That evening.
As major media outlets compiled their press releases, social media across Xia Kingdom exploded in an instant!
On Weibo's trending topics list, ten trending terms, one red and one black, appeared in unison.
Project Lunar Palace
Project Nantianmen
The Heavenly Court Project
Professor Lü is awesome!!!
《……》
These ten trending topics directly caused Weibo's servers to crash!
Countless netizens flooded the comments section, expressing their excitement.
Holy crap! Holy crap!
"What happened? What happened? What happened!?"
"As long as I accept my own weakness, I am invincible... cough cough, sorry, wrong scene."
"Editors these days are getting more and more outrageous; they're even using content from science fiction novels to publish news articles?"
"...Everyone upstairs, please look carefully. This is a meeting that just took place at the China National Space Administration. These things were proposed by Professor Lü, the first director of the agency!"
"Can anyone tell me what year it is? I suspect I've traveled through time!"
"I can smell the scent of the US-Soviet rivalry back then..."
A well-known military forum in China was no exception, and this news caused an uproar!
...
After dinner, Zhao Zijie sat in front of the computer in his room and opened the browser, as usual.
He skillfully typed a domain name into the browser's address bar.
Gently press the Enter key.
The webpage quickly redirected to a military forum.
Unlike in the past, this time the homepage of the military forum featured a line of large red text.
Major findings from the NASA meeting revealed!
Zhao Zijie frowned slightly.
During this period, NASA's name has become widely known throughout the country.
It's no exaggeration to say that wherever there's internet and a signal, almost everyone knows about this newly established department.
But... how did this space agency meeting get involved with a military forum?
A hint of doubt appeared in Zhao Zijie's eyes. He dragged the mouse and subconsciously clicked on the highlighted title in red and bold.
"Project Lunar Palace...an automated lunar mining project?"
"ah???"
"Production will begin at the end of this year?!"
"WTF?!"
Zhao Zijie put down the mouse and rubbed his eyes.
He even doubted himself, wondering if he had seen it wrong!
Why did Xia Guo suddenly propose a lunar mining plan out of the blue?!
Putting aside everything else, Xia Kingdom hasn't even truly achieved a manned lunar landing yet, has it?
So, putting a lunar mining project into production by the end of the year? Isn't that just a pipe dream?
"Has Professor Lü gone mad...?"
Zhao Zijie muttered to himself, then opened the QQ group, took a screenshot of the news in front of him, and sent it out.
"Has everyone seen this news? Today isn't April Fool's Day, is it?"
"Beep beep beep!"
Soon, a series of urgent message notifications rang out.
Zhao Zijie quickly opened the QQ group again to check.
"Old Zhao, you didn't just find out now, did you?"
"Friendly reminder: the Moon Palace Project is the easiest of the three projects to implement."
"Old Zhao, you should watch the news first before you speak!"
Looking at the messages in the QQ group, Zhao Zijie's pupils contracted slightly.
Three major plans?
Or the simplest one?
Zhao Zijie quickly closed the QQ group interface and dragged the mouse to examine it carefully.
Gradually, Zhao Zijie's gaze began to turn strange.
The Nantianmen Project, which includes the Xuan Nu series of space fighters and the Luan Niao series of space carrier platforms, is actually aimed at resisting alien invasion?
WTF?!
It's supposed to be finished by the end of next year?!
As he scrolled his mouse wheel, detailed information about the Nantianmen Project appeared before his eyes.
Xuan Nu series aerospace fighters.
Fuselage length: 30-50 meters.
Maximum takeoff weight: 80-100 tons.
Cruise speed within the atmosphere: 11.2 km/s (second cosmic velocity)
Maximum speed outside the atmosphere: 16.7 km/s (third cosmic velocity)
It employs dual fusion engines, with an electric propulsion system as its power source...
The main weaponry includes small laser rapid-fire cannons, ultra-high-speed medium- and long-range air-to-air missiles (which can be equipped with nuclear warheads)...
The later Luan bird series was even more outrageous!
The fuselage is 500 meters long, has a wingspan of 1,300 meters, a maximum takeoff weight of 300,000 tons, a cruising speed of Mach 2 within the atmosphere, and a speed that can reach the third cosmic velocity outside the atmosphere!
As for weapon systems, high-energy pulse laser cannons, high-power particle diffusion cannons, large missile silos...
Seeing this, Zhao Zijie swallowed hard.
This thing... is it really technology we'll have next year?!
Realizing this was only the second plan, Zhao Zijie quickly scrolled down the page.
hiss!
The Heavenly Court Project!
Good heavens!
Just by looking at the name, Zhao Zijie could imagine how outrageous this thing must be!
First, he glanced at the project's estimated completion time.
Within 15 years...
He suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
Having experienced the stimulation of the first two projects, he suddenly felt that the fifteen-year Heavenly Court Plan seemed to be the most reliable.
But soon, he decided to take back his youthful and ignorant words.
Human Deep Space Expedition Fleet Program.
The plan envisions the entire Celestial Fleet consisting of 1,000 survival quasars, 500 supply quasars, and 1,000 combat quasars.
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