"Mr. President, based on the past month, we... have made some discoveries."
He pressed the remote, and high-definition photographs appeared on the screen.
They had been taken through a monocular telescope mounted on a satellite. Though they were optical images, they were clear enough to make out details on the lunar surface.
The first photograph: the lunar surface a month ago, completely empty.
The second photograph: the lunar surface a week later, with several small modules appearing.
The third photograph: the lunar surface half a month later, with the modules beginning to connect.
The fourth photograph: the lunar surface today, a complete cluster of buildings covering more than five thousand square meters, with a Hongqi clearly visible at its center.
The director of NS stood and walked to the screen, his voice low and hoarse:
"Mr. President, colleagues, this is all the footage we have gathered over the past month."
He pointed at the buildings on the screen:
"The speed at which Rabbit Nation established a base on the Moon exceeded all our expectations.
One month—just one month—and their base has already begun to take shape."
He changed the display, revealing another set of photographs:
"More terrifyingly, we still have not figured out how they transported the supplies there."
The screen showed continuous images of the lunar surface.
A place that had been utterly empty one day would have mountains of supplies appearing out of nowhere the next.
There were no rocket launches, no landing modules, nothing. They had simply appeared without warning.
"The Defense Ministry's surveillance system detected no large-scale transport rockets taking off.
Yet judging from the lunar images, dozens of tons of supplies arrived every day.
Those supplies... seemed to have been conjured out of thin air."
He turned to look at the president.
"Mr. President, we