I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property

"Captain Meng, have you notified Chief Zhou and the others about the situation here?"

"I've already informed Chief Zhou," Meng Tianhe said. "Chief Zhou has arranged resources for us, and we can take the spaceship directly to Longxia's headquarters!" Meng Tianhe continued, "I've also told Chief Zhou about your contributions, and he might even be able to apply for a special appointment as an instructor at Longxia for you."

Zhang Menglong's strength was witnessed by everyone today, and he was probably the epitome of human achievement. It wasn't just Zhang Menglong; any of the students he brought this time had the qualifications to be instructors at Longxia.

"No need for any titles, I'm not interested in that kind of stuff," Zhang Menglong curled his lip. He already had the title of academician from the two institutions; what good was a title that couldn't be openly acknowledged?

"Tell Chief Zhou not to bother me with running the school in the future."

"Oh, and Chief Zhou also specifically instructed that as long as you don't violate the law and the Second World Convention, all policies can give you a green light. The educational qualification license will be issued to you in a couple of days."

"Hahaha, so Chief Zhou still keeps his word?" Zhang Menglong laughed with satisfaction.

"Mr. Zhang, also about that training matter we talked about the other day..." Meng Tianhe looked at Zhang Menglong full of expectation. If every person in Longxia could become as formidable as the students under Zhang Menglong's tutelage, then Longxia would be invincible in the future.

"It's a small matter. Just arrange the people and send them directly to Jiangnan City when it's time; I'll have someone coordinate with you."

"That's wonderful!" Meng Tianhe laughed. "Can I come along too?"

"You?" Zhang Menglong looked Meng Tianhe up and down, "You can, but my school is very strict, so you'd have to start from the first grade. And you'll have to call the other students 'senior brother' and 'senior sister.' Can you handle that?

"Handle it! I wouldn't mind even calling them 'dad' if necessary!"

"Well, that's completely unnecessary," Zhang Menglong didn't expect Meng Tianhe to have such a bootlicking side to him.

"Let's go. I've activated autopilot; it'll take about an hour to get to the headquarters. Let's head to the cockpit and see just how impressive this alien civilization's technology really is!"

Zhang Menglong, now with the highest access rights, found the spaceship almost as familiar as his own home. The artificial intelligence used voice commands to guide him towards the cockpit.

As the cabin door, sealed for tens of thousands of years, opened, the cockpit welcomed living people for the first time in a long while.

The cockpit was nearly as big as a basketball court, with numerous consoles arranged next to each other, screens displaying alien landscapes and various spaceship indicator data.

"Chemical propulsion and curvature drive dual-power system. The curvature drive's maximum speed can approach the speed of light, while the chemical engine can reach up to 0.3 times the speed of light. Tsk, tsk, tsk, indeed several levels above our human technology!"

Without the knowledge of Zhang Menglong, curvature drive was still a theoretical concept, and as for chemical propulsion, humans hadn't even achieved nuclear propulsion yet.

"How many people does it take to operate this thing?" Meng Tianhe was wide-eyed with amazement. If these things were taken back to the headquarters, the scientists would probably be thrilled beyond words.

"Just count how many dead people there are on the floor!" In the cockpit, there were numerous skeletal remains, which were probably the former crew of the spaceship, and it looked like there were about twenty to thirty people.

"Was it some kind of accident?" They were all gathered in a corner of the spaceship's cockpit as if they had been struck by something, and they had all died due to the physical impact and inertia.

"That's strange. Didn't they have anything like airbags?" Meng Tianhe could also guess the cause of death for these people; a civilization advanced enough to create such a ship shouldn't have just died like this.

"Check the flight logs," Zhang Menglong instructed artificial intelligence.

Soon, from the data sealed for ten thousand years, Zhang Menglong found an answer.

"It seems that during travel with the curvature drive, there was an accident where the curvature space bubble burst due to unstable space, and they were ejected from the curvature space bubble at nearly the speed of light," he interpreted.

"What is a curvature space bubble?"

"Hmm... just Google it yourself," Zhang Menglong couldn't be bothered to explain; to clarify this matter would take hours and still might not make things clear, "Anyway, it's a technical accident that happened right near our asteroid belt."

Traveling at near-light speed, even if the spacecraft is extremely durable, a collision would still be very dangerous; for more details, one could refer to the analogy of a bird strike on an airplane.

However, because the spacecraft materials are very robust, the collision resulted in the asteroid ending up crushed into powder, while the damage to the spacecraft was minimal.

But one must understand that the force of impact can transfer; just because the spacecraft was unharmed doesn't mean the people inside were safe!

The impact force transmitted through the spacecraft's hull, instantly killing the high-grade life forms inside!

Actually, this situation could have been avoided simply by evacuating the air inside the spacecraft; vibrations need a medium to propagate, and in a vacuum, they wouldn't have been able to cause death due to air vibrations.

It was just that the incident happened so suddenly that there was no time to evacuate the air, leading to this tragedy.

"Wait a minute!" Zhang Menglong's expression suddenly turned unnatural.

"This spaceship sent out a distress signal at the time of the accident! The frequency of this signal is the same as the one Professor Liu observed!"

A terrible suspicion suddenly arose in Zhang Menglong's mind.

Following the crash, the distress signal was sent back to the spaceship's home planet, but because the coordinates of Earth and the Solar System were not known, there had been no results.

Then, by chance, that civilization captured signals from probes humans had previously launched into space and, using these, they successfully located Earth.

If that was indeed the case, Earth's coordinates might have already been exposed!

"This is potentially very dangerous!" Zhang Menglong suddenly felt grateful for Professor Liu's discovery, for if the beings from that civilization came looking with ill intent rather than good.

The consequences would be unimaginable!

"We must expedite Earth's defenses! If they come with malice, we shouldn't be caught off guard."

This was a matter of great importance, and Zhang Menglong shared his views with Meng Tianhe, whose expression also became extremely grave.

This was not a matter concerning just one nation but the very survival of human civilization.

"Menglong, how certain are you?"

"It's not about how certain I am—the problem is that even if there's only a 1% chance, we need to commit 100% of our effort to it," Zhang Menglong answered.

"But the gap between us and their civilization is too wide. Look, we can't even deal with their detecting robots; if they come with hostile intentions..."

"Then let them experience what's called a technological explosion!" Zhang Menglong declared, "Captain Meng, help me relay a message to Academician Zhou—I want to recruit a group of extremely outstanding talents in various fields."

"Also, we need to rework our education model," Zhang Menglong said, "Current education can no longer keep up with the potential threat we're facing."

"What do you mean by that?"

"I want to redefine the education model for the whole country, even the entire human race, with Jiangnan University of Science and Technology at the core!"

"That's impossible!" Meng Tianhe didn't even have to think about it; the idea was wildly impractical.

"Nothing is impossible—let's start with Jiangnan City!"