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The muffled sound penetrated the entire laboratory, spreading along the walls, and even the light tubes on the ceiling trembled.

Li Yichen stretched his shoulders inside the armor. The hydraulic joints responded smoothly. The force of every muscle was precisely amplified and transmitted to the exoskeleton.

"Ling'er".

"Here!" In the upper right corner of the HUD, Ling'er's little figure is squatting, her legs swinging back and forth.

"Ready. Open the door to the underpass."

Ling'er jumped up and made an unlocking gesture with her hands in the air.

The large door, reinforced with three layers of alloy steel plates deep inside the laboratory, emitted a dull thud as the hydraulic system released its pressure. The latch snapped open. The entire door slid slowly from the central crack to the sides, the low-frequency vibrations of metal rubbing against metal sending shivers up to your feet.

Behind the door is a tunnel.

The gray concrete walkway is six meters wide and five meters high. Two rows of industrial lights are embedded in the ceiling, casting a piercing white light. The walkway extends straight forward, with a faint sliver of darkness at its end.

The sound of waves crashing against the shore could be heard from afar.

This 150-meter-long passage leads directly to a cliff overlooking the sea. It was originally a designated emergency evacuation route during the construction of the space base, but he has now requisitioned it.

"Ling'er, how long can the armor operate at full power?"

Ling'er tilted her head for two seconds. The data was displayed on the left side of the HUD.

"Full power uninterrupted output, exactly 24 hours a day." She jumped up. "If you switch to low power cruise mode, five days."

Exactly as designed. A fist-sized hydrogen fuel cell, enough for a full day of extreme flight. That's enough.

"Activate the flight propulsion system."

The words were spoken.

A burning sensation simultaneously emanated from four points on the palms and soles of the armor. It wasn't scalding—it was residual heat from the ignition of the micro-vector nozzles seeping through the insulation layer.

A hot stream of air is ejected from the nozzle.

An upward lifting force rises from the soles of the feet.

Li Yichen's body began to feel lighter. The weight-bearing data at his knees dropped rapidly on the HUD—80%, 60%, 40%, 20%—

Both feet left the ground.

Thirty centimeters.

He was suspended in mid-air.

The epoxy resin floor beneath our feet was blackened by the airflow, and its edges cracked. The heatwave spread outwards, and several documents on the lab bench were blown away.

"Brother! You're flying!" Ling'er was jumping so fast in the HUD that she almost jumped off the screen.

Stable. Even more stable than he had expected. The gyroscope and vector control system kept the attitude locked tight, without a single tremor.

"Forward. Towards the tunnel exit."

Ling'er received the order.

The thrust vectors of the four nozzles deflect synchronously. The horizontal components are superimposed.

The armor suddenly accelerated.

The wind pressure slammed against the mask. The speed display on the HUD jumped—50, 80, 120—

It's almost here. Too fast.

In the corner of my eye, the concrete walls on both sides of the tunnel appeared as blurry gray lines. One by one, the overhead lights flashed past.

Just then—Li Yichen instinctively raised his right hand.

It's a conditioned reflex in the human body. When losing balance, one subconsciously reaches out for support.

However, this action directly changed the angle of the thrust vector on the right side.

The flight control system malfunctioned instantly.

The armor suddenly swerved, like a bullet that had been deflected by a crosswind after leaving the barrel.

boom.

He crashed into the left wall of the tunnel at a speed of 160 kilometers per hour.

The concrete shattered. Debris flew everywhere. Dust filled the air. Li Yichen's body was embedded in the wall, creating a human-shaped crater more than two meters deep.

The impact shattered everything in his head. His ears were ringing, the data on the HUD was jumping wildly, and red warning boxes filled the screen.

"Brother! Brother! Are you alright!" Ling'er's little figure was lying in the center of the HUD, frantically patting the inside of the screen with both hands.

Li Yichen was stuck in the hole in the wall. He moved his fingers. He moved his toes. He turned his neck.

still alive.

He braced himself against the cave wall with both arms and pushed hard. Scrap stones rained down. He pulled himself out of the wall, stumbled back two steps, and leaned against the opposite wall.

"...I'm fine."

Ling'er was on the verge of tears. "I'm so sorry! My flight control was too slow!"

"It's not your fault." Li Yichen took a couple of breaths, the buzzing in his head still not completely gone. "It was my fault for being so clumsy. I unconsciously raised my arm while flying, and the thrust direction went astray."

He glanced down at his armor.

There are two white scratches on the left shoulder. The breastplate is covered in concrete powder. The rest of the armor is intact.

"Full body self-examination."

Ling'er wiped away imaginary tears and began the process. The scanning progress bar on the HUD started moving. Each of the 237 joints and structural modules was scanned.

Fifteen seconds later, the result came out.

"Three minor surface scratches on the outer shell. Internal structure—zero damage." After reporting the data, Ling'er slumped in the corner of the HUD. "The carbon fiber titanium alloy is too powerful... even crashing head-on into a wall at 160 kilometers per hour didn't even leave a dent."

Li Yichen patted the dust off his breastplate.

It crashed into a wall at 160 kilometers per hour. If it were a mortal body, it would be a pile of minced meat by now.

"The second time."

He regained his footing. His feet were together. His arms were close to his sides. This time, he deliberately tightened his core muscles, flexing his entire body like a stick.

"Ling'er, I won't move this time. I'll leave all control of my body to you."

"Roger!" Ling'er sprang up from the corner and snapped to attention.

The nozzle reignites.

The lifting force causes the body to rise. Both feet leave the ground.

This time, Li Yichen didn't make any unnecessary movements. His arms were close to his outer thighs, his spine was straight, and his core was locked.

The armor took off smoothly.

Then accelerate.

The tunnel walls receded rapidly. The speed increased. The line of darkness at the end quickly magnified—

They rushed out.

The sea breeze rushed in. The salty, damp air was filtered through the vents on the mask. A slight tremor came from the outer shell of the armor—the vibration of the crosswind cutting through the armor's ridges.

Beneath my feet lay the dark, surging sea. Waves crumbled into white foam dozens of meters below. The moon hung in the sky, casting a silvery path of light across the water.

Li Yichen did not look down.

He is flying upwards.

At a near-vertical angle. The rear nozzles are firing at full power. Gravity is crushed by the acceleration.

On the HUD, the height number is soaring.

Three thousand. Five thousand. Eight thousand.

The temperature is plummeting. -20 degrees Celsius. -35 degrees Celsius.

Ten thousand.

Fifteen thousand.

Fine ice crystals began to condense along the outer edge of the mask. White frost flowers spread from the edges towards the center.

"Brother, high-altitude icing warning! Visibility is decreasing!"

"heating."

The graphene heating system activated. The temperature of the armor shell soared within 0.3 seconds. Ice crystals that had just condensed were instantly evaporated. The mask returned to transparency.

20,000 meters.

25,000 meters.

The air had become visibly thinner. The sky had turned from deep blue to almost pure black. The stars no longer twinkled, but instead remained fixed in the dome, emitting a constant white light.

"Warning!" Ling'er's little figure jumped to the center of the HUD, holding up a red warning sign with both hands. "Propulsion power is approaching 90%! Atmospheric density is too low, and nozzle thrust is continuously decreasing! Any further, and the attitude control system will fail!"

Li Yichen looked up.

The black sky was so close. Above that was the true edge of space.

30,000 meters. I was almost there.

"...Next time."

He stopped his armor from climbing. He flipped over, head down.

Then it dives.

The altitude figures are starting to drop. 20,000. 15,000. 10,000.

8,000 meters. Level flight. Hold steady.

Cruise altitude.

"Ling'er".

"exist!"

"Full power. Extreme speed test."

Ling'er swallowed hard. "Brother, are you sure? The overload from full power output would be enormous—"

"Sure."

"……receive."

功率输出曲线开始攀升。50%。60%。70%。80%。90%。

The speed is skyrocketing.

The numbers on the HUD were jumping around so much that they were impossible to see.

One thousand two. One thousand five. One thousand eight.

hundred percent.

boom--

The explosion didn't come from inside the armor. It was the sound of air being torn apart. A sonic boom.

The shockwave exploded from the outer edge of the armor, leaving a cone-shaped white condensation cloud behind it. It was incredibly spectacular.

Twice the speed of sound.

Three times the speed of sound.

Four times.

The HUD displayed a number: 4912 km/h.

The overload pressed down on Li Yichen. His chest was squeezed like a sheet of paper. He was having difficulty breathing. His vision began to darken and narrow at the edges, as if someone was slowly drawing the curtains.

One minute.

He held on for a minute.

An ordinary person would lose consciousness in three seconds.

"slow down!"

Power drops. Speed ​​decreases sharply. Overload disappears.

Li Yichen gasped for breath. The life monitoring system inside his chest armor was frantically reporting numbers—heart rate 189, blood oxygen 92%.

A few seconds later, the heart rate began to drop. Blood oxygen levels returned to normal.

He came back to life.

Cruise at Mach 1. Optimal energy consumption range.

The armored vehicle skimmed across the sea at a height of thirty meters. The air currents beneath its feet stirred up waves, leaving a white trail of water behind it that stretched for hundreds of meters before dissipating.

He rolled over.

His entire body spun 360 degrees in mid-air. Moonlight swept across the silver-gray armor surface, like a shooting star streaking across the night sky.

It made another sharp turn. A ninety-degree tangential change of course. The sea spun beneath my feet.

Ling'er bounced around in the upper right corner of the HUD, her ponytail swinging wildly. "Brother! Do another one! Do another one! This is so exciting!"

Li Yichen smiled.

It was an uncontrollable feeling. His lips parted in a wide grin, his teeth biting his lower lip, and adrenaline was surging through his veins.

This is flight.

A real flight.

It's not about sitting in the cabin looking out the window through a layer of aluminum alloy. It's about your whole body being immersed in the wind, every inch of your skin feeling the speed.

Freedom. Pure freedom to the extreme.

He didn't know how long he had been flying. Maybe ten minutes. Maybe half an hour. Skimming the sea surface, passing through the clouds, tumbling in the moonlight—like a bird that had just learned to fly, greedily consuming every second of his time in the air.

Then Ling'er's notification popped up.

"elder brother."

Her little figure stopped jumping. She crouched in the corner of the HUD, holding a radar icon in both hands.

"A large-scale military signal source has been detected 230 kilometers ahead."

Li Yichen stopped his movements. He flew horizontally.

"What signal?"

"East China Sea Fleet of the Great Xia Navy. Shenwu Carrier Battle Group." Ling'er's data appeared. "Live-fire exercises are underway at night. There are sixteen J-35 fighter jets flying in formation at high altitude."

Li Yichen's smile vanished.

"Have we entered a no-fly zone?"

"Not yet. But we'll cross the line in another eighty kilometers." Ling'er paused. "And—"

She zoomed in on the radar image.

"Their shipborne early warning radar has already detected our signal."

at the same time.

Two hundred and thirty kilometers away. The CIC (Combat Control) Center of the Shenwu aircraft carrier.

On the blue tactical screen, a faint red dot appeared at the edge of the no-fly zone.

The officer on duty stared at the red dot. His pen hovered above the navigation log.

The target's flight path was completely illogical. Its speed fluctuated wildly, and its altitude oscillated between sea level and 25,000 meters. Its trajectory was completely irregular and did not conform to the movement patterns of any known aircraft.

It's not a civilian aircraft. It's not a drone. It's not a missile.

What can fly at an altitude of 30 meters close to the sea and then be pulled up to 10,000 meters in the next second?

He turned to look at the position of the commander-in-chief.

The flagship's commander-in-chief sat on a high chair behind the tactical console. He was in his fifties, carrying two bars and four stars on his shoulders. He stared at the red dot for a full fifteen seconds.

"Two J-35s broke formation."

His voice was steady and unadorned.

"Proceed to the target area to ascertain the situation."

He stood up and walked to the big screen.

"If it is confirmed to be a reconnaissance aircraft from another country—"

The baton is pointing at that red dot.

"Remove them immediately."

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