Cold Fire Project
Next.
Jin Xiangdong took Chu Xuan around the base.
"Rest area, single rooms. Except for not being able to cook, all other facilities are complete."
"..."
"Canteen. Since this base is for field operations, the meals will be a bit richer than in the Underground City."
"..."
"We also have two surface dome temperature-controlled shelters where the temperature is like spring, as well as a grassland of over a hundred square meters."
"In addition, we've planted some flowers and trees."
"..."
It must be said that the conditions here are really quite good compared to the Underground City.
Especially being able to go to the surface at any time to see the sky—for some people, this is absolutely a kind of happiness.
This is also why, even though there is a certain amount of danger.
Many people are willing to carry out surface missions, because they can escape the oppressive atmosphere of the underground.
However.
Chu Xuan didn't really feel anything about all of this.
For him, having lived in the beautiful Huaxia just a few months ago, the sky before him had no appeal at all.
"Xiao Xuan, how about it?"
"Why don't you come work here?"
"It's much more comfortable than the Underground City."
Jin Xiangdong got straight to the point.
He figured that even if Chu Xuan didn't agree, he would at least consider it.
Chu Xuan shook his head directly: "Sorry!"
???
Refused directly? Jin Xiangdong was a bit surprised.
"Why?"
"Perhaps, it is a mission!" Chu Xuan said with a lingering tone.
He added silently: The System gives too much!
Coming here to work, staring at a pile of boring data every day, is very dull. As for how good the so-called benefits here are... Heh! Isn't eating hairy crabs at home better? Coming here to eat at the canteen—he hadn't lost his mind yet.
"Mission?"
Jin Xiangdong was full of confusion and wanted to ask what kind of mission.
But in the end, he just couldn't bring himself to ask; the other person had already said it was a mission.
It was like asking a firefighter why they risk danger to save people in a fire.
Asking that would just show a lack of intelligence, and anyway, the recruitment attempt had failed.
Jin Xiangdong was slightly disappointed.
He didn't force it.
"Alright then, whenever you've had enough of staying in the Underground City and want to come over, you are always welcome."
Chu Xuan: "Many thanks, Director Jin!"
"Call me Uncle!"
"..."
What else could Chu Xuan say? The network of connections left behind by the original host's parents was truly quite extensive.
...
The plan for this outing was for three days in total.
The next day.
With nothing to do, Chu Xuan went to the control hall. There were hundreds of computers here, and usually, there were only about a hundred people.
Today, that number had increased to over two hundred.
And people were still arriving one after another.
They were all students from a dozen or so nearby Underground City universities. There were many or few; the mentors with the fewest only brought five or six.
After all, compared to engineering majors, the demand for astronomy is much lower.
They had their defense tomorrow.
Therefore.
Not one of them was idle.
Some were holding stacks of textbooks and notes, busy at the computers.
Relying on the permissions Jin Xiangdong had opened.
Chu Xuan sat down at a computer.
Swiped his card.
Logged in.
His hands danced across the keyboard. At first, he was a bit stiff because he had only memorized the operation manual beforehand. But he soon became familiar with it. Various shortcuts were incredibly smooth, and he was flying through them.
It wasn't just the base beneath his feet; this computer could also connect to the Southern Hemisphere astronomical base to view all data.
He opened the Jupiter information.
"Huh!" Chu Xuan's eyes flashed.
In one image, he saw the Navigator International Space Station.
Navigation.
Early warning.
Communication.
These were the daily functions of this space station, but Chu Xuan knew that it also carried the United Government's Seed Plan.
To tell the truth, Chu Xuan didn't think much of it.
A long, two-thousand-five-hundred-year wandering journey—it couldn't afford a single mistake, but was that possible?
Moreover, just as Liu Peiqiang said.
A civilization without humans is meaningless.
Why would he say that? Wasn't he a human?
It was very simple!
Because in the Seed Plan, in order to reduce consumption, all personnel on the space station would eventually be abandoned.
Becoming an unmanned space station.
That was a span of two thousand five hundred years.
Let alone the internal ecological cycle being unable to sustain life, just imagine if one person went crazy during that time and caused destruction—the entire plan would be finished.
Obviously, this risk was too great!
Therefore.
The Seed Plan, from its initial design, could not allow people to be in space the whole time.
Instead, it would be MOSS carrying the so-called seeds of civilization, continuing to wander.
Like a cold cosmic elegy.
...
Besides the space station, there was the conspicuous Jupiter. Because it was still far away, it wasn't as large as it appeared in the movie.
It looked like a wooden bead, reflecting a faint sunlight.
In another year.
It would be hard to see it.
After the gravitational slingshot, the engines would accelerate at full power.
Jupiter would enter the side of eternal day from the side of eternal night.
The sky would be constantly bright.
The little light reflected by Jupiter would be negligible.
"Goodbye, neighbor!"
The next time they met, it might be when he looked up at the sky.