Chapter 22: Returning to the Outer Earth
Gottlieb led the way into the Lich Shuttle with a large box of weapons and ammunition he had gathered. Although Britney was strongly opposed to him taking these things, Wu Feng did not see it as a peaceful negotiation. He has a purpose, bringing news of Mackentyre or secondary, his main purpose is to plunder the research results of the other party! Although Wu Feng felt weak and cold hands and feet at the thought of what he was about to face, he was already ready to fly, and there was no way for him to retreat.
After re-planning the navigation path, Gottlieb approached three mathematicians and recalculated the angle, deflection, gravitational force and other parameters of the flight away from Europa, and finally, with the help of architectural engineers, used a laser to shoot a nearly 100-kilometer-long inclined tunnel in the ice 40 kilometers below Europa.
Under the watchful eyes of several Space City executives, the sun-dried leech, the Lichi Shuttle, was slowly moved to the launch port. Wu Feng, who had a lift-off experience, was the least nervous, and Gottlieb and Britney were talking and talking in a noisy voice, and they were about to face the fear and excitement of the unknown in this way.
Britney has always had no sense of existence in Wu Feng's eyes, her tone and attitude are easily offensive, Wu Feng does not like to see such a girl, although she looks young and beautiful. As a traditional Chinese man, he still thinks that a soft-spoken, elegant and dignified black-haired girl is more likely to attract his attention.
Britney was yelling with a trembling voice, and Gottlieb was like a little boy, comforting and encouraging her. Wu Feng frowned when he heard this, he had seen Gottlieb's skills, and it could be said that the vehicles and equipment for going to the moon this time were all done by this genius young man. But he couldn't understand what this crazy woman was capable of, Wu Feng hadn't seen her abilities. Since he was afraid, he shouldn't be here, Wu Feng was very afraid that this woman would do something wrong due to excessive nervousness.
"I say, Britney, there's still ten minutes to count, if you're really scared, it's too late to leave." Wu Feng said in a deep voice, deliberately impatient in his voice.
"You!" Britney's voice stopped abruptly, but she was silenced by Wu Feng's words. The little fat man Gottlieb looked at Britney blankly, and said softly, "Yes, Dale, or you can go back, it's too dangerous......" He was glared back by Britney before he could finish his words.
There was no imaginary flames in the sky, nor was it exaggerated to the point of almost crushing a person's gravity, but a whole line of pale blue flames flickered directly below the leech-like shuttle body of the Lichi Flying Shuttle. The blue spark slowly lengthened, and the fusiform also levitated, looking light and weightless.
"Okay, change direction, go, go, go......" Gottlieb muttered under his breath, staring unblinkingly at the tablet in front of him.
The shuttle drove into the ice, and until the end, Wu Feng did not see McEndre reappear. The shields of the Space City slowly closed behind them. For many of the people who are here today, this is the first time in their lives that they have seen the world outside of Space City. This closed city has completely captive the human race, and Wu Feng can see the shocked and frightened looks of Gottlieb and Britney when they face the outside world.
At the end of the ice passage is a bright and dazzling point of light, it looks like a bright light in a space city, no matter how ordinary the light, but it comes from the world outside the world, what a big psychological impact is this, Wu Feng can't feel that feeling, but the two young people are shocked and unable to move. This shock from the heart, like Wu Feng's inability to explain everything he saw, everything that opened his eyes!
The circular light at the end became more and more dazzling, and the speed of the shuttle became faster and faster, and in the slight tremor of the shuttle, Wu Feng took the two young men and threw himself into the dazzling white light, and he vaguely heard the sound of Britney gasping.
What catches your eye is not the deep and dark space, but a wall so huge that it obscures the sky, and that is Jupiter, the home planet of Ganymede, 700,000 kilometers away! There are countless large and small rings on the surface where the white and brown meet, and nearly ten clearly visible satellites float around it. The high-speed flying Lichi shuttle seemed to be still in mid-air, trembling in front of this huge king that suddenly appeared. The powerful visual oppression suffocated everyone, and it wasn't until a long time that Wu Feng recovered from his amazement.
"Gottlieb, is there something wrong? How do you feel like you can't fly out of Jupiter's orbit? Wu Feng hurriedly asked.
"Ah, it's not." Gottlieb came back to his senses, "Right away." Guys, now turn on your gravitational braking engines, and we're about to enter the arc of gravity. ”
The shuttle began to tremble slightly, and after turning on the full gravity engine, everyone could clearly see the turbulence visually, but it was not affected by the physical reaction caused by this gravitational unevenness. The shuttle's trajectory slowly curved, and it began to rotate regularly around the outermost part of Jupiter's atmosphere, and the speed became faster and faster, and after a few seconds, the leaf-thin shuttle had spun into a disc with a thin edge of the middle protrusion. This is the arc gravitational flight created by the base entropy man, which, through the gravitational properties of the shell 59 elements, causes the shuttle head and tail parts to throw the other end of the shuttle through gravity and inertia at each point of advance, and strengthens this state through the gravitational pull of the planet's own rotational speed.
The shuttle soared into deep space like a tossed disc. "The first time we flew in an arc of gravity, the shuttle didn't have a pressurization system, but I think our armor should be able to withstand it." Gottlieb roared. The instantaneous increase in air pressure caused extreme discomfort in his body.
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In 20 days, the Lichi shuttle made a total of 29 gravitational flights, traveling an average of 35 million kilometers per day. Wu Feng roughly calculated that at such a staggering speed, the fastest known flying machine on the earth was less than one-tenth of it. Therefore, during the time he was in a coma, it is very likely that McEndre or the real Radiant did something extraordinary. He counted his wake-up time and the cursory travel log he had seen in the hospital room, and he had been waiting for the four of them for at least 50 days. In other words, it is very likely that the quarantine chamber came to Europa from outside the Earth's atmosphere in only 5 days! What kind of speed is that? Could it be that the more advanced spaceships of the base entropy people can have this kind of speed?
Under Wu Feng's side knocks, Gottlieb successively said some information about the base entropy's other vehicles, but he himself did not know the types of base entropy's huge and complex vehicle systems, and could only roughly answer some basic questions about Wu Feng. This made Wu Feng even more confused, but he knew that there might be more than one so-called empty mother under Europa! What are these people deliberately hiding!
Wu Feng was still thinking about how to get more information, and the Lichi Shuttle had returned to the sky above the earth. This is his only home, although it is wrapped in a thick layer of fog at the moment, but the intimacy from home, the intimacy of seeing home again, still makes Wu Feng indescribable.
"Is this the Earth?" Britney muttered, her eyes wide, "I've only heard about Earth in stories, and it's said that she's a beautiful blue planet......"
"She's a vibrant planet, she's aqua blue, and there's no other place in the universe that's so beautiful." Wu Feng said slowly, he looked at Britney's expression, "You were all born and raised in Space City, right?" ”
"Yes." Britney said that there was still a faint white light in the upper layer of the fog that enveloped the earth, it was like an ethereal veil, and it seemed to have no resistance, but Wu Feng knew that this was not the case. This was the place where Wu Feng died for the rest of his life, and here, he lost two captains.
"When did you migrate to Space City? Did your parents talk to you about it? Wu Feng asked tentatively.
"We ......" Britney's words were not finished when Gottlieb's shout suddenly sounded in the cabin:
"Mr. Wu, that's still ...... The Moon? ”