Hundreds of thousands of kilometres away, on the Moon Palace, a bird-like sky shuttle slowly approached this majestic space fortress.

The alloy round tube, which acts as a gangway, extends from the Moon Palace and inserts an open connection on the side of the head of the Xia Guang, leading the Xia Guang, which has shut down the power system, to the port successfully.

The alloy round tube begins to fill with air.

As the alloy door panels opened on both sides, six astronauts in space suits grabbed the armrest on both sides of the corridor and slowly crossed the gangway, entering the buffer chamber of the Moon Palace.

Stopped in the buffer room and watched the moon's beams outside the starboard window come to fruition with a glimmer in his eyes.

“I have heard on Earth that the collider of the IMCRC and the Guangdong District can be seen standing on the Moon Palace. ”

“I'm sure you won't see it standing here," walked next to Liang Yucheng, responsible for sending the five astronauts to Captain Xu Zhenghong on the moon, smiling slightly and saying, "but maybe an hour more. ”

“Have you ever been to Guangdong City? ”

“Twice. ”

“What's it like there. ”

“It's growing fast!” Looking at the moon outside the starboard window, Xu Zhenghong recalled for a moment and said, "I remember the first time I went there, I was sending supplies up there, there was nothing up there, there was only a lonely science station, and a few scientists stationed there. My deputy and I even once wondered if they could hold on to that little thing. ”

Liang Yucheng asked: “What about the other time? ”

“Another was the return to Earth of 4.27 tons of moon ore, 50 kilograms of wheat, maize, potatoes, and some biological agents and scientific specimens produced from the moon… I remember very clearly because I personally counted those shipments. ”

Speaking of which, Xu Zhenghong's face revealed a smile, "The current Guangdong Special Administrative Region can not only rely on the moon ice beneath the surface to produce fresh water, oxygen, cultivate space crops in stand-alone planting units and even produce rare earth minerals with scarce reserves on the planet. I hear there's another space hotel open to regular visitors, but it's still more expensive. ”

“I'd really like to see it up there. ”

“There will be a chance,” Xu Zhenghong said with a smile. "You guys seem to rotate every three years. Next time you switch shifts from Mars, I'll probably pick you up. I'll take you around Guangdong City. ”

Liang smiled and extended his fist.

“That's a deal. Don't come when it's not you. ”

“How?” Xu Zhenghong stretched out his fist and touched him. "The big husband said something and the horse was hard to chase. You guys, be careful over there. Don't let anything happen. ”

“Rest assured," the retracted fist touched in his chest, Liang smiled faintly, "I promise it will be five when I go and five when I come back. ”

……

The wave of engagement didn't last long.

Gossip is like the wind. It's always been a while. It's passed on, and everyone gets tired of it.

After a couple of days, a few more celebrities got married and broke up. Wei rescued Zhao for a while. Soon, the internet friends ran from one hot spot to the next and ate the melon from other houses.

Until later, as the “day of departure” approached, Professor Lu's lifelong events were clearly even more worthless than the lifelong events of all mankind.

Last day of March.

With great anticipation, the colonizers carrying the people's plans to set fire to the fire finally appeared late in the public's sights.

Prior to that, for various reasons, the Office of the Firing Program had not announced the colonial status of the trip to Mars.

It was not until five people successfully reached the Moon Palace hundreds of thousands of kilometres away, about to land on the colonial ship Xufu, that they were given a full shot and their names and photographs were published.

Surprisingly, only three of the first colonizers, whether painted or referred to in the written text, were included in the "Road Map to Fire" previously published by the Office of the Manned Fire Program and the Manned Fire Program.

And even because of that, there's a lot of talk on the Internet that the Human Fire Office is actually mimicking NASA's “New Virginia" program.

Now, however, the first planned landings have gone from three to five.

This sudden change is inevitably somewhat surprising for both online friends who are concerned about the ignition program and NASA.

After all, taking one more person to Mars is not just about adding a seat to the ship. This not only requires a stronger carrying capacity for artificial ecosystems deployed on Mars' surface, but also implies that colonial ships need to consider two additional person-to-person supplies when carrying supplies.

Technically, that's not an easy thing to do.

Moreover, coupled with the fact that the onset of a human fire is in itself an eye-catching affair, its natural political attributes make it difficult not to combine with the current international situation.

It was only a few years ago that NASA broke a trident on that flaming red planet and almost brought dangerous Mars bacteria back to Earth, causing a serious ecological crisis, and even now an astronaut has not woken up at the moon's science station.

Given that NASA's BFS ship to Mars had exactly three astronauts on board, the Chinese nation is now suddenly announcing an adjustment from three to five in the planned number of firefighters, and this particular number and special initiative are very difficult to avoid a strange association.

Many see it as a provocation to North America by the Chinese State in the field of space.

What is more, it has even been interpreted as a high-profile announcement by the Chinese State that they have won the entire race on the future of mankind.

It turned out to be completely unexpected, even making him cry.

Void testimony, he never thought of anything so childish.

Arranging for three people to board was also a mere consideration of one-by-one replacement, and the three were able to do just as much as the vast majority of the initial exploration work.

It has now been temporarily changed to five people, and the timetable for the manned firing plan has been set for a month, just for the sake of system incentives, and to provide more experience when conditions permit.

Turns out, I didn't expect those experts in international relations to read so many layers by pulling a bunch of lively internet friends. Don't say it's the Ark's face, Director Lee and Director Chang, who, after learning about the situation, are also unexpected faces.

In order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, the Office had to hold a press conference to publicly respond to and clarify these false rumours, as too many people were caught in the details.

None of us thought, however, that this was not a clarification that mattered and that, on the contrary, it made people feel that there must be something hidden in it.

Twitter on.

CNN News' official account reproduces live coverage of the press conference.

In the comment area below the tweet, the fryer has been completely fried.

“This is a provocation of red fruit! ”

“How dare they… how dare they! ”

“We should restart the Man Fire Program now! ”

“Exactly! They send five men, then we send ten! ”

“ …… ”

Of course, there are also a lot of rational voices in mass excitement.

In addition to those who shouted and focused on the Starter Fire Program, many opposed the Starter Fire Program, arguing that it was not too late for the White House to focus more on the Deep Gate and the distant and indefinite Moon Settlement Program and catch up on the Chinese footsteps on the Moon first.

Indeed, it is.

So far, NASA has not completely cleaned up the mess left over from the last fire, let alone slowed down from the failure of the New Virginia.

Whether or not limited resources are being focused on exploring and developing the Moon, this is not a good time to restart the Launcher Fire Program.

But if left alone, it would undoubtedly be a heavy blow to the current White House support and national cohesion.

Space is a pride in the eyes of Americans.

And this pride has lasted half a century.

In any case, this is not something that can be picked up gently and let go gently.