Bowley's rare concern flattered the trio of Extraordinary Journey. Considering that this task really requires the guidance and help of a professional team, the three of them naturally did not refuse the invitation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and even took a plane and flew directly to the capital.

As soon as they left Daxing Airport, they saw several black cars waiting for them at the airport gate.

The leader of the team is a middle-aged man in his thirties, he just met and shook hands with the director and Song Wenbin and others, after some greetings, Song Wenbin learned that this person's surname is Mu, and he is the director in charge of the reception work of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

After the film crew and Song Wenbin got into the car, Director Mu immediately drove them all the way to the city.

Song Wenbin went to many countries in order to shoot the show, but it was the first time in his life to come from the capital of his home, on the way, he looked at both sides of the street curiously, BJ's street looked similar to the street in his hometown, but the air was much drier, and he kept drinking water with Huo Yu.

Su Tina is from Yining, and the place where she grew up is relatively dry, but she feels very comfortable here, and has been chattering curiously asking all kinds of questions from Director Mu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. From the quantum collider all the way to the Mars landing plan, Director Mu was very tactful, and the content of her answer was similar to what she talked about on TV.

Because the major was completely incorrect, Song Wenbin remained silent until the convoy drove to the gate of Beihang that Su tina finally stopped asking questions and looked out the window curiously.

The vehicle passed all the way through Beihang and came to an experimental base deep on campus before stopping.

After getting off the bus, Song Wenbin looked around, the tree-lined campus was unusually quiet, and the occasional flat-headed student wearing glasses hurriedly walked by, holding a book and not squinting. Even the air was filled with the fragrance of knowledge, a kingdom beyond his comprehension.

Hearing the sound of a car, a leader in his fifties walked out of the building accompanied by his secretary, shook hands and hugged the director who got out of the car.

"This is Professor Guo of Beihang University, who is also the director of the Space Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences." Director Bao Li held the man's hand and introduced to the trio of Song Wenbin: "He is a very famous expert on space issues in China. ”

"Where, where."

Director Guo said modestly: "We met Director Bao when he was in Beiying before, and I was a little researcher at that time. ”

The three of them hurriedly took turns to shake hands. When it was Song Wenbin's turn, he couldn't help but smile and said, "I'm tired of teacher, I've heard colleagues from the Institute of Archaeology mention you, and they have a high opinion of you." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare." Song Wenbin folded his hands in prayer and said very humbly: "May I ask if you came to us this time, do you have any requirements and instructions?" ”

"Let's talk about it first." Director Guo pointed to the research institute behind him and said.

The group followed the director into the institute, after entering the institute, the quiet and quiet atmosphere in the university was slightly broken, some well-informed young researchers heard the news that the extraordinary journey was coming, one after another out of their own research room, secretly gathered around the door to watch, some bold even came up to ask for a group photo.

Due to the nature of Beihang University of Science and Technology, most of the researchers here are men, and those who come to take pictures are looking for Su tina and Huo Yu to take pictures, and there are not many people looking for Song Wenbin to take pictures, but everyone who sees him wants to shake hands with him and make him hate the teacher.

After taking pictures, those researchers did not leave, and followed the extraordinary journey of the trio all the way to the research institute, and some took pictures while walking, and there were more and more people.

"To be honest, I was scared when I heard Bowley talk about your challenge, I thought it was some internet maniac's. But then I heard that Musk wrote back to you, didn't he? Director Guo asked as he walked.

Song Wenbin was embarrassed, he admitted, it was indeed the nonsense of a madman.

Sutina was generous: "Yes, Musk has written back to us, as long as we can complete this challenge, he will come to China to meet us!" ”

The researchers who followed behind Director Guo were all in awe when they heard this, and whispered.

"Oh, I see."

Director Guo nodded and waved his hand to the researchers behind him.

The researchers who gathered around Song Wenbin to take pictures held their mobile phones and reluctantly left.

"Musk said he wanted to see you complete the challenge, did he say that he would provide you with spacecraft?" After the researcher left, Director Guo asked again.

"This ...... Not really. ”

Song Wenbin said: "He only said that he would come to see us when we finished the challenge, and if we didn't finish it, the matter would probably be over." ”

"That's good." Director Guo nodded, "Then do you have any ideas, for this plan?" ”

"Yes!" Sutina happily said: "We plan to find a very high plane, and then have a free fall at a high altitude to simulate the feeling of weightlessness, and then complete the challenge of eating hot pot in that environment!" ”

"Hmm..."

Director Guo pondered for a moment and said, "It sounds fine, but have you ever thought about what kind of plane to use?" ”

"I'm going to look and see if there's a Concorde plane that can take us to an altitude of 18,000 meters." Sutina said: "It should give us more time to complete the challenge. ”

Su Tina talked eloquently, Song Wenbin and Huo Yu could only listen from the sidelines, the current topic was beyond their knowledge, and they could only hand over the stage to Su Tina to perform.

Concorde......

Director Guo glanced at the secretary next to him and asked, "Has the Concord been grounded?" ”

The secretary on the side hurriedly replied: "It's grounded, director, it's grounded in 03." ”

"It was grounded more than 20 years ago."

Director Guo looked at Sutina regretfully and said.

"Well, I asked my colleagues in our company to put us in touch, and they said that there were a few Concordes in the British space pavilion, and I wondered if I could borrow them for a challenge." Sutina said uncertainly.

Song Wenbin listened to Su Tina's words, and for some reason his body suddenly trembled, how could this guy be excited Balabala, why didn't he notice that the leader's expression had been very serious.

Sure enough, after Sutina finished speaking, Director Guo seemed to fall into deep thought.

Su tina still wanted to ask the director's opinion, but Song Wenbin quietly grabbed her, stuck to her side and bit her ear and whispered: "There are still quite a lot of people watching our show abroad......we still have to pay a little attention to the influence." If we use foreign aircraft to complete the challenge, I am afraid that the impact will not be good, especially after Musk's reply, this is no longer a simple program challenge..."

After Song Wenbin finished speaking, Su Tina's face was slightly pale, her lips opened slightly, and she didn't know what to say.

Song Wenbin coughed softly twice, sat up straight and said: "Director, just now my colleague these are just assumptions, far from the implementation of the step, to be honest Musk's reply is also unexpected, we haven't dealt with this kind of thing, director, ......what do you think?" ”

Hearing Song Wenbin say this, a smile appeared on the director's face, and said: "I don't think this Concorde airliner is a very good method, first of all, our country's high-altitude aircraft are also very advanced, and there is no need to use the kind of goods that were eliminated twenty years ago, right." ”

"That's it." Song Wenbin hurriedly replied.

"Secondly, I think it's too conservative to use airplanes, if you want to fly at high altitudes, just take a rocket and it's over." The director said lightly: "Fly 20,000 meters, shoot it out and make people laugh, how can you fly to low-earth orbit, that is the real space." ”

Low Earth Orbit ...

Song Wenbin asked Sutina in a low voice, "How tall is that......"

"Two... Two hundred to two thousand kilometers...," Sutina replied in a whisper.

Song Wenbin: ......

What are you doing, big guy, is it so easy to go to space, why do you still want us to go up!!

He yelled inwardly.

"Rockets? Isn't it....too...."Sutina was a little speechless and stopped. This is too serious, and there seems to be no precedent for commercial flights in China before.

"The cost is too high."

Huo Yu said: "It's too expensive to fly once, we're just doing an entertainment challenge, and we are just a commercial company, we need to consider costs and benefits, if we invest too much, we will inevitably lose money in the end." ”

Director Guo waved his hand and said, "To tell you the truth, before you, our space laboratory has also made a lot of attempts and breakthroughs in new space food over the years, but we have not done real high-altitude experiments at all. Now that you've taken this challenge, we'd like to work with you on a test of food in space, and if you wish, we can arrange a flight in low Earth orbit for you. ”

"Really???"

Sutina exclaimed.

"It's true." Director Guo said solemnly: "Since more than ten years ago, we have been preparing for the space observatory and the lunar base, and now the space station has been completed, but the lunar base has not yet been seen. The strategy planned by the China National Space Administration is to build an unmanned exploration station in 2027, and to achieve a manned landing on the moon by 2030, and even establish a lunar research station. But in any case, the farther you go, the more important the logistics become, our laboratory has special personnel responsible for the research and development of space food, but many of our food has not been professionally tested, if there are professional volunteers willing to come and help us, I think the country will be very happy to support you to complete this test. ”

Seeing Director Guo's serious appearance, Song Wenbin was a little caught off guard, to be honest, he thought Su Tina's method was very good, but now... Is this serious?

Apparently the director was serious, he pushed open a door in front of him and said, "Please come with us." ”

The film crew of the extraordinary journey followed Director Guo and walked towards the inside of the laboratory together, and after passing through many disinfection porches and sterile workshops with many strange devices, they came to an inconspicuous laboratory.

The lab was full of white equipment, and some plants and fungi grew in some clear glass cases. Several staff members in pure white protective suits were sitting in the laboratory doing experiments, and when they saw the film crew coming, they all put down their work and stood up.

Song Wenbin looked around curiously, to be honest, he had never seen such a sci-fi place, those instruments and those plants that were locked in glass, almost like they came out of a sci-fi movie.

Sutina stood beside him, patting his Huo Yu constantly, reminding them to look east and west, their bodies were trembling with excitement, if it weren't for the occasion, I was afraid that she would be tempted to jump up and touch it twice at any time.

"This group is specialized in the cultivation of space species." After that, Director Guo introduced to everyone in the laboratory, "These three are the hosts of the extraordinary journey, and the ones I mentioned to you are the ones who once went to the five oceans to hunt for treasures. ”

Several researchers from the laboratory got up one after another to shake hands with the three of them, but when Song Wenbin shook hands with one of the handsome female researchers, the female researcher who didn't look very old suddenly asked, "Do you like to eat insects?" ”

What? Song Wenbin didn't react for a while.

The girl picked up a petri dish from the nearby shelf, reached into her finger, and soon, when she took it out again, a yellow-brown worm crawled on her finger, which was wearing a thin plastic glove.

"Bugs, do you like to eat?"

The girl asked again.

Song Wenbin looked at the researcher's fair and delicate face, and then at the worms crawling on her fingers, and didn't know what to say for a while.

Su tina and Huo Yu also came over, their eyes widening curiously.

"What kind of worm is this?" Sutina asked curiously.

"Breadworms, they're delicious." The female researcher smiled.

"I heard that you and Musk agreed to go to space to eat hot pot, right?" Director Guo asked on the side.

"It's... Yes..."

Song Wenbin stammered back.

"Eating hot pot must be shabu-shabu, but beef and mutton are afraid that they will not be able to appear in space in a fresh form for a long time. But I think you can get some bugs. ”

Director Guo said seriously: "In the future lunar science base, this will be our source of protein for a long time. ”

Song Wenbin: ......

Sutina: ......

Huo Yu: ......

"Astronauts, do you eat bugs?"

Song Wenbin asked cautiously: "I haven't heard of it, those few people in the sky now?" ”

"Oh, did you say that the people on the Tiangong now, they don't eat, they eat all the supplies brought up from the ground. But after all, they are still in the near air, and it is convenient to replenish. If we want to go to deep space like the moon and survive for a long time, we must consider the issue of sustainable and circular development. Xiaowen. The director shouted.

The female researcher tweezed the wriggling breadworm back into the bottle, stood up, and smiled, "Please follow me." ”

The female researcher took Song Wenbin to a fully enclosed white capsule next to her, and she pressed the combination lock to open the hatch. After the faint white smoke cleared, the female researcher led the three of them into the strange white capsule.

Song Wenbin is relatively tall, and he has to bend down slightly when he enters the door, and after entering, he has the feeling of coming to a space version of the hobbit house.

The walls were lit with white or purple shimmers, and all kinds of plants grew in the high-tech glass cabinets under the dim light, some of which Song Wenbin knew, greens, lettuce, cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes, and the like, some of which he didn't know at all, but they looked like they were all kinds of fungi. The capsules were divided into several rooms, each of which was full of greenery, and after walking to one of them, the female researcher stopped, and in this transparent compartment, there was a transparent glass case, and the cabinet was densely crawled with brown bread worms, they were gnawing on a pumpkin and vegetable leaves, making people's scalp tingle.

"This is our Eco-5 simulation system."

The female researcher introduced to the three people: "It can simulate a real environment 90 percent, including microorganisms, animals and plants, and a simple ecological chain, where future astronauts can carry out simple plant planting and bread worm cultivation, without any interference from external factors, this ecology can support an astronaut's self-sufficiency for half a year without any problem." ”

Director Guo added to the trio: "This is something that no other country in the world can do, and they also have ecological simulation systems, but they basically fail." ”

There is no doubt that this is the most cutting-edge technology that Song Wenbin has ever seen, he has never seen such a good place where technology and nature are integrated, even if the cultural level is not high, he looks at this room, and he can't help but want to sigh.

Obviously, the other two colleagues felt the same way, they walked around the capsule, and from time to time let out amazing exclamations, but, after looking at it, Sutina couldn't help but ask in confusion.

"I... There's a question, Director. ”

"Excuse me."

"Why don't you raise chickens?" Sutina asked, "Since we can breed bugs, if we can solve the problem of radiation, and we have vegetables and grains, then why not raise chickens, I mean, chickens can eat bugs, people can eat chickens, chickens can lay eggs, isn't it better?" ”

Su tina said that Song Wenbin was also curious, there are all kinds of plants in this capsule, but the animals that move are only insects, which can't help but make people confused, as a child who grew up in the countryside, Song Wenbin feels that raising chickens is a very natural thing, even if he goes to the moon, there is nothing wrong with raising some chickens.

"We did think about it very early on."

The female researcher next to her who answered Sutina said: "This is technically no problem, not to mention raising chickens, but also rabbits." But later, after many of our ground tests, it was found that in the long-term confined space, astronauts are easy to breed loneliness, especially when it comes to a different planet that is empty hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, even the most professionally trained astronauts will irrepressibly have feelings for the animals they have cultivated, and if they want to kill the animals around them as food, it will cause unnecessary damage and burden to the spirit of the astronauts, so after careful consideration, so we are in the early days of the lunar base, At least until there are many people, we will only use bugs as a source of protein. ”

(End of chapter)