One month later, it was Tang Chenxi's 18th birthday.
Tang Li also gave her the phoenix-shaped jade pendant she had prepared.
In 363, both Song Chaoyang and Tang Chenxi began their internships.
Song Chaoyang's internship was at the research and development cabin on the third level of the G City underground city.
Consciousness transfer technology was indeed difficult to overcome.
Even with 30 years of research in her previous life, which had avoided many detours, it still hadn't been conquered.
Only by conquering consciousness transfer technology could the Cloud World be established.
The so-called Cloud World was similar to the metaverse.
The difference was that the metaverse was just a virtual network world, where people controlled a virtual body, and their consciousness remained outside.
However, the Cloud World could accommodate human consciousness, allowing people to live in it in reality.
It was just that, at present, it seemed there was still a long way to go to achieve consciousness transfer.
Tang Chenxi, on the other hand, left the G City underground city to undergo training in person at the space city located near the equator.
After the major earthquake, the Earth's topography had changed drastically.
Especially on the volcanic and seismic belts, islands formed by volcanoes had been completely submerged by the sea.
The rise in sea level had also submerged many islands.
Near the equator, the only land suitable for launching rockets was in the Americas and Africa.
The official space city was built on the west coast of Africa.
It could be reached directly by land through underground tunnels, and large quantities of supplies could be obtained by sea via ships. Northern hemisphere extreme cold seasons would be supplied from the southern hemisphere, and southern hemisphere extreme cold seasons from the northern hemisphere.
Moreover, the environment was relatively dry, making it suitable for rocket launches year-round.
Even the researchers at the Shan Cheng underground city planned to build humanity's first space elevator here, allowing people and supplies to travel between Earth and space more conveniently.
However, it was still in the design phase.
There were also many challenges to overcome to build a space elevator.
When Tang Chenxi arrived, there was no sign of a space elevator, only rockets constantly ascending, sending various man-made satellites and spacecraft manufactured on Earth into space.
Since the start of the "Tiangong Project," no astronaut's physical body had been sent into space.
Before the apocalypse, astronauts in space had been brought back at the very beginning of the catastrophe era.
And now, these older generation astronauts were the training mentors for the new astronauts.
In space, the man-made spacecraft from before the apocalypse had long since turned into scrap metal under the impact of solar storms.
For humanity to return to space, they had to manufacture new spacecraft and launch them into space again.
Currently, what was being sent into space were wireless brain-controlled robots, which could be remotely controlled through brain-computer interfaces to perform various operations, much like sending real people, and were safer.
Over the past three years, the space city had taken shape, with all supporting facilities for the aerospace industry constructed.
In space, a new space station had also been completed.
Now, all of Earth's resources were controlled by the Z country's government. There was no cost in terms of how much could be mined.
Various spacecraft could be manufactured starting from ore, with only labor costs involved.
And current labor costs were very cheap; as long as food could be provided.
This also resulted in the current population of 40 million being far from enough.
Since the start of the "Nuwa Project," the government had been encouraging childbirth.
The living conditions in the official underground cities were not as good as those in the G City underground city. Many women whose genes were not damaged by delta particles, in order to obtain official rewards, used drugs to stimulate the production of eggs, allowing them to produce more eggs each month.
As artificial womb technology matured, the government also began to find ways to improve the survival rate of fertilized eggs, and even artificially created twins, triplets, and multiple births to restore the population to pre-apocalypse levels as soon as possible.
Even if the global population wasn't restored to 8 billion, it needed to be restored to Z country's population of 1 billion.
Therefore, in the nearly ten years, the number of newborns in the official underground cities had reached an astonishing 10 million!
Furthermore, the government had begun to migrate these populations to various parts of the world.
Underground cities and underwater cities had even been built in the underground of the Antarctic continent and the seabed of the Arctic Ocean to house a small number of people.
As for the space city, the permanent residents were aerospace workers.
Minerals mined from all over the world were transported to the space city after simple smelting locally, to manufacture various spacecraft.
The west coast of Africa near the equator itself also had rich mineral resources, which, after being mined, would be smelted locally and used to manufacture spacecraft.
Tang Chenxi's internship at the space city also went smoothly.
Because the X substance in her body was first-generation, its enhancement of mental power was much stronger than the weakened mental enhancement potions.
Therefore, the training posed no difficulty for Tang Chenxi.
She only needed to connect to the wireless brain-controlled robots that had been launched into space through the brain-computer interface to train her ability to adapt to the space environment and control spacecraft in space.