After the officer's briefing, the trainees were randomly divided into 24 groups, each assigned time to practice with the training exoskeletons. Jiang Ling's group wouldn't get their turn until a day later, but they were also given some time to spend while waiting—they were given a guided tour of the rocket launch site and were asked to write a few hundred-word reflection on their visit.

The submarine launch site is located on the edge of the continental shelf, approximately 300 kilometers south of Donghai Station. The two are connected by an underwater tunnel and a submersible. According to a train crew member, their original plan included the construction of a sightseeing tunnel, but limited resources at the time prevented this from happening, leading to the cancellation of many other unrealistic projects.

The launch site is roughly circular in shape, a helpless move due to raw material limitations. The rocket is located in the center of this circle, surrounded by factories that cooperate with the construction of various equipment for the rocket. The core of the rocket is complete, including its payload bay thrusters and the unknown spacecraft in the payload bay. They occupy the upper half of the launch site, but according to the workers here, its overall completion rate is less than 1%.

The rocket placed on the launch pad looks a bit like the restraint of Unit-01. Layers of grippers three meters apart divide the launch pad into 80 equal parts. When looking up from below, the completed part looks like the remaining tip of a pencil, and the tail nozzle blocked by the red foam block is like an eraser that has been used up.

When passing by a conference room, Jiang Ling heard the name of this rocket for the first time - "Buzhou Mountain" - which was enough to show the crazy ideas of the rocket designers.

She briefly thought about the top-secret information she had obtained and quickly figured out what they wanted to do.

An arrow might be consumed by flames, but what about a mountain?

Since quantity doesn’t work, let’s increase the equivalent!

She felt that the Z people's fear of insufficient firepower was probably incurable. This mindset, persisting for generations, had permeated every aspect of society, naturally including extraterrestrial exploration. It was also a manifestation of concentrating resources on major tasks. At least before the war, other countries certainly wouldn't actually build a mountain and launch it into space; at most, they just thought about it.

Jiang Ling thought the tour would last all day, but the receptionist only led them around the launch pad briefly before returning to their starting point. It seemed they would have to have some permissions to enter other areas. Fortunately, they were given a brochure about the rocket, which listed its basic parameters, making the trip worthwhile.

She quickly scanned the brochure and summarized the information, coming up with the following:

The complete version of "Buzhou Mountain" is about 240 meters high, which is basically the same height as the launch pad, and occupies most of the space at the launch site. Its takeoff weight is about 40,000 tons, which is equivalent to the displacement of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on the eve of World War III, except that one is upright and the other is lying flat. It will use a hydrogen-fluorine-lithium ternary liquid engine and a high-pressure gas cold launch mode. Due to the highly toxic exhaust pollution, all employees at the launch site will need to evacuate, and the launch site will become a disposable item. The rocket is divided into four stages, and its effective near-Earth payload will reach an astonishing 2,800 tons. However, due to the special nature of the mission, this launch will only carry less than 400 tons of payload.