Looking at the huge manufacturing plants around him, Ning Yu was also very excited in his heart. When Ning Yu left the Ning family back then, this manufacturing base had just been built, and he didn't expect that in three years, there would already be such a grand scale here. However, he found a problem, there was no sign of construction in the manufacturing plants one by one.

Ning Yu came to a heavily guarded gate with his questions, in such a large area, the only thing he was familiar with was probably the "Engineering General Deduction Room" in front of him, which was where his father was seated.

In the deduction room, the space is huge, the light is very good, there are many fluorescent screens showing data above the center, and below the center is a huge model table, the model is the huge starship keel that I just saw. There are many workbenches around the deduction room, and the staff with various expressions are busy on their workbenches.

"Is there anything changing here, I just saw the big guy outside. Is it shocking, haha. A familiar voice burst out laughing from behind Ning Yu.

Ning Yu turned to look at the person who spoke helplessly, the person who spoke was still the same as three years ago, and he hadn't changed at all. He has an unshaven beard on his angular face, wears a pair of color-changing sunglasses, and always has two pins on his shirt that is not fastened, and the only thing that can be seen is his neatly pulled up Elvis hairstyle.

Ning Yu looked at this person, opened his mouth blankly, and then said with a somewhat helpless face: "Dad, how many genetic potions have you and your mother used, since I was born, the appearance of the two of you has not changed." Especially you, can you give me some imagination next time, it's okay to change your hairstyle casually, you have to learn like your mother. ”

Yes, the sloppy uncle in front of him is Ning Yu's father, Ning Bowen, and Ning Yu's mother is Shen Linna, who presided over the secret genetic experiment back then. At this time, Ning Bowen's appearance only looked a little slopier than back then, but his appearance had not changed much, thinking about it, if he shaved his beard and changed his clothes, he would definitely be exactly the same as Ning Bowen back then.

It has been 85 years since that secret genetic experiment, but the appearance and age of Ning Bowen and Shen Linna seem to have not changed, and if anyone finds out, they will definitely be very curious. However, the Ning family already has a way to explain it, which is their secret gene anti-aging agent "DNA telomere extender". And this can still be sold externally, but the production is limited and the price is expensive, as for the effect, just look at the two Ning family masters. At such an age, he looks so young, and he can still have a child at an advanced age. However, this expensive drug must be injected for a long time, and it is best to start using it at a young age.

The Ning family is known as the golden family of gene technology, and its products in gene technology naturally have a certain effect, but whether this "DNA telomere extender" is the reason why Ning Bowen and Shen Linna are so young, only they know. As for Ning Yu, this biological child is their bigger secret, and even Ning Yu doesn't know that there will be secrets in him.

"You kid, how can there be a son who dislikes his father's youth, and I can't do anything about it, if you can't see it, I'll change my sunglasses next time." There has always been a deep father-son relationship between Ning Bowen and Ning Yu, and Ning Bowen doesn't put on any elder shelves, no way, who makes himself look more like Ning Yu's brother.

The father and son laughed and walked to the center of the deduction room together, and the staff next to them followed together. In front of them, a huge starship skeleton model was displayed.

"Why hasn't the thing behind this model been built?" Ning Yu looked at the exquisite starship model in front of him and asked.

"That's right, this is only part of the project that the family has completed, and it is a keel built with the best alloy materials, but after building here, we found that some of the starship component design drawings that the family got at the beginning were very outdated, so I suspended the construction of the internal equipment." Ning Bowen looked at the model in front of him and said helplessly.

"Dad, there are still a lot of things to do next, in three years, is there really such a big gap in technology."

"I'm also surprised, show you one thing and you know the gap. Turn on Monitor Six and play back the experiment log of Completed Thruster 2. With Ning Bowen's instructions, above the deduction room, on one screen, a huge thruster ignited on the test bench, the thruster slowly lifted off smoothly, hovered ten meters above the ground, and then slowly fell back to the test bench, the data displayed on the screen was, thrust: 1 million newtons.

Taking into account various factors in the universe, it is generally believed that the starship needs a base thrust of 4 Newtons for every 1 ton of dead weight, while the starship lifted off from the earth, in order to get rid of gravity, the requirements are even higher, and every 1 ton of dead weight must be equipped with a thrust equivalent to 2,500 times that of the universe, that is, 10,000 Newtons of thrust. This is also the reason why many families would rather use a new generation of disposable fuel rockets to get out of the earth's gravity than buy high-power thrusters, the cost and energy consumption are too high.

But what the Ning family wants to build is a space exploration colony ship, which needs to take off and land on a variety of planets, not the kind of one-time colonization ship that allows slow acceleration in the universe. So thrust is a must. The one-kilometer-long starship outside, even if the lightest materials are used, will weigh 40,000 tons in the air, which is already the limit of what light materials can do. It is three times the size of an aircraft carrier in the Earth's oceans, but weighs only as much as a fully loaded aircraft carrier. But to break away from the Earth's gravity, such a light weight would require a total of 400 million Newtons of thrust. And judging by the thrust of this experimental thruster, it is necessary to equip more than 400 of these thrusters. Obviously, this kind of thruster was only designed for small starships of less than 100 tons, and the family did not expect that it would build a big guy of 40,000 tons today.

"There are already 10 million Newtons of thrusters on the market, but with the use of special secret materials, we can only buy them, and it is impossible to make them ourselves. The current minimum starting price is 500 million earth coins, and we need at least 40 units, which is 20 billion. This value is equivalent to the cost of building another keel. Although this amount of money is not too much for the family, the problem is that the family still has a lot of accounts that have not been collected, and if it is spent on a large scale, I am afraid that it will not be good for the family's income and expenditure. Ning Bowen looked at the model and said seriously.

"Whoever owes the debt should find whom, Dad, you really don't have any business philosophy, credit is contagious, you have to block this quickly." How many, I'll go and put it away. Ning Yu heard the crux of the matter and shook his head.

"Well, it's about 50 billion, the family's cash still has 80 billion, if we can recover 50 billion, we can increase the investment in some projects that are being studied, some of which are very important for the starship program."

Ning Yu heard that he already had a general understanding of the current family form, and in his opinion, it was all trivial, so he grinned at his father and said, "This is actually not that difficult, we can ask Uncle Qian for help, I will set off in three days, just prepare the materials and personnel for me." After leaving these words, Ning Yu fiddled with the starship model in front of him.

Ning Bowen glanced at Ning Yu with a secret smile, with a look on his face that looked like he had a successful plan, and thought in his heart: "Your Uncle Qian's method really works, you kid hasn't seen that girl from the Qian family for so long, and this old ghost of Lao Qian really thought of everything for his girl." ”