The camouflage capability of the asteroid fragment was giving him some ideas, but in the end, he suppressed such thoughts as he was sure even with the full asteroid, it would not rival the materials he used on the ship. Unless he was going to use it as some coating, he had no capability to do it or focus on dismantling the shuttle.
"It is such a waste of time on my part trying to go with the issue of camouflage and for the most part of it the shuttle could not achieve this at all. Even if possible I have no choice but to wait until my main priorities have been dealt with promptly." Musk did not have any motivation to spend his time on something impractical. At the moment, the most important issue was the reinforcement of the ship, even though he referred to it as a shuttle most of the time, it was not small. Covering close to half a kilometer in distance and the main source of energy being researched based on nuclear energy.
It is then made into several cells and each cell has its own half-life of close to ten millenniums at full use. He had more than five cells and thus this could explain his lack of worry on this issue and at the same time the source of power for the gravity platform to create an environment of about 80 times the gravity of the earth on the moon. He did not bother with this issue at the moment though, but it could indicate just how much research he did on energy before he could craft this.
Having the energy cells was already enough for power and thus he was focused on another issue, survivability in the starry sky, and the most important concern to him at the moment. He was more interested in setting up another gravity platform in the spaceship. This would take some time and the materials he had were already enough.
On the moon, time passed fast, and before one could realize it had been close to two months, and Musk was busy during this period. In the space station control room, a group of scientists and even official government representatives were present keeping tabs on the development of things. On the front row, Liu Zhen could be seen, and way further to the left was her husband. Each had different roles thus the positions they occupied were also different. At this moment everyone's face was solemn because something unexpected had happened to the spaceships they send for exploration.
Three had disappeared completely from their radar while the only one still standing was also beginning to show signs of signal loss. The resources used to create these space shuttles were not something to be overlooked and thus the faces of the government representatives were not looking good but at the same time curious about what was in that location.
Speaking of which, the scientists were the only ones showing some excited expression as though they had suddenly got an area to focus on without even putting their eyes on the loss of the space shuttle. For them, it was easier to collect some more asteroids from space and use them to craft even better devices, and Liu Zhen on the other hand was copying the coordinates for Musk, who at the moment was fully dressed in a black Coverall. From time to time he would move around the ship, and after some measurements and adjustments, a huge asteroid was thrown into some nuclear pot, which he named a long time ago and used nuclear power to melt asteroids.
The liquid metal obtained from the asteroid was immense and he had already made arrangements on what to be added, thus from time to time he would add some materials in. He was able to deal with the heat due to the fact that his body had gone through several evolutions but it was still strenuous. If anyone else was near they could not be capable of survival at all, and thus he already informed Liu Zhen not to come to this place at all.
The heat was immense and the only reason the ship remained stable was the materials he used to design it and at the moment he was reinforcing it. The changes on the inside were indeed more practical than anything else. Unaware of the situation in the space station, Musk put his attention on space ship and when the molt was done he would go ahead and use it on the spare parts that had been dismantled. In the process, he kept improving the strength of the shuttle, and at the same time environment inside required him to remove some things.
Looking at the excited expressions of the scientists a female government representative could not hold it anymore and went straight to the point.
"Why are you all acting excited after losing four spaceships? That cost our governments a lot of resources, you should be able to come up with a good explanation otherwise things would not end well for all of you." When she said this, no one paid her any attention at all. They were all somewhat excited for no reason. In the same way, they probably disdained her talk of some spaceship being lost as to them that was just some experimental object and it had helped them accomplish an important objective.
In this way, the other government representatives were indeed awakened and looked at a white-haired old man in the distance. "Muchen! What is happening, you should have lost contact with the spaceships right?"
Looking at the man the same age as him, Muchen just smiled and waved his hand, "At this moment there is no reason to lie to you Haoyu. Those spaceships are not only lost, but we also can't even detect them using the radar on the last one."
"What?" Not only Haoyu but everyone almost every other government representative did not take this news well since things had developed in a bad direction. They were mostly sent to the moon to supervise the resources and the spaceships count as the biggest resource and did not have any other way to report this without being burned for it and in the worst-case scenario even losing their jobs.
Looking at the way, the group was looking at them with anger, Muchen did not seem disturbed but just smiled at them and said, "What is with your faces? Your bosses want only results and isn't it good to have some discovery as early as this period than waiting until a few centuries or even decades to make any discovery? At this moment, we have made some discoveries that can be focused on instead of moving around in the vast space without a direction. I doubt that your bosses will care once they realize that this region in space that had been discovered might indeed be the breakthrough in what they have always wanted." Speaking of this he had some sharp light in his eyes, obviously more excited than even the other scientists.
Science always argued that space is dull dead and now they found something disproving this he was more or less sure that the ones behind the scenes would be willing to spend more to research the situation in this area.
In this way, all they needed was for some of the government representatives to go back to the planet and hold some discussions with those whose stakes are more involved in space exploration. But this would take only a few months at most and at that time even funding would be increased. Putting that aside, the last ship was also losing signal and they could not recall it back as for the others they had taken the opposite direction from the beginning.
Regardless of the outcome, they had some discoveries already that would warrants governments putting more effort into the development of space exploration and the main is that most governments would already become aware of something that could make their spaceships disappear. Curiosity for the majority of the part and the military would be involved at that time the success of space exploration would become a sure thing.
The old man was not just a scientist but had lived long enough to know something about schemes, and from the get-go, most governments wanted to involve the military but lacked the best excuse and this would be providing them with a better one.
When the representatives were each thinking about the things that the old man Muchen had just told them, the people in the control station without much use at the moment were dismissed and things returned to their normal. Leaving the place, Liu Zhen sends some data and coordinates to Musk before going to away with her husband.
"Is your master around?" The man asked as he knew some things such as the man adapting and raising his wife. In this way, he had a good opinion of the old man who looked very young.
"Well! yes, it seems like he plans to wander around in space from his actions recently. It is probably the last time we might see him. " She said it like this and even she found it weird. In this. same time she remembered the old man mentioned that third level in martial arts, thus an indication he was there or even further. In the end, she took her husband's hand and let go of the other thought.
When the bracelet on his hand was shining blue, it got his attention.