Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1186: Chapter 1080: Explosive Moon Landing!_1 Chapter 1186: Chapter 1080: Explosive Moon Landing!_1 Lincoln had been busy on the moon all afternoon, even working an extra two hours, before finally completing the new Easter egg.

At 5 o’clock in the afternoon, when the employees were leaving work one after another, Lincoln wanted to leave too.

Since no players had successfully logged in yet, he thought he could continue working on it tomorrow.

But just as he turned off his work clock, Mavis placed that post right in front of him.

At that time, the number of likes had exceeded 350,000, and it showed no signs of stopping.

Lincoln’s eyes were jumping as he watched.

In the end, he continued working in resentment until he completely finished and then left the company.

Then, something even more annoying happened—

All night, plus all day, not a single person landed on the moon.

The people kept complaining online about how barren the moon was, but not a single one of them had stepped foot on it!

He worked overtime for a whole day, carefully crafting an Easter egg for someone to trigger, yet no one could reach it.

Then they said online that Lincoln has run out of ideas…

That’s absurd!

Lincoln really wanted to post something to mock them, but Samuel dissuaded him vehemently.

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Therefore, on the second workday of the week, Lincoln was still uneasy and apart from solving several development issues with Little Chun on “Monster Hunter”, he got nothing done, just watched to see who might have a chance to log on to the moon.

— He really wanted to see the expression on the face of the first person who gets there.

However, compared to the past, players’ progress this time indeed was much slower.

And after observing the game status of a vast number of players for a whole day, Lincoln finally realized something:

“Landing on the moon” was not something everyone could take part in.

While it was just a “moon landing” in a virtual world, because Lincoln had adopted a highly realistic, hardcore design solution, its technical content has far exceeded the technical strength of many countries.

To be precise: only a handful of countries globally have the capacity to explore the field of [Aerospace].

The spaceship and the space station that Lincoln designed are high-end technology that is beyond the reach of the majority of countries in reality.

Despite Lincoln making a lot of simplified designs for “gameplay,” he can only ensure that players can follow the main line and return to Earth after multiple attempts.

But if you want to deviate from the main line and do some fun stuff, the difficulty would increase dramatically!

If you further attempt to control the spacecraft, change orbits for space travel, the difficulty would increase exponentially!

Most countries simply don’t have a talent cultivation system in this area, and naturally, they don’t have the relevant talent pool.

Daxia players had to activate a search for talents on the entire network, and the bosses had to discuss and exchange ideas before they could set a plan to try.

But in those countries where space exploration has not started or just started, they have no capability to join this “messing around” campaign.

At most, they could follow the guide post to save one or two spacecraft, fly around the Earth, and take a look inside the spacecraft.

Orbit changes, moon landing, mysterious space station …

it’s better not to think about these for the time being.

Wait until someone succeeds and see if they will release a foolproof guide.

Therefore, only Daxia, the European Union, and America — these three player groups — who have chosen [Moon] among options [Mysterious Space Station] and [Moon], are the real challengers of “moon landing”.

After these limitations, the players who can really challenge the moon landing are extremely few.

Only when pioneers succeed and publish the guide would a large number of imitators possibly appear.

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Lincoln was eager for the result and kept waiting until the evening of the next day.

Finally, the situation took a key turn—

Chasing Wind began to land on the moon.

Of course, he lacked the skills to do it on his own.

But he had the money.

Remember the post Shawn saw on the launch day of “Gravity,” looking for aerospace majors and mathematics major bosses?

Chasing Wind saw it too.

Unlike Xu Shenghan who retreated immediately upon seeing it, Chasing Wind rushed forward to contact them and joined in – as a volunteer.

There are many uncertainties in navigation and the validation time is quite long, so the small team indeed needs volunteers who have ample time and are willing to follow orders.

So, Chasing Wind joined the small group.

A day later, he became the deputy manager of the small group.

A day and a half later, he joined the decision-making team.

Two days later, in addition to the goal of [logging into the mysterious space station], the team officially launched the second project – [landing on the moon].

Four days later…

Chasing Wind livestreamed landing on the moon!

– with the help of a group of four wise men!

Lincoln wasn’t sure what Chasing Wind had done in the past few days, but he felt that this brother had a wide network, and so many talented people were willing to help.

Before starting the mission, Chasing Wind introduced the four “technical support” members from his end to everyone.

However, he didn’t go into much detail.

He just mentioned their game IDs and majors, without mentioning the specific name of the university or whether they had graduated.

Then, the moon landing began.

This was certainly not a serious moon landing.

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In a proper moon landing, astronauts have to use a lunar module to land on the moon.

After accomplishing the moon landing mission, they discard the extra equipment and board the ascent vehicle to return to the moon’s orbit, where they rendezvous with the orbiting module in lunar orbit before returning to Earth.

But in “Gravity,” there are no proper lunar modules.

At least not now.

And since the moon itself doesn’t have an atmosphere, parachutes don’t have any slowing effects, so you can’t use the return-to-earth operation to land on the moon.

So the only hope for landing on the moon is to use engines and thrusters to decelerate, lower the spacecraft’s orbital altitude, quickly determine the landing spot, and land successfully before running out of fuel.

And then there’s no ‘then’ – there’s no plan to return at all.

Chasing Wind was operating the control panel, maintaining real-time communication with his think tank, who, through the live broadcast, closely monitored his flying conditions and promptly provided technical support.

And so the live broadcast of the moon landing began.

The first thing: blow up the space capsule!

Just relying on fuel, it wouldn’t be enough to decelerate.

So they took a wildly imaginative unconventional deceleration approach: blasting the airlock at the front of the space station, taking advantage of the shock from the explosion and rapid dissipation of the air to decelerate the space station.

— The space station itself can electrolyze water to produce oxygen, and with enough oxygen, it’s not hard to make explosives.

Then, adjust the attitude, and do it again!

Then comes the third time!

The audiences in the live broadcast room found it thrilling!

This scene doesn’t seem like a moon landing but more like demolition.

However, as one compartment after another was blown up and discarded, the mass of the space station got smaller and smaller, the speed slower and slower, and the orbit indeed got lower and lower.

After the mass decreased rapidly, the pressure on the engine dropped significantly, and consuming the same amount of fuel would achieve far more deceleration efficiency than before.

In any case, there’s no way to return after landing on the moon, so might as well blow up all the remnants and make the most use of it!

This is the only viable solution that the think tank has worked out after careful deliberations!

“The last step is to let the engine operate at full power until the fuel is completely consumed!”

“You’re about to enter No.

2 Escape Pod.

As soon as the engine goes completely strawless, immediately separate from the last compartment, eject the re-entry capsule, and I’ll give you a second reminder then.”

“According to our calculations, you should be landing in the middle area of the largest mare, [Stormy Ocean].

The terrain there is flat, offering the highest chances of survival!”

“Lastly, pray.”