In the office.
After Qin Lin finished the day's daily tasks with his Game Character, he came back to himself and picked up his phone to check the short-video news.
Watching the news was also the best way for people to learn about the world and the latest events, and to keep from falling out of step with it.
After scrolling through the news for a while, Qin Lin saw two major stories.
The first was that the country's third aircraft carrier had been launched.
The second was that preparations were underway to launch the country's deep-space exploration rocket.
The first story was naturally exciting, as it represented the country growing ever stronger.
The second story had a little to do with him, too.
After all, the deep-space exploration rocket was the work of Academician Zhu and his team.
A deep-space exploration rocket was also the most fundamental launch technology humanity needed to venture into space.
Humanity had already succeeded in landing on the moon, and astronauts could even take photos in space while wearing spacesuits.
But that was still a long way from a true space age, let alone an interstellar age.
Without deep-space exploration rocket technology, the so-called space age and interstellar age could never become reality. After all, humanity couldn't even explore deeper into space.
Now, the research of Academician Zhu and the other two had made all of this seem possible. What's more, their rocket technology had surpassed the West's for the first time.
This was certainly even more exciting news.
After all, this was the first time they had surpassed Western countries in technology of this level.
As Qin Lin watched the excited, deeply patriotic comments beneath the news video, he smiled.
They were an Eastern dragon. Once they took flight, no one would ever