Deep Space Fleet

Forty years after the appearance of "Sakura"...

The last time a probe landed on the moon, it did not change the nature of the entire world. The popularity of cherry blossoms will not change because of the moon landing. It just lukewarmly attracts a small group of astronomy enthusiasts and settles in Donghai City. This is already considered a good achievement.

The confrontation between Donghai City and the rest of the world has not changed.

It doesn't make any sense to trigger the collective shame of mankind.

How long can this shame last? One day, two days, one month, or two months? Is it possible to turn collective shame into motivation? If human beings really changed something because of shame, human beings would not be human beings.

Over the years, Zhang Yuan has been quietly leading a team to engage in manned spaceflight. His biggest goal is to send astronauts back to the moon, and even restart the operation of the moon base.

Life was hard, or rather, it had never been so hard.

First of all, the first small goal is to send people into low-earth orbit in space and circle the earth.

The second small goal is to send people to the aviation city in synchronous orbit. The aviation city at a distance of 36,000 kilometers from the ground has been steadily revolving around the earth, and there are still some machines on it that can be started.

These two small goals have been completed in the past few years. After accumulating some experience, the final big goal is to land on the moon.

These years have been very hard. Although the robot will help produce various parts, Zhang Yuan has to make all the drawings and equations by himself.

The relevant talent pool is very small, the outside world has always been ridiculed, and there is no such thing as salary in this society. Everyone does this with enthusiasm.

but……

An unfortunate thing happened.

This time the manned space rocket failed to launch!

In this disaster, the four astronauts turned into raging flames and disappeared into the distant sky, it only took a minute! The desperate cries of these astronauts seemed to be heard in mid-air.

Zhang Yuan, who was watching from the observatory, fell to the ground. This disaster was too great, too big to bear. Donghai Aerospace City, which had just improved a bit, must have suffered a devastating blow!

Zhang Yuan has been lying on the bed for three days, not because he is not strong enough, but because he clearly knows what the failure of the rocket launch this time means.

Several relatives kept crying in front of the hospital bed, thinking that Zhang Yuan would die soon...or in other words, all their plans died within this minute.

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"Haha, failed, they finally failed!"

"Even the ancestors didn't want them to go to the moon."

"I knew they couldn't succeed!"

Corresponding to this is the tsunami-like gloating and ridicule from the outside world. When you don't work hard, it is often a torment to see other people's efforts. This group of people waited hard, and finally waited for this god-given opportunity to be able to mock, and some even said that these astronauts "deserved it" and "deserved a good death"!

Faced with this kind of abuse, Donghai City is full of dark clouds, and the citizens are full of suspicion, fear and mutual distrust, and they begin to question whether the work of Aerospace City is valuable.

The original hero of Donghai City has become a cast aside object. If it weren't for the protection of the robot, Zhang Yuan, who was lying on the hospital bed, might even be beaten to death by the thugs!

A large number of astronauts left amid fierce abuse, and even family and friends did not support them to continue their work.

They themselves devoted themselves to their careers with passion, but after this disaster happened, the blood dissipated, and their hearts naturally dissipated.

The engineer endured the pain and checked for a long time, but found that a certain screw was not tightened, and the person in charge of this aspect had already run away. The whole incident was full of signs of a conspiracy theory...

This huge blow caused Zhang Yuan to turn gray all night. After he got up from the hospital bed, he sat in front of the office again, silently in a daze, secretly blaming himself for not being more meticulous in employing people and being more aware of his work. Some.

"sorry."

Since the successful landing of the lunar probe, it has indeed attracted many talents from all over the world. But man is not as good as God, with this explosion, everything was in vain.

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In the forty-second year, in just two years, the population of Donghai City dropped by 30%!

This is a city that has suffered a populist backlash. Populism requires someone to take the lead and keep hammering others in order to gain one's own sense of superiority, but now that the manned spaceflight project has failed, the hero has fallen from the altar, and the hearts of the people will naturally disperse. Many original residents simply left this tarnished city.

Due to the rapid decline in population, many clowns in other cities have an opportunity to take advantage of it. They are calling on people from other cities to move into Donghai City in large numbers.

When these foreign populations have a population advantage, they can pass a vote to amend the law and remove "Sakura" from the list of prohibited items.

In this way, the "regional advantage" that the Donghai people are proud of will naturally disappear.

Zhang Yuan had to turn his attention to this aspect again, and re-participated in the ideological struggle.

But this time, it was much more difficult than last time. People no longer trust him, Zhang Yuan, the chief designer of aerospace engineering.

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In the forty-seventh year, due to the increasing number of people from outside the city, the conflicts within the city have also become more and more intense, with more and more people fighting and breaking the law. This was an unimaginable scene in the past.

In fact, these people are purely here to make trouble. They just want to vote to erase the last city on earth that banned "cherry blossoms" from this world, that's all.

Zhang Yuan never imagined that the human nature in the world would be so evil, maybe they think they are just?

Want more people to enjoy more joy?

The entire voting has been launched 3 times, but this time, there are so many outsiders "joining in the fun" that there is no way to stop it.

In an announcement issued by a robot, it reads: [According to the results of this voting, the number of votes in favor is 513,453, the number of abstentions is 40,998, and the number of votes against is 40,988. "Sakura" will be removed from the Class B prohibited items...its ingredients are...]

The vote is passed, the law is amended, and robots will no longer restrain humans from using "Sakura". Some irrational and angry local citizens started setting fire and smashing things, and then they were caught by the robot and sent to the cell.

Faced with this situation, Zhang Yuan can only stand up and call on everyone to treat the final result rationally.

"Everyone...Keep self-respect and self-love, even if the law doesn't restrain us, we can also restrain ourselves."

However, the real truth is that... the tide is over,

Zhang Yuan actually doesn't believe in the so-called self-restraint.

This is too difficult.

In the end, several companions who followed Zhang Yuan were also crying and wiping their tears, trying to accept the final truth.

There was a long line of people celebrating the opening of the "cherry blossoms" on the street. They cheered wildly and shouted loudly, declaring the coming of the era of personal freedom.

They shouted loudly: "The last evil city has also ushered in true freedom!"

free!

Corresponding to this is a small group of people crying quietly, no one knows, and no one pays attention to it.

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