June 16, 2015, Ground Command Center at the Lunar Landing Base.

The rocket had already flown high and had become a dimming point of light in the sky. The trail it left behind faded against a bright blue background, turning from creamy white to a faint cyan color, eventually merging with the blue canopy.

The atmosphere in the command hall was tense. Because the rocket is not carrying a new lunar module, but something old decades ago. The service was carried out without power, and two more tests were done after the call. Although the test results showed good performance, no one dared to pack a ticket, and there was definitely nothing wrong with this thing.

It is said that the prime minister and His Majesty have personally interrogated and instructed to "ensure" the personal safety of the people who landed on the moon.

But this kind of thing is really just talk...... No one knows if they will come back.

This remark not only refers to the "Li Zhen" above, but also refers to the two astronauts who went with him.

Ying resolutely stood outside the command hall building, squinting at the sky.

On June 16, even the weather in the north began to warm up. The flowers and trees on the roadside have grown lush and green, gently swaying in the sunlight and breeze, and the fragrance wafts into the surrounding air one after another. It seems that one or two more early-born cicadas have climbed up the branches, auditioning intermittently. It started with a long, low hiss, and then took a sharp turn as the sound gradually dimmed, turning into an undulating "knowing" sound.

Ying resolutely covered his forehead with his hands, and fixed his eyes on the few white clouds floating in the sky. The wake of the rocket also turned into a cloud. It's like a milky white cloud sword that pierces the sky from the ground.

Footsteps were heard. Someone stopped beside him.

He turned his head to take a look, only to find that Dai Bingcheng handed him a pair of sunglasses: "Use this." ”

Ying resolutely stretched out his hand to take it, thought about it, and asked, "Why did you come out too?" ”

"I can't see anything in there, just a cursor." Dai Bing looked straight at the sky like him, but there was nothing striking except for the white clouds and the blue sky. So he frowned slightly, "There are five more minutes to throw the first stage rocket." Li Zhen...... What are you going to do? He can't fly to the moon, can he? ”

Ying Ran smiled slightly, took off the glasses he had just put on, and stretched out his hand in front of Dai Bingcheng.

"You refer to these glasses. Look at the cloud—the long strip to the west. He pointed to the sky as he spoke. You look at it for more than a dozen seconds. ”

Dai Bingcheng was slightly stunned. But still, as he said, he held his breath and looked into the sky.

After about thirty seconds, he frowned suspiciously, "Nothing special. It hasn't moved. ”

Ying Ran didn't speak. Because just after Dai Bingcheng frowned. He suddenly came to his senses. A pair of eyes stared at the long cloud like a falcon.

The rest of the clouds are moving. It's slow though. But in the space of more than ten seconds, the distance of "one spectacle lens" has been traveled. But only that cloud remained where it was, motionless.

At this time, Ying Ran said in a low voice: "It was there two hours ago, and it hasn't moved. This kind of thing...... Only Li Zhen can do it, right? ”

"You said he was in the sky......" Dai Bingcheng looked at the sky again in disbelief.

Actually, the cloud was not big. It is only the size of a thumb knuckle and should be quite far from the ground. But at this time, Dai Bingcheng realized that the cloud seemed to be blocking the way of the rocket launch. It was at this time that he noticed that the color of the clouds was extremely pale - not because of the thinness of the clouds, but a little bluish.

This means that it is higher and farther than other clouds.

"Yes. I feel like he's in heaven. Ying replied, "Maybe he wants to...... Intercept our lunar module in the air. ”

Dai Bingcheng sighed slightly. In fact, he wanted to say - "how is this possible"?

The moon rocket will reach the first cosmic velocity. He knew that Li Zhen could break through the sound barrier when he exploded at high speed, but supersonic speed and the first cosmic speed were ...... It's two concepts entirely.

It's like he can control a lot of copper himself, but he can't control the copper on a national scale - there are some things that humans have to do, there are always some limits. If that limit is exceeded, it is God and not man. Although Lucifer and the Dragons have appeared so far, like many others, he believes in his heart that they are just some kind of powerful creature and not really a "god".

So he couldn't imagine how a person could intercept a lunar module traveling at such high speed.

Actually, that's just the first problem – the second problem is that even if he did it in some bizarre way, ...... How did he get in? How do you seal it when you get in? Two people don't start fighting in the lunar module, do they? Then no one will be able to get the gun!

But he only had a dozen seconds left to think. Because just a dozen seconds later, the cloud began to move.

From Ying Ran and Dai Bingcheng's point of view, the clouds move very slowly—like a cloud of dust floating on the water, moving slowly to the west. But if you take into account the height of the cloud and its speed compared to other clouds, you will realize that it has reached a rather frightening high speed - it is no longer possible to measure it in terms of "whether it exceeds the speed of sound".

The two men glanced at each other and ran quickly into the command hall.

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High altitude. Extremely high in the air.

This is the second time that Li Zhen has overlooked the earth from such a height. Good sight and sunny days. The mountains, rivers, and urban forests below all became small patches or strips, and only large patches of dense greenery or slightly white patches of color could make him realize what those areas were.

But his vision was limited, and he felt quite cold, so he looked down for a while and then sat down slowly.

Surrounded by mist, there were some sparkling lights in the clouds. The thick antlers are like a towering ancient tree, pointing higher in the clouds and mist, and it seems that if it grows a little longer, it can pierce the sky.

But in fact, they are quite far away from "Skyrim". Right now, one man and one dragon, in the middle layer of the atmosphere, the scientific name "mesosphere" – between the stratosphere below and the outer layer above.

At this height, even fighter jets can't fly.

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 spacesuit, and on the periphery of the spacesuit, there was another layer of thicker and heavier things—that thing was like a big cotton jacket that was even more bloated than the spacesuit, wrapping the whole person like a big rice dumpling, with only small holes in the two eyes.

But even the heavy clothes didn't seem to be able to withstand the cold at high altitude. Li Zhen felt the slightest coldness drill into the cracks of his bones, and he was about to freeze his blood.

The spacesuit, of course, has a life-support system, but he doesn't have it now. Because he knew that there was an extremely long journey ahead.

So he sat down on the thick antlers, thought for a moment, and said, "Actually, have you ever thought about flying out of the earth to take a look?" ”

It took a long time for a deep voice to respond to him: "What's the point? ”

Li Zhen was stunned. Then he felt the clouds around him fluctuate, and his body rose with it. Immediately after that, the huge golden body loomed in the clouds, and the majestic dragon body crossed several arcs in the dense fog before calming down.

He knew that this was Ying Long's ability to activate and continue to maintain the current height of the two of them.

Right now, he was sitting on top of the dragon's head, hidden in the clouds, overlooking the entire world. One man and one dragon had been here for nearly two hours, and in that time the dragon had activated its abilities six times - apparently it would have been quite difficult for it to maintain its current state.

Li Zhen shook his head slightly: "It's really meaningless." But you can fly – even if not everyone of you can fly. Since you were able to reach such heights, you didn't think about flying even higher to take a look? At that time, there was still no modern science. Don't you wonder what's out there? ”

The dragon let out a low, 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 is on the other side of the sea. But he didn't have to swim too far, he should have realized that if he continued, he would die. So even if we don't know what the universe beyond Earth is like, we won't rush out of it – and I'll be quite uncomfortable going any further. ”

Li Zhen laughed: "So you really tried." ”

When the dragon says "further up", he is referring to the outer layers of the atmosphere. The air is thinner there, but the temperature is starting to rise, even reaching a high of 1,000 degrees Celsius. The outer layer of the spacesuit he wore was designed to deal with the heat. Since dragons prefer to live in deep water and clouds, they probably don't like the scorching heat - even for the most vigorous species, a thousand degrees Celsius is enough to injure them.

The dragon let out a low groan, and said no more.

In fact, it looks like a "pessimist". But what Li Zhen didn't expect was that such a "pessimist" would save himself once, and then promised to help him later.

Perhaps there is another explanation for the "meaninglessness" in its mouth.

But in the next moment, the dragon's body moved restlessly, and then whispered, "That thing is coming." (To be continued......)