The Immortal Warrior: From Reverse Engineering to Forging Swords for the Country

When Wolfe heard what Nelson said, he laughed and said, "Mr. Nelson, it's all just a game!"

"Even if something unexpected happened, it's actually nothing. As long as we explain it, I believe people all over the world will understand us."

"Besides, the chance of failure is very low! It's so low that it's impossible for it to happen!"

"Just wait and see!"

“We will have the last laugh!”

After saying that, Wolfe walked aside.

Nelson sighed and shook his head. Somehow he felt uneasy.

A bad feeling always lingered in his mind.

……

The main television media in Eagle Country that broadcast the Starship rocket launch live was Columbia Television.

This TV station is the leader of traditional media in the Eagles family.

Because the launch was promoted with such fanfare and attracted so much attention, Columbia Television spent a huge sum of money to obtain the exclusive live broadcast rights.

Apart from them, other media can only report the news.

Of course, Columbia TV got the live broadcast rights for the Eagle Country.

Other countries in the world have their own national media outlets bidding for live broadcast rights.

They spent hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to broadcast the launch live.

No Chinese media participated in the live video broadcast this time.

However, practitioners of their own media came to the scene.

They used live text broadcast to report the news.

Celix is ​​a reporter for Columbia Television.

He is responsible for on-site reporting and commentary.

Columbia has set up six or seven launch sites around the launch site for this purpose.

In order to provide a better explanation, Columbia TV also invited an astronaut who participated in the moon landing program in the past, named Vincent.

An hour before the launch, Selix sat at the commentary booth with Vincent.

As a senior reporter and commentator for Columbia Television, Selix is ​​relatively well-known in the Eagle Country.

His commentary is humorous, his words are sharp, and he is known for his boldness and outspokenness.

In order to increase ratings and achieve better broadcasting results, we must, of course, select topics that may be of interest to the audience.

Selix asked Vinson: "Mr. Vinson, do you think this launch has any hope of success?"

Vincent said: "I hope they succeed!"

"Because we are already too lame."

"We urgently need a successful launch to restore our country and people's confidence in becoming a space power!"

Selix immediately caught a word in Vincent's words: "You said we suck?"

"In other words, you are very dissatisfied with the current state of our space development?"

Vincent sighed, shrugged and said, "We have regressed!"

"While others are making great strides forward, our current aerospace capabilities are not even as good as they were more than 30 years ago!"

"More than 30 years ago, we had very powerful rockets. We could do anything!"

“That was a wonderful time!”

Selix smiled and asked, "Mr. Vincent, you have landed on the moon before. I want to ask you: were you scared when you landed on the moon?"

Vincent was silent for a moment, then he sighed and said, "I'm sure I'll be scared."

"After all, if something goes wrong, I might end up in space forever."

“Luckily, we succeeded.”

Seliks pulled out a leftover scripture from his pocket and said with a smile, "You should know that there are many voices questioning our six moon landings."

"Do you dare to swear on the remaining scriptures: You really landed on the moon?"

Vincent's face turned pale instantly.

He had not expected Selix to do such a thing.

Taking an oath on the remaining scriptures with your hands is a very solemn thing.

If you lie at this time, it is a betrayal of God and you will be punished.

Vincent happens to be a devout believer.

"Oh, I don't think it's necessary to do that?" Vincent said.

His words were a little stuttering.

Selix smiled and said, "Why would you refuse?"

"Are you afraid of going to hell? Haha!"

Vincent shook his head: "This joke is not funny at all."

"I think we'd better get down to business."

Selix said, "Mr. Vincent, we are broadcasting live now!"

"Your current state will only attract more doubts! Haha!"

"If you really have been to the moon, why are you so cautious about it, just swearing an oath?"

"Don't you think this is abnormal?"

Vincent's face looked even uglier.

He stammered, "I don't think this is a good time to swear."

"All right, all right, Mr. Selix, that's it, don't embarrass me."

Selix laughed and said, "Mr. Vincent, I was just joking with you, eh! Everything is for the effect of the show, haha!"

……

Nelson didn't really have much to do at the launch site.

With a gloomy face, he watched the Starship rocket slowly move along the orbit towards the launch site.

Nelson had some communication with the technicians.

The technicians accused Nelson of some things, not very good things.

Mainly as follows:

There were several accidents during the inspection of the Starship rocket, including the failure of some of the serially connected rocket engines to ignite, and the test ignition of the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen engines did not last more than 600 seconds, but only half of that time.

When the technicians were testing, they found a few minor problems. However, when they reported them to Wolfe, he told them lightly: Don't worry about the minor problems! Even if there are some problems, they are harmless and not a big deal.

After listening to the feedback from these technicians, Nelson had an urge to curse.

What the hell!

Although Nelson is not a professional, he knows that space travel cannot tolerate any carelessness!

A small problem can lead to a big disaster.

Boeing's Starship rocket has so many small problems, so something big is bound to happen!

Even so, that bastard Wolfe actually dared to say that there was no problem and that it would definitely succeed?
It’s simply a matter of life and death!
Damn it! This time, I guess I will be laughed at by the whole world again!
When has the once powerful Eagle Country ever been treated as a laughing stock?
Back then, when the eagle raised his arms and called, there were crowds of people responding!

Anyone who dares to go against it is seeking death!

But now?

Now it has fallen to the point where it is laughed at by the whole world!

However, a large number of people in the Eagle Country still feel good about themselves and actually believe that they are still the shining beacon!

Nelson shook his head irritably. He decided to hide in a quiet place to rest for a while.

Nelson ran to a small house and locked himself inside.

There is WiFi here and you can check Twitter etc.

When Nelson opened Twitter, the homepage showed a tweet that Columbia TV was broadcasting the Starship launch live.

There is a link above. Click it and you can watch the live broadcast.

Nelson sighed again.

He still clicked on the link because he wanted to see what the TV station was broadcasting live.

As a result, he happened to see the scene where Selix was forcing Vincent to swear on the left hand.

Nelson was so angry that his nose was crooked.

What the hell! This is clearly a sabotage!

In fact, there have been many doubts about whether the Eagle Moon landing was fake.

Just take this matter for example, more than 30% of the Eagles in the country do not believe it.

In the past, when the Eagles were strong, you had no problem questioning them, that was your freedom. But now, as the most influential TV station in the Eagles, you openly questioned the Eagles' fake moon landing when you were broadcasting the first launch of the Starship rocket, making former astronaut Vincent embarrassed.

You are destroying the reputation of the Eagles!

This is the thief within!
For a while, Nelson even angrily asked Selix what he wanted to do!

However, he quickly calmed down.

He knew that these media reporters would not be afraid of him.

Nelson's past noise and threats would probably only serve as fodder for the other party's live broadcast!

In order to attract attention and ratings, the media will do anything!
Because ratings mean money!
The higher the ratings, the more advertisements there will be, and the advertising fees will be more expensive.

Nelson thought, forget it! It's better not to humiliate myself.

Let them be!

The worst that can happen to me is that I lose my position as president of NASA!
……

In fact, on Twitter now, basically no one is optimistic about the live broadcast of the Starship rocket launch.

Someone initiated a poll: Do you think Boeing’s launch of the Starship rocket will be successful this time?

As many as over 70 percent of respondents chose the option that the launch would not be successful!

There are even people inside Boeing who are making revelations, revealing all sorts of minor problems with the Starship rocket tests.

Moreover, all of these revelations became popular and became hot searches one after another.

Among the top ten hot searches on the homepage, 7 were related to Starship launch.

Moreover, there is not a single positive thing, all of them are pessimistic.

This shows that even within the Eagle Country, people are not optimistic about the launch of this heavy rocket.

Zhang Zhipeng is also following the news about the Starship rocket launch.

Moreover, he went directly to Twitter.

The Starship rocket launch is at 6 p.m.

So, it happened to be around 6 o'clock in the morning when we watched the live broadcast in China.

Zhang Zhipeng did not pay much attention to this matter.

But it's always good to have some information.

Zhao Min was beside him and watching with him.

"Ah! It looks like Old Might's launch is going to fail miserably this time!"

"I really don't know what they were thinking, they actually wanted to broadcast it live around the world."

Zhao Min said as she looked at it.

"They really wanted to save face," Zhang Zhipeng said.

"Also, they haven't completely lost their confidence yet. They still feel that they can control the direction of everything."

"The most important thing is that this thing they are doing is so popular, the capitalists must find a way to make more money!"

"They would even sell the rope to hang themselves if it would make them extra money."

"According to my understanding, they sold the live broadcast rights for tens of millions of dollars."

Zhao Min shook her head: "What if it fails?"

"How will they end up?"

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if I lose face!"

"The money is in my pocket anyway."

"The elites of the Eagle Country have no long-term ideas."

"They may be cunning and deceitful, but they have become short-sighted."

While they were talking, the Starship rocket was already preparing for the countdown to launch.

……

Launch site.

NASA staff are doing final testing.

Lawrence is a technician who is responsible for ensuring that some of the mechanical parts of the rocket launcher are intact.

In fact, this test item has been tested many times during assembly.

Generally speaking, there will be no problems with pre-launch testing.

However, when Lawrence was doing the final inspection, he discovered that there was a bolt missing from a position on the rocket launcher.

This problem is not a small one.

When Lawrence saw this question, he could hardly believe his eyes.

This is a low-level mistake...

How could such a stupid mistake be made?

Lawrence quickly reported the situation to the supervisor in charge of testing and suggested that the launch be suspended immediately and that a comprehensive inspection be carried out to repair any problems found to ensure that there would be no problems.

Thompson, the supervisor in charge of the inspection, did not dare to delay and hurried to find the on-site commander in charge of the launch.

The on-site commander went to find Wolfe again.

Wolfe listened and said impatiently: "It's just one bolt missing. What's the big deal?"

"Only a few minutes until launch! Man, we're broadcasting live around the world now!"

"If we suddenly call off the launch, how can we explain this to the media that have bought the rights to broadcast our launch live?"

"Just fire it!"

"Rockets are disposable items! As long as it can deliver the International Space Station's experimental module to the predetermined orbit, we will be considered successful!"

Lawrence got feedback quickly.

He was very angry when he heard this: "How can this be?"

"A rocket is a very delicate thing. It is very likely that a bolt will cause it to fail in the end!"

"If the rocket explodes in the air after launch, wouldn't that be a bigger loss?"

Thompson sighed and said, "Don't worry about this, man!"

"Since the boss thinks there is no problem, then if something goes wrong, he will be the one to bear the responsibility, and it has nothing to do with us!"

"Obey the order!"

"We are just workers, as long as we are safe."

Thompson said this and patted Lawrence's shoulder gently.

The two people chose to obey reluctantly.

Because the Starship rocket uses liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen engines, the fuel is only added at the last moment.

After refueling, the countdown to launch will begin immediately.

Lawrence and Thompson were the last group of people to evacuate the vicinity of the launch pad.

The two people even stepped back a further distance for their own safety.

Lawrence saw a dense crowd of people not far behind him.

These people came here specifically to watch the rocket launch.

The crowd that came to watch the launch was quite mixed.

Many of them are self-media bloggers.

They came here to get traffic.

There were also many people who came to see the joke.

There are only a small number of people who are truly fanatical about the Eagle Country.

These people made the biggest noise.

They held up banners, and some even had the Stars and Stripes painted on their faces.

They shouted loudly, most of which were like this:

"Go Starship Rocket!"

"It will definitely succeed!"

"We Eagles are the best! We are the masters of the world! We will surely win one victory after another!"

Lawrence got goosebumps when he heard this. He thought, don't these people watch the news?

What puzzled Lawrence the most was that among that small group of fanatics, a considerable number of them had yellow skin.

These people are not good at English, so they can only write the banners in Chinese.

"These idiots! Don't they know that times have changed?" Lawrence muttered. (End of this chapter)