My Journey Is to the Stars and Sea

Xu Ran, a genius engineer hailed as the key to interstellar travel, dies in an accident while testing a warp engine and transmigrates to a parallel universe. Here, civilization has developed roughly on par with Earth's, but technological progress and cultural trends are worlds apart. The entertainment industry is highly developed, and information technology is geared toward media and virtual reality games. The aerospace industry has countless orbital satellites used for entertainment and media consumption, but few for scientific exploration. Xu Ran's new identity is an insignificant little star in the flourishing entertainment industry. His works have received nothing but bad reviews, and his only claim to fame is constantly hitching himself to top-tier star Yan Lang to stir up publicity. Xu Ran feels out of place in this era of entertainment for all. But having witnessed the vastness and wonders of the starry sky, he is no longer content to simply gaze up at it. # When Yan Lang's fans noticed that the clingy pest Xu Ran hadn't been seen in ages, they thought he had left the entertainment industry and were ready to applaud and set off firecrackers in celebration. Then they heard a rumor that one of the top two universities had extended an offer to Xu Ran. Soon after, Xu Ran appeared in the documentary "Great Nation: To the Heavens." In the documentary, when the hydrogen-oxygen engine for the Wentian rocket series was being welded, the wire in the vacuum annealing furnace snapped. The person who crawled into the dark, stiflingly hot furnace chamber in the middle of summer to deal with the emergency was Xu Ran. Yan Lang's fans: ...? Netizens: ...?? Later, Time magazine interviewed Xu Ran and asked him about the word “dream.” Xu Ran: “May humanity set foot beyond the solar system in my lifetime.” # If you want to build a ship, don't gather people to collect wood or assign them tasks. Instead, teach them to long for the vast ocean., Antoine If you want to build a spaceship, teach them to long for the vastness of the starry sky., Xu Ran [The blurb was screenshotted and archived on August 12, 2021]