Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 71 Impact!

Or perhaps... the truth is actually the opposite?

It wasn't that the signal and communication were interfered with, but rather that the communication module stopped working for some unknown reason, which led to the loss of contact and caused our side to mistakenly believe that the communication was being interfered with.
Jiang Yang didn't think too much about this issue. Because no matter which situation occurred, the result would be the same.

His attention shifted back to the remaining nine lunar rovers.

On the desolate and lifeless lunar surface, these nine "hounds" continue to advance under their master's command, constantly narrowing the encirclement of their "prey".

A moment later, Professor Li Jiaming reported loudly again: "Lunar rover No. 6 is experiencing signal interference!"

The image transmitted back from it showed slight shaking. It seems that the interference is not serious at this moment.

This time, Jiang Yang changed his previous order: "Retreat 100 meters to observe!"

"Yes!"

Under command, the tracked wheels reversed, following the previous tracks, and brought the lunar rover back to the rear, where the signal interference disappeared.

"There is no radiation, no electromagnetic waves, and no signal interference sources that we are aware of."

Professor Li Jiaming murmured, "We can't find the reason."

Jiang Yang nodded and continued to look at the other lunar rovers.

Over the next two hours, all eight lunar rovers showed signs of signal interference, so they all stopped.

In the image, connecting the eight lunar rovers and the first lunar rover that lost contact earlier, a total of nine coordinate points are formed, creating an image that is roughly elliptical in shape on the screen.

The longest point is 12 kilometers, the shortest point is 10.5 kilometers, and the total area is approximately 95 square kilometers.

Compared to the previously roughly defined area of ​​about 300 square kilometers, it has shrunk by about 70%.

These eight lunar rovers, which are still functioning normally, have already begun their exploration in their original locations.

Using their own onboard devices, they begin to detect everything in their environment directly and at zero distance, and transmit the data back to Earth in real time.

The corresponding analysis teams were already in place. Scientists from dozens of top universities, research institutes, and laboratories began analyzing the data.

But Jiang Yang knew that these analyses would most likely yield no results.

The anomaly most likely exists only within this region. And our detection forces cannot enter this anomalous region.

Jiang Yang wasn't the only one who realized this.

The atmosphere in the command center was much heavier than before. Clearly, everyone knew that their attempt to uncover the truth behind the apocalypse had, at this moment, failed.

In this lifetime, it's impossible for us to know the truth about the apocalypse.

However, even if we fail, we are not truly without any gains.

Besides confirming the existence of the anomaly, one of its manifestation patterns, and the area it covers, we have one last detection method.

And this detection method is likely to be able to withstand even anomalies that cover the entire area.

Jiang Yang looked at Professor Li Jiaming: "How long until the impactor reaches the moon?"

Nine hours.

"it is good."

After resting for a while, at 11 p.m., with about 25 hours left until the end of the world, everyone gathered again in the command center.

The large screen displayed the payload bay of the Tianzai-1 rocket. It was a conical chamber about 2.6 meters in diameter and 2 meters in height. It was equipped with some scientific exploration equipment and had a total mass of about 4 tons.

These scientific exploration instruments were originally intended to conduct some lunar exploration as they approached the moon at high speed.

After all, detection opportunities are rare, and even if the detection window is extremely short, we must make the most of it.

Of course, it seems highly likely that these scientific exploration devices will no longer be needed now.

At this moment, the payload capsule is about 3000 kilometers away from the moon. Its speed is about 0.9 kilometers per second.

This speed seems slow, but in fact, it was even slower before.

Because its speed never reached the second cosmic velocity, it never escaped Earth's gravitational field.

During its flight away from Earth, its speed was constantly and steadily weakened by Earth's gravitational field, and at its slowest, it was less than 500 meters per second.

Fortunately, it has now entered the range of the moon's gravitational field.

In this region, the Moon's gravitational field is stronger than Earth's. Under the influence of the Moon's gravity, its speed begins to increase slowly again, eventually reaching 0.9 kilometers per second.

And it will continue to accelerate throughout the process, up to about 2.4 kilometers per second.

Time passed slowly. The bright spot representing the payload module drew ever closer to the moon, and its silhouette was finally captured by the lunar reconnaissance satellite.

Against the backdrop of that small, blue-glowing planet, an even smaller point of light slowly approaches from the distant depths of space.

"Track correction!"

"Attitude adjustment, engine started, injection time 1.6 seconds!"

"The seismograph is ready!"

Above the conical payload chamber, a dozen jets of scorching, high-pressure gas were ejected from various nozzles, each jet lasting only a fraction of a second, fleeting in an instant.

The total ejection time was only 1.6 seconds, and the trajectory of the payload compartment changed slightly afterward.

Its speed is still gradually increasing, and as its speed increases, the lunar land below appears increasingly vast from its perspective.

One of the lunar rovers raised its camera and looked up at the sky. Then, under the sunlight, the tiny bright spot, like a shooting star, suddenly fell from the vast and boundless depths of space and crashed into the lunar surface in almost an instant.

At that moment, approximately 120 billion joules of energy, equivalent to the explosion of 2.6 tons of TNT, was released instantly, with the vast majority of it being released into the lunar rocks, and only a small portion being released as debris, lunar dust, and rock fragments.

The lunar surface trembled slightly.

At this moment, mechanical waves began to propagate rapidly through the lunar rock layers. These mechanical waves are divided into longitudinal and transverse waves, and their characteristics vary depending on the density and distribution of the rock layers.

By measuring these changes, people can learn about the mysteries inside a planet.

This is true on Earth, and it is also true on the Moon.

The seismic waves carrying the secrets of the underground regions of the moon were precisely captured by the seismometers among the eight lunar rovers, and were precisely captured from multiple angles in different directions and positions.

The corresponding data was quickly transmitted back and analyzed by the automatic plotting program immediately.

The next moment, the first image was displayed before people.

Professor Li Jiaming's pupils suddenly contracted: "There's an underground cavity there!"

(End of this chapter)