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Chapter 588: Lunar Surface
The four ladies stepped forward together, their eyes cool and their demeanor imposing.
Ye Zimei spoke softly, "Children, rest assured, you don't need to worry about the conflicts outside the realm or the calamities in the interstellar sea."
Hu Huizhong smiled indifferently: "A bunch of ants jumping around, easily wiped out with a flick of the finger."
The reassuring words of the parents instantly soothed all the anxiety and unease in the children's hearts.
Seeing her parents' calm and confident demeanor, Chen Yao felt completely relieved and nodded gently.
She was well aware of the vast difference between the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm and the Great Perfection stage of the Tribulation Transcending realm.
A deity is a powerful being who truly enters the sea of stars, wields the rules, and overlooks all the heavens.
With Mom and Dad's intervention, this world-ending interstellar crisis will ultimately become a joke.
"Mom and Dad, we understand."
Chen Yao calmly said, "My siblings and I will stay home and play. We'll leave the trouble in Xinghai to our parents."
"it is good."
Old Mo nodded, his eyes full of approval.
"Calm and composed, with a good sense of propriety, very good."
Old Mo thought for a moment, then pressed the phone on his ear. The call was made.
Soon, Princess Anne's image appeared in front of Old Murdoch.
"Hey, Mrs. Anne, my four ladies and I are planning a trip to the moon. We've heard there's a teleportation array from an alien civilization there. Would you like to come with us?"
Princess Anne was immediately excited upon hearing this.
"Honey, wait for me! How could I be left out of something like this?"
Princess Anne hung up the phone and said to Chen Hudai, who was next to her, "Xiao Dai, you stay here and play with your grandma. Call me or your dad when you want to go back, and we'll come pick you up."
Chen Hudai quickly asked, "Has something happened at home?"
Princess Anne didn't hide anything from him, saying, "It's nothing serious. Your dad said he wants to take us to the moon. Since you can't go anyway, you can stay here with your grandma. If you go back, your parents won't have time to play with you."
Upon hearing this, Chen Hudai immediately replied, "Okay. Since I can't go, I'll stay here with my grandparents. Call me when you get back."
After giving instructions to her son, Princess Anne slipped into the spatial dimension.
"Honey, shall we leave now?"
As soon as your princess saw Old Mo, she immediately started talking happily.
Old Mo nodded and said, "Alright, now that everyone's here, let's go!"
The six of them flashed out of the space and immediately transformed into shooting stars, flying towards the moon in an instant.
They were incredibly fast; in the blink of an eye, they had reached the surface of the moon.
For powerful beings in the late Nascent Soul stage, air and temperature are no longer relevant.
The circulation of spiritual energy within their bodies perfectly replaces breathing.
Standing on the surface of the moon, looking up, I saw a large sphere hanging in the sky.
This is Earth.
Looking up at the sky, one sees the ultimate spectacle unique to the moon.
Without the obstruction of the atmosphere, the sky is a pure, deep inky black, with billions of stars shining clearly and brightly, without any sense of haziness, hanging quietly in the void, unchanging since time immemorial.
The most awe-inspiring sight is the blue celestial body suspended in the sky, occupying half of the firmament.
It is a hundred times more magnificent than how the moon appears to humans on Earth.
For a normal person, this large sphere would create a strong sense of oppression. They would feel fear that it would fall and smash them.
However, Lao Mo and his group didn't feel any such pressure whatsoever. If they wanted to, they could smash a third of this giant sphere with a single punch.
The group steadily stepped onto the surface of the near side of the moon.
The ground feels rough and hard underfoot; it is basalt rock formed by billions of years of volcanic eruptions.
Looking out, the view of the near side of the moon is exactly the same as what we see from Earth, yet it is more stunning and real than any other image.
Vast, flat, dark plains stretch endlessly; this is the lunar maria known to the world.
There are no waves or flowing water, no lush vegetation, only cold, rocky land that has been silent for hundreds of millions of years. Its dark color has a matte texture under the faint light of the distant sun, covering more than 30% of the near side of the moon.
Scattered among the flat lunar maria are patches of light-colored highlands and mountains, with gentle undulations and sparse, scattered circular impact craters, mostly remnants of ancient meteorite impacts. Over the years, the crater walls have long since lost their sharpness and steepness.
The entire planet is a tapestry of blue and white, with azure oceans covering most of the surface, layers of white clouds swirling around, and the faint outlines of mottled landmasses visible, a vibrant, warm, and dazzling landscape.
It forms an extremely stark contrast with the desolate, lifeless, and barren lunar landscape beneath their feet.
"This is the near side of the moon; it's much more peaceful than I imagined."
Ye Zimei spoke softly, her gaze sweeping over the boundless lunar plains, a hint of emotion in her eyes: "Millions of years of volcanic activity created this flat landscape, and because of this, life on Earth has only ever glimpsed this side of the moon, never knowing its full form. We were fortunate enough to meet my husband, which allowed us to see the real moon."
Hu Huizhong nodded slightly, lightly tapping the ground with his fingertips, and a wisp of spiritual energy seeped into the rock layer: "The spiritual energy here is extremely barren, with no signs of life. The entire planet is desolate and barren, so it's no wonder that it cannot nurture native life."
Old Mo walked slowly forward, his gaze sweeping indifferently across the surroundings. His vast divine sense quietly spread out, instantly covering the entire front of the moon.
"The near side of the moon has a flat terrain and a stable barrier, with no traces of extraterrestrial activity or fluctuations in the array. The teleportation array where Orochi is hiding must be on the far side of the moon."
As we all know, the Moon is tidally locked to Earth, always presenting the same side to the planet. The near side is constantly nourished by Earth's gravity and has a relatively stable geology, while the far side of the Moon, completely isolated, is the real dangerous and forbidden zone.
"We'll travel around to the far side of the moon, which will give us a good view of the entire lunar surface."
As soon as Lao Mo finished speaking, he moved slightly and took the five ladies into the air.
The six people walked on air, flying without relying on any magical artifacts or spiritual power, purely relying on the power of their physical bodies, and sped along the lunar surface at low altitude.
Traveling from the lunar plains to the high mountains, the terrain gradually becomes more rugged and treacherous.
The closer you get to the far side of the moon, the fewer flat lunar maria become, and the dark basalt plains disappear completely, replaced by undulating, layered, light-colored lunar highlands.
The thickness of the earth's crust has increased dramatically to the naked eye, more than twenty miles thicker than the front side. The rock layers are hard and ancient, covered with traces of erosion over the years.
The circular impact craters along the way became increasingly dense and grotesque.
What started as sparse, small, shallow pits gradually transformed into a dense network of giant, deep pits of varying sizes. Some of these pits stretched for tens of miles in diameter, with steep, rugged walls and depths of hundreds of feet, their edges sharp as knives. These are the scars left by countless meteorites that have struck the earth over billions of years.
The entire land was riddled with potholes and ravines, with not a single flat spot left. The desolate, bleak, and dreary atmosphere was overwhelming, a hundred times more so than the deathly stillness directly in front of us.
"Indeed, they are two very different stars, like two distinct colors."
Princess Anne exclaimed sincerely, "The two sides of the moon are vastly different in terms of landforms, geology, and environment. The front side is warm and gentle, while the back side is dangerous and barren. No wonder extraterrestrial forces chose this place to establish their presence, remaining hidden for thousands of years without being detected."