Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 85 - 86: When You’re Popular, Theres More Controversy

Chapter 85: Chapter 86: When You’re Popular, There’s More Controversy

An hour later, Earth had sent a tremendous amount of feedback, overwhelming Zhang Yuan with all sorts of comments.

Even within the spaceship’s internal network, the topic of the very young “Mr. Billion” was buzzing.

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Zhang Yuan felt inexplicably uneasy and hastily apologized to the reporter Lin Xuanyuan on social media.

Honestly, he had no mental preparation for his sudden surge in popularity.

Wasn’t it just making some money that he couldn’t even spend?

Indeed, he couldn’t.

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He had thought that since everyone had left Earth, money would be less significant to them and rankings like “Wealth List” would mostly be taken as a joke.

Yet, he hadn’t anticipated it would blow up like this.

Perhaps, from certain perspectives, money still stood as a benchmark for success…

Having lived on Earth for so many years, many of his thoughts had naturally turned into habits. Wealth meant success; that’s what everyone believed. The people on the spaceship hadn’t completely shifted their thinking.

Or maybe it was for some other reason.

Zhang Yuan sighed deeply, feeling quite helpless…

After thinking for a while, he made a call to Li Zhendong, who was busy negotiating partnership details with Earth-based operators.

“How’s it going? Have you discussed it with Earth?”

“The other party is interested, but still negotiating the terms. Everyone wants to make money. Although our project only earns money for the Foundation, we can’t just undersell our hard work…”

The current signal delay had reached 2000 seconds! Conversations were becoming less convenient, each exchange taking 40 minutes, so most communication was shifted to emails.

Perhaps because the negotiation was progressing quickly, Li Zhendong was in a good mood: “Hey, you helped in brokering this; do you need some shares? How much gold would you want… is 300 grams enough?”

Zhang Yuan retorted irritably, “Your stuff doesn’t interest me. My current pursuit is not gold anymore but three hundred kilograms of antimatter!”

“Antimatter? That stuff is very expensive! You’d have to go to the Galaxy Center to mine it.”

The wealth in the universe is virtually infinite. Located to the east of Gemini and west of Leo in the Cancer Seat, there is a planet filled with gold internally made of manganese, and its surface is golden, with at least a trillion tons of gold, millions of times more than the total gold found on Earth.

There is also a planet known as 55 Cancrie, a Diamond Planet, likely one-third of which is diamond.

As for antimatter, it exists too. About 3500 light-years above the Milky Way is a source emitting antimatter, forming a 2940 light-year high “Antimatter Fountain.”

The specific reasons are unknown, and it’s entirely impossible for humans to travel so far to mine antimatter.

Anyway, there are still many mysteries in the universe.

“Alright, keep negotiating; I can’t help with anything else. Bye.”

After ending the call, it was already late. Might as well go to sleep.

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The next day, Zhang Yuan fully experienced the trouble of “being famous brings many disputes.”

Various talks about “300 kilograms of gold” had bizarrely become a popular meme.

The Falls List had been updated again, recalculating everyone’s net worth in terms of the quality of gold, further spiking Zhang Yuan’s popularity.

Take his first place, for example, valued at 301.11 kilograms of gold, followed by the second place at 233.33 kilograms.

Using this unit for valuation made the entire wealth list quite humorous. The wealth each person possessed was just a tiny bit really…

In the lab, his senior lab mates gave him a nickname, “300,” and directly omitted the word “gold,” making it sound like he weighed three hundred kilograms…

Due to various teases, Zhang Yuan spent a morning in the lab, finding it increasingly hard to stay.

As a result, when he returned to the living area, it became even more unbearable, as a few young women kept following him, requesting to exchange contact information.

Perhaps they had dug up that until now, he hadn’t had a “life partner,” and these single girls started to pursue him actively.

“Classmate Zhang, can we exchange QQ information?”

“Okay…”

Zhang Yuan reluctantly agreed.

“Can I ask you about mathematics problems in the future?” one girl suddenly asked.

Mathematics?

“Depends on the type of math… I’m not all-knowing.”

Zhang Yuan felt disdain internally, analyzing randomly. Could you really ask anything of value?

True talents shouldn’t need to dress up so well… Or that’s not right either, looking good or not doesn’t relate logically to academic performance.

Staying single was the best way to keep up combat efficiency, after all, to court the Natural Goddess, there was temporarily no capacity to court other girls.

As he walked, he arrived at the safety checkpoint for the zero-gravity area. Zhang Yuan quickly slipped in, leaving the girls behind.

“I have to go work now; let’s talk another time.”

Ordinary people couldn’t pass this security check.

He sighed heavily, feeling troubled. With such a vast spaceship, it seemed there were no places left for him!

He wasn’t a celebrity; he didn’t need fangirls.

Could it be because he was handsome?!

Donning his space suit and passing the safety check, Zhang Yuan revisited the zero-gravity area.

Thinking it over, there was nowhere to go, so he might as well return to the lab.

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The journey from Earth to Jupiter was half over, and the process of turning around was about to begin. That is, the entire spaceship was to rotate 180 degrees, realigning the Light Sail originally facing the Sun and the Moon toward Jupiter’s moon.

The artificial light from Jupiter’s moon shining on the Light Sail would create light pressure that decelerates the spaceship.

The whole rotation process was also simple. Just discharge some plasma pulses sidewards to provide a rotational momentum.

“You’re back?”

“Senior Brother Zhao, stop making fun of me, this nickname is really ugly!” Zhang Yuan said discontentedly, “And it’s so annoying!”

Zhao Qingfeng smiled, “Ah, you shouldn’t overthink it. Everyone’s just bored and looking for some fun. There’s no malice.”

“Haven’t you noticed? As the communication delay with Earth increases, the atmosphere inside the spaceship is becoming gradually more oppressive, even with more entertainment options available, it’s hard to lift this oppressive trend. Everyone’s life pace is fast, with an average working time exceeding ten hours…”

“Everyone is just seeking a bit of psychological comfort, it will pass in a few days.”