Chapter 64 Working at Heights
On June 16, 2015, the ground command center of the moon landing base.
The Rocket had already flew very high and turned into a dim spot in the sky. The trail it left behind gradually dissipated in the bright blue background, from milky white to a faint blue color, and finally merged with the blue sky.
The atmosphere in the command hall was quite tense. Because the rocket was not carrying a new lunar module, but an old thing from decades ago. It was inspected without electricity and conducted two tests after the call. Although the test results showed good performance, no one dared to guarantee that there would definitely be no problem with this thing.
I know that the real purpose of this launch is only a few people. It is said that the Prime Minister and His Majesty have personally inquired and instructed to "ensure" the personal safety of the moon landing personnel.
But this kind of thing is really just a talk... no one knows whether they can come back or not.
This not only refers to the "Li Zhen" above, but also to the two astronauts who went with him.
Ying resolutely stood outside the command hall building and squinted his eyes and looked into the sky.
On June 16, even the weather in the north began to warm up. The flowers and trees on the roadside were already lush and swayed gently in the sun and breeze, rippling into the air around them one by one. It seemed that one or two premature cicadas were climbing up the branches and were auditioning intermittently. First, there was a long low voice, and then suddenly changed when the sound gradually dimmed, turning into a "cicada" sound.
Ying Ren covered his forehead with his hands and stared at the few white clouds floating leisurely in the sky. The rocket's tail also turned into clouds, like a milky white cloud sword that pierced the sky from the ground.
Then I heard footsteps and the person who came stopped beside him.
He turned his head and looked at it, but found that Dai Bingcheng handed him a pair of sunglasses: "Use this."
Ying Jue Ran reached out to take it, thought for a while, and asked, "Why did you come out too?"
"I can't see anything inside, just a cursor." Dai Bingcheng looked straight into the sky like him, but there was nothing eye-catching except for the white clouds and the blue sky. So he frowned slightly, "I'll throw a first-stage rocket in another five minutes. Li Zhen...what is going to do? He can't fly to the moon, right?"
Ying Jianran smiled slightly, took off the glasses he had just put on, and reached out to put his hand in front of Dai Bingcheng.
"You refer to these glasses and look at the cloud - the long strip to the west." He said and pointed to the sky, "You look carefully for more than ten seconds."
Dai Bingcheng was slightly stunned. But as he said, he kept his breath and looked into the sky.
After about thirty seconds, he frowned in confusion: "There is nothing special. He has never moved."
Ying Jue Ran didn't say anything. Because just after Dai Bingcheng frowned, he suddenly realized, his eyes staring at the long cloud like an eagle.
The other clouds were moving. Although it was very slow, they had already walked a distance of "one glasses" in more than ten seconds. However, only that cloud stayed in its original place from beginning to end, motionless.
At this time, Ying Jueran whispered: "It was there two hours ago and it has not moved. This kind of thing...only Li Zhen can do it?"
"You said he was in the sky..." Dai Bingcheng looked at the sky again in disbelief.
In fact, the cloud was not big, only the size of a thumb knuckle, and should be quite far away from the ground. But at this time Dai Bingcheng realized that the cloud seemed to be blocking the rocket's launch. It was at this time that he realized that the cloud was extremely light in color - it was not because the clouds looked dim, but slightly blue.
This means it is higher and farther than other clouds.
"Yes. I think he is in the sky." Ying Ran replied, "Maybe he wants to... intercept our lunar module in the air."
Dai Bingcheng breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, he wanted to say - "How is this possible?"
The moon landing rocket will reach the first cosmic speed. He knows that Li Zhen can break through the sound barrier when the high-speed explosion occurs, but supersonic speed and the first cosmic speed... are completely different concepts.
It's like he can control copper within a considerable range, but he can't control copper within the country - if there are some things that humans need to do, there will always be some limits. If that limit is exceeded, it is God rather than a human. Although Lucifer Chiyou Yinglong has appeared so far, like many people, he thinks from the bottom of his heart that it is just a powerful creature, not a really "god".
So he also could not imagine how a person could intercept the lunar module that was traveling at such a high speed.
In fact, this is just the first question - the second question is that even if he did it in some incredible way, how can he get in? How can he seal it when he gets in? Two people will never start fighting in the lunar module, right? In that way, no one can get the gun!
But the time left for him to think was only ten seconds. Because just over ten seconds later, the cloud began to move.
From the perspective of Ying Jue Ran and Dai Bingcheng, the clouds moved extremely slowly - like a ball of dust floating on the water, moving slowly towards the west. But if you consider the height of the cloud and its speed with other clouds, you will realize that it has reached a rather terrifying high speed - it can no longer be measured by "whether it exceeds the speed of sound".
The two looked at each other and quickly ran into the command hall.
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High altitude. Extremely high altitude.
This is the second time that Li Zhen has overlooked the earth from such a height. His vision is good and the sun is bright. The mountains, rivers, cities and forests below have become small pieces or pieces. Only large pieces of thick green or slightly white colored blocks can make him realize what those areas are.
But his vision was limited and he felt quite cold on his body, so he looked down for a while and then sat down slowly.
There are clouds and mists around, and there are some rays of light in the mist. The thick antlers are like a towering ancient tree, pointing directly to a higher altitude in the mist, as if they can pierce the sky if they grow a little longer.
But in fact, they are still quite far away from the "Sky". At present, one person and one dragon are in the middle layer of the atmosphere, scientifically named "middle layer" - between the stratosphere below and the outer layer above.
Even fighter jets cannot fly up at this height.
Li Zhen's movements were quite gentle when he sat down, as if time had been slowed down several times, and now it was slow motion. Because he was wearing a space suit, and there was another layer of thicker and more bulky thing on the outside of the space suit - that thing was like a big cotton jacket that was more bloated than the space suit, wrapping the whole person like a big rice dumpling, with only a small hole in the two eyes.
But even such heavy clothes seemed to be unable to withstand the severe cold at high altitude. Li Zhen felt a little cold and kept drilling into the cracks of his bones, almost freezing his blood.
Of course, the spacesuit has a survival system, but he is not on it now because he knows that there will be an extremely long journey ahead.
So he leaned on the thick antlers, thought for a while, and said, "Actually have you ever thought about flying out of the earth and taking a look?"
The low voice took a while before responding to him: "What's the point?"
Li Zhen was stunned. Then he felt the surrounding clouds and mist fluctuate, and his body also rose. Then a huge golden body appeared and fainted in the clouds and mist, and the majestic dragon body drew several arcs in the thick fog before calming down.
He knew that this was Yinglong's ability to mobilize and continued to maintain the current height of the two.
At present, he was sitting on the dragon head, hiding in the clouds and fog, overlooking the entire world. One man and one dragon have been here for nearly two hours. During this period, the dragon has activated its abilities six times - it is obvious that even for it, it is quite difficult to maintain its current state.
Li Zhen shook his head slightly: "It's meaningless. But you can fly - even if you are not everyone can fly. Since you can reach such a height, you have never thought of flying to the top to take a look? There was still no modern science at that time. Are you not curious about what is outside?"
The dragon made a low and long sound. According to Li Zhen’s understanding, this should be its laughter. Then it said: “Just like you humans. If a person lives on an island, he certainly wants to know what else on the other side of the sea. But without swimming too far, he should realize that he would die if he continues. So even if we don’t know what the universe outside the earth looks like – let alone I will feel quite uncomfortable going up.”
Li Zhen smiled: "You have really tried that."
The "up" that the dragon said should refer to the outer layer of the atmosphere. The air there is thinner, but the temperature begins to rise, and it can even reach a high temperature of 1,000 degrees Celsius. The layer outside the spacesuit he wore was to deal with that high temperature. Since dragons prefer to live in deep water and clouds, they would definitely not like that kind of scorching environment - even for species with strong vitality, one thousand degrees Celsius is enough to hurt them.
The dragon let out a low voice and stopped making any more noises.
In fact, it really looks like a "pessimist". However, what Li Zhen didn't expect was that such a "pessimist" would save him once and promise to help him later.
Perhaps there is another explanation for what it says "everything is meaningless".
Chapter completed!