Chapter 1 Moon?

Hearing this, Su Zhou couldn't help but feel puzzled. He frowned and muttered to himself, "Why is it always the moon? Are you all moon people, planning a collective moon landing?"

Recently, around this year, he himself was going to the moon, and Zhou Buyi of the Divine Wood World was also going to the moon. Why was this Deep Space Caller also going to the moon?

But soon, he had a second thought: "As the saying goes, there is an attraction between transcendents. This is indeed synchronicity!"

Now, the Earth has indeed been completely covered by the networks of major forces. Even the Deep Space Caller had been tracked by the American Federation before this. If he didn't go to the moon, was he waiting to be besieged and bombarded by a large army plus nuclear bombs?

Moreover, the Deep Space Caller has always had a clear label, which is 'related to extraterrestrial creatures'. And now, the closest extraterrestrial creations that humans can contact, apart from the 'Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day' knows where star at least three hundred light-years away, are on the moon, where various extraterrestrial spaceships were shot down by the former Immortals and Gods.

"So that's it, no wonder the Deep Space Caller is going to the moon—"

Thinking of this, Su Zhou vaguely understood: "Perhaps, the extraterrestrial creatures he summons may not be real extraterrestrial creatures, but existences located in various extraterrestrial relics in the solar system... Although this is just a guess, it shouldn't be far off."

Thinking was just a moment, in reality, Su Zhou still maintained a serious tone, frowning and said, "Evidence?"

And Estner didn't say much, directly giving evidence - a series of satellite images and videos with unclear resolution, but which could prove that there were indeed traces of biological activity.

It could be seen that at the edge of the Sea of Rains on the moon, a Western man wrapped in silver exoskeleton armor was slowly walking. His actions seemed aimless, but Su Zhou could see that he should be adapting to the lunar environment, testing how his power should be used in the lunar state.

After all, compared to the Earth's gravity and atmospheric environment, really unleashing one's full strength on the moon, ordinary transcendents might not be able to control their power well, so that they could not reach the position they wanted to reach in the first time, reducing efficiency.

Obviously, the Deep Space Descender did not have the conditions of Su Zhou and the Zheng country to simulate the lunar environment and adapt.

"...The question is."

After showing the news from the American Federation, Estner first glanced at Su Zhou, and after realizing that the other party had no dissatisfaction, he turned his head and looked at Olsen, the representative of the Europa Alliance. He bluntly said: "The actions of the Deep Space Caller have always been meaningless and random. Until now, we don't know why he wants to attack civilians and ordinary people, causing a large number of deaths and injuries - but this time, his attack on the Antarctic research base is very purposeful. Obviously, he went there to seize something."

"We mourn for the sacrificed researchers, but does the Europa Alliance have any important information? For example, have Dr. Mansel and Ms. Elizabeth's research made any progress that attracted him?"

"How can you say that?"

These words were very harsh, as if questioning the victim if they had done something that caused the perpetrator to act. The American Federation directly absolved itself of the behavior of concealing information. Su Zhou immediately raised his eyebrows, slammed the table and shouted, criticizing the sinister intentions of Estner's rhetoric, and then turned his head to look at Olsen, warmly asking what the problem was, and that he could look to him for help if there was anything. He would do his best and definitely fight the Deep Space Caller to the end.

Yan Sheng originally wanted to direct Su Zhou on the spot, asking him to remain silent and secretly put pressure on him with Estner to see if he could get more information, but he did not expect that the seemingly simple Su Zhou had mastered this basic multi-party communication skill without a teacher.

Sure enough, being a rogue is innate.

"...Dr. Mansel, a few days before his murder, published a relevant report. The report showed that although he did not find the ancient ice layer from 200 million years ago through the ice sheet drilling rig, he unexpectedly discovered that in the ancient period of about 300,000 to 400,000 years ago, the Antarctic ice sheet on Earth had experienced extremely strong radiation exposure, and found 'unidentified' metal substances."

Olsen is just a projection now, but this does not mean that he is not clear about the situation - just as he himself said before, concealing information now is offending everyone else, and with Dr. Mansel already dead, this kind of secret is useless.

[Most of the lunar spaceships were shot down by Immortals and Gods during the period from 400,000 years ago to 100,000 years ago.]

And Yan Sheng also briefly explained the significance of this time period to Su Zhou, which immediately made Su Zhou understand: "So that's it. Although there may not be complete extraterrestrial spaceships left in Antarctica, there should be some wreckage."

"The Deep Space Caller's target must be those spaceships behind the moon, and before that, his trip to the Antarctic ball may be for the ancient extraterrestrial life factors under the prehistoric ice sheet, and more likely, to find some possible spaceship parts... No matter what his purpose is, we must eliminate him."

As for how the Deep Space Caller flew to the moon, Su Zhou and others never asked a word, because they all knew very well that for an Overlord-level existence, flying out of the atmosphere could only be called a routine operation. Going to the moon only required preparation, but it was not impossible.

What's more, the mysterious Caller had been able to withstand the bombardment of strategic nuclear bombs decades ago, and doing this was much more difficult than going to the moon.

The United International meeting ended. During this process, the representative of the Ross Country was just a bystander, and the relevant information had been shared with each other.

There was no complete procedure on how to deal with the Deep Space Caller, it was just a matter of sending people to the moon as soon as possible to carry out arrests and encirclement and suppression, but this kind of action could not be started as soon as it was said. No matter how fast the speed was, it was absolutely impossible to complete it in a few weeks.

Even the Deep Space Caller had wandered around Antarctica for an unknown amount of time, setting up some kind of Dharma array before reaching his destination.

[They all have their own thoughts, and so do we. However, no matter how many thoughts they have, the lunar back spaceship ruins belong to humans, and not to monsters like the Deep Space Caller.]

When leaving, Su Zhou was still communicating with Yan Sheng. The young man casually said: "Let's not talk about those extraterrestrial wrecks being war trophies shot down by Immortals and Gods - in fact, the entire meeting was just the representatives of the four permanent member countries talking."

[The four permanent member countries can represent mankind, and we are also the orthodox successors of the Immortals and Gods.] Yan Sheng said calmly: [Later, the United International should approve the relevant 'lunar law enforcement power' to you. The American Federation, the Europa Alliance and the Ross Country will all sign it. In this way, you can legally and reasonably fight on the moon, capture or kill John Harrison.]

"How troublesome... and it's also superfluous..."

[But this is order.]

Su Zhou nodded, and then boarded the plane back to Zheng country. The Antarctic research camp massacre made him angry, but now anger was of no use. When he went to the moon, Su Zhou would let the Deep Space Caller know that no matter what his thoughts were, he would make his fantasy vanish into thin air.

February 12, 2017, the Spring Festival holiday ended, and the Lantern Festival had also passed.

On New Year's Eve, Zheng country announced the appearance of Zheng country's second Overlord-level expert, that is, Dao Sheng, and before that, the Ross Country also announced that their first Overlord-level had appeared.

After that, Overlord-level experts from major forces around the world appeared one after another. Su Zhou noticed that they were all old acquaintances, and in secret, he also knew very well that not all Overlord-level experts were known to others. At least in Zheng country, without including him, there were already five Overlord-level experts, and the number in other forces was not small.

This immediately caused widespread discussion on the Internet - many netizens believed that the major forces had actually agreed on the release date long ago, and planned to open it to the public together at a certain time. Their guess was indeed correct. The order of release of each Overlord-level, except for Su Zhou, was the result of discussion, aimed at maintaining a steady momentum and guiding world opinion.

And just when the people of the whole country were lamenting about going back to work and school again, in secret, preparations for the moon landing operation were still in full swing.

After reuniting with his family and spending the Spring Festival, Su Zhou had arrived at the rocket launch base located in the west. Although with his physical fitness and literacy, he did not need to undergo any extra education, for the sake of insurance, Su Zhou still had to study the structure of the launch vehicle and related rocket physics, engineering and other skills.

After all, if something went wrong at that time, it was very likely that his teammates would not be able to do anything in the sky, and only Su Zhou could rely on his physical fitness to carry out emergency repairs and save his teammates' lives.

Having said that, Su Zhou really didn't like going to class, but now no one was urging him to go to class, and the things he was learning were essentially unrelated to his own safety and future, but purely based on interest, so he instead learned with great interest, flipping through the research results of the 'Fu Guang' launch vehicle, and also corresponding the structure with his own Lan Seed mimicked rocket.

Just studying without practice was naturally very boring, but with Su Zhou's ability, he could study and practice at the same time. After flipping through the multi-stage rocket structure of Fu Guang, he couldn't help but think to himself: "Speaking of which, multi-stage rocket launch has the same effect as multi-stage transformation - each stage has different rocket engines, and after staging, it can quickly adjust acceleration, maintaining the original speed, while also being able to accelerate again..."

"Not bad, this skill can definitely be used next time!"

Naturally, with Su Zhou's level of scientific and technological literacy, he could not normally read the full text of various scientific research materials. Not to mention anything else, even in Chinese, those professional terms and special words could not avoid the cognitive obstacle of 'I know the individual words, but I don't know what they mean when they are put together'.

But at the rocket launch base, not to mention that there were corresponding technical personnel who could explain it to Su Zhou in detail, Yan Sheng's smart sub-body was directly connected to Su Zhou's personal agent terminal, explaining and translating for Su Zhou almost with zero delay - what the internal structure of the rocket engine was, and the chemical names and specific components of the related catalysts... This kind of portable intelligence was far more useful than any teacher, dictionary or professional book, because it could even distinguish which aspect you were confused about and provide targeted explanations, instead of simply repeating it in general.

"Yan Sheng, have you ever considered popularizing this kind of portable intelligence to the whole people?"

In the process of learning, Su Zhou communicated with Yan Sheng with great interest: "I think this can at least be regarded as a national-level buff state of 'national learning efficiency +20%'! It can also save a lot of time."

[The American Federation is actually already doing this. Their brain chips have built-in basic artificial intelligence and are connected to the human brain's memory area, which can carry out speed-effect learning - theoretically very beautiful, but no one knows the sequelae.]

In response, Yan Sheng's intelligence calmly replied: [We don't need to be the first in everything. Let's see what happens to the American Federation first, and then we can learn... Of course, there are places where we need to cross the river by feeling the stones and act first, but for this kind of thing, it is best to have a role model. We can learn from its mistakes and encourage ourselves if we don't have them.]

Objectively speaking, that's right.

What Su Zhou accepted was happy and joyful quality education, as well as guidance from famous teachers and the companionship of artificial intelligence, but his three moon landing teammates were very different. They had just finished some engineering courses and were now undergoing physical training.

Su Zhou's three moon landing teammates were former fighter pilot Bai Jingtao, rocket engineer Gu Yaoluo, and veteran astronaut Meng Jin.

Originally, the planned number of people in the moon landing exploration team should have been a little more, but because there were not only extraterrestrial spaceships on the moon today, but also a high-risk element 'Deep Space Caller' whose strength was unknown, Zheng country reduced the number of human astronauts after much consideration and increased the number of unmanned aerial vehicles and intelligent machines as aids.

Among them, Bai Jingtao could also be regarded as an acquaintance of Su Zhou. He was the leader of the younger generation of the Bai family of the Western White Tiger, Bai Canglang's younger brother, the second of the three Bai brothers of this generation, Bai Canglang, Bai Jingtao and Bai Hongbo. He was also the first Zheng country pilot to test a hypersonic aircraft equipped with spiritual power technology. He had the strength of the peak of the Extraordinary, and whether it was his qualifications, background, experience, psychological quality, or professional level and personal strength, he was among the strongest in the country.

Gu Yaoluo was originally just an ordinary engineer, but fortunately, his cultivation talent was considered to be among the best among his colleagues, and he received the preferential treatment of Zheng country's Aerospace Administration. He quickly transferred from the technical staff to the front-line unit, and in addition to his solid theoretical knowledge and rich experience, his strength was also not to be underestimated. He also had the level of the high rank of Extraordinary.

The veteran astronaut Meng Jin was already an astronaut before the outbreak of spiritual energy. After the revival of spiritual energy, most of the professional astronauts retired to the second line because their spiritual energy talent was not strong enough, because the future was destined to be the world of transcendents who could adapt to more environments. However, Meng Jin's luck was not bad. His talent was not bad, although it was not the best, but with his rich experience, no one could ignore him.

Adding Su Zhou, the four of them were the first batch of moon exploration teams - what they had to face was not only the dangerous environment of the moon, but also a powerful enemy.