The request to come to Captain's Peak this time was made by Mr. Kahn himself.

During a previous meeting between Mr. Kahn and President O'Guanhai, Mr. Kahn told O'Guanhai about information that the U.S. government had never had before.

The Karn once built a secret base under a boulder in the Yosemite National Forest, which contained many super technologies belonging to the Karn that needed to be unlocked in person.

Mr. Kahn said that the base was originally intended to be used as a retreat for the Kahn clan after the ship's energy on the moon ran out.

Unfortunately, the few remaining Kahn people on the spacecraft had an accident when they were traveling from the moon to the Captain's Peak base, and the boat crashed, and the remaining survivors were rescued by the U.S. government.

This news shocked President Ao Guanhai and immediately aroused the great attention of the US government.

Although the Americans still don't understand what the Karn mean by the fifth-level civilization, they can imagine the extent to which the Karn's technology has developed from the distant Big Magellanic Cloud to the galaxy and to the earth.

This is a real super technology, before a single star stone did not know how much benefit it brought to the United States, and now a living alien base is in the United States, how can this not make Americans tempted.

The Americans are not too demanding, not to talk about the Zenith technology such as curvature navigation without working fluids, as long as they can get a few technologies that can be used by the Kahn people, such as controllable nuclear fusion, high-specific thrust space engines, etc., it is enough to make the Americans laugh off their big teeth.

After all, according to the current level of science and technology of mankind. Every jishu means an industrial revolution.

Needless to say, controlled nuclear fusion, everyone knows what unlimited energy means.

As for the space engine with high thrust of large specific impulse, it is even more coveted.

With the retirement of the Space Shuttle, the current human space activities basically need launch vehicles to carry out.

However, the development of a launch vehicle requires a high level of precision, and launching a launch vehicle is a huge project, and the cost of space launch is extremely high.

Moreover, the number of launch vehicles produced cannot reach tens of thousands, like cars, and the production of dozens or hundreds is already quite a lot, and some produce only a few. The inability to produce large quantities will undoubtedly significantly increase the cost per part.

For example, only 15 Saturn V launch vehicles developed by the United States for landing on the moon have been produced, and the cost of one rocket is as high as $185 million. This is the dollar of the seventies and eighties of the last century. In modern times, the cost has increased more than tenfold.

The cost of a single "Hercules" IV launch vehicle, which is still in use in the United States, is also as high as more than $200 million.

The launch cost of a launch vehicle includes the cost of propellant consumed, the cost of using the launch site, the cost of using various ancillary facilities on the ground, and of course, the cost of manpower. The cost of tracking and control of launch vehicles mainly includes the cost of tracking and control stations, survey ships, and command and control centers scattered all over the country.

Combining the above factors, it can be seen that the cost of launching a launch vehicle is very high.

Of course. The total cost of a launch also varies from one launch vehicle to another, depending on the type, with different carrying capacities, and from one country to another. Usually. A launch of a small launch vehicle costs about 2000~30 million US dollars, a launch of a medium-sized launch vehicle costs about 6000~15000000 US dollars, and a launch of a large launch vehicle costs about 2000 million US dollars.

Due to the different costs of launch vehicle development, launch and human resources in different countries. The cost of launching similar rockets also varies greatly, with the cost of launching a U.S. launch vehicle far exceeds that of China, the European Space Station and Russia, for example, the total cost of a single launch of the Hercules IV rocket is as high as $350 million.

Therefore. For the new generation of astronautics jishu, the Americans are equally salivating.

Mr. Kahn was hesitant at first, but then he didn't know what he thought of, saying that he could help the Americans build a new system of traveling between heaven and earth, so that the cost of using it would be greatly reduced.

However, the premise is that Mr. Karn must personally go to the Karn base at Captain's Peak.

After several meetings of the National Security Council, the desire for a new jishu finally prevailed, and everyone understood what it would mean for the future United States to get these jishu.

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After walking along the forest path for about ten minutes, Dr. Wells and Mr. Kahn finally came to the rock face of Captain's Peak.

Dr. Wells shone his LED flashlight upwards, looked up at the towering rock face, and asked, "Mr. Kahn, what are we going to do?"

Mr. Kahn ignored Dr. Wells's questioning, and put his hand on the rock wall, stopping for about half a minute before he began to walk to the right against the rock wall of Captain's Peak.

Wells didn't know what Mr. Karn was trying to do, but he followed.

After about a hundred more meters, Mr. Kahn suddenly stopped, turned around and looked around, and muttered, "Do you feel it?"

Dr. Wells was slightly stunned and asked, "Mr. Karn, what do you feel?"

Mister Karn shook his head and whispered, "Breath!

Dr. Wells was a little confused.

Mr. Kahn stepped back more than ten meters, looked at the tall Captain's Peak, and began to shout loudly in a language that Dr. Wells had never heard before, and the voice was so sharp and harsh that Dr. Wells could not help frowning.

Soon, Mr. Karn's voice slowly turned soft, sounding with a strange rhythm, as if some mysterious spell.

Accompanied by the tone of Mr. Karn's voice, Dr. Wells suddenly felt the ground begin to slowly shake, at first he thought it was a delusion, but after a few seconds, Dr. Wells suddenly realized something and shouted at Mr. Karn, "Mr. Karn, run, there's an earthquake!"

Mr. Kahn glanced back at Dr. Wells and said lightly, "Stand firm, this is not an earthquake!"

Dr. Wells was stunned, still thinking about what Mr. Karn meant by what he meant, his eyes widened suddenly, and he stared blankly at the mountain wall in front of him and said, "Up...... God, Captain Peak, Captain Peak moves!"

Under Mr. Karn's mysterious spell, the granite boulder that had stood for an unknown number of thousands of years actually moved slowly.

With the rotation of the Captain's Peak, the ground vibration gradually became violent, and from time to time stones rolled down from the Captain's Peak.

"Mr. Karn, it's dangerous here, let's go!"

Mr. Kahn said, "Don't worry, Dr. Wells, as long as you stay here, no rocks will hit you!" (to be continued......)