Chapter 1652 The Star Gate Shines

On the first day of May, the tranquility of Tiangong City was broken by a breaking news.

Xingkong Technology announced the acquisition of Fuxing Mining Company. While merging the management of the other party, it will reorganize and integrate the company's original mining and scrap alloy smelting business.

After these adjustments, Fuxing Mining Company, which has become a subsidiary of Xingkong Technology, will be renamed Fuxing Yuanhang, and its main business will become the development of extragalactic resources and interstellar trade.

At the same time, Noah's Ark will also be renamed Yinhe, and the route will be changed from the originally planned South Gate 2 to Tiancang 5, which is ten light-years away, and Fuxing Yuanhang will continue the construction.

Many people went crazy when they heard the news.

Especially those leeks who had bought the corporate bonds of the Nanmen Second Colonial Exploration Group, and then sold the meat at the end, they said they were fooled.

Although the name of the Noah's Ark project has changed, the contracts tied to the starship are still legally valid.

In other words, no matter whether you go to Tiancang 5 or Nanmen 2, as long as the colony ship can successfully arrive and the colony capsule is successfully deployed on the surface of the planet, all investors who hold these special debts will Get rich profits from it, and these benefits will be secured by the land and other fixed assets of the colony.

There is only one risk, and that is that the starship is not completed in the end, or it does not reach a habitable world outside the solar system in their lifetime.

Now, however, this risk has undoubtedly been reduced to an almost negligible level.

There is no other reason.

The person who took over this project was Lu Zhou—the man who is called the pinnacle of human mind!

Almost no one would doubt that he, who was smarter than anyone else, would buy a pile of useless scrap metal, and no one would doubt that he did not have the ability to complete this magnificent project.

But then again, for those leeks who have been uprooted, there is actually no way to do this.

After all, who would have thought that Fuxing Mining would sell itself to Xingkong Technology without saying a word after they sold their corporate bonds and left the market?

Especially this starry sky technology has made countless people vomit blood.

For the vast majority of people in this era, this sign that occasionally appears in history textbooks has long been swept into the grave of history. Why is it popping up again at this time to create a sense of existence?

Faced with such a result, most people cannot accept it.

However, whether they accept it or not, the reality is already in front of them.

If their reasons for making trouble before were still tenable, now they can only make trouble for no reason. After all, no one is forcing them to sell their corporate bonds, and Xingkong Technology has no obligation to disclose such things in advance.

If one day, all information in this world is equally open and transparent to everyone, then there will be no such creatures as leeks...

As for those lucky ones who did not sell their corporate bonds, their mood was like riding a roller coaster, going from the sky to the ground, and then from the ground to the sky.

And those who still have tickets for the Noah's Ark.

Whether they are speculators or really plan to travel to a world several light years away, they are almost ready to collect these scraps of paper as souvenirs, but they didn't expect everything to turn around again.

Star Technology not only still recognizes these tickets, but also opened a refund channel, allowing those who change their minds to get a refund at the original price of the ticket at that time.

However, no one refunded tickets at all.

Almost as soon as this news was released, the price of second-hand boat tickets skyrocketed.

Lu Zhou also learned the news from Professor Wu Qinglai later. It is said that at the craziest time, the boat ticket has been fired to 100,000 credits, and there is no market price...

"Anything, no matter it is visible or invisible, once it is labeled as a financial property, it is no longer what it was before," said Sitting on the sofa in the office of the Mars branch of the AIIB. Lu Zhou, Zhong Ziyu gently turned the ballpoint pen in his hand, and said with a happy expression, "I suggest that you release another batch of tickets at twice or even three times the price of the Nanmen Second Colonial Exploration Fund when issuing tickets. "

Lu Zhou: "But there is no more space on the boat."

"There is a word called overbooking. If you know the airline industry, you will find that every flight airline will release more tickets than the number of seats. After all, not everyone can catch the flight in the end, there will always be someone because I gave up all kinds of things temporarily," Zhong Ziyu said with a smile, and continued, "Of course, I'm just suggesting that the choice is yours."

"I don't need that much money at this stage," Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "If there is a lack of money later, I will seriously consider your suggestion."

"It's not a matter of money or not...wait a minute," President Zhong stood up from the office chair, looked at Lu Zhou who was sitting on the sofa, and suddenly realized something, with a surprised expression on his face, "Are you really going to build this ship with your own money?"

Lu Zhou asked with a speechless face: "Otherwise? Have I ever borrowed money from you?"

"That's not... sorry, I'm just a little surprised," Zhong Ziyu smiled awkwardly, coughed lightly, and straightened his face again, "I heard from somewhere before that you plan to go to heaven. Cangwu...is it true?"

"Yes."

After staring at Lu Zhou for a while, Zhong Ziyu's original expression appeared on Zhong Ziyu's face, and he sat back on the office chair with a wry smile.

"No wonder... so to speak, money really doesn't mean much to you."

Hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou smiled lightly, and said in a casual tone, "It can't be said that it is completely meaningless, but it is true that it is not attractive."

"Actually, I still don't understand one thing."

"I don't understand anything."

"If it were you, you would definitely be able to design the Yinhe more perfectly, but why do you still entrust this matter to Academician Yang Chongping?"

"Because he is more professional in this matter. In comparison, I really don't have much research on starship design," Lu Zhou smiled at the disbelieving President Zhong, and continued after thinking for a while, "Of course, it's not without other reasons. After all, I still have more important work to do."

Zhong Ziyu: "A space elevator?"

Lu Zhou shook his head: "It's not just a space elevator, remember the star gate I mentioned earlier?"

Hearing this sentence, Zhong Ziyu suddenly showed a moved expression on his face, and looked at Lu Zhou in disbelief.

"Could it be—"

"Well, this is what I've been working on, besides the warp drive, for a while."

Gently nodding his head, Lu Zhou stretched out his right hand and spread his palm upwards.

As a holographic light beam bloomed from the mouth of the bowl, a ring shining with faint blue light floated above his palm.

"The highway for the exchange of matter and information, I should have said it before."

Looking at President Zhong who was completely distracted by the holographic beam, Lu Zhou smiled and continued.

"Whether it is matter with mass or a photon without mass, when passing through it, it will briefly enter the hyperspace channel until it drills out on the other side of the channel."

"And just yesterday, I finished it."