To be honest, he didn't know how to respond to Sun Xiaorou's initiative.
But he thought that if he didn't say anything, it would only deepen the misunderstanding. Under Sun Jiao's questioning gaze, Jiang Chen took a deep breath and confessed what happened at the door.
"Sun Xiaorou initiated? Are you sure you didn't force her? "Sun Jiao looked at Jiang Chen suspiciously.
"Am I that kind of person?" Jiang Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
But as soon as the words left his mouth, he realized his words were not convincing at all. Sun Xiaorou's first time was taken by him, although he didn't know it was her first time.
"Then what are you going to do to Xiaorou?" Sun Jiao smiled at Jiang Chen.
"I … I don't know," Jiang Chen said shamefully.
Sun Jiao seemed to have expected this answer from Jiang Chen as she sighed.
"If you want me to reject her, I can-"
"No, you misunderstood." Out of Jiang Chen's expectation, Sun Jiao shook her head.
"Mhmm?" Jiang Chen looked at Sun Jiao's eyes, confused.
"If she …" Sun Jiao bit her lower lip, unable to speak.
"If?" Because he couldn't hear, Jiang Chen moved his ear closer.
"Whatever, ahhhh! This is still too strange! "Sun Jiao covered her suddenly burning face as she left the confused Jiang Chen behind and quickly walked away.
At the table, Lin Lin was lively as usual. She chewed in big mouthfuls while arguing with Sun Jiao. Sun Xiaorou's seat was directly across from Jiang Chen. It was her first time tasting such delicacies, and she was full of praises for Yao Yao's cooking. Yao Yao, who was praised, smiled shyly as usual as her two feet happily swung under the table.
Jiang Chen was originally worried that because of the kiss at the door, there would be some awkwardness between him and Sun Xiaorou, but now it seemed like he was overthinking.
However, when their eyes met, Jiang Chen could read a meaningful smile in her eyes.
…
After dinner, Jiang Chen went to Jiang Lin's lab.
He knocked on the door, but the door didn't open. Jiang Chen paused at the door for a moment before he took out his EP.
"Is it at the rocket test site?" Jiang Chen looked at the bright spot on the map as he muttered to himself.
Thanks to the positioning function of the A.I. Chip, he could grasp the position of every Knight. Of course, out of respect for personal privacy and other factors, he rarely used this function unless it was necessary.
After confirming Jiang Lin's location, Jiang Chen headed toward his target.
Rocket test site.
Although the name sounded high-end, it was actually just an empty space surrounded by a concrete wall. There were two tables in the open space. One was a workbench covered with electronic parts, and the other was a chemistry bench with bottles and jars. Other than the two tables, there was also the mechanical equipment he brought from the Fake Leg Boutique as well as the scrap parts he bought.
Jiang Chen once promised Jiang Lin that as long as he completed the task given to him, he would fund his dream and help him develop the warp drive. Now that the production line for the K1 kinetic skeleton was complete, and the imitation Northwind-76 ballistic missile was completed, he naturally had the time to work on his dream.
"This is the warp drive engine?" Jiang Chen looked at the large turbine engine he was fiddling with and mocked.
Without turning around, Jiang Lin flipped the wrench in his hand, wiped the sweat off his forehead, and grinned.
"Far from it. This thing is only a simple working fluid propulsion engine. Not to mention warp drive, it can't even pass the threshold of non-working fluid. "
"I thought you made it," Jiang Chen said.
"I thought I was about to make it." Jiang Lin sighed.
When Jiang Chen first occupied Fallout Shelter 027, Jiang Lin applied for a research project from Wang Qin. No, strictly speaking, it was not a research project. He only sent a concept diagram of the "warp drive" to an aerospace expert to verify the feasibility of his hypothesis.
But the response he received was hopeless. The expert used all kinds of professional knowledge and theories to criticize his concept diagram to the point that it was useless. Jiang Lin didn't give up. He even took the time to personally go to camp 27 to confront the aerospace expert.
The result was still hopeless. The aerospace expert saw that Jiang Chen didn't believe him, so he used the quantum computer to personally demonstrate to Jiang Chen how laughable the technical error of his proposed warp drive was.
It was like a middle school student suddenly thought he discovered the secret of a perpetual motion machine, and then used his current knowledge to draw a blueprint that he thought was flawless, and presented it in front of a physics teacher with a university degree.
Undeniably, the courage to question was worth praising. But in front of science, the truth was the only thing.
After listening to Jiang Lin's story, Jiang Chen was silent for a moment before he comforted him.
"At least you proved one path is not feasible."
"However, I wasn't the one who proved it. In 2091, someone proved that my design idea was wrong. In the next 80 years, people proved hundreds of wrong ideas one after another, but I didn't know about them at all." With a self-deprecating smile, he threw the wrench in his hand into the toolbox and took out a welding gun.
"Do you feel frustrated?" Jiang Chen looked at the flickering electric sparks as he asked nonchalantly.
"No, or else I wouldn't have done this." With a grin, Jiang Lin stood up and patted the thing he had been working on for a week.
Jiang Chen walked to his side and examined the metal object that was three people tall.
"This is?"
"RM-320 rocket engine … High imitation plus a smaller version." Jiang Lin looked at the work of art that he created with his own hands as a proud expression appeared on his face. "Although it is a technology from the end of the 21st century, don't you think it is like a work of art?"
"Technology from the end of the 21st century?"
"That's right. Based on what the aerospace expert said, the working fluid rocket technology was eliminated by the end of the 21st century. The space elevator can easily send spacecraft from the ground to the geosynchronous orbit. The spacecraft that reaches the geosynchronous orbit can then use the non-working fluid engine to propel it to the moon, or Mars, or even further. "Jiang Lin grinned at Jiang Chen.
"Are you planning to start from the basics?" Jiang Chen laughed.
But this thing was still useful to him. Whether it was working fluid or non-working fluid, Jiang Chen didn't care. In the modern world, it would be considered black technology. Or even in the apocalypse, it could be used as a propellant for ballistic missiles.
"You can think of it that way." Jiang Lin shrugged.
"How much does this rocket engine cost?" Jiang Chen asked nonchalantly.
"Including the cost of solid fuel, it's a total of twenty thousand crystals."
"Wow, this rocket engine would cost the military budget of one thousand people," Jiang Chen jokingly said.
Seeing that Jiang Chen didn't look distressed, Jiang Lin also laughed and didn't respond.
After a pause, Jiang Chen examined the rocket engine in front of him again and abruptly said.
"I plan to officially establish the Aerospace Technology Research Institute with you as the director. Do you have any ideas? "
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