Solar Flare Project, The Beginning of the Sea of Stars

Yanhuang Calendar, year 245.

Ye Chen, who was handling government affairs in the palace, suddenly heard Yuan Lan's report.

"Your Majesty, news from the Imperial Academy of Sciences indicates that the Solar Flare Project is nearing completion and will be ready for testing next month."

Hearing this, Ye Chen put down what he was holding, a smile appearing on his face.

The completion of the Solar Flare Project marks the Yanhuang Empire's official entry into the nuclear age, which can be said to be of extraordinary significance.

Although the Yanhuang Empire no longer has any enemies on the entire Yanhuang Star (Blue Star), the Solar Flare Project must continue.

After all, this type of weapon is the most powerful in the Home Star Civilization. At least until the Yanhuang Empire steps into the stars, the Yanhuang Empire absolutely cannot lack this weapon.

Because this is the most basic imperial guarantee.

A month passed quickly.

In the largest desert region of the empire, yellow sand filled the sky, but there was a huge scientific research base.

Ye Chen's figure descended from the sky. People had already been waiting here for a long time.

"Greetings, Emperor, may the Emperor live for ten thousand years."

"Rise, everyone."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

After arriving here, Ye Chen followed the crowd to the base. After the others changed into protective suits, they came to the test explosion area.

As for Ye Chen, he didn't need that stuff.

After arriving at the test explosion area, Ye Chen stood in the air, looking at the big guy below. He could clearly sense the terrifying energy and threat contained in this thing.

But it was only a threat, because with his current strength, as long as he wasn't standing in the center of the explosion, only some peripheral shock waves and radiation wouldn't be able to kill him at all.

"Begin."

Ye Chen said immediately to the communicator on his body.

The person in charge of the control center below heard Ye Chen's order and pressed it directly without hesitation.

As for Ye Chen's safety outside, he didn't worry at all, because in his heart, Ye Chen was an omnipotent god.

As he pressed the controller, Ye Chen in the air saw a sun appear, and the dazzling light made his eyes feel a burst of stinging pain.

Fortunately, this stinging sensation was only a little uncomfortable for him.

Immediately afterwards, he saw the ground tremble, and layers of energy shock waves visible to the naked eye spread wildly.

Wherever it passed, everything was destroyed and turned into nothing. The originally calm desert instantly set off a sandstorm.

In just a few seconds, Ye Chen felt a powerful heat wave coming, and even standing thousands of meters in the air, he could still feel the heat.

Waving his hand to block the heat wave, Ye Chen calmly looked at the large mushroom cloud rising in the distance.

The next day, the Imperial Daily News frantically reported on this event.

To this end, countless people in major cities of the Yanhuang Empire were discussing it.

Two different factions gradually emerged among the people, one of which believed that it was not necessary to manufacture such a terrifying weapon.

Because in their view, the world is now unified, the people live in peace, and the entire Yanhuang Star is only the Yanhuang Empire, there will be no more wars in the future.

Therefore, it is completely unnecessary to spend so many resources to manufacture and research such a terrifying weapon.

The other faction held the opposite view, because they believed that although the empire had unified Yanhuang Star, the empire would eventually advance into the starry sky sooner or later, and no one knew whether there were any dangers in the starry sky.

Therefore, this terrifying weapon should not only be manufactured, but also more resources should be invested to find ways to research more and more powerful weapons.

Only in this way can the foundation of the empire be secured, and only in this way, even if the empire encounters civilizations in the starry sky in the future, it will not be without the power to fight.

And the core value that this hawkish faction believes in is "peace is only within the range of artillery."

In summary, it is a group of patients suffering from fear of insufficient firepower, as well as enthusiasts who like to explore alien civilizations.

They love the starry sky and yearn to prove that there are other civilizations in the starry sky, but at the same time, they have a inexplicable fear of the beautiful starry sky.

With the development of the times, especially to the point of the Yanhuang Empire, wars have disappeared, everyone's life has become better, and in their spare time, people will spread their thinking and explore the starry sky.

This situation can be said to be an inevitable trend for every civilization to develop to a certain extent.

And this matter was also collected by the people below and submitted to Ye Chen.

After looking at the submitted content, Ye Chen shook his head speechlessly, "Are these people so idle, some people even quarrel about this matter, and some even fight for it.

It seems that we have to speed up the research on the Internet. After all, the Internet world is very big. At that time, they can quarrel as they please, anyway, they can't fight across the Internet."

Then Ye Chen thought for a while and instructed Yuan Lan to let the propaganda department guide this matter.

With the completion of the Solar Flare Project, Ye Chen turned his attention to the empire's aerospace technology sector.

Speaking of aerospace technology, before the war, the Aerospace Department did have some research, but because of the subsequent war preparations, the development was a bit slow.

Now, after the end of the war, with a large amount of resources gathered, the speed of development is rapid.

In just a few years, many satellites have been launched, but there has not been a single manned spaceflight.

Yanhuang Calendar, 250 years.

On this day, the empire's first manned spaceflight was test-flown.

On this day, the Yanchen Aerospace Base gathered many people, and reporters from all continents came.

After all, this is the empire's first manned spaceflight.

It is a moment worthy of being included in history.

Yanchen Aerospace Launch Center.

"Hello everyone, I am Xu Xin, the host of Tianxuan TV Station. I am now standing at the Yanchen Aerospace Launch Site.

And from my position, everyone can see the "Soaring Dragon One" manned rocket in the distance. Later, we will see the Soaring Dragon One emit a dragon's roar, taking our astronaut hero Zhao Yunlei to the beautiful and deep starry sky..."

"Everyone listen, the launch countdown has begun in the Yanchen Aerospace Field, let us count down together and witness this historical moment."

"10, 9, 8...3, 2, 1!!"

"Ignition!!"

"Rumble!!"

"At this moment, I can feel the ground shaking violently.

Everyone, look, the Soaring Dragon One manned rocket, under the tremendous thrust of the boosters, is slowly rushing towards space, taking the first step for the Yanhuang Empire towards the sea of stars..."

Xu Xin, watching the manned rocket slowly ascend in the distance, with tears in her eyes, passionately and enthusiastically spoke to the countless viewers in front of the televisions.

At this moment.

The giant dragon soars, its voice shaking the wilderness.

The first manned spaceflight in the history of the Yanhuang Empire, like a huge white dragon, rushed out of the thick atmosphere in a series of dragon roars, heading towards the dark space.

Inside the Soaring Dragon One manned spacecraft.

Zhao Yunlei quietly listened to the countdown coming from his headset. As the countdown ticked away second by second, he couldn't help but take a deep breath to calm himself down.

His entire body was exerting all its strength, tensing his muscles, and he was like a piece of iron compressed to the extreme.

This is the Empire's first manned spaceflight, and also the most dangerous one.

Even though he had long been mentally prepared to sacrifice himself, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous at this moment.

As the countdown ended, at nine o'clock in the morning, the rocket ignited, and a huge roar erupted from the tail of the rocket.

Instantly, hundreds of tons of high-energy fuel inside the rocket began to burn.

Immediately afterward, eight rocket engines began to spew out blazing flames.

At the same time, the flames spewed by the rocket evaporated thousands of tons of water under the launch pad into steam in just an instant.

At this moment, the manned rocket set off.

The slow ascent of the manned rocket meant that Zhao Yunlei, sitting inside the cockpit, did not feel the slightest discomfort.

At this moment, he actually felt even more "stable" than riding an elevator.

Zhao Yunlei did not expect that the pressure inside the rocket was actually much less than he had imagined during his usual training, which made him feel a lot more relaxed, and his tense muscles slowly relaxed.

"Escape tower separation..."

"Booster separation..."