Rafael Leif, the seventeenth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, returned to his hometown of Venezuela after retirement. He was rehired by the headhunting company hired by Jiang Chen with an annual salary of 4 million US Dollar to serve as the president of Coro University in Xin.
Since Jiang Chen gave up his "cosmology" public elective course to Hawking, the president of the school board, the honorary professor of Coro University, and the honorary president rarely participated in school affairs. Everything that he needed to worry about was handed over to the Xin Ministry of Education.
Of course, although Jiang Chen didn't manage anything, he was never stingy in funding. After all, attaching importance to education was more than just a slogan.
Under his leadership, Coro University, with its advantages in aerospace technology, bioengineering, and other fields, had become a world-renowned institution of higher learning and the first choice for international students in East Asia and South Asia.
"Principal Leif, what's the matter?" After the call was connected, Jiang Chen said pleasantly.
"A scholar from the UA wants to interview you," Rafael Leif said on the phone. "His name is Frank Dobbin, a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Harvard University. He is very interested in Celestial Trade and the rise of Xin, and he has been doing research in this area recently. I wonder if you have time in the next few days? "
When Jiang Chen heard that someone wanted to interview him, he was slightly taken aback.
To be honest, he didn't like being put in a difficult position by reporters, so he politely declined any interviews.
Just as he was about to refuse, Principal Leif's next sentence made it impossible for him to refuse.
"If it's convenient, he hopes to write a biography of you through an interview with you."
He glanced at the door and saw Lilith looking at him with hopeful eyes.
It was really difficult for her. He specially opened the expression simulation program.
"Tomorrow, I have something to do today," Jiang Chen said after confirming that there were no special arrangements for tomorrow.
"Then I'll thank you on behalf of Frank Dobbin," Leif said with a smile.
"You're welcome."
After lunch, Jiang Chen drove Lilith out.
He said he would take her to the bookstore.
Although she was just a digitalized human, Jiang Chen didn't intend to break his promise.
"Have you thought about what you want to buy?"
"I searched a list of books on the Internet, and the introduction looks interesting." Lilith opened the holographic screen and gently pushed it in front of Jiang Chen. There was a hint of excitement in her tone.
"… Don't block my way. I'm still driving. Let me get on the maglev channel first."
Jiang Chen moved the holographic screen to the side and glanced at a few familiar names on the list with the corner of his eyes.
Detective stories and horror novels?
As expected, because it was an AI, its orientation towards novels was based on logic …
Jiang Chen was slightly surprised.
He originally thought that Lilith would prefer novels with a strong story, or novels with a fantasy theme that was divorced from reality.
…
Just as Jiang Chen drove Lilith to the largest bookstore in downtown Coro City, Bris, who was far away in the Mars colony, was dragging suitcases into the trunk of the rover with the other six UA astronauts.
Some time ago, the flight was suddenly delayed, causing him, who had already packed his luggage, to rejoice for nothing. Fortunately, the engine failure of the transport ship had been eliminated. Although he would not be able to make it to Christmas, he was already very satisfied to be able to reunite with his family.
"What about Jenny?"
"She can't leave. Celestial Trade doesn't intend to give up the prosecution of her for espionage," a slightly larger man complained in a low voice, "I told her not to look around. This is not Capital. I bet she can't even find a lawyer. "
"Are we just going to give up on her? Leave her here alone? " Another female astronaut looked at her male colleague next to her in disbelief. "She is our companion!"
"It's not that we gave up on her, but she asked for it!" The man who looked very silent and hadn't said a word since the beginning silently stuffed the suitcase into the trunk of the rover and then said, "Otherwise, we could have gone back a long time ago."
"How can you say that about her!"
The female astronaut's eyes widened and was about to argue with him, but she was quickly stopped by Captain Bris in time.
"Enough, don't quarrel." Bris glanced at the Celestial Trade Marines who were looking at him, then he said to his subordinates, "Jenny's matter will be resolved by the politicians in the Capital. Let's not get involved. You and I can't do anything. In addition, I tried to persuade her, but she obviously didn't listen to me. I'm going to repeat what I said to her at the beginning to you. Don't do unnecessary things, don't do unnecessary things! Especially at this critical juncture. "
When the female astronaut heard the captain's words, she also calmed down.
Although they felt injustice for Jenny, who was locked in a small dark room, as Bris said, they couldn't do anything. Celestial Trade would not listen to their complaints. Those soldiers only knew how to obey orders and didn't even bother to look at them.
"Be happy. In any case, we are going home soon. When we return to B City, I'll treat you to drinks all night. " Bris patted the shoulders of several teammates, squeezed out a smile on his face, and took the lead to walk to the open door.
Twenty rovers drove out from the open door, crossed the alloy-covered steel wall, threw out circles of gray dust on the sand, and drove to the south.
In the distant sky, a black line connecting the sky and the earth could be seen.
In the car, Braith could not help but widen his eyes slightly.
He remembered that when Ares landed on the surface of Mars, he didn't see this thing. He didn't expect Celestial Trade to build a space elevator on Mars in less than a year. Such construction efficiency really impressed the onlookers.
In fact, what Bris didn't know was that as early as the second half of last year, Celestial Trade had been studying the feasibility of building a space elevator on the Martian equator, and launched the relevant plan before the end of 2019.
From the beginning of construction to the completion of the main structure, the entire construction time of the space elevator had exceeded one year.
Of course, whether it was the gravity coefficient or the orbital height, the difficulty of building a space elevator on Mars was much easier than on Earth. With the space elevator under Celestial City as an example, the construction of this elevator on the Martian equator could be described as a success.
Relying on the large graphite mine found in the crater near the colony, 60% of the materials for this space elevator were produced by the Mars colony. The current Mars colony was no longer the child that had to rely on imports from the mother planet. With the opening of fixed flights between Celestial City and the Mars colony, in the foreseeable future, the industrial potential of this city located on an iron ore mine would surpass any city on Earth.
Including Celestial City.
On these twenty rovers, not only were the UA astronauts preparing to go home, but there were also two hundred Xin researchers, including Dr. Amos. After completing the inoculation of the Flowers of Memory, these researchers, accompanied by nurses, organized the knowledge in their brains into the database while completing a total of one hundred rehabilitation training.
Just as Jiang Chen and the others expected, these Flowers of Memory were not without side effects.
After some people took over the memory of the Gaia civilization, they felt nauseous to all mammalian meats such as pork and beef, but they involuntarily salivated to insects such as snails, earthworms, and even Devil Worms. Some people even forgot how to walk upright and couldn't help but hit the wall with non-existent tentacles in daily life …
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