Chapter 8 Chapter 8: The First Day on the Moon

The two friends walked out of the lock room hand in hand and down the small ladder to the surface of the moon.They both trembled and wondered at the sight that unfolded before them.Below, just at the feet of the travelers, was a plain, much like the surface of a still sea, with sunken hollows and gentle rises.This undulating surface of the moon, which seemed to stand still suddenly, was the same blue-green color as the usual sea water, or, as it is customary to say, aquamarine.There are some hills in the distance.They are yellow, like sand dunes.Behind the hills are bright red mountains with overlapping barriers.The mountains stretched upwards like motionless tongues of fire.

To the right, not far from our traveler, are some of the same fiery red mountains.They seemed to burst from the stillness of the bottom of the sea, and their sharp peaks plunged into the sky. Quanzhi and Xiaobao turned around, and saw some mountains with blurred outlines in the distance.These mountains seem to be made of cotton wool, which looks like clouds spreading on the ground.On their slopes and tops, there are many huge crystals shaped like crystals, like some magical glass castles.Sunlight refracts off the facets of these crystals, shining like a rainbow. Above this strange world, the dark sky opened its mouth like a bottomless abyss, and there were countless stars, big and small, hanging in the sky.The Milky Way seems to pass through the middle of a bright road, dividing the abyss in two.On the left half, among the stars gathered above the horizon, the blazing sun shines.On the right half, planet Earth glows a soft green.The sun shone on it from the side, so it looked like a half moon.

Against the dark, empty sky, the entire lunar surface appears particularly bright and colorful.This is due to the fact that there is no atmosphere around the moon, simply put, there is no air.We know that air not only absorbs the sun's rays, but also diffuses it, making shadows cast by objects lighter.Shadows of objects on the Moon are always darker and darker in color, so the objects themselves appear sharper, brighter and more colorful. Not far from the group of cloud mountains stands a lonely mountain, its shape is like a cone or a pyramid.From its foot of the mountain to the hill where the rocket landed, a path stretched faintly.

"It seems that this is not easy," Quan Zhi said to Little Bread. "This pyramid was probably built by the Lunar people. They also stepped on this path leading to the pyramid. I think we should study the pyramid first. What do you think?" Without waiting for Little Bread to answer, he strode towards the moon path energetically without knowing it.Little Bread saw that it was too late for him to express his personal opinion, so he spread his hands and obediently followed Quan Zhi. Some people think that as soon as they arrive on the moon, they will jump up and down like grasshoppers on the surface of the moon, saying that this is because the gravity on the moon is almost five-sixths smaller than that on the earth.But that didn't happen with Omniscience and Little Bread.Although the attraction of the moon to them was less than that of the earth, they still felt no change in their weight.This is because they have been in a state of weightlessness for a long time and have lost the habit of weight.They felt that the weight they had on the moon was the most normal and ordinary weight, the same as on the earth.Anyway, they didn't hop around the moon like grasshoppers or fleas, but walked normally.

However, from time to time, Little Bun had a feeling that everything around him had been turned over.The moon, the mountains, himself, and those who walked ahead knew nothing—everything seemed to be upside down.He felt that the surface of the moon seemed to be on top, while the sky with all the stars and the sun seemed to be below, and he himself was wearing cosmic boots with the heels of his boots attached to the surface of the moon, hanging there head down.At such moments, he feared slipping out of the boots and falling headfirst into space, leaving the boots on the moon.This made him have to tug at the boot after a while, pulling it tighter over his leg.

The reason he had this abnormal feeling was that the reduced gravity on the moon drew the blood in his body to the upper part of his body, leaving less blood in his legs.The excess blood remaining in the upper part of the body increases the pressure on the blood vessels of the brain, such a pressure as we feel when we are head down.It is precisely because of this that the little bread has the feeling of hanging head down.Because he felt that his feet were turned upside down, everything around him seemed to be turned upside down, which was unthinkable.At first, this abnormal feeling frightened Little Bread, but later he ignored it and thought, no matter how you walk, whether you walk with your head up or your feet up, it's all the same thing anyway.It should be justly noted that there was no such morbid feeling in being completely ignorant—perhaps because he had a solid body and was not as fat as Bun.

The road to the pyramids turned out not to be as short as it seemed at first.It must be pointed out that the distance on the moon is not easy to judge accurately.Because there is no air on the moon, distant objects can be seen clearly, so they always appear very close.Knowing nothing and Bread had been walking for almost an hour, but they were still far away from the pyramid.The scorching sun was baking the spacesuit more and more. Quanzhi and Xiaobao didn't expect to use the space umbrella, so they felt unbearably hot. "Don't be so busy, you don't know anything!" Bu Bread begged. "I need to catch my breath."

"It seems that you are willing to bask in the sun," Quan Mo replied. "We should have walked to the pyramids earlier, so we can hide in the shadows. Besides, there are all kinds of cosmic rays here!" "What kind of rays are there?" Little Bread complained. "You can't figure it out all at once," said Omniscient. "I'll explain it to you later." In fact, Quanzhi couldn't explain anything to Little Bread, because he himself didn't know what cosmic rays were, and how these cosmic rays were different from ordinary light.He'd just heard Fuchsia and Herring talk about the ray, and watch out for it on the moon's surface.

Quanzhi and Xiaobao finally arrived at their destination.What they took for a pyramid in the distance turned out to be an ordinary mountain, or rather an extinct volcano, its slopes full of fissures and solidified lava.Quanzhi and Bun followed the path to a cave on the hillside.In order to escape the scorching sun as soon as possible, our traveler went into the cave.It's cooler here than outside.Much more comfortable.Little Bun no longer felt as if he was about to slip out of his cosmic boots and fall into cosmic space.Now, instead of starry sky, he saw above his head the arched stone cave roof, and he felt that if he wanted to fly away, he would not fly very far.Little Bun took off the cosmic boots from his feet, and sat down to rest on a smooth stone beside the cave wall.

Quan didn't know how to imitate him and sat down next to him.But he is restless by nature and cannot sit quietly for long.As soon as his eyes got used to the darkness of the cave, he jumped up and looked here and there.Quan didn't know that the cave didn't end at all, and it went all the way to the depths of the mountain, so he said that he should study it. Little Bread put on his boots unwillingly, stood up, complained and walked behind Quan Shi.Before they had gone ten steps, they were plunged into a pitch-black darkness.Little Bread said that it was impossible to do research in such a dark place, and was about to go back, when he turned on the flashlight without knowing it.The darkness dissipated immediately.Quan impatiently snorted.He had no choice but to go on, but he was very unhappy because besides his fatigue he felt cold.At first, it was quite comfortable and cool, but suddenly it became unbearably cold.Little Bread's arms and legs were starting to freeze.He trotted and kicked and clapped his hands to keep him warm, but nothing happened.

At this time, I didn't know it, but I didn't seem to feel the cold at all.He walked forward with great emotion, trying not to miss anything that came into view.When I first entered, the cave seemed to be a spacious tunnel hewn in the hard rock.The tunnel slopes down so it's easy to walk, as if someone's been pushing the back.Suddenly the tunnel widened and the travelers came to a huge subterranean cave, or, more correctly, a huge sublunar cave. The scenery they saw was quite like the frigid world in the myth.On the very top of the cave, thousands of crystal clear ice skates hang upside down.Some ice skates are very short, clinging to the ceiling of the cave like the tassels of shining gold stars.Some ice skates are larger, as if strings of glowing braids hang down from them.Individual ice skates are so large that their pointed tops almost reach the bottom of the hole.The tops of some ice skates have touched the bottom of the cave, like pillars supporting the vaulted ceiling.The high stone walls of this ice palace are painted with various wonderful patterns by the severe cold. Quan didn't know how to appreciate the scenery, and then walked forward.Little Bread followed.Perhaps because of the great amount of ice around him, or perhaps because the temperature had really dropped, Bun was shivering with the cold, and he was jumping so hard that one of his cosmic boots slipped off his foot and was thrown aside.Little Bread ran to look for the boots, but got lost among the icicles again.He called out to Omniscient in fear, but Omniscient could no longer help him.At this moment, Omniscience entered a new tunnel in the cave, the bottom of which was completely covered with thick ice.As soon as Quan Zhi stepped on the ice, he fell down and slid down.There is no bump on the smooth ice surface, which can be grasped to prevent the body from sliding down.Quan didn't know that he heard Xiaobang's cry on the walkie-talkie, but he couldn't pay attention to it at all, he didn't even have time to take care of himself. At this time, the tunnel became more and more steep to the depths of the moon.After a while, Quan Zhi was no longer skating on the ice, but fell into an abyss.Gradually the surroundings became less dark.There seemed to be light shining from below.It was much warmer at the same time, and after a few minutes it became almost hot.There was a bright, blinding light.Quan Wu knew that he was doomed to die in the flames.Just about to bid farewell to life, suddenly, the four walls of the abyss moved away and disappeared.After another minute, Quan didn't know that a clear sky appeared above his head, covered by a layer of wavy clouds.And below... Quan Wuzhi tried hard to see what was below, but everything below was like clouds and mist.After a while, through the gradually dissipating clouds and mists, I didn't know that there was a piece of land below. There were fields, forests, and even a river on the land. "That's how it is here!" Quan Wushu said to himself. "The know-it-all said that the moon is a ball. There is another ball in it, and in this ball live the moon dwarfs, or moonmen. So the know-it-all is right. Well, let's wait a little while." Soon, maybe soon, to meet the Moon Runt." At this time, the strange land is gradually approaching.A city and its streets and squares can be clearly seen below.This is one of the largest lunar cities - Squeeze City.In a short while, I didn't know that even the houses and individual pedestrians on the street could be distinguished.The wind was blowing him, but not toward the center of the city, but toward a suburb where you could see orchards, vegetable gardens, and roofs immersed in green shade. "Okay, this is better," Quan Mo thought. "At least you can fall lightly, otherwise, if you fall on the stone road, you won't even be able to collect your bones." Don't know for nothing, though, because the small winged parachute behind him slowed down his descent.Of course, with the sudden impact, Omniscient's legs bounced upwards and he slumped to the ground.The parachute folded itself behind him, into the shape of a hood.Quan Wu looked around and saw that he was surrounded by some shrubs with tiny green leaves.Knowing that the leaves on the bushes were swaying, he concluded that there was an atmosphere around him, that is, air.You know, the leaves don't move by themselves, it's the wind that makes them move, and everyone knows now that the wind is nothing but the movement of the air. After knowing this inference, he took off his space suit, not only did he not feel out of breath, but he felt that he could breathe easily.He even felt that the air around him was cleaner than the air he breathed on earth.Of course, this was just his feeling, because he had been in the space suit for a long time, and he was a little rusty of fresh air. Knowing nothing, he took a deep breath and felt the heart beating much more smoothly in his chest.The mood is also happy and relaxed.He even wanted to laugh out loud, but then came to his senses in time and decided not to express his joy for now.Of course he should have looked around first to see where he had landed. Quan didn't know how to fold the spacesuit neatly, hid it under a bush, and then began to familiarize himself with the environment.He looked carefully at the surrounding shrubs, and realized that they were not actually shrubs, but a very small tree.Each tree is only half to twice the height of the Omniscient.The branches of these trees are full of very small green apples, the size of small beans.I don't know how to pick one off, taste it, and immediately spit it out again, because the apple is too sour.Not far from the apple trees grow some equally low moon pear trees.Quan Wu tasted a moon pear, which was astringent and unpalatable—probably not ripe yet. I don't know how to throw the moon pear aside and continue to look for something delicious.Moon apples and moon pears whetted the appetite of the unknown; besides, it had been a long time since he had last eaten.He walked a few steps to the side, and came to a high wooden fence, along which grew some thorny bushes, laden with tiny red berries.Quan Wu tasted one and recognized it as a dwarf Luna tree.The taste of the berries is no different from that of ordinary raspberries on our earth, but they grow much smaller than those on earth.Quanzhi started stuffing the moon raspberry into his mouth, but he was not full after eating a lot. 【① Rubus is also known as raspberry. 】 Moreover, this time he didn't have enough to eat.If he had been more alert, he would have seen that a pair of careful eyes were already on him from behind the bushes.These careful eyes belonged to a little moon dwarf, whose name was Little Positioning.He wore a tan jacket frayed at the elbows and a smudged cap.Underneath he wore a pair of trousers of the kind usually tucked into boots, but instead of boots he wore slippers on his bare feet.The little fixer held a broom in his hand, and he tilted it like a spear, as if he was going to charge with the gun. Quan Wuzhi continued to eat the raspberry without any scruples, when there was a sudden click at the bottom, he immediately felt something clamping one of his feet tightly.I didn't know how to cry out in pain, and bent over to have a look.His foot was on the bear-trap.At this moment, Xiao Position, who was watching his every move, jumped out of the ambush, ran to Quan Wuzhi, and used all his strength to hit a broom on his head. "Hey, you bastard! I tell you to steal the raspberry!" The little fixer yelled, shaking his broom. "Listen to me," Quan Wu said angrily. "What's going on here? Why are you beating someone with a broom? There's also a trap here!" The little positioning didn't listen to him. "I told you to steal the raspberry!" He said, twisting his arms behind his back, and tied them with a rope. I don't know but shrug my shoulders. "I don't understand what's going on!" he muttered. "You'll know everything when I bring you to old Mr. Bug!" Little Position threatened. "Which old Mr. Bug?" asked Omniscient. "You'll see that old Mr. Bug when you get there. Now... let me go!" said Little Position, and pulled the rope so hard that he almost pulled Quan Zhi down. "You are so unreasonable, how can I walk? Don't you see that my feet are still in the clamp?" Quan Mo said. "It's so strange, the feet are caught in the clip... You are so delicate!" Xiao Positioning reprimanded. Still, he bent down and removed the clips from the unknown feet. "Hey, go, go, don't talk!" he ordered, and then, holding the end of the rope binding Quanzhi's arm, he pushed his back with a broom. "You don't want to run, anyway, you can't escape my palm!" Knowing nothing just shrugged in answer.The foot from the spring-bow of the traps hurt so badly that he could not run on that alone.He limped and walked slowly in the orchard, with the broom on his shoulder, panting, and angrily followed behind him.They walked out of the orchard and along some long rows of moon cucumbers and moon tomatoes.Although he didn't know what to worry about at this time, he still looked left and right, and he found that the moon cucumbers and moon tomatoes were only a few tenths of what he commonly found on the earth. In the distance, three dwarfs were watering the vegetable patch.Two people press the water pump, and one person waters the ground with a hose with a spout.The nozzle sprays a general water stream to a high place, and then the water stream breaks into fine droplets and falls from above like rain. Soon I passed the vegetable bed, followed by the bed of moon strawberries.A few dwarfs were crawling around in the bed picking ripe strawberries and putting them in round baskets.A little dwarf saw the little positioning and knew nothing, and shouted: "Hey, little positioning, have you caught another robber?" "Catch another one, so it goes without saying," Xiao Positioning said with a proud smile. "To old Mr. Bug?" "It's taken to the old Mr. Bedbug, so it goes without saying!" "Are you going to let the dog bite him again?" asked the other little man, stopping his work. "It's old Mr. Bug's business what to bite him with. We'll do what he orders." "A bunch of beasts!" said one of the working dwarfs bitterly. "what?" "I say you and your old Mr. Bug are beasts!" "You are the beast!" Little Positioning replied angrily. "I'm going to tell old Mr. Bug that you're not working, but you're talking nonsense here... you're going to rebel!" The dwarfs worked in silence again.The little positioning took a broom and stabbed Quan Zhi in the back, and the two continued to move forward.I didn't know that I climbed a hill and saw a beautiful two-story building with a large loggia.There are some flower beds around the building, where various flowers are planted. There are moon daisies, pansies, nasturtiums, moon mignonette and Jiangxi wax here.Lunar lilac clumps grew under the windows of the building.These flowers and plants are the same as those on our earth, but much smaller.However, Quan Zhi had already gotten used to the fact that the plants on the moon were very small, so he was not surprised. On the loggia sat old Mr. Bug.He was a plump, red-faced little man with a rose-colored bald head.His thin eyes, which seemed to be slits, and the almost absence of eyebrows made his face look cheerful and kind.He was wearing a fat dark brown silk pajamas with white stripes, and a pair of sandals on his feet. Sitting at the table, he was doing four things at the same time: eating white bread and butter; drinking tea with jam; fly. Old Mr. Bug was doing these four things with such care that sweat ran down the top of his bald head like a stream, down his cheeks and the back of his head, and into his collar.It seemed that this made old Mr. Bug feel very comfortable, because from time to time he grabbed the towel that was hung on the back of the chair, wiped his wet bald head vigorously, and wanted to wipe his neck as well, and then put the towel on his head. Flip it up and down to dislodge the flies, then put it back on the chair. Old Mr. Bedbug saw Little Position and Occult gradually approaching the front of the building. He put the unfinished tea aside and waited curiously for the development of the matter. "No, old Mr. Bug, I've caught a robber," said the little fixer, who didn't know how to stay far away. Old Mr. Bug got up from the table, went to the loggia steps, put his two round little hands on his stomach, and looked at him from head to toe without knowing it. "Perhaps stepping on a trap?" he asked at last. "Exactly, old Mr. Bug. He got caught in the trap while he was eating the raspberry." "That's it, that's it," said the old bug, hahaha. "Well, I want to show you something amazing! Tell me, why did you steal the raspberry?" "I ate it, but I didn't steal it at all," Quan Mo corrected him. "Ha, it's my fault!" Old Mr. Bedbug sneered. "No one is allowed to say a word! All right! Then why do you want to eat raspberry?" "What are you talking about...I want to eat." "Oh, what a pity!" exclaimed the old Bug in mock sympathy. "'I want to eat it'! I want to show you something! Is that raspberry yours? Answer!" "Why not mine?" Quan Mo replied. "I didn't take it from anyone else. I picked it from the tree myself." The old bedbug was so angry that he almost jumped up on his short legs. "Hmph, I want to show you something awesome!" he shouted. "Don't you see that this is private ownership?" "What private ownership?" "Why, don't you recognize private ownership?" the old bug asked suspiciously. "Why don't I admit it?" Quan Wu said embarrassingly. "I admit, it's just that I don't know what private ownership is! We don't have any private ownership. We all sow seeds together, we plant trees together, and we each get what we need. We have plenty of everything there." "Where are you? Who are you? There are a lot of things in your place? You should be sent to the police station just for saying this to you! There will be a lesson for you! You will know how powerful it is!" The old bug was furious, He waved his arms, not saying a word. Later, he clapped his hands and shouted, "Little bear!" A dwarf came running from outside the door. His attire was the same as the little one's, but he didn't wear a hat.When the old bedbug saw him, he snapped his fingers and pointed to the floor beside him.The little bear immediately understood the request of the old bed bug. He grabbed the chair by the table and put it behind the old bed bug.The old bug sat down on the chair unhurriedly. "Here, take this..." he said. "Uh-uh... yes, bring your Excellency here." The little bear hurried over to carry out the order. "I'm a kind little dwarf, and that's your luck," said the old bug to the unknown. "I'm not sending you to the police station. Better stay out of the police station, boy. It's no good dealing with the police station, neither for me nor for you. Terrible!" At this time, the little bear walked with a chain leading a big dog with drooping long hair. "That's it, I'm going to let you go," the old bug went on to know nothing. "However, dear, you have to run faster, don't let the puppy bite you... Let go of him!" He ordered the little positioning to say. Xiao Positioning untied the rope on Quan Shi's arm. "Okay, you run now, what are you waiting for?" said the old bug. "Do you want someone to let the dog chase you? Come on, little bear, let the dog chase him." I don't know when I saw that something was wrong, so I ran away.At this time, the little bear had already untied the chain, and the big long-haired dog rushed after Quan Zhi. "Bite him, my lord, bite him!" the old bug slapped his hands and squealed happily. Knowing that the big dog was about to catch up with him, he suddenly turned to the side.The big dog rushed over due to inertia.Whenever the little master came close, Quan Wu would repeat this move, so the big dog couldn't even bite him once.Knowing nothing and the big dog running around the building on the flower beds.The uprooted daisies, pansies, and tulips were flying around under their feet. "Your Excellency, bite him!" the old bug yelled desperately. "What are you dawdling about? You can't even deal with a thief! Chase him! Hey, you idiot! I'm going to show you something... Hey, little bear!" "What are your orders, sir!" The little bear bowed down to the old bug respectfully. "Bring this right away...uh-uh...bring Xiaobawang here." "Obey!" the little bear said in an indistinct voice and ran away in a hurry. After a while, he brought a big, slender and muscular dog with long, thin legs and short brown hair. "Let it go!" cried the old bug. "Go, go bite him, little bully!" Unaware that the little master had arrived as reinforcements, he immediately ran down the hill, jumping around in the strawberry field.The two big dogs chased after him regardless of the path, and trampled on the strawberries without regret. "What are they doing! What are they doing!" the old bug yelled as he ran down his bald head. "They've ruined my strawberries! Little bully, my lord, bite him, the damned! Surround him! From both sides! . . . Cough, idiot, idiot! Brainless idiot! Two heartless idiots Can't handle a brainless idiot! . . . what are you grinning for?" shouted the old bug to the working dwarfs. "Catch him! Just standing and laughing, no brains! You guys!" The dwarfs left their work and ran after the two dogs over the flower bed.Only then did the old bug realize that the strawberry would suffer even more. "Come back!" he yelled. "Shall I tell you to stomp strawberries? I want you to know how amazing it is!" The little ones stopped.The old bedbug ran over to chase it himself, but he didn't know it.One foot on a bear trap. "What's going on here?" he screamed, shivering with pain. "Hey, little positioning, little bear, why are you just looking at it stupidly? You rascals, I want to show you a little bit! There are clips everywhere! Take them off for me, or I don't know what will happen! " Xiao Zuo and Xiao Gou Xiong ran up to him and took the clip from his foot.At this time, Quan Zhi, Your Excellency and Xiao Bawang moved the venue from the flower bed to the vegetable bed for growing cucumbers and tomatoes.After a while, there was a mess there, and it was difficult to distinguish where cucumbers grew and where tomatoes grew. "Ouch-yo-yo! What are they doing there!" The old bedbug was so angry that his blood went straight up.he shouted. "Hey, little positioning, little bear, idiot, what are you doing with your mouth open? Quickly bring the gun, I will kill him like a dog, and let him know how powerful I am!" The little positioning and the little bear disappeared immediately, and came back with a gun after a while. "Shoot him!" cried the old bug, spattering. "For this, nothing will happen to me anyway!" The small positioning with the long gun in hand took aim and fired a shot.The bullet whistled and passed by two steps away from the unknown. "How could anyone shoot like that? How could anyone shoot like that?" the old bug shouted angrily. "Give me the gun. I'll show you how to shoot!" He snatched the gun from Xiaobao and fired it, but the one who hit was not Quanwu, but Xiaobawang.The poor dog let out a frantic yelp.It jumped up, did a somersault in the air, fell on its back, and just lay there with its paws up in the air. "Look, you fools!" shouted the old bug, holding his head. "Beating the dog to death is all because of you!" Seeing that the matter had reached the point of shooting, Quan Quan ran to the fence and jumped over it with all his strength. "Ah, what are you doing!" cried the old bug, panting. "You can't be so cheap! I want to show you a little bit!" He raised a fist on his bald, reddish head and shook it vigorously, then spat in chagrin and went home—to count the damage done by ignorance.