Volume 1: The Escape of the Holy Maiden Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Persevering Pursuers
As it gets closer and closer to the space elevator, the cargo shuttle is finally captured by the strong magnetic field around the space elevator. The gravity from the planet under his feet and the propulsion provided by electromagnetic handling gradually intertwined, making Chu Yuesheng in the cockpit feel like he was about to fall.
No, it's not a feeling, it's reality. Because, the flight attitude of the cargo shuttle is being adjusted, from horizontal to perpendicular to the ground and parallel to the space elevator. After all, this is not a space with weak gravity, and the effect of the planet's gravity is not small enough to be completely ignored, which causes Chu Yuesheng to be subjected to both the downward force and the force horizontally pointing to the central axis of the space elevator at this time, and the combination of the two forces forms a resultant force with a certain inclination, so that Chu Yuesheng has to hold on to something, otherwise he will definitely fall.
Fortunately, when this shuttle boat was designed, it definitely considered such issues, and there were several handrails inlaid on the walls of the cabin, so that Chu Yuesheng had a place to fix himself and barely be able to stabilize his body.
Chu Yuesheng pulled his body as close to the handrail as possible, but he still couldn't stop the downward trend. Later, he simply stuck his whole body between the two armrests in a bit of anger, and his arms were worn in the armrests, as if he had been erected. Although he looked a little embarrassed, at least he was able to lean against the wall steadily.
To be precise, it should be lying on the wall. Because now the cargo shuttle has completed the adjustment of the flight attitude and is completely perpendicular to the ground. Chu Yuesheng felt that if he hadn't taken the initiative to find the wall behind him and lean against it, he would definitely roll into the corner of the wall in a very embarrassed posture now.
So what the hell is going on with these two women, aren't they affected by gravity? Chu Yuesheng looked at Xingxi Baixue and Gong Zimeng sadly and angrily, they still stood in place, watching Chu Yuesheng's bad posture together. Gong Zimeng is okay, she always has that kind of expression at all times, and Xingxi Baixue is not so serious, the smile on her face is bright as if it is about to overflow, if she doesn't have to barely maintain her ladylike image, she may have patted her knees and laughed now.
Laugh and laugh, laugh and laugh, it's really sorry that humans can't resist the gravitational pull of the planet!
Wait...... How could these two women really seem to be affected by the forces around them? Chu Yuesheng's clothes were already tightly attached to the wall because they were pulled by the two forces under him and under his feet at the same time, and all the corners and corners were drooping towards his feet. And the two of them, the little skirts are still fluttering.
Forget it, beautiful girls don't have to follow the rules of physics, so be it, don't think too much, otherwise it's easy to have a headache.
Fortunately, Wu Weichen was now concentrating on driving the shuttle boat, and he didn't notice the small details behind him at all, otherwise the ghost knows what he could think.
Anyway, Chu Yuesheng planned to keep this posture unchanged. Before the force was completely underneath, he still hung himself on the wall honestly.
Because of the fixed posture, Chu Yuesheng's perspective is very limited, and he has nothing good to see except for looking at the panels in front of Wu Weichen in a daze. Fortunately, for people who take a shuttle boat for the first time and use a space elevator for the first time, the scene in front of them is attractive enough, even if the perspective is fixed, as long as you think about it, it only needs to be maintained for ten minutes and twenty minutes, it seems that it is not very difficult to accept.
All spacecraft that enter the space elevator will change its power from its own engine to the electromagnetic force provided by the space elevator itself. At this time, the speed has nothing to do with the performance of the spacecraft itself, and will be uniformly adjusted to a speed. Therefore, all the spacecraft that enter the space elevator basically remain stationary with each other, and there is rarely a change in distance.
It is because of coordination that everyone is able to move forward at a very fast pace at the same time. If you allow the vehicle to change lanes and overtake, it seems that you can speed up yourself, but in fact, this will not only consume more energy, but the real speed is not necessarily faster than being coordinated by the intelligent program to move forward together.
The power of coordination has proven its worth countless times in the hundreds of years since mankind entered the space age. Rather than allowing everyone to maintain their own individuality, perhaps the most efficient development can be achieved by handing over all resources to AI for allocation. But if the uniqueness of a person is erased, is that person still a human being? Wouldn't it just become a smart machine next door?
It is better to develop more slowly, but also to maintain human individuality, which is the ultimate choice of human beings.
The two girls probably saw that Chu Yuesheng ignored them, and they didn't think it was interesting, so they turned their heads to look at the scenery outside.
But looking at it, Chu Yuesheng suddenly found that it seemed that there seemed to be some accident in front of them.
There was a strange confusion in the otherwise stationary traffic, and many shuttles began to move to the sides to avoid it. Because the speed of the spacecraft on the space elevator is actually very fast, but it can't be seen because everyone is at the same speed. Now that I'm suddenly mixed in, the feeling of this speed is reflected at once.
It turned out that two shuttle boats were going down the current and coming down from the upward lane.
If a shuttle ship has an accident and the engine stalls, even a space elevator will not be able to provide power. There is no complete detachment from the effective range of the planet's gravity, and under the action of gravity, this kind of shuttle boat that loses power will definitely fall to the surface of the planet. A behemoth smashed down from near-Earth space, the power is quite terrifying. Humanity has suffered from this before, so it quickly thought of a solution. There are special starships deployed near the space elevator, which can launch traction beams to gradually reduce the flight speed of the falling spacecraft until the speed of the accident spacecraft is reduced to the extent that it can be towed by the bolt, and then other spacecraft drag the spacecraft that has lost power to a safe area.
But now, there are two shuttles in front of you that have problems at the same time, how likely is this now that each shuttle boat has an intelligent program that tests itself every time it starts?
Even if the probability of a problem is very small, and the two together, this is already a game that has to be considered whether this is deliberately set up by someone. After all, Chu Yuesheng had a special person on their shuttle boat who was very important to the entire human society and was also valuable to other alien forces. Now I saw two shuttle boats rushing straight towards them, and it was hard to think about it.
"Brother Wu, can you avoid them?"
"It's late. Wu Weichen gave up the directional ball in his hand and stood up from his seat. The oblique gravity that made it difficult for Chu Yuesheng to move didn't seem to have any effect on him.
As for Chu Yuesheng, his gaze crossed Wu Weichen's tall figure and looked at the shuttle boats on the panel behind him that suddenly disintegrated. Several giant, furry-covered creatures that looked like fish, rushed out of the cargo boxes of the two disintegrated shuttle boats, and "swam" towards the shuttle boat where Chu Yuesheng and them were.
That's right, it's swimming. Although this altitude is now almost out of the atmosphere of Mars, the outside environment is no different from the vacuum...... Or should I say a few heads?...... The huge strange fish could still rely on the way of flicking its tail, constantly adjusting its direction, always aiming its head at the direction of Chu Yuesheng's shuttle boat.
At this time, Chu Yuesheng's shuttle boat suddenly vibrate, quickly adjusted their flight attitude, and began to accelerate away from the space elevator.
The strong electromagnetic field around the space elevator is inherently a rapidly decreasing ring. As long as you pull a little distance, the electromagnetic traction will drop significantly. Without the influence of electromagnetic force, the power of the shuttle boat itself regained its dominance. It can support a shuttle boat with a weight of more than 1,000 tons to take off in the atmosphere, and the engine power of the shuttle boat must not be said to be weak. This momentum has now completely given up resistance to the planet's gravity, and all acts on the back of the shuttle's butt, pushing the shuttle boat to accelerate forward.
Thanks to the development of electromagnetism, the engine of the shuttle boat is also propelled by electromagnetic force instead of the momentum of chemical fuels, and even in a vacuum without gas, the thrust generated will not change much. Even because there is no air resistance in the vacuum, the speed can be increased infinitely.
But after all, this is a cargo shuttle ship, and Chu Yuesheng is sure that the Security Council's transformation of this shuttle boat is limited to enhancing concealment, and has not changed its own power. Otherwise, this shuttle boat did not accelerate violently at all, and was moving smoothly from beginning to end.
You can't do this, why don't you follow the example of those ancient movies and add some nitrous oxide to the engine of the shuttle boat!
No matter how Chu Yuesheng complained in his heart, he couldn't change the reality that the giant space fish that looked several laps larger than ordinary hovercars were approaching them. These fish themselves have extremely high muzzle velocities, which have a great speed advantage over shuttle boats that start to accelerate laterally after breaking away from the space elevator. In addition, I don't know what their power is, but their ability to accelerate is indeed not weaker than the bulky cargo shuttle boat under Chu Yuesheng's feet. Even if the engine of the shuttle boat had been driven to the maximum by Wu Weichen, it still couldn't change the fact that their distance was gradually approaching.
Looking for this trend, maybe in a minute or two, they will be caught up by those big fish and bite their butts.