The End of Technology

June 2019.

This is not an ordinary month for Ning Zi, because it means that it has been three years since he dropped out of Huaqing and came to the capital. If there were no accidents in his life in Huaqing, he would have graduated from Huaqing by this time. Maybe he would continue to study for graduate school. It is more likely that he would have started working in a large factory and become an employee. Glorious social animal.

It just happened that a magical kitten chose him out of 1.4 billion choices. So he is now a winner of the Fields Medal in Mathematics, the Turing Award, the Nobel Prize in Physics, and the Chemistry Prize, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering, the dean of the School of Space at Yanbei University of Space Exploration, and a double major in mathematics and physics. PhD Tutor.

Of course, Ning Zi actually has more titles than that. There are also various large and small awards, such as China's Highest Scientific and Technological Progress Award, XX Honorary Professor, etc., but Ning Zi doesn't need to pay too much attention to these titles. I never cared about it. In fact, Ning Zi had no chance to show off these titles. Although if he wanted to, he could listen to the host of various conferences repeating it three hundred and sixty-five days a year.

For everyone in and around Beijing, June 2019 is also not an ordinary month.

Because everyone can see a big guy floating in the sky from a distance.

Really big guy.

The air in Beijing has improved a lot in recent years, and there is less heavy smog. You can see that big guy dozens of kilometers away.

This also directly caused the outside of the large R\u0026D base of Yanbei Sky Exploration University to become much more lively.

Even the expressway leading here has begun to experience traffic jams.

There is no other way. A huge thing suddenly appears in the sky like a movie. Everyone will be curious and can't help but want to take a look.

Not to mention that this is the era when small videos are beginning to gain momentum. Countless anchors who want to join the new media industry are worried about where to get traffic. This big guy floating in the air has naturally become the most traffic-generating topic during this period. , naturally I want to come and take more pictures.

With more people, the small businesses around the base will naturally become popular.

The once deserted rural streets have now become extremely lively. Some sell chicken rolls, some sell barbecue, crispy pancakes, Tianjin hemp flowers, various candied haws, and even the mother-in-law from the surrounding area can set up a stall with a few buckets of instant noodles bought in the supermarket and a bottle of boiling water. Business seems to be pretty good.

So in the past, everyone often laughed at themselves as a place where people don't shit, but now it is lively from morning to night. Even in the early morning, the street is as lively as a night market in the south, because it is even more beautiful when the big thing in the sky shines. The live broadcast effect is best at this time.

Of course, the most important thing is that this big guy can arouse the pride of countless Chinese people.

Yes, when this big guy appeared, the official had already sent out information through various channels, although it was a bit perfunctory and sloppy.

I just want to inform you that this thing is called Wu Gang. It is the first-generation spacecraft independently developed by the China Space Exploration University R\u0026D Base. Its main structure uses negative mass material, so it has anti-gravity capabilities and can float in the air. Because the underground R\u0026D base no longer has that much space to complete assembly, the final assembly link must be completed in mid-air.

Of course, we have already made plans for the public's enthusiasm. There are only two roads leading to the base from all directions. Barriers have been set up on both roads three kilometers away from the base. Emergency fences have also been built. In addition, there are people on duty every few hundred meters. There are also loudspeakers that constantly play the serious consequences of breaking in, enough to ensure that 99% of the people will only watch from outside the fence.

Of course, the remaining one percent will be educated well.

In fact, of course there is no need to be so troublesome. For example, when the night is dark and the wind is high, all eight parts are shipped to a base in a deep mountain and forest for assembly. However, if you do some math, not only will it cost more, but the transportation steps will also be cumbersome. In addition, Ning Zi felt that there was no need to do so many things, which led to the current situation.

Fortunately, the problem is actually not big.

The good thing about China is that as long as enough attention is paid to it, safety issues are never a big problem.

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In order to assemble the Wu Gang, the Space Academy changed its arrangements this year and temporarily moved the final exam to early June. After the exam, they had an early vacation and were kicked out of the campus. This means that the summer vacation has been extended to nearly three months, but this does not bring many surprises to the children of the Space Academy.

In fact, many students have complained about the school's disrespectful way of expelling students. Especially after the eight components of the Wu Gang were officially launched and assembled on the third day of the holiday.

If we had chosen to stay in school, we would have been able to see the largest mechanical project in history up close. Even for kids from the Space Academy, being able to watch such a grand event at close range is something that can last a lifetime.

But they were kicked out of school... and they were furious.

These days, there are all kinds of complaints from every class group and grade group in the Space Academy. I have no choice but to express my dissatisfaction with the school in this way now.

Of course, some people posted this sentiment on the forum, but in that place the conversation changed, and it was completely Versailles.

After all, those who have been admitted to the Space Academy in the past two years are definitely among the top students in China.

The bonus of being able to get into the world's top universities with a score of 211 has largely disappeared as Yanbei University of Physical Education was officially renamed Yanbei Space Exploration University. However, for many students with expertise in sports, there is actually still a hole left. After all, it cannot be said that those sports majors in the past will not recruit students soon.

It’s just said that the headquarters will transfer all the science and engineering subjects to the base in an orderly manner. Anyway, the place here is big enough and can continue to be expanded. It is not too big to build several teaching buildings next to the huge underground laboratory and integrate them into the campus. Troublesome things. As for land granting, don't take it easy. This is what the world's top universities should have.

Of course, none of this can offset the dissatisfaction of the students at the Space Academy.

But there are still lucky ones.

For example, Chen Luo.

As a student who had been appointed by the dean, while other students were ordered to go home quickly, he was asked to stay in school during the summer vacation.

When he first heard the news, Chen Luo was slightly disappointed.

After all, for him, he had a great time after returning home every winter and summer vacation. Although most of his time is still spent on studying complicated knowledge, he can always find time to get together with his former classmates and friends, and then talk about his experiences at the Space Academy. That feeling... is very refreshing.

But when the Wu Gang took off, this emotion had disappeared.

Because he discovered something more interesting - complaining with everyone in the current classmate group, this is real happiness.

"Hey, I really envy you that you can go home. You really don't know how painful it is to stay in school now. It's nothing. You dare to believe that you can't get any sun now. The sun in broad daylight is completely blocked. It feels like I'm deficient in vitamin D! The lights are so bright every night that I can't sleep at all. I suspect that the green trees at the base will be disrupted by the Wu Gang's schedule.

What's even more annoying is that although I was left behind, I was not allowed to go in through the passage to see up close how this thing was assembled. Dean Ning said that he would take me in to see the layout after the assembly is completed. Dear students, can you understand the torment I feel now? ! "

Really, when Chen Luo posted these words to the class group, he gained a happiness he had never experienced after staying in the academy for two years.

Almost all classmates sent him affectionate greetings. Fortunately, they are all high-quality talents. For example, many people begged to give him a full-body massage, and some wanted to have some super-friendship relationships with him. , although everyone is of the same sex, the few people of the opposite sex hope that he can return to where he came from.

Even the counselor with a very low sense of presence was excited and directly named him in the group. If he interacted enthusiastically with everyone like this, he would be considered to temporarily allow him to enjoy the VIP treatment of one person and a group.

Well, after feeling everyone's enthusiasm, Chen Luo chose to take some photos of the Wu Gang from a unique angle every day and send them to the group. Sure enough, he was more popular now. While greeting him warmly, his classmates also made more requests to him, such as taking photos from a special angle. Some even sent him private photos of themselves, asking him to help him identify the people in the photos. Go below the Wu Gang.

All in all, Chen Luo had a great time this time. And he has consulted that these photos can be taken and posted at will. It's impossible to control it anyway. There are people broadcasting live outside the base 24 hours a day these days, so it can't be hidden anyway.

Fortunately, it's June now and it's early summer. The temperature is high enough. If it were winter, it would probably cause many people to suffer from freezing problems.

But in fact, Chen Luo's complaints are indeed problems.

At first, before the various parts were officially closed, there was still a ray of sunlight coming out of the gap. As the various parts of the Wu Gang began to close, it was really impossible for a ray of sunlight to penetrate. Various lights are flashing everywhere below the engineering base.

It doesn't look obvious outside during the day, but it can still be seen clearly within the base.

But what excites Chen Luo the most is that he can stand on the top floor of the laboratory building and use a telescope to observe at close range the countless N1 engineering robots busy at the connection point of the Wu Gang.

These robots are either suspended from the top of the tower, or work directly at the bottom of the Wu Gang while "sucking" upside down.

Just looking at it makes one's blood boil.

Of course, when it was time to eat every day, when he ate in the cafeteria with the scientists and engineers who participated in the Wu Gang project, seeing their excited expressions and listening to the various issues they chatted about made Chen Luo feel even more excited and excited. pride.

Although he has not seen Dean Ning since the holiday and is not sure why Dean Ning wants to keep him, Chen Luo knows that he will soon become one of these people. At the very least, he firmly believed that he would be one of the first people to board the spacecraft after the Wu Gang officially opened for business.

Because this is what Dean Ning promised in SIS. Every time he thought of this promise from his future mentor, Chen Luo couldn't help but grin extremely happily.

To understand this emotion, all you need is a mobile phone and access to the Internet.

God knows how many people are paying attention to this Wu Gang account.

There was once a saying that the memory of netizens would not last more than seven days. This is probably how long the most persistent hot searches can last.

Generally speaking, a hot topic on the Internet is considered a hot topic if it can last for three days, but 99.99999% of the events go cold after seven days, making it difficult to spark another large-scale discussion. Unless a certain hot spot can have a big turnaround afterwards, and there must be media willing to continue to follow up and report on it.

But this time the Wu Gang floated in the sky, it has been occupying the relevant hot search list since the day it took off, from the first to the tenth list, from search engines to short videos, to major forums, Moments, and searches The index and the popularity of various topics have never dropped at all.

Any of the photos he sent to his classmates could arouse heated discussions.

Even a photo of his robot going from a simple elevator to the Wu Gang was retweeted a million times on Weibo, and the number of views on the entire network was estimated to be more than one billion. Judging from the screenshots, it was also transferred to external networks, and was promoted It's all over Facebook.

Although the photo was not posted by his account, and no one knew it was taken by him, the epic sense of participation was enough to make people feel intense.

Chen Luo felt that his experience in the past few months alone was enough for him to brag about his awesomeness for a lifetime. Chen Luo didn't even dare to think about how many awesome things he could do in the future.

Sure enough, the most important thing as a student is to follow the right instructor.

After changing the instructor, even the former Professor Kane doesn't have that much dignity.

In this way, Chen Luo fished until July with excitement every day. With the efforts of hundreds of engineers and the tireless lifting and lowering of many N1 robots, the giant tower crane that fixed and connected the Wu Gang finally began to be disassembled. This also means that the main integration project of the Wu Gang is basically completed, and it also means that the Wu Gang The day of official launch is approaching.

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July 3rd, the day after the Wu Gang tower crane was officially dismantled.

Chen Luo got up from the single dormitory in the laboratory building on time at seven o'clock in the morning as usual.

Yes, although he was approved to stay in school, because the Space Academy has been closed, he actually lives in the laboratory building these days. Fortunately, there are many buildings here, so it was easy to find a small suite for him.

This arrangement is very considerate. He sleeps in the bedroom, and there is a desk in the small living room outside to serve as a study room. Although Chen Luo did not actually focus on studying most of the time this month.

After a simple wash, Chen Luo rushed to the balcony of the living room, opened the window and looked up at the Wu Gang outside the window.

With the help of robots, the efficiency is very high, and the important fixed tower crane has been successfully dismantled.

This also made Chen Luo excited again. The completion of the dismantling of the tower crane meant that he was one step closer to being able to visit the Wu Gang up close with Dean Ning.

When he lowered his head in satisfaction, he suddenly became even more excited because he saw Academician Ning seemed to be downstairs, talking to the camera.

Wait, the person interviewing him looks like a foreigner?