245: Chapter 245: The Moon Will Definitely Exceed Your Expectations!

Jiang Zhe grinned, "Since Xiao Yu wants to hear it, then the Moon it is; however, I can reveal that..."

"The Moon is absolutely not..."

"...what modern science has imagined and verified it to be; perhaps the truth will exceed your expectations, even those of the entire world!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the viewers in the livestream room were once again filled with curiosity.

"Exceed the world's expectations?"

"Bro, don't leave us hanging! I want to hear it, I want to hear it!"

"It's over. Tonight's talk on Mars and the Twin Star was so good, and now the Moon—it's making it so I can't even sleep."

"Let's disperse, let's disperse. See you tomorrow night, be there or be square."

"..."

A final frenzy of gifts began to float across the livestream room as many people snapped out of the brilliant broadcast and started sending their last wave of gifts.

[Celestial Master Zhang of Qingfeng Temple tipped a 10,000 yuan Super Rocket!]

[Professor Chen Runzhi of Kyoto University of History tipped 2,000 yuan!]

[Teacher Ren Xiaoyao of Gusu High School tipped a 1,000 yuan Rocket!]

[...]

Inside Qingfeng Temple.

Zheng Ming slowly snapped out of his previous thoughts, a complicated expression on his face.

"No matter how well you spoke before, now it involves the formation of the Moon; that is a long-accepted fact—the Moon was a wandering planet from outside the Solar System that strayed in, collided with Earth, and was finally captured. I'll see what kind of flowery nonsense you can come up with next time!"

Fang Xu chuckled self-deprecatingly beside him, "I didn't expect that being invited here by you today would allow me to see such a grand performance."

"Zheng Ming, this guy is very suitable for our Think Tank."

"His way of thinking is very similar to the core members of the Think Tank I'm familiar with; if you hadn't told me he was an ordinary person, I'd really suspect he was in the same line of work as me!"

He stood up and straightened his clothes,

"However, the Moon is indeed an accepted fact. If he can still talk about it as well as he did today, then his strength is truly remarkable."

He walked toward the door, took out his Mercedes G-Wagon keys and pressed them; the Mercedes in the courtyard flashed once. "I won't be coming next time; the base is starting to get busy before the end of the year. Recently, I have to participate in the planning for 2026 regarding the economy, technology, culture, people's livelihoods, and so on."

He turned back and looked at Zheng Ming, "If you have extra time and are really that bored, you should go invite a real astrophysicist; they'd be far more useful than me."

Zheng Ming didn't speak, only nodded.

Actually, what he was thinking was that it was just as well he didn't come; if you kept watching, you'd probably become his fan too.

After Fang Xu left, Zheng Ming leaned back in his chair. While listening to the conversation between Celestial Master Zhang and his teacher, especially when they talked about the Apollo moon landing, his brow furrowed as he suddenly remembered someone—

During the Sinology Lecture the night before last, a professor who was a NASA engineer from the USA had come to show support; his father was one of the participants in the Apollo moon landing program back then.

The corner of Zheng Ming's mouth curled slightly, "I'll invite a real big shot then and see what kind of flowery nonsense you can say about the Moon!"

Inside Principal Fu's office, Principal Fu stood up and stretched, looking out the window at the pitch-black night sky, "Tonight really wasn't a waste of staying up."

Old Wang rubbed his aching eyes, "I have classes tomorrow, I need to hurry back and sleep."

Xiao Wang yawned, "I have a class in the first period tomorrow, how tragic. I hope I have a dream tonight about the super war that happened in the Asteroid Belt many billions of years ago, maybe even a war between super civilizations!"

After Old Yu the Physicist tipped a rocket, he looked up at the closing livestream on the screen and couldn't help but sigh: "Little Jiang can really talk. From the formation of the Solar System to the explosion of Mars, from Xenon-129 to the Sumerian clay tablets; this amount of knowledge is ridiculous."

Ren Xiaoyao was the last to stand up, his expression still somewhat dazed.

"Tonight was indeed not a waste. The things her brother knows—many of them can't even be found in professional databases; or perhaps it's not that they can't be found, but that no one dares to think in that direction."

"For the Moon tomorrow, I have to be there on time."

Inside the History Staff Quarters.

Professor Chen Runzhi turned off the mobile livestream, and the projection on the wall disappeared as well. He let out a long breath, "Next time is the Moon. Well, are you three still coming? Can your bodies handle staying up?"

Professor Liu Guangyi rolled his eyes at him, "Coming, of course we're coming. Listening to this tonight has my blood boiling; I haven't been this excited in decades. This is no less than a chronicle of Earth!"

Professor Wang Shouren said, "The Moon is a very difficult topic; the greatest truths are often the simplest!"

Old Qian stood up and gulped down his sugar-free drink, "Alright, let's get plenty of rest tomorrow and fight again at night!"

Professor Chen Runzhi smiled with satisfaction, "Tonight, all expenses are on me, Old Chen! Come on, let's go get some late-night snacks!"

The four old fellows walked out the door with their arms around each other's shoulders, talking and laughing.

...

Inside the physics professor's dormitory building at Huaqing University.

Ouyang Baili, wearing silver-grey pajamas, sat up from his bed and groggily got up to pour a glass of water.

After drinking the water, he subconsciously glanced at the clock on the wall; it was past eleven.

He froze for a moment, then suddenly looked at the computer screen on his bedside table that was still lit.

"The livestream. I missed it!!!"

He walked over quickly and leaned in toward the screen; it was a scene nearing its end. He pinched himself in frustration, "Agh!!!"

He looked at Jiang Zhe's calm face and Xiao Yu's very excited expression on the screen and couldn't help but sigh:

"What on earth did this Jiang Zhe talk about tonight? It looks like it won't be our turn, the four of us, to write the paper!"

On the large screen.

Xiao Yu, sitting on the sofa opposite him, leaned in with lingering excitement, "Bro, what's so different about the Moon? Can you give me a sneak peek? Is it really not like we imagine? Please, just a little bit?"

Jiang Zhe only smiled slightly, looking closely at Xiao Yu's heavy dark circles, "Don't overthink it, go to sleep quickly. It seems I can't give lectures every day from now on; your dark circles won't go away. We'll talk again in two days."

Xiao Yu looked like she was about to burst into tears, "Nooo! I can still stay up! I, Steel Rain, can stay up until the end of time!"

The next second, a series of system prompts appeared in front of Jiang Zhe.

[This tutoring session has ended]

[Xiao Yu's Insight +3, IQ +2, Imagination +2, Astronomy +2]

[Reward Money: 800,000 yuan]

[Reward Attribute Points: 10 points, automatically distributed!]

[Extra Passive Skill Reward: Absolute Hypnosis—People hypnotized by you will definitely enter ultra-deep sleep. Theoretically speaking—others spend 10 hours a day in bed, but under your hypnosis or self-hypnosis, only 2 hours of sleep are needed to equal 10 hours!]

Jiang Zhe looked at the light blue list with some surprise. Hypnosis—wasn't this perfect for Xiao Yu?

He looked at Xiao Yu's excited face, which clearly still wanted more.

His hand moved with his heart, gently waving in front of Xiao Yu as if flipping some invisible frequency switch.

Xiao Yu suddenly froze, her eyelids immediately fighting to stay open as she let out a deep yawn, "Bro, what's going on? You waved your hand in front of me, and suddenly I feel such a heavy drowsiness coming over me!"

"It's nothing, you're just tired!" Jiang Zhe stood up, gently winked at her, and waved his hand again.

Xiao Yu seemed to lose all her strength and immediately collapsed onto the sofa.

"So tired... Bro, I'm going to sleep first!"

Watching Jiang Zhe head to the bathroom, Xiao Yu said half-asleep, "No livestream tomorrow... the day after... at night... Bro's talk on the Moon... will definitely be even more thrilling than tonight!"

After saying that, she struggled to raise her hand and turn off the livestream, falling into a deep sleep immediately.

Seeing this scene, the viewers in the livestream room scratched their heads in confusion.

"Is it an illusion?"

"Bro waved his hand, and Xiao Yu got sleepy?"

"Does Bro know hypnotism?"

"I'm a hypnotist, and this Xiao Yu's Brother's hypnosis is way too fast. How can he make Xiao Yu fall asleep just by waving his hand?"

"Another unsolved mystery has been added to the world tonight!"

"..."

On the other side, in a hotel room in Kyoto.

Wang Shulin threw his phone on the bed, rolled around, and then gave a heavy stretch, "Tonight's talk was really good."

Beside him, three young operators were still staring at their computer screens, reviewing the data.

"Brother Wang, the peak online viewers tonight reached 16.4 million, and total revenue has surpassed 1.4 million. The tips in this knowledge-based livestream room just won't go up; what's going on?"

"In other celebrity livestream rooms, they rake in 40 to 50 million in just one hour of broadcasting. Why is Bro so popular but still can't get those numbers?"

Wang Shulin sat up, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, looked at the night scene outside, and lit a cigarette, the smoke slowly rising.

"Whether it goes up or not doesn't matter anymore; he's the only one who has managed to make a knowledge-based livestream reach the top tier since the internet began. He's even doing it better than 'Approaching Science' from years ago!"

"However, his topic for tomorrow is the Moon... it's probably going to be tough."

A young operator turned back, "How so?"

Wang Shulin took a puff of his cigarette and slowly exhaled: "The Moon has basically been thoroughly explored by now. Even our country has gone to the far side of the Moon and collected a lot of data. Does the information in Jiang Zhe's head really exceed what the national departments have?"

"He'll lose because of an information gap!"

"Don't be fooled by the Moon being a common celestial body. If he doesn't explain it well, trust will collapse, and fan retention will drop."

The young operator frowned, somewhat disagreeing, "That wouldn't happen, right? Everything Jiang Zhe talked about tonight was incredibly subversive; he knows what he's doing."

"Who knows? Alright, get some rest early; we're heading back to Gusu tomorrow."

After finishing his cigarette, Wang Shulin lay directly on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

Before long, the news began to ferment wildly on the internet.