Chapter 28 Chapter 28 Discovery of Missing Rocket

Know-it-all woke up the morning he was scheduled to fly to the moon, looked out the window, and saw no spaceship, and his surprise was no small matter.Usually, whenever he looked out the window, he could always see the rocket towering above the roof, its tip pointing straight into the sky, like a huge cigar or a vertical airship.Every time Passenger sees the rocket, he appreciates its majestic silhouette. It is ready to rush upwards, to the universe, to the mysterious space, showing its unstoppable momentum.Know-it-all sometimes wakes up early on purpose so that no one will hinder his enjoyment of this wonderful spectacle.He always stood with his hands folded on his chest, fixed his resolute eyes on the sky, and stood in front of the open window to watch.The rocket stood before his eyes, its steel shell gleaming as if bathed in the golden light of the rising sun.The fresh morning breeze blows directly on the face, making the know-it-all feel energized and refreshed.He felt that his body became light and flexible, and it seemed as if wings had grown from his back.At times like these, Jack-of-all-trades wants to sing, to shout, to make great scientific discoveries, to leap upwards, to fly to the moon.

This time, Know-it-all didn't see the rocket out the window, and it had a strange effect on him.He seemed to feel that everything that happened before—finding the moonstone, discovering weightlessness, building an interstellar spacecraft—all happened in a dream, and now, when the dream woke up, everything disappeared, as if nothing had ever happened Had. Of course, this feeling is only a momentary thing in Wanshitong, because he does not believe that the dream can be so long and so clear.He was sure his eyes hadn't deceived him, but he thought the rocket had simply been blown over by the wind, or thrown to the ground by some shaking of the earth.He rushed out of the room at once, ran down the stairs in the blink of an eye, and ran to the corner door.

"Damn!" murmured Passkick to himself. "What if something breaks or gets damaged when the rocket goes down?" He ran out of the corner door and flew down the street.Five minutes later he was running close to Cosmic City, and another minute later he rushed to the round field.He stopped blankly.Until the last moment, Jack-of-all-trades was counting on seeing the rocket lying across the field.He had been imagining the rocket lying there horizontally, and what he saw was a great surprise.There were no rockets on the field at all: neither standing nor lying down; neither whole nor broken.

Passionate felt that his legs seemed to be numb. He finally walked to the take-off field and inspected it carefully.The takeoff field was intact.Everything around is also intact.There were no scratch marks on the ground.There are also no holes through which a rocket could fall.Knowing nothing, he stood there looking around blankly.That's when he saw Fuchsia and Herring running across the field towards him.They were both terribly anxious.Both of their eyes were wide open.They ran up to Know-it-all, wanting to ask something, but just stood there dumbfounded, and their anxiety made them unable to say anything.

Know-it-all looked at them silently at first, and then he regained the ability to speak first. "Where's the rocket?" he shrieked. Without waiting for an answer, he immediately grabbed Little Herring's shoulder and shook it vigorously: "Where is the rocket, I ask you, lazy-lazy-slackers!" "We're not lazy-lazy-slackers!" murmured Little Herring, almost crying. "Hmph, lazy--lazy women!" corrected Know-it-all. Little Herring couldn't stand this kind of rough treatment, she silently pushed the know-it-all's hand away, raised her head proudly and walked away.Fuchsia also raised her head dignifiedly, closed her lips, and followed the little herring.Know-it-all watched in bewilderment as they entered their house on the edge of the grounds.Only then did he realize that he had done something stupid, and he ran after them.

"Excuse me!" he yelled, rushing into the house. "You should forgive me. I've just lost my head and lost my mind. Please tell me, where is the rocket?" "We know no more about it than you do," replied Fuchsia. "We were going to ask you." "But I don't know anything," said Know-it-all, spreading his hands. "All I know is that I never saw it again. I saw it before, but I can't see it now, as if someone had dragged it from under our noses." "Be sober! How can you drag the rocket away?" said Fuchsia. "The rocket is heavy!"

"You're wrong," the know-it-all said. "You forget about weightlessness. If you activate the weightlessness device, the rocket loses weight and can be moved away without effort." "If you do that, you'll be in the zero-gravity zone yourself, and lose weight. How can you take the rocket away in zero-gravity?" "There's a zone of gravity in addition to the zero-gravity zone, and you forget that," Knock-O-All retorted. "You stand in the gravitational zone, lasso the rocket, and you're free to drag it wherever you want. There's no doubt about it. I think we've got to ask the residents and see if anyone listens at night. Any suspicious noises, did anyone see the missing rocket?"

While this conversation was going on, residents who wanted to watch the spaceship take off gathered in Space City one after another.When they saw that the rocket was no longer there, they thought that the rocket had been launched and that Jackie and his friends had flown to the moon.Everyone was very disappointed that they weren't there when the star rocket took off.Some people even feel angry.For this reason, Professor Little Xingxing, who came all the way from Sun City, was particularly annoyed. "No reason!" he cried. "The launch was scheduled for eight o'clock in the morning, but it's not even seven o'clock. It seems that Passepartout deliberately changed the take-off time so that he could fly away without interference."

Here comes some more dwarfs. "Guan Shi Tong, the villain, flew away early! He is reluctant to let us see!" Little Xing Xing shouted. "This jack-of-all-trades, when he touches my hands, I'll smash him into meatloaf!" "What's the matter?" said the little ones. "This is not good! Who would have thought that Know-it-all would be so stingy and bad!" Just at this time, the know-it-all was seen coming out of the house with Fuchsia and Herring. "Look, know-it-all!" someone shouted. People run to him.Know-it-all stopped when he saw the crowd running towards him, and Fuchsia and Herring even ran back in fright.But it's too late.The crowd surrounded them.

"Why didn't you fly away? Where is the rocket? We thought you flew away!" shouted from all around. "Who says we're flying away?" Asked the Know-it-all sternly. "Who can say such stupid things?" "Oh, who is it?... We said it ourselves, because the rocket... where is the rocket?... The rocket is gone!" said the little dwarfs, spreading their hands. "The rocket is gone, but that doesn't mean we flew away," said Master of Things analyzing. "This is either a stupid joke or a bold move by someone whose purpose is unknown to me. You all should help us and join in the search for the rocket. We recommend that you all poll the residents and find out Has anyone seen anything suspicious at night, or has someone learned about the location of the rocket. Please inform the search headquarters immediately of the results of the investigation, which will be located at the home of Fuchsia and Little Herring."

The little ones had been walking up and down the town all morning asking each other if anyone had seen anything suspicious during the night.But because everyone was asleep at night, no one saw or heard anything.Investigations have been fruitless. By noon, there was new news, and I didn't know that I was missing.No matter how hard we searched, we couldn't find him.Soon it was learned that the bun was also missing. When the news was told to Know-it-all, he immediately guessed what was going on. "It's clear!" he shouted, holding his head. "There is no doubt that these two idlers got into the rocket at night and set sail on their own initiative!" At this time, the astronomer Glass came to the search headquarters and said that he drilled on the roof of his house at night according to his habit, observed the stars with an astronomical telescope, and accidentally found a celestial body in the sky, which quickly disappeared under the horizon.But he saw clearly that the celestial body was a rocket.At first he thought it was someone else's rocket, so he didn't tell anyone, but now, after thinking it all over, he came to the conclusion that it was our rocket, which Jack of all trades and his friends were going to ride. The rocket that went to the moon.After the glass piece, the little man with the horns came to the headquarters.He also said that when he woke up at night, he happened to see two guys outside the window (that is, Quanzhi and Xiaobao) walking quietly along the street in the direction of Universe City. Now no one suspects that Quan Zhi and Xiao Bun flew to the moon.Know-it-all was so annoyed that he almost pulled his hair out. "Who would have thought that such a thing would happen!" he said with great regret. "Of course you can do any bad thing without knowing it, but I never thought that Little Bread would do such a thing." "Maybe they did it by accident?" said Little Herring. "Why is it 'unintentional'!" Wan Shitong sneered bitterly. "According to you, they got up in the night without anyone noticing, and got into the rocket by accident?" "No, of course they did it on purpose," agreed Little Herring. "But the button could be pressed by accident, or as a joke. Just press that button, and the rocket will fly to the moon." "It's hard to tell what they're doing there now, I don't know what to do with a joke like that!" "What will happen to Don't Know and Little Bun now?" asked the dwarfs. "It's not obvious!" muttered the know-it-all angrily. "They're going to the moon. Don't you think the rocket's going to come back for them? It's true!" "What are they doing on the moon? Isn't there no air there," worried the dwarfs. "They can do what they like!" answered Passkick angrily. "Blame them themselves, don't go to the place where you shouldn't go!" "Is that all right?" said Fuchsia reproachfully. "They made mistakes and they got stuck. We can't just leave them alone! We should help them." "What can we do?" Asked the know-it-all. "Are you chasing them? Where are you going, may I ask?" "Can build another rocket," said Little Herring. "It's not that simple," the know-it-all replied. "We don't have a weightless instrument now. We have to build a multi-stage rocket that can overcome gravity." The know-it-all is right.In order to overcome the gravity of the earth, the rocket should have an initial velocity of about twelve kilometers per second. However, in order to obtain such a large velocity, the jet fuel required is many times greater than the weight of the rocket itself.Therefore, the spacecraft must be made into a multi-stage, that is, several rockets connected to each other.The largest first stage is fully loaded with fuel.Connected to it is the second stage, also filled with fuel.Connected to the second stage is the third stage, the same rocket.Finally, there is the fourth-stage rocket, which contains various equipment, control instruments, food reserves and travelers in addition to the stored fuel. When this kind of multi-stage spacecraft is launched, the first stage is launched first, and as soon as the fuel in it is burned out, it leaves the spacecraft, and then the second stage starts to work.At this time, the weight of the spaceship is reduced and the speed is faster.After the second-stage rocket ran out of fuel, it also left the spacecraft and fell.The spaceship is lighter.The third stage rocket started working.In this way, the final stage of the spacecraft can rely on inertia, that is, the speed that can fly to the moon when the jet engine is turned off is gradually reached.There is still a considerable amount of fuel stored in the last stage of the rocket, so that the braking rocket can change direction to land on the moon and fly back to the earth. Anyway, Professor Know-it-All, Fuchsia, Little Herring, and Little Star immediately started working on the design of the starship, no matter how difficult the task.They stayed up all night, and in the morning they had designed the spaceship. Of course, it was only a sketch, that is, a pencil draft or a sketch.According to Little Star's suggestion, the spaceship designed can take twelve travelers.It would not be possible to design it to carry more astronauts, as that would make the final stage too heavy, because in addition to the place where the passengers would sit, there would be room left to transport moon rocks before returning to Earth from the moon. According to Know-it-All's suggestion, the last stage of the rocket should have two sets of control systems, that is: one is used for flying under gravity conditions, and the other is used for flying under weightless conditions.Know-it-all was counting on which cave they would find a deposit of moonstone when they reached the moon.Even if there is a small piece of moon rock, it is not difficult to make a weightlessness instrument, which will make it easy for the rocket to fly around the moon and find the ignorance and the small bread. Immediately after the sketching work was completed, Fuchsia and Herring set off for Science City.In Science City, a team of mechanical engineers went to work, and they began drawing detailed drawings of individual parts of the rocket.The detailed drawings were immediately sent to various factories to manufacture castings, forgings, stampings, and various instrumentation equipment for driving spaceships.Fuchsia and Herring commissioned the engineer Rivet Hammer to oversee the fabrication of the various components.In his fast car that can jump, swim, fly, and dive, he runs non-stop in Sun City, wherever his presence is needed.In this regard, the rivet hammer is really worth it. Despite all the measures taken, the work was still not progressing as fast as expected, and the know-it-all was almost discouraged with anxiety.He was not interested in making parts, and mechanical specialists could do it much better and faster than he could.Since there was nothing to do, Know-it-all pondered the phenomenon of weightlessness he had discovered, and wanted to find a theoretical basis for the phenomenon that occurred when the energy emitted by the moonstone interacted with the energy of ordinary magnets. Know-it-all always talks about his thoughts with Professor Little Star.Recently he has been very close to Professor Little Star.This is often the case with little dwarfs: first they quarrel, sometimes even fight, and then they become so nice that they can't be splashed with water.It's the same this time.The two scientists were inseparable all day long, discussing various academic issues.Even now, of course, they sometimes argued violently, but they did so without losing respect for each other, for they understood that in science it was impossible to do without arguing.As Professor Little Xingxing likes to say, truth is born in controversy. Professor Little Xingxing is very interested in the moon and everything related to the moon, including moonstones.The discovery of the nature of moonstones allowed Jack-of-all-trades to overcome the absolutely insurmountable (as it seemed at first) gravity.Because the only moonstone specimen that could be used as an experiment was accidentally brought back to the moon without knowing it, Professor Xiaoxingxing lost the possibility of directly studying the properties of the moonstone, so he asked Master of Everything about his observation of this strange substance the whole situation. Professor Xiao Xingxing obtained some information about this mineral and the conditions under which it was found on the moon. He compared a series of facts he knew in geology, mineralogy and crystallography, and made the necessary calculations. The result is It is concluded that moonstone is a kind of material widely distributed on the moon, and its reserves should be considerable.This news pleased Passepartout, for he believed that deposits of moonstone could be used to satisfy many needs on Earth as well as on the Moon itself. Of course it goes without saying.Know-it-all and Little Xingxing are extremely anxious. They really want to go to the moon to test their hypothesis as soon as possible, that is, their scientific estimation, not to mention that they need to help Quanzhi and Little Bread.However, it took two months for the first parts of the rocket to start shipping to Cosmic City.It took another two months to get the parts together, fit them together, screw them on, weld them, rivet them on, instrument the rocket, and calibrate them.The last two months went by much faster for Master of Everything and Professor Little Xingxing, because they directly participated in the assembly of the rocket and the verification of various components.Everyone knows that time flies when people are busy. Before long, Jack-of-all-trades could once again admire rockets gleaming in the sun from the window of his room.It towers proudly above the take-off field in the center of Universe City.The first and second stages look like elongated steel cylinders nestled inside each other.The third-stage rocket is also such a cylinder, but with a rounded tip and a long neck like the mouth of a bottle.The thing that looks like a bottle mouth from a distance is the fourth stage, that is, the last stage of the rocket.It houses the astronaut cabin, food storage cabin and manipulation instrument cabin.Those who watch the rocket from the sidelines know very well that the time when it will overcome the gravity of the earth and rush to the sky is not far away, and it will rush to the outer space.