Chapter 50: A Journey to Space
Distant bells echo in your ears, and the sun looms below the horizon.
Zhang Yuan came to his seat and buckled his seat belt.
He exhaled deeply, trying to get all the bad emotions out of his mind.
Airplanes!
After the elevator started, it brought a slight feeling of overweight, which caused a roar in the eardrum in his ears.
The structure of the maglev elevator is a bit like a high-speed train erected. It moves very fast, accelerating for a period of time to an upward speed of about 500 kilometers per hour.
It is expected that after 72 hours and 3 days, it will reach the position of the synchronous orbit at 36,000 kilometers, that is, the "Tenglong" space city.
Through the space elevator, the cost of transporting materials into space is about 10 yuan per kilogram. In order to reduce transportation costs, the maglev elevator should be as light and simple as possible, so the overall environment cannot be very comfortable.
There is only one small berth per person, and there is an additional charge for carry-on luggage.
In a matter of minutes, the elevator reached the stratosphere, beyond the height of Mount Everest. Through the windows, you can enjoy the beautiful view outside.
At this height, the panoramic view of Xisha City comes into view, and all kinds of beautiful traffic tracks are like blood vessels in the city, and the moving cars are like flowing blood.
This cosmopolitan port city is constantly in operation day and night.
Anyway, being idle is boring, Zhang Yuan simply chatted with Li Zhendong.
Li Zhendong frowned and said: "I received a notice a few days ago that everyone should look for some work projects, as a consideration for comprehensive results, and various work hierarchy systems. Equivalent to a military rank in the army. ”
"We, the astronauts, have gone to the sky, and we have to generate income for the foundation...... This is naked exploitation! ”
Zhang Yuan retorted while swiping calculus on his mobile phone: "You can also eat and wait for death, and do nothing." Anyway, as long as there are basic positions in the spaceship, there will be a salary, and you will not starve to death. If you really starve to death, you can apply for hibernation. ”
"I already have S$100,000 now, probably the richest one on the spaceship, and a boxed lunch costs only $4, which is enough for me to eat for a long time."
The conversion of Federated Dollars to New Coins is about 100:1.
S$100,000, according to a salary of 1,000 a month, you have to work for 8.3 years.
Li Zhendong glared, and saw that Zhang Yuan was feverishly brushing calculus again, and he was a little speechless.
Zhang Yuan donated 10 million federal coins at the award ceremony and sprayed with reporters, causing a sensation, and he must know it.
At that time, I wondered for a long time, this kind of pretending to be forced was actually encountered by Zhang Yuan, and he asked him to pretend to be perfect......
"You're really a big dog, when are you going to have a dinner?"
Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "Okay, I'll invite you to eat synthetic meat, and eat as much as you want." In fact, money is not of much use, at least not for the time being. I can't eat food for two people, I have a lot of electronics in my luggage, and I don't need to buy anything else......"
Li Zhendong said strangely, "You only brought electronic products?" I also brought some seasoning, especially chili sauce, don't come to me! ”
Zhang Yuan was stunned, "It's over, I forgot!" ”
The ship's material output is quite limited, and there is a purchase limit for each person.
It is impossible for Zhang Yuan to use his large amount of money to buy all the food, and then raise prices, engage in monopoly, resell to make money, and so on.
These behaviors are not allowed, and if they do happen, Zhang Yuan may be invited to the relevant departments for tea.
Although the society is small, it also has a sound security mechanism.
On the other hand, the wealth donated will only make the initial capital a little more, and there is no way to improve the social status.
It is only through work projects that the Deep Space Foundation generates income is a manifestation of its capabilities.
Or to start from the academic side, be able to write some excellent papers and show your own value.
In order to build a new civilization on a distant planet, the first point advocated by the "Earth Era" is to work more and get less. People with high work ability have more resources and permissions, and that is a matter of course.
This is especially true when resources are scarce.
In addition to the original experts, professors and skilled workers, who already have a relatively high status, these young people are all standing on the same starting line.
The entire assessment will take a total of one year, until the spacecraft arrives at the base of Jupiter, and after replenishing the last substance, it will enter a formal ultra-long-distance interstellar voyage, and the vast majority of the crew will enter a state of hibernation, and they can only wake up once in three to five hundred years.
People with higher authority can give preference to hibernation batches, for example, hibernate a little later than others.
Li Zhendong sighed and said: "At present, I am not far from the earth, and I can still communicate with my relatives, and everyone wants to hibernate a little later, a year or two later." ”
"But as soon as I close my eyes, it's been three hundred years since I woke up, and there's nothing left."
"yes!" Zhang Yuan was also embarrassed.
That's the most uncomfortable part.
Separate from the times, from all relatives, and truly abandon everything.
The two talked about this and were silent for a while.
Li Zhendong came back to his senses and continued: "...... Let's not talk about that, let's talk about the work project. I'm going to make a mobile game. The game is not very difficult to make, and if it is a hit, it will make a lot of money! ”
"Games?" Zhang Yuan used to be a little interested in this thing, but now, he feels that the time to play games is not as good as studying.
"Send me the plan."
"Okay, I'll send it to you."
Li Zhendong thought happily in his heart, Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan, the hero is sad about the beauty, you pick up girls all day long, I guess you didn't do anything during the whole holiday, right?
The girl is too beautiful, and the hero can only be a bear!
It's not like me, I studied hard and wrote plans at the same time, which was miserable. Dude is finally diligent for a vacation!
Wait a minute!
A question popped up in Li Zhendong's mind: What would I do if I had a beautiful and lovely girl?
I'd definitely choose to be a bear too!
Thinking of this, Li Zhendong was not so gloating, but full of yearning and ...... Envy!
"It's a pity...... What a pity! ”
"What a pity?"
Zhang Yuan read the entire game planning book carefully, his brows furrowed slightly, "Auto chess? Quite a novel idea. But it's not that easy to make money. Games are not only programming, but also a bit of luck. You'd better find an artist, then a few more people, and you're done. ”
"Do you want to do it together?" Li Zhendong still believes in Zhang Yuan's programming level.
Although the other party has become a bear, he still has to be relieved, who made me Li Zhendong too kind.
Zhang Yuan thought about it, shook his head and said, "Forget it, I don't have this time." I've already found a project, and I'm working with professors from Xisha University to do a robot control program. I don't know if I can make money, but try to ...... anyway."
"Robots?"
"Yes, I promised them. It is very difficult to guide some of the instruction sets of the robot to move, so now hurry up and make up the relevant knowledge......"