Chapter 460: Shadow On The Moon |
Lu Bai sat back down on the office chair, looked up and noticed the uniformed elder still standing in place, and casually asked: “Is there anything else?”
The uniformed elder’s mouth opened slightly, as if thinking about how to say it.
After two seconds, he carefully chose his words: “Doesn’t the City Association need some defense?”
Lu Bai didn’t think much about it and directly responded: “No need.”
From the fact that the Escape Elevator was still transporting civilians, he could judge that the City Association side was probably holding the attitude of things having come to this point, so just let it be natural.
In fact, after the City Association side learned about what happened on the Ground, it indeed caused an uproar internally, and they immediately held an emergency meeting.
But the final result of the discussion was pretty much the same as Lu Bai’s judgment.
On one hand, it was difficult for the City Association to extend its hand to the Forward Base, with the cost not matching the gains.
On the other hand, Lu Bai taking power did not affect their interests.
After all, these civilians were burdens in the eyes of the City Association.
The Shelter couldn’t support so many people; nicely put, it was letting civilians Return to the Surface, bluntly put, it was just finding a place to abandon these civilians.
Since they were abandoning them anyway, what kind of situation these civilians faced afterward didn’t matter to the City Association.
As for the armed forces and two teams of Cheng Zhi Wu dispatched to the Ground, losing them was just losing them, far from reaching the loss limit the City Association could bear.
What’s more, these combat units were originally dispatched to the Ground as the first line of defense against the Mona People.
Even without exaggerating to using these combat units as cannon fodder, they didn’t think many could survive.
Anyway, they were all directly facing the Mona People; whether commanded by Lu Bai or the City Association made no difference. In the City Association’s view, maybe letting Lu Bai command, driven by survival instinct, this “first line of defense” could even exert a stronger effect.
Considering all this, it was very normal for the City Association to decide to watch quietly.
“As long as you have it figured out.”
The uniformed elder nodded, without giving more reminders.
Although what Lu Bai had done after taking power was indeed developing in a good direction in the uniformed elder’s view, the time was ultimately not long enough, and it was impossible for him to offer his loyalty so easily.
Watching the uniformed elder take his leave and depart, Lu Bai yawned, closed his eyes, and leaned back on the office chair, as if falling asleep.
……
That night, at 2:30 a.m.
A sprawling shadow appeared above the Moon.
If one’s eyesight was good enough, even without astronomical instruments, one could vaguely observe this strange sight with the naked eye.
In the first ten minutes after the shadow appeared, the space monitoring troops quickly reacted.
At the same time, this news was diffused to various departments of the Forward Base.
Lu Bai was now sitting in his not-so-spacious Office, calmly watching the uniformed elder who pushed the door and entered.
“Mr. Lu.”
“I already know.”
The expression on the uniformed elder’s face was extremely complex: “They’ve come, right?”
Lu Bai instead showed an innocent smile: “Making us wait so long, really too impolite.”
The uniformed elder stood in place and took a deep breath: “We now…”
Lu Bai directly interrupted the uniformed elder’s following words, pressed two keys on the keyboard, and added: “Notify the civilians first.”
This situation couldn’t be concealed at all, nor was there any need to conceal it.
In fact, due to Lu Bai canceling the curfew after taking power, during this time, a considerable number of civilians had already noticed the sight above the Moon.
One spreads to ten, ten to a hundred.
The news quickly spread throughout the entire Forward Base.
Countless civilians gathered together in unease, anxiously waiting for an official response.
Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.
“What a pity for such a beautiful night view tonight.”
Lu Bai stood up and looked at the uniformed elder: “Lead the way, to the Combat Command Center.”
……
“Multiple observation instruments, including wartime satellites, have received observation reports and images…”
“The screen is affected by gravity interference, unable to conduct further observation…”
“No high-intensity light and heat detected internally…”
When Lu Bai followed the uniformed elder to arrive, the Combat Command Center was in a busy state, with almost no one idle.
The two sat down at the position facing the Central Big Screen, and two technicians wearing white coats quickly came to their seats holding tablet computers.
Skipping the process of reporting and saluting, one of the technicians said at an extremely fast speech speed.
“Based on the information results collected so far, preliminary speculation is gravitational projection.”
“Give an explanation we can understand.” The uniformed elder took a tablet computer and said proactively.
“In other words, we judge that the shadow on the Moon is not an entity.”
“Projection?”
Hearing this, the uniformed elder was momentarily stunned: “Projected from where?”
“Very ashamed, with our current technological means, we cannot trace the source.”
Lu Bai’s gaze was fixed on the Central Big Screen, asking without looking away: “If left alone, will it cause any influence?”
The screen on the Central Big Screen was showing the shadow on the Moon.
The shadow in the screen had very low clarity, and compared to the clearly visible Lunar Surface, it gave a strong sense of disconnection.
“Regarding this point, we are still researching.”
The technician did not give a clear answer.
Of course, this was understandable, and Lu Bai did not express dissatisfaction, instead asking: “Have lunar rovers been sent out?”
“Already launched, but the fastest will take five hours to reach the Lunar Surface.”
Lu Bai rubbed his chin, somewhat curious about what the Mona People wanted to do by creating this.
He couldn’t leave the Forward Base immediately just because of some minor disturbance.
After all, his speed, no matter how fast, had not reached the degree of the speed of light.
With the destructive power demonstrated by the Mona People’s technological level, without him holding the fort, he believed the Mona People could instantly destroy the Forward Base.
The uniformed elder suddenly seemed to remember something: “Wait, you said gravitational projection, right? Projection is projection, what is gravitational projection?”
That technician thought for a moment and explained: “The factor interfering with our observation around that shadow, the analysis result shows irregular gravity, we speculate this projection is born based on this irregular gravity.”
With humanity’s current technological means, it was still impossible to manipulate gravity in this way.
“The Mona People’s attack methods?”
The uniformed elder stared fixedly at the screen: “Anyway, pass my order first, troops enter level one combat readiness state.”
