Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Located in the middle of Tiangong City, the Star Grand Hotel is the most luxurious business hotel in Tiangong City and the premier electoral venue for various heavyweight academic conferences.

Speaking of this hotel, there's actually only one brand of star technology left, and there's a lot of sources. Starscream had invested a great deal of money in infrastructure development when Tiangong City had just been built, but unfortunately the giant had not been able to survive because of poor management.

Ownership of the hotel was sold to a local real estate company in the 1950s. Although it was easy to buy it back with the Ark's current means, he himself was not interested in running the hotel.

Besides, Startech now has an empty shell. Even if it does buy it back, I'm afraid I'll have to have a headache about how it works. It's better to keep it that way.

The next morning, on the way down to dinner, the ark met a scholar from Earth as well. Perhaps because he was too famous on Earth, the young man saw him from afar and waved to him with excitement.

I thought this guy was funny, so the ark invited him to sit down for breakfast. And during the breakfast chat, Ark learned that the young man's name was Wu Qinglai, a professor at the Space Station Institute of the Pan-Asian Academy of Engineering, and that he was the type that had just been corrected two years ago.

After listening to the young man's introduction, the ark surveyed the area with some curiosity and discovered that they were all raw faces, and asked with interest.

“If I may ask, have the other academics from your institute not come? I mean, how did Tiangong find you? ”

While not excluding the kind of youthful and productive presence, he had no impression of the young man in front of him, not to mention his familiarity with the name.

Generally speaking, if he was truly such a brilliant scholar, not to mention having heard his name at an academic conference, at least his thesis.

As if looking through the idea of the ark, the professor who claimed to be Wu Xiao shrugged his shoulder and said helplessly.

“I know what you're thinking, it's nothing, and in general, this kind of heavyweight meeting really shouldn't be sending a small, untold figure like me, but you might not know anything about it. Although there is only five minutes of 'jet lag', the academia of Mars and the academia of the planet are basically two separate beings, so to speak, they don't look particularly like us. ”

The ark stunned slightly and looked at him inexplicably.

“Why would they think that? ”

“Historical reasons,” Wu Qing shrugged his shoulders, "trying to clarify each and every one of the masterpieces here, even saying that going tomorrow morning is probably not enough. In short, if they have made it clear that they do not value our opinions, why should we send the best experts? Cross-planet navigation is a tough job, and I wouldn't want to be here if I could. ”

Currently, only the Qin Ling is equipped with a warp speed engine, and the vast majority of flights to and from Earth are accelerated by traditional methods of work. Though three days from Earth had arrived on Mars quite quickly from the perspective of a 21st century citizen, for those of the 22nd century who had not experienced the previous half-month of sailing time, they had not experienced the beautiful seconds of it.

The ark shook its head, saying.

“The essence of academia is communication, and this pre-established practice is not good. ”

Wu Qinglai smiled bitterly and said: "We all know this is not good, but what can be done? Compared to Earth, this is a large LAN, and even if I wanted to return an email, I had to pay the credit point in bytes. Coming here means at least half a month, maybe even a month, and I'm totally out of touch with Earth's academia. ”

Although very interested in the history of their absence, this does not seem to be a suitable place to discuss the issue, and the topic of the two quickly turned to the local terroir of Tiangong City.

Perhaps because the Engineering Institute did not pay special attention, it was not the first time that Comrade Wu had been sent here to be a tool man, so that he was familiar with this generation as if it were his second home.

After eating, the two walked together in the direction of the elevator.

At this point, a man in his early 40s, in a crowd of people, walked in from the front door of the hotel.

From the looks of the guy's clothing and the attitude of the other guy, the guy's identity should be not low. Seems to have noticed the ark, the man was slightly stunned and his eyebrows slightly wrinkled and walked this way.

“Are you an ark? ”

Although there seems to be something wrong with this guy's tone, the ark is not the kind of man with a small stomach and hence his attitude is not taken into account and spoken in a gentle tone.

“Yes, is there something wrong? ”

“Nice to meet you," he didn't show much happiness on his face. The man reached out his right hand and shook his hand with the ark before coming back. “Welcome to Tiangong City, I hope the city impresses you. We will be discussing the technical feasibility and practical implementation of the IWD development plan at a later meeting, and we look forward to hearing interesting comments from you and hope that Academician Lu will not teach us anything. ”

The ark smiled and nodded down.

“Definitely.”

After a three-word chill, the man left in a crowd of people.

Curiously measured the direction the shadow left, never heard the man introduce himself to the ark, curiously asked.

“Who is that man? ”

“Yang Chongping," said Xiaowu in a complicated tone, looking at the back of the departure, "the director of the Institute of Space Technology of the Tiangong Research Institute and also an academician of the Mars Academy of Sciences… In the field of spacecraft design, his doctrine can be described as self-proclaimed, especially in the design section of the large starship and space station, even my mentor admits that this guy does have some skills. ”

The ark nodded, but the focus was on strange places.

“Is there a science academy on Mars? ”

“That's for sure… I told you, the situation on Mars is complicated," Xiao Wu said softly, "because the policies of the regional alliances towards the Mars colonies are left to the autonomous administration of the local population, there is actually a trade organization between the colonial cities on Mars similar to the Customs Free Alliance, and in recent years the scope of cooperation has gradually expanded to the areas of culture, scientific research and even politics… you can interpret the Academy of Mars Sciences as an organization similar to the Third World Academy of Sciences a century ago. ”

In other words, the city of Tiangong is close to trans-Asian cooperation on the question of territorial ownership. In the economic and cultural spheres, however, cooperation between the colonial municipalities on Mars was closer.

Instead of colonies, the Ark had the feeling that it was more like a subordinate country to the pan-Asian cooperation.

However, he was not very interested in these political Z matters, and after asking about the Mars Academy of Sciences, he pulled the subject back to the Yang Chongping Academician himself.

“Does it always feel like he doesn't like me very much? ”

“There are no cities in the world where foreigners are welcome, especially for native Martians, we are just a little better than foreigners," Xiao Wu shrugged his shoulders and said with amusement, "Of course, they do have proud capital in space. After all, the heavy industry on Earth is now basically hollow, and the most advanced production bases in the industry are basically distributed around Tiangong City... As you should know, the materials for space elevators are basically produced here. ”

The ark nodded, indicating understanding.

Of course he knows that.

After all, he is the largest individual shareholder of East Asian Heavy Industries, and he has an approximate number of industrial chain distributions for East Asian Heavy Industries and its cooperating suppliers.

Sneaking a peek at Ark Zhou, he thought that he had something to do with Yang Chongping, and Wu Qinglai whispered.

“You don't have to ignore him, he's just jealous of what you've accomplished. ”

When he heard this, the ark stunned slightly and smiled softly.

“I just thought this guy was funny. It doesn't mean anything. Don't think too much about it. Tell me about the food nearby. I was in a hurry when I was on my way to Tiangong City. I didn't have time to take a good look at the city...”

“Then I recommend you go to the central dome! Just next door to the Starry Grand Hotel, you can go through the underground tunnel or take the conveyor,” Wu Qing continues in an exciting tone, "standing on the observation deck on the central dome, said to be able to see the contours of New Virginia City! And the spinning restaurant there is one of the must-see attractions in Tiangong City! ”

The ark laughed and said, "Really? I'll have to go check it out sometime. ”

People of all ages, of course, can't live with a younger generation.

After returning to the room to rest for a while, the Ark saw that there was still a little time before the afternoon meeting, just thinking of Professor Wu and the punch spot he had recommended was not far away, so he went out for a circle.

It has to be admitted that the scenery is quite shocking.

Standing on the conveyor belt leading to the next floor, he took the elevator to the lobby of the central dome and walked to the ark next to the landing window, where he was instantly shown the view of the curtain.

That three-dimensional transport network, like a layer of spreading spider web, divides a boundaries belonging to civilization on this barren land.

“Lin.”

Her pupils flashed slightly, and Ling, standing next to her, looked at the ark and replied with an electronic voice without fluctuations and fluctuations.

“What is it, Commander? ”

The ark was silent for a while and said in a somewhat emotional tone.

“I'm beginning to understand some of what those people think. ”

It takes more than wisdom and courage to build a city on this deserted land. And they, who created such a miracle, did have this proud capital.

This gap may not have been caused by time or distance at all…

I don't understand the deep meaning of this sentence of the Ark, Ling crooked his head and gave a confused expression on his face.

However, the Ark did not explain anything, but stood for a while admiring the beautiful city and then turned away...