Zombie Marvel? Luckily, I'm Superman!

"my country's first multi-purpose space exploration vanguard, 'Tenglong-1,' successfully completed its maiden launch and orbital insertion test today. Tenglong-1 will undertake a series of missions, including the construction of a near-Earth orbit space station and routine lunar exploration. This success will provide exciting test data for the 'Tenglong-2' Mars mission in two weeks, marking..."

The scene switches to Tenglong-1 in outer space.

Silence, first a brief silence, then a media storm more complex and intense than any previous "cutting-edge technology" unveiled.

A space exploration vessel? Is this still Earth?

A spaceship that can actually travel between Earth and deep space.

Before anyone could fully digest those cutting-edge technologies, China had already taken real steps toward the stars and the sea.

And that's not all? Tenglong II? They're even planning to launch a Mars exploration program in just half a month?

I can't understand it anymore, I completely can't understand it.

The wheel of time turned once more, and two and a half years had passed since the signal marker of the "missile" incident. The entire face of the planet, especially the region centered on the Eastern China, had undergone earth-shattering changes.

To this day, no one can say for sure what kind of opportunity China obtained, or who the citizen mentioned at the time was.

Because it's no longer necessary to study and discuss these things now.

The continuous emergence of cutting-edge technological products has completely transformed China, and now major first-tier cities in China have completed the construction of "steel cities".

This doesn't mean there are no green plants. Rather, it means that a highly automated and intelligent urban operation mode has been achieved.

On the streets, sanitation robots, security patrol robots, and logistics delivery robots of various shapes and sizes move along specially designed tracks that do not affect pedestrians.

The maintenance of urban infrastructure, energy distribution and waste disposal, and even some public services, all rely on highly integrated and autonomous intelligent management systems.

The underlying support for all of this is the "Pangu" artificial intelligence hub and its numerous subsystems, which China launched after achieving initial space exploration.

Any citizen can access the civilian subsystem of "Pangu" anytime and anywhere through their personal handheld terminal device to obtain information, handle affairs, seek help, and even receive personalized services to a certain extent.

This highly automated and centralized intelligent management solution was actually highly controversial from the very beginning, because it cannot avoid a science fiction issue that has been discussed for a long time: the artificial intelligence crisis.

Moreover, many people worry that "Pangu" and automated city operating models will lead to a loss of motivation and apathy among humans.

However, Lin Yi provided a document from the Lost Library that recorded the social model of a vanished interstellar civilization.

This civilization possesses a complete "steel city" operating model, including a security system architecture and various contingency plans for dealing with crises.

That civilization relied on these contingency plans to remain stable for nearly a thousand years before perishing in a cosmic war.

That's not important. What's important is that this document provides extremely valuable experience and reference for the design and risk control of the "Pangu" system.

The higher-ups have extremely high trust in the documents and materials provided by Lin Yi, because the vast majority of the cutting-edge technologies that have emerged in the past two years can be traced back to Lin Yi. Whether it is Tony Stark's technology or the advanced knowledge and technology from different civilizations that he sorted out from the memories of the Lost Library, this knowledge, after being digested, transformed, and re-innovated by Chinese scientists, has ultimately led to the technological explosion we see today.

As China's development gradually "stabilized," it finally remembered the requests that had been constantly ringing in its ears.

From initially attempting to exert joint pressure, to later requesting friendly cooperation and joint development, and finally to almost despairing and begging for technology sharing or opening up channels for purchasing finished products, the major powers have received no response.

And now, China has finally remembered them.

After all, this planet is not just China, and despite its rapid development, they have never forgotten the potential crises Lin Yi mentioned.

When a crisis comes, everyone has to step up! So once Earth truly possessed strong defensive capabilities, China diverted most of its energy to the steadily progressing deep space exploration.

Deep space exploration requires people, and so does extraterrestrial colonization; machinery alone is insufficient. Furthermore, the manufacture of warships requires vast amounts of metal and capital.

This blue planet belongs to everyone. After careful consideration, China has finally opened up some non-core finished product services and cooperative projects.

Large amounts of capital, precious metals, and top talents flowed into China in various ways in exchange for tickets to participate in the "new era of aerospace".

These resources were quickly transformed into tangible industrial capabilities, with smaller but still technologically advanced mining and engineering vessels constantly rising from newly built space docks to join the increasingly busy space exploration and resource development.

The moon, the closest natural satellite to Earth, has also been extensively modified by China.

In some areas, closed-off life support bases simulating the ecological environment of Earth have been established, and thousands of researchers and engineers are stationed there.

This isn't for immigration; rather, it's about building the moon into a giant deep-space communication station and navigational beacon. The faster-than-light communication base stations and probes deployed on the lunar surface will greatly extend the reach of human perception.

Of course, plans for interstellar migration have also entered the verification and preparation stage.

Human civilization has thus taken its first real step into deep space on a large scale.

……

Extremely close to the surface of the sun, Lin Yi floated quietly in the raging high-temperature radiation.

He has been here for two and a half years. Six months after the "missile" incident, he came to the surface of the sun after transporting a large amount of needed space supplies.

Now, three years have passed since he returned to the real universe.

At this moment, he looked in the direction of that blue planet, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

The once "quiet" Lieyang system has seen tiny points of light appearing over the past three years. These are spaceships, warships, mining vessels, and other ships from Earth that have ventured into the depths of space.

The Fiery Solar System is starting to get "lively".

Everything seemed to be progressing in the most ideal direction: the home planet's technology was leaping forward, and civilization was venturing into space.

To date, no external threat has materialized; no Celestials have come, nor has any Marvel Universe entity arrived.

Lin Yi's worries did not lessen; on the contrary, they became heavier as time went by.

It's too quiet.