It's reasonable for me to have a two-way foil for a second-level civilization, right?

"At the beginning, you obviously said that you don't need to ask that professor..."

"Huh? What did you say?" Albert's face darkened suddenly.

Morton didn't dare to reply, so he silently took out his mobile phone and called Professor Austin.

The call was quickly connected.

"Professor Austin, this is Moulton."

As soon as the call was connected, Moulton turned on the hands-free function and asked bluntly: "I want to ask, can the thrust of the Hall thruster reach 50 tons?"

No sound came out of the microphone.

Moulton frowned, and asked softly again: "Professor Austin, are you listening?"

Professor Austin's faint voice came from the microphone: "Director Moulton, are you kidding me?"

"That's not funny at all!"

Moulton glanced awkwardly at the president beside him, coughed lightly and said, "Ahem! Professor Austin, the president is by my side."

"I hope you can think about it!"

After a moment of hesitation, Moulton spoke again and added: "Xia Guo already has a Hall thruster with a thrust of 50 tons, and installed it on an aerospace plane."

"What?! This, this is impossible!" Austin exclaimed from the other end of the microphone, "The current power of the generator is absolutely unable to support such a Hall thruster!"

Moulton's eyes moved slightly, and he asked in a deep voice: "What if...Professor Austin, I mean, what if Xia Guo combined small nuclear fusion and Hall thrusters?"

Austin fell silent.

From this silence, both Moulton and Albert got the answers they wanted.

"Okay, Professor Austin, I understand, that's it..."

Moulton hung up the phone weakly, then turned to look at Albert who was aside: "Your Excellency... Perhaps, in this competition, we have completely lost."

"No!" Albert showed a bit of unwillingness in his eyes, "We still have the Pathfinder plan!"

"As long as we occupy Mars first, we haven't lost yet!"

……

Inside Xuannv No. [-].

The three of Bai Yixuan were wearing flight suits and sat quietly in their respective pilot seats.

On the console in front of him, all kinds of indicator lights flashed with unique light.

"call……"

Hong Fan, who was sitting on the left passenger seat, let out a deep breath.

"What? Nervous?"

Bai Yixuan's voice came from the side.

Hong Fan smiled wryly and shook his head: "Brother Xuan, aren't you nervous?"

"This is the first time we have opened a real machine!"

Bai Yixuan shrugged, and said nonchalantly: "It's okay, I never had any accidents in the simulation training."

Hong Fan's face suddenly became stiff.

His mock training...

Although the plane crashed only once, the powerlessness of that crash caused him a great psychological shadow.

"Alright..." Xia Wanyi, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat on the right, chuckled, "This is different from the simulation training. We are now driving with three people, so nothing will happen!"

"That's right, even if you don't believe in yourself, you still have to believe in my skills." Bai Yixuan said solemnly, "When I come back successfully this time, I will..."

"To shut up!"

Before Bai Yixuan finished speaking, Hong Fan and Xia Wanyi stopped Bai Yixuan's "flag planting" action with one voice.

An embarrassing smile flashed across Bai Yixuan's face after he realized it later: "Ahem, I didn't mean it..."

"Xuannv No.10, pay attention, the [-]-minute countdown to takeoff!"

While the three of them were chatting there, Cao Liangcai's voice came from the built-in earphone in the helmet.

Bai Yixuan's face turned serious, and he immediately pressed the radio switch to respond: "Xuannv No. [-] received it!"

"Start starting the small fusion reactor now!"

While speaking, Bai Yixuan flipped a few buttons on the console in front of him.

A certain amount of warm-up time is required before the fusion reactor is started.

Therefore, Xuannv-10 needs to start the small fusion reactor [-] minutes in advance.

After finishing the operation, Bai Yixuan suddenly realized a problem.

"Where's Professor Lu?"

"Why isn't Professor Lu in charge of conducting?"

Hearing Bai Yixuan's question, a trace of doubt flashed across Hong Fan's face.

"Hey, I found out when you said that."

"Isn't Professor Lu controlling this kind of thing? Why didn't Professor Lu stop commanding at such an important moment today?"

……

at the same time.

In the temporary command center of the research institute.

Cao Liangcai gently covered his right eye.

For some reason, his right eye has been twitching since a few minutes ago.

The left eye jumps for money, the right eye jumps...

Cao Liangcai shook his head and threw out the thought just now.

Pooh!

It's all feudal superstition!

"Is the data of Xuannv No. [-] normal?"

Cao Liangcai asked the staff beside him anxiously.

"Everything is normal, the fusion reactor is warming up, and it is expected to start within 5 minutes."

"Where's the ground staff?" Cao Liangcai asked loudly after pondering for a moment.

The next moment, a voice came: "Everything is normal!"

"The fuselage of Xuannv No. [-] is in good condition, and the ground crew has checked it twice!"

Cao Liangcai's right eyelid twitched twice again.

"There are still a few minutes, go check again."

"Make sure there are no mistakes!"

While speaking, he raised his wrist and looked at the time.

8 minutes left.

"What's going on with Lu Yongchang..."

"At such an important moment, he actually went to the bathroom?!"

Cao Liangcai frowned, turned to a researcher beside him and said, "Go, get Professor Lu here!"

"No matter how anxious he is, he has to wait for Xuannv No. [-] to go to the sky before going to shit!"

"He is also the person in charge of this project after all. At such a critical time, what does it look like for him, the person in charge, to flick his sleeves and walk away!"

Hearing Cao Liangcai's scolding, the researcher turned bitter and hurried to the toilet of the research institute.

5 minute later.

The researcher ran back in a panic.

"Cao, academician Cao, it's not good!"

"What's wrong?" Perhaps because Xuannv No. [-] was about to take off, Cao Liangcai's temper became bad, "Xuannv No. [-] is about to take off, don't say such depressing words!"

"Tell me, what happened?"

The researcher faltered and said, "Lu, Professor Lu, he's gone!"

Chapter 73 Take Off

"what!"

The moment he heard the researcher's words, Cao Liangcai only felt a buzzing sound in his brain.

"How could such a big person disappear?!"

Cao Liangcai glared at the researcher in front of him with eyes wide open, and shouted angrily, "There are so many toilets in the research institute, have you looked for them all?"

The researcher was even on the verge of tears.

Facing Cao Liangcai's persecution, he shook his head bitterly, "I... I've looked for it, but I didn't see Professor Lu."

"Let's not talk about Professor Lu, there's no one even in these toilets in the institute!"

Cao Liangcai took a deep breath, turned his head and shouted loudly: "Monitoring! Adjust the monitoring for me!"

"Academician Cao, there is still one minute before the scheduled departure time!"

A reminder sounded from the side.

Cao Liangcai gritted his teeth, sighed heavily and said, "Forget it! Let's deal with Xuannv No. [-] first!"

"Since Professor Lu is not here, I will direct the whole test flight of Xuannv-[-]!"

While talking, Cao Liangcai reached out to pick up the radio receiver on the podium: "Attention Xuannv No. [-]!"

"30 seconds countdown to takeoff!"

……

Xuan Nu No. [-].

The three drivers stared intently at the instrumentation data on the console in front of them.

A figure in a white flight suit quietly appeared in a corner at the rear of the cabin.

The camera zoomed in, and the face in the helmet was indeed Professor Lu Yongchang who was supposed to be in the toilet!

Lu Yongchang walked lightly to the passenger seat behind the main driver's seat.

Because the seats of the three driver's seats are relatively tall, resulting in a certain blind spot of vision, the three drivers didn't realize that there was an extra person on the chair behind them!

I saw him skillfully grabbed the seat belt on the seat and tied it to himself.

There was a look of satisfaction in Lu Yongchang's eyes.

Not bad, not in vain, he trained so many times secretly.

"Click!"

The sound of the seat belt buckling was particularly loud in the silent cabin.

Lu Yongchang froze suddenly, staring at the three drivers in front of him with trembling eyes.

"Gudu..."

Lu Yongchang's Adam's apple moved slightly, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

The plane has not taken off yet, once it is discovered...

He can be 100% sure that he will definitely be kicked off the plane by then!

After a few seconds, Lu Yongchang heaved a sigh of relief seeing the expressions of the three drivers as usual.

It should be that the earphones in the helmet blocked the sound just now.

"...30 seconds countdown!"