Controlling the Five Thunders and the Two Worlds

Chapter 490 Over 40,000 Tons of Lunar Rock
Yandu, the aerospace base, the ground control center.

"Mr. Gu has returned to Earth, his destination is Tianxia, ​​Yandu, um... the space base test square?"

The radar operator exclaimed, "He's coming this way?"

Current high-end satellite positioning and high-definition photos have almost reached centimeter-level resolution, and the most advanced radar is naturally not far behind, not to mention that Gu Zhao has not changed direction.

Analyzing Gu Zhao's landing point is even simpler than analyzing the most basic ballistic missile, because he doesn't even have terminal error.

The base leader certainly remembered the message from the Taoist office that Gu Zhao was going to the moon to collect lunar soil and might need his cooperation.

Yes, I did cooperate, instructing the astronauts on the Tiangong space station to let Gu Zhao in and improve their meals.

Person in charge: ╮(╯▽╰)╭

So, is Gu Zhao planning to send the lunar soil to the space base?

"Notify the air defense forces! Notify the Tianxia Academy of Sciences! Notify the base security department." The base leader said to his secretary as he ran towards the door, "And also notify the Taoist Academy office."

"Yes!" The secretary ran after him while taking out her phone to make a call.

In the base's monitoring hall, a group of staff members looked at each other, their eyes filled with both anticipation and regret.

"Why is it my turn to be on duty today?"

"I also want to go out and see the world."

"Ahhh, I'm so excited, my whole body is itching! What should I do?"

"Hey, Li, why don't you connect the outside surveillance cameras to the big screen in the lobby? That way we can see at least a little bit."

A baby-faced man wearing glasses lowered his head slightly, and others could only see a dazzling light flashing on his glasses.

Then a dense clatter of keys filled the keyboard in front of him, and the large screen in the monitoring hall instantly switched from a bunch of charts to the outdoor scene.

The scene on the screen was familiar to everyone; it was the experimental plaza of the aerospace base.

They even saw the base leader, who had just hurriedly left the hall, now appearing at the edge of the square.

When they saw the person in charge, Gu Zhao also saw the person in charge. He forgot his name, only that his surname was Li, and he had seen him in the news or in a video.

"Hello, Academician Li." Gu Zhao hovered above the test site.

Academician Li looked at Gu Zhao, who was suspended in mid-air, licked his lips, and couldn't suppress his doubts any longer. "Mr. Gu, may I ask how you manage to fly?"

Gu Zhao couldn't help but laugh and said, "It's just absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. It's roughly the same principle as eating. People have strength after eating, and we can fly after absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and growing to a certain stage."

However, most people cannot absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, just as herbivores don't eat meat, or as not everyone can learn calculus; it cannot be forced.

Academician Li, "..."

Damn it, the fact that herbivores don't eat meat can be explained by species differences, but if you can't learn calculus, even Academician Li can't refute that.

Sometimes the differences between people are greater than the differences between species.

"I'll put the lunar soil here, is that alright?" Gu Zhao pointed to the spacious testing ground below.

“Okay, okay!” Academician Li nodded quickly. “I’ve already notified someone to come and help move it.”

Gu Zhao nodded, "There's a lot of stuff, take your time moving it, no rush."

"How many..."

Academician Li had only said a few words when he swallowed the rest.

Gu Zhao took out a large rock, two or three meters wide and high, and placed it in front of Academician Li. Academician Li, with his sharp eyes, noticed a yellow sticky note on the front of the rock, which read: [East Longitude X°XX′XX″, North Latitude X°XX′XX″, Depth XX meters]

Academician Li: ? ? ?

"This is just one location?" Academician Li stared in disbelief at the rock in front of him, which was larger than himself. "How can it have depth?"

“You provided me with a total of 132 locations. I started from the surface and mined a rock every 20 meters until I reached a depth of 100 meters.”

Gu Zhao said to Academician Li, "Six pieces will be mined from each location, for a total of 792 pieces of moon rock."

Academician Li swallowed hard.

“Besides the lunar rocks, I also brought back a box of lunar soil from the same location.”

Gu Zhao patted the gourd, then took out a stone box about half a person's height from it and placed it next to the Moon Rock. "There are a total of 792 boxes."

Academician Li fell silent.

As a top scientist, Academician Li possesses exceptional mental arithmetic abilities.

The density of lunar mare basalt is approximately between 3.3 g/cm³ and 3.4 g/cm³. Although the shape of this particular lunar rock is not very regular, it can be roughly considered as a cube with sides of 2.5 meters.

Converted, this single piece of lunar rock weighs approximately 52 tons.

If there are 792 pieces of moon rock...

More than 4 tons?
This doesn't even include the box in front of us, which must weigh several hundred kilograms of lunar soil.

Academician Li looked at the half-person-high stone box containing lunar soil next to the lunar rock, which was clearly a makeshift container.

Maybe Gu Zhao cut it out on the moon with his flying sword.

In other words, when Gu Zhao went to the moon, he thought of bringing food for the astronauts on the Tiangong space station, but he didn't think of bringing containers for lunar soil!
Academician Li seemed speechless, as if he were holding his forehead in his hand.

Luckily, he brought a stack of sticky notes with him, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to distinguish the moon rocks in different locations.
If this were his own student, he could...

If I were to beg him to take me to the moon, I wonder if he would agree?
While Academician Li was still thinking, he saw Gu Zhaofei in mid-air, clattering as he took out pieces of moon rock and placed them one by one on the test site, with a stone box next to him.

In no time, the huge test field was covered with a large amount of material.

Not only Academician Li, but also the staff who came with him to move the equipment were dumbfounded.

Looking at Yueyan, who was much taller than him, and then at his own gloved hands, he stammered, "Mounting? Let me do it?"

In the monitoring hall, looking at the screen full of all kinds of rocks—some formed on their own, some cut by cross-sections, and some large blocks of rock cut directly into squares—the staff were speechless.

"How much did the lunar soil that our Chang'e sampling rover brought back from the moon weigh?"

"1953 grams."

"Can you guess how heavy these lunar soil and rocks are?"

"I won't guess."

"Even if you replace grams with tons, it's still far from the truth."

"Those people who study lunar rocks and soil are in luck. 132 sites, 792 pieces of lunar rocks, the same amount of lunar soil, weighing tens of thousands of tons, enough for them to write papers for ten years."

"Ten years? We couldn't bring back this much stuff even in ten years on our own."

"Don't be ridiculous. If we could bring back tens of thousands of tons of lunar rocks, we would have already established a base on the moon."

(End of this chapter)