Deep Space Wandering Fleet
Chapter 304 - Chapter 304 Chapter 303 The Era of National Carnival

Chapter 304: Chapter 303 The Era of National Carnival Chapter 304: Chapter 303 The Era of National Carnival Epoch 5565!

It had been five years since the first successful trial voyage. It was also the 105th year since humans arrived at Gliese 581.

There was one month left until the “Kunlun Mountain” officially set out.

Ye Kaifu from the Ministry of Industry finally got the long-awaited vacation. As a Senior Engineer, well, he was more like a senior errand boy, having to deal with all sorts of odd jobs. He led the team that dug out the underground city at first, then later built the Space Elevator, and even repaired the Earth Era signal…

The construction project of “Kunlun Mountain” was simply a nightmare-like existence.

A spaceship weighing a billion tons, already heavier than a large mountain. To move a mountain’s worth of materials into space was an extremely difficult task, let alone managing so many people and assembling the vast quantities of materials into a spaceship!

He felt that one day he would die of overwork, but not at his work post, but because of those incessant reminder calls from Zhang Yuan that seemed to come at every moment…

“Great Engineer Ye Kaifu, who dedicated his life to our civilization, let us–salute him!”

No, please!

He didn’t want to die suddenly, really didn’t want to!

Ye Kaifu struggled out of bed in one go, touched his chest, and found his heart still racing. He wasn’t dead, it was just a dream. Being alive was so wonderful, truly wonderful.

He looked at the time; it was only six o’clock in the morning.

“Damn.”

He cursed silently. He had gotten into the habit of waking up at this time, and even during his vacation, he would wake up automatically.

He glanced at his wife sleeping beside him, feeling a warm sweetness in his heart.

In fact, Ye Kaifu also knew that this sweet feeling came from the Love Chip in his brain.

Given humans’ nature to seek novelty and get bored easily, it was impossible for a century-old couple to still have such strong…

But most people didn’t reject such technology. Because the joy of love is different from other kinds of happiness, it is a positive and uplifting joy. As the saying goes, men and women working together makes the work less tiring; who wouldn’t want to be better in front of the person they love?

Of course, to control the level of happiness, scientists had done a lot of data experiments to keep it within an adaptable range. Otherwise, some people would be so happy they would do nothing but cling to each other all day long…

Every technological product has its supporters and critics. Some argue that chips that control hormone secretion to some extent control human behavior patterns. But then again, what’s the big difference between being controlled by genes and by a chip?

“Let it be, let her sleep some more,” Ye Kaifu took a deep breath and suppressed the fiery emotions deep within him.

Everyone was on a rare vacation; who wouldn’t want to sleep in a bit longer?

He laid in bed for an hour, unable to stay still, so he simply got dressed and got up.

When he walked from the residential to the commercial area, he saw the bustling crowd and nearly cheered out loud with excitement, even his walk felt light and breezy.

After working at the Space Port for so many years, when was the last time he came back here? He had already forgotten!

At seven in the morning, the commercial area was already bustling with people.

He happily drank a bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge, ate two soup dumplings, and a fried dough stick, and then patted his belly contentedly.

“Being a human is really great!”

Then Ye Kaifu suddenly slapped his forehead, remembering something.

“Today is not just to have fun, there’s also some real business to attend!”

He hurriedly took a shuttle to the industrial district.

Many of the equipment in the industrial district had already been moved into “Kunlun Mountain”. Especially the thirteen fully automated Universal Factories; humans had decoded most of their structure through reverse engineering, but the replicated goods, perhaps due to a lack of experience or various other reasons, were never as perfect as the originals.

Many industrial machines are so complicated that even if you dismantle them and put them back together exactly, you’ll find the machine’s performance has dropped significantly. It would require a lot of adjustment to return to its original state, or it might not even be possible to recover at all.

Thus, of the thirteen fully automated Universal Factories, a total of eight were moved into “Kunlun Mountain”, and five remained on the planet. Relying on these eight Universal Factories, “Kunlun Mountain”, the Super Carrier, had an extremely strong industrial capability.

It’s no exaggeration to say that if it reached an Alien Planet, “Kunlun Mountain” would only need five years to recreate everything on the planet from scratch, including industrial bases on the surface, residential areas, mining sites, Space Elevators, and so on.

Even without any resource supplementation, “Kunlun Mountain” could sustain itself for over ten thousand years with its internal material circulation.

This was the backbone of human interstellar voyage!

“Ding! Dear passengers, the end station S3 Astronomical Observatory has arrived, please disembark…”

The shuttle sounded its alerts, reminding all the passengers that they had arrived. Everyone hurried off the bus, excitedly chatting and discussing with one another.

This was the largest Astronomical Observatory at the ground base; when looking up through a layer of thick radiation-resistant glass, you could see the boundless sky.

And today, humanity was determined to send out a hundred years’ worth of information and the latest scientific progress to the Golden Sun in Earth Civilization and on Captain Star!

Among this information were about a hundred ordinary people’s voice greetings, offering sincere wishes to these two civilizations.

This was a truly national celebration; to have one’s voice transmitted dozens of light-years away was an idea both romantic and fascinating.

Plus, reporting a hundred years’ worth of work to the other two civilizations from the same origin was a matter of pride. The new humans hadn’t fallen behind in these years.

Ye Kaifu quickly secured a good spot and then called his wife to get up, “Luo Na, get up fast! If you don’t come soon, I can’t keep this seat forever!”

…

Meanwhile, Zhang Yuan also got up early for work; he was reviewing the information to be sent this time in his office.

Even though this information had been reviewed countless times, he still read through each word carefully to be safe.

Because every byte sent required an enormous amount of productive capacity!

“So you’re saying this electromagnetic pulse transmitter might be scrapped after one use?”

“Yes, Mr. Zhang,” Dr. Li from the secretary’s office nodded, “There’s no helping it. To send information that far, the required power rating is too high. Even though the diameter of the transmission radar has already exceeded 10 kilometers, it’s still a bit insufficient.”