Forty years after the appearance of "cherry blossoms......

The last probe landing on the moon did not change the nature of the whole world. The popularity of cherry blossoms will not change because of the moon landing, but it has tepidly attracted a small group of astronomy enthusiasts to settle in Tokai City, which is already a good achievement.

The phenomenon of confrontation between Tokai City and the rest of the world has not changed.

There is no point in triggering the collective shame of humanity.

How many days can this shame last? One day, two days, a month, or two months? Can collective shame be turned into motivation? If humans really change anything out of shame, they are not human.

Over the years, Zhang Yuan has been silently leading the team to engage in manned spaceflight, and his biggest goal is to send astronauts back to the moon, and even reopen the operation procedures of the lunar base.

Life has been hard, or rather, it has never been so hard.

First of all, the first small goal is to send people into low-earth orbit in space and circle the earth.

The second small goal is to send people to the aerotropolis in synchronous orbit. At a distance of 36,000 kilometers above the ground, the aerotropolis rotates steadily around the earth, and there are some machines on it that can be activated.

These two small goals have been accomplished in previous years, and after accumulating some experience, the final big goal is to go to the moon.

These years have been very hard, although the robot will help produce various parts, but the drawings and equations all have to be done by Zhang Yuan himself.

There is very little talent reserve in the relevant field, the cynicism of the outside world has always existed, and there is no salary in this society, everyone is doing this with enthusiasm.

But......

An unlucky thing happened.

This time, the manned space rocket failed to launch!

In this disaster, the four astronauts turned into a raging fire and disappeared into the distant sky, and it only took a minute! The desperate cries of these astronauts could be heard in mid-air.

Zhang Yuan, who was watching from the observation platform, fell to the ground, this disaster is too big, too big to bear, and the Donghai Aerospace City, which has just improved a little, must have suffered a devastating blow!

Zhang Yuan has been lying in bed for three days, not that he is not strong enough, but he clearly knows what it means that the failure of this rocket launch.

Several relatives kept crying in front of the hospital bed, thinking that Zhang Yuan was about to die...... Or rather, all their plans, died in this minute.

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"Haha, failed, they finally failed!"

"Even the ancestors didn't want them to go to the moon."

"I knew they weren't going to make it!"

Corresponding to this is a tsunami of schadenfreude and ridicule from the outside world. When you don't work hard, you often see the efforts of others, which is also a kind of torment. This group of people waited for a long time, and finally waited for this one given by God to be able to mock the opportunity, and some even said that these astronauts "deserved" and "died well"!

In the face of this invective, the city is clouded, and the citizens are filled with suspicion, fear, and mutual distrust, and they begin to question whether the work of the space city is worthwhile.

The original hero of Donghai City has become an object of spurning, if it were not for the protection of the robot, Zhang Yuan, who was lying on the hospital bed, might even be beaten to death by the thugs!

A large number of astronauts left amid fierce abuse, and even friends and relatives did not support them to continue their work.

They themselves are devoted to their careers with enthusiasm, but after this disaster, the blood is dispersed, and the hearts of the people are naturally dispersed.

The engineer endured the pain and investigated for a long time, but found that a certain screw was not tightened, and the person in charge of this aspect had run away, and the whole incident was full of signs of conspiracy theory......

After he got up from the hospital bed, he sat in front of the office again, quietly in a daze, and secretly blamed himself for why he was not more meticulous in employing people, and why he was not more aware of his work.

"I'm sorry."

Since the successful landing of the lunar probe, it has indeed attracted many talents from all over the world. But people are not as good as heaven, and with this explosion, everything was in vain.

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In the forty-second year, in just two years, the population of Donghai City dropped by 30%!

The city has been hit by populism. Populism is to have someone take the lead and keep hammering others in order to gain its own sense of superiority, but now that the manned space program has failed, the hero has fallen from the altar, and the people's hearts have naturally dispersed. Many of the original residents simply left the city that had lost its luster.

Due to the rapid decline in population, many of the clowns in the rest of the city have an opportunity to take advantage of. They are calling on people from the rest of the city to move into Donghai City in large numbers.

When these immigrants have a demographic advantage, they can vote to change the law to remove "Sakura" from the list of prohibited items.

In this way, the "geographical advantage" that the people of the East China Sea are proud of will naturally disappear.

Zhang Yuan had to turn his attention to this aspect and re-engage in the ideological struggle.

But this time, it's much more difficult than the last one. The people no longer trust him, the chief designer of the aerospace project.

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In the forty-seventh year, due to the increasing number of foreign populations, the contradictions within the city became more and more intense, and there were more and more fights and more and more people who broke the law, which was completely unimaginable in the past.

Actually, these people are just here to make trouble, they just want to vote to wipe the last city on Earth that bans "cherry blossoms" from this world, and that's it.

Zhang Yuan never thought that human nature in the world would be so evil, maybe they felt that they were righteous?

Want more people to enjoy more fun?

The whole vote has been launched three times, but this time, there are so many people from outside to "join in the fun" that there is no way to stop it.

In an announcement issued by a robot, it was written: [According to the results of this vote, the number of votes in favor is 513453, with 40,998 abstentions and 40,988 votes against. "Sakura" will be removed from the Rank B Forbidden Items...... Its ingredients are......]

The vote passed, the law was changed, and the robot would no longer restrain humans from using "Sakura". There were some irrational angry locals who started setting fire to things, and then they were caught by robots and sent to a prison cell.

Faced with this situation, Zhang Yuan could only stand up and call on everyone to be rational about the final result.

"Ladies and gentlemen...... Maintain self-esteem and self-love, even if the law does not bind us, we can also restrain ourselves. ”

However, the real truth is...... The tide is gone,

Zhang Yuan actually does not believe in the so-called self-restraint.

It's too hard.

In the end, several companions who followed Zhang Yuan were also crying on the side, wiping their tears, trying to accept the final truth.

The streets were lined up in long lines to celebrate the opening of the cherry blossoms, cheering and shouting loudly, declaring the full dawn of the era of individual freedom.

They shouted: "The last evil city has also ushered in true freedom!" ”

Freely!

Corresponding to this is the quiet crying of a handful of people, which no one knows or pays attention to.

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