Chapter 2: The Moon Base

Mankind's longing for the moon has started since the time of the apes and monkeys.

In the first primitive period, when humans had just developed intelligence and were curious and in awe of all natural signs, they held regular rituals, worshipped the moon for a long time, and prayed for the blessing of the moon god.

By the Middle Ages, the moon remained a mysterious natural phenomenon. People could not understand how such a huge object could hang in the sky. They attributed it to the "gods" and many myths and legends revolved around the moon, which was believed to be the place where the gods lived.

The first time people really understood the moon was during the Renaissance.

The great scientist Galileo used a telescope to observe the moon and found that it was not composed of the legendary "fifth element", but was similar to the Earth, full of rocks and sand. The moon's environment is much worse than the Earth, cratered craters, gray and black land, no trace of life ...

Since then, people know that the moon, no jade buildings, but a lifeless dead land!

However, people's exploration of the moon does not stop there. In the 20th century, science and technology ushered in a comprehensive and rapid development, space telescopes, artificial satellites, rockets, space shuttles and a number of means have emerged. Either for political or other reasons, several scientific and technological powers competed to develop the means to land on the moon, wanting to be the first to go to the moon.

After a series of fights in the field of aviation, finally, in 1969, the American astronaut - Armstrong took the first step into the moon. It was a small step for an individual, but a big step for all mankind!

"However, behind the moon landing, it is not as simple as it seems ..."

Oliver organized his language and continued, "The lunar base that was built at a huge cost was not, as the government advertised, purely for science either! It was supposed to be a top state secret, but now it doesn't matter, I'll tell you more about it."

In his words, a huge secret was revealed ...

In the 1990s, the U.S. government held a secret meeting with the heads of twenty powerful nations around the world. In the meeting, they made public a secret that had been kept for twenty years.

In 1969, they discovered an alien spacecraft on Bailey Crater at the south pole of the moon!

After the first successful lunar landing, the Americans followed up with a second lunar landing, aimed squarely at the alien ship. This moon landing was done secretly, done with extreme secrecy, without any media coverage and without any news coming out.

In the meeting, the Americans described the ship as follows.

"It was so big that it was fifteen kilometers in diameter. Only a small part of it is exposed to the surface, the vast majority of it is buried in the earth. With our level of technology, there is no way to move it back to Earth."

"The interior of the ship is a honeycomb structure, but strangely enough, there is nothing inside, in the middle room, we found a metal box, the contents of which we named - Perfectin."

Hearing the term "Perfectin", all the team members changed their faces slightly, the group sometimes came across this term in some missions. However, "Perfectin" belongs to the high-level secret, is absolutely taboo existence, although the people are curious, but so many years of military career down, ultimately do not know what it is.

Oliver also does not sell, continue to tell.

Perfectin, a magical substance, the only thing left behind by the aliens in addition to the spaceship. With the level of human technology, it is impossible to detect its molecular form! Or rather, it is not at all by human perception, the substance composed of atoms.

It is superficially liquid, somewhat like mercury, and can be absorbed by living things.

In that international conference, the Americans described it this way: "We did a lot of experiments, and oh, God, there's such a substance in the world! For example, the blossom, a plant that only blooms for two hours and has a very short life span, was treated with perfectin and the blooming time was magically extended ten times!"

"Another example is rice, the most common annual herb, the life cycle of only one year. However, after treatment with Perfectin, it was still alive after twenty years!"

"We found that Perfectin can substantially repair genetic defects, enhance cellular vitality, delay aging, so to speak - the legendary elixir of immortality!"

"We did the same experiments on animals and got the same results, although, the success rate is extremely, extremely low ... but it also means that it might be able to work on people!"

This is a news that makes dignitaries tremble. Think about it, if perfectin can work on people, then the whole world will change. Not considering the other benefits, a tenfold increase in life expectancy alone would be enough to make the whole world go crazy!

"Ten times, that's ten times the life span! You guys are young now, so you may not understand the implications ... but, for older people, it's a heavy bomb!" Oliver sighed.

The Americans would have liked to have this achievement to themselves, but the technical level is too different, twenty years is so little progress, once the perfectin acts on the human body, it will trigger brain death in a short time. However, many of the older leaders could not wait any longer, and they wanted to pool the world's efforts to speed up the research progress.

A huge plan was thus created, and the first step was to establish a lunar base. On the one hand, to study the first alien ship, on the other hand, or because the perfect element in the alien ship to play a greater activity!

"This is the origin of the moon base." Oliver looked at his comrades and said, "Perfectin and the existence of the alien ship is the country's high-level secrets, but now that the Earth is destroyed, it does not matter ... As for the progress of research, there may have been some results, but ... ..." said, he sighed gently again.

What alien spacecraft, perfect vegetation, although previously heard, but really revealed, like listening to the sky book, many people are dumbfounded, for a moment can not accept. But when you think about it, combined with all the strange details of the mission, it is indeed possible that the existence of the perfect element, explains a lot of past doubts.

Vice captain Wade asked thoughtfully, "So, the establishment of the moon base is because of this perfectin?"

"Yes, the main reason is still Perfectin!" Oliver clenched his fist, "Think about it, without the lure of ten times the life span, can the dignitaries as well as the rich and powerful of all countries shell out huge amounts of money? What new energy, alien spacecraft, all belong to the appendages, are not the main thing, the main thing is the life expectancy ah! Without this substantial temptation, they may smash money in?"

"30 years, 60 trillion dollars, arguably the largest investment in history! In order to live a long life, these people are really desperate! But now it seems that the establishment of the moon base is also the luck of mankind, otherwise, the vast universe, there is no longer a foothold for us humans ..."

"In the early stages of construction is particularly difficult, no air, no supplies, no water, everything needs to be transported from Earth. The most critical thing is the lack of manpower! Who is willing to risk death to build? Not even with more money! So the countries coincidentally used the death row construction program, sending death row prisoners to the moon, and it's best to build successfully, it doesn't matter if you die."

"This is the base with life piled up ah."

"It took about ten years to have the initial prototype. The next slowly developed to the present, with a resident population of 50,000, just like the highest-end scientific base!"

Speaking here, Oliver's expression serious, "Well, the story ends here, I just got a message from the moon, some restless death row inmates in the base, yesterday rebellion!"

"They attacked the base's top brass and kidnapped a large number of hostages. Currently, the whole base is in a state of chaos."

"So our first task, is - to quell this rebellion!"

Hearing this, Wade immediately took a step forward while saluting and said, "Promise to complete the mission!"

"Then ... is disbanded!"

Each person is the elite of the military, and there are no nagging words, each walking back to their positions in silence, digesting what they just heard and making their final preparations.