Simultaneous travel: I have forged an immortal name in the heavens

Chapter 297 [Navigator Project, the Prototype of the Space Fleet]

This was the decade with the most drastic changes in human history, and was also hailed by later generations as the decade of technological explosion.

Wars, protests, riots, the shadow of despair hangs over humanity.

But at the same time, hope is brewing in the disaster, and countless new technologies are being developed and put into use.

It seems that humans have suddenly entered the fast lane of interstellar travel.

In March 2045, the Earth's Gabon planetary engine was successfully ignited, verifying the feasibility of the mountain-moving plan.

August 2045.

The three resolutions formally proposed by Dongda at the joint government meeting were finally passed unanimously with the intervention of Yang An using special means.

Planetary engines rise from the ground like mountains built of steel.

The unrest caused by massive unemployment was also suppressed forcefully by various countries.

There is no way around it. Billions of people have lost their jobs, which has greatly deteriorated the living environment.

This cannot be suppressed.

2046 years.

An emerging technology company controlled by Yang An and held by various countries suddenly emerged.

And an announcement was made about the plan to build a virtual reality community, which slowed down the global protest movement.

There is no need to wait for death to become a digital life. People can hibernate in a nutrition cabin and upload their consciousness into virtual reality.

This is a great temptation for those who are desperate.

Governments of various countries also announced to fund Yang An's company to develop virtual reality technology, and promised that the first batch of experimental personnel will be selected from those who lost their jobs due to the self-service construction of the planetary engine taken over by the artificial intelligence life Babata.

The riots that were almost uncontrollable were eased.

In the same year, countries announced that they would switch from a free market economy to a material rationing system.

2048 years.

By live streaming to the world, Yang An's technology company successfully created a virtual reality community that can accommodate tens of thousands of people.

And recruited 10,000 volunteers from all over the world to participate in the six-month trial.

The experiment is open to the world.

The experiment was a complete success when all 10,000 people ended their virtual reality community life, successfully woke up from the hibernation capsule, and answered related questions.

The world is boiling.

Countless people are eager to escape from the cruel reality and enter virtual reality.

Of course, after considering it, Yang An did not choose to let everyone enter the virtual reality community directly.

Instead, in 2049, it was announced that the first virtual reality game that humans could fully immerse themselves in had been successfully developed.

The first batch of quotas is 10 million, which will be decided by lottery.

As Liu Peiqiang once said, reality is not beautiful at all.

After governments around the world quickly announced the introduction and free distribution of nutrition capsules that can provide humans with nutrient solution for a whole year of hibernation, people have become more and more looking forward to escaping reality.

The resistance movement eventually died down.

But it hasn't stopped yet, and many people still think this is a conspiracy.

At this time, the construction of the Earth Planetary Engine has been completed by 56.5 percent.

Spring 2050.

"Major Liu Peiqiang, welcome to the Navigator Program."

At the space elevator No. 3, an officer stretched out his hand and smiled to the young man with a crew cut in front of him.

Behind him is a huge building that rises from the ground and connects to the space.

"Thank you." Liu Peiqiang, who was wearing a space suit, nodded stiffly. He looked up and saw a looming mechanical spaceship blocking out the sky and staying in outer space.

Space, Navigator Space Station.

Although the Ark space station crashed, it only took humans five years to rebuild the even larger Navigator space station.

This space station is regarded as the forerunner of mankind and the place where the second civilization continues.

Its total volume is comparable to that of Shanghai. It is a huge ship that can accommodate nearly 200,000 people at the same time.

But this is just part of the technological explosion of the past decade.

Although it is a space station, technically Yang An used the technology of the Silver-Blue Empire's 10,000-meter transport ship that swallowed the world and crashed on Earth.

After upgrading and transformation, it is composed of eleven space transport ships.

The hull can also be separated when necessary.

This will be the prototype of humanity's future interstellar fleet.

But as a single space station is upgraded and built into a fleet of spacecraft, problems also arise.

There is a severe shortage of population.

There is a saying on the earth that it takes ten years for the army to develop and a hundred years for the navy to develop. The navy is equivalent to a technical branch of the army. It is more complicated to train and requires longer time and technical accumulation.

The same goes for the space fleet.

It takes time to train enough astronauts.

But time is too tight for humans, with less than eight years left until the final departure time.

It is almost impossible to train tens of thousands of astronauts in just eight years, although countries have begun to use virtual reality technology for training or remote control.

But there is still a huge gap.

Fighter pilots and experienced personnel from all countries were all recruited and could not refuse.

"Captain Han Duoduo, welcome to the Navigator Program."

Behind Liu Peiqiang is his wife Han Duoduo. The two had already retired and were living their own lives, but they did not expect to be temporarily called up.

Even though Han Duoduo was already three months pregnant, she had to report in advance.

"Don't worry, my dear. They know your situation is special and will definitely let you stay on Earth."

The two took their ID cards and entered the space elevator area.

Liu Peiqiang reached out and held his wife's hand to comfort her.

"Nothing." Han Duoduo smiled gently, "It might be better to go to the space station than to stay on Earth, right?"

Liu Peiqiang was silent. He looked back at the dilapidated city in the distance without saying a word.

Although various technologies have made great strides in the past five years and good news has been heard everywhere, the lives of ordinary people have not improved much, but have deteriorated rapidly.

Fortunately, there is a virtual reality community that has become a pillar in the hearts of ordinary people.

Although there are not enough nutrition cabins and the number of places is limited, various countries have gradually opened up the purchase of virtual helmets.

The ability to enter the virtual community at a limited time every day has greatly alleviated the public's dissatisfaction.

Now everyone is holding on, waiting for the virtual reality community to fully open up.

This is almost the last hope in people's hearts.

It is hard to say which is better, living in a city where life is almost hopeless or going to space.

As the two of them walked quickly towards the base.

"Liu Peiqiang, Liu Peiqiang!"

A familiar voice called out, Liu Peiqiang turned his head and asked in surprise, "Uncle Peng?" "Haha, I knew you would come too."

Zhang Peng walked over quickly. He became Yang An's assistant, so naturally he did not retire. Instead, he has now become a major general.

"Uncle Zhang, why do you look younger?" Han Duoduo also knew Zhang Peng. When she married Liu Peiqiang, Zhang Peng was the man's parent.

This will greet with a smile.

"Hahaha, anti-aging, I am anti-aging. The older I get, the younger I am." Zhang Peng laughed happily.

"Come on, Uncle Peng." Liu Peiqiang laughed. He also felt that Zhang Peng looked a lot younger. The fat on his body disappeared and his face looked younger.

"Come on, I'll tell you." Zhang Peng hesitated for a moment, pulled the two men aside, and whispered to the two people who were confused.

"This is the latest technology. It can treat most human diseases and increase cell activity. It is currently only being promoted in the military. When you two become astronauts and join the army, you can also be injected with special vaccines."

"Really? It can make people younger!" Han Duoduo couldn't help but said first, her eyes brightening up. She was almost thirty years old this year. Although she was still a beautiful flower, she still had some wrinkles and was tired from life.

"Yes, of course you can. You should be able to recover to be a 20-year-old girl. Liu Peiqiang, you are such a lucky boy." Zhang Peng winked at Liu Peiqiang happily.

The two haven't seen each other for a long time.

Liu Peiqiang was also amazed, this is simply black technology.

"Who said it wasn't?" Zhang Peng shook his head and said more seriously, "Pei Qiang, do you know why I came all the way here to wait for you?"

Liu Peiqiang and Han Duoduo looked at each other and shook their heads.

Zhang Peng whispered, "I'm here to pick you up on orders."

"On orders? Whose orders?" Liu Peiqiang was even more confused.

Zhang Peng smiled slightly and uttered a name, "Yang An."

"Yang An. Captain Yang?" Liu Peiqiang muttered for a moment, and immediately remembered the instructor he and Han Duoduo had received astronaut training at the Gabon base.

When he married Han Duoduo, although Yang An did not come, he asked Zhang Peng to bring a generous gift, including some supplies that were common in the past but have now become luxury goods, as well as a large number of material ration coupons.

Liu Peiqiang always remembered this incident and was secretly grateful in his heart. He didn't expect that Zhang Peng came to pick them up on the order of his old superior.

But then again
"Uncle Peng, why are you not doing as well as Captain Yang?" Han Duoduo asked curiously. She also knew Yang An, even earlier than Liu Peiqiang.

There were eight girls in their dormitory at that time, and six of them liked Yang An. Unfortunately, Yang An was devoted to serving humanity, so how could he fall in love?

Han Duoduo is the one who is indifferent to Yang An's looks and temperament, but the two have similar personalities and can be considered friends.

"What? Worse than that." Zhang Peng shook his head seriously, "Stop talking, just follow me, you'll know when you get there."

"Still playing secret." Liu Peiqiang hesitated for a moment and called Zhang Peng, "Uncle Peng, there is one more thing."

"what?"

"Duoduo is pregnant," Liu Peiqiang lowered his voice, "I know we are in urgent need of astronauts, but can we wait for a year? Wait until my wife gives birth."

"Don't worry about this. Just come with me first. When you get there, you'll find that these concerns are nothing." Zhang Peng interrupted Liu Peiqiang, patted him on the shoulder and said.

"."Liu Peiqiang was stunned.

"Okay, let's go first. Uncle Peng can't harm us." Han Duoduo said with a smile, holding Liu Peiqiang's arm.

You can see that there are a steady stream of buses carrying people coming behind.

Soon, Liu Peiqiang was amazed at the miniature docking spacecraft driven by Zhang Peng, and the three of them set off towards the Navigator Space Station in outer space.

Navigator Space Station.

In Yang An's office.

"A total of 16,000 people worthy of training responded to the global call, most of whom were former fighter pilots, and more than 3,000 were retired space station personnel or had been trained at the base."

"It's still too little."

Yang An was talking to Yang Rong, and when he heard this, he held his head and shook his head.

"We can't do anything about it. The Ark crashed and more than 2,000 carefully trained astronauts were all killed, almost bringing the space industry to an end," Yang Rong sighed.

No matter how much training they receive, astronauts are not cheap cabbages and cannot be purchased wholesale in just six years.

“Forget it, let’s just make do with it for now. Once the 100,000 professionally trained astronauts in virtual reality complete their studies, we won’t have to worry about having no one available.” Yang An said finally.

Although the Gabon planetary engine had been ignited, Yang An was soon appointed as the main person in charge of the Wandering Earth Project, the Moon Project and the Navigator Space Station.

Fully responsible for the life and death of mankind.

Even decisions can be implemented without the need for a coalition government resolution.

Yang An lived up to everyone's expectations and successfully completed the three plans within the time limit, and even had a lot of time left.

"Virtual reality technology is already basically mature. Although the computer processing capacity is huge, the human brain itself is an undeveloped supercomputer. After being connected, it can withstand strong data flow."

Ma Zhao on the side also pushed his glasses and spoke.

He was a little excited, which was very rare. After all, Ma Zhao always appeared calm, but this time was different.

Once virtual reality technology is perfected, he will go down in history, and it is impossible not to be excited.

Moreover, the person in charge of virtual reality research is Ma Zhao. For him, it’s like watching his own child grow up little by little. Needless to say, the sense of accomplishment is so great.

“Thanks to Tu Hengyu for proposing to use the human brain as a secondary machine to process large amounts of data.” Yang An also laughed.

Human beings are themselves sophisticated instruments, and humans only utilize about 5% of their brains.

Instead of wasting the value of the human body by using the nutrition capsule, it is better to make good use of it.

If the brains of 4.5 billion people were linked together, they could form a network that would be enough to build an entire virtual reality world.

This solves the problem of hardware failure.

"In the next eight years, the dungeons will be opened one after another and linked in batches." Yang An quickly gave instructions.

"Yes." Ma Zhao nodded and left.

Just then, Babata's voice appeared.

"Hello, Yang An, Zhang Peng is here with Liu Peiqiang and his wife."

"Oh?"

Yang An looked up at the office door. As the door opened, Ma Zhao hurried out, and two men and one woman walked in quickly.

Except Zhang Peng.

When Liu Peiqiang and Han Duoduo set foot on the Navigator Space Station for the first time, it was like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden. What they saw and heard along the way almost overturned their cognition.

The interior of the space station was nothing like what Liu Peiqiang remembered. Instead, it was like a paradise that could truly accommodate humans.

Various extinct animals actually appear here.

Even Yang An’s office is the core control hub of the space station, and it looks like a luxurious manor from the outside.

If I could live here, I wouldn't mind being drafted for life.

"Busy." Zhang Peng greeted cheerfully.

Yang An stood up, smiled and nodded, "I'm coming."

Liu Peiqiang and Han Duoduo stood at attention, "Sir, Liu Peiqiang (Han Duoduo) is here to report."

Yang An casually returned the greeting, "Welcome to the Navigator Space Station."

"Pei Qiang, Duo Duo, it's been a while."

"Yes." Liu Peiqiang looked around the office and said with a smile, "It's been about five years."

Yang An nodded, "Let's talk about work first, then life. I asked you to come here for a simple reason, to train the senior executives of the first future human space fleet. How about it, are you interested in receiving training from me again?"

(End of this chapter)