"After we lost the signal from Jade Rabbit 2, we checked every communications channel and mistakenly thought electromagnetic radiation from outer space had interfered with the Magpie Bridge Relay Satellite, interrupting the signal."
"It wasn't until half an hour later, when Jade Rabbit 2's programmed escape procedure for loss of contact activated, that it reversed back out of the N9527 Crater and transmitted a second photograph along the way..."
Chen Jue had now made considerable progress in his cultivation, and his intelligence had reached 1.95. Reading material like this naturally took him no time at all.
Although he did not have a photographic memory, a glance was enough for his mind to smoothly grasp the general content. He raised his hand and turned to the third page.
What met his eyes was Jade Rabbit 2's second photograph. Yet it was not a photograph of the N9527 Crater on the far side of the moon, but a panoramic shot of a mountain with a flat surface that resembled an enormous cross section!
The photograph showed blue skies and white clouds from a mountaintop viewpoint. Tall, lush green trees stretched into the distance, and an emerald river wound around the mountain. In addition, the mountainous ground beneath Jade Rabbit 2 was covered in mineral rocks bearing what looked like dark-gold patterns.
Those were the distinctive patterns Chen Jue had only seen on meteorites containing primordial qi!
*???* The confused Black man meme popped into Chen Jue's mind. A lunar rover had actually photographed something on the moon that should not have existed there.
"This..." Chen Jue was momentarily speechless. Not knowing what to say, he continued turning the pages of the booklet.
The next page read, "The transmission of the second photograph plunged everyone at the research institute into a prolonged silence.