Chapter 20: After Leaving the Mothership
With this jump, blue ionic flames erupted from behind the power armor in an instant, causing Tom's whole person to produce an acceleration like the earth's gravity. X
This scene has been seen many times on TV, and Tom is not afraid, but tries to adjust his center of gravity and keep his body balanced.
It took ten seconds for the ionic flame to fade away.
His current speed is 100 m/s, he is leaving Deep Space at high speed, his whole body is light and fluttering, and he has completely lost weight, which is what weightlessness feels like.
This high-speed movement, combined with the rapid retreat of the surrounding references, gives him a wonderful feeling of speed.
"Come on, I'm outside, come on!" Turning his head and seeing himself moving away quickly, Tom shouted excitedly through his headphones.
This shouting, coupled with the teacher's encouragement, stimulated the nerves of the other students.
A few timid people also began to jump for it, because someone took the lead!
These young boys and girls couldn't wait to jump out one by one, and the ion engine behind the power armor also helped them speed up for ten seconds, of course, according to the teacher, there were only ten seconds to experience.
After 1 minute, Tom saw all his classmates jump out, and the power armor glowed blue, like a dotted firefly.
At this time, 6 kilometers away from the Deep Space, you can clearly see the whole picture of this spaceship, it is really spectacular, completely in line with the boy's yearning for the sea of stars......
Only such a large warship can conquer the sea of stars and cross the distance between the stars! It is the crystallization of wisdom and sweat, and it is a great symbol of defeating the "big filter"!
Thinking like this, Tom felt a strong sense of pride and belonging to civilization.
He felt that the teacher's course should be to teach them these things......
Underneath the Deep Space is a long structure that leads to the metal planet below.
Tom knew that it was the space elevator, which was responsible for transporting the finished minerals. But from this point of view, it is only such a big ......
From time to time, sporadic lights flash, which means that another cargo has been brought up...... The more goods, of course, the better, Tom thought.
Two minutes later, 12 kilometers from Deep Sky, it still looked so big.
Tom saw a small ship scurrying out from below, presumably on some patrol mission.
"This small spaceship is called Yuyan, it's really handsome! Almost the same as in the game, no, more handsome than in the game! Tom thought to himself.
Perhaps, when you grow up, it's not bad to join the army and become a pilot.
"However, being a pilot also requires theoretical knowledge, which is really troublesome."
At this moment, the conversation in the headset began to sparsely pick up, probably at a distance from each other, exceeding the distance of the radio.
"Is there anyone else?" Finding that the sound in the headphones was getting less and less, Tom couldn't help but scream.
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
Hearing a few responses, Tom breathed a sigh of relief. Deep Space still looks so big that it brings enough security, but the space elevator is no longer faintly visible.
There is no atmosphere here, and the entire starry sky background is black, except for the faint glow of the endless stars......
It's an empty world, is this space?
Because there are no surrounding references, Tom doesn't even feel like he's moving at high speed......
Three minutes later, 18 kilometers away from the Deep Space, Tom felt a little weak, the rope tied to his body was too thin and thin.
With only the thickness of the headphone cable and a few millimeters wide, does it really not break?
Well, he knew very well in his heart that this kind of rope was the raw material of the space elevator, and it must be safe enough, at least twenty of them would not be able to pull it off themselves.
He was trying to reassure himself that it was just an ordinary space trip and that everyone would be back soon......
Four minutes of time...... He could no longer see any of his classmates, the brightness emitted by the power armor itself was not enough to illuminate the gloomy universe, and there was no sound in the headphones.
Even the figure of the Deep Space has become very dim......
Tom was already filled with inexplicable fear in his heart, and he realized that this was the cosmic space, and there was no friction, and the movement of objects would not slow down!
Because of the action of inertia, they ...... It's getting farther and farther away from its own mothership!
"What's going on? Only 4 minutes? Tom looked at the time on the power armor, and he felt that time was getting slower and slower.
Five minutes had passed quickly, and the fear in his heart was rushing into his mind like a tidal wave, and at this distance, the planet GB131 was still so large that it seemed that nothing had changed.
But...... The Deep Space was so small, as if it were ......
He is the only one in the entire universe!
He no longer had the pride of conquering the planet.
Yes, from this distance, Deep Space is too small, even smaller and smaller......
It's too far!
What would you do if you were alone in space? How long can you live?
As soon as this idea came out, it lingered in my mind and lingered.
Tom grabs the rope in horror and tries to pull himself back, but to no avail!
The rope is not straight, it is soft, and it cannot withstand any force!
This gave him another fear reverie.
"Impossible!"
"The rope can't be broken!"
"The teacher won't leave us alone! And those soldiers! Tom was still trying to comfort himself. He remembered the pulley with the rope tied to it...... That pulley pulls out more rope, and it must not be forced!
As the minutes passed, six minutes, seven minutes...... Tom's emotions began to collapse rapidly, the universe was empty, and he was completely in fear!
The sense of pride and excitement has all disappeared, and has been replaced by a great sense of panic...... Incomparably small......
No matter how much you comfort yourself, you can't calm the fear in your heart.
Tom wanted to turn on the ion engine behind him, but found that he didn't have that kind of authority, and the ion engine could only be turned on once?!
He tried everything he could, but to no avail!
In this case, the fear of a person facing the vast universe began to be magnified exponentially, and even the Deep Space was left with only a vague shadow.
Even, this shadow is disappearing rapidly!
What to do?
What to do?
Tom's forehead was sweating, his heart was beating wildly, and he reached out and frantically tried to shrink the rope.
But why are they soft, and why?
Is it really broken?
Or is it because of ...... He was too noisy and abandoned by the whole civilization?
Tom struggled frantically in the universe, he began to think crankily, and the perennial popularization of cosmology gave them enough common sense, but he only remembered it in his heart and did not empathize.
It was only at this moment that this group of students all had a common emotion.
This is the world outside the mothership.
What else can they do but cry?
There was nothing they could do about leaving Deep Space.
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Ten minutes later, the female teacher standing on the Deep Space smiled and withdrew the rope and pulled them all back. The children were crying all over the place, and some of them were even paralyzed on the deck.
She had anticipated that mindset shift. After all...... That's how everybody came here!
And the existence of surrounding soldiers is also to prevent accidents.
In just ten minutes, these new generation children received this lesson that will never be forgotten......
A hundred, a thousand times more effective than the teacher's nagging!
Whether they are strong or cowardly, male or female, they have all been beaten severely by the vast desert universe.
Indeed, their living conditions since childhood are very superior, and they also have the love of their parents. But what do they count as long as they leave civilization?
What qualifies as laziness? What qualifies for pride?
There are many such emergent lessons, taught from the age of 14, and every child, whether they want to or not, has to accept the fact that individual human beings are so weak.
Only by uniting can humanity be a faint spark in the universe! r