Space Group.

Office of the Chief Engineer.

When he heard the news that Star Technology planned to conduct a test flight on New Year's Day, Secretary Yu immediately brought the news here. After listening to the whole news, Yuan Huanmin, who was reading the literature, was immediately stunned for a few seconds.

When he came back to his senses, he glanced at Secretary Yu who was standing at the desk with disbelief.

“…… Test flight? ”

"Yes! Who would have thought they would move so fast! His face was full of sadness, and Secretary Yu sighed heavily, "Hey, we're still a step slower, what's the matter!" ”

In fact, contrary to what the top leaders of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology expected, the aerospace group has not taken that gamble for a while from the very beginning.

Electric propulsion ......

But anyone who knows anything knows that it is impossible to climb a gravity well with that bit of thrust. Otherwise, the leader of the aerospace group would not have agreed to this bet so readily, and it was really not a wise choice to argue with that Professor Lu, so he would simply let him touch the ashes of his nose.

Outcome......

Who would have thought that they would all start test flights?

Looking at Secretary Yu, who was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, Yuan Huanmin's face was also full of surprise.

It's just that his worries are still a little different from Secretary Yu......

After a moment of silence, he asked in a tone of disbelief.

"The first test flight, they were on the live?"

Secretary Yu was stunned, frowned and said, "There are two pilots in the launch plan......"

"It's nonsense!"

His right hand slapped the table, and the lid of the teacup trembled, Yuan Huanmin stood up from the chair with an angry face, grabbed the coat hanging on the back of the chair, and walked towards the door of the office.

Seeing that Academician Yuan was leaving, Secretary Yu was stunned and hurriedly chased after him.

"Chief Engineer Yuan, where are you going?"

Yuan Huanmin said without hesitation: "Do you still need to ask?" To the launch center in Jinling, of course! ”

Secretary Yu said with a look of embarrassment: "But Jinling didn't invite us, wouldn't it be a loss of face for us to just go over like this......

"Is this a matter of face!" Yuan Huanmin's eyes widened, and he roared sideways with foaming stars, "Is human life important, or face important!" ”

That's two astronauts!

And it is also a trump card selected from the test flight team!

Thinking of this, Yuan Huanmin was furious, but also shook his head in his heart.

Sure enough, it's still too young.

After a little achievement, it swelled like this.

Even if you interfere across borders, now you don't even care about the lives of precious astronauts!

In Yuan Huanmin's view, this Lu Zhou is purely holding the country's trust in him, and he is fooling around with his own temperament there!

Originally, he spent his own money on this project, but now he can't sit still even with his life.

You have to stop him for anything!

Yuan Huanmin, who had made up his mind, even called his secretary and asked him to help buy a ticket from Shangjing to Jinling, and then went downstairs to the garage.

Secretary Yu, who was closely following Chief Engineer Yuan, wanted to dissuade him, but after thinking about it, he dispelled this idea again.

Wouldn't it be nice if he really stopped the launch?

Whether you stop it or not, you can still give it a try......

……

Outside the Jinling Space Launch Center, dust billowed out.

Escorted by several military vehicles, a heavy rocket transporter slowly drove into the small launch center.

As early as a day ago, the Jinling city government blocked this section of the road and used police force to temporarily block all sections of the road leading to this area to persuade approaching pedestrians to leave. On the one hand, this is out of consideration for the safety of citizens' lives, after all, aerospace is always accompanied by many accidents, and on the other hand, it is out of secrecy.

It is foreseeable that many countries have already been eyeing this place for a long time.

However, it doesn't matter if you target it.

Nothing can be kept secret forever, or in other words, it is not easy to keep it secret until now.

Getting out of an army-green jeep, Commander Dai, who was wearing a military uniform, walked up to Lu Zhou and held his right hand tightly.

"Professor Lu, we're meeting again."

"Fortunately, Head Dai is fine," holding Head Dai's hand and shaking it, Lu Zhou said with a smile.

Since the beginning of the controlled nuclear fusion project, the two have known each other because of their work contact, and their friendship has always been very good. The upper echelons of this launch attached great importance to it and entrusted the safety work to the East China Theater, and the regiment led by Regiment Commander Dai was still specifically responsible for this work.

After the two briefly exchanged a few words, Head Dai spoke.

"Let's talk about the old things after the launch is over in a while, and I won't bother here. The security of this area is ensured by our warriors, so all you have to do is conduct your experiments! ”

"Well," Lu Zhou nodded and said seriously, "Thank you for your hard work." ”

"It's not hard, it's our duty in itself."

Smiling and waving his hand, Head Dai turned around and walked back to the jeep.

The moment he picked up the walkie-talkie, the expression on his face had regained his majesty.

"Attention to the 1st and 2nd companies, conduct carpet patrols near the space launch center!"

"A radius of 500 meters, even a fly, don't let me go!"

……

On the other side, after saying hello to Commander Dai, Lu Zhou turned around and came to the side of the launch site and saw the two test pilots who were ready to board. Standing next to the two test pilots, the instructor in charge of training them is making final emphasis on what needs to be paid attention to.

Seeing Professor Lu coming, the instructor stopped talking and gave up the opportunity to speak to Lu Zhou.

Walking to the side of the two test pilots and standing still, Lu Zhou stretched out his fist and touched Nie Yun's chest.

"Come on."

Nie Yun took a deep breath.

He has never talked much, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Hmm!"

Then walked in front of Nie Han, Lu Zhou stretched out his fist, but suddenly thought that the female man was also a woman, so he awkwardly changed it to a shoulder pat.

Capturing the changes in Lu Zhou's movements and demeanor, Nie Han sneered and said in a mocking tone.

"Actually, I don't mind."

“…… Are all the girls in your army so arrogant? ”

"That's not it, there are many styles of girls in the army, what type do you like? I'll introduce you to someone when I have the chance. ”

"Forget it......"

Saying that he is single, is he already so famous?

Lu Zhou coughed dryly, then changed to a serious expression, looked at her and said solemnly, "Come on." ”

Nie Han raised her hand and gave a military salute, but the fearlessness and strength on her face were carved out of the same mold as her brother.

"We will not fail in our mission!"

Lu Zhou nodded, turned around and walked to the huge space shuttle, and continued to look at the two.

"The prelude to the space age will begin on this day, and you will be the drummers who will sound the first note of the overture."

"I won't be verbose if I don't have any extra words."

"History will remember this day, and it will remember you, and it will remember all the people who stand here."

Speaking of this, Lu Zhou paused for a moment and looked at the silver spaceship with a streamlined shell behind him.

"See you later, then."

In those three short sentences, the engineers and technicians on the scene who listened to them were full of enthusiasm and pride.

It's just that no one noticed that the corners of the mouth facing the space shuttle crossed a subtle smile.

After a long pause, Lu Zhou called out the name of the person in charge here.

"Hou Guang."

"In!"

"The countdown to the ignition is up to you!"

didn't think much about it, and when he heard Hou Guang, who was in charge of counting down, he nodded excitedly.

"Yes!"