After finishing his speech, he paused, seemingly contemplating what the first words should be before stepping onto the Moon.

"Aha! That's it! Ramsey, I think you've already said it! I think that line is quite nice, all right, you can go out now, no need to change it!"

Ottos suddenly burst into laughter over the communication channel, leaving everyone else a bit puzzled.

"What? Didn't you hear it? He just said the primary speech for humanity's second step onto the Moon! I've recorded it!"

Seeing the confused looks of others, Ottos fiddled with his device and played a recording.

"Okay, Ottos, you win..."

Tony's voice came through the earpiece again; it was the recording that this safety officer had just played.

"Look, it's this sentence, 'Ottos, you win,' did you hear it? This will go down in history as the first words said after humanity's second landing on the Moon!"

Ottos said excitedly.

Everyone was stunned by his clever maneuver, feeling that he made a lot of sense and had nothing to say in response.

In the command center, someone couldn't help but chuckle, easing the tense atmosphere considerably for a moment.

"All right then, let it be that sentence."

Tony shrugged indifferently.

He felt that he never lacked a sense of humor, and that sentence was somewhat amusing, so he simply decided not to argue with the other anymore.

After the digression, back to the main topic, the team resumed their activities.

Tony took the lead and stepped out of the hatch, standing on the Moon's surface.

Feeling the real sensation beneath his feet, he thought that all his efforts over these days had been worthwhile.

Secret selection, brutal competition, and rigorous special training, and finally even joining the spacecraft's development, contributing his share of effort.

At this moment, Tony felt that he had no regrets in his life, as this would become his greatest glory ever.

Thinking about how his children could one day proudly tell others, "My dad walked on the Moon," a smile couldn't help but form at the corners of his mouth.

"Landing successful, commencing operations now. Please operate within a 50-meter radius of the New Apollo 1, everyone make sure to check your seatbelt status, and do not stray from the group to act alone."

Tony issued instructions to the group, and all five present began to move.

Surveying, equipment setup, safety deployment... everything proceeded in an orderly fashion, as if rehearsed countless times.

Not only them, but the remaining astronauts inside the spacecraft were also busy, each with a completely serious expression on their faces.

"Temperature, gravity confirmed, delivery pipeline connected, radar scanner installed, now deploying infrastructure, please confirm target location."

"Wait! Wait! Not now! Damn! This is a plagioclase area, the sulfate content is too high, it's not suitable for constructing a base, we must move further over there!"

The surveyor Rayden Abbott suddenly shouted from within the team.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to look in the direction he pointed.

That was the direction of Longinus' Spear.

"No! According to the information, there is some magnetic interference there, and our previous Moon rover lost contact in that area, so we can only retreat!"

Tony rejected his suggestion.

Abbott still insisted:

"Other directions won't do, I just checked this area, those directions are all plagioclase regions, we can't establish our base on that, we must move closer to the target location!"

"This..."

Upon hearing him say this, Tony was also stumped for a moment.

Establishing a small base was an important plan set forth before they came.

Moreover, three people would stay here afterward for a year-long exploration of the Moon.

But coincidentally, the area where they landed turned out to be a plagioclase region, which couldn't successfully complete the building construction, and a new target point must be chosen.

But the New Apollo 1 had already landed and couldn't be moved again, so they could only find a new target position nearby.

However, if they continued to approach the direction of Longinus' Spear, he worried about encountering abnormal magnetic field interference, causing unnecessary trouble.

The command center quickly became aware of the dilemma they faced, and various experts began to urgently discuss responding plans.

Lune sighed gently when he saw this.

There was no way around it; landing on the Moon was inherently difficult, and coupled with being far from logistics, encountering various situations was within reason.

In other words, these situations couldn't even be considered accidents, just normal expected problems.

Soon, the expert group provided a plan.

The plan was quite simple, just do as Rayden Abbott suggested.

But before that, a Moon rover had to be dispatched to investigate, and after confirming signal transmission was normal, allow the astronauts to follow and establish the base.

The instructed group quickly arranged it all.

This time, the New Apollo carried three Moon rovers, and one was immediately activated and sent out to check the condition of the target area.

"No problem! Signal transmission normal! And from the image, the soil there seems fine, we can proceed to construction!"

Rayden said excitedly.

Everyone else went back to prepare and then drove both a Moon rover and a base vehicle over to start the construction work.

Along the way, the safety officer Ottos was dutifully guarding beside them.

Unlike ordinary astronauts, Ottos belonged to the military sequence, and his main duty was to ensure these people's safety during this mission.

For this, the Hurricane Bureau specially equipped him with special gear, specifically to handle any potential dangerous situations.

Normally speaking, astronauts don't carry weapons because no one believes that carrying weapons is necessary in space.

But this situation was different because the existence of Longinus' Spear gave them a certain sense of the unusual.

So, for safety's sake, the Space Aviation Center specially assigned a fully armed safety officer to the team for this trip.

The target area planned by Rayden Abbott was about two kilometers away from the New Apollo's landing site, and it took the base vehicle they were on over ten minutes to reach, traveling very slowly.

"Here it is! Stop!"

Abbott shouted, and as soon as the vehicle came to a halt, he eagerly jumped down.

Though the spacesuit was cumbersome, the Moon's reduced gravity diminished this burden, allowing him to move without much difficulty.

Using the instrument in his hand, Abbott conducted measurements and quickly brought good news to everyone with delight.

"This location is excellent, suitable for base construction!"

"Great! Then we'll do it here! Let's get to work!"

Tony jumped down as well, organizing everyone to start deploying the base vehicle.

In reality, though they called it a base vehicle, it wasn't as advanced as imagined.

And it definitely wasn't like in games where you press a button, and it deploys automatically to form a high-tech platform.

This base vehicle was more like a large RV loaded with a lot of supplies, with nearly everything needing manual installation, making the operation quite cumbersome.

After an hour and a half, through the collective efforts of four people, a base capable of supporting human life on the Moon for three years was completed.

If considered merely from its appearance, instead of calling it a base, it looked more like a campsite made of a super-sized RV, and all sorts of attachments.

"All right, our base is done, next, everyone takes a two-hour break, then begin with Operation Longinus!"

Inside the base, Tony issued new instructions to the group.

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