The central screen in the Combat Command Center displayed footage transmitted by the probe, drawing everyone's attention.
The lunar surface in the footage was riddled with craters. A tracked probe crawled across the terrain in complete silence, making the scene feel inexplicably eerie.
Naturally, a single launch wouldn't carry just one probe.
In fact, when dealing with the Mona people, the military's approach was to conduct saturation probing whenever conditions allowed.
They had brought no fewer than ten tracked probes like this one.
A technician standing beside Lu Bai reminded him at just the right moment, "Probe One is about to reach the edge of the shadow."
Everything had gone so smoothly that it sent a chill through them. So when the probe abruptly stopped just as it was about to touch the shadow, some of the technicians actually felt relieved.
They had lost control of Probe One, but the transmitted footage hadn't cut out.
"Identify the cause of the malfunction as quickly as possible."
"Deploy Probes Two and Three to investigate the shadow."
They still hadn't obtained any useful information. Fortunately, they had prepared plenty of probes, giving them some margin for error.
Soon, two new tracked probes headed toward the shadow.
There was no doubt about it: just like Probe One, both probes stopped dead in their tracks just before touching the shadow.
No matter how they tried to reconnect, they couldn't regain control. It didn't seem like a connection failure; it was more as if the core control units had been damaged.
But after several such incidents, the technicians in the Combat Command Center were able to make at least a rough assessment.
"We can be fairly certain the probes were affected by the gravitational force around the shadow."
Although the shadow covered a large area, they