In the 6025th year of the Xia calendar,

the Huaxia Federation Space Agency carried out a very controversial plan, which was to launch a spaceship into the universe. This spaceship has reached the third cosmic speed, which means that it can theoretically fly away from the solar system.

Yes, under the operation of some mysterious force, the galaxy where this world is located is also called the solar system, the Milky Way.

The reason for the controversy is that there are five astronauts on this spaceship. If they carry out this mission, they will definitely die, because the spaceship has no fuel to return. No matter how much fuel, the spaceship must fly farther.

As for the purpose, there is no clear purpose, perhaps just to take a look at the starry sky in the distance, so there is a lot of controversy and protests.

This project was established three years ago and was debated dozens of times. In the end, the volunteer method was adopted. However, once it was announced, there were as many as hundreds of thousands of applicants. After dozens of rounds of assessments, five people were finally selected, three from the Huaxia Federation, and the other two from Qingyun and Zhou Liao.

The youngest of the five was 55 years old, almost the first batch of astronauts in each country. They may have many reasons, but they definitely have one common reason, that is, to leave their names in history. This alone is enough for them to leave their names in history.

At this time, the big screen in Lin Jiang's office was playing the interview program of the five people. The list of the five people was announced a year ago, and then they were in closed training for almost a year.

These programs were filmed during their training, but they are only being released now because the spacecraft named Pioneer will be launched in three days.

They are heroes, so they are treated like heroes, with very high reputations and treatments. It can be said that they will not have to worry about food and clothing for the next seven or eight generations.

"Have we expressed our opinions to these five people?"

"Yes, six of their immediate family members have been arranged in our subordinate companies, all of which are positions with high pay and little work. In addition to the official treatment of other companies, their relatives don't have to worry about anything and have jumped several levels."

"This is the compensation they deserve. If it were you, would you do this?"

"Sir, I am an orphan, but if I had a family and had a good relationship with them, I would do the same. Many people would do this. Look at the workers outside. Most of them work hard for their families. If they just want to keep themselves from starving to death, they can be much more relaxed."

The secretary replied. Just look at the volunteers who have signed up and you will know. If the conditions are lowered, perhaps the number of people who sign up can exceed 100 million. Many people are willing to sacrifice themselves for their families.

And the truth is cruel. In reality, many people do some dangerous work for their families. They may die at any time, but the compensation they get is not even one percent of the five of them, or even one ten-thousandth.

"Yes, you are right. This makes me feel more at ease, although I did not advocate this."

Lin Jiang nodded. This matter really had nothing to do with him. Of course, it would be wrong to say that he did not care at all, because the person who proposed this plan was a senior executive of the Space Administration, and this senior executive was promoted by Lin Jiang.

This person was a talent, very bold, and very passionate about the aerospace industry. Compared with the conservatism and lifelessness of other senior executives, Lin Jiang obviously liked him more.

"Sir, don't feel bad. People die every day in this world, many, many people die, and it's the same death, there's no difference."

"Got it, turn off the TV, is there anything I can deal with today?"

"We've dealt with most of the things, sir, just take a look, but there's an interesting thing, maybe sir needs to deal with it."

"What is it ?"

"Sir, do you remember that a few months ago, an interesting thing was dug up at a construction site in Yuanji Province over in Zhou Liao?" "

Just tell me."

"Yes, it was something dug up in Yuanji Province. Zhou Liao was promoting it in a big way at the beginning. Although they were evasive and didn't say the details, we can know that prehistoric things were dug up, which can prove that Zhou Liao's ancestors are the ancestors of Qingyun and China. They also invited top experts from Qingyun and China to help.

But half a month ago, when their archaeological work was at a critical moment, Zhou Liao suddenly stopped promoting it. Not only did they stop promoting it, but they also erased all the previous promotions. Our experts and Qingyun’s experts were also sent back.”

“You should know what was dug out.”

“Yes, there are five sarcophagi and five prehistoric people. The experts from the Federation looked at them and were not allowed to record them. But after they came back, they asked other experts to draw the faces of the five people. This is the portrait.”

The secretary opened the folder, which contained the information of the whole matter. Lin Jiang saw the five people in the portrait. Lin Jiang recognized them as immortal cultivators at a glance, but he didn’t know them.

“Open the map of Zhou Liao.”

“Yes, sir.”

Soon, the map of Zhou Liao appeared on the big screen. Lin Jiang compared the map and found that it was the location of Wangxian Sect.

“It’s not Li Qing, it’s someone else.”

Lin Jiang rubbed his head. When the era of immortal cultivation was about to end, Lin Jiang was entrusted by Li Yuncheng to return to Wangxian Sect and handed over the secret technique of sleeping to Li Qing. It seems that Li Qing also fell asleep, and he also brought a group of people to sleep.

"Li Qing should hate me very much,"

Lin Jiang said in his heart. At the end, he did something extreme. Many disciples of Wangxian Sect were taken away by him and fell asleep, but Li Qing and others were excluded.

Because when the demon tribe invaded, Li Qing violated his wishes. Although Lin Jiang did not say anything afterwards, they were no longer close to each other, and the Breaking Array Cone and other things given to her were taken back.

"Sir..."

"Pay close attention to this matter, and don't touch the others for the time being,"

Lin Jiang said. Lin Jiang was not afraid of any enemies. Now he had too much advantage. Even if Li Qing and others all woke up, he was not afraid. If the spiritual energy revived, he was even less afraid because there would be more people around him.

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Three days later, Lin Jiang was watching the launch live broadcast of the Pioneer spacecraft. There were some experts in the live broadcast room explaining the technological content of this spacecraft. Anyway, everything was the best and the most advanced. It almost integrated various technologies. The cost of the entire spacecraft exceeded 5 billion Chinese Federation coins.

It is worth mentioning that the currency of the Chinese Federation is the strongest in the world now, equivalent to Daole on Blue Star.

"Is the artificial intelligence that the expert above talked about so powerful?"

"Sir, that expert is exaggerating. Several developed countries are now researching artificial intelligence, especially some who want to use it to overtake China, so China is also stepping up its research. The real technology is not that good, otherwise there would be no need to send living people up there. Just use artificial intelligence to control a few robots."

The secretary passed Lin Jiang's words to the think tank, and the think tank quickly replied that artificial intelligence has only been around for a few years and there are a few achievements now, but they are just some techniques such as painting, which is far from the artificial intelligence imagined by the general public.

"Send more people to pay attention to artificial intelligence. If there are any results, I want to be the first to master them."

"Yes, sir, do you want to increase investment?"

"Add a little more, give an extra 10 billion every year."

Lin Jiang nodded. He has too much money now. He spends it in all kinds of ways. He has dozens of research institutes and invests trillions of dollars every year. He also has more than a dozen charities under his name.

But he still can't spend it all. He can't spend it all at all. The annual wealth appreciation rate is very scary. This is because Lin Jiang uses many identities, such as the puppets he controls, to share the money. If it is really concentrated on him alone, it would be too scary.

"Boom"

While they were talking, the Pioneer spacecraft was launched on TV. Of course, it was sent into space by a rocket.

Since it has been launched, the matter has become a foregone conclusion and cannot be changed. Lin Jiang watched the reactions and comments from all parties for a while and found it very interesting.