Seven days later.
Three huge immigration spacecraft slowly emerged from the planet's atmosphere, then stopped in mid-air, and landed safely on the ground.
"Screech!"
As the passenger compartment of the spacecraft opened, the Mars landing vehicles that looked like mechanical crabs drove down the stairs of the spacecraft.
As the hatch opened, thousands of people poured in from each Mars landing vehicle. As soon as these people got off the vehicle, they immediately saw a huge spaceport.
"Dad, Mom, look!"
"My God!"
"Is this the Ares City on Mars? It's not inferior to the Eco Science City at all, maybe even bigger... "
Countless people surged in. When these people walked out of the Mars landing vehicles, they all let out shocked cheers. The crowd was boiling, shoulder to shoulder. This was a grand occasion for mankind in a thousand years.
Wang Wei supported his wife and son and also walked out of the crowd. The first thing that came into view was a huge arc-shaped spaceport. Further away from the port, there were simple, silver-gray skyscrapers that reached the sky!
These buildings did not look like the traditional structure of human buildings. The lines on them were simple. Some were oval, some were semi-circular, but most of them were in the shape of a shuttle. These buildings gathered in the distance. At the same time, between the buildings, one could see the high-altitude light rail that surrounded the entire city like a silver snake.
Further away, residential buildings towered into the clouds. There were wide streets and lush parks and forests, and even a huge lake. The entire city had formed its own unique micro-ecosystem. It was a permanent colonial giant city that could accommodate hundreds of thousands of people!
In the distant sky, people could faintly see the existence of huge chimney buildings that were thousands of meters high. These chimney-like buildings were none other than Blacklight Biotechnology's atmosphere generator. At this time, white smoke was rising into the sky.
"This will be the new home of mankind..."
Looking at this beautiful scene that was like an oil painting, Wang Wei only felt excited. He carried his son and could not wait to set foot on this land. However, when he stepped out of the spaceship, he immediately felt a light feeling.
At the same time, a burst of broadcast began to sound in their ears. Everyone could see that in the void above their heads, a huge screen had already been condensed by holographic projection technology. On it was the encouraging speech of Qian Wenhuan, the CEO of Blacklight Biotechnology.
"Welcome to the first immigrant city on Mars — Ares Science City!"
"Here, I would like to congratulate all of you. You have created a new era. From now on, from where you and I stand, it will be the dividing symbol of that era. We have drawn a huge exclamation mark here!"
"Because from today onwards, we humans will officially enter the era of cosmic migration …"
"From today onwards, humans will no longer be called planet natives, but galactic residents! When we call Earth, it will no longer be 'the only home of mankind', but 'the birthplace of mankind'! "
"We have opened a new chapter in the history of mankind. Everyone here will be recorded in the annals of history!"
Following Qian Wenhuan's encouragement, the image switched again. This time, it was the face of Xia Yin, the president of Blacklight Biotechnology Mainland.
"Dear employees of Blacklight Biotechnology, you are the best..."
Then, the president of Northern America, the president of Europe, and the president of the North Sea Continent took the stage one by one...
"Daddy, daddy!"
Suddenly, his 14-year-old son grabbed Wang Wei's hand and exclaimed, "I feel like my body is so light!"
"Of course!"
Wang Wei laughed. "The gravity of Mars is only one-fifth of that of Earth. We're used to living on Earth, so it's natural that we feel like Mars is light. But it's okay, we'll get used to it after a while!"
With that, he took his son in one hand and his wife in the other and walked off the spacecraft happily. At the same time, several XTN robots in charge of security came forward and saluted Wang Wei.
"Dear Researcher Wang Wei, please follow us and your family. We have arranged a special safe passage for you."
"Okay."
Wang Wei nodded calmly and followed the robot out of the crowd.
As early as ten years ago, Wang Wei signed up for the Mars Immigration Plan. At that time, he was penniless because his mother was seriously ill. He did not even have money for milk powder, so he gritted his teeth and joined Chen Chen's company.
Chen Chen was not too stingy with this old classmate. Anyway, Wang Wei's biotechnology was passing, so he directly gave him the qualification.
Therefore, in the next ten years, Wang Wei lived up to Chen Chen's trust. From an ordinary research assistant in the company, he was promoted two levels in a row and obtained the status of an official researcher. In the company, his treatment was second only to the director researchers.
The reason why Wang Wei and the 100,000 people here were willing to immigrate to Mars was that the research and transformation of Mars over the past decade had reached the extreme. Today, the oxygen content of the air on Mars was equivalent to that of Earth and the four seasons were as warm as spring. Looking up into the sky, one could also see the satellite revolving around Mars — Ceres.
Just like the moon on Earth.
At the same time, Blacklight Biotechnology promised to provide this group of immigrants with extremely high treatment and benefits. The children in the first batch of immigrants to Mars would be given the world's top elite education. As for the adults, they were promised five insurances and one fund, death compensation, assigned villas, doubled wages, and other benefits.
Even Wang Wei was promoted one level in a row after immigration, reaching the treatment of an associate director researcher.
Therefore, there were a total of 100,000 people in the first batch of immigrants and most of these 100,000 people were families of three or four.
...
"Sir Godfather, the first batch of immigrants has settled in the Ares Science City on Mars."
On the top floor of the newly built Blacklight Building, Little X opened the door and immediately saw Chen Chen sitting in front of a chair with his back facing the door.
The sun shone through the floor-to-ceiling window, casting a luminous silhouette on Chen Chen like a god who had ascended.
"The Earth Federation has sent a congratulatory message to celebrate the success of our Blacklight Biotechnology immigration plan."
Little X continued. "At the same time, the four major continents have already started a new federal conference a few hours ago. They plan to join forces and build a second immigration city on Mars. Should we find a way to stop them?"
"No need."
Chen Chen slowly turned his chair and looked ahead with a calm expression. "If they want to build it, then let them. The atmospheric processor, cryonics technology, and large long-distance spacecraft technology are all on my side. No matter what, they can't leave me behind."
"But they seem to be afraid of you monopolizing Mars."
Little X smiled. "There are already many continents proposing to sign the new Artemis Agreement. There are many clauses in it that intend to encroach on our Ares Science City and at the same time, restrict us from continuing to develop the moon and Mars."
"Ignore them."
Chen Chen shook his head. "It's just nonsense. We should take a long-term view now. After all, too low a vision will only limit our progress. Our vision should be on the sea of stars."
Only then did Little X nod in agreement.
Indeed, with the current strength of Blacklight Biotechnology in monopolizing many aerospace technologies, they could completely bypass the Earth Federation and directly go on their own. If the Earth Federation wanted to catch up to Blacklight Biotechnology's aerospace technology, it would take at least fifty years.
This was also because Chen Chen had given the four major continents a lot of relevant technology. Otherwise, it would take even longer.
Fifty years later, Blacklight Biotechnology would probably have landed on more distant planets.
"Now, we're going to start trying space mining missions."
Chen Chen continued. "Immigration is only the first step. If we want to further break away from the shackles of the Earth Federation, we need to be self-sufficient in terms of resources."
"The small unmanned mining spacecraft has entered the test flight stage."
Little X said, "The principle of the mining spacecraft isn't complicated. It's not much more difficult than the immigration spacecraft. What we need is more advanced engine technology. Only in this way can we speed up the mining spacecraft's round-trip speed in the asteroid belt. After all, relying only on the Ark teleportation platform to transport materials still consumes too much power, even if we've mastered nuclear fusion."
Hearing this, Chen Chen pondered for a moment and quickly asked, "Now, how long does it take for the unmanned mining spacecraft to go to and from the asteroid belt?"
"It takes about three days to go from Mars to the nearest asteroid belt mining area. A round trip will take six days."
Little X replied, "Although the distance between the asteroid belt mining area and Mars is less than one-fifth of the distance between Mars and Earth, after all, a spacecraft isn't as simple as driving. Most of the time of the unmanned mining spacecraft must be spent in the process of acceleration and deceleration. The actual flight time at full speed is only about ten hours."
Chen Chen could not help frowning when he heard this.
Indeed, although it seemed that humans had officially entered the stars, even with the engine technology of Blacklight Biotechnology, they could only reach the level of 7% of the speed of light in a vacuum. Any higher speed would require the existence of a more powerful engine.
Moreover, not to mention the fact that the engine speed was only 7% of the speed of light, even if it reached 99% of the speed of light or even sub-light speed, in the vast universe, who knew how many generations of people would have to die of old age to reach the dozen or so stars newly discovered by Blacklight Biotechnology after taking over the Kepler project.
Moreover, in the state of sub-light speed travel, there was also the problem of the flow of time —
Scientists once imagined an experiment where they built a track on the Earth's equator that could circle the Earth once, then built a train that could accelerate infinitely and invited a group of people as passengers to enter the train for a seven-day voyage.
After these passengers entered the train, it would start to move and gradually accelerate.
For the time being, physical problems such as air resistance, engine power issues, and energy consumption issues were not considered. If this train only needed a few minutes of acceleration to accelerate to seven times per second, this speed would probably be the limit of the speed of the universe — sub-light speed.
At this speed, the entire train would continue to travel for seven days. Of course, this seven days referred to seven days for the passengers in the train. After seven days, when the passengers got off at the origin, they would be shocked to find that a hundred years had passed in the entire world...
This was the problem of the flow of time in the special theory of relativity.
The special theory of relativity told the entire scientific community — the faster the speed, the slower the flow of time. For the people in the sub-light spaceship, the spaceship had only traveled for a week, but a hundred years had passed in the outside world. This absolutely did not meet Chen Chen's requirements.
Because this situation represented the disconnection of human forces. Once these spaceships flew far away, they would be completely out of human control. Even if these spaceships successfully colonized a planet a few hundred light-years away, to the people on Earth, they would still disappear into the vast galaxy, and they would no longer be able to contact them …
There was no difference between success and failure.
Therefore, Chen Chen was not only thinking about the engine problem of the unmanned mining spaceship, he was thinking further.
"If we can crack the Ark teleportation platform and build an interstellar portal, that would be great."
Chen Chen sighed inwardly. In the vast universe, even the Ganzt black sphere had lost its teleportation ability. After all, the black sphere was only used for humans to teleport on Earth for fun. If the distance was slightly further, without the signal coverage of the Gantz server and satellites, the black sphere would lose its function.
Only the Ark obtained from the dimension of "Doom" was truly interstellar teleportation technology.
"It'll be difficult to achieve in at least a hundred years."
Little X blinked helplessly. "The technological level of our Blacklight Biotechnology and the Ark teleportation platform is at least two industrial revolutions apart."
Of course, Chen Chen understood this. Some technologies could not be developed just by obtaining a sample. It was like giving a mobile phone to the most sophisticated craftsman in ancient times and he would not be able to figure out the principle of the mobile phone. When there was a certain gap in the industrial level, no matter how sophisticated the technology was, it was useless.
Moreover, whether it was Elysium or Alien, Chen Chen had obtained corresponding space technology. It was this technology that allowed him to leave the Earth Federation far behind. However, even in these movies, there was no technology that could accelerate a spaceship to the speed of light.
After all, the significance of accelerating a spaceship to 7% of the speed of light was completely different from accelerating it to sub-light speed. The energy required was more than a trillion times different...
"Unless... Space jump."
Chen Chen thought for a moment as if he had thought of something. He raised his head and said decisively, "Only space jump can avoid the problem of the uneven flow of time in the special theory of relativity. Only space jump can avoid the energy problem. Space jump is the true way!"
"You're looking for a movie with the ability to space jump?"
Little X's eyes immediately lit up. After following Chen Chen for so long, she already knew what Chen Chen was going to say next. "But movies with similar technology such as Star Trek, Interstellar, and so on can't be downloaded into the USB drive, right? There are very, very few movies that can be recognized by the USB drive. "
"There's a movie that I'm sure can be downloaded through the USB drive."
However, Chen Chen revealed a faint smile. "The surface of the Black Hole..."
Hearing this name, Little X's expression suddenly changed.
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