261: Chapter 261: The Moon Came from Venus!!!

Jiang Zhe stood up, stretched for a bit, and went to boil a pot of tea.

Xiao Yu glanced at the wall clock; it was only nine o'clock in the evening, so there was still time. She then rested her chin on her hand, lost in deep thought.

While the siblings were taking a break, in a rented apartment in a third-tier city.

High school senior Li Haoran propped his phone up next to his computer screen. While listening to his online teacher's dull explanation, he was simultaneously scrolling through Xiaoyu's brother's tutoring session in the Da Yu Da Rou live stream.

On the phone screen, Xiao Yu was resting her chin on her hand, digesting what Xiaoyu's brother had just said, and the screen was temporarily quiet.

The voice of an older male astronomy teacher came from the computer: "As Earth's only natural satellite, the formation of the Moon has always been a hot topic in astronomical research. Currently, mainstream theories include the Giant Impact Hypothesis, the Capture Theory, the Co-formation Theory, and so on. Alright, now I will randomly pick a student to answer: what is the main content of the Giant Impact Hypothesis regarding the Moon?"

Li Haoran's heart tightened, and he quickly moved his gaze from the phone to the computer screen, facing the camera.

However, 2.5 seconds later, his name appeared on the screen.

"Student Li Haoran, please answer."

"It's over, it's over."

Li Haoran's mind went blank.

He was usually bad at physics, and he knew absolutely nothing about astronomy.

He hadn't listened to a word the teacher said; his mind was filled with what Xiaoyu's brother had just talked about—the moonquake experiments, density inversion, hydraulic damping, and the mind-boggling idea that there was no Moon before the Great Flood.

In his panic, he blurted out:

"Teacher, is it possible that the Moon is hollow?"

In the online class video, the older teacher wearing glasses was clearly stunned for a moment. He randomly adjusted his glasses frames, looking somewhat surprised.

"Huh? Hollow?"

The microphones of several students in the video turned on instantly, and a burst of laughter from both boys and girls erupted.

"Li Haoran, were you not listening to the lecture?"

"A hollow Moon? Hahahaha, you're killing me!"

"Teacher, he must be sleeping, he must be playing games!"

The teacher frowned: "Student Li Haoran, please do not joke. The Giant Impact Hypothesis is currently the most mainstream explanation in the academic community. Just tell me the main content of this hypothesis."

Li Haoran got anxious. In a moment of heat, he poured out everything he had just heard.

"Teacher, I'm not joking! The Giant Impact Hypothesis is impossible because there are no deep craters on Earth from a giant impact; it couldn't have happened in the ocean either... If the Moon were solid, its average density should be far greater than the density of surface rocks, at least 6.6 grams per cubic centimeter. But the actual measured value is only 3.34, which is about the same as surface rocks. This suggests that the interior of the Moon might be very light, or even hollow—it might even be a celestial body filled with ice and water!"

The teacher froze, veins throbbing faintly on his forehead.

Li Haoran didn't care at all. He suddenly understood the state of mind Jiang Zhe had when tutoring Xiao Yu. "And there's the Apollo 12 moonquake experiment; they used the lunar module to impact the Moon, and as a result, the Moon rang like a bell for 55 minutes. Earthquakes on Earth stop after a few minutes at most, but in the simulated moonquake experiment, the moonquakes lasted for 55 minutes—only a hollow structure can explain that!"

"And hydraulic damping—there are traces of liquid sloshing on the moonquake waveform graph, which means there might be a large amount of water inside the Moon. What kind of structure could hold a large amount of water?"

"It can only be hollow!"

After saying it all in one breath, Li Haoran was stunned himself. I actually managed to repeat Xiaoyu's brother's words so clearly?

There was dead silence in the video.

Those few students who were laughing just a moment ago were now completely silent.

The online teacher was silent for several seconds. He instinctively wanted to refute student Li Haoran, but upon careful thought, these seemed to be accepted facts. It was only after a long time that he spoke with a difficult expression.

"Where did you hear all this?"

Li Haoran answered honestly: "In the Da Yu Da Rou live stream, there's an older brother tutoring his younger sister about the Moon."

The teacher pushed up his glasses, his mood very complex. "Which platform? What's the live stream ID?"

A fan of Jiang Zhe immediately shouted from the side: "I know, I know! It's the Dougou Platform, Da Yu Da Rou, Xiao Yu is secretly filming her brother's tutoring session!"

"Actually, that's not all. The older brother is extremely powerful. All the domestic and foreign papers regarding J are by him!"

At the mention of J, the astronomy teacher's pupils constricted. So the mysterious J circulating abroad these days was actually...

A genius from the Xia Kingdom?

The super badass who became a postdoc in one day?

The super big shot whom even Professor Stephen at the University of Cambridge admires?

The teacher was excited for several dozen seconds, and then said something that all the students found unexpected: "This class is paused. I'm going to watch this; I'll give you all full marks."

Upon hearing this, the forty-plus students gasped, all admiring the teacher for being awesome, and Xiaoyu's brother for being awesome!

...

At this moment, in Gui City, at a certain key high school, the history online class had been going on for half an hour.

A young female history teacher was lecturing on ancient mythology and the origins of the Xia civilization.

"Regarding the Great Flood, many nations have records. Who can tell me, besides our country's Great Yu controlling the floods and Nuwa mending the heavens, which other civilizations have similar flood legends?"

Dozens of people on the screen were silent.

Under the premise of not being allowed to use search software or web pages, no student could successfully cheat.

The teacher scanned the list and randomly picked a name: "Student Wang Zihao, you answer."

A lazy voice rang out: "Huh? Teacher, I, I don't know."

The female teacher supported her forehead and sighed: "Wang Zihao, you asked for leave last class, and now you're daydreaming again this class. Did your mother pay to donate a library to this key high school just for you to come here and sleep in? Well, just say one—does the Sumerian Civilization have a flood legend?"

Wang Zihao's mind was blank, but the voice of Xiaoyu's brother from his headphones was still echoing in his ears.

"Ah, ah, this, let me think..."

Student Wang spoke as if possessed: "Teacher, the Sumerian Civilization has a flood legend called the Epic of Gilgamesh."

"But what I want to ask is, why do the Great Flood legends worldwide all concentrate on the time point of 12,000 years ago? And why is there no record of the Moon in many myths before the Great Flood?"

The female teacher froze. Ah, what are you saying? Why is your thinking so erratic? Did I ask you these things?

Wang Zihao spoke more and more smoothly: "In the myths of Pangu, Nuwa, and Fuxi, there is no Moon. There is no Moon in the myths of the Colombian Indians. The Bushmen in southern Africa don't have it either. The Maya 'Chronicles' don't have it either. Ancient Greek literature also says the Moon appeared later."

"Teacher, could it be that before the Great Flood, there was simply no Moon in the sky?"

There was dead silence in the computer video.

The female teacher was silent for many seconds. She felt that student Wang, a bottom-ranking student, could actually ask such an imaginative question?

She looked at Wang Zihao with a suspicious face: "Where did you see all this?"

"Why couldn't it be something I thought of myself?"

As a result, the next second, a female student opened her microphone: "Give it a rest, you must be eavesdropping on Xiaoyu's brother's lecture, right."

"Huh? How is that possible? Could it be that you too?"

The female student gave a sheepish smile and held her index finger to her lips.

Watching the reaction of the two students, the female teacher couldn't help but cough lightly: "No daydreaming. By the way, who is Xiaoyu's brother?"

Wang Zihao answered honestly: "It's Xiaoyu's brother's live stream, Da Yu Da Rou. He's talking about the origin of the Moon tonight!"

Origin?

The female teacher looked skeptical. Who could explain the origin of the Moon clearly?

"Send me the live stream ID."

Two minutes later, this history class completely turned into a collective viewing session.

At this very moment, in online classes, study rooms, and family group chats all over the country, similar scenes were constantly playing out.

There were students sneaking over from astronomy class, students sneaking over from history class, and students sneaking over from physics class; there were even male and female students sneaking over from the top three list of the country's handsome guy rankings. Don't ask why; if you ask, the answer is that good looks are justice!

At this time, the number of online viewers in the Da Yu Da Rou live stream began to skyrocket.

The original 14 million online viewers surged to 17 million in a short while.

This data made supervisor Wang Shulin, who was monitoring the backend throughout, click his tongue in wonder: "What's going on? Suddenly over 3 million more people flooded in."

The operations staff member next to him rolled his eyes at him: "Supervisor, don't play dumb after getting lucky. It's coming from the national online class recommendation page. I don't know who did it, but the national high school student online class recommendation homepage has become a friendly link to our brother's stream!"

Wang Shulin rested his chin on his hand and clicked on the national high school student online class. Sure enough, a handsome photo of Jiang Zhe came into view.

"Has he already started to break into the student demographic? A good omen!!!"

At this time, inside the live stream, countless new bullet comments flooded in.

"Coming from the astronomy online class. I heard the brother here knows the truth about the Moon?"

"Snuck over from history class, brother, hurry up and tell us!"

"Help, our teacher is leading us to watch the live stream, hahaha!"

"Same teacher +1, he already stopped the class!"

"The teacher in the class next door is still talking about the Giant Impact Hypothesis, but our teacher told us to come listen to the brother instead!"

"Hilarious, this live stream has become the textbook for online classes!"

"Brother, hurry up and tell us, where did the Moon actually come from?"

On the big screen, Xiao Yu had just stood up, finished a glass of water, rubbed her eyes, and sat up straight, full of energy.

"Brother, I've rested well. Where did the Moon actually come from?"

Jiang Zhe also walked back, took a light sip of black tea, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly: "The Moon, it is very likely from..."

Pausing for a moment, he spoke straightforwardly:

"Venus!"