179: Chapter 177 Moon Landing: A Buffet Unlike Earth's, Evolution Begins

East Sea Defense Line, Command Center.

General Zhan Kuang watched the "pet show" video that was being frantically reposted online, set to various silly music and subtitles, and laughed until tears came out.

"Brilliant! Simply brilliant!"

He gave a thumbs up to Luo Yu.

"Marshal, this move of yours is even more ruthless than directly sending Godzilla over to flatten the White House!"

"It's not just killing; it's crushing the spirit."

"Now, that old fellow will probably live in a shadow for the rest of his life."

Luo Yu just smiled and didn't say anything.

He walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window and looked at the distant kunlun three deep space exploration ship, standing quietly on the launch pad like a white giant, ready to go.

The fly,

has already been swatted to death.

It's time to go enjoy the real feast.

...

Three days later.

Dragon Kingdom,

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

Beneath the massive launch tower, the kunlun three, pure white and painted with crimson dragon patterns, pointed towards the sky like a sharp sword ready to pierce the firmament.

This deep space exploration ship, representing the pinnacle of the Dragon Kingdom's current aerospace technology, was far larger than any spacecraft in history. Its height alone exceeded five hundred meters, almost equivalent to a 120-story building.

Its internal space,

was designed to be extremely spacious, enough to accommodate a small scientific research team living and working in space for several years.

But today,

the passengers on this ship were a bit... special.

Around the launch center,

the most elite troops had already established layer upon layer of blockades, entering the highest state of alert.

Several of the Dragon Kingdom's top military generals, including General Zhan Kuang and Fierce Fire, were present in person, standing in the command center several kilometers away from the launch tower, watching the large screen with solemn expressions.

"All units attention, final system self-check begins!"

"Escape tower system normal!"

"Booster fuel loading normal!"

"Hull airtightness test normal!"

"Passenger... passenger has boarded, vital signs... uh, very normal."

The young technician responsible for monitoring the situation inside the ship,

his voice clearly trembled when he reached the last sentence, and a layer of fine cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

He looked at the screen in front of him,

at those bright green, almost glaring vital sign monitoring bars, feeling that his professional knowledge was being challenged as never before.

In his career,

he had never seen an astronaut whose "vital signs" were strong enough to push the monitor's needle to the maximum, even triggering an overload alarm.

Inside the bridge of the kunlun three.

Luo Yu was sitting leisurely in an ergonomically designed captain's chair, holding a steaming cup of goji berry tea.

At his feet,

Godzilla was curled up on the floor in a relaxed posture.

"Hiss..."

Seemingly very expectant,

Godzilla's throat emitted excited sounds.

"Alright, stop making noise."

Luo Yu took a sip of the goji berry tea and didn't even bother to look up. "It's only a few hours' journey. Don't get so excited. Once we get to the moon, you can start eating."

Hearing the words "start eating," Godzilla instantly quieted down and lay on the ground, motionless.

Beside him,

Mothra had shrunk down to the size of a butterfly,

currently perched lightly on a holographic projection screen on the bridge control console, curiously poking at the flickering light and shadow data with its antennae, having a great time.

As for the new little follower, Pandora, it fully utilized its racial advantage as a "snake."

It had turned into a small green snake only as thick as a chopstick, crawling up Luo Yu's trouser leg all the way to his shoulder. It found a comfortable spot and coiled up, revealing only a small emerald-green head, curiously observing this novel environment.

"Countdown ten seconds!"

"Nine!"

"Eight!"

...

In the command center, the commander's voice spread through the entire launch site via broadcast.

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One!"

"Ignition!"

BOOM!!!!

With an earth-shattering roar,

billions of tons of scorching flames instantly erupted from the base of the launch tower.

The massive kunlun three,

under the terrifying thrust, slowly rose into the air, and then with an unstoppable momentum, accelerated, and accelerated again!

Trailing a long, orange-red tail flame, it was like a giant dragon breaking free from the earth's shackles, roaring as it charged into the azure sky.

In the command center,

thunderous applause and cheers broke out.

General Zhan Kuang stared fixedly at the shrinking point of light on the screen, the corner of his mouth with a cigarette dangling from it grinning to his ears.

"Go on..."

"Go tell those things in the universe who don't know any better..."

"From today on, this starry sky belongs to the Dragon."

...

The flight process of kunlun three was unexpectedly smooth.

After breaking through the atmosphere,

and entering the boundless space of the universe,

the entire ship entered a near-weightless cruising state.

Godzilla experienced zero gravity for the first time. Its body, over a meter tall, was like a clumsy balloon, floating around in the spacious bridge, occasionally bumping into the ceiling with a dull thud.

Finding this quite fun,

Godzilla began to tirelessly play "space drift," even trying to perform several high-difficulty somersaults in the air, nearly tying its tail into a knot as a result.

Luo Yu didn't bother to control it, letting it mess around inside.

His gaze,

had long been drawn to the view outside the porthole.

It was a kind of,

magnificence that was difficult to describe in any language.

The deep, pitch-black, and boundless universe was like a piece of top-grade black velvet, dotted with billions of brilliant stars. Each one was like a meticulously polished diamond, emitting a cold and eternal light.

And against the backdrop of that sea of stars,

a huge, gentle planet emitting a dreamlike blue glow hung quietly there.

That was Earth.

Their home.

From this angle,

all the disputes and troubles on Earth seemed so tiny, so insignificant.

"Chirp~"

Mothra also flew to the porthole. It also seemed to be shocked by this sight, its wings stopping their flapping as it quietly admired the view.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?"

Luo Yu said softly.

"Hiss?"

Godzilla also stopped its playing. It clumsily floated to the porthole and looked at the blue planet, a rare and complex emotion flashing in its golden vertical pupils.

There was curiosity, confusion, but more of a... sense of belonging connected by blood.

Just then,

on the other side of the ship, a huge, pale, scar-covered sphere slowly emerged from the darkness.

It was the Moon.

It was so close,

that the massive craters and the rolling lunar maria could be clearly seen.

Unlike the vibrant blue of Earth, the Moon presented a deathly, gray-white color.

But in Godzilla's eyes,

this dead planet was ten thousand times more "delicious" than that blue planet!

It could clearly "smell" the fragrance of "food" emanating from deep within that gray-white land, a scent that made its very soul tremble!

"Hiss hiss!!"

Godzilla's breathing instantly became heavy. Saliva flowed uncontrollably from the corners of its mouth, forming a string of crystal-clear "pearls" in the weightless environment.

The nuclear reactor inside its body began to accelerate uncontrollably, and a scorching aura emanated from it, causing the temperature of the entire bridge to rise by several degrees.

"Don't be in a hurry, dinner is about to start."

Luo Yu smiled,

and pressed several buttons on the control console.

"kunlun three is starting the lunar landing procedure. Target location: Oceanus Procellarum, Pre-selected Landing Zone One."

The ship's attitude began to adjust, the deceleration engines started, and it slowly descended towards that vast lunar sea rich in Helium-3.

Finally,

after a slight vibration,

the ship's four landing legs stepped firmly onto the solid lunar ground.

"We're here."

Luo Yu stood up and stretched.

He walked to the hatch of the bridge and pressed the open button.

Pshhh!!

The hatch slowly opened.

A scene completely different from Earth, full of primitivity and desolation, unfolded before them.

The sky was as black as ink without a single cloud. On the distant horizon, the massive blue Earth looked like an oil painting hung on the firmament.

Beneath their feet was soft, gray-white lunar soil, covered by a thin layer of cosmic dust.

Silence reigned.

The whole world seemed to consist only of the sounds of heartbeats and breathing.

Luo Yu was the first to walk out,

his feet,

stepping onto the lunar soil, leaving a clear footprint.

Next was the miniature version of Mothra, and Pandora coiled on his shoulder.

Finally, it was Godzilla.

It squeezed out of the hatch almost impatiently.

Well!

Luo Yu was still wearing a spacesuit out of respect,

but Godzilla, Mothra, and Pandora had completely adapted.

"Alright."

Wearing the spacesuit, Luo Yu looked at the boundless wilderness before him, took a deep breath, and then gave Godzilla the long-awaited command.

"Time to eat."

"ROAR!!"

A long-suppressed roar, filled with supreme joy and excitement, boomed across the silent Moon!

Godzilla's meter-tall body expanded rapidly in the roar!

One hundred meters!

Five hundred meters!

One thousand meters!

Finally,

it restored its despair-inducing, terrifying size of one thousand four hundred and eighty meters!

A massive shadow,

instantly shrouded an area of dozens of kilometers.

The kunlun three, which originally seemed so majestic, was as tiny as an insignificant grain of sand at its feet.

Godzilla lowered its head,

looking at this land that, to it, was full of "fragrance."

It didn't go to gnaw on the rocks.

Instead, it opened that bloody maw capable of swallowing mountains.

And took a sudden, massive breath!

The next second,

a miraculous sight that could overturn all human physical common sense appeared.

Centering on Godzilla, all the lunar soil, dust, and rubble within a hundred-mile radius of the lunar surface seemed to lose the shackles of gravity in an instant.

They were peeled from the ground and lifted by an invisible force,

converging in mid-air into spectacular gray-white "rivers"!

Thousands of such "rivers,"

poured continuously from all directions into Godzilla's abyss-like maw.

The scene,

was as if the flesh and blood of this planet were being greedily devoured by an ancient evil god.

And on Luo Yu's system panel, the long-stagnant evolution progress number finally began to jump wildly again!

[Ding! Absorbing high-concentration Helium-3. Energy is pure, starting conversion!]

[evolution progress +0.1%]

[evolution progress +0.2%]

...

The lunar buffet has officially started! [evolution progress +0.5%]

...

This was a completely different experience from devouring nuclear weapons.

If,

nuclear bombs were strong liquor full of explosive energy,

then the Helium-3 in the lunar soil was the finest aged wine—smooth on the palate, but with a staggering after-effect.

Godzilla could clearly feel streams of energy, pure to the extreme and without any impurities, pouring down its throat and into the nuclear reactor in its body.

The nuclear reactor's operating speed began to soar wildly with unprecedented efficiency.

The Crimson Lotus Power that was already on the verge of overflowing began to undergo a certain qualitative transformation under the catalysis of this pure energy.

Its dark red scales became deeper and brighter in color, as if beneath each scale, a sun about to explode was sealed.

"Hiss..."

Godzilla let out a long sigh of utter satisfaction.

This feeling was just too comfortable.

It was like a strong man who had been starving for three days and three nights diving into a buffet restaurant full of delicacies, without having to worry about indigestion.

And Luo Yu,

as the Host sharing everything with Godzilla, felt equally wonderful at this moment.

His spiritual power value,

under the washing of the Helium-3 energy, was like being on a rocket, climbing upwards at a terrifying speed.

One hundred and ten billion...

One hundred and twenty billion...

One hundred and thirty billion...

The jumping of the numbers gave him an illusion that he was about to transcend and ascend.

"Chirp~"

Mothra also flapped its wings,

weaving through those flying "lunar soil rivers."

It didn't devour the lunar soil, but instead opened its mouth to absorb the purest "ether" energy dissipating from it.

That was the most basic energy particle that constituted the material world. Although the amount was small... for an incarnation of light and life like it, it was a top-tier supplement.

Its wings became more brilliant and more solid, and on the rainbow-colored scales, even traces of golden divine radiance began to flow.

As for Pandora, it fell into complete ecstasy.

It jumped down from Luo Yu's shoulder, restored its hundreds-of-meters-long body, and like a gluttonous snake, frantically "scavenged" at the edges of Godzilla's feeding area.

Godzilla ate the "meat," and it followed behind to drink the "soup."

The lunar soil fragments that were swept up by Godzilla's suction but not fully devoured were supreme delicacies to it.

Its emerald eye shone like a searchlight, and the cracks on its body caused by injuries healed completely at a speed visible to the naked eye, and its body size even vaguely grew a bit larger.

This gluttonous feast lasted for a full three days and nights.

Godzilla was like a never-tiring super vacuum cleaner. Centering on the landing site of kunlun three, it literally "gnawed" down a layer of the lunar surface within a thousand-kilometer radius!

The originally pitted lunar sea became smoother than a mirror.

And Godzilla's evolution progress,

finally,

after devouring an estimated more than ten million tons of lunar soil, reached that exciting critical point!

[Ding! evolution progress has reached 100%!]

[Next stage of evolution is about to begin!]

[Warning! This evolution will trigger a massive energy tide. Host, please be fully prepared!]