The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 172 Talking
This Spring Festival in the 12th year of the Era of Crisis was more lively than previous years.

Because of the existence of the Mars wisdom signal, everyone has no pressure from the Trisolarans, and the whole world seems to have no burden.

Although the standard of living is still declining, there is no hope for human beings, and everyone feels that the current efforts are worthwhile.

Even if the standard of living has declined, the Spring Festival must be taken seriously. The things that are usually reluctant to buy are now willing to be willing, and the money that is usually reluctant to spend is now willing to be willing.

The streets and alleys are full of laughter. During this period of time, everyone seems to have forgotten the pressure of life and the difficulty of making a living, and just want to enjoy life seriously.

This Spring Festival at Jiang Yu's house is also more lively than in previous years, because Jiang Yu is at home this year.

Although there was only one more person, Hu Huilan was more willing to spend money when buying new year's goods.

When Jiang Wenhuan was on New Year's Eve, someone also accompanied him to drink and play chess.

This year's Spring Festival Gala will have a program that everyone is looking forward to. At around ten o'clock, CCTV will start a video call with the astronauts of the "Yinghuo" Mars spacecraft in deep space.

At ten o'clock, Jiang Yu and Jiang Wenhuan stopped playing chess and watched the video call together.

During the connection to "Yinghuohao", with a touching background music playing, the host said in a moving voice:
"The universe is vast, the stars are shining brightly, in the vast space, there is the yearning of human beings, and the beautiful wish of human beings to soar into the sky!

"China has been a great astronomical country since ancient times. There have been Zu Chongzhi, Guo Shoujing, and Zhang Heng, who have left a brilliant mark in the history of our civilization.

"After entering the new era, the aerospace industry of the motherland has been completing projects that can be recorded in the annals of history at a very small cost.

"Manned spaceflight, building a large integrated space station, building a space elevator, and building a space city.

"It is the space dream of the sons and daughters of the Chinese people, and the broad mind of the sons and daughters of the Chinese people in the face of the universe, that makes these exciting projects possible.

"Today, on this special day, two compatriots are far away in the depths of space, sticking to their posts for our space dream.

"Let us send our warmest wishes to the two most respectable people!"

At this time, the communication with "Yinghuo" was finally connected. After seeing You Haoming and Mi Jingtao, the audience immediately burst into applause.

The signal is not very good, the picture is a bit stuck, and because the distance is too far, the communication has obvious signal delay.

If you talk here, you can hear it over there in a few seconds.

Although the "Yinghuo" has only flown more than 1000 million kilometers, the earth is also orbiting, and the distance between the two sides has been widened.

At the party, the host first asked some trivial matters such as whether he had prepared a New Year's Eve dinner for himself today.

Asking them about their next voyage plan, You Haoming said: "We will dock with the first supply cabin in seventeen days, and then carry out an acceleration!
"After completing this acceleration, the flying speed of the spacecraft will reach [-] kilometers per hour.

"If this speed is placed on the earth, it can go around the earth in one hour and 10 minutes."

Finally, the host sent sincere blessings and looked forward to their successful completion of the task.

Jiang Yu in front of the TV sighed and said, "'Yinghuo' was launched in a hurry, and it always feels like a friend is traveling far away, which makes people a little worried."

Jiang Wenhuan took a sip of tea: "There are some emergencies that don't give people time to prepare.

"This step has to be taken sooner or later, and it is a great thing to go out."

Jiang Yu nodded with a smile, and the father and son continued to play chess.

Early the next morning, many people called Jiang Yu to celebrate the New Year.

When Bai Xiangdong called, Jiang Yu asked him, "Have you discovered anything new?"

After Jiang Yu interrogated Du Sheng in the United States, he asked Bai Xiangdong to look for flaws in the "Poisoned Apple Project" based on the clues he got from Du Sheng.

Bai Xiangdong sighed and said, "I don't have a clue now."

He paused and said: "Actually, the simplest verification method is to wait for the group of people who have used the Trisolaran technology to grow up, throw them into space, and observe their reactions.

"It's a pity that the parents of these children are either rich or expensive. We have the ability."

Jiang Yu smiled helplessly: "Let's talk about it after the new year."

"Okay!" Bai Xiangdong said with a smile: "Your operation in the United States immediately made the technology of the 'Poison Apple Project' no one cares about. It is really very satisfying."

Jiang Yu also smiled and said: "Take a good rest, there is still work to do when work starts!"

He knew it in his heart, and if he couldn't find any evidence that the "Poisoned Apple Project" poisoned human beings, he couldn't relax for a day.

After the generation of genetically modified people grows up, it will be difficult to stop the wave of genetic modification.

Jiang Yu shook his head, as if to drive the question out of his mind.

New Year's Eve, don't think about this problem for now.

In the third year of junior high school, Jiang Yu went to pay New Year's greetings to the retired Chief Ji.

After Chief Ji retired, he became a lot more kind, because he no longer dyed his hair, and with gray hair, he looked ten years older.

As soon as Jiang Yu entered the door, Chief Ji pointed at Jiang Yu with his index finger: "You! You are just a little troublemaker. You don't tell your family about such a big matter."

Jiang Yu understood that Chief Ji was talking about the Moon City autonomy incident, and "home" naturally refers to the Star Defense Department.

Jiang Yu scratched his head: "Aren't I afraid of causing trouble to others!"

Chief Ji smiled and shook his head: "Don't worry, from top to bottom, we will still unconditionally support the wall-facing project."

He suddenly sighed: "Now I'm starting to rejoice, fortunately I let you be the Wallfacer."

The so-called ginger is still old and spicy, Chief Ji has already figured out the intention of Jiang Yu's operation.

I have to admit that none of the other wall-facers think as far ahead as Jiang Yu, and their wall-facer plans are not destined to be as far-sighted as Jiang Yu's.

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According to the scheduled plan, the "Yinghuo" spacecraft successfully docked with the No. 1 supply module and replenished enough fuel and supplies.

At 3300 million kilometers away from the moon, "Yinghuo" accelerated on the way.

This acceleration lasted 3 minutes, produced only half the thrust of leaving the moon, but consumed 10 tons of liquefied hydrogen and 24 tons of liquefied oxygen.

Such a large fuel consumption is due to the size of the "Yinghuo".

Its main body is more than 8 meters in diameter, the largest diameter is 26.6 meters, and the length is 38.3 meters. It is like a steel building flying in space.

The No. 2 supply module of the "Mars Staircase Project" is in the orbit of 5600 million kilometers.

After the second replenishment, the fuel of "Yinghuo" is enough to enter Mars orbit.

Even if the supply does not go well this time, the fuel, food and other supplies on the "Yinghuo" are enough to reach the position of the No. 3 supply cabin.

The speed of "Yinghuo" at this time has reached about 3 kilometers per hour, but there is a lack of suitable reference objects around, so the astronauts can't feel how fast the speed is.

It is possible to use the sun as a reference, but it is too big and too far away, and it is impossible to see that the spacecraft is moving.

Except that the sun is a starry sky like a dark curtain, but it can't be used as a reference.

As the Earth and the moon became smaller and smaller in view and finally disappeared from view, the astronauts all had the illusion that the spacecraft was not moving.

At this time, even astronauts who have served on the space station all year round will feel psychological pressure. After all, compared with the present, their previous working environment seems to be only one step away from the earth.

At this moment, the astronauts realized that the space is really too empty, so empty that people feel a little hopeless, and people unconsciously start to miss everything on the earth.

In order to relieve everyone's psychological pressure, Commander You Haoming will organize everyone to read poetry aloud every day, or organize everyone to tell interesting stories they have encountered.

Everyone gradually felt that in this empty universe, there are still companions to rely on, which is great.

　Ask for a monthly ticket, ask for a recommendation ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)