Top Student at Their Peak-Chapter 935 - 336: Moon Scientific Research Base

"I am very fortunate, truly fortunate, to be among the first ordinary people in the world to land on the Moon with my eldest son.

Honestly, if anyone still doesn’t believe it, you can go to Fish Town and ask about lucky Richard. I believe my coworkers will tell you my story.

What can I say about things like lotteries? Right, Thomas?"

Facing the spaceship’s camera, Richard stroked his child’s hair and spoke freely and confidently.

Despite having difficulties with reading, Richard never lacked the desire to express himself.

Of course, this is also thanks to the education from West University, as the educational model they received since childhood encouraged them to bravely express themselves.

Even if their understanding is wrong, it doesn’t matter. But first, you must dare to express, and in this aspect, they’ve done quite well.

The only trouble is it has already produced a bunch of people who have low cognition but dare to express themselves.

In the words of the Huaxia people, it’s probably something like being stupid yet confident.

This is probably why the flat earth theory has a huge market at West University. They even dare to hold world-class conferences and seriously tell everyone that the round earth theory is just a conspiracy...

They even widely publish the conference videos on internet platforms.

It’s just that everything has its pros and cons.

In contrast, Thomas, who experienced Huaxia education, is more reserved.

When his father raised his hand to stroke his hair, he just gave a shy and sunny smile to the camera. He did not express anything extra or try to steal Richard’s spotlight.

Actually, Richard did not tell Thomas about Qiao Yu’s promise.

This scenario is probably because Thomas, who is good at science, is not very interested in presenting himself in front of the camera.

"I believe everyone watching this livestream already knows, before coming to Huaxia, a documentary called ’Richard’s Family’ has started filming.

It’s documenting our family life. Honestly, our life is really boring, for instance, this is my first time going abroad for a vacation since marrying Lisa.

After speaking, Richard John smiled embarrassedly.

"But the documentary’s director, Michael, told me that his theme is transformation.

To tell everyone how a family that once worked three jobs a week and couldn’t fill their stomachs is now living a prosperous life.

I think this theme is very meaningful. After all, people like us don’t get many opportunities in a lifetime.

If you miss an opportunity, you might stay the same forever. So today, I want to talk to everyone again about the topic of opportunity..."

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Three days of the voyage was actually quite boring for Richard and Thomas.

Even though there were a lot of jobs to do on the ship every day.

Like daily maintenance, record-keeping, and observing the course path.

But a month’s special training was only enough for the father and son to initially adapt their body for a short stay in outer space.

All the work was being done by two other people. So their main task was livestreaming.

Richard really enjoyed this job.

Every day, he just needed to appear in front of the camera, say hello to the viewers in the livestream room, and chat casually on some topics.

Incidentally, he’d perform how to drink water in a weightless state, and he’d receive many online gifts...

Moreover, as per their agreement, after this journey, all the gifts received during the livestream would be cashed, and he and Thomas would split them in half.

Additionally, during this time, the livestream was the best channel to gain popularity and let everyone know him.

In the future, when he really starts moving towards the white house, as long as everyone sees him on screen, they’d think of "Lucky Richard," and this is a fame that money can’t buy.

Yes, Qiao Yu’s suggestion to him was to start stressing his "good luck" in front of the public now!

This is Richard’s personal branding.

What he needs to do is make sure, in the future, no matter how he appears before the public, the first thought that pops into their heads is "this lucky guy!"

It’s like a mystical feeling.

It’s almost a perfect personal branding.

Even if Richard truly steps out and starts causing trouble, people will subconsciously think a lucky person might also bring them luck.

So next, Richard’s luck will keep being this good.

As for how someone’s luck can keep being so good? That’s not just mysticism.

In fact, as long as there’s a sufficiently strong support base, an individual’s luck can be good enough to make everyone jealous...

Coincidentally, Qiao Yu has the support resources needed that are strong enough to easily keep Richard’s luck going well.

And so, during the three days headed to the Moon, Richard continuously shared interesting stories from his life with the netizens.

Telling everyone through many details how lucky he was...

For example, during his school days, a tragedy that shocked the entire West University happened.

At that time, he was only centimeters away from the Grim Reaper, but he got away.

Well, it must be admitted that many things were fabricated, but when the force behind him has the ability to perfectly piece together events from decades ago, anything fabricated becomes the truth.

Collective memory has always been alterable. Especially in the network era, the discussion, debates, and public opinion dynamics within society are updated in real-time.

When everyone can participate in this through the internet, cultural narratives become rich and colorful, which also means collective memory is unconsciously transformed by mainstream cognition.