Vitalite was indeed a scientist of a very high level in the field of astronautics in the Soviet Union.

Although the East Soviet Union is certainly inferior to West Russia in terms of national strength, there are a lot of structural problems in West Russia, and in contrast, the environment of East Russia is more suitable for scientific researchers.

The population of the Eastern Soviet Union is less than 10 million, but the quality of the population is quite good. The Far East itself has a small population, and most of the high-level leaders of the East Soviet Union are basically "foreigners", so they are particularly concerned about the introduction of Western Russian manpower.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the population of the East Soviet Union increased by at least 4 million people in four or five years, and these increases were mainly military personnel, high-ranking technical personnel, education, medical care, scientific research, and meritorious personnel of the Soviet period.

These people are not taken seriously in Western Russia, because the oligarchs in Western Russia are rampant, on the one hand, they want to eat the profitable part of public services, and on the other hand, they lead to a shortage of government resources.

As for senior technicians and researchers, many of them are also starting to lose food. It does not take a lot of high-tech personnel to maintain the legacy of the Soviet Union, and scientific research tasks can be cut and cut, and the oligarchs prefer to package and sell high-tech industries rather than self-reliant development, and then comfortably eat resource dividends, sell minerals and oil, of course, more comfortable than selling airplanes.

As a result, these people, who were not welcomed in Western Russia, grew a pair of legs on their own, looking for various ways to run towards the Eastern Soviet Union.

Vitalite was the deputy director of the Soviet Space Agency during the Soviet era, although the Soviet Space Agency was not the main space development agency of the Soviet Union - the space agency did not produce a fraction of the rockets of the Soviet Rocket Force. But as a deputy technical director of NASA, Vitalite had considerable influence within the Soviet aerospace system.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Western Russia not only lost its rocket production capacity, but also lost important rocket launch bases, and the entire aerospace industry almost completely came to a standstill, leaving only the most basic personnel for the maintenance of intercontinental missiles.

However, Vitalite quickly found his place in the Eastern Soviet Union, although there were not many launch missions on the Eastern Soviet side, but the Eastern Soviet Union urgently needed talents who could comprehensively sort out the aviation and aerospace resources of the Soviet Union!

During the Great Retreat, the East Soviet Union retained a huge amount of data and technical resources through the KGB system, but the materials lying in filing cabinets were of no value in themselves, and someone had to sort them out before they could be sent to the right place.

It was against this background that Vitalite became the new leader of the Eastern Soviet space system.

Being able to be sent to China to lead a team this time is also the result of the trust of the East Soviet side in his ability.

It's just that no one thought that the deputy director of NASA would do such a thing on a foreign affairs occasion.

After the end of the day's Chinese thank-you and celebration party, Vitalite was controlled by the disciplinary officers of the East Soviet Task Force.

"It's already night, Vitalit, we don't want to hurt you like this, but you have to take your problems seriously!"

In one of the bedrooms of the Foreign Affairs Guest House of the launch center, the two disciplinary officers sat down a little anxiously and looked at the dejected Vitalite beside the bed, and the eyes of the three of them were red: "Who encouraged you to mention the Mir when you were in contact with Hu Wenhai? What is the purpose of your doing this? Is there someone who wants to take advantage of you, or are you yourself the executor or even the mastermind of a certain conspiracy?"

Vitalite shook his head without love, let out a long breath, and replied weakly: "There is no one to direct me, and I have no conspiracy. The situation of Mir is already a consensus within the system, if there is no one to take over and no resources are injected, Mir will soon lose its function, and the achievements of our Soviet Union's space construction over the past ten years, with tens of billions of investments, I am afraid that they will be destroyed in one fell swoop!"

"Within the scope of our reach, I don't think there is anything else to do but Hu Wenhai. ”

"I don't have a conspiracy, I just don't want to see my life end up meaningless!"

"I'm in charge of the business in the Soviet Aviation Bureau, and it's the space station!"

"So, everything is planned by you on your own? So how did you get the information? You said that the consensus within the system and the status of the Mir can only be grasped by the Western Russian side, right? Through what channels can you still exchange information with people in the Western Russian system? Who are the people who are in contact with you? Who are the people in the system who have reached a consensus?"

"You ......"

Vitalite hugged his head sadly and said bitterly: "I won't say my source of information, and they won't have any malicious intentions, the consensus in the system is the consensus, and I can't say their names when I get into trouble......"

"Comrade Vitalit, we are not persecuting you!"

The two disciplinary officers also began to get agitated, and said in a stiff tone: "You don't know what you've done!

"You don't know how special Hu Wenhai's identity is, he is not just a rich man, not only the richest man in the world, do you understand? His identity is very complicated, and things involving him will also be very complicated. You're not a security official, and something that seems ordinary to you is probably not ordinary behind it. You don't think there's a problem, do you think it's your spontaneous behavior, and it's likely to be manipulated by others unknowingly, don't you understand?"

"If Hu Wenhai's personal safety is threatened because of this, or if he makes some wrong judgment because of this, which leads to changes in Sino-Soviet relations, and may even lead to changes in the international situation, can you afford to pay this responsibility?"

Vitalite was a little dumbfounded and muttered, "I just asked him to help us keep the Peace......"

"That's the problem!"

"Is Mir worth maintaining?"

"If Hu Wenhai invests a lot of resources in the Mir, is this in our interests? Is this in the interests of the Chinese comrades?"

"What does Mir do to us? It can only waste our resources, and likewise it is not so useful to the Chinese, space is too far away from us!"

"No, the human gaze ......"

"Human eyes should first look at their own feet, not look up and wait for a free lunch to fall from the sky!"

"Vitalit admit it, you just ignore the overall situation of the country because of your own selfishness!"

"I'm not, I just don't want to see our ...... for a decade"

"That's all in the past, you know? Now, we have to be soberly aware that survival is the primary issue. ”

"It's the same with the Chinese side, they want to develop the economy, they want to consolidate their national defense. Maybe you will spend money on launching ground surveillance satellites, but you will certainly not spend money on something as useless as a space station. ”

"yes, do you expect them to go to the moon?"

"If we can't do anything, we can't count on them. ”

"Whether it's China, Hu Wenhai, or Vitalit, do you think you can pin your hopes on them?"

"Recognize the reality!"

The stormy words of the disciplinary officer shattered Vitalit's insistence.

Seeking China's support, or even asking Hu Wenhai directly for help regardless of foreign affairs discipline, was a last resort in desperation. When Vitalite woke up from false hopes, he could also realize in despair that it was very unlikely that China would take over the Mir.

For China, Mir is not that important, and it can even be said that in addition to the window dressing effect beyond the level of bearing, the resources that Mir eats will be much greater than the benefits it brings.

However, isn't that the footsteps of mankind's exploration of the universe originally so? Without unrequited efforts, mankind may only be able to survive on this dusty planet forever.

But this idea is a bit too idealistic, and from the perspective of pragmatism, Mir is like a little girl who has just worked for China, wanting to buy a LV with a year's salary.

Judging by the impression that the Chinese have always left on the world, they are likely to be a group of pragmatists.

"Well, maybe I was wrong. ”

Vitalite covered her face in despair and said bitterly: "We will lose it, we will lose Mir, we will lose our greatest ideal spirit as a human race." Ah, yes, I should have known that our USSR was dead!"

The two disciplinary officers looked at each other, and they were a little speechless to each other. Their duty makes them say such things, but as a Soviet from the Soviet era, isn't their heart full of pain?

A disciplinary officer pulled back the curtains, only to find that it was already early in the morning. At this time, the newborn sun shone through the window into the dimly lit bedroom, and the desolate mountains of the northwest were like the hearts of these Soviets.

Duangduang——

Two knocks suddenly sounded, and the two disciplinary officers immediately told Vitalite not to move, and then one of them went to open the door.

"Hello comrade, is Professor Vitalite here?"

The person who came was a waiter at the guest house who could speak Russian, and with a youthful smile, he glanced into the room: "This comrade, are you Professor Vitalit? Are Professor Vitalit in the room?"

"We are the deputy leader of the task force, we live next door to our room, and we have just discussed work with Team Leader Vitalit. ”

The disciplinary officer said: "Comrade, do you have anything to do with Team Leader Vitalit?"

The waiter withdrew his peeping gaze into the room and said with a smile: "Our leader and Mr. Hu Wenhai, it is very important for me to invite Comrade Professor Vitalite!"

"It seems to say, it has something to do with the space number!"

Before the waiter could finish speaking, the two disciplinary officers were almost incredulous and turned their gazes to Vitalite.

Did you spray Hu Wenhai's face with some kind of drug? This is okay?! Professor Vitalite is afraid that from today onwards, he will not be treated as a national treasure!