Chapter 43: Selling the Sunshine**
Although An Chen said that the rumors that so-and-so was gay were not credible, he secretly thought that the energy plan should be adjusted according to this information.
Originally, it was planned that the eight-faced delicate Jace would accompany Luo Qingye to the Kozhidu family air tea party, and if Kozhidu Diana was really interested in the same sex, then he should be accompanied by a good-looking girl. In any case, even if the information is wrong, the accompanying person will not have any impact on the outcome of the election.
If you choose from the six women in the core members of the Emperor Sky Shield, you can first exclude Qin Sheng and Marina. Both of them were heirs of other families, and it was impossible for them to accompany the Greco family's son to the party. And Bai Anca is not easy to come forward in person, no matter how much Diana engages in "crooked ways", it is impossible to have any other thoughts about her "blind date" sister.
The rest of Clara and Yan Qilan are not the kind of characters who are good at dancing with long sleeves. I'm afraid that a guy like Clara who is off the line won't be able to do this job, and Yan Qilan said that she would take the consultant team to help the rocket structure team and the rocket power team, and she didn't have time to care about this matter.
In this way, if you want to replace Jace, you have to let Anchen go by himself. Thinking of this, An Chen couldn't help but feel that she was really a multi-functional talent, and even the job of being a follower to "Young Master Chino" was a must-have for her—although this was not an honorable thing.
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An Chen rode a sunspot carrying Qin Xiao, and together with the car pulled by the moon wind and water dew that Luo Qingye and Jace were sitting on, they flew nearly 200 kilometers on a high-speed route in the night, and then entered the airspace of Qiaocheng City.
The urban areas of large cities are usually controlled by air traffic, and the route of the hornet is very complicated. Although the helium balloon buoys in the air indicate each route clearly, unfamiliar riders still need to navigate the driving mode in the smart bracelet.
An Chen guided Jace and Luo Qingye according to the instructions of the driving mode, and after walking half a circle along the air loop, he soon saw the legendary Xindi Hotel.
In fact, as one of the landmark buildings in Bridge City, the Xindi Hotel can be seen dozens of kilometers away. Just from a distance, few people realize that the strange thing is the famous Xindi Hotel, which looks like a huge disc stuck on three poles in the southwest corner of the Qiaocheng city.
The disc was a kilometre in diameter, and each of its pillars was 500 metres high, making the large disc a veritable hanging garden. At night, the neon lights on the edge of the disc are all lit up, and a bright cylindrical area is formed above it due to the Tyndall effect, making it look like a flying saucer suspended in the air from a distance, magical and psychedelic.
Anchen remembered the first time she came to the Xindi Hotel.
She was only eighteen years old at the time, and the alumni association of the University of Notre Dame de Ranphy invited all the new students to meet here, and Paanka was the senior sister who received them. At that time, An Chen sighed at this magical hanging garden, believing that this is the embodiment of modern architectural technology.
However, Bianca said, "Have you ever thought about the life of the people who live under this disc? ”
An Chen was stunned for a moment, only to realize that the diameter of the disk was one kilometer, and the height was only five hundred meters, so only when the direct sunlight angle was less than 45 degrees, the center of the circle below could shine on the sun.
"That'...... It's miserable enough. An Chen said with some reluctance, "Why don't they move to live elsewhere?" ”
"Because they already lived there." "The owner of the Xindi Hotel bought the entire plot of land below it and built this hanging garden on top of it. The residents who lived in the shadows were paid according to the market price at that time. ”
"Isn't this self-inflicted?" An Chen commented.
"Really?" Paanka looked at her and asked rhetorically, as if to say to herself, "Someone can pay for the 'lid' on top of their heads to block their sunlight." For these people, the right to see the sun can also be bought by others. This is ostensibly the freedom of trade, but in fact it is the sorrow of the bottom......"
At that time, Anchen did not think that the "right to see the sun" was important. When she first escaped from the palace, she wanted to sell everything that had nothing to do with survival for money, and if someone wanted to buy the sunshine above her head at that time, An Chen would definitely sell it without hesitation.
But then she gradually realized that the working people voluntarily sold more than just "the right to see the sun". Or what Paanka calls "the right to see the sun" is much more than just the opportunity for a home to be exposed to sunlight.
Today, the SHKP Hotel is still sheltering the residential area below, and as it grows in popularity, it also brings job opportunities to the people who live underneath. But in any case, the sunshine will not return. If they want to move out, they will be giving up the economic benefits of the SHKP hotel, and if they can't give up the high-paying jobs around the SHKP hotel, they will never be able to enjoy the sunshine again.
An Chen was thinking distractedly, when suddenly Qin Xiao behind him pointed to a place in the sky and asked, "Look, that star is so bright—Sister An Chen, what star is that?" ”
An Chen followed his finger and looked over, the star was indeed much brighter than the others, especially in the entire night sky under the light pollution.
"It should be Venus." Anchen replied, "Venus's orbit is on the inner side of the Earth, corresponding to the 'celestial sphere' as seen from the Earth's surface, and its orbit is near the Sun, so it will appear at dawn or evening. ”
"Well, I think I told it in astronomy class." Qin Xiao asked with a smile, "Can the rockets you send also reach Venus?" ”
"Why go to Venus, Venus's atmosphere is very thick, and the greenhouse effect causes its surface to be very hot, which can reach 700K." An Chen said casually.
"What planet should I go to?" Qin Xiao asked again.
"Hey, what other planets are you going to, it's nice to be able to go to a satellite." An Chen shook his head, "You see that the mirror moon is quite big, it is 320,000 kilometers away from the earth." The needle moon is farther away, 530,000 kilometers from the earth. Even if it goes well, it would be nice to see a human probe land on the Needle Moon in my lifetime. ”
The Mirror Moon and the Needle Moon are the two natural satellites of the Earth in the bee kingdom. In ancient legends, the mirror moon is the mirror left on the celestial sphere when the god descends, and the needle moon is the gap left by the celestial sphere when the god descends, also known as the "eye of the sky".
(Note: The Moon is about 380,000 kilometers away from the Earth in reality)
The Sky Shield Group is not without plans to explore the Mirror Moon and the Needle Moon, but that will have to wait until the current rocket technology is stabilized. It is relatively easy to launch a probe around the mirror moon, but if landing involves landing on the surface of an atmospheric celestial body, it is a new field.
As an unofficial organization, even with the support of the major aristocratic families and the acquisition of many previous non-profit aerospace research organizations, the Imperial Sky Shield Group cannot achieve the full investment of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
However, An Chen was a little curious about what was the project in which the Imperial Academy of Sciences had invested the most money and manpower now.