Are You Setting Off Fireworks Here??

Before long, the engineers' concerns came true.

After the rockets rose to an altitude of 60,000 meters, the most critical moment arrived—

The separation of the first and second stages began.

The instant this phase started, Rocket No. 11 on the easternmost side underwent an alarming change:

For some unknown reason, a crack appeared in its external structure and rapidly spread downward.

Then Rocket No. 6 near the center tilted severely, and the flames blasting from its thrusters became unstable.

Yet the first rocket to explode was neither of those two, but Rocket No. 9 on the western side!

There was no warning, nor was anyone given time to prepare.

At the instant the first and second stages separated, the first-stage rocket—which should have been recovered—suddenly exploded!

Only after the violent explosion did Xu Meng turn with the engineers in the hall to look at the overlooked Rocket No. 9.

But all they could see was a blazing flower of flame and white metal fragments scattering like Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers.

The engineers faced a grave threat, their expressions solemn.

Xu Meng, however, remained calm.

He even praised it without changing expression:

"Wow."

"Really pretty."

His quiet praise made the surrounding engineers look over at him with question marks all over their faces.

But they soon had no time to care about Xu Meng's attitude.

Because more rockets began malfunctioning!

Red fault alerts appeared one after another.

Before they could finish reading one, another popped up. There were so many that they could barely take them all in.

Correspondingly, the magnificent formation of rockets in the sky began exploding in rapid succession!

The spectacular sight of dozens of rockets launching simultaneously had already drawn the attention of nearly every player in the Virtual World.

Whether they were players originally