Chapter 446

The fortieth year after the appearance of "Cherry Blossom"

The last lunar landing did not change the nature of the whole world. The popularity of cherry blossoms will not change because of the moon landing, but it has attracted a small number of astronomy lovers to settle in Donghai City, which can be regarded as a good achievement.

The confrontation between Donghai city and the rest of the world has not changed.

There is no point in causing the collective shame of mankind.

How many days can this shame last? One day, two days, one month, or two months? Can we turn collective shame into motivation? If human beings really change something because of shame, human beings will not be human.

Over the years, Zhang Yuan has been quietly leading a team to engage in manned spaceflight. His biggest goal is to send astronauts back to the moon and even reopen the operation procedures of the lunar base.

Life is very hard, or never so hard.

First of all, the first small goal is to put people into low earth orbit in space and circle the earth.

The second small goal is to send people to the aviation city in synchronous orbit. The aviation city, 36000 kilometers away from the ground, has been steadily rotating around the earth, and there are some machines on it that can start.

These two small goals have been completed in previous years. After accumulating some experience, the final big goal is to land on the moon.

These years have been very hard. Although robots will help produce various parts, Zhang Yuan has to get all the drawings and equations by himself.

There are few relevant talent reserves, external cynicism has always existed, and there is no salary in this society. Everyone does it with a cavity of hot blood.

But

An unlucky thing happened.

This manned space rocket failed to launch!

In this disaster, the four astronauts turned into flames and disappeared in the distant sky. It took only a minute! In mid air, it seemed that the desperate cries of these astronauts could be heard.

Zhang Yuan, who was watching at the observatory, fell to the ground. This disaster is too big to bear. The space city of Donghai City, which has just improved, must have suffered a devastating blow!

Zhang Yuan has been lying in bed for three days. It is not that he is not strong enough, but that he clearly knows what the failure of this rocket launch means.

Several relatives kept crying in front of the hospital bed and thought Zhang Yuan was going to die... Or all their plans died in this minute.

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"Ha ha, failed, they finally failed!"

"Even our ancestors didn't want them to go to the moon."

"I knew they couldn't succeed!"

Correspondingly, the outside world is like a tsunami of schadenfreude and ridicule. When you don't work hard, you often see the efforts of others, which is also a kind of suffering. This group of people waited hard and finally waited for this God given opportunity to ridicule. Some even said that these astronauts "deserved it" and "died well"!

In the face of such abuse, Donghai city is full of clouds. Citizens are full of doubt, fear and mutual distrust. They begin to question the value of the work of the space city.

The original hero of Donghai city has become a despised object. If it is not for the protection of robots, Zhang Yuan lying in the hospital bed may even be killed alive by thugs!

A large number of astronauts left in fierce abuse, and even relatives and friends did not support them to continue their work.

They themselves are with a cavity of blood into the cause, but after this disaster, the blood dissipated, and the people naturally dispersed.

The engineer endured the pain and checked for a long time. Unexpectedly, he found that a screw was not tightened, and the person in charge of this aspect had run away. The whole event was full of signs of conspiracy theory

This huge blow made Zhang Yuan white headed overnight. After he got up from the hospital bed, he sat in front of the office again, silently in a daze, secretly blaming himself for not being more meticulous in employment and understanding his work.

"Sorry."

Since the successful landing of the lunar probe, it has indeed attracted many talents from all over the world. But people are not as good as heaven. With this explosion, everything was in vain.

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In the forty second year, in just two years, the population of Donghai city decreased by 30%!

The city was eaten back by populism. Populism requires someone to take the lead and keep hammering others in order to obtain their own sense of superiority. But now the manned space project has failed, the hero has fallen into the altar, and the people's hearts have naturally dispersed. Many former residents simply left the tarnished city.

Due to the rapid decline of population, many clowns in other cities have the opportunity to take advantage of it. They are calling on people from other cities to move to Donghai city in large numbers.

When these immigrants occupy a population advantage, they can vote to amend the law and remove "cherry blossoms" from the list of prohibited items.

In this way, the "regional advantage" that Donghai people are proud of will naturally disappear.

Zhang Yuan had to turn his attention to this aspect and re participated in the ideological struggle.

But this time, it's much more difficult than the last time. People no longer trust Zhang Yuan, the chief designer of aerospace engineering.

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In the 47th year, due to the increasing number of outsiders, the contradictions within the city became more and more intense, and more people fought and violated the law, which was completely unimaginable in the past.

In fact, these people are just making trouble. They just want to vote to erase the last city on earth that prohibits "cherry blossoms" from the world, that's all.

Zhang Yuan never thought that human nature in the world would be so evil. Maybe they think they are just?

Want more people to enjoy more joy?

The whole voting has been launched three times, but this time, there are too many outsiders to "join the fun", so that there is no way to stop it.

In an announcement released by the robot, it reads as follows: [according to the voting results, the number of affirmative votes is 513453, the number of abstention votes is 40998 and the number of negative votes is 40988“ "Cherry Blossom" will be removed from class B prohibited items... Its composition is...]

The vote was passed, the law was amended, and robots will no longer restrict humans from using "cherry blossoms". There was some irrational anger. Local citizens began to set fire to smash things, and then they were caught by robots and sent to prison.

Facing this situation, Zhang Yuan can only stand up and call on everyone to treat the final result rationally.

"Everyone... Maintain self-esteem and self love. Even if the law does not restrict us, we can restrain ourselves."

However, the real fact is that... The tide is over,

In fact, Zhang Yuan doesn't believe in the so-called self-discipline.

It's too hard.

Finally, several of Zhang Yuan's companions were crying and wiping tears, trying to accept the final facts.

The people who celebrated the opening of "cherry blossoms" lined up in long lines on the streets. They cheered enthusiastically and shouted loudly, announcing the full coming of the era of personal freedom.

They shouted, "the last evil city has also ushered in real freedom!"

Freedom!

Corresponding to this is the quiet cry of a small group of people, no one knows or cares.

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