Chapter 675: Extra 26

[Today is a day of extraordinary significance in human history.
With the Martian underground facilities finally opening to the general public, the first eleven families officially began their lives on Mars today.
The artificial hibernation technology, successfully developed a year ago, has made long-distance space travel possible, and the plan to settle hundreds of thousands of families on Mars within the next decade will…]
On the holographic projection screen, the news anchor's impassioned voice echoed in the spacious and luxurious top-floor conference room of Fanghuan Group.
When the data on the large screen finally settled, Fanghuan's executives stood up in unison.
"Clap clap clap clap clap clap—!"
Thunderous applause erupted in the conference room like a tsunami; an outsider would have thought these middle-aged men in suits were holding a frenzied celebrity fan meeting.
"Congratulations, Chairman! You have finally successfully achieved the terraforming of Mars!"
"You are simply a god of our time! This is a giant leap for human civilization!"
Mars terraforming.
These four words, spoken lightly, landed with the weight of a thousand pounds.
Before this, Fang Huan had already poured astronomical sums of money into the project.
He dispatched a vast army of bionic robots as pioneers, carving out a vast underground facility beneath the Martian rock.
But infrastructure is easy; transporting people is difficult.
How to safely send fragile humans across that desolate sea of ​​stars?
This has always been a persistent and intractable problem for the entire spacefaring community.
First, distance is a formidable obstacle.
Even with maximum thrust, launching a rocket from Earth to Mars takes six to nine months during the long journey through deep space.
Of course, with the explosive growth of space propulsion science, this one-way journey has now been drastically reduced to less than four months.
But this hasn't solved the problem; instead, it has introduced an even more fatal hidden danger—
The fragile internal organs and bones of humans must withstand extremely intense and constantly changing gravitational accelerations inside the spacecraft.
Sending a group of ordinary civilians, untrained in any professional anti-gravity training, into a spaceship to endure the rollercoaster-like fluctuations of gravity?
This isn't space travel; it's a human "juicing machine."
The rate of physiological collapse is a staggering 97.4% in supercomputer simulations, indicating significant hidden dangers in every aspect.
Therefore, before this, although the spaceship could carry people, the complex transportation process was more delicate than defusing a nuclear bomb by hand.
Even with Fang Huan's wealth, transporting ordinary families was beyond his capabilities; he could only watch helplessly. Even the most fervent radicals dared not easily push it forward.
Until that man appeared.
"However, all these miracles are due to Young Master's successful invention of 'artificial hibernation,' a revolutionary technology that can only be called a miracle!
This settlement plan has finally seen the light of day and truly come to fruition, hasn't it?"
A balding executive beamed, his flattery deafening.
"That's right... I heard this is a technological barrier that the global biological community has been unable to solve for thirty years, stuck in the theoretical stage!
Young Master, he actually broke through it completely in one fell swoop!
Such talent is truly terrifying!"
Listening to the torrent of praise for his son that had poured in today, each accolade unique and endless, Su Hao, sitting in the head seat, couldn't suppress a fatherly smile of contentment.
"This is all thanks to your excellent guidance, Chairman. Like father, like son!"
"Haha, Chairman, your superior genetic code is the most priceless asset in the world, a guiding light for human evolution!"
Su Hao smiled and shook his head, taking a sip of his tea, his tone exuding an understated composure:
"You all flatter me. My son has been unusually intelligent since childhood.
Don't laugh, but sometimes even I can't keep up with his unbelievable thinking.
As a father, I haven't really done anything; I've mostly let him run wild."
Su Hao paused, his gaze sweeping gently across the room,
"To be honest, today's success is all thanks to everyone here.
It's because you've steered the Fanghuan Group so steadily that he has the confidence to act without any worries, isn't that right?"
"Oh dear! Chairman, you flatter us!"
"We old fogies are just clinging to your coattails, following your instructions, and doing our meager best."
"That's right! Looking back, if it weren't for your crucial, life-saving actions, Chairman, our company would have been wiped out long ago!"
These words weren't entirely flattery.
The air was thick with the executives' genuine respect.
Some of the older employees knew that when Fang Huan's company suddenly expanded rapidly under Huang Fengwen's leadership, the chairman lived in constant fear and anxiety.
As the saying goes, conquering a kingdom is easier than maintaining it.
In the volatile capital markets, maintaining the size of a massive enterprise is often a hundred times more difficult than blindly expanding.
However, Fanghuan Group brazenly ushered in an unprecedented period of prosperity amidst the global financial crisis.
At that time, various financial giants were secretly sharpening their knives. If these international conglomerates had joined forces to crush it at that critical juncture, Fanghuan would have been torn to shreds.
Fortunately, Fanghuan seemed to possess supernatural insight, skillfully and precisely navigating that most dangerous transition period unscathed.
Now, it maintains the largest capital scale on the planet with unwavering stability!