The full name of the Bureau of Science and Industry is the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. Its main function is to be responsible for organizing and managing the formulation and supervision of the implementation of national defense science, technology and industry plans, policies, standards and regulations. However, in order to achieve the highest level of secrecy, the Bureau of Science and Industry secretly searched for a group of reliable scientists, and it became a top-secret plan led by the first and second chiefs and personally participated by the Bureau of Science and Industry.

In the entire country of 1.4 billion people, there are only 27 people who know about the starship plan, and 12 of them are still on the moon 340,000 kilometers away from the earth, this is to keep it secret and minimize the means of knowing, but the request for support from the lunar base said that now except for the commander of the lunar base, all the other people have lost contact.

This is not a trivial incident, China immediately arranged to send a rocket to the sky, sending six search and rescue team members to the moon, but this is the beginning of the request for the lunar base, nearly ten days have passed. But waiting for the person in charge of the Science and Industry Bureau, it is still bad news, and the six search and rescue team members are also the same as the previous people, all of whom have lost contact.

If the first two batches of lost contact may be due to their own equipment and instrument failures and accidents, then three consecutive accidents are unlikely in terms of probability. In other words, there should be something other than the lunar base itself, for example, the wreckage of the alien spacecraft.

At the same time, the leaders of No. 1 and No. 2 who thought of this looked at each other, could it be that the alien spacecraft that had been silent for several years still had the ability to move?

"Someone must be sent up again!" The First leader paced back and forth, looked up after half a ring, and said, "Whether or not there are really aliens on that wreck, we must also send someone up." ”

"I agree." The second chief did not hesitate and said: "But the problem now is that we don't know the specific situation of the wreckage, what kind of people we need to send up, ordinary astronauts have lost more than a dozen, scientists have also lost several, retrain special personnel, and it is too late in time, but if we continue to send astronauts who have not undergone special training, I am worried that it will never go back, we need to find people who have undergone reconnaissance and combat training, and at the same time be able to be familiar with the operation of aerospace instruments, People who have experience in flying and space travel, that is, the astronauts we are looking for next can only be people who become astronauts after being selected by pilots. After a pause, the second leader said: "The problem is that there are still too few people who can gather these conditions, especially the experience of space travel, and now there are less than ten people who have actually traveled through space." ”

Hearing this, the leader of No. 1 pondered for a while and said: "It doesn't matter if you don't have experience in space navigation, won't you have it after you fly up, what I'm worried about now is that we don't have so much time to drag it out, and the intensive launch of rockets in a short period of time, and all of them are sent to the moon, it is very easy to attract the attention of others." The Starship Project is related to the future development of science and technology in our country, and it is an important guarantee for our country's scientific and technological level to become the first in the world. ”

The second chief is also speechless, and at present, the country cannot fully support the lunar base, which is the problem. That is to say, only one search and rescue team can be sent up at most in a short period of time, and once this search and rescue team also has an accident, it is impossible to send personnel up for at least three months, so in order to avoid the problem of personnel loss of contact again in the lunar base, the selection of personnel for this mission is the most important.

"The rest of the team is fine, but we need someone with actual combat experience to be the commander of the search and rescue team, and that's the big problem." Looking at the dazzling roster of personnel, the No. 1 leader frowned and said: "If the commander is not selected well, there is a chance that this mission will fail, but where can the current astronauts find someone with actual combat command experience?" Those who have flying experience are already very good, but the problems that arose this time are very difficult. ”

"If you want to say that......" The second chief suddenly raised his head and said: "It seems that there is really such a person, not only the ace pilot of the Air Force, but also the commander of the air flight, who has been trained as an astronaut, and actually has the experience of flying in space, and more importantly, that little guy is also the first person to fly around the moon in our country......"

"You mean...... "The first and second leaders looked at each other, far away in Chengdu, Xia Yu, who was looking at the X20 prototype, suddenly shivered and touched his nose, this spring in Chengdu is also very cold.

The most difficult commander candidate was confirmed, and the remaining five team members could be directly selected from the astronauts born as pilots, among which a medical officer was needed, and the remaining three people not only had to be able to operate the space vehicle proficiently, but also needed to strengthen their almost unfamiliar combat skills, but even so, the time before the rocket was lifted off was only thirteen days, and the time was very tight.

"Jingle bell ......" In the Chengfei Research Institute, Xia Yu's office was on Zhuo, the phone rang suddenly, Xia Yu stared at the X20 design drawings spread out on the desktop, and picked up the phone and said: "Hey, hello, I'm Xia Yu." ”

"Hello, Comrade Xia Yu, I'm ......" The voice from the microphone is extremely familiar, it is the second chief. Xia Yu immediately put down everything in his hand and said solemnly: "Hello chief, please instruct." ”

"You immediately fly directly to Beijing, and in an hour, I will see you at the headquarters of the 34th Division." There is no nonsense, the second leader directly explained the requirements, even if it is separated by a distance of more than 1,600 kilometers, Xia Yu still stands upright with his legs, and said loudly: "Yes!" Mission completion guaranteed! ”

Waiting for the other end of the phone to become a busy tone, Xia Yu immediately notified the tower of the Chengfei test flight site, asked the tower to help clear an air line, and then rushed downstairs and drove straight to the hangar of the test flight site. On the way, Xia Yu notified Yang Wei by phone, explained the situation and asked Yang Wei to help deal with related matters, and when Xia Yu arrived at the hangar, the ground staff had already begun to fuel Xia Yu's X20.

Although Xia Yu can choose J-20 or J-10 to pilot, but the emergency order of the second commander makes Xia Yu dare not delay, from the time he receives the call, it will take an hour to reach the headquarters of the 34th Division, and the real flight time in the air is less than 40 minutes, Xia Yu can only choose to fly the fastest plane now, that is, X20.

From running down the research institute building to rushing to the hangar, Xia Yu only took less than five minutes in total, and then from refueling the plane, doing ground inspections, taxiing to the runway take-off position, it took more than three minutes and almost four minutes, which is almost ten minutes, leaving Xia Yu with more than fifty minutes left.

"Tower, this is the dragon's tooth, please take off." The X20 on the runway moved all the aerodynamic surfaces, and after the final take-off check, Xia Yu immediately asked to take off.

"The tower receives, Dragon's Tooth, you can take off at any time." An answer came from the tower: "You can climb directly to 13,000 meters, then turn to 030, climb to 20,000 meters, and then fly straight to Beijing." ”

"Dragon's Tooth received." Xia Yu replied, and then pushed the throttle valve to the end, in order to save time, Xia Yu also opened the afterburner chamber for afterburner, and two WS15 began to push the X20 to slide on the runway, just about 100 meters, like a sharp sword, quickly rushed into the sky.