Chapter 116 The Far Side of the Moon
After being accidentally photographed by reporters at the airport, the Olympic gold medalists were caught in the media's attention, especially Rong Yuan, who was the focus of attention. He had no intention of dealing with the media, so he left after the celebration banquet.
He told his teacher in city B that he was going back to city A. After arriving in city A, he said that he had traveled back home sometimes on foot and sometimes by hitchhiking. In fact, during this time away from everyone's sight, he once again took a flying vehicle and arrived at an uninhabited area.
——He was 36,000 kilometers above the earth.
The aircraft was quietly suspended in the air, as if completely still. It was night time on the ground he was facing, darkness enveloped the earth, and the area where the city was located was full of bright lights, more dazzling than the stars in the sky. Somewhere near or far, there were some mechanical products of various sizes and shapes suspended, which were satellites sent up by various countries.
The Merit Book was spread out in Rong Yuan's hands, and a ball of white light condensed. When the light dissipated, a black metal object weighing about ten kilograms and the size of a watermelon appeared in front of him. Rong Yuan took it in his hand and looked at it. It was a cube-shaped metal object with silver-black light flashing on all four sides, like a sealed box. He felt around the surface of the metal object, opened one side, and took out a small chip from it. Then he asked the optical computer to connect to the chip and set it up. After a minute or two, the setting was completed, and he threw the metal object out of the delivery port of the rain shuttle and started its system with the optical computer.
When the metal object was thrown out, it was suspended next to the rain shuttle, like a strange meteorite. A moment later, a bright light flashed through the narrow gap on its surface, and it spread its wings like a bat awakened. A pair of wings three or four times longer than its body spread out from both sides of its body, and then slowly rotated to adjust the direction. A cylindrical structure was revealed under the wings, with silver-white ends and black sections in the middle. The overall shape was childish and cute, like a kindergarten child's graffiti, not sharp at all.
This is a micro satellite.
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The merit value income of the "Merit Book" that had skyrocketed for several months has slowly dropped. The merit value brought by the [Kinship Bridge] is getting lower and lower. After all, even in this land with a population of more than one billion, the number of missing people is not endless. Although Skynet has always only sent clues to the missing people's relatives, it is inevitable that conflicts will arise with human trafficking organizations in the process of their search for relatives. So in the one or two months after the establishment of the Kinship Bridge, many human trafficking organizations were either sent to prison or became rats crossing the street and everyone shouted and beat them. There were also cases where the relatives who were looking for relatives directly beat the human traffickers to death during the conflict.
The principle of Skynet in releasing clues is to give priority to missing women and children, and among this type of people, the most priority is given to young children who have been missing recently. After all, the shorter the time of disappearance, the less likely they are to be persecuted, and the more losses that can be recovered. Therefore, even the traffickers who have not been caught soon discovered that nowadays, Skynet can find the whereabouts of children who have been abducted within no more than a day, and it won't be long before the children's relatives, neighbors, thugs, or police come to the door. The more alert ones can still escape, while the dull ones will be beaten beyond recognition and thrown into prison, and at least sentenced to ten or eight years, and the more unlucky ones will be beaten to death.
Therefore, human trafficking soon became a high-risk but zero-profit business. After two or three months, even the most brainless criminals would not consider it. The general public cannot see the overall situation, nor can they know the criminals' thoughts, but they are just as responsive and adaptable. A year ago, when parents took their children out, they often stayed by their side, especially in crowded places such as shopping malls and parks, where they dared not let their children out of sight for even a second; but now, such scenes can often be seen: some careless young parents even throw their children into the playground, go shopping, watch movies, and get beauty treatments, and then take the children who had a great time in the playground home after they have had enough fun; some children are only four or five years old and are ordered by their parents to go to the store alone to buy soy sauce, in the name of exercising their independence.
In the help messages on Kinship Bridge, the cases of children being taken away by strangers are almost extinct. Most of them are due to diseases such as Alzheimer's disease or mental retardation, and they can't find the way home after going out and get lost. Some are children who quarrel with their parents and run away from home. Even if you don't use Skynet, most of them can be found by yourself, and the merit value will be greatly reduced.
The newly established [Freedom Continent] did not bring him a huge amount of merit income as Rong Yuan expected. The reason was that once money was involved, people's hearts became complicated, and sometimes the merit gained was not as much as the deduction.
In addition, after some netizens from other countries discovered the great role of Skynet, they kept making requests online, hoping that Skynet could also help missing children in their countries return to their parents, and cited many tragic examples to impress him. Even in the newspapers, there were voices speaking for them. Rumor has it that even the prime minister of a country visited the Sugar Country on the pretext of developing bilateral trade, but in fact the purpose was Skynet, but the leader of the Sugar Country knew nothing about the manipulator behind Skynet - regardless of whether the prime minister believed the Sugar Country Speaker's statement or not, they reached some win-win cooperation intentions and the other party left.
Rong Yuan thought that it was time to expand Skynet's Kinship Bridge business overseas.
However, what has always limited Skynet's expansion is not only Rong Yuan's own wishes, but more importantly, the poor Internet speed of Tang Country. It took him nearly half a year just to build a database within Tang Country. If he wanted to invade the world's networks and monitoring equipment and build a global database, not only would the time required increase exponentially, but more importantly, the large amount of data transmitted back every day would probably paralyze the entire Tang Country's network.
Therefore, to develop Skynet, we must first develop the network. After looking up information for a while, Rong Yuan decided to jump out of the bandwidth restrictions of Sugar Country and rebuild his own satellite Internet system!
In fact, this . There are many reasons why it has not been popularized in the global network, such as cost and various interest groups attached to the broadband fiber optic network. Rong Yuan did not have so many concerns. And because this technology is not advanced on Earth, the price of satellites in the Merit Mall is not expensive. Rong Yuan bought 81 small and medium-sized satellites at one time, and the total merit value spent was only 100,000.
Someone had calculated that in order to build a global high-speed satellite network system, at least 4,000 small satellites would be needed. But the satellites Rong Yuan exchanged only needed 81 to cover the entire world. The only problem was that he did not have a satellite launch base. Rong Yuan thought about building or borrowing a base in a certain country for a while, and suddenly an idea came to him - why not send the satellite into orbit himself?
So after getting rid of all the attention on him and finding a reasonable excuse for his disappearance, Rong Yuan simply took the rain shuttle to this high altitude, put his satellites into orbit one by one, watched them quietly rotate and spread their wings, and constructed a unique network system of his own.
Rong Yuan had made all the preparations before coming up. After the last satellite entered orbit and started to operate, he watched for a while, then drove the Yu Shuttle to the moon.
The last trip to the moon ended in a hurry, and he was entangled in many things afterwards, so he never had the chance to come back for the second time. But even in the busiest time, he never forgot the excitement and joy in his heart during that impulsive trip. To explore the unknown and see a wider world - this is his greatest wish after owning the "Book of Merits".
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The spacecraft passed quickly over the front side of the moon. Rong Yuan looked at the countless pits and vast plains below, but had no interest in landing to explore - this place had already been explored and observed countless times by humans on the ground. He even spotted a lunar rover collecting rocks.
For Rong Yuan, this place was not secret enough to attract him. He passed by here just to record more detailed data. As soon as he arrived on the moon, he turned on the scanning system of Yusuo. This was something he found in the Merit Mall and installed on the aircraft before he came. It seemed to be one of the parts of the reconnaissance and exploration robot, and it was also compatible with Yusuo. Through this scanning system, the terrain, minerals, altitude, magnetic field and other factors on the surface of the moon will be recorded one by one. If there is an underground cave like the last time, it can be discovered quickly.
Fortunately, the back of the moon is facing the sun at this time. Unlike the last time when it was completely dark and needed the help of rain shuttles for lighting, this time the surface of the moon reflects a pale color under the sunlight, even to the point of being dazzling.
Rong Yuan lowered his flying altitude and flew slowly at an altitude of about 100 meters above the ground. He planned to take a rough look at the place first and then explore the valuable places.
At first, all he saw were lunar seas and craters that were no different from the front, and the data on the scanning interface was nothing special. It was just that, probably because this planet had never been touched by humans on a large scale, it contained very rich mineral deposits, with considerable reserves of rare metals and helium-3, and the purity of the mineral resources was very high. Many of them were just like what Rong Yuan had seen last time, with pure crystal structures of minerals, and humans could basically use them directly after mining.
Maybe one day, humans on Earth can use these minerals to solve the current energy shortage problem, and even use the resources of the moon to start exploring the farther space. However, these things are meaningless to Rong Yuan, he just saved these data and continued to move forward until he saw the flag he left .
Rong Yuan looked down at the small red flag, and couldn't help but smile when he recalled his excitement last time. He looked at it for a while, and suddenly his eyes fixed, and his finger swiped across the screen, magnifying the scene on the ground, and then frowned.
The flag still looked the same as when he left last time, but the line of words he wrote next to the flagpole was different - there was a long and thin scratch running across the side, erasing most of the words, leaving only the word "Jing" and half of the word "Tan".
——What's going on? Are there any other moving objects here? Or, is this a lunar rover launched by a country on Earth?
But based on Rongyuan's understanding of the structure of the lunar rover, such a sophisticated and expensive vehicle would not leave such scratches.
Rong Yuan's original relaxed mood for sightseeing was gone. He turned on the scanning function of Yusuo to the maximum, and subconsciously increased his vigilance.
