Chapter 193: Time Flies
Crisis Year 29.
Beside the Blue Star Hub, a super-large building with length, width, and height reaching 100 kilometers, built from anti-electromagnetic detection material, stood in space.
However, judging from the electronic display screen hanging at the entrance, this was just an ultra-large Xinghai Laboratory.
The research personnel who occasionally walked out from inside also confirmed this.
Inside, in a laboratory with a strong futuristic feel, Fan Ren sat alone in front of some unknown equipment.
In front of him, a piece of green metal foil was undergoing the final acceptance process under a high-precision electron microscope.
“Intermolecular spacing is stable, Boss. We should have succeeded.”
A’dai’s voice sounded in the laboratory, but unexpectedly, Fan Ren’s face showed little reaction.
Progress in materials science is as difficult as ascending to heaven.
From discovering the silver-like super metal to the first successful completion of material processing experiments at the molecular level on it.
Fan Ren had walked this path for 17 years.
He lit a cigarette and leaned back in the chair. Nicotine might provide neural stimulation to others, but for him, it no longer existed.
From university graduation to now, 35 years seemed to pass in the blink of an eye.
Now he was over fifty, at the high age of fifty-three, yet still full of youthful vigor.
He vaguely remembered that when he learned the alien spaceship would arrive on Earth in 49 years, Fan Ren was dazed.
At that time, he didn’t know if he could persist until that moment.
In his heart, this matter was entirely his own doing. If he couldn’t see what would happen to Blue Star in 49 years, he might even die with eyes wide open.
However, later he discovered that the anti-aging treatment technology developed by Xinghai was useless to him, and only then did he realize that his body seemed to not age at all.
So, apart from the influence of the Civilization Seed data board in his mind, there should be no other factors.
Moreover, during the subsequent testing of the Peregrine Falcon, he even found that his physical fitness far surpassed that of ordinary Blue Star humans.
Currently, the only person Fan Ren knew who could match him was Captain Wang Wei, far away in the Huomu Hub Space Force Branch.
Amidst his random thoughts, images of the people who had worked side by side with him over these years flashed through Fan Ren’s mind, leaving him filled with emotion in the laboratory for a moment.
A’dai did not make a sound to disturb Fan Ren.
He was actually the one with the least concept of time now, but at the same time, one of the beings who theoretically understood the concept of time the most.
He was eternal.
“Any recent news from the biomedical side?”
Fan Ren extinguished the cigarette butt and asked in a low voice.
A’dai knew what he meant and said with some anticipation in his tone, “Old Qin said to give him another three years, and he will definitely produce results.”
Hearing this, Fan Ren nodded, his face relaxing a bit.
After 20 years, the first batch of people who received anti-aging treatment, their bodies would inevitably head toward aging again after this year.
Not long ago, during Elder Ye and a group of chiefs’ inspection visit, at the moment of parting with Fan Ren, he had pulled his hand in front of everyone and said a meaningful instruction.
“I can still help you for one year. The road ahead will depend on you alone.”
Fan Ren understood the meaning in Elder Ye’s words. He wanted to refuse, but things were no longer what they used to be.
Elder Ye and the chiefs of various departments were not fools. Whether it was high-voltage radio technology, solid-state battery, graphene chip technology, or the subsequent nuclear fusion technology.
The successful research and development of these technologies in a short time could not be explained by ‘exceptional talent’.
Fan Ren definitely had some secret, but Elder Ye had never asked, not even mentioned it once.
This strange issue seemed to be forgotten by everyone, and in the end, all outsiders subconsciously shifted their attention to Xinghai Technology Company itself.
The massive number of scientists, scientific management methods, and the investment of research funds regardless of cost.
In outsiders’ eyes, Xinghai’s success was inevitable, thus ignoring the decisive role Fan Ren played in it.
Now, these elders who had watched him grow all the way were inevitably about to leave him soon, and Fan Ren felt very upset.
But he was powerless about it.
On the Civilization Seed System, there was no unlockable technology related to biomedical projects at all.
Perhaps it thought that after transforming Fan Ren’s body to be long-lived, he no longer needed to invest energy in this kind of technology that had little effect.
And he couldn’t take the initiative to undertake life medical research either; that wasn’t his expertise.
Now, he could only pin all hopes on the biomedical laboratory that had cost countless funds.
“Summarize the technology, notify the Ministry of Industry for mass production, assign tasks to the Design Bureau to design and build small frigates, and communicate relevant specifications with each commander in the Space Force.”
After speaking, Fan Ren stood up and walked outside. A’dai acknowledged and fell silent.
He knew Fan Ren was going to the Hibernation Pod Area.
In the Hibernation Pod Area, the first thing Fan Ren saw was Mark’s smiling frozen face.
This was a person who knew how to enjoy life and had a very keen business sense. Most importantly, Mark could see the situation clearly.
He transferred all his assets to Great Xia, and with Xinghai as the main body, established a space transportation tourism company.
Actually, this business itself was developed and expanded by Mark, but after Xinghai suddenly emerged, it disrupted Spitz Company’s rhythm.
Afterward, Mark even disregarded management authority and handed over full responsibility for managing and operating the company to A’dai.
Then he plunged headfirst into a hibernation pod and requested to be awakened in 100 years.
Sometimes Fan Ren really envied them, as well as the humans on Blue Star today who didn’t care about the crisis countdown at all.
Currently, the entire Blue Star had only Great Xia frantically developing space industry. Warships, as if disregarding cost entirely, were equipped to Space Force subordinate units at nearly 200 ships in just three years.
Far away on Mars, the entire situation there seemed like a natural exercise area, with grand-scale military exercises organized from time to time.
With Blue Star Space Force Headquarters as the defender and the Huomu Hub Space Force Branch as the attacker, they would launch costly attack-defense exercises at every turn.
Fan Ren got tired of it after watching a few times.
Even though the Punisher was equipped with an electromagnetic railgun that could damage the Conqueror’s outer armor at close range, it still couldn’t avoid the extremely low hit rate issue when targeting high-speed, agile-moving small boats.
Even relying on A’dai’s powerful computing power, the outcome was still very disappointing to him.
The cause of this embarrassing problem was that the electromagnetic railgun required a very long internal rail layout, which simply couldn’t be accommodated on small boats.
If miniaturized and equipped on high-speed small boats, while energy supply wasn’t an issue, the insufficient acceleration distance would lead to the projectile lacking initial velocity boost, reducing power and unable to effectively produce lethality.
Dense bombs required timing that was too difficult, missiles lacked tracking speed, railguns lacked sensitivity.
These problems weren’t just for Fan Ren to think about; they were also issues that all relevant professional scientists in Great Xia needed to seriously consider.
Continuing forward, Fan Ren’s steps unconsciously slowed down.
In the hibernation pod in front of him, Zeng Yingying’s smiling expression seemed permanently frozen, enveloped by the cold air inside the pod.
Fan Ren sat down on the floor in front of Zeng Yingying’s hibernation pod, his back closely against the pod wall.
He sat in silence, as if being embraced by someone.
In the distance, a robot silently glided over under A’dai’s control, gently draping a blanket over Fan Ren, who had unknowingly fallen into a deep sleep.
