Chapter 90: Millennium Pile (Three-in-One Final Chapter)
Lin Xian stood up from his squatting position and looked at Chu Anqing, who was a head shorter than him:
"Are you okay?"
Chu Anqing nodded and shook her head:
"Sorry... I didn't catch the space-time particle just now. I should have been able to catch it, but I was caught by the fixed rope halfway through my jump. Not only did I not jump up, but I was also pulled crooked."
"So the space-time particle just brushed past the shell of the rice cooker, penetrated my palm, and then flashed away."
Lin Xian narrowed his eyes.
Catching the information in Chu Anqing's words.
The reason why Chu Anqing reacted so strongly just now, screaming, nosebleed, dazed eyes, and shaking all over, turned out to be because her body touched the space-time particle.
It's not that Lin Xian didn't think of this just now.
It's just that now, except Chu Anqing, no one can see the space-time particle, and no one knows whether she caught it or not.
But anyway, the space-time particle catcher that looks like a rice cooker fell from the sky. Right under his nose, it hit the outer shell of the aerospace plane, and then rolled down under the clouds.
In this way, as Liu Feng worried, human bodies will still cause some damage when they come into contact with space-time particles. At least, it is not as silent and gentle as inanimate objects.
But...
Lin Xian held his chin, recalling that Chu Anqing cried like crazy just now, and then looked at Huang Que with pleading eyes, but after getting a positive answer, he cried in despair.
What stimulated her emotions so much?
What made her desperate and pleading to get a negative answer?
What made her finally force herself to calm down and tell herself about the promise of the small note?
At the beginning, at the first moment of her 25th birthday.
Chu Anqing asked herself to come to the dark training room where no one was, and then when the lights were turned on, she held up a birthday cake she made by hand and wished herself a happy birthday.
It was also in that early morning that she told her the puzzle of the small note that she had never been able to figure out the answer to.
This question is really too difficult.
So confident that Chu Anqing was hit hard on the spot. Just reading the question and reviewing it had already burned her brain, and she had no clue at all.
But Lin Xian didn't have any expectations for her, so he just laughed it off.
And now...
Could it be related to the time-space particle he touched just now?
Why is Chu Anqing so confident? And so sure about what should be written on the small piece of paper to achieve those harsh conditions and effects?
"Senior Lin Xian."
Chu Anqing's emotions have now completely stabilized.
She raised her beautiful and slightly muddy face and looked at Lin Xian:
"Didn't we agree at the beginning? Although my mind is not as smart as yours, as your good friend, I will definitely find a way for you."
"And now, I finally thought of the answer! Please believe me, Senior Lin Xian, I know what to write on the small piece of paper!"
She turned her head.
Looking out the window of the equipment cabin, the space-time particles were still flickering and jumping strangely, going up and down, and continuing to move forward along the original route and speed:
"Hurry up, Senior Lin Xian. We don't have much time...!"
Huang Que let out a long breath and opened his eyes.
Turning his head, he looked at Gao Yang:
"Gao Yang, go to the sealed briefcase and get An Qing a piece of paper and a pen."
For the sake of safety in the aerospace plane, especially to prevent those sharp objects from flying around in the weightless state, generally, pens and paper, which are not necessary, are locked in the briefcase and fixed to the cabin wall to prevent them from falling.
Gao Yang, who was confused, also understood that the situation was extremely complicated and urgent.
So he didn't complain like before, and quickly ran to the briefcase next to the operating table.
Quickly opened the briefcase lock.
Took out an A4 white paper and a space-specific writing pen from it.
Hurry and handed it to Chu Anqing.
The anxious report of the pilot Wei Cheng was constantly heard in the radio communication channel:
"The altitude of the aerospace plane has fallen below 40,000 meters! 39,000 meters... 38,000 meters... Commander Huang! Please give me the next instructions!"
The situation is urgent.
The capture of space-time particles is already in danger, and the last chance is about to be missed.
Therefore, Chu Anqing did not delay at all.
After taking the paper and pen from Gao Yang, she rushed directly to the unmanned corner of the equipment cabin.
That is, under the stairs leading to the mechanical arm cabin above.
No one can see there, and there are no cameras. It is a blind spot for all vision.
She crouched under the steel frame stairs, with her back to everyone, and knelt on the ground.
Shh——
She tore a piece of paper the size of a bank card from the A4 white paper, and then put it on the ground, and picked up the fountain pen with her right hand wearing a space suit glove.
Shhh...
Shhh...
With a faint sound of paper and pen rubbing against each other, Chu Anqing quickly wrote two lines on the small piece of paper.
Then fold it up.
Fold it twice, and press the fold tightly to ensure that the small note will not unfold, will not bounce, and the handwriting inside will not appear.
Then she got up from the ground and walked in front of Lin Xian.
Her expression was a little moved.
Her eyes flickered a little.
But she still bit her lower lip and swallowed a lot of words.
She raised her head and looked into Lin Xian's eyes:
"Senior Lin Xian, here you go."
She held the folded piece of paper between her right fingers and handed it to Lin Xian solemnly.
A small note as light as a feather is like a heavy handover of the century:
"[Let's see again over there...]"
Chu Anqing and Lin Xian looked at each other and said softly:
"[You will definitely understand.]"
Lin Xian took the small note.
Pinch it between your fingertips.
It's so light, and through the thick space suit gloves, it seems as if it has no weight and no real feeling.
But inexplicably.
Lin Xian felt again that this small folded piece of paper, which was only about the size of a thumb... was so heavy.
This is the heaviness of a time span of 600 years.
It is the heaviness that holds up the virtual reality of an entire world.
He nodded.
His eyes moved from the small note back to Chu Anqing's face:
"Okay, I promise you. I believe you too."
With his left hand, he unzipped the orange spacesuit at the heart.
Those are the only two personal pockets on this space suit, which are provided for astronauts to carry personal belongings.
Generally, many people will put some photos, notebooks, amulets, ornaments, souvenirs and the like in it, which is the astronaut’s personal freedom.
After unzipping.
Lin Xian put this light yet heavy note into his pocket.
According to the previously conceived plan.
I must not know the contents of this small note, and the current time and space does not allow anyone other than Chu Anqing to know it.
Because there is no airtight wall in the world. Once an outsider knows, you will know one day or under certain circumstances.
Don't trust anyone who claims to keep it secret, this is a virtual and real world verification plan that must be guaranteed to be foolproof.
The core is not fear of others, fear of enemies seeing it in advance, or fear of knowing the contents on the small note.
The real key is yourself.
You must ensure that before you see this small note in the dream world, you have no idea what is on it.
And the moment I opened the hafnium alloy safe in my dream and saw the content on the small note...
You will be enlightened immediately.
Understand everything instantly.
An epiphany about the reality and falsehood of the dream world.
This is a double-blind trial.
You don't know what the small note is, and the enemy doesn't know what the small note means to you.
This is a game that spans time and space, and spans reality and reality.
Win or lose.
Only in the dream world 600 years later, the content of the small note will be revealed!
Zhila——
After placing the small note, Lin Xian held the zipper with his right hand and slid it, officially sealing the small note.
"Aerospace plane altitude! The atmosphere is 36,000 meters!!"
On the radio communication channel, the driver Weicheng shouted:
"An Qing! Please pay attention to the position of the space-time particles and tell me whether the yaw and directional speed need to be adjusted!"
Chu Anqing immediately looked out the side window of the equipment cabin.
It seems.
Coach Weicheng's driving skills are indeed top-notch.
With no navigation, no goal, and no guidance, he persisted for so long and never lost the space-time particles.
Right now, outside the porthole, one can already see a patch of sunlight rising from the end of the earth.
This is due to their height.
In fact, the earth below is still in a state of darkness.
Chu Anqing blinked.
Even in such bright sunlight, the faint blue flashing small electric ball and space-time particles are still so strangely dazzling.
No one else can see it.
But she saw it clearly.
Looking back, Chu Anqing glanced at everyone:
"Let's continue capturing space-time particles."
"Ha!? You're still going!" Gao Yang jumped up directly:
"You really can't go, sister! What did you look like just now? Your face is covered in blood! You still dare to go! You don't want your life!"
"Besides... besides, we all saw clearly just now that the rice cooker, that is, the space-time particle trap has fallen! Without the trap, how can we capture the space-time particles!"
"You can't just hold your hands to catch space-time particles like a dragonfly pounces on a butterfly, right? That's nonsense! Liu Feng has already said that space-time particles have no entity and will go directly through anything they touch, unless there are only those in the rice cooker. …”
Talking and talking.
Gao Yang was stunned.
He turned his head and looked at the place where he had been sitting, the robotic arm console.
Only then did he react.
Space-time particle trap...
There are two in total!
One of them has already fallen down.
However, there is another one installed on the top of the robotic arm! All functions are intact!
"But your body..." Gao Yang looked down at Chu Anqing.
He admitted that he was truly moved by the bravery and fearlessness of such a petite girl.
He didn't have much contact with Chu Anqing.
The first contact was at the celebration banquet of MX Company.
At that time, he only cared about eating lobster and didn't pay much attention to Chu Anqing. Moreover, Lin Xian and Chu Anqing were not that familiar at that time. It was also the first time they met. Gao Yang quickly forgot about this chance encounter.
The second real meeting was at Ji Lin's birthday party. Chu Anqing also asked him about his high school female classmates and whether any girls he had known before looked similar to her.
Then we played guessing games and board games together.
The impression Chu Anqing gave him was that of a simple, lovely little princess with a superior family background.
He has a really good personality and is easy to get along with.
During the training at the astronaut training base some time ago, Chu Anqing also showed his amazing talent as an astronaut, which also impressed him.
But at the end of the day.
That's all.
In Gao Yang's eyes, she was nothing more than a carefree, kind and simple little girl in her second year of college, and her essence had not changed much.
But now...
"It's okay, Senior Gao Yang."
Chu Anqing looked at him and smiled:
"Look at me now, isn't there nothing wrong with me? It means that the space-time particle has no real harm to the human body. And I feel that the harm to me is only that one time. I will accidentally touch it next time. Nothing should happen."
Lin Xian looked at Chu Anqing and thought for a few seconds.
Judging from her current state, there is indeed nothing wrong with her. It is no different from her previous state and she has fully recovered.
Wei Cheng had just reported that the altitude of the aerospace plane had dropped to 36,000 meters.
this……
I'm afraid it's the last chance.
"Then let's try again."
Lin Xian pointed to the closed door of the robotic arm cabin above:
"Let's open the inner cabin door first and remove the rice cooker from above. Then Chu Anqing and I went up again. It was the same as the previous plan. I supported An Qing from behind and asked her to hold the rice cooker and try to capture it again. ”
"No, it won't work from above." Chu Anqing shook her head:
"None of you can see the space-time particles, so you don't know the specific capture situation just now. In fact, I almost used the rice cooker to capture the space-time particles several times. Really... I almost missed it several times, but I was not careful the last time. It hit my palm, and that’s why the emergency happened.”
She raised her head:
"I don't know how to describe that feeling, it's just that... although I have no prediction of the trajectory of space-time particles, I always have an intuition, or a sixth sense, and a very strong premonition. It feels like the space-time particles are going to flash to that location next.”
"I thought it was a coincidence at first, or a coincidence. But as it jumped and flashed more and more times, I found that I could indeed predict its trajectory! Indeed, its flashing and jumping were completely irregular. , but I guess it right every time! I never make a mistake!”
After hearing this, Gao Yang turned to look out of the porthole in disbelief.
certainly……
He saw nothing.
He recalled that when he used a robotic arm to capture space-time particles, he also tried to predict the trajectory of space-time particles. However, except for an occasional lucky break, the other predictions were all guesswork, and none of them succeeded. .
"Since you can accurately predict the trajectory every time and know where the space-time particles will flash to! Then wouldn't it be too easy to capture them?"
Gao Yang sighed:
"If I had your ability, I would have caught the space-time particles within two or three rounds!"
Bang bang bang, he patted the operating table of the robotic arm:
"If this thing is operated well, it is very flexible and precise. Compared with you standing in the small hole on the top of the aerospace plane, holding a rice cooker and jumping to capture, this robotic arm is ten thousand times easier to use!"
"That's right."
Chu Anqing nodded:
"It's because of the [flexibility] issue that I said that I can no longer go to the robotic arm cabin above to capture space-time particles as before."
She pointed to the safety rope untied from her body and the stable lock on the inner bulkhead:
"This kind of safety rope can really fix my posture and ensure that I am safe and will not fall. But at the same time, they also greatly restrict my flexibility."
"As long as these things are cuffing me, I can't run or jump. Holding the rice cooker is like waiting for a rabbit. It's too inflexible. Several times I almost caught the space-time particles. This is the reason. , I can’t jump! I can’t run!”
"Just like the last time, if there were no ropes to restrain me and let me jump up completely, I would have caught the space-time particles! Similarly, the space in the robotic arm cabin above is still too small. With two people standing and a folded mechanical arm, there is no room to run. There are too few opportunities to capture space-time particles. In many cases, you can’t even wait for a long time.”
"so……"
Chu Anqing raised her head and looked around at everyone:
"I need a platform that allows me to run and jump freely... at least within a certain range. This will make it much easier for me to capture space-time particles."
Listen to Chu Anqing's words.
Everyone was speechless.
The truth is such that anyone can understand it.
But how can there be such a demanding platform on this aerospace plane?
Even if Chu Anqing is allowed to walk freely on the top of the aerospace plane without a safety rope or buckle.
But the surface of the aerospace plane is not a flat surface! That's an arc!
Now they are at an altitude of more than 30,000 meters. The temperature outside is nearly minus 100 degrees Celsius. Many places on the outer shell of the aerospace aircraft have frozen.
Therefore, standing on a space plane is simply unrealistic.
The arc-shaped top of the machine makes it difficult for even an acrobat to stand. There is no point of support at all, and he will slide down after turning slightly.
"If it doesn't work, give up the plan."
In the radio communicator, Weicheng said:
"An Qing, the kind of flat platform you need is not available on a space plane, or even on any spacecraft. Of course I know that if there is such a thing, it will be very suitable for you to capture space-time particles."
"But the current conditions do not allow it. There is no platform on the aerospace plane that allows you to run and jump freely. Commander Huang, I suggest that this capture operation be suspended now and prepare to return."
"No, there is! There is such a platform!"
Chu Anqing's eyes were firm and she pointed at the horizontal and wide wings of the aerospace plane outside the porthole:
"Isn't the wing of the aerospace plane a good flat platform?"
"[Please let me stand on the wing and use the last rice cooker to capture space-time particles!]"
If the words are not surprising, then I will die.
Chu Anqing's words immediately shocked everyone into silence! Speechless!
"crazy!"
In the radio communicator, Wei Cheng gritted his teeth:
"You kids are really crazy! It's just nonsense! Have you watched too many Hollywood movies!?"
It can be seen that Wei Cheng is very angry.
This calm and gentle big brother is almost ready to curse now.
"This is impossible!"
Gao Yang couldn't sit still anymore, and then Wei Cheng said:
"We are astronauts, not acrobats! We are not even astronauts! An Qing, please stop thinking! There is no difference between you and asking for death! Did you just see how the rice cooker fell? If you dare to stand up On the wings of an airplane, I’m sure you’ll fall off like that in a while!”
Liu Feng, who had been silent until now, also took a step forward:
"I don't agree with this plan either. It's too dangerous. No...it can't be described as dangerous. It's simply courting death."
"The aerospace plane does not have any passage to the wing. The closest place to the wing is the outer cabin door at the junction of the equipment cabin and the passenger cabin, which is the main cabin door where we enter the aerospace aircraft from outside the aerospace aircraft. ”
"How are you going to get over? You can't open the hatch, and then you grab the outside window sill and lock and climb over, right? Wei Cheng is right, no Hollywood movies act like this, and even James Bond 007 wouldn't dare Play like this. Lin Xian, what do you think?"
Lin Xian replied without hesitation:
"I don't agree with this plan either, not in any way."
He turned to look at An Qing and shook his head:
"We will go to the robotic arm cabin according to the original plan, and try again and a few more times as before. If we can catch it, we will catch it. If we can't, forget it."
"Space-time particles are certainly important, but I don't think they are important enough to sacrifice my companions. Now that I have said this, I don't care about Liu Feng's face anymore. Let me tell the truth."
Lin Xian looked at Liu Feng:
"To tell you the truth Liu Feng, the cosmological constant may not be as complicated as you think. It requires Guizhou Sky Eye, space-time clock, space-time curvature, and then complicated verification. I do not deny that your research route must be wrong. After all, the conditions All roads lead to Rome.”
"However, space-time particles are certainly not the only solution to studying the cosmological constant. Even if we cannot catch space-time particles, it doesn't matter. We can think of other ways to study the cosmological constant through other routes."
Liu Feng nodded without hesitation:
"I understand, if you can't catch the space-time particles, forget it. I'll just think of other methods. As you said, studying the cosmological constants may not necessarily be impossible to skip the space-time particles."
But.
Chu Anqing still shook her head firmly:
"No, Senior Lin Xian. Sister Huangque is right, space-time particles... are really much more important than you think."
She bit her lip:
"This space-time particle... must be snatched no matter what!"
After saying that, she turned around:
"Sister Huangque."
Chu Anqing raised her head and met her blue eyes:
"Let me go!"
However……
It was beyond Lin Xian's expectation.
This time, even the oriole, who only wanted to capture space-time particles, showed a trace of hesitation.
She was silent for a long time.
No voice was spoken.
It's not clear what she was thinking, but it was obvious that she was in a lot of tangles.
"Sister Huangque!" Chu Anqing raised her voice.
Huang Qiao closed her eyes and frowned.
"Commander Huang!!!"
Chu Anqing roared in an unprecedented voice, almost breaking her voice:
"[What on earth did you come back for!?]"
Oriole opened her eyes suddenly.
Gritting his teeth, he pressed his right hand on the pop-up mask of the spacesuit helmet:
"Everyone! Close the spacesuit masks! Activate the constant pressure and temperature device to stabilize the atmospheric pressure inside the spacesuit, and at the same time, fasten the safety rope to the inner wall lock. Weicheng, the equipment cabin is ready to depressurize again and maintain the same pressure as the outside atmosphere Finally, open the main cabin door!”
"Are you crazy!" "Commander Huang!" "Cold-blooded! You want to kill Chu Anqing!" "What are you doing!" From the radio channel, everyone roared in confusion.
However.
The oriole has made up its mind.
Her bright and blue pupils, at this moment, repeatedly became a little blurry, not so bright, and a little astigmatic, like a mirror covered with water mist.
But that moment was too short, and Lin Xian didn't take a closer look.
Click!
The mask on the helmet of the space suit fell down completely, covering Huang Que's face.
Hoo ho ho! Hoo ho ho ho! !
Outside the wide-open door of the aerospace plane, the wind whistled, forming a whistle effect.
At this time.
The altitude of the aircraft is 31,000 meters in the stratosphere of the atmosphere.
The atmospheric pressure in the equipment cabin has long been consistent with that of the outside 30,000 meters high. It is thin and cold, only a few tenths of the atmospheric pressure at sea level.
It is precisely because of this.
When everything is ready and the main door of the aerospace plane equipment cabin is opened, the air pressure balance can be guaranteed, so that the objects inside the aircraft and the astronauts will not be sucked out of the cabin by turbulence.
Now.
Except for Chu Anqing, all the personnel in the equipment cabin, Lin Xian, Huang Que, Liu Feng, and Gao Yang's space suits are all bulging due to the internal air pressure, and they have returned to the shape of the Michelin tire man again.
Everything within reach is rapidly decreasing in temperature, even the electronic equipment in the aerospace plane equipment cabin has dropped to a temperature of dozens of degrees below zero at this moment.
If it were ordinary electronic equipment, it would have been shut down and unable to operate at this moment.
But this is an aerospace plane after all. Various harsh scenarios and emergencies were taken into consideration at the beginning of the design, so all the equipment is operating normally.
Each of them has two safety ropes on their space suits.
The short ropes are connected to the inner wall of the cabin to ensure their safety.
And Chu Anqing at this time.
Standing next to the main cabin door that whistled, she also had a safety rope behind her.
This rope is very long, a full ten meters, and much thicker than everyone else's safety rope.
One end is buckled on Chu Anqing's space suit, and the other end is buckled on the inner cabin safety lock, and then the tail part is held in the hands of Lin Xian, Gao Yang, and Liu Feng in succession.
In this way, if there is a problem.
For example...
In the worst case, if Chu Anqing really falls, they can also pull her back in time.
The best thing about the aerospace plane is that its working fluid engine is located at the tail of the aircraft, instead of under the wings on both sides like conventional jet aircraft.
It can only be said that this is the only good news among all the bad news.
If you fall from the wing of a jet plane, you will most likely be sucked directly into the engine, crushed, heated, and burned into charcoal particles.
In contrast, the wings of the aerospace plane are very ordinary, with a simple structure, just ordinary wings. Although it is still very dangerous to fall, at least... it will not be so terrible to be sucked into the engine and burned into charcoal particles.
According to the plan they made.
Now the rice cooker is hung on the abdomen of Chu Anqing's space suit through the lock.
Her hands are free.
With a safety rope tied, she will climb the lock on the outside of the aerospace plane, go out of the main cabin door, and then move half a meter behind the aerospace plane and stand on the wing of the aerospace plane.
This is an extremely dangerous move...
Even if the world's top astronauts or acrobats come, they will still be terrified.
But at this moment.
This young girl, a sophomore student at Tunghai University, will challenge this miracle of the world.
"The speed of the space plane is 0.97 Mach; the altitude is 28,000 meters in the atmosphere; due to the tailwind, the relative wind speed is 16 meters per second, which is acceptable."
In the radio communicator, Wei Cheng was reporting data:
"I will fly as smoothly as possible and keep the left wing as horizontal as possible. But this is not absolute. Even if the wind direction is stable and there are no clouds ahead, high-altitude turbulence occurs from time to time. Please prioritize your own balance when leaving the cabin."
"Received!" Chu Anqing's crisp voice replied on the radio.
She held the lock on the door frame of the main cabin door tightly with both hands.
Prepare to leave the cabin!
She held the lock tightly with both hands, and the right foot that was stretched out first also stepped on the lock on the outer shell of the aircraft to find the point of force.
Then the body lightly pushed -
In the heartbeat of everyone's throat, Chu Anqing successfully came out of the cabin and clung to the outer shell of the space plane!
Gao Yang saw this scene and dared not open his eyes. It seemed as if ants were crawling all over his body. He was nervous and terrified, and his hair was numb.
This is 30,000 meters high!
The shell of the aerospace plane!
Fortunately, Chu Anqing's innate astronaut physique is really strong enough.
Previously, in the astronaut training base, she got exaggerated full marks in almost all projects. In terms of physique and body coordination alone, she has even surpassed many active astronauts.
No wonder she dances well, but not that well.
The reason is that she has good physical fitness, strong balance and invincible coordination, but no artistic talent.
It's like a giant with muscles and fists but no brain.
Powerful, but no soul.
However, today's action that is unimaginable to ordinary people is the perfect opportunity for Chu Anqing's unique physique and unique talent to play.
Maybe it's really as she said.
She.
Born for this great moment!
Live for this moment of historical glory!
The wing of the aerospace plane was only half a meter away from the main cabin door, not far away.
Flying with the wind, the relative wind speed was also very small, and Chu Anqing did not feel too much pressure.
Lin Xian, Gao Yang, and Liu Feng were all tense, holding the safety ropes in their hands tightly...
Always ready.
If anything unexpected happened, they would immediately pull Chu Anqing back through the wide-open cabin door!
Boom.
In the radio channel that was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, a heart-wrenching sound of landing came.
"Report! I have successfully reached the wing! There is no problem maintaining my balance!"
Chu Anqing's reassuring voice came.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief...
Lin Xian looked outside through the porthole next to him.
The area of the earth below is blue and dark.
Blue is the sunlight at this angle that can illuminate the sky and refract in the atmosphere.
Darkness is because the earth on the surface is still in the dark due to the principle of light propagating in straight lines.
Slightly withdraw your gaze and look at the pearly white wings ahead.
Chu Anqing had already hunched over and stabilized herself on a trapezoidal wing that was two meters wide, three meters long, and only one meter wide at the end.
At this time, she had unfastened the buckle of the space-time particle trap, opened the lid of the rice cooker-like object, held it in her arms, as if holding a magic weapon to absorb monsters, and slowly moved forward:
"Come a little closer, Coach Wei Cheng...a little higher, a little lower, a little lower...a little to the right, that's it! Just this direction and speed!"
After commanding Wei Cheng to adjust the posture of the aerospace plane, Chu Anqing, who was standing on the horizontal wings of the aerospace plane at an altitude of 26,000 meters, was about to start capturing space-time particles!
The three men also held tightly to the safety ropes in their hands.
"Hey--"
Chu Anqing rushed forward and pushed the rice cooker forward.
There is no feedback, it seems that it was not caught.
She waited for a while again like a predatory cobra...
"This way!"
She took the rice cooker and swung it left!
But still not caught.
"ah……"
She gritted her teeth and sighed:
"It's always a little bit worse! If I can't take off, I'm still not flexible enough! If I'm not allowed to jump, I can only use the strength and speed of my arms. But if I'm allowed to take off, I can use the strength and speed of my legs. Just jump up! You can definitely catch the space-time particles in time!"
"The problem now is not that I can't predict the trajectory, nor that I can't catch it... but because the speed of my arm is not enough! Every time I see a space-time particle and predict its trajectory, I can only use Push the rice cooker over with your arm."
"But this is too slow! The space-time particles jumped away again! So, now it's not any other problem, but the problem that I didn't move fast enough! If I can't jump up, my move is really too slow!"
After hearing this, Chu Anqing still wanted to dance?
The radio channel exploded:
"No, no! Jumping is absolutely not allowed!"
"You can stay stable on the wing now only because of the friction between your feet and the wing! Once you jump up, you will definitely! Absolutely! Definitely! You will be thrown off!"
"We are now at an altitude of 25,000 meters! The air friction is already considerable. The wind you can feel is the work done by the air on you! If you dare to jump up, our aerospace plane will definitely leave you behind!"
"You must not jump! This is an absolute principle! If you can't catch it, you can't jump!"
Liu Feng was even more anxious:
"An Qing, if it doesn't work, just aim at the space-time particles and throw the rice cooker out! As I said before, as long as the inner pot of the rice cooker covers the space-time particles, it will lose its activity. Not only will it not jump or flash... but it will also will once again become observable and obey the physical laws of our universe.”
"So it doesn't matter if the rice cooker falls! It doesn't matter if it is smashed! Because the space-time particles are no longer active and will lose their activity forever! Since they can be observed, after we land on the ground, we can just use the space-time particle tracker to look for it slowly! "
"Don't jump! Listen to me! If you really can't catch it, just throw the rice cooker like a basketball! Just rely on luck! After all, you can predict the trajectory of space-time particles and the landing point of the flash... Then aim. At a landing point, throw the rice cooker directly!”
Liu Feng's proposal is very good and very constructive.
but.
Chu Anqing was still reluctant to throw away the rice cooker.
She knows very well...
This is already the last rice cooker, the last chance to capture space-time particles.
If you aim the rice cooker at the space-time particles and throw them out.
It's okay if it's captured and restrained. You can search for it again after returning to the ground.
What if you don't catch it?
Wouldn't that mean a complete failure and a complete lack of connection with this space-time particle?
She can't give up this hope!
Therefore, she couldn't listen to Liu Feng and throw away the rice cooker in her hand!
Time passes like lead.
Difficult, slow, and torturous.
"Height 24,000 meters... 23,000 meters... 21,000 meters... 20,000 meters!"
In the radio communicator, Wei Cheng's voice became more and more anxious:
"The altitude has exceeded 20,000 meters! It's no longer possible! Although the distance is low, turbulence and clouds have begun to appear here! It's very dangerous!"
"The further down you go, the greater the possibility of turbulence! Now Chu Anqing can still perform extravehicular operations smoothly, entirely because the airflow is stable and the relative wind speed is relatively small! When the turbulence layer is really reached, once the opposite wind comes, That's a strong wind with a speed of several hundred meters per second! It will blow Chu Anqing down in an instant!"
"Commander Huang! Please give the order immediately! Abort this capture mission! If this continues... something will really happen if this continues!!"
At this moment.
It’s not just Weicheng.
Almost everyone realizes...
too difficult.
This space-time particle is really difficult to capture.
It flashes and flickers quickly, it is not affected by external forces, it becomes invisible to the naked eye, and it instinctively resists the entity due to the rejection of time and space...
This is really difficult!
It's an impossible task!
"Throw it away!!"
Liu Feng's face turned red with anxiety:
"An Qing! Throw the rice cooker out! Throw it at the space-time particles! Don't worry about whether it succeeds or not, hurry up and come back!!"
Chu Anqing has been catching space-time particles outside for a long time.
However, this game of catching dragonflies and fluttering butterflies still failed because of the inability to take off and lack of flexibility.
finally……
Chu Anqing panted, crouched, striding on the wing of the plane, and stopped moving.
Have you given up?
Have you finally given up?
Everyone was preparing to bring Chu Anqing back——
"what time is it."
Suddenly, Chu Anqing asked calmly on the radio channel:
"Sister Huangque, what time is it now?"
Lin Xian and Gao Yang Liu Feng looked at each other, why are they asking about the time at this time?
Huang Que raised her head and looked at the clock embedded in the bulkhead in the lower chamber:
"00:39"
she said softly.
"hehe……"
Chu Anqing chuckled and felt her whole body relax.
She looked back.
Through the porthole, through the two layers of spacesuit helmet masks, she looked at Lin Xian, who was holding the safety rope tightly and looking at her in the aircraft cabin just a few feet away.
The straight-line distance between the two of them is less than one meter.
It's just separated by a steel plate bulkhead.
But this meter...
Like a cliff, like a chasm, like a galaxy.
Within reach, but out of reach.
"Originally, I wanted to talk to you for a while."
Chu Anqing whispered.
the voice very low.
Mixed with the sound of wind, the radio was completely inaudible.
"An Qing? What did you say?"
Lin Xian held the safety rope tightly, stared at the girl on the wing outside the window, and asked her to repeat it again.
However……
The girl finally smiled.
Look back.
Facing the sky, facing the other side of the wing, facing the rapidly flashing and jumping space-time particles two or three meters in front of you.
Click.
She reached out and pressed the switch of the radio communicator outside the helmet, exiting the communication channel directly.
Then.
Turn your back!
Unlock the safety lock on the back of the space suit!
"An Qing!"
Lin Xian suddenly realized something!
All I could see was the porthole window just a stone's throw away...
The girl took two steps back, clung to the shell of the aerospace plane, bent down, and prepared to run!
boom!
Several pictures appeared in Lin Xian's mind, overlapping together——
"I feel like everyone around me is so awesome..."
In the laboratory of Tunghai University, Chu Anqing raised her head with a smile:
"Compared to you, I am nothing but the daughter of Chu Shanhe."
"I'm sorry, Senior Lin Xian, I seem to have done something stupid."
In the 80,000-person stadium in New Jersey, Chu Anqing lowered her head:
"But! Everyone thinks you can't win! I'm so angry! I just want to come and cheer you on!".
"Wow!"
On the roof of the top floor of the Aman Hotel, Chu Anqing’s curious eyes widened:
"So! This is the center of the world!".
"Since I won't see you tomorrow, I wish you good morning, good afternoon, and..."
In the night breeze of Manhattan, Chu Anqing turned around with a smile:
"Good night.".
"Then if the plane doesn't stop in the United States and continues to fly eastward in the direction the earth rotates! Keep flying and flying... won't we never have to wait until tomorrow! We will always live today!"
At Donghai Pudong Airport, Chu Anqing stood on tiptoes excitedly:
"That, that, that! Then if the plane flies faster! Faster! Wouldn't we really be able to travel through time, go back to yesterday, and go back to the past?!".
"Don't get lost, Senior Lin Xian!"
At the milk tea shop in Xidan Square in the imperial capital, Chu Anqing waved with a smile:
"Don't be afraid that you won't be able to find your way back or find me!"
"Dangdangdangdang~~"
At the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Chu Anqing jumped out of the light holding a cake:
"Senior Lin Xian~Happy birthday!".
The center of the world.
Chu Anqing opened her arms and faced the sky, the moonlight, and the entire starry sky:
"Youjup, Ijup!"
"Come back————" Lin Xian let go of the safety rope in his hand and shouted loudly!
However.
It's too late.
Chu Anqing accelerated and started running with all her strength!
Run on the narrow wings of the space plane!
Like a charging cheetah!
Like a leaping antelope!
Dong Dong Dong Dong Dong Dong fierce footsteps!
She ran so fast! Jump close to the tail of the wing! Leap three feet high!
Raise the rice cooker high!
Like the Holy Grail facing the sun!
Bang! !
The rice cooker closed in mid-air! Chu Anqing hugged him tightly in her arms!
Beep beep.
In the cockpit of the aerospace plane, at the feet of the co-pilot, the space-time particle tracker Liu Feng threw away suddenly lit up, searching for the signal of space-time particles!
"Liu Feng!"
The driver Weicheng shouted excitedly on the communication channel:
"Caught! Caught!! Your tracker tracked the space-time particle signal!!"
But no one responded to him.
In the equipment cabin, Liu Feng watched Chu Anqing jumping out of the wing and stalling and falling outside the porthole. His whole body went limp and he fell to the ground.
Click! Click!
Lin Xian was well prepared. He had already placed his hands on the safety rope buckle and opened both buckles in an instant! He rushed to the open hatch in front of the equipment cabin like crazy!
"Come back, Lin Xian!"
Huang Que, who was locked by the safety rope, screamed:
"[No! No need to save her!!]"
However, it was too late.
Lin Xian had already rushed out of the hatch and jumped into the 20,000-meter sky——
Huang Que's eyes went dark and sad tears burst out:
"[She is a thousand-year-old pile!!!]"
Whoosh whoosh.
Whoosh whoosh.
The wind was howling outside the space suit.
Lin Xian, wearing an orange space suit, fell freely from 20,000 meters!
Gravity.
Weightlessness.
Acceleration.
High altitude.
Temperature.
Turbulence.
He doesn't care about any of it!
Catch up.
Catch up!
Lin Xian stared, looking for Chu Anqing's figure in the fast-moving mess of clouds!
In the third dream...
He has parachuted from 20,000 meters dozens of times, hundreds of times!
He knows it all!
He is proficient in it all!
Open your arms, stretch your body, let your body bear force over a large area, and adjust the direction.
This is his practice in the third dream, countless nights, countless lessons in the red laser, which have long made him like a bird in the sky, in control of everything!
Wei Cheng once explained.
The orange space suit, also known as the advanced escape system space suit, removes many unnecessary functions and pays more attention to safety and instrumentality. It is fully equipped with not only radios, flashlights, medicines, etc., but also a set of [parachutes] and emergency survival equipment!
As long as Chu Anqing is caught.
As long as Chu Anqing is caught!
You can save her! !
"Found it!"
As Lin Xian continued to glide in the direction where Chu Anqing fell, he finally saw Chu Anqing falling at high speed in the clouds below.
It was an orange figure...
The petite figure curled up quietly, holding the brown rice cooker tightly in her arms.
She didn't struggle at all.
No movement at all.
Just like that.
Holding the rice cooker.
Quiet, peaceful, ready to die.
I can catch up!
I can catch up!!
The wind in my ears was as sharp as lightning.
Just like the countless nights in the third dream, falling from the sky at an altitude of 20,000 meters, Lin Xian had no fear at all!
He could accurately pass through an air defense gap that was invisible to the naked eye without any reference.
Of course!
He could also catch up with a striking orange girl!
"Anqing!!!"
Lin Xian shouted, shuttling between the sky and the clouds.
Damn it.
Why can't it be faster!
Faster!
Faster!!
He kept adjusting his posture to reduce wind resistance, making full use of every bit of physical mechanics to make himself have less resistance and fall faster!
What is the terminal velocity of an adult man falling freely?
He checked it, but forgot. It should be 90 meters per second, right? Anyway, it is much faster than the terminal velocity of Chu Anqing, who weighs less than 100 kilograms!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
In the endless and torturous howling of the wind, Lin Xian didn't know how long he had been free falling.
His eyes were focused on nothing else.
Only the orange figure that kept approaching!
Getting closer!
Not only the orange shadow was getting closer, but also the lights and details on the surface were getting closer! Getting clearer and clearer!
The current altitude was estimated to be less than 3,000 meters.
Chu Anqing must be caught before the minimum altitude of the parachute!
Getting closer...
Getting closer.
Getting closer!
The distance was only a dozen meters!
Ten meters!
Five meters!
Three meters!
Two meters!
One meter!
He caught up!
Falling from 20,000 meters, free fall, until now 2,000 meters above the ground, he caught up! Only one meter left!
"An Qing!!!!"
Lin Xian shouted.
Although Chu Anqing, who had already exited the radio channel, could not hear it at all.
He stretched out his right hand forward! Stretching forward:
"Hand!!! Give me your hand!!!"
At the moment.
Descending at the same speed, the orange figure, only one meter away, suddenly raised his head.
It was already dark in the night where the sun could not reach here. The mask was pitch black and Lin Xian could not see anything.
"Hand!!! Give me your hand!!!"
Lin Xian shouted while waving his right hand, trying to catch the falling Chu Anqing:
"Don't worry about the space-time particles! Give me your hand!! Give it to me!! "
Finally.
Chu Anqing seemed to hear Lin Xian's call.
Her left hand was still tightly holding the rice cooker, and her right hand was stretched upward.
The right hands of the two were gradually pulled together in the air.
Keep stretching and waving.
In the high-speed free fall, it was just a little distance, but I couldn't cross it, couldn't get close, and couldn't hold it with both hands!
Faster.
Faster!
Lin Xian felt a bloody taste in his mouth. He probably bit his gums and bled. He just hated why the laws of physics were so strict at this moment! Why couldn't he go faster!
The details of the suburbs of the city below were already in sight.
This distance height.
I’m afraid it’s less than 2,000 meters.
Lin Xian’s shoulder was almost dislocated from stretching his right hand…
Wave your right hand hard!
Can’t catch it.
Still a little short.
The fingertips of the two are only a dozen centimeters apart!
Ten centimeters!
Five centimeters!
One centimeter!
Right in front of you!
Lin Xian used all his strength, raised his right hand, and waved it hard——
Snap!
[Caught it! ]
Big hand and small hand hold it tightly!
Lin Xian gritted his teeth.
Lift it up hard! Hold Chu Anqing and the rice cooker tightly in his arms!
Then quickly free up his left hand and buckle the parachute pull ring around his waist!
Pull hard——
Swish!
The white parachute released a white line, and then it was like a blooming flower.
In the night sky…
Suddenly bloomed!
Boca Chica, Texas, United States, Space-T Starship Launch Site.
Observation Tower.
Jask stared at the USB flash drive in his hand.
Crystal clear, blue light, like a glazed galaxy, a broken sapphire.
Beautiful, stunning.
Extremely exquisite.
But then...
The light on the USB flash drive flickered, and suddenly became dim, empty, transparent...
Then it suddenly lost its weight.
A gust of wind blew by.
The USB flash drive, which had just appeared solid, instantly turned into blue stardust, falling and blowing away in the wind.
The scattered blue stardust, like thousands of collapsed quanta, turned into dust, turned into nothingness, and disappeared...
Jask clenched his palms, and then opened them.
Feeling the touch of the USB flash drive just now, even though it was no longer there, his palms were empty.
"It seems..."
He smiled slightly:
"[My closed loop is complete.]"
The shocked secretary next to him pushed his red-framed glasses and looked at everything in front of him in disbelief:
"What happened to your USB flash drive? How did it disappear out of thin air? Is this another Hollywood magic trick?"
Jask snorted and clapped his hands, as if to shake off the dust on his palms:
"It's a fun magic prop. My friend gave it to me. Isn't it interesting?"
"Friend?"
The secretary tilted her head in disbelief:
"I arrange your daily schedule. Why don't I remember what friends you have met during this period? And... when did you have a magician friend?"
"Then let you meet him! Hahahahaha..."
Jask laughed, snapped his fingers.
Behind him.
A girl wearing sunglasses slowly walked out of the iron shed of the observation tower.
"Shit!" The secretary was really scared!
Who would have thought that there was someone hiding in the iron shed of this iron tower!
It was a very young girl who looked only fifteen or sixteen years old! ?
This question is too big!
She couldn't help but take a step back and look at the girl up and down.
The girl should be less than 1.6 meters tall, slightly shorter, wearing a very ordinary Adisas sportswear.
She has [short black hair] that reaches her neck, refreshing bangs, and a petite figure, but her body still shows signs of exercise.
At this time, she put her hands in the pockets of her sportswear top and walked out of the iron shed of the observation tower step by step.
Quiet, indifferent, but with an inexplicable aura of killing.
The secretary stared at the girl's face, because she was wearing a huge pair of sunglasses that covered half of her face, so her facial features could not be seen.
Only the girl's clear jawline, fair skin, and red cherry mouth could be seen, which looked very cute.
Da.
The girl walked to the middle of the observation deck, stood still, looked at the secretary, and said nothing.
Jask laughed, spread his arms, and introduced to the secretary:
"Look! This is my friend! My good friend who gave me the USB drive and the super virus!"
The secretary widened his eyes:
"She's so young!? How long have you been hiding her here!"
"That must have been a long time."
Jask rubbed his chin:
"It must have been several months."
"Mr. Jajaja Jask..."
The secretary stuttered:
"I think you may face more serious charges now. I'm afraid your friend who is running for the election and may become the barrel of the US can't save you."
Hahahaha, Jask was in a good mood and laughed heartily.
Then he turned his head and looked at the girl:
"Since my closed loop has been formed... Can you act now with confidence?"
The girl nodded.
She stretched out her right hand from her pocket and pushed up the huge sunglasses on her face.
"Hiss..."
The secretary widened his eyes and couldn't help but take a breath.
The girl in front of her was stunningly beautiful, coldly beautiful, tender and smart.
The most important thing is...
The girl's eyes.
It actually emits a faint blue stream of light!
Deep, strange, bright, and dreamy.
Like glass.
Like a galaxy.
Like... a broken sapphire.
Boom!
I don't know which country or city it is in the suburbs of.
The full and falling parachute suddenly became wrinkled and loose, and bent down with the evening breeze.
Lin Xian landed on his feet.
But under the inertia of the dive, he knelt on the ground with Chu Anqing in his arms.
"Anqing! An..."
Lin Xian opened his eyes wide.
The first thing he did when he landed was to push open the mask of his spacesuit, breathe in the fresh air from the surface, and then pick up Chu Anqing, who was wearing an orange spacesuit on the ground.
However……
The moment he picked up Chu Anqing, he was stunned.
[Light...why so light? 】
He felt the weight in his arms, not like he was a person!
No matter how slender and slender Chu Anqing is, she can't be so light!
Lin Xian felt as if the spacesuit he was holding in his hands had no weight... In other words, it was only the weight of the spacesuit and he didn't feel the weight of the person inside at all!
"An... An Qing?"
moment.
Lin Xian felt his heart go cold.
He quickly turned on the locking switch of Chu Anqing's space suit helmet, and pushed up the mask with a click!
without……
nobody.
There is nothing in Kong Bian’s spacesuit!
"where is the guy?"
Lin Xian's eyes widened, unable to accept it at all.
He pulled the spacesuit completely open! Pull to the end!
Is there anything...
Nothing at all!
Except for the little bits of blue stardust that were picked up when the space suit was opened, there was nothing in the space suit!
Even those blue stardust that are looming like an illusion...
They all dissipated in the blink of an eye and disappeared.
"Where are the people!!"
Lin Xian stood up and shouted.
But no one responded.
Gulu gulu...
As Lin Xian stood up, the space-time particle trap sandwiched in the arm of Chu Anqing's space suit rolled down.
The trap, which looks like a rice cooker, rolled twice and landed face up on the yellow lawn.
The electronic display at the top of the capture device flashed twice in sequence.
Then there was a beep.
It no longer flickers and the words no longer change.
Instead, two lines of fonts are displayed stably——
[Space-time particles: captured successfully! 】
[Capture time: March 28, 2024, 00:42]
The third volume, "Millennium Stake", is to be continued.