Lin Xue was right. This was the beginning of a New Era, one that would surely bring earth-shaking changes to all of human society.
Humanity was not alone in the universe. Life did not exist solely on this blue planet beside some tiny star in the Milky Way's third spiral arm. Space was not desolate—these conjectures, debated endlessly for many years, had finally been settled and given definitive answers.
The live lunar exploration footage broadcast worldwide due to a "satellite malfunction," along with partial recordings of the experts at the scene, spread across the globe. Not only was it immediately rebroadcast by every media outlet, but within just over ten minutes, people had turned it into open-source videos available for free download and viewing on every video site imaginable. This was the most attention-grabbing discovery in human history. Those few short video clips—considering the lunar rover's speed, the stretch of road Lilina had guided it along took nearly two hours, so the released footage was only a few minutes of that lunar journey—crushed every internet celebrity and blockbuster currently playing in major theaters that very day. People no longer had time to worry about Earth's petty troubles. What they wanted to know was what exactly had happened on the moon.
This time, government spokespeople from every country finally did not deceive the public as they usually did—or rather, they simply could not conceal it anymore. That was probably fate's doing. Even politicians had to sigh that fate truly existed at a time like this. They announced that the videos were genuine and acknowledged that the lunar rover had discovered an extraterrestrial meteorite containing traces of life on the moon.
The spacecraft carrying the meteorite samples had already lifted off from the lunar surface and was still on its way back