Chapter 31 The Fleet Sets Out

A quarter of an hour later, the people on the platform felt the ground tremble slightly beneath their feet, and then heard a deafening cheer from the crowd. Lucy stood on her tiptoes and looked out of the platform through the gap between the crowd in front of her. I saw more than 20 behemoths of the space force starfleet, under the action of powerful anti-gravity devices, one after another leaving their berths and rising into the sky.

Owen patted Lucy on the shoulder and pointed in the direction of Platform 1 in the distance: "Look over there." ”

Lucy turned her head to follow Owen's finger and saw another group of ships also rising from the berth outside Platform 1 at the same time. It was a civilian starship that belonged to the interstellar migrants.

The two teams of spacecraft continued to rise, appearing smaller and smaller in people's field of vision, until they reached a height of 10,000 meters, making it difficult to see clearly. After the two teams of spacecraft converged at high altitude, they turned on their conventional power propulsion units and headed for the edge of the solar system in two formations. They will leave the solar system before turning on the curvature drive, and will fly towards the Woolf 359 galaxy at a speed of up to three times the speed of light that humans can currently achieve.

Witnessing the departure of the migrant ship and the escort fleet, Lucy felt a little lost as if something was missing in her heart. Mom Kate saw her thoughts and gave her a comforting hug.

As the crowd on the platform gradually dispersed, Owen discussed it with Kate and decided to take Lucy to Space City to relax and relax. So, Lucy's family came to Platform 7 and prepared to transfer to a special transportation airship from here to Space City 1.

Beyond Platform 7, there are hundreds of berths for traffic boats, each with the function of a lifting platform. When a traffic boat parked on a berth wants to leave the spaceport, it does not fly directly away from the spaceport, but first carries the traffic boat through the descent channel to the exit at the bottom of the spaceport. The boat then flies through the exit at the bottom of the spaceport to the spaceship-only site in Space City. When the traffic boat arrives at the spaceport from the space city, it is also moored on the lifting platform at the entrance of the airship at the bottom of the spaceport, and then the lifting platform carries the traffic boat to the berth on the ground of the spaceport.

Lucy saw hundreds of berths busy, constantly carrying the traffic boat up and down, never stopping. Not long after the queue, Lucy's family boarded a transport boat. The cabin is more than 300 square meters and can accommodate 100 passengers, so it is not crowded.

The transport boat sped off the bottom exit of the spaceport towards the Space City. Lucy's family stood in front of the porthole and talked and laughed while overlooking the stunning view of Space City.

The entire space city is protected by a giant security shield. The shield is shaped like a hemisphere with the circular base of the Space City as the largest cross-section, with the highest apex reaching the bottom of the spaceport. The shield is transparent to visible light, i.e. it is transparent to the human eye. However, the protective shield can block and absorb infrared light, ultraviolet light and various cosmic rays that are harmful to the human body and convert them into energy. This energy is used to meet the production and operation of the space city and the daily needs of the residents.

A few minutes later, the boat had landed on a berth at a dedicated site on Space City. The Lucy family stepped off the airship and boarded an air express to a bustling commercial plaza in the heart of the city.

This commercial plaza is bustling with people and bustling. The square is surrounded by commercial buildings, and Lucy can no longer see the true appearance of these buildings, but instead there are 24-hour uninterrupted displays of dynamic light and shadow screens, and the bustle of the city and countless alluring phantoms can easily make people intoxicated...