After watching the two of them drive off in the Lunar Rover, Bai Yixuan turned and secured himself with a tether hook.
Then he raised his specially made shovel and struck the moonrock beside him.
With the Moon's gravity only one-sixth of Earth's, Bai Yixuan's movements seemed almost weightless.
But the moment the shovel hit the moonrock, a powerful recoil traveled up its shaft.
A recoil that would have been negligible on Earth was a nightmare on the Moon.
Before Bai Yixuan could react, he was thrown into the air.
The tether securing him instantly snapped taut, yanking him back to his original position.
Bai Yixuan instinctively raised a hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, only to touch his slightly chilly visor.
That was close...
Looks like I still used too much force.
He carefully adjusted the force of his shovel swings.
Over ten minutes later, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief and placed several broken pieces of moonrock into the storage container beside him.
Just as he was about to radio Hong Fan and ask how things were going, a piercing cry rang out inside his helmet!
"What is this?!"
Bai Yixuan's heart clenched.
Without time to think, he immediately activated the radio in his spacesuit. "Wanyi! What happened?"
After a brief silence, Xia Wanyi's shaken voice came through his helmet.
"We... we found something strange!"
After hearing Xia Wanyi and Hong Fan's description, Bai Yixuan's pupils contracted slightly. He immediately said, "Neither of you move. I'll be right there!"
After ending the team communication, Bai Yixuan gritted his teeth and quickly connected to the channel back to Earth.
"Calling Ground Control Center!"
"We've discovered an anomaly! I repeat, we've discovered an anomaly!"
Twenty minutes later.
Panting, Bai Yixuan found Xia Wanyi and Hong