Lin Xue was right. This was the beginning of a new era, and it was bound to bring about earth-shaking changes to the entire human society.
Humans were not alone in the universe. Life was not unique to this blue planet located next to a small star in the third spiral arm of the Milky Way. Space was not a desolate place. These were the conjectures that people had been debating for many years. Now, the dust had finally settled, and a definite conclusion had been reached.
Due to the "satellite malfunction", the live broadcast of the lunar surface exploration and some of the on-site experts' recordings were widely spread around the world. Not only was it broadcasted by all the media, but it was also made into an open-source video in just a few minutes. It was available for free download on every video website you could think of. This was the most eye-catching discovery in human history. The few short video clips (considering the speed of the lunar rover and the fact that it took Liliana nearly two hours to guide the rover, the released video was only a few minutes of the journey on the lunar surface) had killed all the internet celebrities and major movie blockbusters on the same day. People no longer had the time to worry about what happened on Earth. They were curious about what happened on the moon.
This time, the government spokespersons of the various countries did not lie to the public as usual. Or rather, they could not hide it anymore. This should be attributed to God's will. Even the politicians could not help but lament the existence of such a thing as fate. They announced the authenticity of the videos to the public and admitted that the lunar rover had found traces of life on the surface of the moon.
The spacecraft carrying the meteorite sample had taken off from the surface of the moon and was still on its way back to Earth. Scientists were anxiously waiting for the 20 kilograms of rock sample to return to Earth as soon as possible. However, they no longer had any hope of studying the "zero" energy in the meteorite. Before the return capsule reached the gravitational equilibrium point, the energy reaction in the meteorite had already decayed to zero, turning it into an ordinary stone with only a little bit of radioactivity. Before its energy decayed, the limited equipment carried on the lunar rover could not find any radioactive components in the meteorite.
Once the reaction of the radioactive material stopped, it was impossible to analyze the principle of the radiation process from the little residue. However, compared to finding evidence of extraterrestrial life, this loss seemed to be within an acceptable range.
The scientists on Earth were anxiously waiting for the reentry capsule, afraid that something would go wrong at the last second before it returned to Earth. If something like that happened, I was afraid that one-third of the relevant experts would have a brain hemorrhage. However, they actually didn't have to worry. The reentry capsule was destined to return to Earth safely. There were at least a dozen imperial secret service ships escorting it. Apart from being suddenly shot down by the army of the fallen apostles, I really couldn't think of anything that could prevent the reentry capsule from being safely delivered to the hands of the scientists on Earth.
While the experts and scholars were gearing up to study the meteorite samples, this unprecedented discovery caused a variety of shocks among the people.
Of course, different people were concerned about different things. Scientists saw the scientific revolution brought about by the discovery of extraterrestrial life in the universe. Sociologists saw a change in the philosophy of all mankind. Economists believed that the value of many technology stocks was about to soar. The Taoist priests of Wutai Mountain thought it was time for aliens to bless their lucky beads. Ordinary people who were immersed in various novels, movies, and TV dramas were actually concerned about how the little girl on the moon came to be.
The images on TV were very clear. When the lunar rover was strolling on the moon, it suddenly encountered a little girl in a green dress. Hundreds of millions of eyes saw this scene, and no one could fake it. After that, the official spokesman also confirmed that the news broadcast was "authentic." What did this mean?
Scientists could not explain this phenomenon. Even if they thought of cerebral hemorrhage, they could not figure out the principle behind the appearance of a little girl on the moon. However, there was such a group of people in the world. They were the true geniuses, the true insiders, the solvers of all riddles, the spokespersons of all truth, the promoters and explainers of all incredible events, and the unravelers of countless fantastical tales. Before the Internet, they were countless Auntie Wangs and Uncle Li on the streets and alleys. After the Internet, they were the legendary insiders!
The little girl on the moon was an alien who survived the spacecraft crash. She found the lunar rover to ask for help, and her spacecraft was actually the huge meteorite. This was the first theory that spread. It was a very classic reasoning process, but there were many loopholes.
The little girl on the moon did not have a physical body, so she was actually a projection created by the aliens using a holographic device. As for why she looked like a little girl, it was because the aliens had been observing Earth. They knew what people on Earth looked like. In order to facilitate communication, they used the image of a harmless little girl that was the least likely to cause conflict to interact with people on Earth. This was the evolved version of the first theory. This version of the theory was the most widely spread. People who insisted on this theory believed that the image of the little girl that disappeared on the moon would definitely reappear. The aliens would use her to communicate with people on Earth face-to-face. The lunar rover would definitely bring back more than 20 kilograms of meteorite samples. There would also be a holographic projection device. However, the government had concealed this truth.
In addition to these classic sci-fi conjectures, there were many imaginative arguments on the Internet to explain the little girl that appeared in front of the lunar rover. Bubble told me all of these things. She was connected to the global Internet 24/7, and her hobby was to spy on national secrets and new movie trailers.
Today was the second day of the lunar rover's return. As soon as it flew past the gravitational equilibrium point, the child's mother dragged me and Liliana to various websites to browse the civil unrest caused by the incident. We sat on the sofa in the living room with a big screen in front of us. Everyone in the family was busy with other things. Other than Jingle, who seemed to be bound to us, the only one accompanying us was Nine-Tailed Fox, who was curled into a ball and sleeping next to the sofa. Last but not least, Nine-Tailed Fox, who was sleeping in a ball next to the sofa. After discovering that the first family was unexpectedly easy to get along with, Nine-Tailed Fox seemed to have become a lazy animal. Most of the time, it played the role of a footpad at the door or Little Bubble's bed.
"Look at this, it's ridiculous. Chang 'e, they named this Pope Chang' e!" Liliana sat on my lap naughtily as she patted the Information Terminal in front of her. "Why not Artemis? We have a few Artemis in our family. The Goddess of the Moon is a big surname in our family …"
Bubble shoved Lina off for the sixth time. "Keep pretending. You're famous now. Do you know how many websites are using your picture on the moon as their homepage?" She said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Does this Pope care about that?"
Liliana wiggled her way over and looked at the monitor from under my armpit. "The believers of the Goddess of Life are all over the world. Any head commander of the Goddess of Life is more famous than Obama. It's just that her influence on Earth is smaller, but do you know how many billions of people in the macro world dream of licking her toes … By the way, boss, do you want to give it a try? This is a taste between a loli and a young girl. I'm wearing white stockings for you to lick … Wow! "
"This girl is probably a little too excited for the past two days."
I casually tossed Lina into the air and turned my head to look. The little girl had fallen into the seam of the sofa, head first. Her feet in her bubble socks were waving in the air as she whimpered unintelligibly. "But it's understandable. Her face is famous all over the world now. Luckily, I didn't register her, and the TV isn't clear either …"
Ever since the footage of the exploration of the moon was broadcasted on the major media all over the world, the internet was in a frenzy overnight. Within twenty-four hours, countless websites related to space exploration or extraterrestrial life had popped up. Even the major well-known websites had followed up with large-scale reports. They were originally reporting on the joint exploration of the moon by various countries, but after the footage of the moon surface was sent back, the core of the reports on these websites immediately became the image of Liliana on the moon.
Websites with the theme of "Beautiful Images on the Moon" also sprouted like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. This was obviously enough to excite Liliana, who was usually a little crazy and always wanted the world to be in chaos.
"Look at this. Who made this up?" Just as I was hesitating whether or not to pull Liliana out of the sofa, Bubble suddenly slapped my arm and shouted while gesticulating, "It's like a fairy tale …"
I quickly turned my head to look for a while, and my expression changed slightly.
It was a short story about the origin of a certain silly girl on the moon. Although it wasn't long, the content was earth-shattering. It talked about a super-advanced civilization that far surpassed the current technology of mankind by tens of thousands of years. This civilization was originally thriving, but one day, they brainlessly started a civil war. The entire civilization was divided into two evenly matched groups, and they fought each other until they were almost completely wiped out. Then, they suddenly realized that only the value of life and freedom was the most important thing. Hence, they decided to shake hands, reconcile, and develop together. However, at that moment, an evil alien prince suddenly led a fleet and attacked the weakened civilization of XX. This evil prince fought with his seven brothers for the throne, and his entire family died. In the end, he found out that he wasn't the king's biological son. After a desperate battle with the fallen Dark Titan, he was infected with the Blood of Madness and became a Dark Naaru. This dark and dangerous creature's mission was to destroy all civilizations in the universe. He fancied the rich and beautiful XX galaxy and led his army to destroy this place. On the eve of the extinction of their entire race, the XX civilization realized the value of life and made a resolute decision. They decided to create a seed bank of all life on their planet and launch it into the vast space like an ark. They hoped that one day, these arks carrying the seeds of life would wander to a new world that was suitable for life to flourish. This ark was the giant crystal-like meteorite that had crashed into the moon. The little girl who appeared on the moon and led the lunar rover to the meteorite was actually the consciousness of all the humans in the XX galaxy whose name the author had forgotten in less than a hundred words. It was the consciousness of an Alaya that had been lost in the vast space. This lonely soul led humans to find the ark in order to spread their blood and tears to the people of earth, to let them know that peace and stability were the most precious things … The little girl who had disappeared from the public's eyes was hiding in the meteorite on the moon. She would be the last soul and spokesperson of a race, looking forward to the day when humans would have the ability to return to the moon and build an outpost on the moon …
At the end of the article, the author used a heavy and profound tone to analyze the dialectical relationship between war and peace. He expressed deep regret for a certain prince who had gone through a rough experience but eventually fell into darkness. He then regretfully announced that this was a tragedy caused by an extramarital affair and the Holy X War.
After reading this article, I felt that it was related to something else. It wasn't until the Bubble scrolled to the end that I realized that the author of this article had written Liliana's name. This was actually the official website of Boundless Love!
I never thought that Liliana's dark fairy tale would be split into two parts like a TV show. I also never thought that after her parents forbade her to continue using this twisted story to torment Mercury Lamp, this girl would brazenly post the sequel on the internet!
"Instead of letting those idiots guess the origins of this Pope, why don't we give them an answer?"
Liliana finally managed to pull herself out from the crack of the sofa. She sat next to me with a head of messy hair and chattered.
I was stunned and thought to myself, That's really the case.
The origin of the mysterious Moon Girl had long been in an uproar on the internet. Some people guessed that she was an alien who survived the spacecraft crash. Some people guessed that she was Nagato Yuki from the Centaurus constellation. Some people guessed that she was the consciousness of the Moon and led the lunar rover to find meteorites to ask humans to help her remove foreign objects. Some people even named Liliana Chang 'e. Of course, some people named her Artemis. The most ridiculous was the Koreans. They announced that the "Moon Girl" lived near Seoul and that her surname was Lee …
There was another point of contention, and that was the three smiles that the "Moon Girl" showed to the lunar rover. The meaning of these three smiles made many romantic commentators think that these three smiles were indicative of the three stages of human development and successfully linked it to the three major religions …
As the Pope of the Church of Life, Liliana almost went to the European Space Agency to meditate!
"To be fair, I really don't think your story is more convincing."
I used my claws to rub Liliana's head back and forth, turning her messy hair into a bird's nest. "Can you make it any more ridiculous?"
"You just don't think it's believable." Liliana huffed and lay on the sofa, rolling comfortably. "Because you know that it's a lie. The less people know, the more they are in awe of the unknown. The more ignorant they are, the more likely they are to believe in bizarre stories. Humans know nothing about the figure on the Moon, so they will guess and believe any conjecture that can justify itself. Ignorant groups are always the easiest to take advantage of. I am a Pope, and I am best at using the ignorance of mortals to promote my own ideas."
"More importantly, this story was officially announced by Love Without Borders." Bubble poked the holographic image in front of her. "It's the organization with the most say in the dark world. In a situation where no one knows the truth, an organization that has always been involved in mysterious events suddenly jumped out to announce something. Even if it doesn't make people believe it immediately, it's enough to cause widespread suspicion."
"Then, I, the Pope, will appear again." Liliana couldn't stay still for even a moment. At this time, she pulled my sleeve and got up again. She wriggled on the sofa as if there were countless needles all over her body. "I will tell them what happened on the other side of the distant starry sky. I will tell them that a civilization was destroyed by the raiders in the universe and their own greed, and I, the ultimate consciousness of this civilization. The crystal that crashed on the Moon is a life sample bank, and I, the Pope, came to this planet to tell them how to walk on the right path of civilization. There is no doubt that once they are mentally prepared, it will be easy for all humans to believe all of this."
I was stunned by Liliana's thoughts. I didn't even care that Jingle was stabbing her head with a lollipop stick.
This girl … She was usually fooled by her silly behavior.
She had been scheming all along. Maybe she was careless … No, maybe it wasn't careless. She deliberately appeared in front of the moon rover's camera. From that moment on, she planned to push the matter onto the stage so that the whole world would act according to her script.
That nonsense story — in my eyes, it was a nonsense story, but as Liliana said, for ordinary people who knew nothing about the story, this story was between credible and uncredible. She had countless ways to make it a recognized fact.
We knew that there was no XX civilization on the other side of the starry sky, but ordinary people didn't know that. We knew that there was no Naaru in this universe, but ordinary people didn't mind that such a name appeared in the already bizarre alien story. We knew that the one who appeared on the moon was a naughty little girl, but ordinary people still thought that it was a mysterious creature that was about to change the course of human history. Any bizarre story could be pushed to the public, and the only way to make this story a recognized fact was for Liliana to appear as the Moon Girl again.
Thinking of this, I once again read the story that seemed a little ridiculous at first, and finally found the truth hidden under the absurd surface.
It was completely in line with the cognitive laws of most people. With an attitude that was between realistic and absurd, it built an attractive story stage for the public who urgently needed bizarre stories. In this story, the phantom girl on the moon appeared as the last spokesperson of a dead civilization, which could make humans relax their vigilance against her to the greatest extent. The other party's experience could not help but resonate with people. In fact, this was a cliché story: civil war, invasion, destruction of the country, and the last survivor escaped to tell others what had happened. But such a tired story was thrown out at the most opportune time. Liliana could use this momentum to do whatever she wanted.
For example, subvert the world …
"I'm the one who writes the script. I'm the only one who can decide what kind of play the mortals want to put on." Lina stood on the sofa's armrest and shouted with a silly look on her face. "The absurd play of mortals dominating history ends here. It's time to return the world to the embrace of God! I, am the king of the world, the king of the world … "
"You even have your own echo!"
I finally believed that the person in front of me who planned to subvert the world was still an idiot in front of me, so I slapped her down. "Go back to your room and write a self-reflection!"
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