Time flies, and two years have passed in the blink of an eye.
10% of the wealth of all mankind has mobilized global resources, manpower, and material resources to invest in the "Xingyao" project, photonic computers, flying cars, intelligent robots, biological 3D printers... The application scale of various high-tech products continues to expand, and human society is welcoming This is the golden age of rapid development in history.
Correspondingly, the international status of Shining Star Group, which controls more than one-tenth of the world's wealth, is unparalleled for a while.
A lively birthday party was being held in the Bauhinia Rose Garden, and the hall was filled with joyful laughter.
Little Zhou Yu, who is about five or six years old, is wearing a neat little suit. His square face, curved eyebrows, and smooth white face are somewhat similar to his father Zhou Xing. He looks like a little adult. , commanding two robots to arrange the event venue.
Standing on the left side of Zhou Yu is a small robot that is one head shorter than him - Zhou Xiaozhi.
On the right is a little girl wearing a pink princess dress. She is about eight or nine years old. She is slim and graceful. She has a neat ponytail, revealing a smooth forehead, a fair face with oval seeds, bright eyes, white teeth, smooth lips, and delicate willow eyebrows. It forms a small face full of confidence.
"Zhou Yu, why hasn't your father come yet? He won't come out!" The girl looked at the door and asked Zhou Yu anxiously.
"It's my dad's birthday, why doesn't he come? Sister Dandan, the time hasn't come yet! He usually appears at the finale." Zhou Yu said with great admiration.
"What did you call me? You should call me aunt." Zhou Dan glared and scolded Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu wrinkled his face and said unwillingly: "You are only a few years older than me. Wouldn't calling you aunt make you old?"
"Hmph, don't mess with seniority. I'm your father's cousin, do you know that?" Zhou Dan said proudly with a straight face.
"Oh!" Zhou Yu's face darkened, and he responded aggrievedly with a long tail tone.
Zhou Wenhua walked towards Zhou Yu and the others with a smile on his face: "What are you talking about!"
"Uncle! Why didn't you give birth to aunt earlier! She is about the same age as me, so don't pinch me when I scream!" Zhou Yu turned to look at Zhou Wenhua, complaining with a sad face.
"Hmph!" Zhou Dan hummed proudly, as proudly as a little swan.
The smile on Zhou Wenhua's face froze. How should he answer this question
Zhou Wenhua avoided answering and changed the subject with a smile: "Xiaoyu, Xiaozhi has been teaching you some knowledge recently! Is it good to learn it?"
Hearing this, Zhou Yu had a bitter look on his face, turned to look at Zhou Xiaozhi, and complained: "Xiaozhi has become bad recently. Every time I play 'Star Wars Deduction' with him, he has to 'bet', which makes me have to carry a lot of money." material."
"Oh, what information are you memorizing?" Zhou Wenhua looked at Zhou Xiaozhi and asked curiously.
"Uncle, it's the parameters and performance of the Xingyao, as well as some astronomical knowledge about astronomical objects, the moon, variable stars, double stars, and near-Earth galaxies." Zhou Xiaozhi answered for Zhou Yu.
Zhou Wenhua laughed and asked Zhou Yu: "That's right! Xiaoyu, do you often lose?"
Zhou Yu raised his face and said proudly: "No way! I win more than I lose."
"Haha, is it so powerful?" Zhou Dan laughed and questioned.
Zhou Yu blushed and said angrily: "Don't believe it? Let's compete. If you lose, I will call you aunt."
"Let's compete, even if you win, I will still be your aunt, haha!" Zhou Dan laughed proudly.
Zhou Yu gritted his teeth and glanced at Zhou Dan, then ordered Zhou Xiaozhi: "Xiaozhi, activate the interstellar simulated battlefield, we are going to fight."
Zhou Xiaozhi nodded happily: "Okay!"
Under the auspices of Zhou Xiaozhi, a holographic screen rose between Zhou Yu and Zhou Dan.
Upon seeing this, Zhou Wenhai, his wife, Tang Xin, Yang Minghua, Lin Wei and others in the hall stopped chatting and gathered around them with smiles.
The holographic screen showed a starry sky, planets, meteorites everywhere, a dark starry sky, and two battleships, one black and one red.
The mothership of the red fleet looks like a rambutan magnified hundreds of millions of times, with sharp thorn-like tubes all over its body. It looks very scary. The black fleet is a barracuda-like fleet. It looks sci-fi and majestic.
"Why is my spaceship so ugly and yours so beautiful? No, let's change it." Zhou Dan stared at the holographic screen and said dissatisfiedly.
"Appearances are not important! Yours is the Red Devil Mothership. It has a defensive shield of annihilation energy. It is very powerful!" Zhou Yu explained with wide eyes.
"I don't care, let's change!" Zhou Dan glared at Zhou Yu and said firmly.
Zhou Yu nodded helplessly, looked at Zhou Xiaozhi and gave a compromising order: "Xiaozhi, please help us change our camps!"
Zhou Xiaozhi glanced at Zhou Dan and nodded happily, and the two sides immediately changed their positions.
"How about it, we can start now!" Zhou Yu looked at Zhou Dan and urged impatiently.
"Hmph, come on! I will definitely defeat you." Zhou Dan chuckled, pointed his finger, and commanded the fleet to launch an attack brazenly.
Zhou Yu's dark eyes flashed with a hint of cunning, and with a wave of his hand, he directed the red fleet to move forward.
On the holographic screen, the red and black sides quickly approached.
A wonderful scene appeared. The black side was firing on all cylinders, and dense energy beams were pouring towards the red side.
Zhou Yu couldn't help waving his little hands. At the same time, his little mouth moved frequently, and he kept giving orders: "Enable maximum speed, activate energy shield, prepare main gun attack..."
The red fleet was like a "red cloud", speeding flexibly towards the black fleet. The "red mist" pouring out of the tube enveloped the entire fleet, counteracting the attacks of particle beams.
Under the command of Zhou Yu, the "Red Cloud" fleet was as flexible as a loach, moving up and down, left and right, constantly avoiding the "impermeable" energy beam ahead.
"What is Xiaoyu doing! Why do you only get beaten and don't fight back!" Ye Huilan stared at the holographic screen and asked in confusion.
Zhou Wenhai laughed loudly and replied: "Haha, look how much Xiao Dan's attack failed, Xiao Yu is holding back his evil!"
"What?" Ye Huilan opened her eyes wide and looked puzzled.
Just as Zhou Wenhai said, the distance between Shuangfang continued to approach, and the red fleet quickly rushed to its right side. The black fleet attacked Zhenghuan, but had no time to change its formation. With a "crash", the red fleet's fleet fired "thousands of arrows" and struck. Black was caught off guard.
Energy tides came one after another, impacting and oscillating. Explosion points flashed one after another throughout the star field, densely packed, like a grand fireworks feast, magnificent.
In the blink of an eye, a light rain passed and another light rain came back. In the light rain, the fleet of the Heifang camp was either directly annihilated by ashes, or it was lucky enough to survive, and its half-broken body was annihilated in the next light rain.
The fierce and sharp fighting style did not give the opponent a chance at all, and wiped out the opponent in just a few back and forth.
"Well, why don't you admit defeat?" Zhou Yu relaxed and looked at Zhou Dan with a smile on his face.
"Why are you so proud! I didn't react just now, let's do it again." Zhou Dan rolled his eyes at Zhou Yu and said angrily.
Zhou Yu curled his lips and said nonchalantly: "It will be the same a few more times. You don't even understand the basics of shooting range, formation changes... these battle formations. No matter how many times you fight, you will lose."
"You know it if you are younger than me! I don't believe it, come again, come again..." Zhou Dan asked unconvinced.
Zhou Yu chuckled, and just when he was about to reply to her words, Tang Xin stopped him: "Okay! Okay! Stop playing, your dad is coming over, Xiaoyu, go and take out your gift."
"Okay!" Zhou Yu's eyes lit up, he turned around and ran towards his room.
Soon, when Zhou Yu walked out of the room with the gift, Zhou Xing's figure suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
"Dad, this is my birthday gift to you. Happy birthday to you!" Zhou Yu flew towards Zhou Xing and handed a painting to Zhou Xing as if he was taking credit for it.
"Well, what is it?" Zhou Xing bent over and picked up Zhou Yu, asking with a smile.
"It's the Xingyao! Dad, when can I ride on the spaceship you built!" Zhou Yu looked at Zhou Xing with dazzling eyes and asked eagerly.
"Hurry! When Xiaoyu grows taller, the Xingyao will be built!" Zhou Xing said with a smile, holding his index finger and thumb a few centimeters apart.
"Really! Then I'll eat more and grow taller sooner." Zhou Yu said excitedly with bright eyes.
"Okay! I'll let you be the commander when the time comes." Zhou Xing promised with a smile.
"Cousin, cousin, I want it too, I want to be a female commander." Zhou Dan ran up to Zhou Xing and said excitedly.
"Haha, okay, I'll build one for you too." Zhou Xing liked this little cousin very much, looked at her dotingly, laughed, and agreed.
"Thank you, cousin." Zhou Dan looked at Zhou Xing with bright eyes, full of admiration.
Zhou Xing's name is well known to all women and children, and there is rarely an opportunity to see him. Seizing this opportunity, little Zhou Dan's eyes were "hanging" on Zhou Xing and could not move away.
Zhou Xingwanran smiled, put Zhou Yu on the ground, and said, "Xiao Dan, you are my aunt! You have to take good care of Xiao Yu, and now take him to play!"
In response to Zhou Xingdi's instructions, Zhou Dan's eyes lit up and he nodded obediently: "Understood!"
"Zhou Yu, let's go out!" Zhou Dan took Zhou Yu's hand and greeted him.
Zhou Yu held Zhou Xing's leg with one hand, broke away from Zhou Dan's hand, and flatly refused: "No, I want to follow dad!"
"Xiaoyu, don't be ignorant. The adults have something to discuss. Do you still want to be the commander?" Zhou Dan scolded him like a young adult with his hands on his hips.
Hearing this, Zhou Yu wrinkled his face and quickly made a choice between "Commander" and "Dad". He held Zhou Dan's hand, looked back at Zhou Xing step by step, and reluctantly walked out of the hall. Go.
Seeing Zhou Yu's farewell look, Zhou Xing frowned, as if he secretly felt that this scene would happen in the future, and suddenly became panicked.
Watching Zhou Dan and Zhou Yu leave the hall, everyone suppressed their smiles. Zhou Wenhai and his wife warmly greeted everyone to take their seats.
Seeing Zhou Xing staring at the door in a daze, Tang Xin walked to him and woke up in confusion: "Xing? What's wrong with you?"
"Honey, will you feel bad if your son leaves us to start his own business?" Zhou Xing asked Tang Xin.
Hearing this, Tang Xin rolled her eyes at Zhou Xing: "Aren't you talking nonsense? Xiaoyu is my 'darling'. I will feel uncomfortable if I can't see him for a day."
"But his ambition when he grows up is to be a starship commander! He will have very little time to see us in the future." Zhou Xing said with a sad face.
"Starship Commander" is just like a captain in the Age of Discovery. When technology was not yet mature, it was a very risky profession. Tang Xin's face changed and she became worried.
Tang Xin looked at Zhou Xing anxiously: "Xing, it's too late for us to change Xiaoyu's ambition now!"
"Let's try it!" Zhou Xing sighed.
You must set your ambitions as a child. You must not think about yourself like this, being a great scientist and being possessed by the great scientist's auxiliary system for no apparent reason, making your life very tiring.
In front of the coffee table, Yang Minghua, Lin Wei, Xie Liwu and others, greeted by Zhou Wenhai and his wife, sat down on the generous sofa, made tea and chatted.
"Uncle Zhou, your physical condition has returned to peak condition! It's time to 'come out'!" Chen Feng looked at Zhou Wenhai and suggested with a smile.
"Yes! Brother, your white hair is gone now, your belly is bloated, and you have returned to your forty-year-old appearance. You can't continue to 'leisure'!" Zhou Wenhua looked at Zhou Wenhai and advised dissatisfiedly.
Hearing this, Zhou Wenhai's expression changed and he flatly refused: "No, I'm used to taking care of Xiaoyu at home, and I don't want to go back to the old days."
Zhou Xing walked towards the crowd, looked at Zhou Wenhai, and said: "Dad, the situation is actually not that complicated. The group now occupies a dominant position, and Xiaozhi assists in management. You only need to come forward to supervise the implementation. "
Yang Minghua looked at Zhou Wenhai and nodded: "Yes, Mr. Wen, with 'Xiao Zhi' assisting in management, company affairs have become 'simple'."
"Since it's 'simple', you can just take care of it yourself!" Zhou Wenhai frowned and refused reluctantly.
With the current financial resources of the Shining Star Group, the projects involved contain extremely huge interests. Once involved, it will inevitably be contaminated by "intrigues" and "bloody" profit calculations. Over the years, Zhou Wenhai has become accustomed to a leisurely retirement life where he can entertain his grandchildren. He really doesn't want to go back to his old life.
"Dad, the company will start other projects next, and the management manpower may be insufficient, so I have to help you out!" Zhou Xing looked at Zhou Wenhai and advised.
Chen Fan suddenly stood up from the sofa and asked excitedly: "Mr. Zhou, have you come up with something new again?"
"Mr. Zhou, are you planning to hold a press conference?" Yang Minghua asked excitedly, trembling slightly.
"Has the time come?" Zhou Wenhua's hand shaking as he held the cup to drink tea looked up at Zhou Xing in surprise.
Zhou Wenhai and his wife looked at each other, looking at Zhou Xing with mixed expressions of happiness and worry.
Zhou Xing smiled and nodded: "That's almost it. Not only is it about controllable nuclear fusion technology, I also plan to announce two major decisions and another scientific and technological achievement."
Hearing this, everyone was startled, their eyes slightly bulging, and they stared at Zhou Xing dumbfounded.
Chen Fan rubbed his hands in excitement and asked excitedly: "So many! Mr. Zhou, when do you plan to hold this press conference?"
"Mr. Zhou, have you communicated with Mr. Xu?" Yang Minghua said excitedly and worriedly.
Zhou Xing glanced at Yang Minghua and said calmly: "They have been given enough time. In ten days, there will be a press conference held by Shining Star Group. You can arrange it!"
When Zhou Xing said these words, he showed his domineering attitude. When he heard the words, everyone shuddered and did not dare to disobey the order.