As Bai Yanlang's words echoed, the entire livestream room erupted into a frenzy!
The Beautiful Country Netizen 1: "Professor Bai dares to speak like that. I believe Dragon Country's rocket will have a hard time taking off this time! Haha..."
Sakura Country Netizen 2: "Now, this will be interesting. Dragon Country, get ready to cry later!"
Kimchi Country Netizen 3: "If the Flying Dragon 1 rocket explodes, Dragon Country will have lost everything."
The Beautiful Country Netizen 2: "Indeed. Not only will the thousand-ton booster fail, but the Flying Dragon 1 rocket will also be ruined. I can't wait!"
The Beautiful Country Netizen 3: "Do you think, after the Dragon Country rocket explodes, it might take their launch site down too? Haha..."
Dragon Country Netizen 1: "A bunch of fools with nothing intelligent to say. Just wait for the slap to your faces!"
Dragon Country Netizen 2: "We'll show you, you bastards, just how powerful our rocket is!"
Dragon Country Netizen 3: "Stupid traitor, who gave you the nerve to talk like this? Today, Dragon Country will make you kneel and apologize!"
Dragon Country Netizen 4: "Brothers, I've recorded that traitor's words. Wait for him to kneel down!"
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The seconds ticked by, and the time quickly reached 9:50 PM. Only eight minutes remained before the Flying Dragon 1 rocket would launch!
In the Dragon Tech University Lab:
Jiang Fan and Long Lao, along with a few others, were also watching the livestream of Flying Dragon 1.
Xia Xiaoyu, Xu Guangyuan, and Niu Xu each held their phones, watching Bai Yanlang's broadcast, and muttered angrily:
"This Bai Yanlang is truly despicable. He's cursing the Flying Dragon 1 rocket of Dragon Country to explode!"
"Dragon Country nurtured him, and he goes to the U.S. to be a dog!"
"Shh! Keep it down, Bai Yanlang used to be Academician Long's student. Don't let him hear you!"
Xia Xiaoyu glanced at Long Lao, noticing he wasn't paying attention, and continued whispering:
"Watch me tear him apart!"
"How could Jiang Fan be from the same school as him? The difference in character is worlds apart!"
"Ugh! How can anyone even compare that person to Jiang Fan!"
"Exactly, I completely agree!"
The three of them spoke with admiration for Jiang Fan. In just three months, they had collaborated with him on major breakthroughs in lithium iron phosphate batteries and one-nanometer chips. Working on such projects would be enough for them to boast about for a lifetime.
Their voices had risen slightly, prompting Long Lao to call out:
"What are you three whispering about? Quickly, come over and watch Dragon Country's Flying Dragon 1 rocket launch!"
The three quickly put their phones away and rushed to sit beside Jiang Fan.
With just five minutes remaining before the rocket's launch, Xia Xiaoyu curiously asked Long Lao:
"Academician Long, could you tell us who developed the thousand-ton rocket booster?"
Xu Guangyuan and Niu Xu leaned in, eager to hear the answer.
Long Lao gave a mysterious smile and responded:
"Who do you think it might be?"
"Given the prominence of Dragon Country's rocket boosters, I'd say it's probably Professor Ge Zhicheng from the Northwest Base!" Xia Xiaoyu suggested.
"Yes, the news reports say the rocket booster was developed at the Northwest Base, so it must be Professor Ge!" Xu Guangyuan and Niu Xu agreed.
They had suspected the thousand-ton rocket booster was developed by Professor Ge from the start, but since the official announcement hadn't been made, they couldn't be sure.
Long Lao shook his head, his smile growing wider. "You're wrong."
"Wrong?"
"Wasn't it Professor Ge?"
"Aside from him, who else in Dragon Country could have done it?"
The three exchanged puzzled glances, looking toward Long Lao in confusion.
"It's a new scientific star emerging from Dragon Country," Long Lao hinted.
"A new scientific star?"
The three of them began searching their minds for answers.
A new scientific star from Dragon Country? In their minds, aside from Jiang Fan, no one else seemed worthy of the title.
They glanced at Jiang Fan, then continued thinking, but no one else came to mind.
It wasn't surprising they hadn't considered Jiang Fan. After all, when they had learned that he had gone to the Kyoto Rocket Propulsion Base, they had never imagined that he could develop a thousand-ton rocket booster in just one month.
"Academician Long, we really can't figure it out. Just tell us, who is it?"
"Far in the distance, yet right before your eyes," Long Lao said with a knowing smile as he turned toward Jiang Fan.
The three of them turned to Jiang Fan, their eyes suddenly filled with intense anticipation.
"Academician Long, you are amazing! You just developed a 500-ton rocket booster, and now you've already created a thousand-ton rocket booster!"
"Wow! Academician Long, you're our idol!"
"From now on, the three of us swear to follow you in research, no matter what!"
The three flattered Long Lao so much that he grew embarrassed. Rolling his eyes, he replied gruffly:
"You three really know how to flatter me. I already said it's a new star from Dragon Country!"
The three of them calmed down. There were only five people in the lab right now—Jiang Fan and the rest, not Long Lao, nor any of them. The only person left was Jiang Fan.
"Is it...?"
"Jiang Fan, our junior???"
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RebirthⅠ: Controlled Nuclear Fusion
Science FictionHe died as the world's youngest nuclear scientist - and woke up as a 17-year-old high school student in a parallel world. With a system implanted in his mind that holds five hundred years of future technology, Jiang Fan must score exactly 300 points...
