"It's so cold in here."

On the gray lunar soil, looking at the outside temperature values projected on the helmet, the young man in a heavy spacesuit said with some emotion.

"Heh, can you still freeze in a spacesuit?"

Walking next to him was the captain of the engineering team of the lunar scientific research station, whose name was Wu Gang. The people in the engineering team usually ridiculed him if he came to the moon to cut down trees, while he himself teased that he was a contractor on the moon.

In fact, it is true that there is only one engineering team in the entire research station.

Everything that was thrown from the Moon Palace relied on them to unload, install, and deploy.

He repaired the solar array, and he also repaired the lunar collider, so it can be said that the entire artificial facilities on the lunar surface were built by him and the engineers of the engineering team to operate the space construction equipment "brick by brick".

As for the one next to him at the moment, it is an engineer who was recently assigned to the team, his name is Xu Chengli, and it is said that he graduated from Jinling University with a master's degree in aerospace engineering.

Due to the close cooperation between Jinling University and the Institute for Advanced Study in the research and development of aerospace technology, this resume can be regarded as very popular in the aerospace industry, so that Wu Gang is a little puzzled why he came to this kind of place where birds don't.

"I'm just saying it casually, don't get excited."

Listening to the voice coming from the communication channel, Xu Chengli smiled a little embarrassedly.

Because he first arrived here, he always felt that everything was very new, so that many of his teammates thought he was a bit talkative. But many times he doesn't feel it himself, but sees it as a virtue.

After all, on the silent moon, it's too difficult to hear a little human voice. He always felt that if he didn't say a little more, he might be suffocated one day.

However, this Captain Wu didn't seem to agree.

"You're talking too much."

Seeing that he seemed to be hated, Xu Chengli's face showed a helpless smile.

"Well, I'll keep myself from talking nonsense...... Hey, actually, when I was on Earth, I didn't talk so much. ”

“…… Your latter sentence is redundant. ”

The two continued to walk for a while, stopping on a flat surface.

After stepping on the ground with his foot and confirming that this piece of lunar soil was strong enough, Wu Gang reached out and took off the navigation beacon from his backpack, skillfully set the accuracy parameters, and then firmly inserted it on the ground.

At this point, their work is over for the time being, and all that remains is to wait for the cargo ship to drop the landing pod, then disassemble and disassemble the cargo placed on it, and make the correct deployment.

The two of them stood in the deserted wilderness, quietly waiting for the arrival of the goods.

Time passed minute by minute, and just when Xu Chengli was already bored and hesitating to talk about something, Wu Gang suddenly spoke.

"You're only twenty-five."

Seeing that the captain actually took the initiative to talk to him, Xu Chengli hurriedly answered.

"yes, what's wrong?"

Wu Gang: "Why did you come to this kind of place?" ”

"Do you need to ask? The wages are high, and the wages of the same type of work are three times that of the ground. And even if you have food and shelter, the intensity of work is not great. Rotate every six months and take a three-month break, the only thing that makes me a little unhappy is that the network latency is too high, the communication bandwidth is limited, and ...... No nightclubs are a little boring. What about you? ”

Wu Gang was silent for a moment, as if he was hesitating to answer the question.

But seeing this expectant look, he finally sighed and spoke.

"The reason seems to be the same as you...... But I'm not the same as you. I have a family to support, two children to go to school, and a mortgage to pay...... A piece of advice, young people should not waste their good youth in such a place. These jobs are done for people like us. ”

Xu Chengli frowned: "How can it be said to be a waste?" Don't you think it's cool to work on the moon? ”

Cruel?

What's that?

Hearing this, Wu Gang was obviously slightly stunned.

Do today's young people actually think like this?

He felt that not only was he about to lose track of the times, but he also seemed to be a little out of step with the ideas of young people.

At least in his opinion, there is no fun here except for a bare gray earth, and too many craters that have no beauty at all.

"You don't want to talk about girlfriends?"

"It's boring, I'm tired of it for a long time, I'm still comfortable alone, I can go wherever I want, why bother myself. By the way, as soon as you say this, I think about one of the benefits of working here, at least there will be no one to urge marriage here, haha. ”

Smiling heartily, Xu Chengli looked up at the deep and dark deep space in the sky, and suddenly said with emotion, "Every time I look up at this sky, I think that my personal fate is insignificant in front of the universe. Not to mention that there is no throne to inherit, even if there is, what is it in front of him? ”

Wu Gang glanced at him.

"If everyone thought the same way with you, we would have been extinct a long time ago."

"Sooner or later...... I mean standing on the height of time. Glancing at the electronic clock printed on the upper right corner of the transparent surface, Xu Chengli said impatiently, "Speaking of time, don't those people on the Moon Palace have any concept of time?" We've been waiting here for a while when our goods will arrive. ”

"Probably there was some accident," glancing at the time counter on the helmet, Wu Gang frowned and said, "But it shouldn't be serious, at least there is no additional notice from the headquarters." ”

Xu Chengli: "Speaking of which, what was sent this time?" ”

"Sample Entry: Dr-111 Active Substance...... I don't know much, so let's leave the superfluous things alone and do the job at hand...... Here it comes. ”

The moment the words fell, Xu Chengli raised his head and looked in the direction where Captain Wu's gaze was pointing.

I saw that in the deep and dark deep space, a flickering green dot suddenly appeared.

Like a merchant ship sailing from a distant world, the green dot gradually approached, flickering at a special frequency, and gradually approached the area that the two of them could see with the naked eye.

The shadow grew bigger and closer.

Eventually, the wide chassis slammed steadily into the surface of the moon, kicking up billowing lunar dust.

"It's time to get to work."

Patting Xu Chengli on the shoulder, Wu Gang walked in front and took the lead in walking towards the silver-white landing module with a green signal light flashing overhead.

"You're late."

Looking at the astronaut who stepped down from the landing module, Wu Gang raised his right hand and tapped twice on the side of the helmet, connecting his signal to his communication channel.

“…… It took a while to correct the track. Introduce yourself, my name is Yang Xingyu," the astronaut who stepped down from the landing module explained, coughing as he reached out to wipe the dust off the mask. ”

Xu Chengli asked curiously: "Replace the navigation system?" ”

"Yes, recently all of our computing services have been handed over to Xinghai-1, you should have heard of the world's first quantum computer."

Wu Gang frowned and said, "Is it okay to withstand such a high delay?" ”

"Latency is not an issue, this part of the problem is said to be covered by algorithms. And after a while, Star Technology will install an extension for us on the Moon Palace, and this problem will be perfectly solved. ”

As he spoke, the astronaut patted the landing module next to him and continued, "That's it, and the deployment will be up to you...... I'm a bioengineer, so I don't know much about it. If you don't bother, can you contact Captain Ma for me? I remember that he was in charge of the research station. ”

"He's already on his way," Wu Gang said, glancing at the landing pod, "if it's convenient...... Can you tell us what this thing is? ”

"There's nothing inconvenient, you'll find out soon," he said, reaching out and tapping on the wrist-mounted computer on his left arm, Dr. Yang selected the data to be transferred and clicked the send button.

As the progress bar was read, a project briefing of about 200 words was quickly presented on the visor of Wu Gang's astronaut helmet.

"Dr-111 Active Substance...... Metabolite purification project in low gravity environment...... Is this thing—"

"Looks like you've already guessed," Dr. Yang smiled and continued, "if the project goes well, maybe a large-scale migration to the moon won't be a problem." ”

"Come on," Wu Gang smiled faintly, and clicked his index finger twice on the wrist-mounted computer on his left arm, turning off the project briefing, "Except for some people with abnormal brains, who would come to this kind of place where birds don't?" ”

"Hey, what do you mean?" Xu Chengli retorted dissatisfiedly, "Is my brain abnormal?" ”

Wu Gang gave him a "Isn't it" look, and then said expressionlessly.

"Less nonsense, you're still on probation, and if you don't want to be hit with a C, hurry up and get to work."

As soon as he heard this, the young man suddenly froze, and walked to the landing cabin with his tools without saying a word.

Looking at the young man's back with a smile, Dr. Yang said, "You can't say that, life is not only in front of you, but also poetry and distance. Now all you see is bare land and craters where birds don't, but if you look back a decade or so, I'm sure you'll miss these landscapes that have gone a long way. ”

Wu Gang: "Do you mean after I retire?" ”

"I think it's the same whether you retire or not."

Hehe, I hope that when you stay here for a month, you will still be able to say such things.

Glancing at this Dr. Yang, Wu Gang smiled faintly, didn't say anything, shook his head and went to work with tools.