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"Dean Liu, Teacher Ning... aren't you on vacation? He didn't even go to the Nobel Prize award ceremony. His body still needs some time to recover." Sui Feng replied.

Sui Feng didn't know Ning Chen's true situation, thinking that Ning Chen really didn't go to receive the award due to physical reasons, and said with a puzzled face.

After listening to Sui Feng's words, Liu Xu quickly reacted.

"Oh, by the way, I just came back from receiving the award and I forgot all about it. How is Teacher Ning recovering now? Have you contacted me?"

"Still recovering, the situation is neither too good nor too bad. If Teacher Ning's health is fine, even if she doesn't come to the laboratory, she can at least handle various tasks in the laboratory."

"That's right. Then I'll go see Teacher Ning later."

Originally, Liu Xu had not thought that Ning Chen would really not even go to the laboratory in order to complete the show.

Now it seems that Ning Chen is much more cautious than he imagined.

Without taking any time to rest, Liu Xu went directly to Ning Chen's residence.

In order to ensure Ning Chen's safety to the greatest extent, Ning Chen has moved from Xiangdu Garden Community to the family building of Shengzhou University. Here, non-community residents cannot easily enter the community.

Even if Liu Xu wants to approach Ning Chen's residence, he needs to go through strict identity verification and security inspection before he is allowed to enter Ning Chen's residence.

"Teacher Ning, I am Liu Xu."

After confirming that Liu Xu was coming, Ning Chen opened the door and invited Liu Xu in.

"Teacher Ning, are you really in any physical condition? I see that your complexion is not very good."

"Haha, by this time, the fake has become real. Don't worry, I will be able to return to the laboratory after a while."

In order to make his excuse appear more real, Ning Chen has also been giving psychological hints to himself during this period of time, saying that he really has some physical conditions.

Because of this, Ning Chen behaved so naturally that even Liu Xu didn't think Ning Chen was pretending to be sick.

"Dean Liu, I really appreciate your hard work on this trip. Fortunately, there were no problems on this trip. Otherwise, I would really feel guilty."

"Don't worry, this journey has been very smooth. I feel that this is the most glorious moment in my life. For a moment, I felt that the person who won the Nobel Prize in Physics was myself."

Ning Chen had a chat with Liu Xu and felt very good.

These days, Ning Chen has been staying at home alone and rarely communicates with others. She does feel a little bored.

"By the way, I almost forgot the most important thing. Teacher Ning, this is the medal you won the Nobel Prize in Physics. I will return it to its original owner now."

As he spoke, Liu Xu took out the medal and handed it to Ning Chen's hand.

After receiving the medal, Ning Chen observed the medal carefully. Judging from his expression, it didn't look like he was very eager for the medal. Instead, he was checking to see if there was anything wrong with the medal.

Looking at Ning Chen's expression, Liu Xu asked with some confusion:

"What? Ning Chen, there's no way they could have done anything to this medal, right?"

In fact, it is not that Ning Chen has never thought of such a possibility, but before Liu Xu took out the medal, Ning Chen had already used Xiaozhi's information perception function to thoroughly explore all the information contained in the medal. After a while.

Ning Chen naturally trusted Xiao Zhi more than the security system the school had set up for him, and after Xiao Zhi's inspection, no problems were found with the medal.

"That's not true. The security equipment has just been checked. This is a normal Nobel Prize medal. If they dare to do anything here, they will leave irrefutable evidence."

Ning Chen believed that this mysterious organization would not engage in such stupid behavior. Of course, to be cautious, Ning Chen still needed to rule out such a possibility himself.

"That's right. If there was something wrong with the medal, it would have been detected long ago. Then Teacher Ning, please accept this medal first."

"Okay, Dean Liu, then I'll stay."

What Ning Chen can be sure of is that there are no devices such as monitors installed inside the medal, nor are there any other dangerous substances, so Ning Chen doesn't have to worry too much.

In the following time, Liu Xu told Ning Chen some of his experiences during this period and his mood when he went on stage to receive the award.

Listening to Liu Xu's narration, Ning Chen could really feel Liu Xu's mood at that time, which made up for his regret of not being able to receive the award on site.

"Everyone is very worried about your health and hope you can recover soon. I wonder when Teacher Ning will be able to reappear in the public eye?"

There was some subtle meaning in Liu Xu's words. After hearing this, Ning Chen also smiled and said:

"If the laboratory is considered to be in the public eye, I will be able to reappear in about a month. Of course, during this period of dormancy, I will continue to carry out my work as usual."

"Okay, Teacher Ning, I'll wait for your good news."

…

In the following time, Ning Chen continued to study plans for aerospace projects at home.

After several days of thinking, Ning Chen finally compiled a complete plan and sent it to Lu Minghao.

After receiving the plan sent by Ning Chen, Lu Minghao looked very surprised.

Lu Minghao didn't know Ning Chen's true situation, and thought that Ning Chen had really been in some physical condition recently, because during this period of time, Ning Chen didn't even have much involvement in the company's affairs, which was far from what he usually did. active.

However, at this time, Ning Chen suddenly sent him a file, which was in the aerospace field and had never been done before. This made Lu Minghao completely unprepared.

"Mr. Ning, why...why do you suddenly want to do a project in the aerospace field? How is your body recovering now?"

"I have recovered well recently and will be able to return to work soon. Manager Lu, you still need to read this document carefully and then apply to the relevant departments..."

Ning Chen told Lu Minghao some of his thoughts, and Lu Minghao was very shocked after hearing this.

"Mr. Ning...you mean that you want to carry out some space exploration missions in the future, and you also want to participate in it yourself?"

"Yes, this has always been one of my dreams. If I want to participate in aerospace projects through the Xiaguo Space Administration, there are many restrictions, so I feel that it is better for me to carry out aerospace projects myself. I want to It’s still not easy to get it done, so I ask Manager Lu to take more trouble.”

"Okay, Mr. Ning, I will do my best to handle this matter."

Lu Minghao carefully recalled what had happened in the past two years, and felt that Ning Chen's decision was well founded.

In fact, Ning Chen has had this tendency since the beginning of the black hole telescope project, but the difficulty of this matter is indeed completely different from previous projects.

The difficulty of previous projects was at most due to some technical issues, but this is not the case with aerospace projects. If permission is not obtained, such projects will not even have a chance to be carried out.

But Xingchen Technology is a very special technology company after all, and it does not rule out the possibility of obtaining some privileges and carrying out projects that other companies cannot carry out.

"Performing a space mission...if I have the chance, why wouldn't I want to?"

Many people have had the dream of aerospace, but such an opportunity is too rare. Only one person among hundreds of millions of people can realize this dream.

But Lu Minghao also knew in his heart that with the current capabilities of Xingchen Technology, this dream could indeed be achieved.

Thinking of this, Lu Minghao also made up his mind to try his best to achieve Ning Chen's goal.

While Lu Minghao was applying for this project, Ning Chen had already started making preparations for some aerospace projects in advance.

When it was still unknown whether the project could pass the application, Ning Chen naturally could not proceed with the construction of the space launch site and other work first.

However, work such as the design of the space launch site and some modeling calculations can still be carried out in advance.

By preparing these tasks in advance, Ning Chen can build his own space launch site more efficiently after the project is actually approved.

"The first goal is to conduct a simple space exploration mission."

Since the system mission did not place too high requirements on Ning Chen's space exploration mission, which only required him to leave the earth's surface for more than 100 kilometers, there was no need for Ning Chen to pursue too high a level of difficulty from the beginning.

Achieving such a goal is not too difficult at the level of the entire Blue Star civilization. Some people have already done it decades ago.

But for a technology company, such difficulty is still conceivable.

First of all, in terms of technology, issues including rocket propulsion, spacecraft design, orbit calculation, etc. need to be solved. If it is long-term space travel, space medical treatment, life support systems, etc. also need to be considered.

Secondly, funding is also a very big issue. The aerospace project consumes a lot of scientific research funds. It often requires tens of billions of dollars in funds to support the research and development of the project every year. Not to mention ordinary enterprises, even most countries cannot support it.

As for other factors such as personnel, environment, etc., they are also very important factors.

In addition to these, what Ning Chen and Lu Minghao care about most is the safety of personnel.

In order to ensure the personal safety of astronauts performing space missions, research on manned space projects must be carried out only when the technology is fully guaranteed to be mature.

…

At this moment, Yue Jiafeng was sitting in his office, going about his work as usual.

These days, Yue Jiafeng has been facing strong pressure. Many scientific research projects require Yue Jiafeng's approval, and Ning Chen's safety issues also worry Yue Jiafeng.

Fortunately, Ning Chen himself had a strong sense of security and even had some special defense methods, which prevented Yue Jiafeng from worrying too much about this.

At this moment, the assistant next to Yue Jiafeng suddenly said:

"Academician Yue, we have received a project application from Xingchen Technology."

Hearing the words "Star Technology", Yue Jiafeng's expression suddenly became serious.

In fact, general scientific research project applications will not reach Yue Jiafeng, unless the project level is very high, such as quantum computers and black hole telescopes.

If the project reaches Yue Jiafeng, it means that the project should be very advanced.

"Let me see what projects Xingchen Technology has applied for!"

While speculating on this matter, Yue Jiafeng came to the computer and checked the project application of Xingchen Technology.

However, when Yue Jiafeng actually saw the project applied for by Xingchen Technology, he was so surprised that he was speechless.

In the past few seconds, Yue Jiafeng boldly thought about several possible directions, but he didn't get the idea right.

"Xingchen Technology... is actually preparing to carry out a space project? Ning Chen's ambition is really not small..."

In fact, when Xingchen Technology applied for the black hole telescope project, Yue Jiafeng was a little hesitant about whether to apply for Xingchen Technology's project.

After all, there is no precedent for such a project before. If this opening is rashly opened to Xingchen Technology, there may be some problems for future corporate management.

However, after careful consideration, Yue Jiafeng and others made a resolute decision to agree to Xingchen Technology's application for this project.

Because once this project is successful, the rewards will be very generous.

Fortunately for everyone, Xingchen Technology achieved great success in this project, discovering the existence of gravitational waves, and Ning Chen won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Thinking of such successful cases, Yue Jiafeng also hopes that Xingchen Technology can continue to build on this foundation.

However, after Yue Jiafeng considered various problems that might arise, he still hesitated about this matter.

"Otherwise... let's find a balance in this matter."

After thinking for a while, Yue Jiafeng thought of a compromise.

On the one hand, they will agree to Xingchen Technology's project application and allow Xingchen Technology to build its own space launch site and carry out its own aerospace projects.

On the other hand, they will also conduct stricter supervision on Xingchen Technology's aerospace project research to ensure the safety of the entire project.

At the same time, Xingchen Technology needs to share part of its technology with Xia State Space Administration. In return, Xia State Space Administration will also provide corresponding subsidies to Xingchen Technology.

After discussion by Yue Jiafeng and others, the specific project application conditions were finally arrived at.