Just below, a faint glow appeared. The light dragged a long trail, at first with only a small dot, and soon turned into a thin "toothpick". Immediately after that, the "toothpick" turned into a "pencil" - at this time, Li Zhen could already see the bright fire on the rocket fairing.

In the past, when I watched the rocket launch on TV, I thought that the flame was just the tail flame of the rocket, but at this time, I realized that the light around the rocket was not inferior to the long wake.

At the moment he saw it, Li Zhen felt his heart tremble slightly.

Because of that terrible speed—a speed far beyond what he had imagined. When imagining a lot of things in my head, I always feel bland and full of confidence. But no amount of meticulous imagination could compare to what he had seen with his own eyes—he could hear the distant whistling of the rocket rubbing against the air, and it grew louder and louder as the other approached at high speed.

That's when he realized...... This thing is far faster than any bullet or cannonball.

Right now.

Ying Long moved.

The surrounding clouds and mist were pulled into slender filamentous clouds in only an instant, and Li Zhen reached out and grabbed Ying Long's antlers tightly in the first time, so that he was not thrown down from the high sky by it at once. The thick clouds and mist accompanied by the terrible whistling wind swept past Li Zhen's side, and it was at this time that he realized what kind of high speed this dragon could reach!

They had been quite far away from the rocket—the huge man-made object was flying diagonally from thousands of meters away, and the air seemed to be burning everywhere it passed. It then quickly flew farther and higher into the sky. In an instant, it becomes a thin "pencil" again.

But just after Ying Long moved, the size of the "pencil" no longer changed. The dragon followed at the same terrifying speed, and even had time to reorient itself, placing its massive body diagonally above the rocket. At this time, the launch vehicle flew diagonally—and the dragon accelerated again, and a whole majestic body finally broke away from the cloud and revealed itself in the sky.

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In front of the screen, Dai Bingcheng and Ying Ran gasped at the same time.

Actually, the two of them were a little calmer. As for the others, an engineer was already startled, and a suffocating cry came out of his mouth: "What's that?!" ”

They were in a separate room, and the real-time monitoring screen in the command hall had been turned off, and only a few people in this room could see what was happening.

A dragon appeared above the launch vehicle. And fly at the same speed as it and fly higher into the sky together!

Ying Long made an appearance in the south. Although there was no electronic device to record it at the time. But many survivors have already described it in great detail. The few people in this room were people who had limited access to the facts of the day, but even if they had been mentally prepared before, they still couldn't suppress their surprise when they saw the true appearance of the behemoth.

Because it's just too big. Even the towering launch vehicle compares to it. It also seems small and insignificant. It was as if the dragon had taken an interest in the thing. Only two front paws need to be poked out. You can easily shoot down that high-speed rocket.

The minds of the vast majority of people are briefly confused at this moment. Because there is so much surprising information, and every piece of information is not something that they can predict with rational thinking.

The presence of a giant dragon in the sky was shocking enough, and the dragon was flying with the launch vehicle right now. The most critical thing is. The dragon had destroyed almost half of southern China not so long ago, and the pollution caused by the explosion at the nuclear power plant that night had turned a vast area into a no-man's land.

Fortunately, Dai Bingcheng opened his mouth in time. He shook off his momentary surprise and coughed, "Everyone, don't be impatient. ”

But the chief engineer had already exclaimed again: "That thing is going to destroy our rocket!" ”

The image on the screen is not clear and even flickering slightly. But even then, the dragon could be seen trying to get close to the giant launch vehicle. Its body was once shining with gold, but now it became even more brilliant—it seemed that clouds of fire began to rise between its bodies, as if it had changed from a golden dragon to a fire dragon.

Rockets and dragons have broken through the middle layers of the atmosphere and entered the outer layers of the atmosphere.

And the dragon coiled its body like a snake, and its huge head was already close to the position of the second stage rocket.

Dai Bingcheng shouted again: "Don't be impatient." That's not the enemy. ”

As he said this, the five people in the room immediately turned their eyes to him.

So he sighed slightly: "On the rocket, the Li Zhen in the lunar module is fake." I think the real Lee really tried to somehow get into the lunar module...... Of course, I don't know much about the specific plan. ”

Heavyweight messages were thrown out one after another. It seems that because of the impact of the dragon appearing in the sky before, these people didn't seem too out of shape after hearing the news of "that Li is really fake" - at least they knew that there was a real Li Zhen and a fake Li Zhen in the Dao. Besides, no matter which Li Zhen looks like a person, it will not be bigger than a launch vehicle.

But the agitated chief engineer's eyes widened again: "Into the lunar module?" Monkey business! Dean Dai - Why didn't you say this before? Which one inside is fake? So why do you want him to go to heaven? Really, why don't you contact us? Into the lunar module at this altitude? Don't you know that even if the plane is flying in the stratosphere, the cabin door can be destroyed?! ”

He seemed to be really excited, so much so that he didn't care about Dai Bingcheng's identity, and forced Dai Bingcheng's face to face with one sharp question after another, but he couldn't interject.

Fortunately, the person in charge of the base and the commander of the garrison on the side grabbed his arm to dissuade him, and then frowned and looked at Dai Bingcheng: "Dean Dai, what's going on?" ”

Dai Bingcheng let out a sigh: "Saying that he is going to enter the lunar module is just my personal inference. I don't know exactly what he's going to do. But I believe he is not a reckless person. But what do you do if you know the news of that One? ”

He paused for a moment. The agitated chief engineer opened his mouth to continue to say something, but was stunned the next moment.

He is the chief engineer, not the ordinary engineer who is dedicated to the business. Therefore, he knows more about the current situation and thinks more. So he, like the others around him, was aware of the same problem.

"Then you all already understand what I'm doing for you." Dai Bingcheng glanced at the screen, "We can't rely on our force to arrest that person suspected of being a fake Li Zhen here." That would be a skirmish – perhaps destroying the launch site. Maybe a lot of people will die. Perhaps things will drag on until the end of this period. Then we've missed the chance to go to the moon — and I don't say that because I think that thing on the moon is more important than you think. Maybe some people who don't think it's so important can suspend the moon landing, but I won't let this kind of thing delay or even abort. ”

He paused: "On the other hand. It's because the one hasn't been in touch with us yet. I think he has his own considerations. ”

The garrison commander looked at Dai Bingcheng. Look at Ying Ran again: "So...... What do you two think he has in mind? If you are afraid of a miscarriage in the moon landing plan. Why don't you send that one to the moon with Aerospace II? That's also much better than the current situation. ”

This time Dai Bingcheng didn't speak, but thought about it decisively, and said in a low voice: "Then come here." The two always have to meet on the moon. That kind of strength, for us, is a fight between the gods - do you think they can distinguish the winner? But if they don't put up a position and fight head-on......"

At this point, the room had calmed down.

Because the word "fairy fight" is really apt – people know what happened in Zamboanga in the Philippines.

The garrison commander let out a long breath and nodded slightly: "If that's the explanation...... That is to say, the one who wants to carry out a surprise attack in an unexpected way for the other party. ”

He looked at the screen stunned: "Unexpected way...... Then he ......"

But a hurried knock on the door interrupted him. Then the door was slammed open, and a staff member shouted at them with a panicked face: "Sir, you need to go see the big screen!" ”

Dai Bingcheng frowned almost as soon as he finished speaking, and strode out of the door. Then I saw that the electronic screen in the command hall, which had been turned off, had been turned on, and the dragon appeared in front of everyone in a more intuitive form.

There was a deathly silence in the hall, and everyone was stunned.

And Dai Bingcheng grabbed the collar of the person in charge and yelled: "Who wants you to drive this thing?!" ”

The command center is to issue instructions to the lunar module. And at this time, a commander with a better psychological quality began to call the lunar module. But Dai Bingcheng stretched out his hand and pointed, and a series of sparks erupted on the console in front of the man, and the communication was suddenly interrupted.

This sudden change made the person in charge who was originally stammering and planning to explain swallow the words into his mouth and glared at Dai Bingcheng silently.

At this time, the chief engineer stepped out of the door and shouted: "Don't contact the lunar module, listen to my instructions!" ”

Two things caused the command hall to fall into a brief chaos, and a minute later, Dai Bingcheng sat back in his chair tiredly and sighed: "This Li Zhen...... Sooner or later, I'm going to have a heart attack! ”

Ying Ran was silent beside him for a while, and smiled bitterly: "I think it's because he trusts us." You know, he was in heaven for more than two hours—we should have seen it. ”

In fact, what happened just now was indeed an accident. The dragon approached the launch vehicle at high altitude, causing subtle interference to the rocket in some way, causing a deviation in course. This kind of thing can rely on the rocket itself to adjust itself, but the staff turned on the real-time monitoring screen again in the first time for the sake of insurance, so they saw the scene just now.

If it hadn't come out in time, the appearance of a giant dragon on the periphery of the rocket might have been told by the ground commander that there would be another "Li Zhen" in the lunar module.

Dai Bingcheng shook his head slightly: "Maybe it's just too hasty." After all, at that time, if someone told me that this Li Zhen in the base was fake, I wouldn't believe it. Besides, we don't know where else the one in the lunar module can know what else is going on. If everyone here knew that the one outside was the real one at the beginning...... Do you guess someone will tell the news? ”

Ying was slightly stunned: "This ...... Hard. ”

Dai Bingcheng stood up: "So it's not that he trusts us too much...... It's that he doesn't trust us very much. So he can tell us something, but he doesn't lay out his own plans. But probably even he didn't expect that we would come up with a real-time monitoring technique. ”

He looked at the big screen in front of him again.

From the time they saw the dragon in the sky, a minute and fifteen seconds had passed.

Everyone was still in the aftermath of the shock just now—even the voice of the communicator who had just made contact with the lunar module trembled slightly, but the "Li Zhen" didn't seem suspicious.

The dragon has been surrounded by fire, turning into a real "fire dragon".

And now, its head is "sticked" to the launch vehicle - it really looks like it is "sticked" on the screen. But if someone could actually come to the scene, they would find that there was a distance of nearly three meters between the two.

Then a small thing landed on the rocket.

It was a white thing that looked like a white dot of light that appeared on the screen when the line was not smooth. But the Chief Engineer had already stood up, holding his breath and staring at the thing.

Because it's still moving.

So he whispered, "Closer—closer!" ”

It took a dozen seconds for his command to be answered. A closer image appears on the slightly quivering screen, but this means that the quality of the image is sacrificed and the scene on the screen becomes blurry.

But this did not prevent the hall from immediately resounding with a neat inhalation.

That's a person.

It's not really true, but it's undoubtedly a person.

He was dressed in bulky, heavy clothing that had turned a faint shade of red in the air, and seemed to be suffering from the unbearable heat. Such a person is like a speck of dust compared to a dragon and a launch vehicle. But the dust caught everyone's attention, even more so than the dragon.

Because this one may be the first interstellar smuggling guy in the history of mankind to use a launch vehicle!

That is, after twenty seconds of silence in the entire command hall, the artificial celestial body broke through the outer layers of the atmosphere, and the three-stage launch vehicle and fairing fell off.

The rocket and the man on top of the rocket, into outer space. (To be continued......)