Chapter Twenty-Four: Life in the Space City

"Is this there?" He Ruiyin rubbed his eyes, and he looked sleepy-eyed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"It's finally here!" Tianhuo stretched his waist and said.

There will be a process of changing direction in front of the spaceship, and of course it is impossible for the two of them to fall asleep again, so Tianyuan.com woke the two of them up from their sleep.

Maybe it was Lu Ze's words that played a role before, Lu Li didn't go to the virtual world alone, but she ignored Tianhuo.

As in the "Nantianmen" space station, the spacecraft docked on the inner wall of the "cylinder", and when the spacecraft docked with the "Tiangong" space city, six huge elevators entered the spacecraft from the "Tiangong" space city.

Tianyuan.com also asked everyone in due course whether their destination was the sixth or fourth layer.

"What's the difference between this sixth layer and the fourth layer?" Lu Ze asked curiously.

In the synchronous study just now, he already knew that these two floors were living quarters, but he still didn't know what exactly it looked like inside.

Tianhuo and He Ruiyin both shook their heads, they also left the earth for the first time, and their understanding of the "Heavenly Palace" was not necessarily comparable to the current Lu Ze.

Lu Likou explained: "These two layers are indeed different. The sixth floor is designed to mimic the earth's environment, and the environment inside is actually similar to the underground city we saw at the beginning. ”

"What about the fourth floor?" Lu Ze asked again.

"The fourth floor was completed earlier, when the 'Heavenly Palace' was not as big as it is now, in order to make full use of the space inside, the fourth floor was divided into large and small cube spaces, both public and private spaces, and the environment of the entire fourth floor was like being in a building."

So Lu Ze proposed: "Then let's go to the fourth floor." ”

"Okay, it just so happens that Lanyue's concert tomorrow will be held on the Starlight Stage on the fourth floor." He Ruiyin raised his hand in approval.

Tianhuo also nodded: "Okay, anyway, I've seen a lot of the environment on the earth, and it's not bad to look at the new environment." ”

There were a majority of people in the entire ship who thought like them, and although the sixth layer was larger and the environment was obviously better, more than half of the hundreds of people chose to go to the fourth layer.

Lu Ze and the others did not follow to squeeze the elevator, and after waiting for the first batch of people to leave, in less than a minute, six new elevators entered the spaceship.

"Let's go."

The elevator was big enough for 50 people, because they were the second group to go, and there were only a dozen people on it, so it wasn't crowded at all.

This large elevator, like the maglev elevator they took on Earth, was transparent on all sides, so it was possible to see what was going on outside the elevator.

The elevator first moved downward, entering the inner wall of the cylinder from the ship, and then quickly traversed along the electromagnetic track.

The space in the inner wall of the cylinder is 50 meters high, which is also the thickness of the entire cylinder, and this space is not enough to be full of various support structures except for the track of the elevator and various maintenance machines for the spacecraft.

Because the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of all the ships docked on the inner wall of the cylinder is supported by this thin cylinder, these support structures are indispensable.

After traveling on the electromagnetic track in the fifth floor for about 30 seconds, the elevator enters the elevator track connecting the fifth and fourth floors of the "Tiangong" and begins to move upward.

After passing through the inner wall of the fifth cylinder again, through the transparent shell of the elevator, Lu Ze finally saw the appearance of the spaceship they were riding.

It is a strange rectangular "box" with a height of only 5 meters, a width of 45 meters, and a length of 200 meters.

Because this kind of spacecraft is designed to travel between the geosynchronous orbit and the "Tiangong", it does not need to travel in the atmosphere, and of course it does not need to be designed to be streamlined, this kind of cuboid is the most concise shape.

Although the entire ship looks like a huge metal plate, it doesn't look ugly at all.

Its surface couldn't help but have no welding marks, but it was as smooth as a mirror, and Lu Ze and the others looked from the elevator, and they could clearly see the starry sky in the universe reflected on the outer shell of the spaceship and the earth 320,000 kilometers away from them.

Of course, the spacecraft is not a completely smooth and integrated box box, and there is a black round hole with a diameter of 4 meters in the middle of its tail, which Lu Ze guesses is used to receive lasers emitted by the base station on the lunar surface.

In addition to this large hole, there are dozens of much smaller pitch-black holes on the surface of the ship near both ends and around the hole, which are supposed to be used to eject plasma to accelerate or reorient the ship.

As the elevator continued to rise, the ship below gradually became smaller, and more scenes from the fifth floor came into view.

Below them, 37 box-shaped ships were parked just like the one they were on.

In addition to this, there are 13 larger ships, which are no longer box-shaped, they are all cylindrical, apparently designed to allow the ships to simulate gravity through their own choices.

The largest of these ships is 200 meters in diameter and 600 meters in length.

Compared with these large spaceships, the Earth-Moon spacecraft that Lu Ze had ridden before was completely a small board.

The mission of these ships is to fly to other planets in the solar system for scientific research and exploration.

The destination of this largest spacecraft is none other than Mercury, which was built after Araiya proposed the "Lighthouse Project", and it will be responsible for completing the renovation and construction of Mercury in the early stage.

From the elevator, you can see the Earth in the direction they came from, and the Moon in the other direction.

The Moon is several times larger from here than from the surface of the Earth, when the Moon is facing away from the Sun, and you can't see the entire surface of the Moon clearly, but you can see a little bit of light on the dark surface of the Moon, which is a city built on the surface of the Moon and is also home to 5 million people.

And looking upwards, in addition to the outer wall of the fourth floor, you can also see the other side of the fifth, sixth, and seventh floors of the "Heavenly Palace", like a staircase, there is another layer outside the first floor, if you add cloud special effects, it is really like being in the Nine Heavenly Palace.

The distance between the fifth and fourth floors of the "Heavenly Palace" is 2,000 meters, and as the height gradually rises, the top of their heads is quickly obscured by the fourth layer, and they can no longer see the fifth, sixth, and seventh floors of the "Heavenly Palace" on the other side of the cylinder.

The whole ascent process took 3 minutes, and then the elevator stopped on a track that surrounded the fourth floor, first stopped for about 20 seconds, and after the cylinder of the fourth floor turned a small half circle, the elevator began to accelerate along the track until the elevator speed was exactly the same as the rotation speed of the cylinder on the fourth floor, and then continued to rise, penetrating the outer wall of the cylinder on the fourth floor, and entering a cube space.

After the elevator stopped, the four of them got off the elevator, and then Lu Ze began to look at the space.

The space is 60 meters long and wide, and 10 meters high, and like the earth, the light is emitted evenly from the walls and ceiling, and the large elevator they are riding in is stopping right in the middle of the space.

And around this space, there are small maglev elevators like the ones they used to ride in the underground city.

This small elevator can take them to any corner of the "Heavenly Palace", while the large elevator will only take them when getting on and off the ship.

Obviously, this is also a transportation hub dedicated to getting on and off the ship.

"I really can't even open my eyes now, I'll find a place to rest first, and you can go play by yourself." Lu Ze said with a yawn.

The time in the "Heavenly Palace" is calculated according to the time in the standard calendar of the universe, and it is already 5 o'clock in the afternoon, but whether it is for Lu Ze or He Ruiyin and Tianhuo's biological clocks, it is only 9 o'clock in the morning.

He Ruiyin and Tianhuo slept well on the spaceship, Lu Ze not only didn't sleep all night, but he needed to memorize things on the spaceship, which also took a lot of brains, so now Lu Ze is really very tired.

After saying goodbye to Tianhuo and He Ruiyin, Lu Ze took Lu Li to find a maglev elevator and sit on it.

Just after sending out a vague message like asking Tian Yuan to take him to a resting place, he closed his eyes and ignored it.

The elevator began to speed up, and in less than 1 minute, it stopped in a small room of about 20 square meters, with nothing but a bed and a toilet.

Although he was very tired, Lu Ze couldn't help but widen his eyes: "This ...... It's too simple. ”

Lu Li said: "In fact, all the people who live on the fourth layer of the 'Heavenly Palace' are living in such a living environment. ”

"Can the people of this age tolerate such an environment?" Lu Ze asked incredulously.

Even Lu Ze, a person from a hundred years ago, feels simple, but you can imagine how shabby it is.

Not to mention that you can have whatever you want on the earth today, and even as long as a person is willing, he can let the Star Spirit Network build a castle specifically compared to this extremely materially rich environment.

This empty room with nothing even reminded Lu Ze of the prison a hundred years ago.

Lu Li said: "The freewheeling lifestyle on the earth, although it can provide everyone with superior material comforts, cannot satisfy the emptiness of people's hearts. Just like the first place you want to go when you come to this era is space, everyone has a cosmic dream. With the development of technology, people's yearning for the universe has become more and more intense, and various literary works and games related to the universe have dyed a layer of romance for the scenery beyond the earth. Living conditions here may be countless times worse than on Earth, but for some, this is the life they dream of. ”

For this strange dream, although Lu Ze can't fully agree, he also understands.

Drowsiness hit again, and after saying goodbye to Lu Li, Lu Ze took off his coat and fell asleep on the bed.