I, Superman, the Supreme Commander

Chapter 133: The only responsibility in the face of crisis

There is one hour left until the Moon enters the Earth's Roche limit.

One third of the navigator space station.

"This is the detonator of the nuclear bomb. Open the trigger and press the button, and it will explode immediately."

"Everyone is clear about the mission content. We will need 300 volunteers to participate in this mission."

The commander announced the latest order of the coalition government in a solemn tone.

There was not much hesitation, and everyone was scrambling to become the victim. To outsiders, this was almost incomprehensible.

Sometimes humans are such strange creatures, they are afraid of death and yet they are willing to die.

In the end, the decision-makers at the space station used their privileges to announce that astronauts over fifty years old would be given priority in obtaining mission qualifications. These three hundred people finally made the saying "leaders go first when there is something going on" a fact.

Three hundred veteran astronauts boarded a one-way, one-way spacecraft and plunged into the meteorite belt again, heading towards Campanus crater.

At the same time, on the surface of the moon, in a crater.

"Liu Peiqiang, wake up!"

Liu Peiqiang, who was dizzy and had a headache, woke up from his coma and saw a familiar handsome face, calling his name anxiously.

"Duoduo!" Liu Peiqiang woke up instantly and grabbed the other person's arm, "Are you okay?"

Han Duoduo shook her head, her expression solemn, "We have crashed, we must find a way to evacuate."

Liu Peiqiang hurriedly checked the situation at the scene. In the crash just now, one astronaut died on the spot and two were injured. Only he, Han Duoduo and another female astronaut were left intact.

Fortunately, the crash site was not far from the lunar base in the crater. Liu Peiqiang and Han Duoduo found a usable lunar rover from the base, transported the injured to the lunar base, and evacuated using the landing module left at the lunar base.

But unfortunately, the landing capsule can only seat three people.

then……

"Liu Peiqiang, Han Duoduo, what are you doing!"

While their teammates were not prepared, Liu Peiqiang and Han Duoduo worked together to close the hatch from the outside, leaving the chance to escape to the other three.

After watching the last escape capsule disappear into the sky, Liu Peiqiang held Han Duoduo's hand and sat on the moon to look at the earth. In the distant space, the blue earth radiated a brilliant light. In the cold and dark space, this touch of blue seemed so beautiful and precious.

"Pei Qiang, will you blame me?"

"What's your fault?"

"Blame me for dragging you to death with me."

"Heh... Everyone's life passes in the blink of an eye. Anyway, we'll be buried together in the same grave after we die. Now we're using the moon as our grave, which isn't bad. It's quite spacious."

"When I read the story of Chang'e flying to the moon, I thought that both Chang'e and Houyi were so pitiful. We are much happier than them because we can be together on the moon."

Knowing that they could not escape death, the two of them relaxed instead, snuggled together and chatted, enjoying the last beautiful moments of their lives.

"Honey, we haven't had that yet...how about..."

Before Han Duoduo could finish her shy words, Liu Peiqiang suddenly jumped up excitedly.

"Duoduo, I got it! There's another spaceship!"

Just now, Liu Peiqiang suddenly had a flash of memory in his mind. His master Zhang Peng had told him that there was a return capsule on the moon from the first lunar landing of the Russian bear, which was left on the moon as a souvenir. In fact, the spacecraft was still well preserved and could theoretically return.

Liu Peiqiang immediately took Han Duoduo into the lunar base to inquire about the location of the spacecraft.

Perhaps there was always a way out, they actually found the location of the spaceship in the base computer.

"That's great Peiqiang, we are saved!"

"Thank God, let's go!"

Just as the two were on their way, a number of landing spaceships suddenly fell from the sky. The excited Liu Peiqiang and Han Duoduo thought they were here to rescue them. After going forward to communicate with them, they learned that they were a suicide squad coming to detonate a nuclear bomb.

In order to ensure that the detonation mission was carried out thoroughly, the landing spacecraft had its return function locked, and it could no longer take off or carry the two people back.

The two disappointed people had no choice but to continue rushing towards the return capsule with the last glimmer of hope.

ten minutes later.

"Liu Peiqiang, you bastard!"

In the rapidly rising return capsule, Han Duoduo burst into tears and cried and cursed.

Her hands and feet were tied and she was fastened to the seat with a safety belt, allowing the return capsule to escape the moon automatically driven by a computer program.

On the lunar surface, Liu Peiqiang watched the return capsule disappear into space with a smile and said sorry in his heart.

They found the escape capsule, but there was only one seat in it... So Liu Peiqiang took the initiative, subdued Han Duoduo, and gave the chance to escape to his beloved.

"I, Liu Peiqiang, am the only orphan. No one will be sad if I die. But you are different. Dad is still waiting for you to take care of him and see him to the end of his life."

Before leaving, Liu Peiqiang said to Han Duoduo with a smile.

Then he closed the hatch without hesitation.

The last chance to escape was given to his wife. Although Liu Peiqiang felt regretful, he completely put his worries aside.

“Life is so fucking tiring…”

Liu Peiqiang simply lay on the soft lunar soil, looking at the Earth in the sky, waiting for death in a comfortable posture.

At this point, there were six minutes left until the moon detonated.

……

Earth, thousands of lunar fragments are falling through the atmosphere, bombarding the Earth's surface like missiles.

These were just tiny fragments produced by the explosion of the Moon-Chasing Engine a few days ago, but the scene of the meteor shower falling from the sky was enough to make people despair.

"Everyone hurry up and get into the bunker!"

"Don't take the luggage, hurry up!"

"It's important to save your life!"

Inside the United Government headquarters building, representatives from countries that lead the world's humanity were nervously staring at the large screen that displayed the real-time progress of the moon blasting plan.

[The Moon still has 30 minutes to reach the Earth-Moon Roche limit! ]

"Why hasn't it detonated yet? What is the space team doing?!"

The commander shouted, roared, and even cursed anxiously.

Everyone was extremely anxious, constantly making calls, issuing instructions, inquiring about progress, and urging the detonation.

As the final moment approached, every minute seemed to be extremely long, as if I had been waiting for half a day.

When everyone was anxious and scratching their heads, the ground suddenly shook violently. The big screen turned bright red, and the dots representing the nuclear warheads quickly turned red.

[The phased nuclear fusion array was detonated successfully! 】

【The moon has been observed to be disintegrating.】

The space station then sent back real-time footage, in which a flower of golden flames first bloomed on the surface of the moon, about one percent the size of the moon. Then, with the golden flower as the center, bright flames spread in all directions, and the moon collapsed rapidly.

In less than a minute, the moon disintegrated in a chain of explosions and shattered into a large pile of fragments.

"Success!"

At the United Government Command Center and the Navigator Space Station, cheers from the bottom of the hearts of the people rang out, and people were crying with joy.

"Don't let your guard down, we are not completely safe yet!"

"Sky Team, calculate the trajectory of the lunar debris and prepare for early warning!"

"Keep Engine One running, adjust the Earth's attitude."

"Global air defense weapons are ready to shoot down all meteorites that could cause heavy casualties!"

Having faced disasters for a long time, the top decision-makers of the coalition government are very calm. They know that it is not time to celebrate yet. The crisis brought by the moon's fall has not been completely resolved.

It is also crucial to minimize losses and preserve the strength of human civilization during the subsequent transfer of lunar fragments.