Return to the exciting era of 1999

Chapter 2285: Sadness and Joy in a Moment
He put on gloves and tapped his watch. A virtual screen appeared on the wall and all the large screens were displayed in front of him. Ji Donglai dropped one of them and the screen instantly enlarged.

Ji Donglai carefully checked every point above, then flicked his fingers and the screen returned to its original position. He slid his fingers lightly and the large screen switched one by one. After clicking on three blocks in succession, Ji Donglai was relieved. He clenched his fists and turned off all the screens.

"I'm going to take a nap. Call me when the launch begins. I'll leave the command center to Hao Kun. Don't call me unless it's something serious!"

Ji Donglai took off his gloves and put on a blindfold this time. Ran Bo left the room. As Ji Donglai's even breathing came from his nose, the volume of the speakers in the room gradually decreased.

"Brother Ji is asleep?"

Ran Bo informed Jiang Hao Kun of Ji Donglai's order, and the other party nodded.

"Let him get some sleep. You guys didn't get enough rest these days, so he barely slept. He's under more pressure than you guys. You know we went to the Jinshui Bridge for a meeting a few days ago, and the higher-ups took this matter very seriously."

"Donglai vomited yesterday, you had no way of knowing. You will know when you all take over one day. His position is too important. I have never seen him like this before."

"If it's not a big deal, let's wait until he wakes up. Besides, Haitang is also pregnant, and it's similar to Lu Lu's pregnancy. He is under even more pressure!"

Taking out a handkerchief and wiping the grease off his face, Ran Bo whispered to Jiang Haokun, who then realized how hard Ji Donglai had been working lately.

Fortunately, Ji Donglai organized everyone to go to the Northeast to relax in the previous stage, otherwise more than half of the people would be in this situation now.

The world's top think tanks are all here now. Europeans, Chinese, and Central Asians dare not slack off at this time, especially Hainseh and his gang, who are still arguing with tablets in hand, discussing whose formula is the most reasonable.

Fan Zhongbao is the core of this group of people. These three hours are crucial. It takes an hour to modify the program. If there is any problem, there will be bugs in the launch program.

"The recovery pliers have not returned to their place. Who is responsible for this location?"

"Ah? No, we checked..."

A group of people screened the situation on site again and again. An engineer operated the on-site robot to perform a second calibration of the entire robotic arm. It was found that two bolts on the robot responsible for rocket recovery were loose and the position was off by ten millimeters.

"Check it out immediately, quick!"

Fan Zhongbao's eyes were bloodshot at this time, and all the mechanical engineers started yelling on their walkie-talkies. Staff at all levels rushed to the scene, the elevators started working, and they were busy with all kinds of work.

Jiang Haokun wanted to kill someone at this time, and the launch was only a few hours away. This kind of nonsensical situation occurred at the scene, which should never happen.

But Jiang Haokun could not show any expression at this time. Compared with Jiang Haokun, Fan Zhongbao was under greater pressure. If he could really accomplish the feat, Fan Zhongbao would definitely be recorded in the history of domestic technology.

Of course, the price of this effort is also heavy. The other party has suffered gastric bleeding three times this year. If it were not for this launch, he would have been hospitalized.

At this time, the opponent gritted his teeth and persisted, and let his men advance in an orderly manner. Fortunately, they were all small things and the positions were fixed. Now the rocket was in the best position and could not be changed at will.

"Two minutes left to finalize the launch procedure!"

As the time was getting closer, Jiang Haokun looked at his watch and nodded to Fan Zhongbao.

Everyone began to prepare. Ji Donglai slowly took off his blindfold and moved his fingers slightly. The lights in the room slowly went out, and more than a dozen large display screens appeared out of thin air. The one in the front was the Caspian Sea Launch Base.

The on-site personnel have been evacuated, all monitoring equipment has been turned on, the marine observation ship has begun to sail to the designated location, three drones have been launched, and Yiyuan Intelligent Manufacturing's satellites have also begun to appear in the designated airspace.

"Five, four, three, two, one, fire!"

As time passed, the rocket's tail flame began to spray above the Caspian Sea launch base, and the rocket body slowly rose into the air, then gradually increased in speed.

"call!"

As the rocket took off, three huge flames slowly appeared on the big screen, and the scene at this moment was displayed on more than 500 computer screens in the world.

Everyone held their breath, and the numbers on the big screen kept switching from 500 meters, 1,000 meters, 2,000 meters...

"We can celebrate now haha..."

When the flight altitude exceeded three thousand meters, the rocket camera began to switch, and the climbing trajectory was perfect. The deputy walked up to Fan Zhongbao with excitement in his eyes.

Before two seconds had passed, a beam of light came flying at us at high speed, and the next moment...

"boom!"

The rocket exploded violently, and a mushroom cloud almost appeared in the entire airspace. Everyone at the launch site was stunned and unable to speak for a long time.

"Replay, what was the object of the collision, the airspace scene, quick!"

The first person to react was Jiang Haokun. Accompanied by the other party's roar, a group of people finally reacted and immediately operated the computer to start tracking the previous frame of the picture. At this time, Ran Bo also quickly ran into Ji Donglai's room. The bodyguard reached out to stop him, and Ran Bo was stunned for a moment.

Ji Donglai did not say anything, but switched to another screen. At this time, a rocket was still slowly climbing on the screen, and the entire flight trajectory was perfect.

In the designated airspace, two black dots are rising into the sky.

"Boss Jiang, it's a missile, at least three times the speed of sound. Only three countries in the world have this type of missile. It must have been premeditated. We are investigating!"

After complex calculations and restoration, that frame of the picture appeared on the big screen. Many evidences showed that it was a hypersonic missile, and the other party locked the entire rocket. At this time, tears welled up in Fan Zhongbao's eyes, and his hands were clenched tightly.

"Shh!"

"Rocket engine separation procedure initiated, return procedure initiated!"

Just when everyone was panicking, Ji Donglai moved his fingers in his office, and all the large screens in the command center and launch base switched to space.

To everyone's shock, a rocket identical to the one that had just been launched from the launch site was now separating.

The screen switched, with half retaining the image of the satellite opening in space, and the other half tracking the return rocket engine.

"Everyone, don't panic. Keep recording data. We made two rockets. They can destroy one but not the second. As long as the recovery goes smoothly, our entire project will be a success."

"As I said before, we can afford it, so don't be discouraged. Money is never a problem!"

Ji Donglai's voice came out from the loudspeaker, and everyone looked up at the ceiling at the same time. Many people took off their glasses, and tears could not stop flowing.

Fan Zhongbao made two rockets, and everyone knew about it.

One of them was launched and the other was a backup. In case this launch failed, the engine could continue to launch as a backup. No one expected that Ji Donglai could launch the one simultaneously.

But it was still a loss. The satellite and the rocket cost more than 100 million RMB. Anyone who has worked on this project for so long knows how high the cost is.

After wiping away their tears, everyone started to do their respective duties. Fan Zhongbao wiped away his tears, and Jiang Haokun smacked his lips, feeling unhappy.

"Focus on returning to the arrow body, stay focused, and don't allow failure!"

After switching the tablet computer, Fan Zhongbao's eyes were full of concentration.

"Chief Engineer, what do you think that is?"

What shocked everyone was that over the Caspian Sea, a black aircraft was approaching rapidly with a huge tail flame opening.

"Wasn't it destroyed? What happened?"

Fan Zhongbao quickly switched his tablet computer, and the screen was divided into two parts, one on the mountains of Central Asia, and the other on the vast Caspian Sea.

"Focus more. Have you finished the signal guidance? Quick..."

At this time, he could not care about so much. Fan Zhongbao called his men to let the return arrow on the Caspian Sea base land smoothly. As the return arrow body began to spray huge flames, the thrusters on the side started, and the inclination angle of the arrow body was gradually straightened.

The large clamps on the recovery rack opened and the wings on both sides of the rocket launcher opened.

“Bang, bang, puff…”

"The pressure value is normal, and the rocket engine contains 5% fuel!"

"Flight data export started, trajectory normal!"

"Tail flame detection, the temperature disappears quickly, no fuel leakage is found!"

"The fuel extraction vehicle is allowed to enter the site, and the fuel export procedure begins!"

As several tests began, the unmanned tanker truck approached the fixed area, the fuel outlet cap on the rocket was opened, the entire connection port was closed, the anti-overflow device was easily opened, and the fuel flowed out quickly under pressure.

"Liquid oxygen extraction begins, pay attention to the flow rate and pressure!"

Simultaneously, the nozzle was inserted into the drain port and the liquid oxygen was slowly pumped out. The whole process went extremely smoothly.

"Four-sync battery power outage begins, host computer retained!"

As expected, all procedures were carried out in an orderly manner. Jiang Haokun was confused throughout the whole process. The other party had always thought that the entire launch would only take place at the Caspian Sea base. He did not expect that Ji Donglai had prepared another base. He felt a little disappointed, but the entire launch was successful and the other party was very happy.

After saying hello to a few people, the other party went into Ji Donglai's office and was let in by the bodyguards.

"Brother Ji, we did it!"

On the big screen, both launch bases were successful and everyone was busy. Ji Donglai was still half lying on the chair, looking at Jiang Haokun's excited expression. Ji Donglai clicked his finger and another scene appeared in front of Jiang Haokun.

"This is……"

On an empty grassland, a huge convoy was seen rushing to the scene. The fragments of a rocket explosion covered the entire area. Thick smoke was emitting from the rocket wreckage, and workers in protective clothing were cleaning up the scene.

Ji Donglai slowly stood up, and the lights in the room came on.

(End of this chapter)