A ticket to travel to the moon?

What absurd nonsense...

However, when Lin Xian saw the name Jiasike, he didn't think it was so absurd anymore.

Elon Musk.

He was a universally recognized genius.

Of course, he had many other identities.

The founder of the space company SpaceX, the owner of Tesla, the launcher of Earth's Starlink, and the visionary of migrating to Mars.

His remarks, if made a dozen years ago, would have been utterly insane and incomprehensible.

But surprisingly, more than a dozen years later, he has realized the vast majority of the boasts he made back then.

He not only designed reusable recovery rockets, but also, as a private company, gave the world a new understanding of the space industry.

People truly realized that the rocket failure caused by a screw not being tightened was purely toxic chicken soup.

In fact, in industrial construction, designers add a lot of "design redundancy" for safety reasons, so the fault tolerance rate is very high. Even if several engines fail unexpectedly, it still doesn't affect the rocket's take-off and ascent.

In 2021, Musk sold four space travel tickets and, in September of the same year, sent these four tourists to space 500 kilometers high, orbiting the earth dozens of times for a three-day space trip.

This trip truly made the world realize Musk's hard power. After all, before this, only three countries in the world had the ability to carry out manned spaceflight. And at this moment... this problem was actually solved by a private company.

Since then, Musk has also started taking reservations for Mars migration tickets. Although it seems that the hype is much greater than the actual progress, now that Musk has achieved such success... who would dare to easily deny his dream?

This man, known as the Silicon Valley Iron Man, seemed to be omnipotent.

And looking at the news report that Zheng Xiangyue screenshotted...

Musk's second space travel tickets have also been sold out, and they will take off next year to send passengers. So, based on this, he has opened reservations for moon travel tickets.

Although, at present, the difficulty of landing a manned mission on the moon and successfully returning is very high, it is at least much easier than traveling to and from Mars. According to Musk's estimates, this trip may be possible within the next few years.

The total price of a moon travel ticket is 12 million US dollars, which is more than twice the price of a space travel ticket, equivalent to more than 84 million Long Yuan.

Currently, if you pre-order, you only need to pay 2 million US dollars in advance, and the remaining balance only needs to be paid one year before departure.

Two million US dollars, which is 14 million yuan.

Lin Xian looked up at Zheng Xiangyue, whose eyes were full of stars... even if you let your brother drive a taxi for 48 hours a day, he wouldn't be able to earn that much money!

What's more, this is just a prepayment, and there's still a balance of 70 million to pay later.

It can only be said... Zheng Xiangyue's concept of money and worldview are not complete enough. After all, she has never left the hospital, so she may not have any concept of money at all.

"This news is actually more like a concept hype."

Lin Xian returned the phone to Zheng Xiangyue:

"You may not be familiar with Musk, but the biggest pie he has drawn for the world is migrating to Mars. But looking at it now... the hope is still very slim."

"This moon travel plan, you see, he didn't dare to specify when it would depart, which shows that he himself is not confident about it, and it is very likely that this plan will end up being abandoned."

"So, instead of believing in this unreliable person, Xiangyue, you should actively cooperate with the treatment, and wait for a heart transplant or the hibernation pod research to succeed. In the future, we will be astronauts ourselves and go to the moon ourselves!"

Zheng Xiangyue took the phone, still looking expectantly at the news screenshot on the screen, at Jiasike, who proudly announced the moon travel plan on the screenshot:

"I hope my brother... can earn a ticket."

Looking at her eyes, Lin Xian was silent.

A child's mind is sometimes easy to understand, and sometimes very difficult to understand.

At least for now...

Zheng Xiangyue has never given up on the idea of "burying me on the moon."

She has no confidence in living and growing up a bit.

She, who fights against the disease every day, probably knows this better than anyone else; so her greatest wish is for her brother Zheng Xiangyue to agree to her request, earn a ticket to the moon, and then bury her ashes on the moon...

That should be it, right?

Perhaps the simple Zheng Xiangyue doesn't even know what ashes are, let alone how unrealistic it is to bring a corpse to the moon.

Lin Xian couldn't help but sigh.

Sometimes, it's good not to grow up.

But people always have to grow up inevitably, have to understand all the impossibilities in fairy tales, and have to accept all the disappointments in life.

Lin Xian finally touched Zheng Xiangyue's soft head:

"You should go back to rest too. I will bring you a gift to celebrate your birthday."

……

Returned home.

It was still early.

It was a good time to enter the dream after a long absence.

The prelude after entering the dream was really too long... Lin Xian followed the previous process, first went to Li Cheng's backyard to persuade CC, then took her to join the Face Gang, and finally successfully climbed over the garbage dump wall under the Face Gang's human ladder, sneaked into New Donghai City, and came to Time Bank.

Click, click, click...

CC was still there, constantly trying the safe password.

Lin Xian didn't run around today either. He had experienced too many things and obtained too much information during this period, and he needed to sort it out.

The world during the day was too noisy and full of crises, making him feel insecure.

On the contrary, his dream has now become the place where he feels the most secure, where he can calm down and think carefully.

"What's wrong?" CC suddenly looked up and asked.

"What?" Lin Xian didn't know what CC wanted to express.

"You seem... to have become very silent." CC said:

"Did you encounter any problems?"

Along the way, Lin Xian had been chattering non-stop like a machine gun, but here he was silent and hadn't said a word, which made CC feel very puzzled.

In that memory fragment related to Lin Xian, this man was also very talkative, not at all like this deep and serious.

Even...

He clearly told her that his purpose was also this safe.

But after going through all the hardships and obstacles to come to this Time Bank, Lin Xian didn't even look at the safe, nor did he try any passcodes... This really made CC unable to figure it out.

This man always gave people a very mysterious feeling, full of mysteries, like a wind that didn't belong to this world, erratic.

"Indeed, I encountered some trouble."

If it were in reality, Lin Xian would definitely not tell anyone his inner concerns. There are no walls that don't leak, and things that are said always have the risk of being exposed.

But it's different in a dream.

Everything here will be completely restarted in a few hours, everything will turn into nothing, and no trace will be left.

"If I can help in any way, you can tell me." CC said in a low voice while looking down and dialing the password dial:

"If you hadn't brought me here, I might not have been able to touch this safe in my life. As a reward... if I can help you, I will definitely not refuse."

……

Hearing CC's words, Lin Xian was a little surprised.

Today, CC has also become a lot easier to communicate with for no reason, and even her personality has become a little cute.

As for the reason...

Lin Xian felt that it should still be related to the plot of getting along with her since he entered the dream.

Before, because of various unfamiliarities, quarrels or fights were always inevitable; but now Lin Xian already knew this plot like the back of his hand, and he knew everything that CC was willing to tell him, and he didn't bother to ask about things that CC didn't want to say.

This led to the coincidence that CC's favorability towards him also increased a lot.

After all, from CC's perspective, this time Lin Xian was knowledgeable, answered all questions, was very resourceful, and what was even more valuable was that he helped her completely selflessly, told her so much useful information for free, and finally safely sent her to the safe here.

Not asking for any reward, and not competing with herself to try the safe password.

Therefore, CC's attitude towards Lin Xian has naturally improved a lot, and it can even be said that she is full of trust.

"You probably can't help much." Lin Xian said, "After all, it's another world, another time and space."

"Tell me about it."

Lin Xian paused, as if talking to himself, and said casually:

"There is a group of people who killed my friend and killed my teacher. I don't know what their reason for killing people is, but now they seem to have set their sights on me and want to find a chance to kill me."

"Then are you going to run away?" CC asked.

"I definitely can't escape... where can I escape to?" Lin Xian casually found a hafnium alloy safe to sit down, and continued, "Besides, it's not that easy for them to kill me. It seems that they have to find some evidence first. And... I don't want to run away. Whether it's that teacher or that friend, they are all very close to me. They all died in front of my eyes. I can't just leave like this. I want to avenge them."

"But so far, I can't find any evidence that those people killed people, so there's no way to catch them. On the contrary, they took the initiative to mix into the police force, gain the power of speech and investigation, and even invited me to join the case investigation team while shouting 'stop thief!'"

"Did you go?" CC stopped dialing the password dial, looked up at Lin Xian.

"Not yet."

Lin Xian shook his head:

"I'm still hesitating."

"To be honest, if I take the opportunity to join the investigation team and get close to the murderers, it's indeed a good opportunity to obtain evidence and catch them."

"But at the same time, they also get the opportunity to get close to me. With the police station already becoming their home ground... this is very unfavorable and dangerous for me. Maybe I will be caught by them before I can catch their handle, and then be killed."

"Are you afraid?" CC stood up.

"Why would I be afraid." Lin Xian smiled:

"I'm not afraid at all. I'm just worried that because I didn't make the most perfect choice, I will not only fail to avenge my friends, but also ruin myself and lose everything."

……

Afterwards.

CC and Lin Xian were both silent.

After tens of seconds, CC continued to squat down, dialing the password dial, clicking, clicking, trying to open the combination lock, but still failed to do so...

"I'm afraid it's difficult for me to give you any advice or answers to this problem."

CC said slowly in the clicking sound:

"After all, only you know how dangerous your situation is. No matter how much I, as an outsider, say, it's probably just irresponsible idle talk. But... I can tell you a story about a person."

"Who?" Lin Xian looked up.

CC seemed to have made up her mind, pursed her lips, and looked up at Lin Xian's eyes:

"VV."