178: Chapter 178: On New Year's Eve, let's give the Chinese people a unique Spring Festival Gala program!

Accompanied by a group of senior project officials, Lin Mo and his party inspected the Luan Bird dry dock platform and the Kunpeng wet dock platform one after another.

Along the way, Chief Engineer Peng Yu provided a detailed report on the overall progress of the project, especially regarding the specific construction stages and milestones for both motherships, which all had highly detailed and clear task orders and construction blueprints.

They had fully achieved campaign-style operations, reverse-scheduled the construction timeline, and advanced tasks in a staggered manner, controlling the project with meticulous precision. Lin Mo was very satisfied with this.

This unique Chinese construction style is also an important reason why China has become a "infrastructure maniac."

Afterwards, Lin Mo also randomly selected 5 out of the 42 R&D bases for the two motherships to inspect.

The main task of these R&D bases was to produce components and various supporting systems for the two motherships.

Because the project team's current focus was primarily on the hull framework stage, progress here was much slower than at the dock platforms, and many bases hadn't even fully staffed their teams yet.

So much so that when Lin Mo arrived for the inspection, one R&D base had several times more leaders than actual workers on-site, leaving Chief Engineer Peng Yu and other senior project officials feeling so embarrassed that they were practically curling their toes into the concrete.

Regarding this, Lin Mo just smiled and didn't take it to heart.

It was only early January, so there was still plenty of time.

These modular components and subsystems would need to wait at least two more months before they could be officially assembled, and some parts would even take a full quarter.

Furthermore, the Supreme Academy of China currently attached extreme importance to the construction of the two motherships and was continuously dispatching more personnel to this location.

Within half a month at most, the staff would be fully assembled and strengthened, which would certainly not affect the overall construction progress of the two motherships.

After finishing the overall inspection of the two motherships, Lin Mo felt confident.

Early June! Including the time already spent on R&D at the Youquan Center, it would take about 200 days in total.

The prototype ships of the two motherships could be officially launched... er, sent to the skies!

Lin Mo couldn't be more satisfied with this timeline.

Although he wished he could immediately have the aerial mothership take flight and the submersible mothership dive into the abyss, Lin Mo knew clearly that this was unrealistic.

It was only because China possessed the systemic advantage of concentrating resources to accomplish major tasks, combined with three generations of Chinese researchers gathered together, willingly dedicating all their energy and talent to the cause of China's rise as a powerful nation, that such terrifying speed was even possible.

If this were any other developing country, it could take twenty years just to build a bridge, let alone such a massive national engineering project.

"If only there were intelligent automated production lines, preferably a fleet of engineering robots integrated and controlled by an intelligent system..." Lin Mo thought to himself.

Human effort has its limits.

The future technologies unlocked by the system were becoming increasingly massive, and he didn't know what kind of monstrous technologies would be unlocked in the future; relying solely on human labor to build them was indeed too time-consuming and laborious.

However, Lin Mo had a strong premonition that the next level of system technology would definitely include related supporting sub-technologies!

The reason was simple.

If every new technology from now on took five, eight, or even ten, twenty, or thirty years to build, then what use was this useless system? He wouldn't be able to complete many tasks before the host was nearing the end of his life!

Because of this, Lin Mo was even more looking forward to completing system tasks.

He had recently been planning how to pull off something big against the US and those Western Alliance countries.

A mission reward of 200 million prestige points—just how terrified did he have to make the US to complete this upgrade mission? Lin Mo was also quite conflicted.

First of all, he definitely couldn't be the one to actively start a war, because China was civilized and harmonious, and advocated peaceful coexistence.

As the saying goes, China can build anything, except for wars!

Furthermore, the system's requirement was strategic intimidation.

If you directly started a war, or even wiped out someone's country, that wouldn't be a strategic intimidator; that would be a war terrorist!

However, he certainly couldn't just stupidly sit there and take a beating either.

"Could I use the two motherships to conduct a sting operation against the US?" Lin Mo wondered thoughtfully.

...

Finally, Lin Mo and his party arrived at the last stop of this inspection tour: the R&D base for the second-generation Xuan-Nu Fighter Jet.

Chief Engineer Peng Yu was intimately familiar with the research progress of the Xuan-Nu Fighter Jet.

After a brief report, Chief Engineer Peng Yu said with a smile.

"Chief Designer Lin, in accordance with your instructions, we have placed the R&D of the second-generation fighter jet as our top priority, even above the two motherships."

"More than half of the original team from the first-generation fighter jet R&D group is here."

"Currently, all work is progressing very smoothly."

"Look over there."

"What those engineers are doing is integrating and assembling the Xihe Device cold fusion power engine and the superconducting energy storage battery to ultimately form the energy and power system of the Xuan-Nu Fighter Jet..."

Chief Engineer Peng Yu pointed to one component production workshop after another in the distance, speaking enthusiastically.

"...It is expected that we can complete the final assembly and test flights of 10 second-generation Xuan-Nu Fighter Jets three days before Lunar New Year's Eve!"

After listening to Chief Engineer Peng Yu's report, Lin Mo nodded.

"This matter must be expedited; it would be best to move the timeline even further forward."

Chief Engineer Peng Yu replied: "No problem!"

"Chief Designer Lin, we have reserved some extra time in advance. If you need, we can move it forward by another two or three days."

Upon hearing this, Lin Mo nodded.

"That will do!"

"Chief Engineer Peng Yu, you must keep a close eye on this; there cannot be any slip-ups!"

"I am planning to give the people of China a unique Spring Festival Gala countdown program on Lunar New Year's Eve!"

"The second-generation Xuan-Nu Fighter Jet will be one of the most important stars of the show!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone else became intrigued.

Chief Engineer Peng Yu asked curiously.

"Unique? A Spring Festival Gala countdown program?"

"Chief Designer Lin, you have me curious now!"

"Why don't you give us a spoiler in advance?"

Lin Mo smiled and raised his right hand, pointing toward the sky.

"Inviting the bright moon for the Lunar New Year, the Jade Rabbit brings blessings!"

"Huh?" Chief Engineer Peng Yu was confused.

The others present also did not understand the meaning of these words, but Academician Sun, as the first chief designer of China's Lunar Exploration Program, felt a burning light instantly bloom in his eyes, and his whole body began to tremble slightly!

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