On the west side of San Francisco Bay, the Federal Airport at Moffett, once one of the U.S. military air bases, has become crowded with people after the end of the Cold War, with only one or two bright yellow school buses lazily parked in the huge parking lot.

It was the children from the nearby elementary school who came to visit NASA's Ames Research Center, which was one of their social practice classes.

"Skr~" With the sound of sharp brakes, a Jaguar E-Type from the 70s stopped in the parking lot next to the third building of the Ames Research Center.

"Are you sure it's here, right? Shouldn't we go to the Dandelaine Entrepreneurship Center next door? Two days ago, Tinder and several other companies they invested in had already moved over in their entirety. Kimbalmusk took off his seat belt and glanced suspiciously at the runway and hangar not far away.

Dandelane is the name of the tinder source incubation base, Zhang Chen deliberately did not use the tinder source to name it, but gave this incubation base a rather poetic name: dandelion.

Elon Musk picked up his phone and looked at it, and checked the address: "The address that Zack's assistant sent me is here, it should be right, it's about three o'clock in the afternoon, and it's half an hour... Wow, what a handsome Ferrari F50. ”

Elon Musk suddenly saw a bright red Ferrari F50 parked next to him, and then looked at his Jaguar E-Type in the seventies, although the E-Type is Jaguar's most classic convertible sports car, but compared with the Ferrari F50 that looks explosive, it looks like a dilapidated old-school European aristocrat.

Elon Musk loves cars so much that he wouldn't have spent $35,000 on this E-Type, which is only suitable for collections. Although he and Kimbar had cashed out $300,000 from ZIP2, they didn't have enough money to buy a Ferrari combined. Seeing this rare F50, Elon Musk really couldn't help but take a closer look.

As soon as he closed the car door, he heard a deafening roar "buzz" pass through his ears, from far to near, and then fade away.

Elon Musk turned his head to see a flash of silver, and lightning disappeared at the end of the runway.

"That's 。。。。。。 "Elon Musk's mouth was wide open, speechless in surprise.

Someone racing on an airstrip?

Oh my god, it's crazy, how could Moffett Federal Airport agree to someone drag racing with its airstrip?

Before Musk could react, the silver lightning drove back with a whining roar.

In an instant, the sharp "skr" sound sounded in the ears of the Musk brothers, and a sports car with a chassis only five or six centimeters away from the ground stopped in front of the two with a whirlwind, and the oblique moon logo on the front of the car was low-key and restrained, but any fan could not help but bow and worship when he saw it.

"McLaren F1!" Elon Musk couldn't help but snort.

This car is a street car just unveiled by the famous old F1 factory McLaren, and as you can see from the name, this car has the performance of a F1 car, accelerating to 100 kilometers in just 2.9 seconds, making it the fastest production car in the world.

As soon as the door opened, a man in a racing suit and helmet with a tall figure came out of the driver's seat in the middle, the car was a three-seater, all three seats were in the front, and the driver's seat was in the middle, a typical racing car layout.

"Elon Musk?" the man took off his helmet and looked the Musk brothers up and down, with a questioning expression on his face, "Cheryl and I have an appointment at half past three, and it is... ”

Kimbar Musk hurriedly said, "Zack, hello. It's because we're early, I'm Kimbalmask, this is my brother Elon, and the place where we met is too 。。。。。 It's special. ”

Zhang Chen stretched out his right hand and shook it with the two, someone next to him had already taken a bottle of water and handed it to Zhang Chen, Zhang Chen unscrewed the lid and drank a few sips, "I thought I forgot the time, the McLaren F1 I booked just arrived last week, so I came here to try the car." ”

Kimbar Musk smirked: "We thought we were mistaken, but we didn't think that the runway of Moffett Airport is still allowed to test drives." ”

Zhang Chenyun said lightly: "Of course Moffett is not allowed, but recently, NASA's budget has been very strict by the federal government, and NASA is ready to close here, so I rented it all for $3.5 million a year for 50 years." It's not far from Dan de Leyen and Matrix, just enough to park our planes. Well... Hangars 2 and 3 still have to cooperate with NASA's high-altitude research, and we have no right to interfere when other planes are allowed to land in Moffett. There were no planes using this runway on these two days, which was just right for test drives. Now that you have come, let us go in and speak. ”

"Lewis, just drive the car back, maintain it and put it in the warehouse. Zhang Chen handed the car key to a capable black man on the side, the black man nodded, took the key, and drove the McLaren F1 into the maintenance workshop two hundred meters away.

The Musk brothers looked at each other,, it's too awesome, it doesn't matter if others buy a private jet, Zhang Chen actually bought a private airport!

While they were looking at Zhang Chen, Zhang Chen was also secretly looking at them.

Musk, Iron Man.

Elon Musk at this age does not have the style of the Iron Man of Silicon Valley in later generations, with a big braincase, a slightly sluggish expression, and a loose and obviously oversized suit.

Especially the latter, Zhang Chen found that people in this era seem to have an ill-fitting leniency in wearing clothes, especially suits, whether they are in the East or the West.

The two followed Zhang Chen into the third building of the Ames Research Center, took the elevator straight up to the third floor, and passed through a long corridor to a spacious hall.

"This used to be the union building at Moffett Federal Airport, and after the Air Force transferred the airport to NASA, NASA laid off 30 percent of the airport's staff, and it was also leased to a food supermarket, God knows why there was a food supermarket here, and it didn't take long for the supermarket to go out of business. When I rented the airport, it was also included, but it was simply remodeled to make a space club. ”

As soon as Elon Musk entered, he was attracted by the three-meter-tall model of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in the center of the hall.

The model is very well made and new, and it is clearly not here in the first place.

However, at this time, Elon Musk did not take care of his hobbies, and he did not forget the purpose of himself and Kimbar coming here.

"Zack, thank you so much for taking the time to meet us, I think you've already read the plan I sent you, what do you think?" Elon Musk preemptively stirred up the topic, eagerly staring at the genius prodigy in front of him, who was a few years younger than himself.

Zhang Chen smiled when he heard this, and thanked the waiter who brought the coffee, "I'm sorry, Mr. Musk, I'm not interested in ZIP2." I can only express my gratitude for your proposal, but Tinder is not ready to get involved in the follow-up financing of ZIP2. ”

Uh-huh, skr, I've finally learned how to use the word.

(End of chapter)