The main building of Zhaicheng Space Center is a building, which looks like a huge rocket, but only the upper half.

The overall look is like a giant rocket bursting out of the ground, giving people a strong visual impact and shock.

Opposite the Rocket Building is a wide and flat ground, a completely horizontal and smooth black ground made of liquid sand.

Zhang Zhai turned his back to the rocket-like building and faced more than 10,000 scientific researchers and staff of the Zhaicheng Space Center.

Compared with the rocket-shaped tall building behind him, Zhang Zhai seems small. Compared with the more than 10,000 scientific researchers in front of him, Zhang Zhai seems insignificant.

But because Zhang Zhai is Zhang Zhai, even the towering rocket buildings have become mere foils and backgrounds.

Even though there were more than 10,000 people, the eyes he looked at Zhang Zhai were full of burning enthusiasm and full of respect.

No one will look down upon Zhang Zhai just because he is alone and there are thousands of people in the audience.

In the eyes of everyone in the audience, Zhang Zhai is even greater than the giant rocket-like building behind him.

Zhang Zhai stood on the steps, and the person closest to him was less than five meters away. He could clearly feel the gazes coming from everyone.

Respect, admiration, worship, and trust all aroused great pride in Zhang Zhai's heart.

I would like to ask, among the tens of thousands of people standing here, which one is not a talent, which one does not have strong ability, and at the same time, which one does not have full trust in Zhang Zhai.

If it weren't for their trust in Zhang Zhai, they wouldn't be here. If it weren't for their ability, they wouldn't be here.

Zhang Zhai looked at the more than 10,000 people in the audience. He looked back and forth several times. Everyone remained silent and looked at Zhang Zhai with fiery eyes.

Finally, Zhang Zhai spoke.

Facing more than 10,000 people, he showed a smile and said, "First of all, this speech is not what I want to do. I don't like formalism. Then your person in charge, Academician Gan, insists on letting me give it. This makes me doubt.

Could it be that Academician Gan became an academician because of his speeches?"

There was no loud laughter, but wherever I looked, many people showed knowing smiles.

"Of course, I still have principles. You can't ask me to give a speech and I will give a speech. Wouldn't that mean I lose face?

Finally, your person in charge, Academician Gan, became anxious and insisted on letting me give you a speech. He covered his heart and told me that he had a heart disease, and if he continued to disagree, he would get sick.

I thought about his age, and finally I started to seriously consider a question...

It’s not about whether I should give a speech or not, but why should I let such a person with heart disease become an academician by giving speeches?”

"Pfft...haha...haha..."

"Ha ha……"

Finally, some of the more than 10,000 people in the audience couldn't help it and laughed out loud.

Suddenly, laughter gathered together, and the atmosphere of the entire scene became much more relaxed.

But Academician Gan looked at Zhang Zhai with a dark face and shook his head helplessly.

But then, as I thought about it, I couldn't help but laugh.

Zhang Zhai also had a smile on his face and waited quietly for the scene to quiet down.

"This is the reason for this speech, and next, the speech will officially begin.

Before I officially start my speech, I want to make two digressions:

I am very grateful to everyone here for trusting me. If it weren’t for trust, you wouldn’t be here!

If it weren't for trust, more than ten thousand of you would not have gathered here, in this desert hinterland filled with yellow sand, to pursue an ideal that seems elusive and difficult to reach."

"I can only do my best to live up to your trust."

"Wow..." The applause rang out for the first time. There was no rehearsal or performance. Every applause was full of sincerity.

They felt Zhang Zhai's sincere words and responded with sincere applause.

The deafening applause interrupted Zhang Zhai's words.

The applause of more than ten thousand people gathered together and spread far and wide.

Zhang Zhai smiled and waited calmly for the applause to subside.

"Then the formal speech will begin."

“Of all of you listed here, I don’t know how many of you have listened to my speech at Peking University, so I’ll just count them all as having heard it.”

Most of those who joined the Zhaicheng Space Center were inspired by that speech. How could anyone not have heard it?

Zhang Zhai spoke eloquently and at an unhurried pace.

"That time, I talked about mankind's ideal - to break out of the cradle. That time, I said that mankind will face a choice, which is also the last opportunity, or seize the opportunity to break out of the earth, go into the universe, and gain the opportunity to develop civilization. Opportunities, or missed opportunities, will cause civilization to retreat until energy is exhausted, and it will return to agricultural civilization or even more primitive civilization, and continue to retreat until it disappears.

This time, I will no longer talk about why humans leave the earth, why humans leave the comfortable cradle of the earth to explore the cold and mysterious space.

Because, since all of you here are already standing here, you must already have your own answer in your heart.

Because everyone here has the same ideal as me, and we are all people who pursue our ideals.

This time, I just want to talk about what the future world in my mind should be like.

In my mind, in the future, human beings will no longer be limited to the earth, and will truly be able to survive off the earth.

For example, if we colonize and transform the moon or Mars, the transformed planet will be self-sufficient.

Humanity will obtain a large amount of resources, ushering in an era of massive explosions in technology and population.

The human population must be at least several times the current level to meet the requirements. By then, the human population may exceed 50 billion, and they may be distributed on the earth, the moon, Mars, or even other planets in the solar system.

Technology will advance rapidly and enter an explosive stage. Super quantum computers, controllable nuclear fusion, quantum communications, and virtual reality will all be possible.

It will be possible for us to treat all terminal diseases of existing humans and even extend human lifespan.

Humanity's footsteps will spread to the entire solar system and even further. In the future, to humans, the meaning of Martians will be the same as that of Americans today - they are all human beings, but they live in different places.

Humanity will have its own interstellar fleet and be able to fly at near-light speed.

If you want, you can enjoy the sunrise on the moon in the morning, and then return to the earth to enjoy the scenery of Zhai City in the afternoon.

If you think about it, you may even study in elementary school on Mars, middle school on the moon, and university on earth. These will all become a reality.

Even further, we will develop curvature engines to allow spacecraft to fly faster or even exceed the speed of light, develop wormhole technology, and explore more distant planets.

We even developed an interstellar transmission gate that uses the principle of quantum entanglement to reduce the distance between planets to zero.

We can even develop dimensional weapons like those in science fiction novels to conquer alien civilizations..."

Zhang Zhai spoke impassionedly, and everyone was stunned.

As Zhang Zhai narrated, an interstellar picture of human beings seemed to slowly unfold.

They were shocked, then excited, and then a little skeptical.

A voice sounded at the scene: "Zhai Shen, this is too far away! Can we achieve it?"

Zhang Zhai smiled slightly, and then said with certainty in a sonorous and powerful voice: "No doubt! You will be the ones to realize this picture. You will become the great pioneers of human exploration of space and will be forever remembered in the history.

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"One day, the starry sky above our heads will be imprinted with human traces. This starry sky and this universe will be deeply imprinted by mankind.
Chapter completed!