You say you have an iron will, are you serious?

The trip lasted four days, two days of flying and two days of playing on the moon.

In addition to the amusement park built on the lunar base, more people experienced jumping on the moon in space suits and racing on the moon in a lunar rover.

Especially the latter two, everyone has experienced them, even the elderly.

Although they are old, their hearts are young, and now with the blessing of the "life potion", their physical fitness is quite good. They will not suffer from accidents such as burst blood vessels because these two activities are too stimulating.

Zhao Mo's family also had a great time.

Of course, the ones who had the most fun were the two little guys and Yang Chan.

Yang Chan was just like a little kid, very happy and wanted to try all kinds of games and was brave enough to try.

Zhao Mo also participated in it, but only for half a day. After getting up early in the morning, he went to the lunar survey telescope research team to follow up on the latest research data.

Before the scientific research vessels, we tested astronomical data, even those within the solar system, through various astronomical instruments and then drew conclusions based on theory.

But is it really as we have detected and predicted by theory?
No one can know.

Now that the scientific research vessel has surveyed the entire solar system, we can finally compare the data from actual scientific research with the data and theories detected previously to confirm their correctness and differences.

Confirming these data was one of the reasons why Zhao Mo went on this trip.

When he returned to Earth after the trip, Zhao Mo couldn't help but sigh that there is always a gap between practice and theory. Some of the previous detection data and theories had many problems and needed to be corrected.

There is no doubt that the corrections to these problems would immediately become world-shocking discoveries once released.

But Zhao Mo did not participate in it. He just asked them to send him a copy of the data and analysis because he needed to study it. That was all.

The day after returning to Earth, Zhao Mo was invited to a meeting to discuss the development of the solar system.

Zhao Mo had no interest in this, so he didn't express any opinion. He just let them decide.

At the meeting, he only made two suggestions.

"It's time for us to start exploring the Milky Way. We can send four unmanned spacecraft equipped with artificial intelligence and robots to explore the Milky Way in four directions to make preliminary preparations for the next step out of the solar system..."

"Second, we need to build more powerful survey telescopes on planets at the edge of the solar system, such as Uranus or Neptune..."

Everyone in the conference hall was already very quiet while listening to him, and after these two suggestions came out, they became even quieter.

But we have to admit that his two suggestions are very useful.

Of course, even if it was useless, no one at the scene would refute him. All they would do was nod in agreement and then suggest that the country adopt these two suggestions.

In fact, at the end of the meeting, Zhao Mo's two suggestions were incorporated into the two basic projects that would be the focus of development in the next stage.

This meeting was not held in secret, and relevant information was released soon.

This undoubtedly further stimulated people's enthusiasm for leaving the earth.

Perhaps it is precisely because of seeing this situation and knowing the feasibility of humans going to other planets to build human settlements and the possibility of migrating to other planets that several powder kegs have calmed down somewhat and international disputes have decreased a lot.

What is the point of fighting to the death?
Isn’t it just for the land, for the survival and development of one’s own nation?
Now the Chinese are going to immigrate to other planets. Endless resources are waiting for China, but we are still fighting for a tiny place on Earth. Is it really worth it?
The development of the world situation is gradually moving towards a strange trend.

In the days that followed, Zhao Mo either taught at Wudaokou or went to the moon to lead the development of the dark matter engine.

The construction of the lunar collider was led by an academician of the Academy of Sciences.

The days pass slowly like this~
Moon travel is becoming more and more popular~
Of course, this popularity is still far behind mining.

With the addition of spacecraft, lunar mining operations reached their peak, with one trip of minerals being dug back every day.

After digging for almost three months, this behavior gradually decreased.

The reason is simple. First, it is impossible to dig in this way. What if the mass of the moon is reduced and the Earth-Moon system changes? This is no joke. There is no planetary engine to help fix the moon or push it in the opposite direction. Second, a preliminary and sound industrial system has been built on the moon, which can operate independently.

It is extremely important to build a preliminary and sound industrial system.

With a preliminary and sound industrial system, the moon has achieved self-sufficiency, so helium-3 and various other rare metals can be refined directly on the moon without having to mine them and smelt them on Earth.

You know, the cost of smelting on Earth is very high due to gravity and atmosphere, and the purity of the smelted metal is far inferior to that of the metal smelted on the moon.

Now, when the person in charge of materials used in special industries reports to their superiors, their first request is that they hope the raw materials allocated to them must be produced on the moon, not on the earth.

The price of moon products is similar to that of earth products, but the quality is much higher, so people naturally like them more. This trend soon spread to the earth, surprising countless people and causing countless people headaches.

There is no other choice but to continue investing in outer space development.

Mars has become the second most popular planet after the moon.

There is no need for relevant departments to take the initiative to develop. The social forces are strongly demanding that the country develop. They are clamoring to build factories in outer space instead of on Earth, saying that there is no money to be made by building factories on Earth.
This incident made the people above both painful and happy.

One word: annoying.

Two words: sour and refreshing.

The occurrence of this incident was also beyond Zhao Mo's expectations.

No one could have predicted so much about the future, not even artificial intelligence or all the think tanks in the country combined.

Faced with this situation, all we can do is to take advantage of the situation and implement precise policies.

In October, it is National Day again.

During this year's National Day, people once again enthusiastically remembered those great figures. They placed some spacecraft models and moon specialties in front of the statues of those great figures, and presented flowers to tell them about our great achievements today.

Poverty and backwardness are no longer the main theme of our 5,000-year-old country.

We missed the great voyages back then, but now not only will we not miss the great voyages of space, but we are also the leaders, the only ones on this planet!
Our nation will break free from the shackles of the Earth and become an interstellar nation, spreading our culture, technology, and civilization throughout the solar system and even the Milky Way, and in the more distant future, throughout the entire universe!

……

At this time, Zhao Mo, who was on Earth, received a compressed package sent from the Moon.

Xiaowu told him that it was from the lunar survey telescope research team.

Zhao Mo didn't take it seriously at first, but when he opened the compressed file to check the information inside, halfway through, he suddenly stood up from his seat, a look of surprise appeared on his face, and blurted out, "How did it come from?"

He never expected that at this point in time, he would see the same location as the mysterious picture in the latest information sent to him by the lunar survey telescope research team.

The semi-elliptical donut is gray in the middle, the donut is orange-red, and is surrounded by dense white spots.

"This is the detection result sent by the research team this week."

Xiaowu thought he was asking it, so he answered immediately.

Zhao Mo came back to his senses, calmed himself down, then sat down again and carefully studied the information.

This is the final analysis and synthesis of a large number of high-definition pictures taken from the center of the Milky Way. You can see that the densely packed white spots are satellites.

As for the donut, it was actually a bunch of huge crimson stars, ten in total, similar to the sun, but each star was a hundred thousand times larger than the sun!
What’s even stranger is that these ten stars are distributed very regularly and evenly!

You know, under normal circumstances, if two stars of this size, let alone ten, get closer to each other, they will attract each other and end up being destroyed.

"...This is very strange. Such a star system has never been found in the universe before, and this star system is located in the center of the Milky Way...We think this is not a naturally formed star system. Professor Zhao, please help us take a look!"

The Lunar Survey Telescope team commented their questions and requests under this picture, and it can be seen that they are also extremely shocked.

"It certainly doesn't look like a naturally formed star system!"

Zhao Mo took a deep breath and encountered the biggest problem he had faced since embarking on the path of science.

He had a vague feeling of suspicion and uneasiness in his heart, thinking that this might be a creation of another civilization!

If this is true, where did that civilization go?
Why haven’t we humans discovered it?

Or are they observing our Earth civilization, and everything about us is planned by them?
Zhao Mo thought for a long time and came to a rough conclusion that the most likely possibility was that this civilization had disappeared.

Otherwise, no other reasons make sense.

If we humans were captive, they would not allow us to discover their traces. Or they would be so arrogant that it would not matter if we discovered their traces, but they would definitely not allow us to develop to the point where we are close to them, nor would they allow us to build spacecraft to travel across the solar system or even explore other galaxies.
Our development is constantly moving forward, but the other party has no reaction at all. It is the other party alone that has disappeared.

However, this raises a new question: why did a civilization powerful enough to transform a star system disappear?

“Does everything increase entropy?”

Zhao Mo muttered to himself. (End of this chapter)