"Should we kill all the starving people?"
"Wouldn't that be inappropriate?"
"We can't let this happen again! That's over 200,000 tons of grain! By the time we get the granaries back, who knows how much will be wasted!"
I agree with this proposal!
"I agree with this suggestion!"
"Agreed..."
The slight surprise or reserved voices were quickly drowned out by a chorus of agreement, and then disappeared completely.
After reaching a consensus, the group planned to continue discussing how to eliminate the starving people who had been abandoned in the desert.
Suddenly someone knocked on the door, requesting to report an emergency.
"Report!!! Intrusions have just been reported at grain depots in Florida and California!" The person who entered was terrified.
Only a few people know the inside story of the starving people storming the granary, and naturally, even a secretary like him wouldn't know.
Therefore, in his view, these events were utterly inexplicable. How could those starving people waiting to die in the desert suddenly become so fierce?
Have both granaries been captured?
"... the entire area has been captured; only a small number of people escaped."
The secretary suddenly remembered something and corrected, "Not two, sir."
"A total of twenty-one grain depots in these two states have fallen!!!"
"What?!" Upon hearing this number, the people sitting at the conference table almost fainted. After a long while, someone asked with red eyes, "How much storage capacity are involved in these granaries?"
The secretary, holding a form, glanced at it and immediately replied, "Sir, the total is 5.73 million tons of grain, all of it the latest corn reserves."
Everyone's faces turned ashen.
I just said we can't let this kind of thing happen a second time.
Now look what's happened, it's been refreshed more than twenty times!
The amount of grain reserves that were "stolen" is as high as six million tons.
The loss of over six million tons of grain, while a significant event at the beginning of the century, was far from crippling, as annual grain production was measured in hundreds of millions of tons back then.
But things are different now.
These six million tons of grain, if valued today, would be no less than six million tons of gold!
Not only would it cause serious damage, but the thought that all this grain had been stolen by worthless scoundrels...
Since it had no effect whatsoever, everyone felt as if their hearts and lungs had been ripped out.
While the other side was still fuming over the grain depot issue, the space base received some good news.
After more than two months of flight, the first rocket-launched spacecraft successfully arrived at Saturn and is now orbiting the wormhole.
You can travel through a wormhole to New Star at any time.
Zhang Tianyuan and the experts from the aerospace base all gathered together.
Zhou Kun, Brand and his daughter, along with the aerospace technology team from the Wandering Spacetime project and the wormhole research team from the Pacific Rim Spacetime, totaling over a hundred people, were on site watching the footage transmitted back by the spacecraft.
"Is that a wormhole in the universe?" The experts from the Pacific Rim Spacetime stroked their chins. They had seen wormholes on the ocean floor and inside the Mutual Aid Society, but they had never seen one in outer space.
Now I've finally met him.
What appeared before them was a distorted starry sky, seemingly eternal and unchanging, like a completed masterpiece.
However, those who have seen past records from NASA and the Chinese space agency know that this picture is not static; it's just that the changes have been going on for far too long.
Compared to when it first appeared, this distorted starry sky has changed considerably; the faintly discernible points of light that could be identified as stars have shifted.
"On the other side lies the core of a distant galaxy, so distant that we still don't know its location in the universe."
If it weren't for this wormhole placed by higher-dimensional humans, humanity might never have set foot in that galaxy.
Everyone sighed with emotion.
Zhang Tianyuan opened the plan and glanced at the goals at the end.
"Now that the spaceship has arrived, our next step is to establish a sufficiently safe and advanced outpost through the Spacetime Tunnel, while simultaneously launching new exploration ships towards the New Star on the other side of the wormhole."
Zhang Tianyuan opened Spacetime Tunnel inside this spaceship, and its relative spacetime coordinates are recorded in the system. He can open Spacetime Tunnel around it at any time.
The current issue is how to arrange the outposts.
The spacecraft arrived at the wormhole very quickly; it was launched at the end of June, and it's only early September now—just over two months later.
This speed
Space stations in other timelines are still not finished.
There are now three options: either pause and wait for the space station in another timeline to be completed.
Needless to say, no one within the Mutual Aid Society was willing to accept this choice.
Secondly, we should continue to work hard on the Navigator Space Station and bring it back to fill in for a while longer.
However, the Navigator Space Station cannot be moved so easily.
The reason why the Day After Tomorrow Spacetime could be borrowed before was because it had just been established and had not yet officially started networking. However, now that the Navigator has taken control of the entire Earth's communication and navigation in the Wandering Spacetime, moving it away would easily cause serious chaos on the ground.
Therefore, in this situation, the only option left is the third one.
Zhang Tianyuan's gaze fell on Professor Brand, recalling the advice the old man had once given him.
Sensing Zhang Tianyuan's gaze, the old professor stepped forward at the opportune moment, coughed, and said, "I have a suggestion regarding the outposts."
"We don't need to set up an excessively large base on this side of the wormhole; that would just be a waste of time. We can use the existing base directly."
"A ready-made base?"
"Yes," Professor Brand pulled out a design drawing, "This is the Endurance spaceship we designed before. Although it's called a spaceship, it's actually a space station with rotating gravity."
Jody looked up and smiled, quite proudly.
This is one of NASA's proudest achievements in recent decades.
Professor Brand continued, " The Endurance has now been launched into low Earth orbit. Although it is still missing one sub-spacecraft, its functionality remains unaffected..."
At this point, everyone understood what Professor Brand meant.
"Professor, you mean we can go up and... take the Endurance away?"
"Yes!" Professor Brand nodded emphatically. "We have all the data and operating keys for the Endurance spacecraft. Once the astronauts are inside, we can control it!"
"That way we can send it into wormhole orbit and use it as our temporary space base!"
"Given the current situation, leaving the Endurance in low Earth orbit is simply a waste of resources!"
"This is the best ending for the Endurance!"