Start with a blacksmith shop.

Chapter 327 New (Old) Ideas

Li Zhenhua was surrounded by the two men, who were tickling him. Li Zhenhua was already very ticklish, let alone now that he was being attacked from both sides.

Unable to bear the tickling any longer, he immediately begged the two men to stop. They just wanted to watch the show, so when he agreed to talk, they stopped tickling him and sat down on the sofa to wait for his story.

The two of them looked like elementary school students listening attentively to a teacher's lecture, completely focused, but the expressions on their faces were just like those of a husky!

Seeing their state, he spoke to them from the side.

"Uh, where should I begin? Let me think!"

Let me start with the airplane. The new passenger and cargo aircraft I'm working on is actually designed to compete with the legendary Xuan Nu Sky Fighter in the Nantianmen Project!

From the very beginning, I never intended for Earth to be a limitation for airplanes. Therefore, the energy used in airplanes is a product of nuclear physics, and the raw material for the reaction is helium-3. I named it the Solar Star Nuclear Fusion Energy Core!

After solving the energy problem, a special particle was discovered during the manufacturing of the energy core. It was this discovery that led to the solution for the subsequent aircraft's power system!

Li Zhenhua stopped there. He decided to stop talking about airplanes here, as it wouldn't be good to talk about them too much, not only for him but also for others.

The two people listening nearby were completely dumbfounded after hearing it. They both believed they had just hallucinated; they had actually heard nuclear physics in it!

What is that thing? Is it something that ordinary people like us can even come into contact with? Yet, even though none of us knew the details, Guo Shugui secretly developed nuclear energy. How utterly unbelievable!

At that moment, the two of them felt that the person sitting opposite them was truly virtuous, and they also sensed how awesome I was. For a brief moment, they felt that I was even more amazing than Einstein.

While the seven people were still in a daze, Guo Shugui did not give the other two time to think, but continued to speak.

"It's fine for them to know about the plane, but they shouldn't brag about it everywhere."

Go on! Two months later, you applied for the test flight of the aircraft. He should have known that on that day, it was Jun Tou, Wang Yuesheng, Cui Tianzhi from Quancheng Air Force Base, and seven pilots. Because it was not a public test flight, he only told them and did not invite you to come and watch!

It was during this test flight that you stole the plane, gained control of it, and then flew it to outer space, even taking a trip to the moon and bringing back a cargo hold full of lunar soil.

You've been too focused on what happened before, because by now you've run out of new ideas and have been busy researching things on your own!

We were already confused enough, but now we were even more bewildered. What did we hear? Our boss actually flew a plane to outer space, went to the moon, and brought back a whole cargo hold of lunar soil!

It sounded like he was talking in his sleep, but the person on the other end spoke so formally, as if stating the facts. But considering what I've done in the past, I knew he would joke around in serious situations.

But what made it even more acceptable to the seven of them was that this was outer space, and there was no moon. Our best friend had actually gone down in a plane he had developed himself. It was something we would dream about.

Moreover, we extracted even more important information from it: Guo Shugui's son has actually started a new project!

Such a low-tech aircraft, a spaceplane capable of traveling to and from the moon, and instead of continuing its development, they went on to work on new projects. It really leaves us both speechless!

"Zhenhua, what about the aircraft's future development? Why is he researching new projects again? Shouldn't he be exploring the aircraft's future potential first?" Liu Xiaodong asked patiently before asking.

Upon hearing my question, Guo Shugui hurriedly replied.

"Hehe, you're exploring the potential of that aircraft. Actually, the aircraft we built earlier was just a product of compromise and regression in various aspects. So the earlier ones needed to be refined and detailed. Now we're focusing our research on it specifically in the direction of a fighter jet."

Upon hearing this, the two of them immediately seemed to understand something. They had only asked about the previous events, and there were still too few things they knew.

Since we were eating gossip under the main character's nose back then, let's look for it online! Maybe this place has more complete information.

Li Zhenhua then took out his phone and started looking it up. Guo Shugui was also very curious about what had happened in the inner circle during that time, so he also came over to Li Zhenhua to take a look. Lai Yidi did the same.

Then the eight of them huddled around Li Zhenhua, the eight young women staring at a mobile phone, while the three of us were just bystanders, none of whom were actually Guo Shugui, the one enjoying his own gossip.

Then Lai Yidi started clicking on the cold searches one by one. After reading one, we felt that she was generally cold-blooded. This feeling only appeared in the later years.

As we followed the story, we learned what had happened. In today's morning news, seven or eight minutes were dedicated to spaceplanes, and there was even a special segment before the morning news began.

After such a round of gossip, the eight of us were truly satisfied. Especially Guo Shugui, who felt quite ashamed that his own plane had caused so little trouble.

That day's news, aside from saving face for some countries, reported almost everything unrelated to spaceplanes. Of course, some confidential matters were left unmentioned in the news.

The new spaceplane has recently delivered a small amount of supplies to Tiangong and the Moon. With the Earth's orbital environment becoming increasingly polluted, space debris cleanup is urgently needed. Countries that created space debris are paying cleanup fees to four states. The space agencies of these four states are using the new spaceplane to help countries that own defunct satellites recover them free of charge…

The eight people who read the message felt incredibly satisfied. Indeed, it was true that since the end of the Qing Dynasty, there had been no time when the country was so weak on the international stage. Although there had been times when the committee members and other leaders were in power, the weakness of that time was completely different from the strength of the country now.

Guo Shugui originally intended to come over and say hello to Lai Yidi and Liu Xiaodong before heading to his workshop to get down to business. Who would have thought that I would end up spending the whole day eating melons outside Li Zhenhua's place, melons that I had grown myself.

After a day of eating melons, the eight of us got together again for a night of barbecue. We tried everything that could be grilled, including Luxi beef, Inner Mongolian lamb, Boston lobster, and Jinhua ham.

It's been a long time since we had that kind of get-together. Although the place is the same old blacksmith shop in front of the courtyard, there are still eight of us, which brings back that old feeling.

That night, Guo Shugui and the two others drank very little, but all eight of them were completely drunk. Guo Shugui knew how he got home.

I vaguely remember being carried back by Ning Wei and a few others. When I got close to the door, I immediately became confused. I insisted on going to the bathroom to wash up, then crawled out of the guest room, collapsed onto the bed, and fell asleep.

On the morning of the seventh day, with a slight headache, I got out of bed, ate breakfast amidst Li Yun's complaints, and went to the company.

Before I came to the company, I was really stupid that time. I didn't even meet Lai Yidi and Liu Xiaodong. I just went around to my R&D workshop.

Before I returned to the workshop, I was fully engaged in the research and development of the Super Raptor, and the first problem to solve was still the energy core.

Regarding the core energy technology, I have no intention of regressing or upgrading it, because the current performance of the core energy technology is already more than sufficient.

So, the core energy technology is updated using what? This makes manufacturing much easier. It's still somewhat different from the first energy core I ever made.

The smallest difference is the amount of fuel outside the core. Later, only one gram of helium-8 was placed in the energy core. There was no reason for this, since there were only two grams of helium-8 in the entire four states at the time.

But now things are different. The helium-8 refining work has never stopped. According to the information I received later, the helium-8 reserves are increasing at an average rate of four grams per day.

I later estimated how much helium-8 I could extract from the lunar soil in this cabin—that's seventy kilograms! So I don't have to worry about the helium-8 reserves at all.

Since there are no restrictions on the amount of raw materials used, Guo Shugui decided on a whim to add less. He decided that the amount of energy core used would be based on the lifespan of the longest-living human!

At 154 years old, seventy grams of energy will be placed on the outer shell of the previously manufactured energy core. One gram burns for eight years, so seventy grams will last for one hundred and seventy years!

Just thinking about it is exciting. At that moment, I could brag to others that I built this plane myself, and that I own many pilots. One plane can be passed down through eight generations; the pilot may be gone, but the plane will remain.

I imagined what would happen in that situation, and then I finished arranging the subsequent development plan.

The information about what raw materials to use for the core energy source and where to procure them was all sent to Wang Yuesheng, who was far away in Beiping, through documents. After all, that old man controlled a very small number of military industrial enterprises!

The materials I needed were indeed available to civilian enterprises. Some of these materials were even developed by myself, but the formulas were handed over to Wang Yuesheng for production. The materials I developed were used in various military industrial systems in the four states.

Before sending the various material demand forms to Wang Yuesheng, I learned that the preliminary materials would take some time to arrive, but I had enough materials on hand, so I started production immediately. I only waited for the preliminary materials to arrive before I finished the core production process.

What am I doing right now? I'm drawing blueprints, drawing the final version of the space fighter I've created in the virtual laboratory.

That was a very demanding job. There were so many parts for a single aircraft, and I had to draw each blueprint individually, which was quite tedious. Fortunately, a very small number of the parts for the new fighter jet were the same as those for the later passenger and cargo aircraft, which saved a very small amount of time.

However, some unique structural designs don't have readily available templates, so they can only be drawn bit by bit.

Just as I was drawing the fighter jet blueprints, an idea that I had thought about before resurfaced in my mind.

What is it? It's still cerebellar transmission technology, or brainwave recognition and conversion technology, of course.

In Guo Shugui's original plan, the goal was to create a virtual reality system similar to the virtual laboratory I later saw that netizens were talking about. However, I gave up on it after researching it for a while.

The reason for giving up is actually quite reasonable. The current chip performance is sufficient to realize my idea, but the lack is an artificial intelligence program with moderate intelligence.

So after solving the two minor problems, the virtual reality thing was complete, and I then moved on to the next best thing.

Now that virtual reality is a reality, surely translating brainwaves is possible too. We can collect the brainwaves associated with our thoughts using an instrument, and then decode and translate them through a standard process. That should still be feasible.

As the saying goes, "A skilled craftsman must first have the right tools." Guo Shugui is doing just that. I put aside the previous drawings and manufacturing of the aerospace fighter jet and started to study the technology of identifying, collecting, decoding and translating brainwaves.

If I manage to develop that thing, it will be another important invention, and it will be able to do very few things.

To put it simply, people often dream while they are asleep, but they don't remember anything clearly before they wake up.

If you don't have that device, you can wear it while you sleep. As long as you have a dream that night, it will be recorded by the device. You can then review it on the seventh day. This way, you will know exactly what you dreamed about.

Especially for girls, the thought of it being pulled during a marathon is thrilling. What kind of dream could make someone want to run a marathon? And on the seventh day, marathon runners can see what they dreamed about – is that even more exciting than masturbation?

Of course, that's obviously an oversimplification; Guo Shugui's actions were simply to reduce his drawing workload.

Yes, it was a burden. The drawing work was a real burden for me because those drawings were things I had already researched in the virtual lab. Having me draw them again in reality was like a passenger on a minibus vomiting, but the vomit bag behind him was full, so the passenger had to eat it again and vomit it out.

Therefore, the development of that brainwave translator was extremely urgent. I was really tired of that repetitive work, so I started researching in the workshop.

Fortunately, I had long since given up on that idea, and I had collected very little information on that topic. I don't need to go through all that trouble to find it again. Now I just need to study it carefully and move on!

(End of this chapter)