Chapter 5 Chapter 5 The Huge Plan of Expedition to the Moon

Know-it-all sat on the floor for a while, thinking deeply about the enormous implications for science that the discovery of weightlessness would have.Many thoughts were churning and jostling in his mind.It was a mess, and I couldn't figure it out at all.In the end, one idea prevailed in the jack-of-all-trades mind over all others. "Should go and tell the dwarfs about my new discovery, and show them the weightlessness device," he thought. He got up from the floor, opened the door, and immediately heard shouts from below.Putting his discovery behind him, he ran quickly down the stairs.The first thing he saw was a group of dwarfs surrounded the bun.Little Bread sat on the sofa by himself, covering his nose with both hands, and the doctor Xiao Yaowan was walking towards him with a bandage and a bottle of iodine in his hand.

"Don't come here!" Little Bread screamed, wanting to kick Little Pill with his foot. "Don't come here! There's nothing to say!" "I have to bandage your nose," replied the doctor Xiaoyaowan. "What's the matter with him?" asked the Know-It-All to the little ones. "He tapped his nose on the table," said Little Bratty. "Why did you press your nose on the table?" "You know, he was dangling in the air all the time. When the weightlessness was gone, he fell down and hit the table with his nose. Fortunately, he didn't hit the floor." Little Brash explained.

"Maybe, you can convince him, know-it-all?" said the doctor Xiaoyaowan. "I tossed with him for half an hour, but there was no result!" Seeing that Little Bread was still screaming loudly and kicking his feet wildly, Wan Shitong said sternly, "Quiet down immediately!" Little Bread fell silent immediately after hearing the scolding from Know-it-all. The little pill quickly stopped the bleeding for him, made a round bandage squarely on the nose, and said, "Look, how well the bandage is done." "Come on, come on!" Little Bread muttered angrily.

He stood up from the sofa and touched the bandage with his hands.The little pill slapped his hand vigorously and said, "I bandaged you to preserve the shape of your nose. If you fumble with the bandage with your hands, you don't know what will become of your nose!" "Hmph, let me know who did this!" Little Bread threatened. "I want to let him know how powerful I am!" Know-it-all heard these threats, and felt that he should have notified the dwarfs before conducting the experiment, so that no one would be injured.Wan Shi Tong felt sorry for Little Bread, so he decided not to mention his discovery to anyone for the time being, until the matter was gradually forgotten.

Convinced that the zero-gravity state had disappeared and would not reappear again, Konko walked around the city and told everyone what happened to them.However, no one believed what he said, because everyone knew that Quan Shi was a good at making up lies.Unaware that he would not gain the trust of the dwarfs, he was very angry. Later, he told his friend Po Guazi about the state of weightlessness, but Po Guazi said: "Maybe you are in a stupid state, not a state of weightlessness." "For this sentence, Quan Wuzhi punched the Po Guazi hard. The Po Guazi gave the same back in retaliation. As a result, the two fought again, and the Po Guazi became the victor.

"I'll tell you to tell the truth later!" Quan Zhi nagged while walking home. "Why is it always like this: if you make up some nonsense, everyone will believe you, but if you try to tell even the most truthful truth, people will punch you on the neck. It's really impossible!" However, the things that I didn't tell at all caused all kinds of controversy and distortion among the residents of Huacheng.Some people say that there can be no weightlessness, because things that have never happened are impossible, some people say that there can be weightlessness, because often there is something in the beginning, and then it appears, and some people say , there may be weightlessness, but it may not be. If there is really no weightlessness, then there is really something else.Because it is impossible to have nothing at all; often there is no wind without waves.

Some of the most curious dwarfs came to Know-It-All's residence, saw Bun with a bandaged nose in the yard, and asked, "I said, Bun, have you really experienced weightlessness here?" "Look, isn't our weightlessness on my nose!" Little Bread replied angrily. The dwarfs laughed for a while.Each went home.After receiving such an answer, no one believed the talk about weightlessness any more.In the evening, when Passepartout and his friends gathered for tea, everyone thought about the events of the day.Everyone talked about their feelings and their thoughts when the phenomenon of weightlessness occurred.Funny thing: everyone lamented that the weightlessness ended so quickly.Anyway, it was an interesting adventure.Know-it-all really wanted to tell the story of how he had uncovered the secret of weightlessness, but when he saw Little Bun's bandaged nose, his desire disappeared suddenly.

That night, Know-it-all couldn't sleep for a long time: he kept thinking about the benefits of weightlessness. "Weightlessness—that's a tremendous force, if one knows how to use it," he mused. "By means of weightlessness, great, great weights can be lifted and moved; mountains can be moved, and their bottoms turned upside down. Large rockets can be built and used for space travel. If the rocket has no weight, then it needs very little fuel, that is to say, it can carry more passengers and more food to the moon for long-term Exploring, entering the interior of the moon, maybe even getting acquainted with the moon dwarf."

Wanshitong came to his mind and fell asleep unknowingly.In his sleep, he dreamed of Yudi Rocket, Ding Yue, Moon Dwarf, and many other interesting things. The know-it-all was gone the next morning.He didn't come to breakfast.When the dwarves came to his room, they saw a note on the table with only four words written on it: "Sunshine City", and the signature: "Jack of all trades".After reading the note, the dwarfs realized that the passer-by had gone to Sun City. Everyone knows that Know-it-all is a little dwarf who often does things by surprise.Once an idea occurred to him, he never put it on hold for long.It's the same this time.Before dawn, when everyone was asleep, he woke up and decided to go to Sun City. He didn't want to wake up anyone, so he wrote a note and left home lightly.If other people were him, they would definitely write the note in more detail, such as writing: "I went to Sun City." Instead of simply writing: "Going to Sun City", but everyone knows that the more words, the easier it is. It caused confusion, and he was convinced that the words "go to Sun City" meant nothing other than that he had gone to Sun City.

Two months later, Master of Things sent a telegram: "Small screws and chisels come to Sun City."Little Screw and Little Chisel knew very well what they were asked to do, so they packed up and left immediately. There was no news of them for a while, so the residents of Huacheng thought that they had already settled down in Sun City together with Wanshitong and would never come back. After a while, the dwarfs discovered that a construction project had started near the Flower City and not far from Cucumber Mountain.From time to time, trucks with lightweight Styrofoam construction components arrive here.Some little guys in sky-blue overalls are using these components to assemble cozy little bungalows.

Little Impatient was the first to run to find out what kind of project it was.Other residents followed suit.They were surprised to see.Small screws and small chisels were also among these working dwarfs. "Hey, what are you doing? What do you want to repair here?" Xiao Zhuangzi shouted. "Repair Universe City." Little Screw replied. "Why build the universe city?" "When the know-it-all comes, he'll explain it in detail." Knowing nothing but full of grievances, he said: "Why, don't we know how to build the universe city?" He looked completely ignorant, as if what he had been engaged in all his life was building the universe city. "Don't be sad, everyone has work to do," said Little Screw. "First, flowers should be planted around the house to make the environment beautiful; second, cables should be pulled from the power station to the universe city so that there is electricity; third, a road should be built, the streets should be paved with asphalt, and running water should be laid. No matter, to build a house...there are still many more!" The residents of Huacheng immediately participated in the labor.Some paved roads, some erected telephone poles, and some planted flowers.Quite a few people found jobs doing interior renovations.The small tin pipe took over the leadership of the entire painting project: mixing the paint and instructing everyone what color to paint the walls and roof. In the center of Cosmos City, a circular concrete field was built soon, and space rockets began to be built on the field.The parts of this rocket were manufactured in Sun City, and they were pulled to Cosmic City by special crawler trucks.The van is characterized by an extremely smooth ride, so rocket parts are not damaged or deformed during transport.To assemble the rocket, a special stepping tower crane was brought in.Use this crane to unload the rocket parts from the delivery truck and install them in their proper place.However, the height of the rocket is so great that its upper part is not installed with a tower crane, but a helicopter is used to lift the part to the required height.The assembly of the rocket took place under the care of Fuchsia and Herring.The two of them made a special trip to live in Universe City for this purpose. A few days later, the assembly of the rocket was finished.It stands in the center of the universe city, towering over the houses like a huge cigar or a vertical airship.In order to protect the rocket from corrosion by air, water vapor and other gases, the shell of the rocket is made of super-strength stainless steel.The inside of the shell is the second shell, made of special aerospace plastics, and its function is to protect the interior of the spacecraft from damage from cosmic rays and radio wave radiation.Finally, there is a third layer inside the spacecraft, the heat insulation layer, which is made of heat-insulating plastic to keep the interior of the spacecraft at the necessary temperature. To propel and steer the rocket, three jet engines are equipped.The largest main engine, which propels the rocket forward, is located at the tail of the rocket.The nozzles of this engine are vertically downward.while the engine is running.Hot gas is ejected downward from the nozzle, and the reaction force pushes the rocket upward. In the upper part of the rocket, the steering motor is installed in the rotating head.The jet port of this engine is horizontal and can be turned in any direction.For example, if you want to turn the rocket to the west, the nozzle of the engine will turn to the east.At this time, the hot air is ejected to the east, and the rocket is sideways to the west. Also installed in this nose of the rocket is a third, so-called brake motor, whose nozzles point vertically upwards.When the braking engine is working, hot gas is ejected forward from the nozzle, so the reaction force can slow the forward motion of the rocket to a complete stop. The inside of the rocket is divided into twelve cabins.Each cabin can accommodate four passengers.So a total of forty-eight runts can be transported for space voyages.The central part of the rocket is turned into a hall.Space travelers can go to the lobby to rest, discuss issues, and eat. The rest of the space inside the rocket is used for compartments.There is a food compartment here, stocked with food.There is a chemical chamber, which is equipped with equipment for removing the accumulated carbon dioxide in the air and supplying concentrated oxygen.There is an electric storage compartment, which is provided with accumulators for supplying energy to electric motors, exhaust fans, refrigerators, heating and lighting equipment. There is a control room on the upper part of the most heavily protected rocket, which houses the weight loss instrument and electronic control machine invented by Master.The machine works according to a preprogrammed program.It can independently steer the spacecraft to fly along a predetermined route, changing speed and direction as needed.and land at the predetermined location. Next to the control room is the so-called button room.Its door read: "Strictly Do Not Enter".There is only one small table in this small room, and a button is installed in the middle of the table.As soon as the spaceship commander presses this button, the electronic control unit is switched on, and then the electronic control unit automatically switches on the weightlessness instrument and all other instruments, and in turn arranges everything necessary for the correct flight of the spacecraft. There is also an astronomy room on the upper part of the rocket, which is equipped with astronomical telescopes, radio locators and other instruments for determining the position of the spacecraft in interstellar space; Conduct chemical analyzes of minerals found on the Moon.At the tail of the rocket is a large warehouse, in which are stored a large number of seeds of various beneficial plants: cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, cabbage, radishes, watermelons, melons, cherries, plums, strawberries, raspberry, wheat, oats, buckwheat - a small Various plant seeds that dwarfs can use to make food.Know-it-all intends to gift these seeds to the Lunarians, if of course Lunarians are found on the Moon and they don't have the plants themselves. In addition to cabins, cabins, compartments, warehouses, and halls, there are many other auxiliary rooms in the rocket.The rocket is like a multi-story building, equipped with everything needed to carry out daily life, and even has an elevator to go up to any floor. Once the rocket is fully assembled, anyone who wants to go can visit the rocket's innards.Every forty-eight dwarfs were collected, and they were let into the rocket pod.They sat in the hall, lay down on the bunks in the cabin, and looked around.After the visit, everyone has to put on a spacesuit.Otherwise he would not be able to get out of the Rockets.Special photocells are installed at the exit of the rocket.If the little man is not wearing a space suit, the photocell will not open the door. Fuchsia and Herring stayed in the rocket.They introduced the internal structure of the rocket to the visitors, answered various questions, and guided everyone to observe the working conditions of the instruments, which can purify the air, ventilate the room, maintain the necessary temperature and so on.Knowing nothing also went to the rocket cabin, and he asked Fuchsia and Little Herring seriously.When he got out of the rocket, and when the next batch of forty-eight visitors were released, he went in with him.He went to the rocket pod several times a day.Fuchsia and Herring knew him already, and smiled at him when they saw him.They didn't chase him away.Little Herring said that no one should be turned away, and that it would only be beneficial if someone would take a good look at the rocket's construction. A large white building was soon built next to Universe City, which looked like a huge porcelain pea turned upside down.Above the entrance of the building is written in a beautiful font: "Weightlessness Pavilion".Now, everyone can be sure from personal experience that the various claims about weightlessness are not nonsense, but are real.Everyone who entered the hall immediately lost weight and began kicking and scratching in the air helplessly. There is a small room made of transparent plastic in the center of the weightlessness hall, where the weightlessness instrument is placed.Wanshitong had returned to Huacheng at this time, and he strictly forbade anyone from entering the small room to move the weightlessness instrument.The instrument is now more than just a slide rule, but is housed in a dark blue oval case made of fire-resistant and water-resistant plastic.The distance between the magnet and the moonstone in the instrument is controlled and automatically adjusted by the instrument.Know-it-all would come to the library every morning to turn on the instruments, and come again in the evening to check carefully whether anyone was still in the library, whether there was any little dwarf still floating in weightlessness under the ceiling, and then turn off the instruments. Some readers may not believe that the energy emitted by the moonstone and a small magnet can be so great that it can overcome the gravitational force of the earth.However, as long as these skeptical readers think about it, they will understand that this is not surprising at all. You must know that the energy reserve inside matter is very huge, and it is almost inexhaustible and inexhaustible.Today, everyone who knows physics knows that a penny-sized uranium can store as much energy as tens of thousands of tons of coal or other fuels can release when burned.At the time when atomic energy was not discovered, no one believed this, but no one is surprised today. And it should be said that the energy of the moonstone can not completely eliminate the weight, but only eliminates the weight within a limited range, or even not eliminates the weight, but only transfers the so-called gravitational field to all directions.If it is said that gravity cannot be felt at all in the zero-gravity zone, then the so-called gravitational enhancement zone can be measured around the zero-gravity zone.Anyone who has approached the Weightlessness Hall can feel this.It can be seen that there is nothing strange about the jack-of-all-trades discovery.There is a scientific basis for everything in this discovery, of course, this does not reduce the significance of this discovery in the slightest. Needless to say, the Weightlessness Pavilion has aroused great interest among the residents of Huacheng.After a few days, there was not a single dwarf in the whole city who had never been to the weightlessness hall.Many people have even been there several times, but they don't know anything about it, they don't leave the museum all day long, and feel like a fish in water in the museum. One morning, Quan Zhi got up early and went to the weightlessness hall quietly without being seen by others.He picked up the weightlessness instrument and walked towards the river.For some reason, he wanted to see how the fish in the river behaved in weightlessness.I don't know why such a thought came to his mind.Maybe it was because he himself had been swimming in the gym like a fish all day when he was in weightlessness, so he thought of the fish. Quan Wuzhi came to the shore, activated the weightlessness instrument, and looked at the water.At first, he saw that the lack of gravity had a very strange effect on the behavior of the fish.Some fish twirled like ballet dancers with their tails down; some twirled their heads down;After a while, many fish got used to the weightlessness and began to swim in the water as usual.Look, there is a small fish trying to catch the fly hovering above its head, jumped out of the river, and turned somersaults in the air helplessly.Now, there is no gravity to suck it down, and it can never go back to the river.Then, another fish jumped out of the water.Within five minutes, fish, frogs, salamanders, terrapins, and other small aquatic animals were dancing on the river, shining in the sun. When Quanzhi was conducting an "experiment" by the river, Wanshitong came to the weightlessness hall to activate the weightlessness instrument.Know-it-all was terrified when the instruments in the small room disappeared. "Where's the instrument?" he exclaimed in panic. "Who took the instrument? Put it back in its place immediately!" None of the dwarfs could tell him where the instrument was.Only the little screw and the little chisel who had worked nearby said that they saw nothing in the morning and went to the museum, and then walked to the other side of the river.As soon as the passer-by heard it, he ran desperately towards the river.The other dwarfs followed suit.Know-it-all ran up to the bank of the Cucumber River, and saw Quan Shi soaring above the river in weightlessness. "Here he is, don't know it! He's here!" cried the little ones running after Know-it-all.I didn't know I heard the shout.He turned his head and saw the furious Jack-of-all-trades and the other runts running straight towards him.He was startled.He wanted to run away, but he could only struggle in the air helplessly.He remembered that he couldn't run in weightlessness, so he quickly pressed the button on the instrument.Ended up weightless.As soon as he gained weight, he fell quickly and fell into the water with a splash.The river splashed all over at once. save him!save him!Where is the weightlessness instrument in his hand! ’ shouted Passkick desperately, ran to the river, and jumped into the water. The dwarfs jumped into the water one after another without taking off their clothes, and swam to the middle of the river, not knowing that they were kicking and scratching helplessly there.He was already bubbling and bubbling when the know-it-all came to him.Know-it-all grabbed Omniscient by the collar and dragged him toward the shore.At this time, other dwarfs swam up to help Know-it-all.The doctor Xiaoyao ran to the river with the medicine.When he saw that the dwarfs had dragged Quan Mo to the shore, he called out, "Take off his shirt! I'll give him mouth-to-mouth immediately!" As soon as he saw Xiaoyao, a doctor carrying medicine, he jumped up and wanted to run. At this moment, Wan Shitong grabbed his hair and shouted: "Where is the weightlessness instrument? Where did you get the weightlessness instrument? You put the instrument Fell into the river, you stupid ass!" open! "I don't know kicking and screaming. "Ah, you still want to fight!" the passer-by shouted hoarsely. "You dropped the instrument into the river, and you still want to fight! I will teach you a lesson and tell you to throw the instrument into the river!" He tugged at Wushu's hair and pulled it hard, the pain was so painful that Wushu shed tears.In order to retaliate, Quan Zhi punched Wanshitong in the chest.Know-it-all let go of all-knowing hair out of breath.After Quan Wu broke free, he jumped at each other like a rooster, and the two started fighting.The dwarfs hurried over and separated them.Some hold the know-it-all arm, some hold the know-it-all arm.Wanshitong tried his best to fight outside, wanted to kick Quanzhi, and shouted: "How can we fly pillars to the moon without a weightlessness instrument? It's all over now! Let me go, I will teach him a lesson and let him throw the instrument into the river again!" Knowing nothing, he shouted while struggling: "I said you should let me go! I'll give him the weightlessness instrument!" He finally managed to free himself from the hands of the little dwarfs, but Quickly grabbed him by the collar.Quan didn't know how to struggle hard, and broke free from the shirt.At this time, everyone saw that the weightlessness instrument that had been in Quan Zhi's arms fell to the ground. "Isn't this a weightlessness instrument!" The doctor Xiaoyaowan shouted. "Why don't you say that the instrument is on you?" Xiao Zhuangzi asked. "You jumped on me like a gang of robbers, what can I say? When I saw that I was falling into the river, I immediately hid the instrument in my arms. I almost drowned because of it, but these people Instead of saying thank you, fight with me!" Wan Shi Tong picked up the instrument from the ground, stared at Quan Shi angrily and said, "For this matter, don't fly to the moon!" "Then you can fly yourself," Quan Zhi replied. "I'm so rare about your moon!" "Talk to you, you can only lose your personality!" Said the know-it-all, and left without another word. "Look at your arrogance, what's so great!" Quan Wu shouted behind him. "Go and kiss the moon! I can live without the moon!"