Give the universe a little earth shock

Chapter 25 What is it like to see a starship take off with your own eyes?
The temperature is 24°C, the wind speed is level 2, and the southwest wind.

The breeze is just right.

In the huge evacuation fortification of the Wuyi base, there are nearly a thousand red plastic chairs and medical facilities neatly arranged.

The fortification is very cool, there are food, drinks and movies, the dolls in the vests with the words of Wuyi Base are playing and running, the sandals are kicking on the bluestone ground, and the adults are sitting on the chairs, swaying cattail fans, There are fan winds that don't match.

There are more than a dozen such fortifications, which are used for conferences and parties on weekdays, and today they are dedicated to providing venues for members living in the base to watch starships take off.

There are close to ten thousand people in the entire Wuyi base. For them, this place is like a closed town, and they can only enter and exit for five years.

Among them are workers who mine ore, technicians who maintain equipment, and scholars who study theories. They all have a common name, ordinary people.

During the closed days, many people became partners, and the base had to expand another school, where tutors and professors took time out to teach babbling nursery rhymes.

Watching the next generation grow up is also the best way to relax.

The sun at eight o'clock in the morning began to heat up. Everyone was smiling and vying for a group photo. Maybe the photos will never be spread on social media, and maybe no one will ever know what a great thing they are doing, but there are It doesn't matter, as long as you remember it.

The aunts of the logistics support department enthusiastically distributed breakfast, a cup of soy milk, a deep-fried dough stick, and two eggs, implying that today's take-off test will be [-] points.

The soldiers of the Space Force are stationed at key intersections, their immature faces are full of determination, most of them are in their early twenties, and they chose to remain anonymous in their youthful days when they were supposed to be flying high.

Everyone can see the Hayabusa shining brightly in the sun at the highest point of the base, the hard work of five years is condensed.

The red countdown in the fortification counted down silently, from one hour, to half an hour, to the last ten seconds.

Ten

nine

Eight

The breeze brushed the young female worker's broken hair, and before the countdown reached zero, a wave of air broke out from the top of the cradle, and a crimson figure flew into the sky.

Suddenly, without warning.

Two seconds later, everyone heard the powerful roar of the engine.

Staring at the figure high in the sky, the crowd was very calm. Before taking off, they imagined countless reactions, anxiety, panic, and happiness, until the Hayabusa pulled out a long trajectory cloud and turned into a cloud in the blue sky. The tiny dots brought everyone back to their senses.

It was a success.

The first thing that comes to mind is excitement.

Then there was an emptiness.

It turns out that just like the roar of a kilometer away is delayed by two seconds before hitting the ears, people's emotions also have a delay.

When the first applause sounded, all the emotions that people accumulated in the past five years, [-] hours, were released like a volcanic eruption. Unwillingness, grievances, parting, and finally turned into crystal clear tears slipped from the corner of the eye.

A seed of hope was quietly buried in the hearts of everyone.

Looking up at the sky, there was still unwashed powder on the face of the uncle worker, and tears carved his cheeks, leaving a meandering water stain. He covered his face with a cattail fan and murmured, "Zinima, so I saw it with my own eyes. I really cry when a starship takes off."

"Engine thrust is normal."

"The air pressure inside the ship is normal, and the radiation index is normal."

"Altitude 100km, cross the Karman line."

"At an altitude of 300km, reach the ionosphere."

In the Cradle Command Center, the technicians sitting in the first row kept broadcasting the gratifying data of the starship. Seeing the lavender fugitive layer in the cockpit window getting closer and closer, everyone's expressions were lifted.

Li Kaiyang, Chen Xing'an, and the heads of the five major departments sat in the third row with joyful expressions on their faces.

The Hayabusa successfully arrived at the predetermined location, and the next step is to test the engine and various data of the starship in a vacuum.

"The journey of mankind is ultimately the sea of ​​stars."

Yuan Hui crossed his legs and said with emotion, "Now I know what Confucius meant when he heard about Taoism and died at night. In front of the universe, death is like a fart."

"According to the speed of the Hayabusa, I'm afraid you won't be able to fly the third spiral arm until you become a grandfather."

Old man Sun raised his mouth in an unsightly manner, causing all the people present to stare blankly.

"Why, I'm telling the truth. Those of us who are engaged in science and engineering are most taboo about romance. One is one. Don't say I'll give you eye drops."

"Old Sun, it's time for you to go out and smoke."

Yuan Hui was eager to shut him up, because old man Sun was worthy of his name, Sun Broom, the broom of the broom.

The starship started its second acceleration in the exosphere. From the window of the cockpit, all the towering mountains, deep seas, and floating clouds were all kneaded together, and the mother planet of the earth was like a The smooth glass marbles shine brightly from the sun, and the distant horizon is a straight line in the shape of an arc.

Contradictory.

But Li Kaiyang felt this way.

From the speeding surface of the planet, he saw the lush Siberian plains, the earthworm-like Ural Mountains, and the Black Sea where countless fleets were buried.

Seeing the Black Sea means that the journey has reached the middle of the journey safely.

However, when he was about to return, Li Yufu's voice came from the communication station: "Command Center, there is something in the port window of Hayabusa."

Li Kaiyang's heart skipped a beat, and a bad premonition flashed through him. He took the microphone and asked, "Is it a satellite, or space debris?"

"I can't see clearly, it's very dark."

Everyone in the Cradle Command Center switched the camera view to the port window, and there was nothing but an ethereal vacuum.

"Are you sure, Captain, the ship's sensors and ground polarimetric radar show nothing around."

The director of the Computer Academy asked with the monitoring software.

"Sure, I can't see it, but I feel it."

According to the design, the full crew of the Hayabusa should be 20 people, with Li Yufu as the captain and command authority, but for the first test flight, in order to reduce losses, he decided to board the ship alone and hand over the command authority to the ground center.

Li Kaiyang stared at the bottomless vacuum of the port window, and faintly felt that there was an answer in his mind, but he couldn't figure out the answer no matter what.

Chen Xing'an reminded beside the computer supervisor, "Hayabusa has an anti-de Sitter detector, which can monitor changes in gravity within a hundred kilometers around."

The supervisor said embarrassingly, "The anti-de Sitter detector is still in its infancy, and the data needs to be processed manually, except for the success of Wu Lao's experiment."

"I come."

She clicked on the data stream and quickly calculated on the white paper. After 3 minutes, Chen Xingan looked at the calculation results on the white paper with an uneasy expression, "There is a slight distortion in the gravitational field fifty kilometers to the left of the Hayabusa. The model Weird, like a cigar."

Like a cigar.

Li Kaiyang suddenly realized, he stood up suddenly, grabbed the microphone and shouted, "Return at full speed! Come back at any cost, run!"

(End of this chapter)