Age of Cataclysm: I can light up the technology tree

12:30.

In the conference room.

Lv Yongchang sat on the main seat with a serious look, and briefly introduced the situation on Mars in a deep voice.

"Everyone, the situation is urgent. The plan for Xuannv II must be decided tonight!"

As he said that, Lv Yongchang winked at Cao Liangcai who was standing beside him.

Cao Liangcai quickly presented three design plans to everyone.

...

An hour later.

Lv Yongchang put down the documents in his hand and breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Old Cao, just eliminate the third plan directly."

Cao Liangcai's face changed slightly: "Why... why?"

"Huh?"

From Cao Liangcai's expression, Lv Yongchang noticed something unusual: "Old Cao, this third plan, it can't be designed by you, right?"

Lv Yongchang gently shook the documents in his hand, looking at Cao Liangcai beside him with a surprised look.

Hearing Lv Yongchang's question, Cao Liangcai's face flushed a little, and he nodded gently: "Yes... This is indeed the plan I designed."

Speaking of this, Cao Liangcai took a deep breath and calmed down his complicated feelings.

"Professor Lv, can you tell me the reason?"

To be honest, he was a little unwilling.

As an academician, he was very careful about the design of Xuannv II.

Takeoff and landing in the atmosphere, cruising in the atmosphere, and space flight...

It is no exaggeration to say that with this design, even with the same power system, the performance of Xuannv II is more than 50% higher than that of Xuannv I!

Lv Yongchang smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Academician Cao, have you forgotten the task we assigned to Xuannv II?"

Cao Liangcai was stunned.

Lv Yongchang sighed softly and whispered: "The Xuannv II series of aerospace planes are mainly responsible for the transportation of materials within the solar system."

"That is to say, the main battlefield of Xuannv II is not on Earth."

"The moon, Mars, or the distant Kuiper Belt are all its future destinations."

"In this case, do you think the original shape of the aircraft is still suitable?"

"Not talking about the moon, just talking about Mars."

"The atmospheric density of Mars is about 1% of that of the Earth. How much lift do you think such a wing can provide for it?"

"Too much waste of space!"

Cao Liangcai suddenly froze in place.

Lv Yongchang shook his head and sighed, while taking another plan.

"Of the three plans, I prefer this one."

Cao Liangcai looked at the plan in front of Lv Yongchang.

It was a plan proposed by a professor under him.

It can be clearly seen from the drawings that in order to pursue a larger capacity, it completely abandoned the traditional aircraft shape.

After removing the wings, widening the nose, and thickening the fuselage, the entire Xuannv II roughly took on the shape of a rectangular block.

Cao Liangcai's eyes twitched violently. This was the first plan he rejected.

He raised his doubts softly: "Professor Lu, with this shape, can it really take off on Earth?"

This shape that goes against common sense completely overturned Cao Liangcai's slightly old-fashioned thinking.

Lu Yongchang carefully looked through the drawings in his hand, with a bit of satisfaction in his eyes: "Of course!"

"As long as its power is strong enough!"

"With the second-generation nuclear fusion and the second-generation Hall thruster, I believe that power will definitely not be a big problem!"

"With this design, it can shoulder the heavy responsibility of transporting materials within the solar system!"

Cao Liangcai fell into silence.

As an academician, he never thought that his design drawings would be inferior to a professor under him!

Lu Yongchang noticed the disappointment on Cao Liangcai's face at the first time. He stood up and patted his shoulder with a smile.

"Lao Cao, your thinking is limited."

"Since we think we can get out of the earth, sometimes we must learn to break common sense!"

Cao Liangcai took a deep breath and looked at another design drawing on the table: "Professor Lu, what about the other design drawing?"

"What do you think?"

After hearing this question, Lu Yongchang also fell into silence.

After a long time, he pulled the corner of his mouth, smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"To be honest, I am not very clear."

"Who came up with this drawing?"

Hearing Lu Yongchang's question, Cao Liangcai cast his inquiring eyes on the people in front of him.

A group of professors and academicians moved their eyes away, indicating that it had nothing to do with them.

A few seconds later, a young voice sounded in the corner.

"Professor Lu...I made this plan."

Everyone's eyes were cast in the direction of the voice.

I saw a researcher in his thirties standing in the corner, carefully raising his right hand.

A strange color flashed in Lu Yongchang's eyes.

"What's your name?"

"Tao Yuda."

When he heard this name, Lv Yongchang froze in his tracks.

"Tao Yuda... Did you write the paper on sonoluminescence and controlled nuclear fusion?"

Tao Yuda was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a wry smile and said, "Professor Lv, have you read that paper?"

"I wrote it when I was a graduate student..."

Lv Yongchang's eyes became even more suspicious.

He could detect the relationship between the two during his graduate studies... His scientific intuition is incredible!

No wonder such an "outrageous" plan can be proposed!

Yes, it is outrageous!

Lv Yongchang reached out and picked up another document on the table and looked at it carefully.

According to Tao Yuda's design, Xuannv II is a standard sphere.

It must be said that such a design can not only reduce the resistance in the atmosphere, but also maximize the volume.

But...

Lv Yongchang's mouth twitched slightly.

"At present, our technical level should not be able to make such a flying vehicle, right?"

Tao Yuda scratched his head with embarrassment: "Professor Lu, this is just an inspiration of mine, you don't have to care!"

Lv Yongchang looked at Tao Yuda meaningfully.

Inspiration.

Another inspiration.

It must be said that after entering space, spherical starships may be the ultimate development direction in the future.

Tao Yuda's inspiration has been correct at least twice!

"Zero!"

"Help me verify these two plans."

"Stop the other unnecessary calculations and run them with all your strength!" Lv Yongchang added softly, "I want to get the results in the shortest possible time."

As soon as the words fell, an electronic synthesized voice sounded in the conference room.

"Yes, Professor!"

After getting Zero's answer, Lv Yongchang gently pulled Cao Liangcai beside him and whispered, "Old Cao, come out with me!"

...

Cao Liangcai looked at Lv Yongchang in front of him with a puzzled look.

He didn't quite understand why Lv Yongchang suddenly pulled him out of the conference room.

Lv Yongchang looked past Cao Liangcai and looked at the closed door of the conference room, as if he could penetrate it.

"Old Cao, focus on training Tao Yuda next."

Cao Liangcai's breath was slightly choked: "You mean..."

Lv Yongchang said in a light tone: "This kid... is a material for scientific research!"