Deep Space Wandering Fleet
Chapter 281 - Chapter 281 Chapter 281 Kunlun Mountain Project

Chapter 281: Chapter 281 Kunlun Mountain Project Chapter 281: Chapter 281 Kunlun Mountain Project Amid clinking glasses, Zhang Yuan felt a bit intoxicated, his head light and floaty. This uncontrollable sensation was uncomfortable, but it was the first time he had felt so happy. Everyone around him was an old acquaintance, talking about everything except work, just shooting the breeze.

“Drink up, drink up, Old Zhang, over the years… you’ve gone from Young Zhang to Old Zhang, just get drunk once!”

“Please, I want to see you make a fool of yourself in public, stop being so self-righteous all the time!”

A chill went down Zhang Yuan’s back as he replied with a lack of enthusiasm, “You want me to get drunk? You drink a bottle, I drink a glass. How about that?”

“Deal, let’s happily agree on that!”

Ye Kaifu and Li Zhendong were both eagerly toasting, with Li Zhendong sneakily holding a cellphone, a wicked smile on his face, ready to capture Zhang Yuan getting drunk.

Cheers!

Cheers!

Cheers!

A few ladies sat on the side, unable to join the conversation, just watching in amazement at how well these fellows could drink.

“I want to sing, I want to sing ‘Deep Space Captain’!”

But Li Zhendong was the first to get knocked out from drinking, revealing his pretentious nature, suddenly clamoring to go on stage to sing, unstoppable by anyone.

“Men who fly spaceships, you are strong and mighty! Ah!”

The surrounding crowd had already turned to look.

To prevent Li Zhendong from making a drunken scene in public, Zhang Yuan quickly grabbed him.

“I’m done drinking, really done. I’m going to take this guy back first, I’m leaving now.”

“What a buzzkill, you’re cheating. I’m not even drunk yet… No mining today, what’s that, where’s my wrench, eh, where’s my wrench?” Ye Kaifu slurred, babbling nonsense in his seat.

As soon as they left the banquet hall, Zhang Yuan dumped Li Zhendong, who was on his back, into a rest room and handed him over to a robot nurse for care.

He extended his right hand, attempting to invite his female companion, “Finally rid of those drunkards. Hey, it’s not easy to get a day off, I don’t want to waste it, let’s go to the amusement park and dance a zero-gravity dance together?”

Lin Xuanyuan found it a bit funny, “Aren’t you a little drunk?”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile, “Of course, that was just to trick Ye Kaifu. You really think he drinks a bottle and I drink a glass… I can outdrink him any day.”

“You’re really a bad guy… What about this drunkard, what should we do? Should we call his wife?”

“Oh, just notify her, and let him sleep here, after all, it is a rest room… Thank you for your trouble, Ms. Lingzi. He doesn’t have any serious issues; this guy just needs to sleep off the alcohol.”

“No trouble at all, this is what I should do.” The robot nurse smiled professionally.

“Then, let’s go.”

Zero-gravity dancing was the latest entertainment craze, and as the name suggests, it was performed in a weightless environment. Good coordination between two people was necessary to dance well.

Zhang Yuan took her hand and ran to the top of the interstellar port to the zero-gravity playground.

“So annoying, we haven’t learned it yet. If you throw me off, we’ll be laughed at.” Lin Xuanyuan felt somewhat shy and uneasy because of the high difficulty of the dance. A misstep in coordination could send one flying off.

Though they were an old married couple, they felt the sweetness of a first love…

They had already started using the latest generation of “Love Chips,” experiencing the true meaning of “Eternal Love,” with technology slowly dulling the inherent human fickleness at a genetic level.

“Hurry up, I’ve already bought the tickets!”

This interstellar amusement park could be said to be the busiest spot at the port. Although it was an amusement park, it catered to adults, offering the ultimate romance derived from the starry sky. Laughter and cheerful voices spilled out from within…

…

Meanwhile, in the centrifugal force area below, at the Science Exhibition Hall, a group of 14-year-old middle school students stood in front of a screen, loudly discussing the interstellar voyages of the Gleize Civilization.

During these ten days, they had been exposed to so many things, experiencing a real world…

The world of adults…

Upbeat and brimming with energy!

It’s incredible that people actually helped an alien civilization!

This feeling was subtle and thrilling, making all the middle school students extremely excited, each one showing a proud look for human civilization.

“Have you all thought about what kind of job you want to do in the future?” Li Yueyue asked the group of little adults who were endlessly discussing the historical significance of this voyage, and she couldn’t help but smile a bit.

“To be a Captain!” Li Cha was the first to say loudly.

“That’s really difficult! You need to have a mastery of mechanics, mathematics, spaceship environmental science, dynamics…”

“It’s not necessary to be the highest Commander, one could be the Captain of a regular spaceship, right?”

“Scientist… no, a mathematician.” Another girl also shouted, with a spirit of not admitting defeat to men.

“Engineer!”

“Operate an excavator!”

“Haha!”

At the age of 14, it’s the peak of adolescent fantasies, and Li Yueyue couldn’t help but laugh, but it wasn’t a mocking laugh, rather…

Were these the dreams of children?

Everyone has probably had them.

“These goals aren’t easy to achieve, even operating an excavator to mine is very difficult. At the very least, you’ll need to study up to a master’s degree… Haha, keep it up!”

“Ah, look over here! Come this way!”

Suddenly, one of the boys seemed to have seen something, his eyes gleaming with excitement as everyone followed his gaze and ran over.

Ahead was a large technology exhibit hall with a series of the latest high-tech achievements from recent years of the civilization, including the most advanced power armor, engines, spaceship simulation diagrams, and more, even available for trial use!

A pile of mechanical devices full of a sense of power made the boys scream and shout excitedly.

The young boy Li Cha stood in front of a holographic image, studying a simulated spaceship for nearly fifteen minutes, fascinated.

He really loved this simulated spaceship to an exploding degree!

And underneath the virtual image, there was a line of small text–“Kunlun Mountain Project”!

“Kunlun Mountain”–the next-generation Super Carrier of humanity, a colossal project capable of carrying tens of millions of people, the true core of the nomadic plan. Humans will not be content with the status quo and will attempt to step out from this planet and into a bigger world once the time is ripe.

Of course, the design work for this Super Carrier is still in its early stages, and there are a mass of difficult points that need to be overcome.

In the scientists’ view, whether it’s materials science, engines, or any other aspect, this ship will need to reach the level of a Second-level Cosmic Civilization, meaning several notches above the performance of the Earth Era.

“The look of ‘Kunlun’ has changed again, it has been modified several times already,” a few more boys came over, keenly spotting some differences.

“It looks cooler now, how has it become streamlined… it feels a bit weird.”

“What’s the use of looking cool, the main thing is that the performance has to be good. With the increased tonnage, the demands for engines, materials, and mechanics are also higher. By the way, what’s our strongest alloy right now?”

“Super Alloy Z, though it’s a bit dense…”

In school, there were countless mechanical enthusiasts, and “Kunlun Mountain” was undoubtedly the most talked about at the core, whether it was physics, mechanics, or materials, any topic was fair game for discussion.

“If only there was another kind of propulsion technology.”

“Yeah… like dark matter propulsion?”

“That’s simply impossible.”

A group of middle schoolers who actually didn’t understand a darn thing were trying to command the winds and the waves here, but anyway, once they started talking about these things, they could go on until the sky grew dark, and they wouldn’t even want to play games.

Aside from “Kunlun Mountain,” there were also many models of Escort Ships nearby, Haiyan Space-I, Ying Sun–humanity’s next interstellar voyage wouldn’t just be a lone Mother Ship; they would possess a more powerful military strike capability.

So the design of these Escort Ships was also of the utmost importance.