Free Web NovelChapter 1506: Chapter 712: Offering One’s Wife and Child? Forget It!_3
All of these require high-energy support.
Laboratories need personnel to operate, and expanding the scale of the solar energy transmission and conversion devices to provide more abundant energy is also a long-term task.
Therefore, the Lunar Base still needs to continue its expansion, and the construction of energy transmission must go on.
Among the group of people heading to the moon for work, there are more than a dozen professional researchers, half of which are astronomers, along with a few others conducting different studies.
For instance, botanists.
There are those specifically engaged in plant research, who apply to go to the moon for plant cultivation.
Li Renzhe is also quite special, he is a microbiologist whose purpose for going into space is very targeted, that is, to carry out research on Mutated Red Spirulina. He hopes to adapt the Mutated Red Spirulina to the moon’s light and even its radiation. It’s not required to survive in the moon’s extremely harsh environment, but he hopes it can reproduce normally in the living quarters.
Even just reproduction within the living quarters is not an easy feat.
The space station has nurtured many plants and microorganisms, most of which encounter problems, thus gradually losing their ability to grow and reproduce, or even dying outright.
Li Renzhe’s work assignment is indeed very challenging.
When Zhao Yi saw the space-bound personnel, he stood on the platform and gave a word of encouragement, nearly akin to holding a military oath-taking ceremony.
Afterward, he found Li Renzhe and gave him a careful once-over, unable to help himself from exclaiming, "Well done!"
Li Renzhe felt awkward under the scrutiny and involuntarily shrank his neck, "What kind of look is that!"
"You’ve lost a lot of weight!" Zhao Yi made a remark.
"No kidding!"
Li Renzhe scolded with a laugh, "I’ve been training for several months, feeling like death every day. Seriously, I’m now craving pork, or black pepper beef is fine too, even a ham hot dog would do—"
"You’re hungry?"
"I’m craving!"
"Understood! But no," Zhao Yi said with a smile, "Just stick to the regular diet. Once you get to the Lunar Base, the meals are all specially prepared. Having a great meal now wouldn’t be a good thing."
"—Right."
Li Renzhe thought about it and still gave up on the idea of having a big meal before leaving. It wasn’t that he feared craving food on the moon, making life unbearable, but that he thought of death row inmates who are given a good meal before their execution, right?
Indulging in a feast now would be a bad omen indeed!
Though an atheist, he still felt it was bad luck, and the thought of soon heading to the moon wiped the smile from his face.
Although he had been mentally prepared and had trained hard for six months, he still held some expectations. But the imminent journey to the moon made him feel extremely nervous and worried.
Taking a deep breath, Li Renzhe’s tone suddenly became heavy, "Zhao Yi, I don’t know if I can come back this time I go to the moon. If—"
"I mean, if! Something unexpected happens, you must remember—"
Zhao Yi followed on, "to take care of your wife and child?" Slapping Li Renzhe’s shoulder vigorously, he said, "Don’t worry, I will! Go with peace of mind. Huang Wenqian—cough cough, forget it, I think it’s better if you take care of them yourself."
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Li Renzhe cursed angrily, "I was telling you to take care of my parents! They don’t know I’m going to the moon; they still think I’m on a business trip abroad!"
"I don’t have the time to care for them; you’d better do it yourself! Stop talking nonsense, going to the moon is no big deal, it’s not like you’re going to fight a war. Maybe in a while, I’ll come to see you."
"Really?"
"Hahaha, maybe, I’m not sure!" Zhao Yi laughed, "Anyway, don’t think too much, just focus on your work up there. With such advanced technology nowadays, you’ll be fine. When you return, you’ll be the first space microbiologist!"
"Good luck!"
