843 Permanent Station on the Moon!

The Moon Palace space station peacefully floated in lunar transfer orbit.

A long spacecraft gradually floated toward the space station.

The number “002” was written on the side of the spacecraft, implying this was the second “Magpie Bridge” launch.

A few scientific researchers, which came from all over the world, were on the Magpie Bridge.

The landing gear extended forward as the Moon Palace gradually approached the Moon Palace space station.

Professor Stephen stood next to the porthole. As he looked at the white planet nearby, he couldn’t help but exclaim, “Unbelievable.”

Professor Ian Crawford from Birkbeck College, University Of London looked at him and asked curiously, “What’s so unbelievable?”

“I can’t believe the Chinese actually did it. They built a scientific research station on the Moon.” Stephen looked outside the porthole and said, “I always thought they were just scamming money from the United Nations.”

A few months ago, the idea of building a semi-permanent experimental facility on the surface of the Moon sounded like a fantasy.

Professor Stephen never would have thought the Chinese could really do it.

However, reality proved him wrong.

The production was completed on Earth and was transported to the surface of the Moon via the Magpie Bridge.

If he didn’t see the photos of the scientific research station, he wouldn’t even believe this was all real.

Not just that, but apparently, China planned on building a hadron collider for particle physics experiments. CERN had sent a team of experts to Beijing to help China with technical problems.

It seemed like the Chinese and the European Union were getting along nicely.

In order to participate in the lunar research station project, various countries had to pay a large lump sum of money to China in exchange for the opportunity to allow their own scientific researchers to set foot on the research station…

“They have completely industrialized the aerospace industry.” Professor Ian continued, “I spoke about this in my thesis a long time ago. The development of lunar resources is our only way to advance technology. There is bound to be a country that could do this first.”

“That’s why I said this is unbelievable.” Professor Stephen sighed and said, “They’ve done more in a year than we have in ten years.”

Professor Stephen looked at the space station and suddenly spoke.

“Speaking of which, I wonder if Dr. Z is on this space station.”

When the Mars bacteria crisis was happening, an anonymous thesis published on arXiv saved the entire Earth’s ecosystem.

This matter had been widely talked about in the biology community.

Legends had been made about Dr. Z’s identity. However, even though official institutions had tried to investigate this matter, no one had yet been able to identify the person who saved all of mankind.

Professor Ian looked at him strangely and asked, “Why do you think he’s here?”

“I’ve carefully read his thesis. His writing style is very similar to some of my Chinese students. My intuition tells me he is Chinese. It’s very likely he was involved in the research of the X-0172 bacteria. Right now, the only patient with the X-0172 bacteria is lying on the research station, so there is no reason for him to not come here.”

Professor Ian jokingly said, “I still remember that a while ago, you couldn’t believe China could produce such research results.”

Professor Stephen coughed and rubbed his nose.

“That was the past, the times have changed.”

While the two were talking, the Magpie Bridge successfully docked with the Moon Palace, and the connection hatch slowly opened.

The researchers wearing spacesuits gathered in front of the cabin door and floated into the space station.

They stood in the cabin pressure buffer room. A Chinese staff member with a serious face stood in front of the researchers.

He cleared his throat and spoke with perfect English.

“Welcome to the Moon Palace space station, I am in charge here.

“The flight to the Moon’s surface will depart in three days. You will receive training over the next three days to help you adjust to the low-gravity environment.

“Now, please show your e-passport…”

Even though the Moon didn’t belong to one single country, the facilities built on the Moon were owned by various private countries and organizations.

Even though China didn’t claim territorial sovereignty over the lunar research station, strictly speaking, the research facility was part of Chinese soil.

Therefore, they had to show a passport and visa before entering…

…

Lu Zhou didn’t expect that he went on trending for two different things.

One was for the Quasi Riemann hypothesis.

Even though this hypothesis wasn’t particularly well-known, it still didn’t stop him from ending up on the trending page.

On the other hand, the completion of the lunar scientific research station made him number three on the trending page.

This lunar scientific research station was named “Guanghan Lunar Palace”, and it far surpassed the proof of the Quasi Riemann hypothesis in terms of popularity.

Not only did media outlets all over the world report on the news, but netizens around the world also enthusiastically discussed this matter.

It seemed like the entire world had their eyes on China.

For Lu Zhou, the attention and media reports didn’t phase him. He didn’t care about them at all.

He put all of his energy on the Riemann hypothesis. The Lunar Orbit Committee was moving forward as scheduled, so he didn’t have to worry about it at all.

However, while Lu Zhou was minding his own business, something confusing happened.

Which was, after the completion of the Guanghan Lunar Palace, the second phase of the “Control of Earth and Moon” mission chain was marked by the system as complete.