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I finally endured it for a week, and finally waited for Miri's call.

He Jun rushed to Mi Li as fast as he could: "Commander, is there a way?" ”

"What's the hurry, sit down!" Milley gestured to the chair opposite, "I've already arranged it for you, go back and take Susie, and you two will go on a trip to the twenty-fifth century together." ”

"Twenty-fifth century?" He Jun was stunned, "Can we both see the Candle Ji?" ”

"Of course not." "I've given you both a new identity. ”

A few hours later, He Jun and Susie entered the shuttle cabin together, and when they regained consciousness, the two were already standing on a rather spacious platform.

In addition to the two of them, there were a dozen other military personnel in Union uniforms on the platform.

He Jun observed the surrounding environment for the first time.

The platform is located on a hill, and under the mountain is a city with a sense of science and technology that does not lose the civilization of the stars, and in the center of the city, a silver-white giant pillar runs through the sky.

A short distance beyond the city, with its twisting coastline and endless sea, it's clear that this is a barely small island.

A middle-aged colonel couldn't help frowning when he saw the curious look of the two of them, and walked up to the two in a few steps: "He Jun? ”

"I am." He Jun replied.

"Susie?"

"I am." Susie replied.

The colonel said very politely: "Follow me, talk less and listen more, understand?" ”

Although He Jun was dissatisfied with this person's attitude, he knew what it was like to be under the eaves, and nodded to show that he understood.

As soon as the words ended, several people in military uniforms walked onto the platform. Although I have never seen the military uniforms on their bodies, He Jun is very familiar with the military emblem on the military cap.

The colonel at the head stretched out his hand from afar: "Welcome, welcome, my surname is Ji." Everyone, please come with me. ”

The colonel also hurriedly greeted him: "Hello Colonel Ji, my surname is Gu." The two of them clasped hands together like old friends who hadn't seen each other in years. After a few words of greeting each other, they walked off the platform side by side.

He Jun glanced at Susie, and the two of them blended into the team.

Led by the host, everyone boarded a minibus, and it didn't take long for the bus to stop under a giant pillar in the middle of the town.

Susie, who stepped down from the middle chin, looked up curiously, and asked in a low voice in He Jun's ear, "What is this?" ”

The diameter of the giant pillar is thirty or forty meters, and at the bottom of the giant pillar is a tall building covering a wide area. The walls of the building are unusually thick and look a bit like a fortress.

He Jun said softly: "It's probably the legendary rail elevator, I didn't expect anyone to really make this thing." ”

"Rail elevator?" Susie's face was shocked, "Is it the kind of elevator that leads directly to space?" ”

He Jun nodded: "It should be." ”

Although the rail elevator only exists in the science fiction of the 21st century, the shape of this thing is so classic that no equipment other than the rail elevator looks like this, so the possibility of admitting a mistake is infinitely close to zero.

The two colonels on both sides walked side by side to the rail elevator, the others followed, and He Su had already fallen to the end of the line. Seeing this, the two hurriedly walked a few steps and followed the back of the line.

The group entered the rail elevator, and He Jun unexpectedly found that there was actually a platform in the giant column. On the track under the platform, there is a very heavy train with only two cars.

Colonel Ji invited everyone onto the train, which was not a row of dense seats like an ordinary train, but a small cubicle, a bit like the sleeper cars of a modern train.

Colonel Ji said loudly: "Everyone, there are two people in each compartment, please fasten your seat belts after you sit down!" ”

Susie didn't say a word, and pulled He Jun to grab a carriage.

The inside of the carriage is not as square as it seems. Rather, it was a spherical space, with two state-of-the-art looking chairs fixed to the floor. Other than that, you can only see a round porthole in the bulkhead.

The two sat down facing each other in a chair and buckled up their seatbelts. He Jun couldn't help but laugh and said, "How do I think, it's like following up the spaceship?" ”

Susie said: "This is an orbital elevator, much more advanced than the spaceship, and our alliance does not have such good equipment." ”

He Jun snorted: "The alliance doesn't need this thing, it's much more convenient to travel directly into space." ”

The two chatted a few words, and Colonel Ji's voice came from the roof of the cabin: "The rail train is about to leave, please stay in your seats." ”

After about ten seconds, He Jun felt a slight shock under him, the platform outside the porthole began to move back slowly, and the train ran at a very slow speed on the flat ground for a short time, and gradually began to climb, and the slope angle became larger and larger.

However, the car didn't feel the tilt at all, and He Jun saw the crooked scenery outside the window before he knew that the train was climbing.

He immediately realized that the reason why he didn't feel it was because the spherical cockpit was turning with the angle, always maintaining the posture of his head and feet.

It is conceivable that it will not take long for the train to climb onto the rail elevator that goes straight to space, and the body will be perpendicular to the ground, but the passengers in the car do not have to worry about the change of gravity at all, and always maintain a normal posture.

As expected, after the train left the ground station, the endless sea appeared outside the porthole, and after a while, the train drove into the clouds, and the white clouds flashed outside the window.

Colonel Ji's voice appeared again: "Everyone, this train has entered the normal state, the estimated travel time is one hundred and forty-four hours, and you can move freely." ”

He Jun opened his mouth in surprise: "More than a hundred hours? ”

"Not surprisingly, what about synchronous orbits." Susie unbuckled her seatbelt and leaned down at the window to look out at the drifting sea.

He Jun was stunned for a moment before he understood what Susie meant.

The orbital elevator is a tool that connects the ground and space, the ground end must be fixed on the surface, and the space end must be placed in the geosynchronous orbit, or even outside the synchronous orbit.

The geosynchronous orbit is located at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers above sea level, and whether it is an artificial orbital ring around the earth or a space station floating in space, it must not be lower than this distance from the ground, otherwise there is a danger of falling from space.

In order to counteract the mass of the space station or the orbital elevator itself, perhaps the position at one end of space will have to be extended a little more.

The circumference of the earth's equator is only 40,000 kilometers, and the climbing speed of the rail train must be limited by various factors, and it takes more than 100 hours to climb to an altitude of 36,000 kilometers, which is about the same as that of modern high-speed rail, which is really not slow. (To be continued.) )