles, expanding straight out to an area several tens of kilometers in radius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spectacular dust cloud, like the tail of a comet, at a distance made it seem as if there was a small protrusion on the far side of the Moon, although extremely faint, just enough to be observed.\u003C\u002Fp>",1496,"2026-06-05T18:21:13.491Z",1,"novelbin.me","f91ffbda113274f6721fb2cae07c15db06c5e29d3a8b396c84491b3fbe1ab070","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-775","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-774",804,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyou-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-cover.jpg"]