Chapter 754 - 473: Rocket Launch

Chapter 754: Chapter 473: Rocket Launch

After Wang Ye hung up the phone, he continued to look up at the sky, his gaze constantly darting between the stars, as if he was exploring a route.

There was a reason for arranging it this way with Old Yi; after all, most people in the world didn’t know yet that he had the ability to fly away from Earth.

So he wanted everyone to think that he was leaving Earth aboard a lunar rocket, instead of flying away by himself.

This way, he could both deceive people and conceal his journey to Mercury, while also luring certain malicious individuals to make their move.

Wang Ye knew that many organizations and forces were harboring their intentions, looking for a chance to strike at him.

Among them was the submarine fleet from the last confrontation at the Mariana Trench. That country was probably still looking for a chance to get revenge.

Instead of letting these countries and organizations secretly find opportunities to ambush him, Wang Ye might as well deliberately reveal a flaw to lure them out.

In general understanding, Wang Ye was nearly invincible on Earth now, so the only way to kill him might be by using some external force from the cosmos.

If they knew that Wang Ye could only travel through space by rocket at this very moment, they certainly wouldn’t miss this opportunity.

What is the most direct way to kill an astronaut on the Moon?

It’s to leave him on the Moon.

Wang Ye remembered that Shen Teng starred in a movie called "Moon Man." In it, Shen Teng’s character gets left behind on the Moon.

But because a lunar base was built on the Moon in the movie with plenty of resources, the protagonist wasn’t in danger of dying,

but in reality, there are no lunar bases; at least, none have been built by any country on Earth so far.

Because currently, the main force exploring the Moon comprises unmanned probes, building lunar bases is almost meaningless for humanity right now. Only when rockets need to be launched from the Moon in the future would bases be necessary, and by that time, humans would also be able to live on the Moon for extended periods.

In other words, an astronaut left on the Moon would face a lack of supplies and would die from suffocation or dehydration within days.

Of course, everyone knew that Wang Ye didn’t need to eat anymore.

But so what?

As long as Wang Ye was left on the Moon, their objective would be achieved.

Wang Ye intended to lead them to this line of thinking and wait for them to act.

That way, he would have a reason to counteract the other countries.

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In the following two days, Old Yi, responsible for the lunar mission, deliberately leaked the news through both overt and covert means that Wang Ye was about to board a rocket to the Moon along with three astronauts.

At the same time, NASA also announced the launch of their lunar mission. As the first country in the world to achieve manned lunar landing, they had a wealth of experience, and many of the old equipment could still be used. Therefore, their preparation cycle was much quicker than Wang Ye’s side, taking only a few days to get ready with a manned rocket and astronaut selection.

This time, however, the astronaut selection appeared to be different from the past. Usually, astronaut selection focused more on theoretical knowledge and physical fitness, so most chosen were experienced middle-aged people, many of whom had worked in the aerospace industry for decades, and some over fifty years old.

This time, however, the astronauts selected were relatively younger, with an average age of around thirty, and one of them was not an employee of the space agency. This selection criterion also seemed to be the intent of the upper management.

This decision from the upper echelon made many in NASA puzzled. Yet only a few understood the hidden agenda. They investigated the candidate who wasn’t a space agency employee and discovered that he was a Ph.D. in chemistry specializing in explosive theory. This discovery implied that the upper management’s sudden lunar mission was aimed at Wang Ye. If they detonated the rocket Wang Ye boarded on the Moon, he would neither be able to return to Earth nor pose a threat to the countries on Earth.

Realizing this, many were secretly startled,

Upper management was actually planning to kill Wang Ye this way?

But...

Can this method really kill that Superman?

It’s known that Wang Ye can move aerially at Mach 20 on Earth.

And withstand nuclear explosions with his body.

This capability is almost equal to the real Superman in movies.

And the real Superman can move freely in the cosmos, even push the entire Earth.

If Wang Ye can also fly freely at high speed across the cosmos and withstand extreme space environments with his body, doing this would be a self-destructive move.

Attacking Wang Ye without a valid reason is just handing him an excuse.

They could see that the only thing restraining Wang Ye from becoming a Homelander now might be not having found the right reason.

For example, when arguing, even hitting someone requires an appropriate reason.