Chapter 414 - 405 U-Tu_1

As the junior brother of Sir Qian, Ye Changsi’s personal abilities also belong to the top tier; he is a genius whose research field spans nuclear bombs and satellite missiles. Even without system cheats, he is a master of his generation.

He was very interested in gas plasma mirror reflection technology. These days, he devoted himself to researching it, and the output of his findings was immense.

In order to reasonably bring this technology to light, he had no choice but to take the credit upon himself, slowly becoming the inventor of this technology.

Both Big Shot and Academician She didn’t understand this technology much, but seeing Lin Ju’s resolute attitude made it hard to say anything. The prospect of significantly increasing the power of laser action without loss, with the upper limit reaching an exponential level, was wonderful, but one could imagine the difficulty would be no small feat.

But New Yuan was no stranger to betting on projects with extremely high risks and difficulties; when they were still small, they had invested almost all their funds into nuclear engines, and as a result, the A100 indeed came to fruition.

Big Shot suddenly remembered the simultaneously established NPAE; could it be that it’s about to succeed as well?

However, he still decided to pull back Lin Ju, who had dug himself a big hole, advising kindly,

"For the laser source, you might try contacting Modu Optical. The smelting satellite is certainly also set to go nuclear-powered, right? Before this matter is settled, it might be better not to blindly expand the construction scale."

Lin Ju nodded without delay, though it was unclear if he really took it in.

...

Institute 507.

Zhang Zhiguang walked into the rest area and picked up a piece of snake fruit to munch on.

Although he wasn’t particularly a fan of snake fruit, after that special experience, he always seemed to unconsciously pick it up, as if it had become a prop in some movie.

They also knew about some of the internal disputes within the Aerospace Development Committee; Zhang Zhiguang didn’t think Academician She would be so radical, but he couldn’t help but feel a bit anticipatory.

But the result should be out these days. Since the third CZ-10 rocket had been transported, its launch was probably about fifteen days away. At that time, the crew and mission of Dawn III would be disclosed and would not be changed anymore.

When the snake fruit was eaten to a third, an announcement came over the lounge’s speaker:

"Zhang Zhiguang, Fang Lin, Ding Jihua, quickly assemble in the fourth-floor office!"

The astronauts in training all involuntarily stopped their movements; they understood what this meant—it was most likely that the Dawn III mission was set, and it was time to take the crew photo.

Zhang Zhiguang thought the same, and when he arrived, Fang Lin and Ding Jihua had just got there. The director of the training center took out three badges from the package on the table and put them in their hands.

Upon closer inspection, the badge featured the gold embroidered words "Dawn III" at the top; the Manned Space Flight Office and the Dawn Spaceship emblem were below, with a horizontal asymmetric white pattern in the middle that looked like a module.

"Comrades, the Dawn III mission was officially approved ten minutes ago. I will now read to you the mission details,"

The three of them held their breath instantly, stood up straight, and watched the director open the document bag and withdraw the papers. He glanced over them before he looked up at them, coughed, and then read aloud:

"The crew for Dawn III is confirmed as: Zhang Zhiguang, Fang Lin, Ding Jihua;

Mission one: Board the Dawn III spacecraft; the commander and deputy commander will complete our country’s first manned lunar landing and corresponding scientific experiments;

Mission two: Dock with the U-Tu lunar orbital space station for module habitation verification and corresponding basic scientific experiments;

Dawn III mission duration: 14 days, tentative launch date: July 1st at 11 a.m.

Understood?"

The three, still not fully recovered from the shock, reflexively responded loudly with "Understood!" before they digested the content of the mission.

To land on the moon? To land on the moon!

It was Zhang Zhiguang, quickest in his thoughts, recalculating that there were only a dozen days until the launch, but then he suddenly grasped the deep implications of the launch date.

The change in the mission target for Dawn III and the frenetic rush work at the Jingu rocket base to deliver the rocket ahead of schedule must have been for this date.

He quickly brought his feet together and assumed the proper military stance, "I promise to complete the mission and will not fail the expectations of the organization and the people!"

The other two also snapped out of their reverie, suppressing their excitement as they took the oath together, clutching the just-received badge tightly in their hands.

...

B-level Base.

On the 45th day of the clinical trial, Xie Miao had confirmed that the effects of the No. 304 Injection had fully taken hold.

This was half a month later than expected, and he seriously suspected it was because Liu Si had been injected with a large amount of illegal interrogation drugs and sedatives during training in his earlier years, causing his body to develop drug resistance to certain molecules, which should not have caused such a large deviation.

Fortunately, there were no issues with Liu Si’s body itself, which was not only extremely strong in terms of muscles and bones but also had its internal organs and nerves synchronously enhanced.

First was the heart; the increased weight of the bones and muscles naturally brought about greater energy consumption, requiring the heart to pump blood with more power.

A normal person’s heart rate is around 60 to 100 beats per minute, but Liu Si’s heart rate was only 42, beating just 42 times per minute.

This doesn’t mean there was a problem with his heart. Under normal conditions, the stronger the human heart, the stronger its pumping power per beat, necessitating fewer beats. Typically, even well-trained athletes can only achieve around 50 beats per minute.

Liu Si’s body measurements had now stabilized at 183 centimeters and 100 kilograms, with a high percentage of bone mass. The high-density muscles made him appear even leaner than a few days ago, but his strength and resistance to impact had increased even more.

Even a real wooden stick (not for performance) would break on his arm without causing much damage, and his tight skin was unlikely to even show a mark from the impact.

But what interested Xie Miao most was his exceptionally active nerves. In recent tests, although his intelligence had not changed, his reaction speed and sensitivity had improved by leaps and bounds, almost comparable to some naturally extraordinary talents.

At the moment, in a large enclosed room in the basement, Liu Si and the others were wearing heavy soundproof earmuffs, beginning their application testing.

The table was filled with various firearms—given Lin Ju’s relationship with the military, it was no problem to legally keep these in the base. He had even fired a 120mm mortar at the garrison.

Liu Si strapped a quick-draw holster, used in American cowboy competitions, around his waist, then picked up a single-action revolver and loaded two bullets before placing it in the holster.

A high-speed camera was set up at his side. Liu Si squatted slightly and assumed the correct stance, facing a balloon five meters in front of him.

"Bang!"

The researcher who was keeping an eye on Liu Si only saw a flash of light at his waist; the actions of drawing the gun, firing, and reholstering were not visible.

According to the results of the high-speed camera, it took Liu Si a total of 0.17 seconds from drawing the gun to shooting the two targets and reholstering the weapon.

However, he just sighed, and Xie Miao also shook his head somewhat helplessly.

Liu Si heaved a sigh as well; he felt that even his speed had not yet reached its limit.

As a "superhuman" enhanced by biotechnology and relying on his existing knowledge of firearms, he could almost achieve perfect rapid-fire accuracy within 150 meters, with an aiming time so short it was hard to believe. So, he decided to attempt to break the world record.

0.17 seconds might be impossible for the average person to achieve even with a blink, but Liu Si had completed the entire action of drawing, shooting, and reholstering the handgun. Yet, this could still only be considered the second fastest in the world.

The world record holder, Bob Munden, born in 1942, was proficient in rapid-fire with a revolver and had an almost 100 percent hit rate.

The world record he set when he was young was drawing and firing in 0.0175 seconds; yes, 17.5 milliseconds, not an extra zero.

If he hadn’t been born in the era of cameras, such a person would quickly become an unbelievable legend.

When he drew his gun, his arm experienced acceleration close to 10G, and he had even accomplished the feat of emptying ten bullets in 2.21 seconds (including switching to a second revolver), with a reaction speed dozens of times faster than the average person.

Even though Liu Si felt he was incredibly fast, he still could not compare to this marksman; after dozens of attempts, he had not managed to break into the 100-millisecond window.

Xie Miao regretted that this legend had passed away prematurely in 2012; otherwise, they might have been able to study his genes or something.