2026-08-12 14:13:51While the tension peaked in the VIP room, a vastly different atmosphere unfolded in the launch operations control room, located exactly one floor below them.
Benson, the General Field Operations Manager and Head of Launch Security Inspection, was leaning back in his hydraulic chair. Around him, dozens of technicians in white uniforms were running around frantically, shouting launch codes a
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Chapter 96: The Blue Etherium Gusher in the Atacama Hell
The giant screen flickered, displaying Hendrik's figure. The Head of Procurement was seen wearing a bright yellow hazmat suit, complete with goggles fogged up with sweat. Behind him stretched an endless expanse of desert sand illuminated by the blinding, scorching sun. The air around him appeared to ripple from the extreme heat."B-Boss Julian..." Hendrik's voice sounded static-laced and breathless from behind his oxygen mask. "Reportin' from the Atacama Basecamp. This... this place is an absolute hellhole. The temperature out here is hitting forty-five degrees Celsius, and my Geiger counter hasn't stopped beepin' since I got off the chopper!""Perfect!" Julian immediately leaped to his feet, his enthusiasm exploding once again. He stared at the screen with sparkling eyes, completely ignoring the suspicious stares of Chloe and Elena behind him. "That
Chapter 95: The Main Headline and the Secret of the Desert Land
"Boss! Boss Julian! You gotta see this right now!"Harry rushed into Julian's office, nearly tripping over the Persian rug near the door. The Head of IT shoved a wide-screen tablet right into the face of Julian, who was peacefully enjoying a morning cup of coffee."What is it now, Harry?" Julian sighed, staring at the screen lazily. "Did our astronaut registration server crash 'cause nobody wants to sign up? Oh, please tell me yes. I'm really hopin' there ain't a single unemployed person stupid enough to hand their life over to me.""On the contrary, Boss!" Harry smiled so widely his upper gums showed. "Our server went down for ten minutes 'cause of an overload! And not only that, look at the main headline on the international news portal this mornin'!"Julian furrowed his brow. His eyes read the row of bold letters on the scree
Chapter 94: The Hellish Simulation Grounds and the Secret of the Atacama Desert
"Now," Julian turned his gaze to the pale man at the end of the table, "Hendrik. Stand up."Hendrik jolted from his chair as if he had just been electrocuted. "I-I didn't embezzle the funds for the office chairs last week, Boss! I swear! That... that was an unexpected administrative fee!""I don't care about the office chairs, Hendrik!" Julian waved his hand impatiently. "Before we can send people to Mars, we gotta train 'em in a simulated environment on Earth. I'm givin' you a highly crucial task. I want you to buy a plot of land to serve as the Tengda Mars Simulation Center.""L-Land, Boss? In Riverdale?""Not in the city!" Julian argued. "Find me the most arid, barren, useless piece of land on the face of the Earth. A place where no plant can survive, where the dry air is torturou
Chapter 93: Astronaut Requirement and Commander Benson
The main boardroom of Tengda Corp that morning felt more like the headquarters of a secret cult plotting a global coup than a startup company.Julian Vance stood tall in front of the giant glass whiteboard. With a blazing red marker, he wrote three words in massive capital letters: TENGDA MARS PIONEER PROJECT.Around the round, black marble table, Tengda Corp's core staff sat with a variety of expressions. Chloe Sterling gracefully held her gold-plated pen, Elena Thorne glared sharply like a warlord, Nadine Prescott had a dictionary-thick notebook at the ready, while Harry typed at the speed of light on his tablet.At the very end of the table, Hendrik, the Head of Procurement, looked pale and kept wiping away cold sweat. And right next to him, Benson, the General Field Operations Manager, was sound asleep with his head resting on the table, snoring with an inc
Chapter 92: The Proletariat Utopia and Extraterrestrial Cosmetics
An incredibly thick silence blanketed the control room. Harry, Chloe, Elena, and Nadine stared at Julian as if the CEO had just sprouted dragon wings and breathed fire."M-Mars Colonization... Center?" Chloe whispered, nearly losing her balance had she not gripped the back of a chair. "Julian... you're jokin', right? Tengda Corp is a company that originally made cheap online games and ran a coffee shop! We ain't NASA! We just launched one rocket today, and even that was usin' a used Soviet engine!""And that used Soviet engine successfully brought us to conquer the global military, Chloe!" Julian fired back with an absurd logic that simply could not be refuted. "Listen, we got eighty million dollars in military grant money that we gotta burn through as fast as possible. Plus, we got an infinite cash flow from our quantum communications network monopoly. What's the best way to spend billions
Chapter 91: The Threat of Permanent Poverty and the Extraterrestrial Declaration
Ding![TRANSFER COMPLETE: +$80,000,000 (GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN GRANT)] [COMPANY CASH STATUS: INFINITE ON AN EARTH START-UP SCALE] [RECALIBRATING ASSET STATUS... DETECTION OF NON-TERRESTRIAL ASSET (AEGIS-7 SATELLITE) CONFIRMED.]Julian stared at the screen with unblinking eyes. Please, Julian groaned internally. Please tell me this is all just a hallucination because I inhaled too much of Benson's coffee fumes this morning.[CONGRATULATIONS! 'COSMIC WEALTH' CONDITION FULLY ACTIVATED.] [NEW RULE: AS THE CONTROLLING ENTITY OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL ASSETS, YOU ARE NOW REQUIRED TO MANAGE SPACE EXPANSION.] [LOSS TARGET FOR PERSONAL FUND CONVERSION REMAINS LOCKED AT $20,000,000,000 (TWENTY BILLION DOLLARS).]
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