Landing on the moon—a high-tech term that sounded especially impressive to ordinary people, a daily term to the Shilin Apostles no different from going out to buy a bottle of soy sauce, and a term that to Qian Qian meant "The TV show's starting!" In short, it was a term that had suddenly become closely tied to many people.
Though I had no idea how that last sentence had managed to summarize the previous three points.
Although I had grown used to using Shilin Technology to cross several worlds in an instant, I was still surprised when I learned that humanity could, after just a few days of emergency preparations, launch an advanced rover toward the moon. I was surprised by how quickly this world had developed, and even more surprised that so many countries had secretly kept probes and spacecraft ready for launch at any time.
Many people questioned the original purpose of those long-hidden heavy launch rockets and precision-guided Landing Craft, but such voices were quickly drowned out by the momentum countries around the world built for this emergency joint lunar expedition. Ordinary people would always be shown the bright side: global harmony, all humanity racing against time at this civilizational turning point for the planet, heading to the mysterious Dark Side of the Moon to investigate the source of the disaster that had nearly destroyed modern humanity's communications network. In one sense, that was not wrong—as long as one ignored the military-industrial fingerprints all over those hastily assembled spacecraft.
Right, "those" spacecraft, not "that" spacecraft. After discovering that more countries than expected were both willing and capable of participating, the hastily formed United Nations Dark Side of the Moon task force expanded its plan. While keeping the original launch missions unchanged, it allowed countries with the capacity