Chapter 1419: A Node in History
At this moment, Han Menglu was crouched over her desk, eyes wide as she frantically calculated!
Dozens of ballpoint pens moved under her control, writing incantations on paper!
She had already tried countless incantation combinations, none of which worked!
Seeing Han Menglu on the verge of obsession, Jiang Tianqing grinned.
(•́.̫•̀) "Menglu? No need to calculate anymore—I've brought back the missing incantation fragments!"
Han Menglu froze, a burst of joy erupting in her eyes. She dashed over to Jiang Tianqing, gripping her shoulders excitedly.
(●⌂●|||) "Really brought them back? Let me see, quick?"
At that moment, everyone in the Star Gate repair lab turned to Jiang Tianqing with eager anticipation.
Jiang Tianqing waved her hand lightly!
Spirit Threads shot out instantly, weaving through the air to form the incantation fragments!
Nearly a million of them in total!
Han Menglu stared blankly at the incantation combination, her pretty face flushing red with excitement.
(∗❛ัꇴ❛ั∗)✧* "This is it! This is exactly how it should be combined! Tianqing, you're amazing!"
"Come with me!"
With that, she pulled everyone deep into the laboratory.
A silver Star Gate, thirty meters in diameter, stood there along with its base. Surrounding it were over a hundred mechanical arms!
At the tips of those arms were micro-drills made entirely of Shining Sun True Gold!
Only such drills could carve incantations into the Star Gate material. And the incantation carving was extremely precise, allowing no errors, so mechanical arms were the best choice.
Han Menglu quickly ran to a chair in front of the Star Gate, sat down, and picked up a metal helmet to put on her head!
Countless signal cables from the helmet connected to the mechanical arms. As Han Menglu issued commands via brainwaves,
the hundred-plus mechanical arms operated simultaneously, the drills carving incantations onto the melted sections of the Star Gate.
Following the incantation content Jiang Tianqing had provided, repairs began at lightning speed!
Han Menglu clenched her teeth, utterly focused, even activating brain overclocking until white steam rose from her forehead.
"Give me six hours!"
Jiang Tianchen stared at the Star Gate, light shining in his eyes.
"This is settled! Secretary-General, this is a great achievement! We must commend Luo Tianqing! At the very least, a Red Dragon Medal!"
Jiang Tianqing's face darkened.
(̿▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿̿)̄ "Hey, hey, hey! It's clearly my accomplishment!"
"Why give a little medal to Luo Tianqing?"
"On my right chest, I'm just one or two short of a full set! If you give it to Luo Tianqing, won't I have none?"
Hadn't this wave not only given Luo Tianqing a score boost but also brushed aside achievements and merits?
Jiang Tianqing shyly scratched her head.
(︶◡︶✽)୨ "Uncle Tianchen, what are you saying? This is what I should do!"
"As for rewards, they should go to Xiao Nan, since without him bringing back the Star Gate, none of this would be possible."
(*͡°ʖ̯͡°)✧ "This is what Xiao Nan deserves!"
At those words, everyone in the room fell silent!
Xia Yao crouched down on the ground, head buried. Zhong Yingxue bit her lower lip, eyes red.
Xiong Da and Xiong Er hugged each other, weeping.
Mila burst into loud sobs, tears streaming uncontrollably.
˚‧º·(˚˃̣̣̥᷄⌂˂̣̣̥᷅)‧º·˚ "Brother Jiangnan! Mila misses you so much~"
Katerina: (•́ω•̀٥)...
Was this the true power of the Little Golden Man Oscar-winning troupe?
She couldn't afford to fall behind either!
Katerina covered her face, poking her own eyes hard with her pinky fingers.
(||´థ口థ) "Ah! Aaahhh~"
Tears streamed endlessly from Katerina's bloodshot eyes!
The entire laboratory echoed with weeping!
Many staff members wiped tears along with them.
Han Menglu gritted her teeth, tears brimming, her expression resolute.
(Oᵒ̴̶̷̥́◠ᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀) "Today, we stand on his shoulders!"
"I will never let Xiao Nan's efforts go to waste! Never!"
Jiang Tianqing watched the reactions of everyone in the lab, and his heart sank.
This... this... how was he supposed to survive this?
Yang Jian couldn't help laughing inwardly. You wanted to play? Well, you played too big?
Let's see how you clean this up.
Yang Jian patted Jiang Tianqing's shoulder.
(͡ಠʖ̫͡ಠ) "The Star Gate does have Jiangnan's contribution, no doubt, but he's already dead. We can't add merits to his name anymore."
"I've also seen the effort you put into this. Separate accounts—don't refuse. This achievement is yours, Luo Tianqing's. No one can take it away."
Jiang Tianqing's face grew even darker. Jian Ge, are you doing this on purpose?
So he coughed twice to change the subject.
"The activation of the Star Gate requires consuming a large number of Space Spirit Pearls as a drive source."
"And we don't have many—only about eight or nine hundred. Even if it's repaired, we can only use it a few times."
Jiang Tianchen's expression turned serious. "That is a problem. The Void Sea has been closed for a long time now. As for the Star Gate's drive source..."
Jiang Tianqing grinned. "I did say earlier that I brought back more than just incantation fragments!"
"I found a large number of Oracle's Tears, which might be able to replace Space Spirit Pearls."
With that, he grabbed Little Rabbit Bastard and pulled fifteen thousand Oracle's Tears from her pocket!
Such a staggering number even made Yang Jian flinch.
(͡ಠ口͡ಠ) "Holy shit! So... so many? Are you packing them in sacks now?"
The Star Gate needed 108 inlays to activate, and with this many Oracle's Tears, how many uses would that be?
Just then, a rich space fluctuation emanated, and Jiang Ning, dressed in a white gown, appeared abruptly in the lab!
She had long sensed Jiangnan's return, after all, because an alternate dimension owned by Jiangnan contained her star mark.
Jiang Ning picked up an Oracle's Tear, feeling it carefully, her eyes shining.
"Should be space force gathered from the dimensional gap. Though not as pure as a Space Spirit Pearl, it's perfectly fine as a Star Gate drive source!"
"Who is it that has such skill? Extracting and collecting space force from the dimensional gap?"
Jiang Tianqing's expression turned serious. "It's Oracle—the Era Lord from a thousand years ago."
He then briefly explained what happened in the Oracle Space, though only what could be said.
Yang Jian was stunned. "Akabel died? Killed by Baikou?"
No wonder Yang Jian was shocked—quite a few Dao Heaven level deaths had occurred recently.
Before, as humanity's ceiling-level combatants, losing a Dao Heaven was rare.
But in this recent period, too many had died. The era was starting to tremble!
Jiang Tianchen was also shaken inwardly, never imagining that a thousand years ago, people had already been preparing a large-scale Moon landing, even succeeding.
Now, a thousand years later, humans were once again benefiting from their predecessors' legacy, heading for the Moon to trace their footsteps.
And the repair of the Star Gate would be complete in six hours. Huaxia might be the first to go up.
Jiang Tianchen had already ordered all departments to prepare for the Moon landing.
Jiang Tianqing asked curiously, "By the way, I heard that news from the far side of the Moon came back?"
"What's the situation over there?"
Jiang Tianchen's expression turned stern. "Come with me!"
Everyone moved to the main control room, while Jiang Ning stayed in the Star Gate repair lab to help Han Menglu with the repairs. Jiangnan's Spirit Thread incantations were left there; as long as he kept extending the Spirit Threads, it would be fine.
In the main control room, Jiang Tianchen projected real-time images of the far side of the Moon onto the big screen.
And Jiangnan—who said it right—stared at the screen, everyone stunned.
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One-Eyed creatures that could live in the space environment? A city in the Gila Crater?
And in the Aitken Basin crater, the Moon Eye with a diameter of eight hundred kilometers?
All of it shocked Jiangnan and the others' worldview.
Jiang Tianqing's eyes were wide, mouth hanging open.
୧(⊙ﾛ⊙)୨ "Holy crap? There really are aliens? With eyeballs that huge? Then when they wake up in the morning, their eye gunk must be colossal!"
"If they're nearsighted and need glasses, they could just modify a magnifying glass, right?"
Yang Jian, Zhong Yingxue, and the others almost choked.
What the hell—'colossal eye gunk'? Shouldn't you be shocked by the survival capability of the One-Eyed species?
Why is the angle from which you think about problems always different from everyone else?
Jiang Tianchen said with a dark face: (̿▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿̿)̄ "We'll only know after we get a sample."
"But for now, the issue is this Moon Eye giant pit. The primary problem is what to use to fill that pit to stabilize the Moon's mass."
"If the Moon keeps losing mass, it will eventually be torn apart by Earth's gravity."
Jiang Tianqing also looked troubled.
Even the black beads condensed from his Void Black Hole were useless.
How much would he have to fill in? A drop in the bucket.
To fill the Moon Eye, he'd need trillions upon trillions of cubic meters of mass!
Even if Jiangnan stood at the edge of the Moon Eye and frantically condensed black beads to fill it, he'd only be using the Moon's own rocks and soil—like moving a mound from one end of the kang to the other. It was useless.
The law of conservation of mass was there.
Right now, the goal was to increase the entire planet's mass.
Filling it with Earth's matter would only be robbing Peter to pay Paul.
"The One-Eyed dug such a huge hole on the Moon; they made the Moon lighter. Where did the excavated rock and soil go?"
"They couldn't have just vanished into thin air, right? I haven't seen any debris belts or anything."
Jiang Tianchen looked worried. "I'm not sure. We don't know what method they used to dig."
"We'll have to go up there and investigate thoroughly."
Jiang Tianqing suddenly snapped his fingers. "Oh! What about using asteroids to fill the hole?"
"That's matter from outside the Moon. Wouldn't that increase the Moon's mass?"
Jiang Tianchen nodded. "That was my initial thought. But right now, because of the Moon Eye, the Moon is quite fragile."
"I'm afraid a large meteor impact would shatter it before Earth's gravity tears it apart. That would be a real disaster."
"A smaller one should be survivable, though. I've already mobilized people to use deep-space telescopes to find asteroids of suitable size."
Jiangnan grinned internally. This was an unprecedented, vast project!
It might even go down in history, becoming a node in history.
And he was fortunate enough to participate in person.