Controlling the Five Thunders and the Two Worlds

Chapter 491 The Moon Has Been Our Inherent Territory Since Ancient Times

"What we want is a large quantity that can satisfy everyone," Gu Zhao said. "Just like that gold mountain, if we can't use it all up in experiments, we can put it in aerospace science and technology museums in various places for the public to visit."

Academician Li, as the person in charge, was certainly not just a research nerd; he quickly grasped Gu Zhao's meaning.

“There are enough lunar rocks and soil to be exhibited in aerospace science and technology museums all over the country,” Academician Li said immediately. “Mr. Gu’s contribution is immeasurable, allowing children and aerospace enthusiasts across the country to get up close to lunar rocks and soil.”

Gu Zhao waved his hand, "No need to promote me."

Academician Li nodded, "Understood, Daoist Master."

Gu Zhao laughed heartily, then leaped away, saying, "I'm leaving. You can handle the rest yourselves!"

After watching Gu Zhao leave, Academician Li came back to his senses and stared blankly at the huge moon rock in front of him.

"Academician Li?" someone asked.

"What's wrong?" Academician Li turned around.

The man raised his gloved hands to his chest and asked awkwardly, "Are we still moving?"

Academician Li was speechless for a moment, then pointed to the stone box in front of him, which was more than a meter long and more than seventy centimeters high, and said, "Let alone that big piece of moon rock, can you even move this box?"

The two people next to him exchanged a glance. "Want to give it a try?"

"Just try it!"

On the large screen in the monitoring hall, everyone saw two strong and burly security guards approach the stone box from the left and right, and they couldn't help but shake their heads.

"More than a meter long and more than 70 centimeters wide and high, even according to the density of loose lunar soil, it weighs more than a thousand kilograms."

A young woman with a high ponytail said, "Add to that the outer box made of rock of unknown thickness, let alone two people, even two more people wouldn't be able to lift it."

Sure enough, on the big screen, the two security guards exerted all their strength, but the rock box on the ground remained completely still.

Academician Li glanced at the two embarrassed security guards and laughed, "Just leave them there. Send someone to guard them. The important thing is to make sure the sticky notes on these rocks and boxes don't fall off, or it will be troublesome if we can't tell them apart."

"Yes, sir!" The security personnel saluted in unison.

……

The surveillance footage and photos from the aerospace base test site were sent to the Taoist Academy Office and the National Academy of Sciences.

Everyone fell silent after seeing the photos and learning about the potential gains.

"More than 40,000 tons of lunar rocks, and more than 800 tons of lunar soil..."

"I seem to remember that lunar soil applications used to be calculated by the gram?"

"Yes, about 0.01 grams of lunar soil, that's how it's applied for."

There was a moment of silence in the office, then Zheng Hongsheng heard laughter and couldn't help but laugh out loud. "Just like that gold mine, it's made something so rare seem cheap."

The host also laughed and said, "The research institute just sent a message that their people have arrived at the space base, and some researchers wanted to break off a piece of lunar rock and take it with them on the spot."

"However, Dean Liu sent a message saying that they have begun to send lunar rocks and soil to the research institute. If there are no further issues, they will arrange for the application to be made public."

"Let's open applications." Zheng Hongsheng nodded.

Having dealt with Gu Zhao and the Taoist Research Institute so many times, he was familiar with their style of doing things.

What is said is said; there are no unnecessary twists and turns.

If it was said that the Moon Rock and Moon Soil were sent, then it was indeed the Moon Rock and Moon Soil.

So many have been sent back, but we can't use them all for experiments. If we suggest sending them to aerospace technology exhibitions around the world, then we absolutely must do it. The host nodded, "This application for access includes not only applications from laboratories in various regions, but also applications from aerospace exhibition halls in various regions."

Once the necessary infrastructure for the lunar rock and soil exhibition is complete, an application can be submitted.

Zheng Hongsheng nodded. "That's good."

While chatting, the group also checked the progress at the space base in real time via video.

"Be very careful, lest foreign spies secretly steal a few pieces," Chen Yao warned.

As Tianxia Technology becomes more and more advanced, it is gradually taking the lead over the United States in the aerospace field, and related personnel are active around the aerospace base and research institutes.

Gu Zhao has brought tens of thousands of tons of lunar rocks and soil this time. Even just a little bit of it exposed would be enough to feed and entertain those foreign researchers.

"There was security coordination throughout the entire process. The research institute submitted a report, and the Northern Military Region sent people to help," the host said. "We made sure that not a single speck of dust could get out."

Some people lamented, "The country has worked itself to the bone for decades, only to be outdone by someone else in half a day. This is such a blow to our confidence."

The person next to him glared at him. "That's you, don't drag us into it."

The refined-looking middle-aged man adjusted his glasses. “The technological and fantasy aspects are not mutually exclusive. There are even technological cultivation methods in online novels. The cultivation methods used by Mr. Gu and his group have been passed down for over a thousand years, while the development of modern technology is strictly speaking less than two hundred years old.”

“Not bad.” Zheng Hongsheng nodded in satisfaction. “The Taoist scholars at the Taoist Research Institute chatted with our people and found that the upper limit of technological development is also very high. For example, they can’t make chips that are only a few nanometers in size.”

"Moreover, only a minority of people in the world are capable of cultivation. Most ordinary people still need to rely on technology to improve their quality of life. In the future, if humanity wants to leave Earth, it will rely on technology, not on cultivating immortality."

"Even in science fiction novels about cultivating immortality, most of the characters are just ordinary people, not all of them are extraordinary."

"The real people usually only help people and do not interfere with our technological development, which is actually a good thing."

"Occasionally sending us mountains of gold or lunar soil would be a pleasant surprise."

Everyone laughed upon hearing this, and Zheng Hongsheng summarized, "This is also the meaning of the system. The True Men are the trump card to protect the life and death of Tianxia, ​​but for daily development, we still have to rely on ourselves."

"Exactly! Exactly!"

"The high-resolution photos taken by the lunar orbiter are out," the host said. "We took photos of the spot where Mr. Gu initially stayed for more than an hour and compared them with previous images."

Everyone asked curiously, "Why did he stay there for so long?"

The host projected the photo onto the big screen, and everyone saw that something resembling the roof of an ancient palace had suddenly appeared in the photo on the left.

"what is this?"

"How did a palace suddenly appear here?"

"Could there really be extraordinary beings on the moon? And they revealed themselves after Mr. Gu went there?"

"Is it possible that Mr. Gu built it?"

The host picked up his phone, looked up at the crowd, and said, "Mr. Gu just posted a short video."

"what?"

The host used a computer to project the video onto the big screen.

On the large screen was a photo with a desolate moon as the background and a distant blue planet as the backdrop.

In the center of the photo is a simple yet magnificent hall, with three large traditional Chinese characters written on the plaque on the front of the hall.

Guanghan Palace!
The caption for the photo reads: "The moon has been our inherent territory since ancient times, and this is now confirmed!"

(End of this chapter)