Start a Subspace - v2 Chapter 1

(The timeline is before nuclear fusion)

Today is the auspicious day for the opening of “Lily Bar”, a private restaurant opened by a few sisters of Sakurai.

As soon as you enter the door, you can smell the light creamy fragrance, sweet but not greasy.

The area of ​​the bar is not too small, almost 200 square meters, and there are several boxes. On the first day, the business was good, and the seats were almost full.

There is also a large TV hanging on the wall, playing today’s news.

“Our Refuge No. 1 finally has a gourmet restaurant!”

Lily’s Bar, most famously known as “Lily’s Bread”. This is really a very delicious bread, fluffy and soft, as long as you eat a soft cake, there is no depression.

If you have another cup of coffee or a beer, it is the ultimate enjoyment after get off work.

The appearance of “Lily Bread” simply brought tears to the eyes of the foodies around.

After all, Refuge No. 1, where the royal family is located, is already a well-known forbidden area for food.

“His Royal Highness just said a few words and then went down… Let’s promulgate more welfare policies.”

“Today is the New Year.” The diners in the bar are all old keyboard politicians, watching the press conference while talking about the mountains.

“How can there be so many benefits? It’s good to give you cheap pork!”

“Oh haha, I couldn’t eat pork a year ago…”

“We are still poor now, and all resources must be saved. Either live happily for 10 years, or be frugal and live for decades. Let’s choose to live longer.”

“Don’t be so pessimistic, our new home is a sun wreck. We’ll be there soon.”

“It is said that a large meteorite was discovered at the location of the sun debris. It is not as simple as a simple nebula.”

“It’s not the discovery of a large meteorite, but the observation of gravitational traces, understand?”

These people were eating and drinking and talking about everything.

After a few days off, it is natural to eat and drink.

In one year, the most proud thing is the construction of spiritual civilization. Although the material level is not rich, most of the people are quite satisfied with their current life.

Because in addition to the material, there is a very important point is the spirit.

Today’s working class is very dignified, and the class relationship with the leadership has also been forcibly wiped out a lot. After all, your noble highness is all in tune with the workers, your little leader is a piece of shit!

In the case of spiritual abundance, there is naturally less need for material things.

“It is said that the tokamak device of Dongfang Laboratory has a plasma of 300 million degrees and a stable discharge time of 2000 seconds, which is only one step away from the real commercial use.”

“Yeah, 2000 seconds of nuclear fusion is an epoch-making progress… Alas, it’s really hard work, all the experts. The people there are very hardworking and want to solve the problem of energy shortage sooner.”

“Thank you to these comrades who are fighting on the front line!”

“grateful!”

The bar is full of cheers and discussions. “Lily Bar” is not a nightclub, but a bit like the previous “Starbucks”, which is mainly for leisure and is deeply loved by young people.

The most discussed are recent policy and scientific developments.

All these achievements involve all aspects of life, and people can feel it and care about it very much.

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“Boss, we have reserved the first box!”

At this time, a customer wearing a hat and glasses walked into the store, dressed in plain clothes, but no one took a second look.

“Okay, this way please.”

The owners of Lily’s Bar are three young girls. The first moment they saw the people coming, the young girls showed happy smiles, and their beautiful eyes narrowed into a line.

There are also two “big artists” who are also shareholders.

One was there drinking drunk and suddenly shouted, “Comrades, for the new year, Ulla!”

“Ula!” Someone really responded vigorously. The originally casual bar was instantly filled with an atmosphere of steel.

Another artist, frantically strumming the guitar, chanted: “Countryroads, takemehe…”

A young proprietress said with a loudspeaker: “Everyone, great news, the shop has just opened today, Mr. Zhang pays the bill, and all the guests present are free!”

“Let’s celebrate the New Year together, welcome a better life in the future, and build a future home together!”

The news was greeted with cheers.

“Wow! Madam, you’re not making money anymore.”

It was surprise and happy laughter.

Some people still pay the bill regardless of the boss’s objection.

“Why does everything come down to Young Master Zhang…” Zhang Ran also applauded in “surprise”, pretending to be very happy.

“When did I say to pay?!”

Now there are voices all over the Kunlun Mountains, “Zhang Gongzi pays the bill”.

This is because when he “loved the world” one time, the masses discovered the true existence of “Zhang Gongzi”.

So “Zhang Gongzi pays the bill” has become an excellent publicity advertisement. When many shops just opened, they started to give away free things to promote their products.

After all, the signboard of the royal family is not allowed to hang, so it doesn’t matter if I give things for free, right?

Zhang Ran would not rashly stop this kind of business behavior. He never said that he was “Master Zhang” or “Master Zhao”. It is their own business for businesses to distribute benefits for free, and they can also provide benefits to the public. What is there to stop them?

Lily Bar was opened by the little sisters of Sakurai. The young girls did not have a high degree of education, but they had good skills in making bread.

Of course, they don’t have the money. Opening a store requires public bidding and investment in baking equipment. This amount of money is not something that little girls can easily get together.

In the end, Sakurai persuaded Zhang Ran to let His Royal Highness invest a little money.

“This is ideal!”

Finally, two great artists, two jobless vagabonds, the prophet Simonson and the high-dimensional perceiver Mr. Erwin, opened one together.

The two “artists” didn’t have much interest in doing this kind of work at first, they just wanted to drink, their spirits were decadent, and their lives had no interest at all. They were proper hooligans.

It was only after being conquered by the quality of Lily’s bread that she willingly became a shareholder.

The painter Erwin also hung his major works in the bar. In fact, many of the works were quite scary, such as brains, intestines, and feces. After being scolded by the sisters, they forcibly took them back. Later, these masterpieces were bought cheaply by the royal family and stuffed into museums.

“Wow oh oh!” Simonson finished singing this song, and there was sparse applause from the venue.

“Thank you! Thank you everyone!”

Predictor, Simonson turned a corner, took his electric guitar, and walked into Box 1, where the smell of steaming bread and milk coffee greeted him.

Simonson stroked his beard and drank a sip of milk with great enjoyment: “Ah, it’s an intoxicating feeling… It’s like the smell of home. In Siberia, which is freezing cold, I shoveled the snow at the door and returned home. Have a drink at home.”

“At that time, my mother was still alive, and she preferred to make a cup of hot milk in the kitchen, not like us men drinking.”

Zhang Ran smiled and said, “Indeed, Simonson, you don’t seem to be so neurotic anymore.”

Simonson and Erwin have two psionicists, one with precognition and the other with high-dimensional perception.

These two guys can sense the potential crisis!

The government has always attached great importance to the recruitment of these two psionicists.

But these two people are nervous, mentally ill, and have a relatively serious tendency to be miserable, and their health is worrying.

Finally, after psychoanalysis, an expert came to a conclusion: “Daily, they lack routine!”

“Humans, they always have to find something to do. They live too well, too nourishing, and too much money, and they can afford wine! They can also borrow wine to relieve their worries!”

So, let them live in Lily’s bar.

Not to mention, it works great!

The girls in Lily’s Bar really have a good way of dealing with men, and they quickly took care of these two guys.

Simonson said with emotion: “I am unlucky and lucky. I was born in a wealthy family, and my father was an aristocratic noble. I didn’t expect that I was favored from the moment I was born, and my life was carefree.”

“One day, however, my father died in a plane crash. My mother married a richer businessman, and they both died in a car accident.”

“Ha, what an amazing fate, my mother left me an unimaginable legacy.”

“For me, everything is easy, wealth and power, BMW cars, beautiful girls… Desires are released too easily, and people become very empty. I once lost in Las Vegas overnight I lost tens of millions and played with ten window girls in the Netherlands overnight. It was a crazy night…I haven’t forgotten that feeling until now.”

Simonson recalled the old days.

At that time, my own desires were like black holes, and the ability to predict, brought strong mental sequelae.

After trying new things, he soon tires and keeps on pursuing higher joys, and he also has enough money to splurge.

But when the sun disappears, everything falls apart…

So he became passive and misanthropic.

However, in the past ten years, his edges and corners have also been slowly smoothed out.

Running a bar in such a bland way now, maybe… is the true meaning of life.

His painter Erwin sneered: “Simonson, you said you played with 10 window girls in one night? These little girls here are very disgusted.”

“Erwin, don’t talk about me, can’t you see the mites on the faces of the girls here? Who has the most mites?” Simonson retorted bluntly: “You can even see their wriggling intestines and brains. Right? Which girl do you think has the prettiest brain.”

“Everyone’s brains are beautiful, I like it very much, as for the intestines… Some people’s intestines are full… But I won’t say who it is.” Erwin suddenly twitched like a sheep maniac, his face turned pale , foaming at the mouth.

A proprietress was a little anxious, afraid that he would suddenly fall ill, and wanted to run out to get medicine.

Suddenly, Erwin smiled: “I pretended… did I pretend to be like? I lied to you just now, how can I see my brain all the time!”

“You’re ill!” The girl beat him fiercely.

Everyone laughed.

“It’s time to eat. I wish everyone a happy New Year and a happy day.”

“It doesn’t matter if you make less money, just be happy.”

“cheers!”

In fact, Zhang Ran is not very used to eating Western-style pastries, but he enjoys the atmosphere of this kind of fireworks.

It is a pity that in the first year of the Spring Festival, there are not many achievements, and the time is too short. He was embarrassed and gave a speech on TV.

There were a total of 4 psionicists present, and only one haggard Qiuyue girl was left with her liver bursting in the laboratory.

If she is here, then the five psionicists will gather together.

After eating a little spaghetti, he ordered another plate of fried rice with eggs to fill his stomach, which is not used to western pastries.

Well, it was a pleasure tonight.

I’ll have another piece of fried rice and a piece of hot milk to deliver to Qiuyue in person.

“Simonson, is there any danger prediction recently?” Zhang Ran asked casually.

“To be honest, Your Highness, since entering space, the number of times that danger has been predicted makes my scalp tingle. Sometimes I can’t even tell if it’s an illusion or if it really exists.”

“I often wake up from nightmares and find that I am still alive.” Simonsen sighed, “Although Kunlun Mountain is huge, it is not the Earth it used to be, and there are too many security risks.”

“I always feel that mankind has no future…”

Simonson’s sixth sense is much stronger than that of ordinary people, and the long-term dangerous environment puts him at risk of falling into a nervous breakdown.

So many times, he had to take sedative drugs to keep his mental state stable.

But if you take too much medicine and become confused, your ability to predict will be weakened.

Simonson shook his head: “A little air leak could kill a lot of people; if a certain nuclear power plant stops working, maybe some people will lose their lives; if a fire really broke out in the Kunlun Mountains, it is unimaginable. , after a fire, what will happen in the end.”

Zhang Ran sighed, it’s true… it’s true.

In Kunlun Mountain, in the past year, there have been seven serious accidents, air escape, mechanical failure, electric leakage, etc., and the total number of deaths is 42 people.

This is only the first year, and there have been no major security incidents.

Thinking about it like this makes your scalp tingle and your heart numb.

The Kunlun Mountain is very large, and there are countless safety hazards in it. Air leaks happen almost every week. No matter how strict the safety regulations are, there will still be these accidents. Humans are not machines, and no matter how careful you are, there will be mistakes.

Mechanical failures can happen every day.

Even Zhang Ran himself doesn’t know whether the warp space is absolutely safe or not…

Yes, he has absolutely no idea what the warp is, whether it is a high-tech product of other civilizations, or something else…

“Hain’s Law” holds that behind every serious accident, there must be 29 minor accidents, 300 precursors of near misses, and 1,000 hidden dangers.

Although ordinary civilians would not consider these issues, Zhang Ran had to take these issues into consideration.

After Simonson complained about his neurasthenia, he added: “Your Highness, don’t worry, there is a particularly huge danger, the kind of risk that can subvert all human beings, I have not sensed it for the time being. There is just a faint icy fear brought by the universe. , is constantly challenging my nerves.”

“Even the universe is dead, and we actually outlived the universe. It’s ironic, haha. I want to live longer now! Live until the moment of death.”

Zhang Ran smiled and said, “I am relieved to hear you say that. We not only have to live, but also work hard to live longer, and even get better!”

“Come on, let’s toast together! We have survived smoothly this year, and I hope everything will be fine next year!”

“Cheers!” A dozen people in the room touched their glasses.

After dinner, he packed another egg fried rice, Zhang Ran said with a smile, “Sakurai, today is a traditional New Year’s Eve dinner, let’s get together with your sisters.

“In the past two days, I strive to eat a little fatter. It’s better to be fatter. The next year will be very busy again, and there may be no rest for 360 days.”

Sakurai was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and looked at his unremarkable chest…

I saw Zero with a very bright smile, and I didn’t understand why Zero was smiling. Zero was also an airport…

Is it really good to be fat?

She was a little suspicious…

After packing the lunch box, Zhang Ran and Zero came to the Oriental Laboratory.

The construction of the advanced tokamak device has been completed, and a large number of professors and doctors are still bursting, and they don’t care about vacations or anything. The New Year is not over. To be honest, in the past 10 years of hardships, the lack of material has made the concept of the New Year gradually disappear. Only a small number of people remember that this is a New Year.

There is also Lin Qiuyue, the No. 1 migrant worker, who did not have a holiday, and was still sorting out relevant data in her office.

Nuclear fusion is indeed an extremely difficult project. Since the current experiment has made a major breakthrough, it is hoped that it will succeed. The Daxia government has begun to allocate more scientific research resources, so that the Oriental Laboratory can burn money more happily!

Zhang Ran was stunned by the speed at which he was burning money. He had already invested more than 300 of his 400 creation energy, and there were also a lot of state financial subsidies.

But even so, it can only be improved little by little, which is simply a black hole of burning money.

“Qiuyue, I’m still working… I brought you fried rice. Today is the New Year. Happy New Year.”

Lin Qiuyue turned her head and stared at Zhang Ran for a while before she gradually recovered from that wonderful state of epiphany…

She realized that His Royal Highness brought her rice again, and it was still the most beloved egg fried rice with two eggs.

Oh, and a fragrant glass of milk.

A happy smile appeared on his face: “Thank you, Your Highness!”

“Why are you being so polite?” Zhang Ran couldn’t help but feel a little funny, the dazed state of Qiuyue girl just now was really cute.

But he still coughed: “I don’t want to ask you how your scientific research progress is, and it will put you under pressure again. Today is a special day, so just take a rest and don’t go to work.”

Number Two (Mathematics): “Rest, how is it possible to take a break? Am I the kind of person who needs a break? You are looking down on me, even if you are His Royal Highness.”

No. 3 (Physics): “Everyone… I suddenly thought of a wonderful method! Hurry up and eat fried rice, and then study it!”

No. 5 (Engineering): “I also thought of an excellent solution to the instability of plasma turbulence! With a flash of inspiration, it is very likely to succeed!”

Six (biological): “No way, everyone!”

In unison: “Huh?”

No. 6 (creature) said somewhat embarrassedly: “Your Highness seems to be in a bad mood… It’s not very appropriate for us to go to work at this time.”

In unison: “Oh, then spoil him!”

No. 6 (creature), who doesn’t work at all, seems to have become the boss in the parallel thinking.

Zhang Ran did have a lot of troubles. He watched Qiuyue eat egg fried rice in small bites, and suddenly felt a very lonely feeling.

As soon as this feeling of fatigue appeared, it was a bit unstoppable.

In the eyes of the majority of ordinary people, he is a wise and stalwart Prince, and many people hope that he will quickly ascend the throne and be upgraded from His Royal Highness to His Majesty, although it is only a modification of the title.

In the eyes of foodies, he is a generous “Zhao Gongzi”, pampering the world, bringing surprises and happiness to people.

In the eyes of scientists, he is the largest dog owner in human history. As long as he can get his support, his dream will come true.

The money of nuclear fusion was unimaginable in the past, but is it still burning money like crazy?

In the eyes of many officials, he is a good leader who will not hold on to power, but will leave professional things to professional people. It is not difficult to get promoted as long as you do your best and show your due ability.

But, who knows what Zhang Ran really thinks?

Everyone put their hopes on him, the heavy pressure accumulated over the years, even the iron man will collapse one day.

It’s not sentimental at all. He just misses his old hometown a little bit now, and the scene where the family gathers around a table to eat New Year’s Eve dinner. Although the Spring Festival Gala is getting boring every year, what is this year’s party program that will make those few? What about the stars? What kind of sketch will you play?

I really want to know…

“Your Highness, Your Highness!” Qiuyue looked very satisfied after eating and said softly, “Let’s play a game, how about it?”

“What game?” Zhang Ran recovered.

Qiuyue actually wanted to play games, it was a rare thing.

“How about 24?” she said.

Zhang Ran immediately refused: “You are bullying people. Are you using your invincible light-speed brain to bully me, a primary school student?”

Qiuyue realized that she seemed a little stupid and blushed.

No. 2 (math): “I can let him, let him, whoever puts him in a bad mood. Let him be in a bad mood.”

“I thought of the simplest game, Fighting the Landlord!” Zhang Ran waved at Zero, “A game based on luck.”

Does Fighting the Landlord really rely on luck? may be.

Zhang Ran said again: “In order to make the game a little more exciting, we have to bet some small money.”

“Okay, okay!” Zero immediately became excited.

“I still need to gamble…” Lin Qiuyue was stunned for a while, “That’s fine.”

A night of laughter…

The final result was that Zhang Ran, the big bet on the dog… lost miserably!

He couldn’t understand at all, why he would lose 20 games in a row even in the Landlord Fight, shouldn’t it… How could it be possible?

How did the result of losing 20 in a row appear?

These two women must have joined forces to play with themselves~www.mtlnovel.com~ Damn, even Zero has betrayed! How did they both cheat?

The next morning, when Lin Qiuyue just walked out of the room door and wanted to go to the laboratory, she found that someone was already waiting at the door.

“Playing cards, you are not allowed to go to work today!” Zhang Ran Dabetdog gave the order, “Today I will play Texas Hold’em, and I will win it back through my own strength.”

On this day, there is another little friend, the short-haired girl Sakurai. In fact, she had never played Texas Hold’em, and she lost badly for a while!

Thinking of the money in his own pocket becoming money in someone else’s pocket, Sakurai trembled slightly and kept cheering for himself: “Work hard… Work hard, Sakurai!”

But things like poker, no matter how hard you try, are pointless. The harder you work, the worse you lose.

“Hahaha, yes A, I won.”

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