Stepping into the Unscientific
Chapter 770

Target: The South Pacific!

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"Launch!"

The instant Qian Wushi gave the order,

Luo Shijun, who had been standing taut with anticipation, reacted on instinct and immediately pressed the launch button on the control console.

Click!

With a crisp sound, the purple launch button was pressed firmly into its slot.

Luo Shijun's movement seemed to press a pause button over the entire control room. The moment the button clicked, everyone fell silent, staring motionlessly at the console in front of them.

Two seconds later,

a red light at the top of the console suddenly flickered and turned deep green—an indicator that the launch gantry was beginning to separate.

Unlike the small launch gantries used in Europe and America, the Rabbits' launch gantries were much larger.

In the future Xu Yun had come from, some self-styled intellectuals often used talk of technological disparities to mislead uninformed passersby, making it seem as if the Rabbits' launch gantries were decades behind the rest of the world.

That was an utterly ridiculous rumor. There were really only two reasons the Rabbits made their launch gantries so enormous.

First, the Rabbits' rockets had generally been assembled on-site, so the gantries were designed to serve as assembly facilities.

For example, they had large tower cranes at the top and were built like mobile assembly halls, making it much easier to assemble and test the rockets.

The other reason was that some of the Rabbits' launch sites were in deserts and others along the coast. To protect the rockets from windblown sand and rain, the launch gantries also had to come with protective covers.

During preassembly, the gantry's protective covers opened to shield the rocket. That was why the gantries looked so huge.

Besides, the claim that Across the sea's launch gantries were small was itself mistaken. The launch gantries for the

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