Chapter 148 Cinema Opening
"You said this liquor sale, can we participate?"
The recruitment requirements were clear and the working group naturally knew what these people were for. They notified the major bases to select suitable people while quietly discussing the matter.
"You said this liquor sale, can we participate?"
We had previously spent some crystals to buy three million kilograms of food from the train, but this was just a drop in the bucket for the population of major bases across the country and could not solve the dilemma this winter at all.
These days, all major bases are busy growing food in greenhouses, but beyond that, localities are also looking for new ways to obtain food. Now that they heard that wine could be exchanged for supplies, the working group members were inevitably tempted.
"That should be possible, right?" someone said. "It only says that if we have wine, we can exchange it, but it doesn't say that we can't exchange it, right?"
"Over at the winery that was previously reclassified as a safe zone, the things in the warehouse haven't been touched yet. Let's take this opportunity to clean them out..."
Although the train had said last time that large-scale food trades wouldn't be possible anytime soon, was it still possible for them to exchange for other supplies? Perhaps some new, warm-weather clothing made of new materials? I wonder if they have any. If they do, then the team members out on duty wouldn't have to endure the cold anymore!
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Jiang Qian, who had received the first batch of wine so quickly after releasing the news, did not expect that she had attracted such a big official customer. She was still happy about the two new bottles of wine in her hand.
"System, do you know this? This is the top-tier wine in our country. Even the most ordinary bottle costs thousands. These two bottles are from the Zodiac series from over a decade ago. They're unavailable even if you want them!"
According to the information provided by the wine seller, these two bottles of wine were the full moon wine that he had hidden at home when his daughter was born. If he didn't want to exchange them for some food, he would really be reluctant to take them out.
As for the authenticity of the wine, there is an anti-counterfeiting barcode on the bottle, which Jiang Qian had already verified.
She touched the red and white wine bottle in her hand, reluctant to put it down. She was about to continue sharing it with the system, but she found that the system was more excited than she was. Without her introduction, it smoothly reported the development history of this wine.
Seeing Jiang Qian's surprise, the system explained.
"Have you forgotten? We share a common history. Actually, this wine exists in the interstellar world as well. Some was taken away during the interstellar escape, and some was damaged along the way. The rest is now on display in the interstellar history museum, and no one has ever tasted it."
Jiang Qian was even more surprised. "Since you understand the history of development so clearly, then there should be a recipe for brewing wine in the interstellar space, right? How come no one has tried it?"
[Because interstellar food production is not enough! ]
The system as a matter of course.
[The interstellar government banned alcohol long ago, and few interstellar people drink alcohol these days, let alone this kind of fine wine brewed from grain.]
The system was obviously a little lost when talking about this.
After the ban on alcohol was enacted, winemaking recipes became top secret and could not be leaked. However, some people in the interstellar world secretly brewed their own wines, using recipes passed down from their ancestors. However, these were simple rice wines and fruit wines, which could not be sold, but only consumed by the owner. If caught selling alcohol, the consequences would be severe.
After listening to the system's words and thinking about the current situation, Jiang Qian suddenly felt a little sad.
The interstellar world was worried about food, so they enacted a prohibition. Now they were also worried about food. If they couldn't get through this winter, if the weather continued to be as unpredictable as this year...
She glanced at the bottle of wine in her hand and sighed, "Now that you mention it, I don't want to open a bar anymore."
What if they never have the chance to make wine again in the future? At least they should leave something for future generations. These wines may also serve as witnesses of this history in museums.
However, thinking that opening a bar could recycle crystal cores and have enough energy to exchange for more needed things from the interstellar space, Jiang Qian felt that opening a bar would be a better option, but...
"I hope these wines I've collected won't be the last batch of wine in the world."
It would be such a pity if our country's long-standing wine culture were interrupted and we could no longer drink wine!
As time went by, Jiang Qian collected more and more wine. With such a large initial investment, in order to recoup her investment quickly, Jiang Qian immediately opened the cinema and bar after recruiting staff for various positions.
The bar's prices are not low, so business is a bit bleak, but the cinema's business is very good.
Although the interstellar holographic film had to be downgraded to the standard 3D that people usually see today, its novel content was enough to attract audiences. For a time, the cinemas on various trains were extremely popular.
On the second day of the cinema's opening, Jiang Qian also secretly watched it.
It must be said that interstellar movies are indeed quite interesting. Even though she had heard the system roughly talk about what happened when the interstellar people left the earth, when she watched it again in film and television works, she would still be moved and resonate with the helplessness and tragedy of being forced to leave her hometown.
The same was true for the other people watching the movie. When Jiang Qian came out of the cinema, she heard many passengers who had watched the movie discussing it.
“Why does this movie feel so real?”
"I think so too, although some details and developments are different, it's similar to our current situation!"
"If that day comes, will we have to leave too? I don't want to leave this planet."
"You want to leave? We don't have the technology yet! It might take another hundred or eighty years before we can build a spacecraft that big."
"I also watched two yesterday. One was about drifting in the stars, and the other was about building a new home on a new planet. It felt like a series of movies, and it felt more realistic."
"Don't bring it up. These are all movies and TV shows. The screenwriter just wrote them that way. Haven't you seen a lot of them before? Star Wars, Doomsday, haven't you seen them all?"
"But what I saw today still gave me chills. I feel like if we don't solve the problems we're facing now, our future will be like the one in the movie."
"No, you think too much!"
“…”
Jiang Qian didn't care about the opinions of these passengers, but when she heard that there was a new movie showing on the train, the major bases did not miss the opening of the cinema. They specially sent people to watch the movie on the train and even recorded the whole process to study it.
Although Jiang Qian had already noticed the system's prompts, she didn't stop it. She felt that if these stories from the future could make people today more vigilant and work harder, then her cinema would be more valuable.
When those who had watched the movies came back to report, they found that these movies had indeed achieved the effect that Jiang Qian wanted.
The heads of each base were not like ordinary passengers who just watched it. They thought a lot about it. Some even wanted to analyze the videotape frame by frame. During the evening meetings, all kinds of ideas collided.
"Is this a hint to us?"
"If we don't take care of this, we'll have to leave this planet?"
"Does this mean that nothing we do will work, and we need to quickly develop aerospace technology?"
"I think it's just a drama. Don't take it too seriously. We just need to be ourselves."
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Compared to the base directors who expressed their own opinions, the leaders of various research institutes attending the meeting had different discoveries.
In the private chat groups of the big guys, messages popped up one by one.
"Old Li, you're a researcher on this, so you know what I mean. Do you think the idea in the movie is possible?"
"I think it is achievable, with a success rate of at least half."
"Seeing the spaceship in this movie, I felt inspired..."
"Did you see the screen on that spaceship? The energy device in the movie, it seems they've achieved controlled nuclear fusion..."
"I saw that too, but this often appears in science fiction movies, right? How can we be sure it's real?"
"I know about this. Old Nie called me before and said that the artificial sun they're using in the train seems to be a small controlled nuclear fusion device..."
"What? When did this happen?"
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by other people in the group.
"Old Nie is the Old Nie from Ecology, right? He and I were college classmates, so why hasn't he mentioned anything to me?"
"No, I have to ask him now."
"Call the working group and ask when they're hiring for the train. Old Nie, an agronomist, doesn't understand this, so it's me, a nuclear physicist, who should be on board!"
“…”
Most people in the group were so excited that they didn't even pay attention to the ongoing meeting. They were only focused on the various information they had just obtained from the movie.
Only a small number of people are still immersed in the world of movies, but they are not fascinated by the plot. Instead, they want to see if they can dig out advanced results that are consistent with their research direction like others.
Of course Jiang Qian didn't know about this, she was happily counting the cinema's revenue!
The temperature was getting lower and lower, and in almost the blink of an eye, it was the end of December.
After the decision to open a new line, the train's trajectory now passes through almost half of the coastal cities due to the extension of the distance between stations.
As the train traveled back and forth, in addition to transporting weapons and equipment to the local base, it also carried a lot of passengers.
While eating in the dining car, Jiang Qian took the opportunity to learn a lot about what had happened in the coastal areas from the passengers.
About the sudden drop in temperature, about the rampant pirates, about the always-scarce supplies, about the untimely delivery of supplies so we had to eat sea fish for half a year... But fortunately, these difficult days were gradually coming to an end when the train arrived.
After passing the easternmost point of the mainland, the train turned and continued northwest along the coastline. By the time it completed this semicircle and arrived at the station in Province N, the northernmost part of the mainland, construction of Line 2 had also reached its end.
Jiang Qian watched the markers on the map in her mind light up one by one, eagerly anticipating the day when the two routes would officially connect. But before she could rejoice, another happy event arrived at home!
【Author’s words】
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