Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Arriving at the Moon

Now, Little Bread has completely believed that there is no need to mention the matter of returning to the earth, he calmed down a little, and said: "Well, since we are flying towards the moon, and all the ways to go back have been cut off, then we can now go back to the moon." There's only one mission left. Go back to the food bay and have a good breakfast." "Didn't we just finish our breakfast," Quan Mo said. "Is that a real breakfast?" Little Bread retorted. "That breakfast was experimental, that is to say, simple and training." "Why is it training?" I didn't know but didn't understand.

"Hey, that was the first breakfast we had in the universe. That is to say, we didn't have breakfast, but just got acquainted with the process of eating in the universe, that is, we had a training session. And now, the training is over , we can actually have a breakfast." "Okay, this seems to be possible," Quan Zhi agreed. The two friends went down to the food compartment.Knowing nothing and not hungry at all, he ate a cosmic patty just to accompany Xiao Bian.Little Bread is determined not to be flustered in the face of the fait accompli, and he is very serious about this matter.He claimed that the food compartment should be inspected for the quality of all cosmic dishes, and for this he had to eat at least one portion of each.

However, he was unable to complete this task, because when he ate the tenth or eleventh portion, he was so sleepy that he fell asleep with the unfinished cosmic mud sausage in his mouth.This is not surprising, because Little Bread seldom sleeps at night, and anyone who is in a weightless state can sleep in any position, and does not need to lie in bed. I don't know because I know that Little Bread struggled all night to find the exit of the rocket, so he decided to let him rest and come to the astronomy room to see the spaceflight by himself. How far is the ship from the moon.Outside the porthole is still a black sky with stars and a dazzling sun, and above it is a silver-white moon.The sun looks very big.Probably twice the size of what is usually seen from Earth.

Unconsciously, things on the surface of the moon seem to have obvious outlines and shapes.But when he didn't look carefully, it wasn't obvious.He wasn't sure whether he saw these things because he was flying close to the moon, or because he was looking closely at the moon. Although the rocket was flying at an astonishing speed of twelve kilometers per second, it didn't know that it was standing still in one place, not approaching the moon at all.That's because the distance from the earth to the moon is very long—about 380,000 kilometers, and the speed of 12 kilometers per second is not considered fast at such a long distance. In the rocket.

After two or three hours, Quan Zhi was still looking at the moon, unable to leave it.The moon seemed to attract his gaze.Later, he felt uncomfortable with the tugging and tugging in his stomach.This reminds me of the time for lunch.He hurried down to the food compartment, and saw that Little Bread had woken up and was chewing something with relish. "Hey, I said you, you've already eaten!" Quan Bu shouted. "Why didn't you wait for me?" "It's not my lunch, it's this...it's training," Little Bread replied. "Ah, then you stop training and let's have lunch," Quan Mo said. "What do we have to eat?"

"For the first dish, I can recommend the very delicious salted cucumber broth, the second dish - cosmic cabbage rolls, and the third dish is a cosmic fruit soup." After talking, Xiaobao brought out the broth, vegetable rolls, and fruit soup from the warming cabinet, and the two of them ate hungrily.After finishing this matter, Little Bread thought, in order to digest food better, he should snore for a while after lunch.He was suspended in the middle of the food compartment, falling asleep on his back.I don't even know that I want to sleep, but I don't like the sleeping position of stretching my arms and legs in weightlessness, so he put one leg on the other as if sitting on a chair, and folded his hands in front of his chest.

I didn't know that I fell asleep in such a posture.For a while, he listened to the steady roar of the jet engine.He felt as if the engine was whispering in his ear. "Sleep-sleep-sleep-sleep!" This voice made Quan Zhi fall asleep in a daze. After a few hours, Quan didn't know that someone was pulling his arm.He opened his eyes and saw the bun. "Wake up, I don't know anything! It's too bad!" Little Bread whispered in fear. "What's the matter?" Quan Zhi was fully awake, and he said. "Come on, man, we seem to have forgotten our supper because we went to sleep!"

"Go to yours and your dinner!" Quan Zhi was angry. "What happened to me!" "I'm amazed at your carelessness!" said Little Bread. "Can't break the meal system! No matter lunch, breakfast or dinner, you should eat on time. This is not a joke!" "Okay, okay." Quan said impatiently. "Let's go and see the moon first, and then you can eat your lunch, dinner, and even breakfast with you when we're done." The two friends went up to the astronomy room and looked out the porthole at the top.What they saw baffled them.A bright orb hung above the rocket, obscuring the starry sky.Little Bread was so frightened that her lips, face, and even her ears trembled, and tears flowed from her eyes.

"What's this?...Where is this going?...We're going to bump into it soon, aren't we?" He tugged at his ignorant sleeves. "Be quiet!" Quan Wu yelled at him. "I see it's only the moon." "Why is it just the moon?" Little Bread asked strangely. "Isn't the moon small?" Quanzhi climbed under the ceiling of the astronomy room, and closely watched the surface of the moon from the porthole on the top.Now, the moon can already be seen very clearly, just as clearly seen with an astronomical telescope on the earth, even clearer than that.The mountains on the lunar surface, the round valleys and depressions, and the deep cracks or fractures are all clearly visible.

"Little Bread, come here," Quan Mo said. "You can see how clearly the moon is." Little Bread climbed up reluctantly, frowning and looking out the porthole.What he saw did not make him feel relieved.He saw that the moon was not standing still, but was approaching the rocket at a speed that could be felt.At first, it looked like a big glowing ball the size of half the sky.The big ball got bigger little by little, and finally covered the whole sky.Now, no matter where you look, you can see the lunar surface, with upside-down mountains, lunar craters and valleys.It all hung terribly overhead, and so close together that it seemed as if one could reach out and touch the summit of some mountain.

Little Bun shrank back in fear, pushed away from the porthole with his hand, and returned to the bottom of the small room. "Go to hell!" he muttered. "I don't want to look at the moon!" "Why?" Nobody asked. "Why is it hanging directly over our heads? It's going to fall on us!" "You are so strange! It's not that it falls on us, it's we that fall on it." "We are below, and the moon is above, how could we fall on it?" "Hey, you know what?" Omniscience explained. "It's just the moon attracting us... "So, it seems that we are going to hang from the bottom to the moon?" Little Bread imagined. I don't know that I don't know how to land on the moon, but I want to look like I know everything about the bun.So he said, "That's right. It seems to be hanging." "What's the matter!" Little Bread said loudly. "So, when we get out of the rocket, we'll have to walk on the moon with our feet up?" "Why are you acting like this?" Quan Wu asked strangely. "What else?" Little Bread replied. "Since we are below and the moon is above, we have to turn our head upside down whether we like it or not." "Hmm!" Quan Mo said thoughtfully. "It doesn't seem to be quite what it should be." He pondered for a while, and it was at this moment that he noticed that the roar of the engine he had become accustomed to could not be heard. "Wait a minute," he said to Bread. "Did you hear anything?" "What should I hear, you say?" Little Bread became alarmed in horror. "The roar of jet engines." Little Bread listened carefully. "I see no rumble," he answered. "Oh, look!" Quan Wu panicked. "Could it be that the engine is broken? I almost flew to the moon, but suddenly such a terrible thing happened!" Little Bread wanted to be happy, because he thought that since the rocket engine was broken, he could not continue to fly, so he had to go back.But his joy was in vain.The jet engine wasn't broken at all, it was just temporarily shut down.After the rocket reached the maximum speed, the electronic control machine automatically stopped the operation of the engine immediately, and then flew by inertial force.This incident happened when Quan Zhi and Xiao Bian fell asleep.It was for this reason that they did not notice that the engine had stopped. Little Bun went up again, and looked out the window with Quan Zhi, intending to judge whether the rocket had stopped moving or continued to fly.But they didn't judge it.Suddenly, I heard the sound of "buzz, hum, buzz!" - this is the steering engine started.Quanzhi and Xiaobao saw that outside the window was like a boundless sea, and the surface of the moon hanging above their heads bumped a bit, as if being pushed by someone, and leaned back, this huge monster rotated in space as a whole . Quan Zhi and Xiao Bian thought that the rocket had collided with the moon, so they both screamed.It never occurred to them that it was not the moon that was actually rotating, but the rocket.The centrifugal force generated by the rocket's rotation threw the travelers aside at this moment.Quan Zhi and Xiao Bun stuck to the wall of the room, and from the porthole on the side, we could see the shining surface of the moon passing by.Then it bumped again as if in the waves, and slid down together with mountains, moon seas, volcanoes, cracks, etc. with a "huh". The drastic changes in the universe made Little Bread terrified. He shook his head and involuntarily covered his eyes with his hands. When he opened them again, there was no moon in the sky.Only bright stars twinkle in all directions outside the window.Bread thought that the rocket had wedged itself into the moon, splitting the moon into pieces, and these pieces flew in all directions and became stars. All this in the blink of an eye.Things happened much faster than said.When the rocket turned around, the tail was facing the moon.Turn to stop the engine from running.There was a little silence.But soon the sound of "嗡-嗡-嗡" sounded again.This time it was much louder than usual.This is the main engine running again.Because the tail of the rocket is now facing the moon, hot air is ejected from the jet port in the opposite direction of motion, and the rocket begins to slow down as a result.This is necessary in order to keep the speed of the rocket from approaching the moon not too high, so that it will not be smashed when it lands. As soon as the rocket slowed down, the payload increased, and the resulting gravity pressed Quan Zhi and Bun to the floor of the cell.Knowing nothing is still impatient to find out what happened to the moon.He crawled to the wall on all fours, struggled to his feet, and glanced out the side porthole. "Look, Little Bread, it's here!" Quan Zhi suddenly shouted. "Who's here?" Little Bread asked. "The moon. It's down there, understand!" Overcoming the gradually increasing gravity, Little Bread struggled to get to the porthole and looked down.What he saw startled him.The surface of the Moon, with its craters and peaks, which our travelers have seen, stretches out below to the horizon.The only difference is that all of this is not upside down now, but is standing upright normally and as it should. "How did the moon go down?" Little Bread asked inexplicably. "You know what," replied Omniscient. "It probably wasn't the moon that fell, but we ourselves. To be more precise, the rocket fell. First the nose of the rocket was facing the moon, and now it's the tail. That's why we thought at first that the moon was falling." above, and now it feels like it's below." "Ah!" Little Bread shouted happily. "I see now. The rocket turned its tail towards the moon. That is, it changed its mind and didn't want to go to the moon! Hurrah! The rocket wants to go back! That's a good job, dear rocket!" "You know so much!" Quan Mo said. "The rocket knows better than you what it should do. It knows it should go to the moon." "You don't need to speak for Rocket!" Little Bread said. "The Rockets will take responsibility for themselves." "You'd better look down," said Omniscient. Little Bread looked out the porthole and found that the surface of the moon was not getting farther and farther away, but getting closer.Instead of being smoky gray or silvery white like we see it on Earth, it is now covered in colorful, iridescent spots.When we look at the surface of the moon from the earth, we don't see such a richness of colors, because due to the distance, the various colors are all mixed together to form a uniform, neutral color that seems to have no color at all. Silvery white or smoky gray shades. Regarding the scenery in front of them, Quan Zhi and Xiao Bian couldn't help admiring it.They now felt that the moon was not as desolate and lifeless as before.The variety of sights and colors is pleasing to the eye.Little Bread said that there must be dwarfs living in such a beautiful scenery.Otherwise it is impossible. "Since there are dwarfs on the moon," he said. "They must eat, and since they must eat, they must have something to eat. So neither of us will be hungry." When Xiaobao was talking about his conjecture, the rocket was already very close to the moon.The hot air jetted out from the engine's nozzles kicked up a dark cloud of dust on the surface of the moon. The dust rose higher and higher, covering the rocket from all sides. "What's this?" asked Quan Wu, bewildered. "I don't know if it's smoke or dust! Where did the smoke come from? Maybe there's a volcano down there?" "Well, I know we have to fall into the volcano in the end!" Little Bread complained. "How do you know?" Quan Wu asked strangely. Little Bread didn't have time to answer this question.The rocket landed on the lunar surface at exactly this moment, and a collision occurred.Quanzhi and Xiaobao couldn't stand upright, and slipped and fell on the floor of the astronomy room.They sat on the floor and stared at each other silently for a while.Later, I didn't know and said, "It's flying!" "It's nothing this time... that... that's all!" Little Bread muttered. The two friends stood up and looked out of the porthole, only to see that there was still a tumbling gray object that seemed to be boiling. "It's surrounded by boiling porridge!" Little Bread grumbled dissatisfiedly. "I'm afraid we just fell right into the entrance!" "What fell into the mouth?" I don't know what to understand. "Oh, the crater." At this time, the dust began to dissipate a little, revealing the outline of the moon's surface through the dust. "So it's just a cloud of dust or mist," Quan Mo said. "So we're not sitting in a volcano?" Little Bread asked. "No, no! There are no volcanoes," Quan Zhi said reassuringly. "Ah, then I can still live!" Little Bread let out a sigh of relief. "Of course you can!" Quan Wuzhi continued happily, and then stretched out his hand to Little Bun, saying solemnly. "My dear friend, I congratulate you on successfully reaching the moon!" "Thank you! I congratulate you too!" Little Bread replied, and shook his hand. "I wish you further success in the wonderful science movement," Quan Zhi said. "Thank you! I wish you the same." Little Bread replied, then touched the heel of his shoe with a "snap", and bowed respectfully to Quanzhi. Knowing nothing, he touched the heel of his shoe and bowed to Little Bread.Satisfied with their politeness, the friends laughed loudly and embraced. "Hey, where do we start our activities on the moon?" After the hug.I don't know the same way. "I propose to get out of the rocket and take a good look around." "I propose to eat something first, and then read." Little Bread said with a happy smile. "Your proposal, my dear friend, is accepted," agreed Quan Momo politely. "Allow me to wish you a good appetite!" "Thank you! Huo also wishes you a pleasant meal." Little Bread replied with a cheerful smile. The two friends went down to the food compartment politely.There they ate at their leisure, and then went up again, to the compartment where the space suits were stored.The two friends chose the appropriate spacesuit according to their figure, and then started to put it on. Each spacesuit is made up of three parts: a space coverall, a sealed helmet, and space boots.The cosmic smock is made of metal sheets and rings joined by silvery, air-impermeable soft cosmic plastic.There is a backpack on the back of the overalls, which contains the air purification device and ventilation device, as well as the batteries to power the flashlight on the chest.There is a hood-shaped parachute above the backpack, which can be opened like wings when necessary. The airtight helmet is worn on the head and is made of rigid cosmic plastic surrounded by stainless steel.There is a small circular window made of tempered glass on the front of the space helmet, or called a porthole, and inside is a small walkie-talkie, which can be used to talk to each other in a space without air.As for the cosmic boots, they are almost the same as ordinary boots except that the soles are made of a special heat-insulating substance. It should also be mentioned that there is a travel backpack on the back of the cosmic overalls, and besides the folding trekking poles and the geological hammer, there is also a cosmic umbrella to resist the scorching sun on the belt.This kind of umbrella is made of high-melting point aluminum, and it is not as big as an ordinary umbrella when folded. I don't know how to put on the overalls and feel that it wraps my body tightly, but the helmet is quite wide, and I don't know how to wear a hat on my head. After putting on the space suit and checking the working condition of the walkie-talkie, our traveler went to the tail of the rocket and to the door of the lock chamber.Quan Wuzhi took Bun's hand and pressed the button.The gate opened silently.The two friends took a step forward and entered the lock chamber.The gate closed silently behind them.Now, there is only one door separating our traveler from the lunar world. Before this door, Quan Zhi couldn't help but hesitate for a moment. What would this enigmatic, unexplored lunar world look like?How will it greet uninvited guests?Are space suits reliable protective clothing in airless space?You know, there only needs to be a small crack and a small hole in the spacesuit.It is enough to cause the air in the spacesuit to escape, and the traveler will inevitably be threatened with death by then. These thoughts raced through his mind with lightning speed.But he wasn't afraid.As if wanting to encourage Little Bun, he put one arm around Little Bun's shoulder, and with the other hand he pressed the button next to the door.As expected, the door did not open.All that opened was a tiny little hole in the door.The space in the lock room is connected with the airless outside space, so the air in the lock room sizzles out.Quan Wu and Xiao Bian felt that the overalls that were tightly wrapped around their bodies suddenly became fatter as if they were blown out.This is because the air pressure outside the spacesuit disappears, and the spacesuit only experiences the pressure of the air inside.Little Bread didn't understand what happened, thinking that the spacesuit on his body was torn, and he staggered and fell to the side in fright. Quan held his arm without concern and said, "Stand up straight! There is nothing to be afraid of!" At this time, the air in the lock chamber had completely escaped, and the door outside opened automatically. Quan didn't know that he saw the flashing light in front of him, so he called out the password. "Go forward bravely now!"