Don't go to the moon, there are gods on the far side of the moon.

Lin Jibai chose the third option.

Of course, choose the third option.

The first two are like surrender and like animals, respectively.

The bronze staircase trembled, and the steel frame inside the Buzhou Mountain model shifted layer by layer, revealing a narrow passage leading underground.

Lin Jibai was stunned for a moment.

He spent three years repairing equipment in the exhibition hall and never knew there was space underneath the model.

"How many illegal structures did you bury in the space city back then?"

No one answered.

Qin Zhao's men behind him had already pried open the access panel.

"Mr. Lin, don't go down there." Qin Zhao's voice was urgent for the first time. "That place isn't for the living."

Lin Jibai turned around: "That's perfect, I haven't been living like a human being lately either."

He slid into the narrow passage.

It's cold in the underground space.

It's not the air conditioning that's cold; it's the kind of cold that freezes your voice like it's in a cold storage room on the far side of the moon.

At the end of the corridor was a sealed room, with a faded number written on the wall: GH-17 Temporary Sample Library.

Xu Wangshu was already inside.

Lin Jibai almost thought he was seeing things: "How come you're faster than me?"

Xu Wangshu held up his phone: "I cracked the protocol backup location you sent. I also went through the front door."

"Where is the main entrance?"

"There are stairs 30 meters behind you."

Lin Jibai paused for two seconds: "Say it earlier next time."

In the center of the storage room was a long, rectangular box containing lunar soil.

The surface of the box was covered with white frost, and the frost patterns formed the outline of a rabbit.

Xu Wangshu's expression was solemn: "This is not an ordinary sample. The file marks it as 'Wreckage of the Guanghan Palace Cryogenic Transport Unit'."

"translate?"

"Cold storage handling robot"

"A mythical forklift?"

"You can interpret it so loosely."

Lin Jibai affixed the lunar landing certificate to the box.

Click.

The seal unlocks automatically.

The lid of the box popped open a crack.

There is no lunar soil inside.

There is a rabbit.

To be precise, it was half a mechanical rabbit.

A silver-white skeleton, a single eye like a ruby, a body broken in half, with intricate gears and golden lines resembling blood vessels exposed on the abdomen.

It lay there quietly, as if it had been dead for thousands of years.

Just as Xu Wangshu was about to approach, the mechanical rabbit's single eye suddenly lit up.

"A candidate for Chang'e has been detected."

She froze.

The mechanical rabbit's head slowly turned towards Lin Jibai.

"A patcher has been detected."

"mistake."

"Repairmen should not be on the ground."

Lin Jibai squatted down: "I think so too. But life doesn't always follow reason."

The mechanical rabbit's single eye blinked, emitting a piercing noise.

"The custodian has defected."

"The South Heavenly Gate is heating up."

"The Guanghan Palace Cold Storage requests that the human interface be closed."

Xu Wangshu immediately asked, "Which custodian of the warehouse defected?"

Mechanical Rabbit stutters.

"Chang'e 17...not yet archived."

"Chang'e 18...candidates have been selected."

Its single eye locked onto Xu Wangshu.

Xu Wangshu's face turned pale, but she did not back down: "I am not your custodian."

The circuitry on the mechanical rabbit's abdomen suddenly lit up, and a map of a cold storage facility appeared on the wall of the storage room.

Deep within the map, a red dot is flashing.

Note: Nantianmen key container.

Name: Lin Xiaoman.

Lin Jibai's voice turned serious: "Where is she?"

Mechanical Rabbit: "Not received. Pre-receiving."

"How can we stop it?"

"Close the live stream window on the far side of the moon."

Xu Wangshu suddenly looked up: "Tianheng will test broadcast footage of the far side of the moon tomorrow. The live broadcast signal will expand the lunar far side system's positioning of the ground interface."

Lin Jibai understood.

Tianheng's so-called live streaming is not just commercial promotion.

That was a roll call.

Let the cold storage of Guanghan Palace use global signals to find Xiaoman.

The sound of a door being broken down was heard outside the storage room.

Qin Zhao's men caught up with them.

The mechanical rabbit suddenly struggled to sit up, its half-body trailing sparks.

"Warning: Star Official Verifier Approaching."

"Chang'e candidate, please issue instructions."

Xu Wangshu gritted her teeth: "I don't have the authority."

Mechanical Rabbit: "Candidate bloodline confirmed. Can temporarily take over lower-level Jade Rabbit units."

Lin Jibai looked at her: "Dr. Xu, don't be modest, even the rabbit acknowledges you."

Xu Wangshu took a deep breath: "Jade Rabbit, lock the door."

The mechanical rabbit's single eye suddenly lit up.

The door to the storage room slammed shut.

A crashing sound came from outside.

The Jade Rabbit turned to the two of them and said in a flat, mechanical voice:

"Door locked."

"Remaining energy: three minutes."

"Three minutes later, this unit will self-destruct and send the coordinates of the candidate to the Moon Palace."