Chapter 30 Chapter Thirty First Contest

Thus ended the first day Jack and his friends spent on the moon.Every reader probably imagines that the "day" mentioned here cannot be understood as a lunar day at all, but should be understood as an ordinary earth day.Science has determined that a lunar day on the lunar surface is approximately equal to fourteen Earth days and nights, whereas an ordinary Earth day is only about half a day and night. After dinner, the astronauts left the "Dumpling" rocket and transferred to the "Total" rocket in an organized manner.The doctor Pill said that living conditions were better in the "Total" rocket, because there everyone could sleep in a separate cabin, while on the "Dumpling" rocket, everyone had to squeeze into a space of only ten people. cabin with two seats.Of course, everyone is in the same cabin, which is more convenient for the doctor Xiaoyaowan to monitor all kinds of violations of the work and rest system, but for the benefit of everyone, he decided to sacrifice personal convenience.

"But beware," he threatened, "I'll be waking up now and then for my night rounds anyway. Any violation of the schedule won't escape my notice, I'll tell you! It's me, Doctor Pill. What you said, and the doctor's little pill, everyone knows that he doesn't like to shoot empty guns!" After the doctor Xiao Yaowan gave such a warning, he went back to his cabin and fell asleep so hard that he didn't wake up once during the entire eight hours of sleeping. Hearing the sound of sound sleep coming from the small pill cabin, the dwarfs all got out of bed and started their own business.Small pewter pipes are painting the scene on the moon.He couldn't wait to throw away his space suit and paint everything he was lucky enough to see on the moon as soon as possible.

Harmony picked up the flute and played out all the strange melodies intertwined in his mind.He felt that the melody seemed to be slipping away, as if he couldn't catch it, so he grabbed a piece of paper, wrote on it: "Cosmic Symphony", and then wrote the notes.He played the flute for a while, wrote for a while, then played for a while—and wrote for a while.If Xiao Yaowan wakes up to these tunes, he will be in his favor. After thinking about it for a while, the little building block drew an architectural design drawing and changed the moon cave into a residence.According to this design, an airtight wall will be built at the entrance of the cave, and a sealed door and lock chamber device will be installed on the wall, and then the cave will be filled with air.The walls and roof of the cave are decorated with granite or other beautiful stones.Solar cells are installed on the surface of the moon not far from the cave to generate electricity for lighting and heating in the cave.The cave will also be gradually remodeled: building rooms, corridors, halls, basements, elevators, telephone rooms, grain depots, warehouses, photography darkrooms, research institutes, and even the Moonlight Railway that communicates with other caves.The blueprint quickly filled with more and more details.

The little screw and the little chisel were thinking about how to get the rocket into the cave, and how to launch it into the interior of the moon.After thinking for a long time, they came up with a way, which is to put a tail and wheels on the rocket, so that it can travel freely on the moon like a jet-type cylinder pulley.The only thing I haven't figured out yet is where to get the wheels on the moon. Engineer Rivet Hammer was exhausted from bouncing around on the moon in a space suit. Instead of drawing any blueprints, he decided to find out what benefits and inconveniences ordinary earthlings would get when they went to the moon.He considered all the circumstances carefully, made accurate calculations, and concluded that the astronauts would get twenty-four kinds of advantages and two hundred and fifty-six inconveniences of various kinds when they arrived on the moon. .

Know-it-all and Professor Little Xingxing are solving another task at this time, that is, what properties will the newly discovered anti-moonstone have.Taking into account the fact that this substance seems to have the opposite properties of moonstones, they think that antimoonstones are transparent, not opaque, purple or light blue, poor thermal conductors, but conductive But it is good, its specific gravity is small, its melting point is low, and it is buried shallowly under the moon instead of deep.Minerals that may coexist with anti-moonite should be moonstone first, because pure moonstone ore bodies will definitely produce a state of weightlessness when interacting with the magnetic force in the universe, which will definitely destroy the stability of the upper structure of the moon, and this phenomenon In fact, it's not that I didn't find it, but I found it.

Both Fuchsia and Herring are working on the same problem, which is what should be done in order for the weightlessness instrument to start working under the new conditions.The two of them discussed the issue thoroughly.It is believed that only by increasing the size of the weight loss instrument can the reaction force of the anti-moonstone be overcome, and for this purpose a sufficiently large moonstone crystal and a sufficiently strong magnet must be found. The next day, Wan Shitong and his friends dug a thick moonstone mine under the moon cave.As Professor Xiao Xingxing speculates, the conditions of the deposits suggest that this mineral is not rare at all on the surface of the Moon.The dwarfs picked the largest moonstone crystal, and took the strongest magnet from the magnets transported by the rocket to the moon, and made a new weightlessness instrument without leaving the cave.Just as Fuchsia and Little Herring predicted, when the moonstone crystal and the magnet get close to a certain distance, the phenomenon of weightlessness appears immediately.

At this time, all the dwarfs present left the bottom of the cave and rose up.They were floating under the roof of the cave in different postures, trying to fall down, but in vain.Wearing bulky spacesuits, they cannot accurately estimate body movements and use reaction forces to move through the air. Everyone was surprised that Master Wanshitong and Professor Xiaoxingxing were not affected by the weightlessness for some reason, and they were still working below as if nothing had happened.They moved the weightlessness instrument from one place to another, then walked to various corners far away from it, and used spring balances to verify the change of gravity at different locations.Everyone asked Know-it-all and Little Xingxing why weightlessness didn’t work for them, but Know-it-all and Little Xingxing just secretly laughed and pretended not to hear.They were so happy that they found the anti-moon stone, and it was the effect of the anti-moon stone that allowed them to maintain their weight.

Passage turned off the weightlessness device, and the dwarfs immediately fell down, Passage then poured out a few small stones from his backpack.Everyone looked carefully with interest.The stones are very hard, very porcelain, and look like flints, but unlike flints, they are not dark gray, but bright purple, and they also have the ability to attract each other, just like charged objects or magnetic iron. block like that. Know-it-all said that a huge anti-moonstone was found at the bottom of the cave. It took them a lot of effort to chisel out these small stones, because the anti-moonstone is an extremely hard substance.

"How do you explain the role of the anti-moonstone? Why does it hold weight?" asked the little ones. "It can be considered that the energy released by the anti-moonstone creates an area where the effect of weightlessness cannot be transmitted under the condition of weightlessness." Know-it-all said. "As long as there is a small piece of anti-moonstone on the body, this kind of area can be formed around it, and weightlessness will not be scary to you. Come and see. Let's do an experiment right away." Know-it-all distributed the small stones to the dwarfs, and then started the weightlessness device.All the dwarves stopped in place, and no one felt the effect of weightlessness. Only Know-it-all was suspended in the midair of the airless cave because he gave all the anti-moonstones on his body to others.

"Look!" cried Passkick. "The anti-moonstone makes all of you unaffected by weightlessness. If I get close to any of you, then it is likely that I will also be in the gravity zone, so I can feel gravity." Know-it-all estimated his movements accurately, and waved his hands to fly to Xiao Yaowan who was standing nearby.As soon as he touched the small pill, he felt gravity pulling his feet down. "Look!" he cried. "Now I am standing as well as you are. But if I want to leave the little pill..." Wanshitong took a step aside, left the gravity zone around the small pill, and immediately flew towards the top of the cave.

Jack of All Trades and his friends spent the rest of the day collecting moonstones and anti-moonstones.They put part of the reserve in the cave, and the other part in the "Backherring" rocket.The plant seeds stored in the "Total" rocket were also moved to the "Dumpling". The launch of the "Heading" rocket into the interior of the moon was scheduled for the next morning.It is no longer difficult to do this.Astronauts put the weightlessness instrument in the rocket bay, insulated themselves from the effects of weightlessness with anti-moonstones, and easily got the rocket into the ice cave, and from there into the ice tunnel leading to the depths of the moon. .Everyone took their positions in the rocket, and the launch began. The first thing Jack-of-all-trades did was to turn on the main light on the head of the rocket to illuminate the road ahead, and then turn off the weightlessness instrument.Under the action of its own weight, the rocket slid along the ice surface in the tunnel.Before the speed of the rocket's slide was too high, the pass-through turned on the weightlessness instrument.The rocket loses its weight and continues to move downward by inertia.Because it constantly collided with the ice wall and produced friction, it gradually slowed down. At this time, Passenger turned off the weightlessness instrument again.The rocket accelerated again under the action of gravity. The slope of the tunnel is getting steeper and steeper.After a while, the rocket was no longer sliding, but flying into the abyss.Going deeper and deeper into the moon's shell.Finally at the end, the rocket came out of the moon shell and came to a vast area.The know-it-all looked at his watch, noted in his logbook the exact time he left the tunnel, down to the second, and extinguished the main light.I saw a thick cloud still covering the ground below, and through the clouds, the astronauts saw the land, the green plains and hills on the land, many straight roads and a meandering belt-like river crisscrossing it. Immediately the piece of glass stuck his eye to the astroscope, and he announced that he had seen a city on the horizon.However, this is not the squeezing city that I didn't know, but another moon city-Phantom City. Although Jack-of-all-trades and friends entered the interior of the moon through the same hole as Know-it-all and Little Bread, but because the core of the moon is constantly rotating, they came to the sky above different places. Know-it-all turned on the steering gear to make the rocket horizontal, then started the main engine, and flew towards the city that was faintly visible in the distance. After a few minutes, the rocket circled over Mirage City.Know-it-all stays on the console, glancing at the prism binoculars now and then.He saw not only houses, but also cars, trams, buses, and even pedestrians.They are, it is true, very tiny; each passerby is no larger than a poppy-seed.But Know-It-All's eyesight was so sharp that he could see from a height that the little ones were running out of the house, throwing up their little heads and waving in welcome. "They've seen the rocket!" exclaimed Passionate with joy. "They are welcoming us!" The little ones running from the houses soon filled all the sidewalks and roads.Now, it was difficult to see clearly in this dense crowd, and Wanshitong only felt that the whole street was fluctuating, surging, and surging. "I don't know what they're doing!" he cried, still keeping his eyes on the binoculars. "They seem to be fighting!" replied Glass. The glass sheet was seen through a high-magnification astronomical telescope, and several teams of policemen wearing shiny metal helmets appeared on the street.They pushed and shoved the little ones who had gathered in the road, beat them with batons, and drove them into the houses. "Yes, yes!" Glass Shard said firmly. "Looks like some people are beating other people." Jack-of-all-trades lowered the ship, and at this moment, the glass saw some police officers with rifles on the roof.At first he thought they were holding sticks, but soon he saw fire emanating from these "sticks" and white clouds of smoke. "They're holding muskets!" he thought, and exclaimed. "They're still shooting someone!" "'Shoot who'!" said the know-it-all with a sneer. "They're firing at us!" At this time, a policeman shot the rocket.There was a crisp crashing sound.The rocket flicked, lost control, and flipped somersaults in the air.The bullet cannot penetrate the solid steel shell, but because the rocket is in a weightless state, the thrust generated by the bullet is still obvious to the rocket.Due to the sudden loss of balance, the astronauts fell from their positions.There was a panic. Know-it-all was the first to figure it out. He jumped to the console and started the steering.He quickly stopped the rocket's rotational motion and stabilized the flight.Seeing that the gunfire continued below, he immediately increased his speed and sent the rocket flying out of range of fire. The presence of rockets over Mirage City was not a surprise to lunar astronomers.At that time, they marked exactly where the rocket landed on the moon.Dozens of gravitational telescopes scattered across lunar cities have watched that point in the lunar sky ever since.When Mr. Octopus heard that the space rocket had landed on the moon, he immediately ordered to strengthen the police force in the nearby cities where the astronauts might appear.Due to the measures taken, the police in Phantom City can be said to have no shame, and they all acted the moment the spaceship appeared over Phantom City.Know-it-all left the city behind and began looking for a suitable place to land.In the air, he saw small plowed squares, and the small huts of the farmers were immersed in the shade of the pastoral greenery.Then, the spacecraft flew over a forest.The woods soon came to an end, and Passepartout found a very suitable clearing for landing on a hilly area at the edge of the woods. "It's a good place to land," he said. "No one lives here. We don't cause damage to others." Know-it-all made the rocket circle over the forest clearing, used the braking engine to stop it, turned its tail downwards, and began to descend.As soon as the space rocket touched solid ground, Jack-of-all-trades turned off the weightlessness instrument.The tail of the rocket touched the ground and stopped in a vertical state. The landing went very successfully. The astronauts walked out of the cabin one by one, held hands and shouted "Ulla" three times.After a long space voyage, returning to the clean air without a spacesuit is a routine.Travelers stand on green grass covered with colorful flowers.To the astonishment of the travelers, these flowers and plants were very small and dwarfed, unlike those they were accustomed to on distant earth.In order to see a small flower clearly, you have to bend down or squat down.This made everyone feel very ridiculous. The dwarfs looked around and saw that the trees in the wood were also very small.Each tree is no bigger than a broom.Except for their small size, these trees are in no way different from the trees on our earth, but this is also the amazing thing.Imagine an oak tree on the moon.It is as far-reaching as our oak, its trunk is wrinkled and fissured, its branches are also gnarled, its leaves are of the same shape, only small, and it bears the same tiny knots acorn.Please think about it, what grows in the flowerpot on your windowsill is not flowers, but such a small oak tree, and you will understand what the most common lunar oak tree is like.There are also small and exquisite birches, pine trees, weeping willows and other trees in the lunar forest. Of course, to dwarfs who are only the size of a finger, such trees should look very big, but because they are familiar with real trees on the earth, although they think these small trees on the moon are very cute , but also felt very ridiculous.Everyone laughed loudly, and shouted as they ran through the woods: "Look, look, Birch!" "It's a pine tree! Look, a pine tree! There are needles on it! How funny! Hahaha!" The little screw found a tiny red-headed mushroom under a small poplar tree.He looked at it for a long time, wondering what he was holding in his hand, and then he guessed it, and laughed aloud. "Brothers, mushrooms!" he shouted. "Look at the mushrooms! The Lunarians have mushrooms like this. I don't envy them." "Do you know, my brothers, that if all the plants on the moon were so small, the seeds we brought from the earth would be very valuable to the lunar people." "Of course!" the doctor Xiao Yaowan continued. "They should thank us for the seeds." "They don't thank us now. They're shooting at us!" babbled Little Chisel. "Never mind. Let's explain to them. They won't shoot," said Little Herring. After lunch, Master of Everything asked everyone to nail a few pegs around the rocket to tie it up. "We were completely new to this place," he said. "It's going to be windy here. It's going to knock the rocket down." "It doesn't look like there's going to be a high wind here," retorted Rivet Hammer. "There are hills on all sides to shield us from the wind. We are in the middle of the hills, as if we are in a basin." "It never hurts to be careful," said the know-it-all. "There might be earthquakes here, to be exact. There might be moonquakes." When his instructions were completed, he ordered that not far from the rocket be placed a seismometer to record moonquakes, a gravimeter to measure gravity, a magnetometer to measure magnetism, a hygrometer to record air temperature and humidity, Wing-type anemometers for wind speed and direction, as well as photometers, barometers, rain gauges, and other meteorological instruments. The little ones felled some trees and made brackets for the instruments and a raised stand for the wing anemometer.Work was going on in full swing.The doctor Xiaoyaowan is also about to take out the microscope to study the bacteria on the moon in order to find the germs.At this time, the little tin pipe found a group of dwarfs in blue uniforms and shiny brass helmets on the top of a hill.Behind them was an open car.It carried a huge TV camera, with a videographer standing beside it. "Ah, moon man!" shouted the little tin pipe, pointing in the direction where the police appeared. "Look, the moonmen have already set their sights on our tail!" the know-it-all said in amazement. "Well, that might be all right. Now we can talk to them and find out about Quan Shi and Bun." At this time, Li Geli, the commander of the police force, put his hands in the shape of a trumpet and shouted from a distance: "Hey! What kind of monster are you looking for here? Get out of here, don't talk nonsense!" "We're looking for Donkey and Bun!" cried Know-it-all in reply. "We don't have your nonsense ignorance and buns here!" cried Ligli. "Please help us to find the ignorant and the little bread, we will give you the seeds of the earth plant." Know-it-all suggested. "Take your messy seeds and fly away from here!" Li Geli shouted at the top of his voice. "We can't find Quanzhi and Bun, and we won't fly anywhere!" Master of Everything replied. "If you don't go away with your sleazy rockets at once, I'll give the order to shoot!" screamed Ligli, angrily. "Well, I'll count to three! Go away—one! . . . Go away—two! . . . " The know-it-all saw that the policemen were all aiming their guns, so he ordered the dwarfs: "Everyone, get into the rocket! Fuchsia and the little herring go first!" The dwarfs put the fuchsia and the herring ahead, and one after the other they got into the rocket. "...Go away—three!" cried Ligli at this moment, swinging his baton. Gunshots rang out.Bullets whizzed by.The rivet hammer is usually at the forefront, but this time it was at the end. He suddenly felt something burnt just above his elbow.The jack-of-all-trades who decided to be the last to board the rocket saw that his face was disfigured by the pain from the rivet hammer, and a blood spot on the sleeve of his white shirt was gradually smearing.Passionate picked up the rivet hammer and entered the cabin, racing against the clock to close the door behind him with a bang. The doctor Xiaoyaowan saw that the rivet hammer was injured, and immediately ran over with the medicine box. He checked the wound and determined that the bullet had pierced the arm but did not hurt the bone, so he quickly stopped the bleeding and bandaged the wound.The rivet hammer endured the pain patiently. Know-it-all heard the clang of the bullets on the steel shell of the rocket and looked out the porthole.Police were still shooting haphazardly. Seeing that the bullets could not damage the rocket, Ligeli swung his baton again and shouted, "Forward!" The police officers ran forward while continuing to shoot.They ran up to the rocket and swooped down on the surrounding instruments, starting to destroy them.They smashed the barometer, smashed the moon seismometer, punched many holes in the rain gauge with bullets, and finally climbed up the high platform to smash the anemometer. "This is simply an act of banditry!" Wanshitong was furious. "You wait, hum, I'll show you how amazing it is!" As he spoke, he activated the weightlessness instrument.The policemen did not expect any accident at all, and at this moment they felt that their feet were not stable.They didn't understand what was going on, and helplessly flipped their buckets in the air, swinging their arms, kicking their legs, and shaking their bodies wildly.Such actions are of course useless.After they collided with each other, they flew out in all directions, floated up and down, but as soon as they hit the ground, they immediately bounced up like rubber balls. The car in which the TV cameraman was traveling also flew.The cameraman flew out of the car, holding the camera in his hand and flipping in the air. At this moment, another squad of police came to support the first team.They came rushing in four trucks, with twenty-five people in each.As soon as the truck entered the zero-gravity zone, it immediately lifted off the ground, its wheels floating upwards in the air.Shouting and yelling, the police seized the side of the truck.Some were afraid to get out of the overturned car, and some jumped out in a hurry, and ended up struggling in the air helplessly.No one understood what had happened.People are full of fear. "These nasty moon people are almost scared now, I think, you can turn off the zero-gravity device." Little Herring said. "I think it's not without danger," answered Know-It-All. "If you turn off the zero-gravity apparatus, the moonmen will fall, and the car will fall on them from above, and it may hurt someone. Better wait. They will gradually fly out of the zero-gravity zone, and then they will always fall .” Everything is as the know-it-all said.The rising wind gradually brushed aside the police officers who were somersaulting in the air, and after a while they disappeared behind the woods together with the car.