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The smoky bedroom resembled a wonderland.

Suddenly, a long leg stretched out from the void.

Immediately after, a person holding a shoe box and a water cup appeared in the smoke.

"Cough cough~"

"I love being shrouded in smoke…"

"My ass!"

"Cough~"

The person was none other than Tang Chao, holding the small liquid-fueled engine in his hands.

He was back.

The feeling of being shrouded in smoke was extremely uncomfortable, so he quickly placed the engine on the bed, then pulled open the curtains and opened the window to let the smoke dissipate.

He rented a place on the top floor, a relatively cheap one-bedroom apartment, so he wasn't afraid of others smelling the smoke, and there wasn't that much smoke anyway, not billowing black smoke.

After opening the bedroom window, he went out and opened the living room window as well. Once the air circulated, the smoke quickly disappeared.

"Whew~"

"Fresh air is the best."

Not only did his body feel better, but looking at the familiar starry sky and the familiar neighborhood, his mood improved a lot.

Indeed, familiar places were more reassuring.

Once the smoke had mostly dissipated, he closed the living room window and returned to the bedroom. He found his phone was indeed on the table and looked unchanged, but the computer case also on the table… seemed to be in bad shape.

Although the black case looked unharmed, the wisps of smoke coming out of the gaps directly indicated the source of the smoky room just now.

"…"

With a heavy heart, Tang Chao first looked at his phone. After fingerprint unlocking, the screen lit up normally, displaying the time as 9:12 PM on May 21st.

Seeing this time, he was obviously stunned. Although he didn't remember the specific time of the incident, he was sure it was around 8 PM.

Because he glanced at the time when he was cooking instant noodles, it was 7:10 PM. At his speed, it definitely wouldn't take 20 minutes from cooking the noodles to finishing them.

Then washing the dishes and pot, and tidying up a bit, it definitely wouldn't be 8 PM yet.

After that was the 'doing stuff' time, until the computer case started smoking.

He didn't know the specific time, because he was immersed in doing stuff.

Even if starting from 8 PM, only a little over an hour had passed in reality.

But ten hours had passed on the Kerbin side!

With shock, he cautiously unplugged the host computer, then found a screwdriver and opened the case.

It was a tragic sight, a tragic sight!

The graphics card was burned!

The CPU was directly gone!

There was a melted hole in the motherboard!

The inside of the case was a mess, the colorful wires were all black, and the beautiful blue fan was the same.

The cool breeze brought the smoke out of the window, and Tang Chao's heart felt a little cold as he held the screwdriver, his hand trembling slightly.

If only he hadn't made that flag, saying he wouldn't need to upgrade his computer anytime soon, now it was completely scrapped.

Fortunately, when he moved his gaze to the bed and saw the shoe box-sized rocket engine, he smiled again.

Trading a computer for a Kerbin world, no matter how you looked at it, it was a good deal.

Although the aerospace center's cash balance was zero, fortunately the fixed assets were still there, and various parts were stored in abundance, so he believed things would turn around soon.

Thinking of this, he felt he should look into how to run an aerospace center. Even if the Kerbin side was different from Earth, since Earth was the "template", it could always provide some reference.

No sooner said than done. Although the computer was broken, as long as he had a phone and WIFI, it wasn't a big deal.

Not to mention he also had a laptop.

As for the "big thing" he promised his fans, he could only postpone it for now. After all, he didn't even have a computer, what else could he do?

And big things weren't so easy to do, postponing it for a few days was normal.

Speaking of postponing, his stomach "growled" first.

"I just ate an hour ago, why am I hungry again?"

Tang Chao rubbed his stomach helplessly, but then he thought, that's not right, he did eat an hour ago on Earth, but he also spent ten hours on Kerbin.

Kerbals were super healthy, only eating one dinner a day. He spent ten hours there and didn't even get one, and he was busy and excited before. Now that he was idle, his body thoughtfully reminded him that it was time to eat.

It was indeed thoughtful, or rather, "heartfelt", with his stomach sticking to his back.

Boil water, cook poached eggs, add instant noodles, add Chinese lettuce, add sliced ​​beef, sprinkle with chopped green onions.

All set!

"Slurp~"

What a familiar sense of sight.

Fortunately, the 32-inch 4K curved screen in front of him had become a 14-inch narrow-bezel laptop screen, otherwise he would have thought he was reborn.

While eating noodles, he searched for information online, but couldn't find anything suitable. Questions like "How to manage an aerospace center" had no direct answers, so he could only understand and summarize from the side.

However, this kind of side understanding gradually deviated from the track as he watched.

[SLS rocket's first launch delayed again, cost budget also increased again.]

[Mars exploration window approaching, multi-national Mars exploration plans entering final preparation stage.]

[The US revises the 'Foreign Direct Product Rule' again, stipulating that if a foreign product uses 10% of US technology, the sale of this foreign product to specific companies requires US consent.]

[A foreign company announces it will no longer supply high-tech parts to Tianxia Company.]

[Shocking! The national team's rocket technology is actually not as good as foreign private aerospace companies!]

[Aerospace technology has been developing for many years but is still lagging behind. Many public scholars call for a halt to development and to distribute the money to poor people who eat grass.]

"???"

Tang Chao was dumbfounded, what was all this? How did it jump to this?

A lot of the information looked extremely disgusting. Fortunately, he finished eating beforehand, otherwise he definitely wouldn't be able to eat.

Unable to watch anymore, he went to wash the dishes and also washed his face to calm himself down.

Actually, things had always been this way, who let Tianxia be different from the current world's "mainstream"?

It was like in the Earth animal class, the panda student, who was always first for a period of time, became corrupt. Their grades dropped sharply, and then feeling embarrassed, they used new learning methods and worked hard to quickly raise their grades to second in the class, and launched an attack on first place.

This phenomenon made the students at the bottom of the class very admired, and they shouted "Big brother, take me with you", but the current first in the class became nervous, and the students in the middle and upper grades were also jealous.

Those with a good attitude would humbly learn, while those with a bad attitude would curse "cheating" every day.

Even that wasn't all, they also wanted to unite and isolate the panda, and even wanted to play the trick of "blocking people at the school gate".

Regarding this matter, Tang Chao felt that the panda was also one of his own, he could scold them himself, but others couldn't scold them.

And especially scolding with ulterior motives, that was even more unacceptable.

But this world was just like that.

The current situation reminded him of a certain deceased white bear, or even worse.

When that one was around, there were still many brothers who helped, but the panda only had a few teammates who couldn't be carried.

Then, Tang Chao also understood.

He remembered a sentence from Mencius: "Cultivate your morality in poverty, and benefit the world in prosperity."

This sentence was very instructive, especially for his current state.

Suddenly communicating with the Kerbin world, not only becoming the boss of the aerospace center, but also being able to move things from there to here, was simply an unprecedented great thing.

If he were to pretend that none of this happened, it was impossible. He had already started learning how to manage the aerospace center, how could he pretend that nothing happened.

Even if his brain wanted to, his restless (crossed out)… excited heart wouldn't agree.

As a science fiction enthusiast, he even thought about becoming an astronaut, but gave up because the requirements were too high.

It's like that thing, what was it, oh yeah, he once dreamed of traveling the world with a sword, but later because he didn't know martial arts and didn't have a sword, he didn't go.

But he was still full of yearning for "going to the sky".

Alas, now he had internal strength and a sword, all that was left was to go out and have fun!

But having fun was having fun, the life of "home" also had to be taken care of.

Now "his own home" was being blockaded everywhere and was in a difficult situation, and he just happened to have the ability to help "his home", why not?

If "his home" became awesome, he could become even more awesome!

With a solid foundation, he could build a skyscraper that broke through the sky!

Of course, it definitely wouldn't be given away for free, after all, Mencius himself said: "Cultivate" when "poor", and let the people of the world benefit after "prospering".

So Tang Chao had to make himself "prosperous" first.

If he didn't "prosper", he would have to feel the pain again when buying a new computer.

And thinking of the computer, and then looking at the pile of junk, he immediately felt pain.

"My money!"