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“Shhh——”

Four white powered suits… oh, no, four astronauts in white hard-shell spacesuits opened the metal door and walked into Lunar Palace II with a “clang, clang.” After closing the hatch, the airlock chamber was immediately filled with swirling air.

Air blasted from all directions onto the spacesuits, not only inflating and pressurizing the airlock but also blowing away the fine lunar soil and dust clinging to the suits.

At the same time, the airlock's electromagnetic field began to change, attracting those charged fine lunar dust particles. Then, the drifting dust was sucked away by the ventilation system and collected in a special device.

After a few minutes, the lunar dust on the spacesuits was cleaned off.

This lunar dust is a formidable weapon. Earth dust is heavily weathered and mostly spherical, but the Moon has no wind or flowing water. The lunar dust remains as it was when it fractured, mostly with sharp spikes.

If inhaled into the nasal passages and then the lungs, a small amount will cause discomfort to the astronaut, and a large amount will endanger the astronaut's life.

Once pressurized, Peng Zizhen opened the door on the other side, and the four entered in sequence. They leaned against the wall to hang their auxiliary backpacks in their original places for charging and inflation, then turned around and stood in the designated area with their hands slightly raised.

“Release spacesuits, code 343, confirm.”

“Clack clack clack clack~”

With a series of mechanical sounds, the rear armor of the spacesuits opened, and the astronauts could step out.

“Hoo~”

Peng Zizhen was the first to come out, laughing and complaining, “My first job as a geologist on the Moon is actually filling sandbags. Doing this special work in this special place, who else does that happen to, hahaha.”

“Isn't that what you're specialized in? Geologists come to the Moon to deal with lunar soil,” Tong Anfu turned around and patted him on the shoulder. “You shoveled lunar soil for five hours straight; your colleagues must be envious.”

“Hey, the first five hours are my show, and the next five hours are yours. After eating and resting, you'll be doing what only an aerospace mechanical engineer can do—modifying vehicles.”

Peng Zizhen chuckled, patting Tong Anfu on the shoulder. “Anfu, changing a car battery and installing a steering wheel, so hard~”

Five hours of carrying sandbags was not tiring at all because this is the Moon, with only one-sixth of Earth's gravity.

Moreover, the powered hard-shell spacesuit provided considerable assistance.

However, because there was more work to be done later, Lin Yang, the only female astronaut among the four, said, “Okay, you two, stop fooling around and go to the dining hall. The 'lunch' we put in earlier should have been warmed up by 'Little Rabbit.' After eating, rest quickly; we still have to complete the next tasks.”

“Yes, ma'am, Sister Lin!”

The two pretended to take orders and then climbed the stairs to the dining hall.

Little Rabbit is the intelligent auxiliary system in Lunar Palace II, named by Lin Yang. As the only woman on the Moon, she is jokingly called “Chang'e” by the team, and she has the right to be called that.

Little Rabbit is similar to most smart home systems on Earth. Although it cannot help astronauts complete various tasks like a super-intelligence, it can still heat up meals.

Even if the astronauts don't put the food in the heater in advance, Little Rabbit can control the robotic arm to complete the “cooking” process according to the menu set by the astronauts.

In this respect, it is even more powerful than a typical smart home butler.

Taking off the heavy spacesuit and walking in the warm, bright, and sturdy living module always makes people feel happy.

The Moon's gravity is very small, only one-sixth of Earth's, but even this one-sixth makes it different from the completely weightless space.

A weightless environment is novel for tourists, but it is not so friendly for astronauts who live and work for a long time, and it can even be said to be unfriendly at all.

Staying in a weightless environment for a long time can cause physical discomfort, and there are too many restrictions on eating in a weightless environment. Therefore, although the gravity on the Moon is very small, it also allows them to experience the precious feeling of “having their feet on the ground” and lets them know where is down and where is up.

Sitting in a chair now is sitting in a chair and not like being in space, where “sitting is equal to not sitting, but instead more uncomfortable.”

With gravity, although small, they can eat normally.

The more the eating process resembles Earth, the more it can alleviate their feelings of anxiety.

Of course, they have just arrived on the Moon and have not yet experienced anxiety, but they will be staying on the Moon for two months. After a while, the effect of the “Earth-like” dietary environment will become apparent.

Cheng Dong took out a bag of heated beef stir-fried noodles, opened the seal, took out a plate, and then, with the bag opening facing down, gently shook it up and down, and the stir-fried noodles were poured onto the plate.

He put the bag in the trash bag, then picked up chopsticks and stirred the stir-fried noodles in the plate. After a few stirs, a plate of steaming beef stir-fried noodles appeared.

As long as the movements are slightly smaller and not so expansive, he doesn't have to worry about the noodles flying out like in space.

He took out a deep bowl, tore open a soup packet, took out a compressed egg drop soup cube and put it in the bowl, then poured in hot water and stirred it, and a bowl of seaweed egg drop soup appeared.

With the staple food and soup placed on the table in front, Cheng Dong felt satisfied.

As a national astronaut who had participated in manned space missions before, he knew how happy he was now.

Others also performed the same actions, completing the last step in preparing this lunch.

In addition to the staple food and soup, there were also pickled mustard tuber with rabbit meat, pine nut corn, braised bamboo shoots, spicy peanuts, braised beef, marinated eggs, chicken wings, dried tofu, chocolate, and other main dishes and snacks on the table.

Some of the dishes, Cheng Dong and Lin Yang, who had been to space, had eaten, but eating them in space and eating them in this environment are two different states.

Cheng Dong looked at the others, and the others were also looking at him. Suddenly, everyone laughed.

“Hahaha, okay, stop laughing, let's eat!”

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Cheng Dong first picked up the soup bowl and took a sip of the soup.

“Let's eat, let's eat!”

“The feeling of sitting in a chair and eating with chopsticks is really good!”

“Yes, on the way here, we were just gnawing on bags directly, not like now…”

“Mmm, holding a bowl and drinking soup, so good…”

The four of them enjoyed the meal very much.

After eating, they disposed of the garbage, compressed it, and put it in the warehouse to take back to Earth together when they left.

After disposing of the household waste, they disposed of the waste in their bodies, taking turns going to the toilet.

After resting for another half an hour, they had to start working again.

They didn't come to the Moon for vacation, and there would be no eight-hour work system. Except for eating, sleeping, exercising, and taking a short rest, they had to work the rest of the time.

After the break, they put on their spacesuits, left Lunar Palace II, and went to the Benyue (Moon Runner) to get some tools and parts to start working.

They had to modify the lunar rovers, adding manual driving in addition to the automatic and ground remote control functions, and also increase their battery modules.

They needed the lunar rovers to become drivable vehicles with longer driving ranges, becoming fast-moving transportation tools.

Some lunar rovers also had to be fitted with simple trailers so they could carry more things.

Such as carrying more external batteries, carrying more gas cylinders, carrying storage boxes for ice, and some miscellaneous equipment, etc.

With a trailer, they could load whatever they wanted.

After the modification was completed, they could go to the previous location to look for ice. If they could bring some back directly, they could put the fuel production equipment of the Benyue spacecraft into operation.

Whether they could successfully extract fuel from the lunar water ice was very important to them.

If successful, some later plans could be carried out smoothly, and the construction of the forward base could be accelerated.

If it failed, then the ground would have to re-formulate the plan, and the construction of the forward base would have to be postponed.

Even their return plan had to be re-formulated, and other spacecraft would be needed to take them away.

They only remembered that there was a lunar rover parked in the shadowed area when they were about to modify the lunar rovers. So, what they saw before should have been seven lunar rovers.