Genius Club.

Chapter 295 Lord of the Stars
"I just don't believe that this space-time particle really has nothing to do with Chu Anqing."

Lin Xian shook his legs and said:
"Otherwise, what else can explain the unscientific phenomenon that Zhang Yuqian, Chu Anqing, and CC all look exactly the same?"

He turned his head and looked at the suitcase standing next to the clothes rack.

Inside the inner pocket of the sportswear, there was a small square plastic bag, and inside the plastic bag, there were a few strands of Chu Anqing's hair curled up:

"Now that I think about it, when we learned about Zhang Yuqian's existence, we should have immediately dug up her grave and found a strand of Chu Anqing's hair to compare with her DNA. That way, we would have known the truth right away."

The electronic alarm clock VV sighed:

"It can't be helped. There are so many mysteries and backlogs right now, so we have to deal with them one by one, right? So there is no right or wrong in this order of priorities. In fact, relatively speaking... I think that going into space to capture space-time particles has a higher priority."

Lin Xian stood up and stretched.

Jask is under 24-hour surveillance and nothing unusual happens.

The U.S. space plane that Kevin Walker wanted to hijack was also ambushed by VV.

To be on the safe side, VV even ambushed all the spacecraft in Earth orbit.

More than 20,000 Starlink satellites, military and civilian satellites of various countries, meteorological satellites, space stations, relay satellites, space telescopes, etc., etc. Thousands of spacecraft are all under VV control.

At present, the situation is under control.

Ding dong.

A WeChat message suddenly popped up on the phone.

Lin Xian turned his head and looked at the phone on the table.

I picked it up and saw that the message was from Chu Shanhe:
[Chu Shanhe: Lin Xian, please take good care of An Qing. I'll leave my daughter in your care.]

Pity the parents of the world.

Chu Shanhe sent the message at this time, it seems that he knew the approximate time they would take off.

It should be Chu Anqing who told him.

Because this is a top secret mission.

The specific time and matters must not be disclosed.

and so……

It's most likely that Chu Anqing let the secret slip. After all, she is just a little girl with limited thoughts and ideas.

However, with so much commotion at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in recent days and so many people in the engineering and transportation teams, it should not be difficult for Chu Shanhe to connect the two things and guess the time when they will carry out their space mission.

"Don't worry, Mr. Chu."

Lin Xian tapped on the phone screen and replied to Chu Shanhe:
"I will definitely bring An Qing home safely."

……

the next day.

The Shenzhou-2 carrier rocket, which has been assembled, stands upright on the launch tower.

The heat shield is much bigger than the previous launch. After all, what is stuffed inside is not a simple satellite, but a real space plane.

Each engineering team carried out the deployment work in a tense and orderly manner.

"Support tower secured! Umbilical mast connected! Service tower closed and ready!"

"First stage thruster, start filling fuel!"

"Refuel the second stage thruster! Refuel completed!"

"Engine inspection completed, data normal! Yaw nozzle inspection completed, test normal!"

"The top escape tower has been inspected and all functions are normal. The fuel level is normal!"

"3 hours before launch! Protect the astronauts as they enter!"

……

2024年3月27日，18：00。

There were still three hours before the rocket launch. Huang Que, Wei Cheng, Lin Xian, Chu Anqing, Liu Feng, and Gao Yang, a group of six people, dressed in neat orange space suits, got off the special car, stood in a row, and looked up at the legendary hero towering over the earth in front of them.

Shenzhou-2 carrier rocket.

This meritorious general in the history of Dragon's space industry started its development in 1990 and successfully launched its first recoverable satellite on August 1992, 8. Since then, it has made great contributions to Dragon's space industry and completed a series of difficult but crucial space missions.

More than three months have passed since the last launch of the Shenzhou-2 carrier rocket, and this time the mission is the same as the last time, which is to launch a space plane to orbit.

The pilot is still the best among the Dragon Country astronauts, Wei Cheng.

"Finally... this day has come."

Wei Cheng stood at the edge of the six-person team and said with emotion:

“I never thought that this day would come.”

He smiled and turned his head to look at these juniors, the young people, the students he had been working with for several months.

this time.

There are quarrels, arguments, surprises, disappointments, confusions and persistence.

But anyway.

Under his guidance, these young people, who have never received any space training before, will go to space as ordinary people for the first time in history.

This is the first case in Longguo's aerospace history.

Just because it is a top-secret mission, this first case cannot be made public or recorded. This honor and bravery can only exist in each other's hearts.

Wei Cheng admitted it.

A few months ago, when he first saw these young people, he actually didn't have much confidence. According to his estimation, at most Lin Xian and Chu Anqing could meet the standard of taking a rocket into space, Gao Yang and Liu Feng would not be able to do so and would definitely be eliminated and thrown to the ground.

but……

Sure enough, human potential is unlimited, and nothing is truly impossible before the real impossibility arrives.

In the past few months, Gao Yang has lost 30 kilograms. Although he is still a bit fat, he has become much stronger and healthier, and he looks a lot taller.

The scholar Liu Feng, who looked very weak, now stood up straight with an excited look on his face. He looked at the rocket standing between heaven and earth with firm eyes and clenched his fists.

Lin Xian was still so calm. This young man was always like this, never showing his emotions, always so calm and composed, as if he was thinking about things all the time. Wei Cheng was very confident in him, as Lin Xian had never made any mistakes and was very rigorous and serious.

Then he lowered his head and looked at Chu Anqing next to Lin Xian. At this time, her lips were tight and her eyes were erratic. She was obviously a little nervous. For a 19-year-old girl, it was normal to be nervous about riding a rocket to space.

"Everyone."

Looking at these brave and fearless young people, Wei Cheng felt a warmth in his heart and the hope of the new generation of the motherland. He said solemnly:

"Let's go, towards the universe that is higher than the sky!"

……

Arriving at the bottom of the launch tower, they took the elevator to the top of the 50-meter-high launch tower.

This is the height of a regular residential building of nearly 20 stories.

The wind was a bit strong, but it couldn't blow into the thick space suit.

They need to get through a window on the side of the rocket, and then get into the entrance of the space shuttle to reach the passenger cabin of the space shuttle.

Today's space shuttle is fixed in an upright position inside the rocket.

So after entering, they sat on the chairs, in a "sitting and lying" position, lying on the chairs. They needed to lie here for two hours, waiting for all the inspections and arrangements outside to be completed before welcoming the rocket launch.

"Hey, luckily I'm not wearing that fat white guy."

After Gao Yang got in with great difficulty, he changed his previous attitude and praised the orange space suit highly:
"It's better to wear something lighter like this, otherwise there's only such a small opening on the rocket, and it's hard for me to get in... Now I finally understand the meaning of our posture training. If I had to sit or lie in such an uncomfortable posture for two hours, I would probably have had a brain congestion."

Wei Cheng, who was pulling Liu Feng to the cockpit, smiled and said on the radio communication channel:
"So, what kind of clothing should be worn according to the altitude of the mission. Especially since your mission is so important, if you wear that kind of inconvenient and bulky white space suit, it will be a big hindrance to your operation of the robotic arm and will greatly reduce your flexibility."

"But I told you that this orange space suit is officially called the Advanced Escape System Space Suit. It has a lot of equipment, devices, and small parts. Because we don't need them, and the training time is so tight, I didn't teach you how to use them. So, remember that sentence, don't move! Don't touch anything! After liftoff, follow Commander Huang's orders."

After everyone took their seats, they all lay down on their seats.

Although the space plane has windows through which you can see outside.

But now the space plane is inside the rocket. Even if you look outside, all you can see is the pitch-black heat-insulating fairing and you can't see any scenery outside.

Lin Xian lowered his head and studied the orange space suit, an advanced escape system space suit.

It does have a lot of functions and a lot of parts.

What he could see was a parachute, a flashlight, an emergency medicine box, a survival equipment bag, and a sharp-looking knife.

suddenly.

Lin Xian touched something familiar!

"pistol?"

Of course he didn't take it out, because Wei Cheng had reminded him that these things were not needed and should not be touched.

He was about to ask about its use, but Gao Yang, who had already been acting dishonest, asked first:

"Brother Wei! What are these knives and pistols used for? Are they for fighting aliens?"

"Don't move! Just pretend they don't exist!"

Wei Cheng warned:
"This is standard equipment for astronauts, because if something unexpected happens, the final landing location is out of control and it is very likely to fall into a primeval forest, desert, or other places outside the planned landing location."

"These things are all for emergency situations. For example, the knife is used to cut the parachute cable; the pistol is for self-defense against wild animals after landing. But you don't need them, and you don't have the skills. Our training time is so limited that we definitely don't have time to teach you shooting or anything like that."

"In short, remember my words, don't touch anything on this suit, it's not necessary at all. You will always be operating in the equipment cabin, and you don't have to worry about anything else except focusing on capturing alpha matter."

Gao Yang snorted:
"Since you don't let us use it, why don't you just take it away? It's not scary enough if it's left here. What if it goes off accidentally? Go, go, go... take it away quickly. I feel the muzzle of the gun is still pointing at my crotch... This is not something to joke about!"

"Don't worry." Huang Que whispered on the radio:
"A pistol has several layers of safety. If you don't have someone to teach you, you can't fire the gun even if you want to. Opening the safety of a pistol like this is a technical job. You can't open it."

"The reason why these useless equipment are not removed is also for the confidentiality of the top-secret mission."

She turned her head with a transparent mask on and looked back at the three people left in the passenger cabin. Her voice rang out over the radio communicator beside everyone's ears:

"No one on the ground, including the staff and inspectors, knows your true identity. This launch operation is kept secret from the outside world, and the internal statement is that it is a low-orbit satellite interception simulation."

"Since we are acting, we have to act the whole thing. Although you are not official astronauts, others don't know that, so all procedures must treat you as normal astronauts, including these equipment, which must be complete."

"It's better to have less trouble than more. It would be best if everyone believed that you are truly registered astronauts, so that your identities and actions will not be leaked."

……

It turned out to be the case.

There's nothing wrong with acting in full.

Lin Xian also felt that this operation was a layer of nesting dolls, concealing one layer after another.

From the outside, it seemed that Longguo was going to launch a satellite.

From an internal perspective, it appears that professional astronauts are carrying out low-orbit missions on a space shuttle.

From Wei Cheng's perspective, it was a group of idiots carrying out the alpha matter capture mission.

The truth is——

[A time traveler, a dream reincarnationist, a creator of the cosmological constant, a trinity cloner, a master of the stars who controls thousands of spacecraft, plus a little fat man, are going to space to capture the extremely mysterious space-time particles.]

A lot of big guys gathered here.

Lin Xian couldn't help but sigh.

The passengers in this space shuttle are not simple, except the fat man, all of them are not simple!
"call……"

Chu Anqing took a deep breath.

The radio communication equipment made her breathing sound linger in Lin Xian's ears:

"This is really... the longest journey in my life."

She smiled, moved her large transparent hood, and looked at Lin Xian who was sitting next to her:
"Senior Lin Xian, before this, where was the farthest place you traveled to?"

Lin Xian thought for a moment:
"That's the United States. The time I went to Manhattan, New York, the center of the world with you, was the farthest place I have ever been in my life."

"Hehe, me too!"

After chatting with Lin Xian, Chu Anqing's nervous mood instantly relaxed:
"It suddenly occurred to me that if the center of the world, the center of the earth, is Manhattan, New York, then..."

"Where is the center of the universe?"

"Cao County!" Gao Yang answered quickly:

"Shandong Heze Cao County is awesome! 666!!"

It caused everyone to burst into laughter.

dong dong.

Lin Xian knocked on his helmet twice.

This was the secret signal between him and VV. As long as Lin Xian tapped his helmet twice quickly, VV would isolate Lin Xian's radio channel from others, turning it into a channel where only Lin Xian and VV could communicate:

"VV, is there any movement from Kevin Walker?"

"No, I have taken control of the X-37B space plane and have denied all access. He can't get in."

"Where is Jask?" Lin Xian asked.

"Jask went to the [Observation Tower] again, just like his daily tasks, leaning against the iron railings to admire the starship rockets in the launch site."

Lin Xian nodded.

So far, everything is fine.

at last……

long wait.

On the radio channel, a countdown was heard from the launch center's command room:
"5!"

"4!"

"3!"

"2!"

"1!"

"ignition--"

boom! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

(End of this chapter)