Chapter 22: Dropping Out of School (I)

At lunchtime, a student cafeteria at Rongcheng University was packed with young men and women who flocked to eat.

Liu Feng, a first-year student at the Institute of Archaeology and Museum, sat in a corner, preoccupied and eating his lunch.

On each of the three walls of the cafeteria is a huge video of a moving pop song playing with a wonderful background image, but Liu Feng listens to it and turns a blind eye.

Liu Feng has been a little upset lately, mainly because his parents have recently divorced.

Liu Feng's mother is a middle school physics teacher, and his father is a senior executive at a new energy company. The reason for their divorce was that they were incompatible personalities, but Liu Feng knew that his mother insisted on divorce because his father had an ambiguous relationship with a female employee in the company.

Liu Feng is a very principled person, and he firmly stands on the side of his mother, who belongs to legitimate self-defense. But in Liu Feng's memory, his father has always cared for him, and the relationship between father and son was originally good.

After his parents divorced, Liu Feng lived with his mother, but he knew very well in his heart that not only would his father find a woman to marry soon, but also his mother would find another man to marry, and then he would become an outsider.

But it's going to rain, and his parents are going to divorce, these are not something that Liu Feng can control. Fortunately, I will be eighteen years old next month, and I can live alone in the world.

Liu Feng is a person with great ambitions, although he is a little upset but will not be depressed, it is already the end of the second semester of the first year, he has just completed the thesis of the second course, and the thesis of the second course needs to be completed in a week, so he must be upbeat to complete the final academic performance evaluation of these four courses.

Liu Feng majored in archaeology, and the final thesis score accounted for seventy percent of the final grade of each course.

Liu Feng ate tastelessly and hurriedly filled in his stomach, he was just about to get up and leave with only the leftover soup plate, when he suddenly heard the video on the wall of the cafeteria suddenly change the tone and the volume increased significantly, and an announcer said loudly in excited standard Chinese:

"Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to insert an important piece of news: Dr. Wang Fan, former Prime Minister of the Earth Government and current CEO of the Earth Space Science and Technology Center, is about to deliver an important speech to the world, and his speech is related to the future development of our world's aerospace, so we will suspend the music program to broadcast Dr. Wang's speech live, please listen and watch."

There was an immediate silence in the cafeteria, and Liu Feng put down his plate and sat back on his stool, and like the other students, he fixed his eyes on the video.

Dr. Wang is the soul of the Earth government in the minds of young students, and his every move has a significant impact on the world.

Although Liu Feng is not a major in aerospace science and technology, he will find a little time to read the news on the Internet every day. Some time ago, the world's major media platforms have reported that Dr. Wang resigned as the prime minister of the Earth Government to concentrate on rebuilding the Earth World aerospace industry, and the media also mentioned that Wang Fan took a three-month vacation to travel to the outer world. Public opinion is widely speculated that Dr. Wang's trip away from home is to raise funds for the Earth Space Science and Technology Center he leads and introduce technology.

For the people in southwest China, especially the young students in Rongcheng and Shancheng, Wang Fan is not only a world leader in their minds, but also a fellow countryman, because everyone on the earth knows that Wang Fan's ancestral home is in this Bashu region.

It is also for this reason that although Rongcheng University does not have a School of Aerospace Science and Technology, as soon as they heard that Dr. Wang was going to give a speech, all the students in the cafeteria sat quietly and waited to watch.

After a while, Wang Fan appeared on the video screen, sitting in the lecture hall dedicated to the leaders of the Earth government to address the world, and the background behind him was familiar to the whole world.

Wang Fan looked at the audience and said in a calm tone: "Global citizens, our Earth Space Science and Technology Center was officially established three months ago, and now I would like to report to you the progress of my work and that of my colleagues in the past three months.

First of all, I am pleased to report that we have achieved groundbreaking breakthroughs in two areas.

First, our space center is about to receive an interstellar cargo spacecraft, which is the gratuitous support of my relatives and friends on the developed planet Russ for our earthlings.

Second, we have officially formed a brotherly alliance with two brother worlds, Golden Star and Weiner Star in the adjacent galaxy, and we will conduct interstellar trade and investment through mutually beneficial and complementary cooperation.

After three months of investigation and study by our panelists, we are convinced that through trade and investment among fraternal alliances, our Earth Space Center will be able to obtain sufficient funds to rebuild and develop the Earth space industry, and we are confident that within five years we will restore the space industry of the Earth world to the pre-war level and launch enough satellites in geosynchronous orbit to restore the Earth world to the highly information-based society it had before the war within five years.

In order to achieve the above goals, we will send out recruitment notices to aerospace technicians around the world within one month, and the vast majority of aerospace technicians will be offered corresponding positions within two months, some of them will directly enter various jobs, and the other will participate in corresponding training and learning.

The Earth Space Science and Technology Center will acquire most of the world's damaged space centers within six months and restore them to their pre-war working condition within a year.

Global citizens, these goals are just one part of our five-year plan, and the bigger and more ambitious goal is that we will be able to build our own spacecraft for interstellar navigation within 20 years! Raise the Earth from a moderately developed planet to a developed planet!

To achieve this great goal, we will adopt a three-step strategy.

As a first step, we will seek cooperation with developed worlds, including Russ, and we will buy small batches of starships directly from developed planets through barter.

In the second step, we will introduce some core components of the starship to the developed planets in batches, and we earthlings will use our own technology and industry to manufacture the starship.

In the third step, we earthlings build our own starships by digesting and absorbing all the technology of the starship.

The biggest challenge we face in order to achieve this ambitious three-step plan will be to recruit enough professionals who will master the core technology of Starship.

Because the purchase of a complete starship from the developed world is not only costly, but also if we earthlings do not have the relevant technical personnel, the maintenance and repair of the spacecraft will face great difficulties in the future.

The existing theories and manufacturing technologies of aerospace science and technology in our earth world are not in the same order of magnitude as those of the developed world, and we must obtain such high-end talents through two ways: export and import, the output is to send the top aerospace talents of our earth world to study in the developed world, and the input is to bring in aerospace science and technology talents from the developed world.

However, there are many challenges in both the above input and output pathways, because of the huge difference in time and space, even if we send a group of top scientists to Ras today for further study, even if they can learn Starship-related technology in five years, when they return to Earth, more than half a century will have passed in the Earth world.

Therefore, we may have no choice but to bring in the talent we need from the developed world to achieve the ambitious goal of being able to build our own starships within twenty years, and we will seek a breakthrough in this regard.

Global citizens, although the journey towards a developed world will be difficult and tortuous, we must overcome all difficulties to achieve this goal for the survival and development of the global world.

Because not only is our Earth world likely to be invaded by aliens at any time, but also the Dopp Galaxy Alliance, where our Earth is located, is already facing the real threat of being swallowed up by other galaxies.

Therefore, our planet must enter the ranks of the developed world as soon as possible, become a member of the galactic alliance, and be able to receive strong foreign assistance in time in the event of foreign aggression.

For the sake of the future of the people of the earth and the realization of the dream of a developed world, every citizen of the world has the responsibility to contribute to the earth's aerospace industry.

I know that there were already a number of tourism companies that had been engaged in interstellar travel within the solar system before the war, and I hope that these companies will cooperate with our space center as soon as possible to invest in interstellar tourism outside the solar system.

Our space center plans to introduce interstellar spaceships from the developed world within five years, so as to provide comfortable and fast interstellar spaceship services for interstellar travel, and then friends who want to travel to the outer world will be able to visit several wonderful outer worlds in three months, just like me..."

Liu Feng, like the students present, stared at their fellow Bashu with wide eyes, listening to every word he said. If what he said came from the mouths of other Earth government leaders, many people, including Liu Feng, would think that it was just an illusory vision of politicians promising good things to voters in order to win votes.

Liu Feng understands that as long as he is an earthling with normal sanity, no one will think that the purpose of Dr. Wang's speech today is to gain votes or to increase his fame, he has long been a recognized superhuman leader in the earth world, and what he promised will definitely come true, and every question he raised is worthy of serious consideration by the world.

During Wang Fan's speech, the cafeteria was quiet, and even the hungry and thirsty students tried to eat some food and drink some soup quietly.

When Wang Fan finished speaking, there was warm applause and cheers in the cafeteria, and Liu Feng, who was still upset just now, was also in a good mood, and he clapped his hands at the video screen.

Subsequently, Liu Feng heard the interesting discussions of the students around him:

"Our planet will soon become a developed planet! I thought I wouldn't see it in my life! ”

"We'll be able to travel to The Outer Worlds soon!"

"Well, so what? Even interstellar tourism in the solar system is the fun of those rich people, and you have to be rich to go to the outer world. ”

"Not necessarily, Dr. Wang is our hometown, and when the time comes, we will go to the Earth Space Center to find him, and maybe he can give us a few free places."

"Haha..."

Liu Feng sat and listened to the discussions of the people around him for a while, then picked up the dinner plate and stood up and left the dining table, he put the disposable tableware made of biodegradable materials in his hand into the recycling bin, and then strode out of the canteen.