At 10:00 AM the next morning.

Inside the newly built ground command center, a group of researchers sat nervously in their seats.

In two hours, Xuan Nu 1 will land on the moon with the first batch of automated mining equipment!

As the starting point for all subsequent plans of the Xia Kingdom, it can be said that the Moon Palace Project must succeed and cannot fail!

Lu Yongchang stood on the command platform, his gaze fixed solemnly on the large screen in the command center.

"Yongchang, Academician Kong has arrived!"

Fang Xu's voice came from the side.

Lu Yongchang's eyes flickered slightly, and he quickly turned around to look in the direction from which the sound came.

An elderly man with gray hair walked briskly toward him, leaning on a cane.

Seeing this, Lü Yongchang quickly stepped forward and led him to a seat nearby: "Academician Kong, thank you for your help."

After sitting down, Kong Xingbang waved his hand cheerfully and said, "No trouble at all!"

"The automated lunar mining equipment is a project I'm in charge of; it's my job!"

Lu Yongchang nodded slightly and said with a respectful expression, "Academician Kong, there are still two hours until the launch of Xuan Nu-1. You can rest for a while first."

"No need, no need!" Kong Xingbang waved his hands repeatedly. "I haven't had a proper look at our Xia Kingdom's Xuan Nu No. 1 yet. I have to take this opportunity to get a good look at her!"

As he spoke, Kong Xingbang turned his gaze to the images on the big screen.

At this moment, the Xuan Nu No. 1 was quietly parked beside the runway, and several ground crew members were carefully checking the various data of Xuan Nu No. 1.

...

Shanghai.

Zhao Zijie turned on his computer early and logged into the Douyu live streaming platform.

As expected, the homepage of Douyu Live is the official live broadcast room of Xia Guo News.

With a simple click of the mouse, the page instantly redirected.

"Hello everyone, I'm your host Bingbing. Today, I will be bringing you a live broadcast of the entire Lunar Palace Project."

A cheerful female voice rang out in the live stream room.

The next moment, a beautiful female host with a sweet face and shoulder-length short hair jumped into the frame.

In an instant, the number of comments in the live stream exploded several times over!

"Bingbing, my Bingbing~"

"Honey, why are you on TV again? Didn't I tell you to stay home?"

"What wife? Is that your wife? This is clearly my wife!"

"Bring a few people with yellow urine and wake them up! Diabetics, don't come, I'm afraid they'll get a taste of the benefits!"

As he watched the rapidly flashing comments, Zhao Zijie's lips twitched slightly.

This generation of netizens certainly didn't disappoint him!

When Bingbing saw those inappropriate words on the monitor next to her, she pursed her lips slightly and revealed a shy smile.

This scene undoubtedly dealt an even greater blow to the viewers in front of their screens.

Seeing the comments section getting increasingly off-topic, Bingbing quickly cleared her throat and spoke again: "It's 11 a.m. now, and there's still one hour before Xuan Nu No. 1 officially takes off."

"Let's follow the photographer to the command center first."

As soon as he finished speaking, the live broadcast quietly switched to a scene from the ground command center.

This naturally triggered a cacophony of wailing and howling in the live chat.

"Bingbing, my Bingbing..."

"Give me back my Bingbing!"

But soon, the young man standing on the command platform attracted everyone's attention.

"This must be Professor Lü Yongchang, right?"

"So young..."

"Isn't that obvious? The person upstairs is still a junior in college!"

The next moment, a voice-over rang out.

"The person standing before you is Professor Lü Yongchang, the person in charge of the Lunar Palace Project."

"Perhaps some people are not very familiar with Professor Lü, so let me introduce him to you in detail."

As Bingbing's voice rang out, half of the live stream screen was split up, detailing Lü Yongchang's achievements over the past year.

Room temperature superconducting technology.

Controlled nuclear fusion technology.

The first administrator of NASA.

Fusion reactor miniaturization technology.

Hall thruster.

Xuan Nu-1 spaceplane...

As lines of highlighted text appeared, the live stream room fell silent.

As he watched the few scattered comments on the screen, Zhao Zijie swallowed hard.

He instinctively opened the penguin group.

"Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!!!"

"Good heavens, who was it that said Professor Lü had a few months of downtime yesterday? Kill that prophet!"

"I hereby declare that from this day forward, Professor Lü is my idol!"

"..."

Similar to the reactions in the QQ group, the live stream, Weibo, and almost every social media platform were flooded with this series of messages released by the official sources.

...

As he watched the live stream, Zhao Zijie gradually realized a problem.

More than thirty minutes passed, and although the camera kept changing angles, Professor Lü's position remained in the center of the frame from beginning to end.

Moreover, even the host, Bingbing, would occasionally interject a few words about Professor Lü's daily research during her narration.

Zhao Zijie's eyes gradually turned strange.

If he hadn't known it was a live broadcast about the Lunar Palace Project, he would have thought it was Professor Lü Yongchang's personal show.

Zhao Zijie frowned, pondered for a long time, and finally opened the QQ group and typed out his question.

"Good heavens, Old Zhao, you finally figured it out! If I remember correctly, you were the prophet from yesterday, weren't you?"

"Knife! Knife Old Zhao right now!"

"Wait! Don't rush to use the knife, first check what Old Zhao posted!"

"Holy crap? I didn't really feel anything at first, but now that Old Zhao said it... it seems to be true!"

"Wow... It's rare to see the news from Xia State personally praising someone!"

"But why? Aren't they afraid something might happen to Professor Lü?"

Just as everyone was engaged in a heated discussion, a message popped up.

"The administrator has enabled a full mute."

The group admin spoke up the next moment.

"Holy crap! You guys really dare to discuss anything!"

"I thought you were just joking, but I never imagined you actually wanted to send me to work as a sewing machine operator?!"

"Let's drop this topic. No matter what the higher-ups think, this is not something we should be discussing."

"You guys understand?"

Zhao Zijie looked at the barrage of messages from the group owner on his QQ account, his eye twitched, and he silently deleted the Weibo post he had edited.

...

"After a long wait of more than fifty minutes, Xuan Nu-1 finally entered the countdown phase for takeoff."

Bingbing's voice drew Zhao Zijie's attention.

Seeing the Xuan Nu No. 1, with its eerie blue tail flames already rising from the runway, Zhao Zijie's heart skipped a beat.

Even though this was the second time he had watched the Xuan Nu No. 1 takeoff, his heart was still awestruck by its extremely beautiful appearance!