Chapter 103: The First Anti-Gravity Spaceship

After this set of combination punches was thrown down.

The slogan "Our journey is the sea of stars," once constantly shouted, has now become a hot word on people's lips.

Media front-page headlines, street talk, every hot search online are filled with infinite yearning for the future.

And the spring breeze of education reform is already underway.

"Classmates, today we lecture on the gravity slingshot effect; please open chapter three of *Interstellar Navigation*,

Which student can tell me, using Jupiter's gravity slingshot, how much can a spacecraft's speed be increased at most?"

In a high school,

In class, a teacher pointed at the rotating Solar System model on the big screen and asked enthusiastically.

The students below, their eyes filled with desire for knowledge, no longer had the previous aversion to studying.

They raised their hands one after another to answer the question.

"Teacher, I know this..."

However, while the students were enjoying learning at school, their parents suffered terribly.

"It's over, over, my son asked me about the principle of a Dyson sphere, I told him it's a new model from Dyson vacuum cleaners, almost got beaten to death by him!"

"Upstairs, I'll teach you a trick: just tell him, once you get into the Space Fleet, you'll know after building one yourself."

"Brother, don't listen to him; just tell your son this question is too low-level, I disdain to answer."

……

At another space launch center of Yanhuang Guo, huge construction sites rose up from the ground.

This is the national key project—the construction site of the next-generation spacecraft.

However, looking around, on the huge construction site, hardly any human figures could be seen.

Instead, there were the silhouettes of thousands upon thousands of machines.

They are all multifunctional construction-type robots, carefully designed by scientists, deployed here as soon as they came off the line.

Some drive huge excavators, carrying out earthwork precise to the centimeter level.

Some in groups of three or five easily lift steel structures weighing tens of tons, and under laser guidance, seamlessly weld them together.

Others, inside already-formed buildings, carry out complex pipeline laying and equipment installation.

They work 24/7, swift and precise, with efficiency over ten times that of human construction crews.

On the other hand, with the large-scale application of work robots, many traditional posts have been replaced.

However, these idle workers are not truly doing nothing.

Because the state quickly launched the "Interstellar Talent Training Program".

Workers who want to learn new skills can voluntarily sign up; the entire study period incurs no fees, and food and lodging are also provided.

In a retraining center in Magic Capital, former crane operator Lao Wang is wearing VR glasses, clumsily operating a virtual joystick.

In the virtual world before his eyes, he is replacing the power module of a lunar rover.

"Hey, Lao Wang, your hand is shaking again! If you really go up to the Moon, this tremor will scrap tens of millions of equipment!"

A coworker joked on the side.

"I'll try again, I just don't believe it. Once I learn it, I'll be the first to sign up to go mine on the Moon, and then I'll bring each of you a meteorite as a souvenir!"

Lao Wang replied unhappily, then focused and continued operating.

His words caused the surrounding coworkers to burst into laughter.

If the emergence of work robots changed the work model, then the appearance of liquid robots completely overturned the form of war.

In a military restricted zone, an unprecedented military exercise is underway.

In the observation room, Wang Hongbin and a group of military high-ups stared solemnly at the big screen.

In the exercise, the Blue side, relying on solid fortifications and dense firepower net, had consecutively repelled three attacks from the Red side.

"It's time to let our protagonist take the stage." Wang Hongbin said calmly.

After the order was issued.

On the screen, only a few blobs of mercury-like liquid metal were seen, air-dropped from transport aircraft onto the battlefield.

After landing, they quickly merged into humanoid forms, ignoring rugged terrain and intertwining firepower, moving like ghosts across the battlefield.

Bullets hitting them only raised ripples.

Artillery bombardment would blast them into countless silver droplets, but in an instant these droplets would re-coalesce, good as new.

"They've penetrated the first defense line!"

"The second minefield is ineffective against them!"

"They directly drilled into the firing holes of the fortifications!"

Exclamations of surprise rose and fell in the observation room.

In the screen, a liquid robot turned its body into a sharp long blade, instantly cutting down several Blue side soldiers.

Of course, these are fake soldiers.

Another infiltrated the command headquarters, and before the Blue side commander could react, eliminated him.

The whole decapitation operation took less than five minutes.

Near-immortal ability, ever-changing form, and unparalleled infiltration efficiency.

All the generals present felt a chill down their spines.

They knew that the rules of future land warfare have been rewritten.

As for interstellar spacecraft, good news also arrived.

Qian Bowen's team, after efforts over this period, finally succeeded in manufacturing the first manned anti-gravity spacecraft.

"Anti-gravity engine engaged!"

Energy output stable!

Internal gravity field generated!

Following the command, the bottom of the spacecraft emitted a soft blue glow, and in the next moment it lifted off the ground and hovered in midair.

No huge roar or airflow phenomenon typical of traditional aircraft appeared.

Afterward, he performed various maneuvers in the air: translation, rotation, rapid ascent...

Success! We succeeded!

Qian Bowen excitedly hugged the colleague beside him.

At this moment, it marked that humanity had finally broken free from gravity's bonds, the essential technology for interstellar travel, was fully applied.

The report of the successful test flight of the antigravity spacecraft was sent upward immediately.

At the meeting held afterward, the next-step plan was formally approved.

Comrades, I have received instructions and hereby formally announce the official launch of the first stage of entering interstellar civilization!

Luo Lao's voice, through the microphone, reached the ears of every meeting participant.

Our goal is to establish a permanent scientific research and mining base on the Moon within three years, and simultaneously launch the construction of a large near-Earth orbit space dock!

As soon as these words were spoken, thunderous applause erupted.

After the meeting ended, private giants such as Summer Teng Heavy Industry and Stellar Intelligence that had obtained the core technology,

They almost simultaneously held a press conference.

"Summer Teng Heavy Industry will invest 500 billion, fully transform, and advance into the field of modular construction of interstellar spacecraft!"

"Stellar Intelligence will cooperate with the state to jointly develop lunar mining-dedicated robots and artificial intelligence systems!"