Chapter 145: They’ll Listen, Of Course
Five days later, Huomu Space Hub.
“Boss has already arrived on Mars? You’re so idle?”
Facing Liu Jun, who had once again abandoned a comfortable life to actively help manage the space hub far away in outer space 500 million kilometers from Blue Star, Fan Ren felt an indescribable gratitude in his heart.
Behind him, Dan Wu stepped forward and placed a suitcase in front of him.
Liu Jun saw it and immediately broke into a wide grin.
“Good brother, this job was worth it, hehe.”
Without opening it, he knew it must be various alcoholic beverages that Fan Ren had quietly sent him.
He was really into that right now.
Fan Ren didn’t mind Liu Jun’s love of drinking. The two had years of experience together, and he knew Liu Jun rarely got drunk in most situations; more often, it was just to satisfy his craving.
After all, under Su Yu Rou’s strict demands, he was being very ‘well-behaved’ now.
Fan Ren walked toward the cabin door, peeked into the corridor, saw no one, and then gave Dan Wu a look.
Dan Wu looked helpless upon seeing this.
What followed made Liu Jun’s eyes nearly pop out.
A cigarette pack appeared in Dan Wu’s hand, which he handed to Fan Ren, then walked out the cabin door without looking back to keep watch.
Fan Ren smiled, opened the cigarette pack, handed one over, and lit one for himself.
Over there, Liu Jun took the cigarette, held it horizontally to his nose, narrowed his eyes, took a deep breath, and showed utter enjoyment on his face.
Snap
Lighting up, the two brothers said nothing and puffed away one drag at a time.
Soon, one cigarette was finished. Fan Ren handed over the entire remaining pack. Liu Jun extended his left hand, then quickly pulled it back with his right.
“Forget it, no smoking. Yu Rou will make trouble if she sees.”
He gave an awkward laugh, which in Fan Ren’s eyes was praiseworthy—this was a form of self-discipline in a sense.
“Second Brother, how do we handle this plan in the end?”
After a moment of silence, Liu Jun couldn’t hold back his doubts and simply asked directly now that Fan Ren was here.
He knew that although Spitz Company was recruiting high-quality crowds from around the world to immigrate to Mars, most were top talents from various industries in South Island Country and Little Japan who owed massive debts due to economic collapse.
After that, there was a small portion of ‘gold rushers’ who needed to pay 1 million for a ticket.
This was unimaginable to ordinary people.
But the fact had quietly happened, and even now, investors on Blue Star thought this was the United States conducting another round of harvesting.
It was just that this harvest’s scale was a bit larger.
A profound look appeared in Fan Ren’s eyes as he gazed intently at the busy hub port in the distance.
“Artificial intelligence will play too big a role in future development. A’dai told me that avoidance solves no problems; we can’t refuse the massive productivity boost brought by artificial intelligence.”
Liu Jun nodded noncommittally.
Fan Ren glanced at him, knowing he disapproved of his plan to throw 1 million people onto Mars.
Perhaps because Fan Ren had always appeared so harmless, this created such a huge contrast for Liu Jun now.
Stepping forward, Fan Ren patted Liu Jun’s shoulder, his tone turning serious.
“I grew up in an orphanage, and it was student loans that gave me a chance to change my life after university. I might be a bit cold-blooded deep down, but I absolutely won’t let Great Xia citizens bear the risk of this plan.”
Liu Jun looked up, his gaze somewhat grave.
Fan Ren continued: “Those who fall behind get beaten—this principle is known to all, and they’re no exception.”
Hearing this, Liu Jun’s gaze flickered, then he sighed.
Just as Fan Ren said, those who fall behind get beaten—an eternal truth.
“Then why them?” This was what puzzled Liu Jun; there were plenty of backward places on Blue Star, so why did both Fan Ren and Mark focus on the crowds from these two places.
In response, Fan Ren gave him just a few words.
“They’re obedient!”
Liu Jun suddenly understood—it was really true.
Time flew by, and half a year passed in the blink of an eye.
Blue Star, space hub.
Several massive Gale puls versions were quietly docked at the hub port.
In the fully sealed connecting passage with no windows, dense crowds were boarding under the jurisdiction of the Fire God Squad.
The newly constructed Gale could carry nearly a thousand people for deep space long-haul flights per trip.
And to enable Mars landing, Fan Ren and the designers had specially installed 8 nuclear fusion engines to provide power.
As a result, this super-large manned spacecraft’s navigation speed was greatly improved.
Now, the speed between Mars and Earth was nearly as fast as the Peregrine Falcon.
Fan Ren stood on the periphery watching these crowds—the senior elites from various industries in South Island and Little Japan. Their faces showed anticipation, melancholy, and regret.
Under Spitz Company’s explanation, they only needed to complete 5 years of work on Mars to repay all their debts and receive a salary.
And once the time was up, they could freely choose to stay on Mars as locals or return to Blue Star and start from zero again.
At this moment, they were very confused.
Under the financial storm, almost no one from the two countries escaped. With Mark’s fueling, this was just the first batch of 100,000 workers responsible for constructing Utopia City’s internal buildings.
Meanwhile, the Great Xia workers who had completed external construction, life support system setup, and ice cubes transport orbit laying had all withdrawn from Mars.
After these workers finished building the initial residential housing, Mark would officially begin large-scale immigration.
And on the surface, all this was commissioned by Spitz Company to Xinghai Technology for personnel transportation.
In the crowd, Ma Wei, who had obtained a new Little Japan identity, kept his head down and slowly moved forward with the crowd.
He didn’t dare look up.
He had just seen Fan Ren and knew Fan Ren’s status was now transcendent, no longer someone he could influence.
Moreover, there was a conflict between him and Fan Ren; if Fan Ren spotted him, it was hard to guarantee he wouldn’t directly cancel his Mars quota.
In Ma Wei’s view, the Mars trip was his only chance to defy fate.
The boarding process ended quickly. When the cabin door fully closed, Fan Ren took Dan Wu and left the scene, returning to the laboratory.
During this time, he hadn’t been idle.
The Europa exploration was complete, with joyful results.
Everything was as he had predicted: not only vast water resources for space hub use, but also deuterium that could be refined at the hub for nuclear fusion fuel.
At the same time, Europa’s far side, like the Moon, had abundant helium-3.
These two could solve the basic energy problems for all industrial facilities within 1 billion kilometers of the Wood-Fire hub for a long time.
And because Europa itself had only 13% of Blue Star’s gravity, much lower than the Moon’s.
Therefore, transportation conditions were excellent.
Treasure satellite, its reputation well-deserved.
