As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 187 ILRS Plans Ten Years Ahead
"No, it really is not possible. Manchester is too far from London."

Herman was panting, his build was the typical fat white kid who grew up with a belly bigger than his head.

He was so tired that he couldn't stand it even after walking along the tracks between Central Station and King's Cross Station before he even left Manchester.

"I say, can we put our adventure plan on hold? It's too tiring to just walk."

"Can our plan be to wait until I get my driver's license this summer and then drive to London?"

Lawrence was a little thin, but his physical strength was much better than Herman's. He shook his head and said:

"How can we just give up like this?"

"How far have we gone? We haven't even left the Manchester area yet."

Herman's head was covered in sweat. "The problem is that it's too hot now. Can we wait until the weather is cooler?"

“After the fall semester is a good time.”

Herman looked up at the sun in the sky and said.

Lawrence shook his head: "If we go there, if there are any items left by the magician, they may be picked up by others."

"There are so many explorers these days. I can't guarantee that no one else will discover this secret."

Magic has become a popular subject on Blue Planet. England's Sky TV has a special program every night to introduce magic-related knowledge.

The magic club in the university has become the most popular club, and there are many activities in which students form groups to explore traces of magic.

The University of Manchester also has a magic society, and Lawrence and Herman are also members of the magic society.

Lawrence was very confident about the secret he had discovered, and he wanted to keep it secret and not let more people know.

So he only brought his best friend Herman with him.

But he didn't expect the other party's physical strength. He was already out of breath after only half an hour.

"Have you ever thought that if we can find traces of the existence of a magical society and become a magician, you won't have to walk by yourself anymore."

"You can get from Manchester to London by teleporting anywhere."

After thinking it over, Herman decided that this little suffering was nothing. He clenched his fleshy fists:
"Okay, I'll hold on a little longer."

"I really can't hold on any longer. How long does it take to get from Manchester to London?"

Lawrence glanced at his watch and said helplessly, "It's only been ten minutes."

"It's about 200 miles from Manchester to London."

Herman started walking back: "I might grit my teeth and follow you for 20 miles."

"Two hundred miles. I'm afraid I'll end up here."

"Besides, our vacation is only five days long. You know, it will take at least a month to walk two hundred miles."

Lawrence nodded and said, "So what I'm thinking is that we should walk as far as we can in these five days, and then take the train back to Manchester."

"We may not have gone more than twenty miles before we discovered some trace of magic."

"You need to persist in doing anything. How can you just give up like this?"

Herman shook his head: "I don't think I have the perseverance to persevere. It's better to give up early."

“Giving up is just a choice, it does not mean failure.”

"Go ahead. I'll be waiting for the good news of your triumphant return at the apartment."

No matter how Lawrence persuaded him, Herman was unwilling to continue.

Because in his opinion, it is still uncertain whether they can find any traces of magic, and even if they do, it is still unknown what benefits they can gain.

It would be better to go back to the apartment, lie on the sofa, drink cold Coke and play games.

I haven’t played enough of the Futureverse I just bought.

At this moment, reason regained control of Herman's mind.

Originally, Herman thought he was just going out for a day of adventure.

He thinks it's a good idea to spend one day exploring outside during the five-day holiday, as fat people also need exercise.

But if he had to spend all five days of his holiday exploring outside in the scorching sun, he might as well explore the virtual world.

Lawrence asked, "You really don't want to go on an adventure with me?"

Hearing the pleading tone in Lawrence's voice, Herman thought for a moment and then said:
"It's not that I don't want to take risks with you, but this kind of adventure is a very inefficient one."

"We have to expend so much effort just based on one sentence in Rowling's interview."

Laurence argued, “But many people have followed this route from Manchester to London to look for traces of magic.”

The popularity of the Manchester to London route is second only to the prehistoric Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in southern England.

Legend has it that the prehistoric Stonehenge was moved from Ireland to England by Merlin.

The English speculated that this was a magic circle created by Merlin.

Herman interrupted, "Yes, it is possible that there are traces of magic."

"I also admire your preparations this time, as I never thought of going to Central Station before."

"The evidence you provided is enough to convince me, but it is too difficult to find traces of magic just by walking on our own."

"I think we need more preparation, including looking for places in history related to magic and myths and legends, and places where this route overlaps."

"Rather than walking along the entire railway line."

“After I get my driver’s license over the summer, I can bring my dad’s car over and drive this route.”

Lawrence was a little dejected: "Okay, you go back to the apartment first, I want to go around by myself."

Three days later, Herman, who was lying in his two-bedroom apartment playing the VR version of The Witcher 3, heard someone opening the door.

The brain gave a direct command and the VR screen switched to the main interface. He took off the VR and looked at Lawrence, whose face was full of fatigue.

Lawrence became more than one degree darker.

Herman thought that it was a wise decision not to continue.

If you change from a white fat guy to a black fat guy, then you really have no chance of finding a girlfriend in college.

Although he hasn't found it yet.

Herman consoled him, "It's normal that you didn't find anything. I haven't heard of anyone finding anything in England."

Lawrence waved his finger: "Who said there was no discovery?"

Herman jumped up from the sofa: "What did you find? Show me!"

Lawrence put his hand against him: "Who told you not to go with me?"

Herman said helplessly: "I am considering practical factors, and I didn't say I won't go with you."

"It's just that I'm not going with you this time."

"The first thing I thought about when I got my driver's license was going on an adventure with you in the car."

"Show me quickly, what did you find?"

Lawrence motioned for him to calm down: "Let me show you."

Lawrence took out his cell phone and showed him the photo.

When Herman saw the photo of a stone tablet, he asked, "Is this a stone tablet with magic engraved on it? Or is it engraved with the method of learning magic?" Lawrence interrupted, "Neither. This is a prehistoric stone tablet in Hades' hall."

"I have a new idea, and I know which document to look up."

In 1981 the Institute of Archaeology in Manchester discovered a prehistoric stone tablet at Hades Hall above Rochdale, which was investigated and excavated.

"Our next adventure will surely yield something fruitful."

Herman walked towards the sofa with his head down, like a punctured balloon: "Okay."

Going on adventures during the summer vacation is hotter than this season.

"nervous?"

"Why should I be nervous? The first unmanned experiment around the moon was successful.

We successfully landed the lunar module within ten kilometers of the moon."

"Unfortunately, the American people got there first. They have already built a moon base."

"Just get used to it. Isn't this how we have always been catching up?

As long as the lunar space station is successfully operated this time, our next step will be to send a manned mission to the moon!"

"Yes, our original plan was different from America's."

During the space race, the moon landing plans of both America and its Russian predecessors were very radical.

Under the current circumstances, China's moon landing plan is much more conservative.

America was already ahead of China in aerospace technology, and with the foundation of a successful moon landing, it only took two years to return to the moon.

This does not mean that China's progress is slow. You must know that China's plan this time is to build a lunar space station.

All we can say is that the technical routes of the two sides are inconsistent.

As early as 2018, NASA, the European Space Agency, the Maple Leaf Space Agency and the Neon Space Agency expressed their intention to work together to build a lunar space station.

The plan was to start construction in 2020 and officially open in 2024.

As a result, as everyone knows, America, the Europa Space Agency and the Neon Space Agency all broke up, so this plan naturally could not be a collaboration among the four parties.

More than 3 million US dollars were spent on the preliminary research plan, which was also taken over by the American side.

This time, the American side chose to first land on the moon to build a preliminary base on the moon, and then build a lunar space station.

China wants to build a lunar space station first.

In case something goes wrong during the manned lunar landing, the existence of a lunar space station will also facilitate rescue.

The idea of ​​China's lunar space station began in 2021, when at the Global Space Exploration Conference in St. Petersburg, the China National Space Administration and the Russian Space Agency expressed their intention to build a lunar space station.

"That's right. Only with a lunar space station can we support sustainable exploration of the moon."

In recent years, countries have invested huge amounts in aerospace.

According to China's original plan, the lunar space station would be in the reconnaissance period from 2021 to 2025, and the construction period from 2026 to 2035.

They brought forward the construction period by ten years.

"I am very nervous, but I hope it will be successful."

"Another important purpose of this mission is to test whether our Earth-Moon transportation system is reusable as we imagined."

"The relay satellite has entered the preset orbit, and the advantages of the new fuel have been fully demonstrated. I believe there will be good results."

"Astronauts will need to bring back more lunar soil when they land on the moon, so that we can develop cement materials needed for the lunar base based on geopolymerization technology."

The Chinese space agency's idea is to use volcanic ash and sodium hydroxide solution based on geopolymer technology as an activator.

The compressive strengths of the volcanic ash geopolymer specimens treated under vacuum for 24 h and after 30 freeze-thaw cycles with liquid nitrogen were 45.53 and 44.95 MPa, respectively.

The new cement material can meet the needs while its water consumption is close to zero.

"It's a pity that we still lack magic brains. The mages are too capable in developing the microstructure of materials."

Based on biological storage technology, Chinese mages have developed a preliminary method for reconstructing the microscopic world.

They immediately used China's cutting-edge materials for research and development.

Among them, the two areas where China needed it most received the greatest human support.

Aerospace is one of them, and semiconductors are another.

Except for the big names in quantum physics who were sent to study the grand unification of the universe's time system, and the big names in mathematics who were sent to study artificial intelligence, all other mages went to various locations to engage in material research and development.

Jiang Yan is no exception. He also needs to devote some of his energy to the research and development of cutting-edge materials.

China Seed Group’s current advantages are so great that it has no rivals anywhere in the world.

Ever since the emergence of China Seed Group, domestic media have been promoting the dangers of GMOs in various ways.

Relevant papers by European and American professors have been widely cited.

Even if the paper is published in an unknown journal, as long as you are talking about the harm of GMOs, we will help you promote it.

"We just used the orbit selected by NASA. Didn't they protest?"

"Of course we protested, but the question is, is the protest useful?"

Originally, the joint lunar space station planned by America and three other countries was to be deployed in a highly elliptical 7-day near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the moon.

The space station was at its closest within 3000 kilometers of the moon's north pole and at its farthest at 70 kilometers over the moon's south pole.

The benefit is that the NRHO will enable lunar expeditions to reach a low polar orbit with a delta-v of 730 m/s and a half-day transit time.

Orbital stations need only maintain a delta-v of less than 10 m/s per year, and orbital inclination can be changed with relatively small delta-v expenditures to access most of the lunar surface.

Such a design is very convenient for spacecraft to travel back and forth between the moon and the space station, and has the ability to land at a fixed point.

Another benefit of a nearly rectilinear halo orbit is that communication interruptions with Earth are minimal.

China is optimizing the American plan, but it still occupies the track of the American plan first.

"We took the spot for him first. No matter how much they protest, it's useless. Are they going to shoot down our space station?"

"If the plan goes well, once the lunar base is established, we can prepare to build a giant telescope on the moon."

You should know that it is impossible to receive long-wave infinite radio waves from the dark age of the universe on the blue planet, because the ionosphere will reflect them through electrons and ions.

But building a radio telescope on the moon could solve this problem.

Just for this reason, China also wants to do this.

"You guys are after NASA's wool!"

The lunar radio telescope was also an idea proposed by a NASA institute.

They envision building an ultra-long wavelength (specifically wavelength greater than 10 m, ie frequency less than 30 MHz) radio telescope in a lunar crater.

The telescope will be the largest full-aperture radio telescope in the solar system.

"We have had ample budgets in recent years, so let's do more while we have them."

"If we can really find traces of magic on the moon, or even Merlin's spaceship as rumored, we will send it!"

Thanks to Changqing1040 for the reward!
In addition, Lawrence and Herman will fill in the gaps later. It is impossible for me to look up so much information and only write two chapters. I really looked up the railway history of Manchester and read at least two related papers.

It is impossible to spend so much effort and then just write two chapters and then not use this material!

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