White Rabbit Nine Is Missing!


    “They still haven’t revealed any information?!”


    The staff of the television station were having headaches. The mannednding on the moon was supposed to be a historic event, but now… it was bing the biggest joke in the world at the moment.


    Forget about thoseizens, even the people working at the space agency felt very ufortable when television kept on showing old footage of the previous moonnding attempt. Right now, the entire station was in chaos. Everyone was debating about what their next move should be.


    “No, it’s still the same announcement. They are saying that the electromaic signal is abnormal…”


    The assistant sighed and shook his head. In just one day, because of this matter, three strands of his hair had turned white.


    “The inte is going crazy over this. How can they be so calm?”


    “Can anyone give us the reason why this is happening at all?!”


    “Well, they did say that thetest that they can tell us would be a dayter…”


    “One dayter?! One dayter? It’s already two days away from the moonnding! Sure, we can pause the live broadcast, but what about the astronauts? Are they just going to not do anything for an entire day?!”


    The assistant scratched his head, “ording to the original schedule, the three astronauts should be returning in five hours, right?!”


    “Ahhh ~~!”


    The leader let out a long sigh. He didn’t know what to say. These days, many friends had asked about White Rabbit Nine, but he did not know any more than those who came to ask him.


    At this moment, a director rushed over. “Director, there’s a situation!”


    “What’s wrong?!”


    “The satellite images of the moon have been exposed online. They have taken a lot of photos of thending points with satellites…”


    ..


    “The final verdict? Thending point announced by Great Xia is wrong!”


    “Just this evening, an overseas satellite on the moon passed by the White Rabbit Ninending site and took a lot of photos. The results were shocking…”


    “Satellite photos show that White Rabbit Nine is not at thending point!!!”


    “I actually think the foreign media is very implicit about this. They could’ve just said that the entire operation is a hoax!”


    “It’s all a film! Done in a studio!”


    As the photos taken by the Miyue-14386 satellite were leaked, the Inte was in an uproar again.


    This would go down in history as one of the biggest dramas ever. Almost everyone was convinced that the moonnding was a hoax.


    “(The content is inappropriate, canceled)”


    Just when all the various media outlets were about to make their conclusions about this whole shenanigan, the Great Xia government finally made its move.


    “White Rabbit Nine was manufactured by the Third Aerospace Industry Group of Great Xia after three years of preparation…”


    “.. .On the day of theunch, reporters and representatives from 144 regions went to theunch site to observe and conduct interviews. They all witnessed the White Rabbit take off…”


    “During its flight to the dark side of the moon, White Rabbit Nine received a lot of attention from overseas. It moved past many satellites from other countries and became an inte sensation on multiple social media tforms…”


    “Due to the interference of cosmic electromaic waves, the live broadcast signal of this manned moonnding has been interrupted. This factor that can not be controlled. We have urgently mobilized a team of experts to participate in the repair work. If there is any progress, we will announce it as soon as possible…”


    Great Xia didn’t directly confront the public opinion and tell them who was right and who was wrong. They onlyid out the facts.


    From the preparation, construction, testing, to the finalunch of White Rabbit Nine, everything was recorded. Yes, everything that had a record was shown to the public. They couldn’t fake it. Like, there was no way that they could fake the interactions between White Rabbit Nine had and the other satellites.


    Anyhow, all the evidence Great Xia presented proved a point, and that was that White Rabbit Nine had really flown to the moon. There was no filming in the studio.


    This news immediately made all the Great Xiaizens feel confident once again. People were spreading the news in all sorts of games and applications.


    “Quickly! Look at the trending searches! The government just made a statement about the moonnding!”


    “I told you, right? Look at the trending searches! The authorities have spoken!”


    “Ok, but even if White Rabbit Nine is real, what about the three astronauts?”


    “Yeah, did White Rabbit Nine crash or something? We have to have an exnation, right?”


    ..


    “Phew ~~!”


    Chief Engineer Yang let out a deep breath. He was watching the whole time. He was watching as the inte began to show support to the space agency once again.


    Needless to say, he was deeply touched by what the Great Xia government did for him and his colleagues. Now that the state had confirmed that the moonnding was real, he was finally starting to feel a bit less stressed. Now, to make it even clearer that the moonnding did happen, he needed to find out what happened to White Rabbit Nine!


    After some thought, he took out his phone and dialed a number.


    “Hello, Honey, I’m not going back today. I’m staying at the office. If everything goes well, I’ll be able to go home tomorrow night…”


    Another day passed.


    At 20:49 on September 23rd, 2028, the near-orbit satellite of the Moe 3 arrived above thending site of the White Rabbit Nine.


    At the Xia Space Center, all the staff members had big dark circles under their eyes. They stared at the images transmitted by the Heng’e-3 satellite without even blinking their eyes.


    The screen was showing a t piece ofnd. There were two or three small rocks and a bunch of dark gray sand. The whole scenery was shown in high resolution. Everything was clear to see.


    “No…”


    Chief Engineer Yang’s heart sank.


    Yesterday, a foreign entity called in and questioned them about whether thending point was right or not. The thing was, this foreign entity knew that thending point was real. They just had to make sure, since they really didn’t see White Rabbit at the scene.


    “Yes … Are there any signs ofnding?”


    Again, thending point was captured in high resolution. Even a grain of sand was clearly visible to them, but Chief Engineer Yang just was not sure.


    It was the same for the staff members present. Although they could clearly see everything, they each had to check a couple times.


    One minute, two minutes, three minutes.


    Ten minutes passed.


    Finally, one of them couldn’t take it anymore. He felt that he had to break the silence by telling the brutal truth.


    “Chief Engineer Yang, there are no signs ofnding!”


    “White Rabbit Nine has disappeared without a trace…”


    “It doesn’t have the ability to walk onnd. To explore the surface of the moon, you’ll need to use the lunar roving vehicle…”


    Assistant Little Wang thought for a long time before speaking, “Chief Engineer Yang, is it possible that White Rabbit Nine encountered an emergency and left the moon without receiving our signal?”


    “That is possible…”


    Chief Engineer Yang pursed his lips. He wasn’t really sure about this. In the past two days, he had borrowed all kinds of high-level astronomical telescopes that could be borrowed in the country. He was watching the moon from all the angles he could. He was worried that White Rabbit Nine would somehow disappear forever from thending site.


    The result, still, was self-evident. He did not see anything!


    Seeing that Chief Engineer Yang was bing absent-minded, Assistant Little Wang had to remind him something, “The press is still waiting. What do I tell them?!”


    “Just tell the truth…”


    “The truth?”


    Chief Engineer Yang let out a long sigh, “Just say that White Rabbit Nine had gone missing! “