"Captain ng, have you notified Chief Zhou and the others about the situation here?"
"I've already inford Chief Zhou," ng Tianhe said. "Chief Zhou has arranged resources for us, and we can take the spaceship directly to Longxia's headquarters!" ng Tianhe continued, "I've also told Chief Zhou about your contributions, and he might even be able to apply for a special appointnt as an instructor at Longxia for you."
Zhang nglong's strength was witnessed by everyone today, and he was probably the epito of human achievent. It wasn't just Zhang nglong; any of the students he brought this ti had the qualifications to be instructors at Longxia.
"No need for any titles, I'm not interested in that kind of stuff," Zhang nglong curled his lip. He already had the title of academician from the two institutions; what good was a title that couldn't be openly acknowledged?
"Tell Chief Zhou not to bother
with running the school in the future."
"Oh, and Chief Zhou also specifically instructed that as long as you don't violate the law and the Second World Convention, all policies can give you a green light. The educational qualification license will be issued to you in a couple of days."
"Hahaha, so Chief Zhou still keeps his word?" Zhang nglong laughed with satisfaction.
"Mr. Zhang, also about that training matter we talked about the other day..." ng Tianhe looked at Zhang nglong full of expectation. If every person in Longxia could beco as formidable as the students under Zhang nglong's tutelage, then Longxia would be invincible in the future.
"It's a small matter. Just arrange the people and send them directly to Jiangnan City when it's ti; I'll have soone coordinate with you."
"That's wonderful!" ng Tianhe laughed. "Can I co along too?"
"You?" Zhang nglong looked ng Tianhe up and down, "You can, but my school is very strict, so you'd have to start from the first grade. And you'll have to call the other students 'senior brother' and 'senior sister.' Can you handle that?
"Handle it! I wouldn't mind even calling them 'dad' if necessary!"
"Well, that's completely unnecessary," Zhang nglong didn't expect ng Tianhe to have such a bootlicking side to him.
"Let's go. I've activated autopilot; it'll take about an hour to get to the headquarters. Let's head to the cockpit and see just how impressive this alien civilization's technology really is!"
Zhang nglong, now with the highest access rights, found the spaceship almost as familiar as his own ho. The artificial intelligence used voice commands to guide him towards the cockpit.
As the cabin door, sealed for tens of thousands of years, opened, the cockpit welcod living people for the first ti in a long while.
The cockpit was nearly as big as a basketball court, with nurous consoles arranged next to each other, screens displaying alien landscapes and various spaceship indicator data.
"Chemical propulsion and curvature drive dual-power system. The curvature drive's maximum speed can approach the speed of light, while the chemical engine can reach up to 0.3 tis the speed of light. Tsk, tsk, tsk, indeed several levels above our human technology!"
Without the knowledge of Zhang nglong, curvature drive was still a theoretical concept, and as for chemical propulsion, humans hadn't even achieved nuclear propulsion yet.
"How many people does it take to operate this thing?" ng Tianhe was wide-eyed with amazent. If these things were taken back to the headquarters, the scientists would probably be thrilled beyond words.
"Just count how many dead people there are on the floor!" In the cockpit, there were nurous skeletal remains, which were probably the forr crew of the spaceship, and it looked like there were about twenty to thirty people.
"Was it so kind of accident?" They were all gathered in a corner of the spaceship's cockpit as if they had been struck by sothing, and they had all died due to the physical impact and inertia.
"That's strange. Didn't they have anything like airbags?" ng Tianhe could also guess the cause of death for these people; a civilization advanced enough to create such a ship shouldn't have just died like this.
"Check the flight logs," Zhang nglong instructed artificial intelligence.
Soon, from the data sealed for ten thousand years, Zhang nglong found an answer.
"It seems that during travel with the curvature drive, there was an accident where the curvature space bubble burst due to unstable space, and they were ejected from the curvature space bubble at nearly the speed of light," he interpreted.
"What is a curvature space bubble?"
"Hmm... just Google it yourself," Zhang nglong couldn't be bothered to explain; to clarify this matter would take hours and still might not make things clear, "Anyway, it's a technical accident that happened right near our asteroid belt."
Traveling at near-light speed, even if the spacecraft is extrely durable, a collision would still be very dangerous; for more details, one could refer to the analogy of a bird strike on an airplane.
However, because the spacecraft materials are very robust, the collision resulted in the asteroid ending up crushed into powder, while the damage to the spacecraft was minimal.
But one must understand that the force of impact can transfer; just because the spacecraft was unhard doesn't an the people inside were safe!
The impact force transmitted through the spacecraft's hull, instantly killing the high-grade life forms inside!
Actually, this situation could have been avoided simply by evacuating the air inside the spacecraft; vibrations need a dium to propagate, and in a vacuum, they wouldn't have been able to cause death due to air vibrations.
It was just that the incident happened so suddenly that there was no ti to evacuate the air, leading to this tragedy.
"Wait a minute!" Zhang nglong's expression suddenly turned unnatural.
"This spaceship sent out a distress signal at the ti of the accident! The frequency of this signal is the sa as the one Professor Liu observed!"
A terrible suspicion suddenly arose in Zhang nglong's mind.
Following the crash, the distress signal was sent back to the spaceship's ho planet, but because the coordinates of Earth and the Solar System were not known, there had been no results.
Then, by chance, that civilization captured signals from probes humans had previously launched into space and, using these, they successfully located Earth.
If that was indeed the case, Earth's coordinates might have already been exposed!
"This is potentially very dangerous!" Zhang nglong suddenly felt grateful for Professor Liu's discovery, for if the beings from that civilization ca looking with ill intent rather than good.
The consequences would be unimaginable!
"We must expedite Earth's defenses! If they co with malice, we shouldn't be caught off guard."
This was a matter of great importance, and Zhang nglong shared his views with ng Tianhe, whose expression also beca extrely grave.
This was not a matter concerning just one nation but the very survival of human civilization.
"nglong, how certain are you?"
"It's not about how certain I am—the problem is that even if there's only a 1% chance, we need to commit 100% of our effort to it," Zhang nglong answered.
"But the gap between us and their civilization is too wide. Look, we can't even deal with their detecting robots; if they co with hostile intentions..."
"Then let them experience what's called a technological explosion!" Zhang nglong declared, "Captain ng, help
relay a ssage to Academician Zhou—I want to recruit a group of extrely outstanding talents in various fields."
"Also, we need to rework our education model," Zhang nglong said, "Current education can no longer keep up with the potential threat we're facing."
"What do you an by that?"
"I want to redefine the education model for the whole country, even the entire human race, with Jiangnan University of Science and Technology at the core!"
"That's impossible!" ng Tianhe didn't even have to think about it; the idea was wildly impractical.
"Nothing is impossible—let's start with Jiangnan City!"
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