Unlike ordinary people, who could only watch another version of the "Lunar Exploration Documentary," while watching CCTV's live broadcast of the moon landing, we could also observe the Lunar Rover's entire advance from the lunar surveillance system's perspective and listen in on the encrypted channel inside the Ground Station. I found myself already enjoying this feeling of watching humanity from an alien's perspective. This thing was probably like voyeurism—it could become addictive.
Lin Xue shook her head beside me and hit the nail on the head. "Voyeurism is one of the Seven Deadly Sins of Aliens, Wood. You're becoming less and less like an Earthling."
I smiled awkwardly. I knew about the Seven Deadly Sins of Aliens Miss Lin was talking about. It was something this girl had summarized with Qian Qian when they were bored out of their minds: voyeurism, slime, parasitism, streaking, crashing, interspecies romance, and getting killed by Americans. Voyeurism was the most powerful original sin, rooted in technological superiority. Getting killed by Americans was the dumbest original sin, rooted in plot necessity...
"...The landing is stable. There's an enormous crater ahead. The readings for 'Zero' energy are extremely high, but the interference isn't obvious..."
Through the channel we were monitoring, we could clearly hear the Earth-side base station analyzing the information sent back by the Lunar Rover. Aside from the unlucky NASA Lunar Rover currently digging up dirt, and the Russian probe that was nearly out of power and that Viska was planning to flick away with a shake of her head, the sole remaining Dark Side of the Moon lunar vehicle had become the focus of all humanity. Ahead of it lay the source of the "Zero" energy that had suddenly appeared half a month ago and nearly turned the entire world upside down—fortunately, it