9. Jetpack
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And then there was no then.
"What is this? What are you doing? Li Yue asked curiously.
Athena said as she set the glass pane aside. "This is the call station of the public train, and the earth is the same as the elevator, and a car will pick us up later."
Li Yue thought that this glass was a mobile phone or tablet, but it turned out to be a call station? It feels the same as Didi taxi, which is quite convenient.
"So where are we going next?" Li Yue asked.
Frank: "Haven't you always wanted to go to Future City?" β
After waiting for a few minutes, an object shaped like a capsule flew over, half the size of the Earth's bus, with a silvery-white body and portholes on both sides. After stopping, it opens a door from the side. It's empty, and it looks like it's probably smart driving.
After the capsule car picked up Li Yue and the others, it took off into the air, flew to a place similar to a sewer in the distance, and then stopped inside.
"What's the matter, who else is there to pick up? This is the sewer? Li Yue asked.
"We'll see." Frank said.
[The train starts sonic after 10 seconds]
It turned out to be to accelerate.
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γStartupγ
Without warning, it's like a spring that has been loosened. The capsule car flew out for thousands of meters in an instant, but the people inside did not feel the slightest inertia. There was not even a sense of weightlessness, Li Yue could even stand up and walk around.
Outside the porthole is a fleeting halo, 500 meters each, which at this time looks like it is connected into a line. After a few minutes, the speed of the halo slowed down a bit.
The person sitting in the car can't feel how fast the car is at all, and can only judge the speed of the capsule car by these auras.
[Future City has arrived, I wish you a happy trip]
As soon as the words fell, the capsule car drove out of the dark environment, and the window turned into a blue sky. Li Yue can't see any other buildings here, it's a huge open space with many vehicles like capsule cars.
"This is the station." Athena explained.
Li Yue got out of the car, and the buildings in the distance loomed, most of the buildings were very high, and the clouds and mist could only linger in the middle of the building. Frank was taken away by a few guards after getting out of the car, and Athena said it was a good thing, so Li Yue didn't care about it, and walked around Future City with Athena.
In the past, there were many dreamers recruited by the Earth in Future City, but since there has been no recruitment for 20 years, the success of the city is inevitably much less, and it is not as prosperous as in the badge advertisement.
But the development of technology has not stopped, and the city is full of strange buildings, each of which is built to the sky. The jetpack that Frank designed when he was about 10 years old is rotten on the streets, and you can see a row at intervals, just like the love bikes on Earth.
The sky is full of flying cars and trains, coming and going in the sky. The kind of virtual imaging technology on Li Yue's watch can also be seen everywhere.
"Let's try this." Li Yue suddenly called out to Athena. Pointing to a row of jetpacks next to him.
Athena nodded and said, "Okay! Just take it down, but you'll have to recharge it within 24 hours. β
"Of course, I'm just playing."
The jetpack is about the size of a regular backpack, with a bouncy thread dangling from each side, and a black button at the top of the thread.
Li Yue took off the backpack on its back, held the button with both hands and pressed it gently. Due to the lack of motivation, Li Yue only felt that he was much lighter, the same as the state of using light work. When he pressed the jet button hard, the tail of the backpack instantly erupted with strong gas, rushing Li Yue's body up to a height of twenty meters.
"It's so cool." Li Yue shouted. The thumbs of both hands hold the button tightly and rotate in a circular motion in the sky.
Athena also chased after her with her backpack and said, "Fly slower, there are a lot of flying cars in the sky, and the backpack doesn't have automatic navigation." β
"It's okay, I'm very responsive." Li Yue said.
His reflexes are many times faster than that of humans, after all, he has learned all his skills from cultivating civilization. If a technological civilization wants to achieve strength beyond the limits of the body, it can only rely on genetic medicine. Although there are anti-aging drugs in the future, we have not yet started to develop genetic drugs.
Li Yue flew so much that he couldn't see Athena, so he relaxed the button a little, slowed down the air flow of the spurt, and hovered in mid-air to wait.
It took ten seconds for Athena to fly to Li Yue's side and say, "You're flying too fast!" The first time you're using a backpack, you're able to get your balance in such a quick spot. β
"What's so hard." Li Yue said. It's much more difficult to practice light exercises than to use this thing. "Come on! Look at which of us flies high. β
Li Yue laughed and flew into the sky.
There are a lot of clouds on this planet, many, many clouds, almost all of them above 500 meters. In such an environment, the building is like the fairy world in Journey to the West.
Li Yue didn't know how high he flew, he only felt that it was very cold here, and the buildings were like small dots under his feet. Li Yue was also worried about an accident, so he hurriedly flew down, and then met Athena who was flying up.
"Don't fly, go back, it's cold up there. I'm worried that my backpack will freeze. Li Yue said to Athena.
Athena breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Li Yue, and then said angrily: "You are too reckless, it is almost 10,000 meters here, and the temperature is minus 30 degrees." If you're not careful, you'll die. β
Li Yue echoed: "Yes, yes!" Then he flew with her towards the ground.
Athena asked, "Are you okay now?" β
"No, I don't. What's wrong? Li Yue said.
"At that height, the average human being would either die of cold or die of an explosion of his lungs. How do you seem like there's nothing going on. β
"Really?" Li Yue didn't know this kind of thing yet, he only felt a little cold, and it was difficult to breathe.
Li Yue can wear a vest to run around in the suburbs in winter, and he knows that the place where he feels cold must be really cold, so he doesn't dare to continue to fly up. In fact, he was afraid that his backpack would freeze and fall down.
Lee overcame an addiction and didn't want to go shopping, so he and Athena found Frank who was staying in the center building.
Frank is currently tweaking his idiosyncratic watch, which controls a portion of the buildings of the future world. Seeing the arrival of Li Yue and Athena, he said with a smile. "Well, it's okay here."
"It's beautiful, it's magical, I don't even want to go back." Li Yue said that he likes this place very much, and this kind of already intelligent world is much more fun than the earth.
"Then why don't you stay here for a long time? Crime and carnage are free in Tomorrowland, food and entertainment are provided for free, and I don't think there's a better place than here. Frank said.
"But this isn't my home." Li Yue said that he already wanted to bring his family here.
Safe and convenient. And it's fun.
Frank smiled and said, "That's better at home." Are you going back? I've got some of the living tech construction drawings ready. Of course, I can't give you weapons. β
Li Yue said: "Enough, where is it?" β
Frank pressed a button on his watch, and a 50-inch virtual screen appeared in front of him, displaying items on it.
Holograms, neuronal VR headsets, magnetic levitation, anti-gravity, cryogenic nuclear reactorsγ......