China is about seventy or eighty light-years away from here. With current space technology, it will take about a month for the Adventure Association's elite fleet to arrive. In fact, the elite fleet of the Adventure Association is the top military. The Adventure Association is now a department under the military and accepts the supervision and guidance of the Academy of Sciences. It even has inextricable relationships with the academy department. In short, the Adventure Association is an important window for Chinese civilization to the outside world. Anyone who is an adult can register here.
"Let's go back and do some exploration. Ha, it's great to go on an adventure with Taizu!" Everyone was cheering. Old Smoker was even more happy and incoherent.
However, Lao Yanscar's expedition team is really rudimentary, and the total cost of the entire team is less than 20 million yuan. Among today's interstellar adventure groups, this is a low-income group. Some top-notch exploration spacecrafts even cost billions. Yuan, and even some top-level full-featured mechas cost hundreds of millions of yuan.
In a technological society, sometimes there is only higher but not the highest. As long as you can afford the price, within the scope of technology, you can even create miracles!
Therefore, Yan Scar and his team could only pause about tens of millions of kilometers away from the space vortex, but the process of slowing down and returning them to the old spacecraft took more than ten days. Stopping next to the vortex and not exploring randomly, for fear of swallowing the detector or the like, causing the vortex to collapse; but not daring to get too close, for fear of something unexpected happening.
Time and space vortexes are sometimes dangerous and sometimes fragile; of course, most of the time they are harmless. It is equivalent to a small whirlpool in the water, which disappears in a flash. It's just that some cosmic spaces are prone to whirlpools due to being torn apart by strange cosmic gravity. Just like some places in the water flow, whirlpools will appear continuously in some places, but they will soon disappear, or they will always exist.
The difference is that the space-time vortex is difficult to detect, and the universe itself does not emit light and is still dark. The space-time vortex exceeds a certain distance. Just oblivious to the surroundings - just like waves. There is a wave that is special, but if it is placed in the entire ocean, it is difficult to see it. But the space-time vortex is also of great research value. Some people say that the space-time vortex has touched upon the foundation of the universe - space-time. If it can be detected and researched thoroughly. It will greatly promote the explosion of human science and technology. In fact, what China has access to now is only space, but not time. The reason why it is called a space-time vortex. It's because the time flow in the vortex is slightly faster, just like a galaxy, but it has been stripped of stars and any galaxy material.
Just like, if there is a small boat on a calm lake, it will inevitably make the lake dent; but now a certain lake surface suddenly dents out of thin air. Although it is very small, there is no boat docked in this depression. Maybe it's the wind, maybe it's some other invisible force. And these invisible forces in the universe are one of the original forces of the universe that humans are pursuing and exploring.
Until one day, a signal was finally received and the elite fleet of the Adventure Association arrived.
30 spaceships at least ten kilometers in size, with slender designs, like sharks in the universe. Although there is no resistance in the universe, with the development of warp flight and other related space technologies, people have finally discovered that the slender hull can indeed appropriately reduce the resistance from space and time; and it is conducive to increasing the stability of the hull design. sex. Although this optimization can only increase the advantage by a few ten thousandths, given the huge energy consumption, we have to admit that this is indeed an excellent design method.
Compared to these 30 spaceships, Old Smoke Scar's ten spaceships are like luxury yachts to small sampans or patched sampans; the two sides are simply incomparable.
"Hello, Deputy Detachment of the Seventh Squadron of the Second Escort Fleet of the Adventure Association. Thank you Mr. Yan for your contribution to the country." This is a soldier with a serious face.
"Ha, hello. It's better to serve as a soldier with dignity. I'm not a cultured person, I speak rather crudely, so I know how to make money with bounties, which in turn can increase the integrity of the star map and benefit us!" Lao Yanscar laughed. , a sense of explorer's recklessness came to my face.
"Okay! My name is Huang Jian. I like your husband to be so straightforward. Men should be like this. There is nothing worth covering up. In this way, we are about to send an unmanned detector. When the situation is clear, we will conduct real-person exploration. I don't know, Mr. Do you have time to go and have a look?”
"Ah...of course! But, there is no discipline in the army..."
"This is adventure! It's not military execution." Huang Jian laughed, "Adventure requires passion, not discipline."
"That would be disrespectful! Then can you bring a few brothers over? We are all veterans here. Not to mention how much we can help, at least we won't cause any trouble."
"Of course you're welcome! In terms of adventure experience, you guys are much better than us wooden lumps who can only follow the script." Huang Jian looked cheerful and didn't mind exposing his own scars at all. There is a reason for this, because ordinary adventurers really trade their lives for wealth; on the other hand, those who have received formal training often lose their lives because of following the script. The universe is so complex that it may look similar, but it often has completely different situations.
It's like the water is boiling, but in some places the water temperature may reach more than 200 degrees, such as in volcanic craters deep in the ocean - the pressure is high; or in other places the water may boil at just a few dozen degrees, such as in plateau and mountain areas - the pressure is low. This looks like water is boiling, but in fact it is completely different. In the universe, there are only a few more such situations, because space and time itself are not uniform! And sometimes once the judgment is wrong, it is the price of life.
Therefore, if today's human beings want to learn, they might as well just venture into it with all their courage. Because we know so little, sometimes a little knowledge is worse than nothing at all - at least, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers!
Of course, things are not absolute. Human beings are always making progress and accumulating. Therefore, the combination of new and old is currently a better and more popular exploration method.
Suddenly, a face replaced Huang Jian. Young but calm, "Yan Tianlei, you have done a good job. From the current point of view, this time and space vortex is indeed different. Therefore, no matter what, according to the regulations, you will have a reward of no less than one million. Tell me what you have What kind of idea? ”
"I have met His Majesty Taizu. I don't have any great ambitions in my life, but I have a good brother here who is ambitious and wants to make achievements in space technology. I think that joining once will bring back space. Can it be transformed? Become a share. Join in future development projects. And let my brother join." Facing Zhang Jingyuan, Yan Tianlei straightened his back.
"Oh? Are you sure? This may cost you all your money!" Zhang Jingyuan looked at Yan Tianlei with admiration flashing in his eyes. What a decisive person. Such people. Either a hero or a brave and resourceful warrior!
"Ah... Brother Yanscar, I, I can't afford it..." Zhou Qing was also dumbfounded. This is really a heavy gift!
There is also something to say here. That is, if something is discovered during the adventure, there are two options. One is to go to the Adventurer Association to exchange for money, etc. according to the bounty standards, and get points, and then it will no longer be relevant; but as the adventurer level increases, from now on When buying things in the Adventurers Association, you will enjoy certain discounts - this is very real. Sometimes a large spaceship may cost several billion, and a discount of one ten thousandth is a great number.
There is another way, if it has development value, you can choose a partner and then sit back and enjoy the profits. But you need to report to the Adventurers Association, so that you will enjoy the protection of the Chinese state - of course you will also need to pay taxes. However, if you do not report, collect and produce yourself, etc., as long as you do not touch some bottom lines such as treason, the country will turn a blind eye, but if you do not pay taxes, you will not be protected by the country; if you encounter danger (except for aggression) , although the state will rescue, it will not do its best, and it will have to compensate the state for its efforts at market prices in the future. And if another family encounters difficulties and asks for help at the same time, but this family pays taxes, then the rescue payment will be given priority, and no compensation is required - even if the payment is not enough to dispatch the military. After that, the company that paid the premium can also go to the insurance company to claim compensation.
There are no advantages or disadvantages to this. If you don’t report it, you will be very risky but the profit will be huge. If you report it, you may live a safe life and pay taxes in vain. It depends on personal choice.
But for Yan Scar and others, there may be several other situations; for example, although they have invested in shares, they have been losing money or are finally found to be worthless, that is, they have lost all their money; or the results are slow, or it may only be enjoyed by future generations. ; Or maybe you can really make a fortune. However, it is probably because of the gambling nature.
And now, Yan Tianlei actually bet on this for Zhou Qing, which can be described as a big deal - Taizu also said before that even if it is worthless, just a unique case is worth millions of dollars. If it is a little bit special, That’s also a reward worth tens of millions! Before that, all the wealth Lao Yanscar had was only 5 million!
No wonder Zhou Qing was dumbfounded. Although everyone is a neighbor, they all know each other well, and the neighborly relationship is very good, but... this is really...
"Xiao Qingzi, needless to say, I don't know how to run a household. When I get rich in the future, I just need to take care of my useless descendants. Hey..."
Yan Tianlei's words made Zhou Qing and Zhuang Zijun speechless for a moment; the reason why Old Yanscar used all his money to buy a spaceship for adventure was because his descendants were dishonorable; if he kept his property, it would be destroyed sooner or later, and if he kept it, it would be destroyed sooner or later. It's better to buy a spaceship and go on an adventure, and still save some money.
"Thank you, Brother Yanscar." Zhou Qing did not refuse this time, but accepted it calmly. The most important thing is that Zhou Qing is also an excellent graduate student with research capabilities, and he firmly believes that he will be extraordinary in the future!
Zhang Jingyuan looked on with cold eyes, but nodded secretly in his heart. He had seen too much and experienced too much. It was difficult for Boss Zhang to be moved by such things. Many people say that immortals are indifferent because they have experienced too much and are so clear-eyed about the world that they have nothing to marvel at.
"Please be prepared and give you 20 quotas. It is better to have a shortage than to waste. After the detector information returns in about ten days, we will plan for someone to explore."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Yan Tianlei spoke loudly. But there is a bit of excitement in it. Thinking about it, having the opportunity to explore with His Majesty Taizu is not an honor that comes often!
In the next few days, detection data came back one after another. The difference between the top detectors and Yan Tianlei's detectors was really huge. Moreover, among the 30 spaceships of the Adventure Association, the largest is hundreds of kilometers long, and the smallest is more than ten kilometers long. There are a large number of unmanned spacecraft and detectors placed in those small spaces. There is even a complete scientific research base on the spacecraft.
The adventurer base itself is an important joint node and a key node for Chinese civilian forces, military, scientific research, academies, etc.
As the data became more and more perfect, finally one day, a complete digitalized space-time vortex model appeared on the screen!
"Wormhole?" Everyone's eyes were wide open!
Of course, the ones with more straight-eyed eyes were Old Smoker and his team. According to regulations, the Adventurers Association will not take any money from the expedition, it will be paid in full, and there will be no so-called cheating personal income tax. Then, after compensating for the consumption of the spacecraft, the remaining 30% is distributed to each member of the expedition, 10% is used to reward those who have made special contributions, and 60% is allocated to the investors.
But no matter what, the price for discovering a wormhole has exceeded the country's highest reward.
For a moment, all the senior officials on the Adventure Association fleet looked at Zhang Jingyuan: Your Highness Taizu, how do you reward this thing?
"Huang Jian, what do you think? You are the actual leader of this fleet." Zhang Jingyuan looked at Huang Jian, who looked a little excited. Ahead, the virtual wormhole model is still being improved, and it seems that the detector can continue to work.
"I..." Huang Jian was speechless. How could such a thing happen to him? Wormhole, the impact and profits involved are too great. If not, he would be a mess.
"Crack..." A slight cracking sound came, and the model for constructing the wormhole data suddenly began to slow down. It was obvious that the detector was broken.
"Click... click..." Soon the sound of shattering came one after another. Finally, the data model stopped and all the detectors shattered!
"Hiss... Even the detector that can withstand the attack of the blue energy cannon has been damaged!" Everyone gasped.
However, this situation also made Huang Jian's eyes brighten, "Your Majesty, do you think this is feasible? We have not yet completed the exploration of the wormhole, and its value may trigger national discussions. This will inevitably be a long-term war. But if It’s not okay to not reward the discoverer.
Therefore, I think we should first give the other party the highest reward of 2 billion Huaxia coins, and then ask the other party to send representatives to follow His Majesty to participate in actual research and discussions. "The maximum reward for adventure rewards today is 2 billion yuan. With the prosperity of the country and the development of exploration, rewards and other rewards have also been developing.
"Huh?" Zhang Jingyuan looked at Huang Jian with a half-smile but his face turned red. This Huang Jian is not a fool. He is not as straightforward as he seems on the surface. He actually spared a circle and got Zhang Jingyuan in, but he still couldn't refuse.
Not to mention anything else, just asking the other party to send a representative to follow Zhang Jingyuan is enough to make anyone with evil intentions think carefully and not reach out randomly.
Perhaps China's moral development has been good over the years, especially when there is external pressure. But people’s bad nature is hard to eradicate, especially wormholes. Even fools know the value of this!
"Hehe..." Huang Jian scratched his neck in embarrassment, seemingly innocent.
"Forget it, just do it your way. You handle the rest."
"Hehe, thank you, thank you, His Majesty Taizu. It's comfortable to be with His Majesty Taizu. You don't have to think so much." After Huang Jian finished speaking, he ran away. "Hey..." Zhang Jingyuan smiled helplessly as he looked at the big man who slipped away like a mouse. A big man who looks very honest and upright is actually so wise. But yes, without such wisdom, I would not be able to achieve my current position. Although there is moral guidance within human beings, the essence of life is that of the weak and the strong; especially now that the population is so large, the competition is unspeakably fierce; being able to climb to the current position under such circumstances is not a fool. Competition within reason, morality, and law is good competition, which can make human progress and determine the elite. Obviously, Huang Jian deserves the title of elite. (To be continued...)
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