Yesterday's summit had been a resounding success.
The only blemish was that it had felt a little like bullying.
After all, a gap in knowledge and logic could not be bridged by sentiment or incitement.
What Lu Zhou had not expected, however, was that his remarks would go viral.
If the first half of his speech had merely presented Hua Nation's achievements to the world, then his subsequent remarks, answering the girl's series of questions, had breathed life into the entire Guanghan Special Zone project.
Not only had Renren Daily lavished praise on it in the front-page article of its latest edition, but media outlets around the world had also extensively covered that part of his speech.
Denmark's Jutland Post, for instance, called it a powerful, eye-opening speech that offered a new approach to environmental problems. The Wall Street Journal, meanwhile, described it as a "mobilization for lunar colonization," arguing that the speech revealed Hua Nation's ambitions for the lunar program and that NASA should remain vigilant.
Of course, alongside the objective coverage, there were also some less objective opinions.
The New York Times, for example, offered the rather conspiratorial suggestion that this had been a premeditated event. It maliciously dubbed it the "New Mandate Speech," arguing that Hua Nation had sent its most influential scholar to lay the groundwork for justifying and legitimizing its monopoly over lunar resources.
Lu Zhou had never expected that a few casual remarks onstage would have such an enormous impact. After all, he had not prepared anything beforehand, and everything he had said was fairly elementary.
Reflecting on it afterward, he concluded that the enormous response was probably because those words had come from him, and because he held the title of chief adviser to the Lunar Orbital Construction Committee.
But just as he