537 Airborne
Tranquility was restored in the communication, and He Jun lay on the bed with his head resting on his arms, but he couldn't close his eyes.
I wanted to see the situation outside the ship, but the data terminal showed that the signal was cut off, so I had no choice but to continue to lie down with my eyes wide open.
Time suddenly became extremely slow, every second passed like years, He Jun knew that the task that was about to start was not so easy, forced himself to close his eyes, even if he couldn't sleep anymore, he refused to open them, and finally fell asleep unconsciously after I don't know how long it was.
I don't know how long it took, He Jun was suddenly woken up by Susie's voice: "Wake up, let's go!" ”
He Jun turned over and sat up, touched his tired cheeks, took a deep breath, grabbed his helmet and buckled it on his head, and stood up with the heavy electromagnetic rifle he was carrying.
At this time, the warehouse was full of shouts and cheers, and the soldiers stood up one after another, lined up under the command of the officer.
The team closest to the hatch was the first to set off, followed by a group of fighters.
There was quite a team in the warehouse, and a few minutes later it was Susie's turn, and the team walked out of the warehouse and along a route that had never been taken before.
No one else knew where the route led, but He Jun knew that it led to the flight deck located in the belly of the ship.
The team was about to arrive on the flight deck, and Lin Kai suddenly exclaimed in the communication: "I'm rubbing, why are you all sideways in front?" ”
Everyone looked forward, and the passage in front suddenly turned into a spiral, and the soldiers in front had already walked to the wall along the twisted passage, their bodies parallel to the ground under the feet of He Jun and others, but they were as steady as Spider-Man, and there was no sign of falling at all.
"It's a gravity-biased channel." He Jun said. "Reversed."
"What direction to turn around?" Lin Kai didn't know why.
"It's hard to explain, so just follow along. Go down and you'll understand. He Jun said.
There were still a few people in the team who didn't understand, so they closed their mouths and continued to move forward.
I only found it when I stepped on a gravity channel. There is nothing unusual except that the body is slightly tilted. After taking a few steps along the twisted Tongyu, Lin Kai suddenly realized that if he looked in the direction before entering the gravity channel, he was standing on the ceiling right now.
"There's something interesting about this thing!" Lin Kai was full of interest, "So let's say we're head-down now?" ”
"You can say the same thing." He Jun smiled.
Union-class battleships have more than twenty decks from top to bottom, and most of the decks are in the same position as the battleship.
However, due to the special location or functional needs of several decks in the belly of the ship, the direction of gravity is opposite to that of the whole ship, and the flight deck is the largest of them.
Access to the flight deck. On the deck, there are rows of black aircraft with short wings hanging horizontally on their backs, square bellies, and lazy shapes, and there are no wheels under the belly of the aircraft, but the landing gear that is directly fixed on the deck.
Many crew members in colorful horse jackets and ground crews with big headgear helmets on their heads ran around, not knowing what they were busy with.
Susie was instructed by the data terminal to take the team to the designated position - the stern of a pot-bellied landing craft.
"You say, does this thing look like a grasshopper?" Lin Kai chuckled.
Everyone chuckled lightly, and said like a little demon offering a treasure: "Master, you don't know, right? This landing craft is codenamed Swift. But everyone felt that this code name was inappropriate, and gave it the nickname "Great Locust, the locust of locusts." ”
"It's just belly almost." Lin Kai said regretfully, "Whose swallow's belly looks like this?" ”
The bright lights on the deck suddenly dimmed. The red alarm lights flashed rapidly, and there was a burst of sirens that were not very harsh, but definitely made no one ignore them.
The colorful horse clips that had been around the aircraft moved away from the aircraft. Quickly run away after forming a line.
At the same time, the hatch at the tail of the swift opens automatically. When the lower half touches the ground, it becomes a small ramp for boarding.
"Get on board!" Susie shouted and sent the team into the landing craft one by one. After making sure that everyone was on board, the last one to run up.
There were ten positions on either side of the belly, and although Susie's group had less than ten members, the narrow space was still packed.
He Jun sat in a position casually, and asked while buckling his seat belt, "Let's just sit on this thing?" ”
"Or else? Do you want to go down with a parachute on your back? Susie asked rhetorically.
"Forget it, how big an umbrella do I have to carry to hold the air!" He Jun thanked Bumin.
Eris is not as big as the moon, it certainly has no atmosphere, and there is a fart for going down with a parachute? It's pretty much the same with a flying bag on the back.
Once everyone was seated, Susie signaled that they were ready, and the aft hatch of the landing craft slowly closed, blocking out the sirens from the flight deck.
He Jun suddenly had a very depressed feeling, like a beast that had been locked in a cage and lost its freedom.
He was sure he didn't have claustrophobia or anything like that, but he felt as if something was pressing on his chest.
"Can the computer still see outside?" He Jun asked suddenly.
"Yes." Susie replied, "What? ”
"Relax." He Jun said that he switched the signal, and immediately saw the scene outside the boat.
The aft hatches of several nearby landing craft were closing, and in the distance, the last teams of ground crews ran into the passage, and a metal door slid out of the wall and sealed the passageway.
The hatch of the last landing craft closed, and the sound of the siren outside the boat suddenly subsided, and then all the lights on the deck went out at the same time, and He Jun suddenly had a surge of blood, giving birth to a top-heavy feeling of hanging upside down.
It's not that he's nervous and scared, it's that the flight deck lifts the artificial gravity, causing a large amount of blood to concentrate on the **** of the head.
In the darkness, several holes opened in the ceiling, and two alloy rails rose from the deck below the holes and poked into the holes.
That hole is probably the silo under the belly of the ship.
Everything was frozen, and there was no movement.
He Jun secretly wondered: "Why did you stop?" ”
"Airborne is not just about landing." Susie explained, "It's that the battleship hasn't flown to the right place yet. ”
After about two minutes, the landing craft on the deck suddenly panned as a whole, and the landing gear of the nearest landing craft was on the track, and then slid silently into the silos.
And then the second, and then the third......
When it was Susie's turn, He Jun only felt a shock on his body, and the landing craft instantly drilled into the silo that was just the size of the landing craft, and the rapidly rising landing craft popped out of the silo in a blink of an eye.
It was only at this time that He Jun discovered that the star was under the battleship, and the landing craft that had broken away from the battleship one step earlier had already fallen to the surface of the planet, lined up in a row behind the battleship, like a row of paratroopers jumping from an airplane. (To be continued.) )