Chapter 164: Red Moon Base
This time, the flight duration was significantly longer. The spore capsule projectile flew for over two hours before kicking up a spray of lunar dust upon impact on the Red Moon’s surface. However, due to the restricted performance of the Orbital Sling, which made it easier to control, the accuracy greatly improved. The impact site was only about 100 kilometers off the calculated landing point.
Learning from the previous crash-test data, the spore capsule’s main structure was redesigned using the skeletal framework of deep-sea creatures combined with the hammer-like appendages of the mantis shrimp. Coupled with its inherent plant-cell composition, its resistance to pressure and impact was vastly superior to Luo Wen’s original designs.
Additionally, the impact this time was relatively mild. Although the lichen-like outer structure of the spore capsule was severely damaged, the main body of the capsule remained largely intact.
Luo Wen easily established a connection with the capsule via the Swarm Network and remotely activated it.
Within the crater created by the impact, the side of the spore capsule facing the ground cracked open, releasing fungal carpet seeds along with some nutrients.
The crack then sealed, shielding the fungal carpet seeds from the sparse but harmful cosmic radiation penetrating the moon’s surface.
Once the fungal carpet seeds landed, they activated immediately, consuming the surrounding nutrients at a frenzied pace.
As the nutrients dwindled, a streak of purple-gray began to emerge.
The roots of the fungal carpet rapidly developed, burrowing into the ground in search of frozen water and mineral resources.