Moon Forge

In 2038, Chen Xing, a county takeaway worker, thought "Moon Recruitment" was a fraudulent text message - until the space agency's bus stopped below his rental house. A number he couldn't understand popped up on the physical examination report: NIC neural bandwidth 392Mbps, a national record. They say that his natural human-machine collaboration makes him a unique candidate for "interstellar builder". From that day on, he was no longer a rider with a monthly salary of 6,000. He is the human partner of "Yuezhu-06" and the sole scheduler of two hundred construction robots - one of the founders of "New Chang'an", the first city on the moon. This is an era in which AI has replaced almost all manual labor. Jobs on Earth are disappearing like an ebbing tide, and the moon—that gray, desolate satellite—is becoming humanity's last blue ocean of labor. Chen Xing set off from a Sichuan county, underwent intensive training at the Shanghai Space Center, and took the "Xingtu-16" (XT-16) recyclable rocket through a 36-hour Earth-moon journey to the rising lunar city "New Chang'an." Here, the lunar soil 3D printer roars day and night, humanoid robots weld the skeleton of the city in the vacuum, and the AI ​​companion "Yuezhu-06" embedded in his brain is reshaping his entire understanding of "work" with line-by-line data streams. But as the construction of lunar cities reaches deep into the earth's crust, a buried secret begins to surface. This journey from the earth to the moon is far more than just a "work". In the face of the desolation of the moon, he finally understood the earth - and this city he built with his own hands will become the most risky bet for human civilization.