The stars, but they become the gray wind

"I understand. Everyone has a period of obsession with something. I had the same mentality when I was young and designed the Reversed Sun-class battleship. I was obsessed with it and even willing to argue and engage in a war of words with the guys in the shipbuilding department over it."

"Well, I think my mentality at that time was very different from yours when you designed that unreliable thing." When he heard Cabot mention his rather unreliable spaceship, Renlong's face, which had been serious just now, suddenly became a little uncomfortable.

"As my greatest achievement ever, when I have the chance, I will take you to have a good look at my Reverse Sun-class battleship." Having said that, Cabot patted his chest proudly.

"Of course you can, but...Cabot, has anyone ever told you that your aesthetics and shipbuilding talent are similar to those of the four of us, the unreliable pilot who can fly people out of psychological trauma?" Renlong covered his face with his hands and said sarcastically with helplessness.

"Really? My design is perfect, and the warship I built is also perfect!" In this regard, our Miss Cabot seems quite ignorant of herself.

Chapter 84: Lament about the Starry Sky and the River of Blood

"And...Cabot, you know what? Carlisle and I actually pursue... the same thing. That's probably why we can get along."

"Carlisle and I...we both want to fly...fly to the endless starry sky above the blue sky and take a look..." Renlong said with his head down, holding the cockpit door handle with one hand.

"A desire for the starry sky? Or curiosity?" Cabot stood up from the recliner and took off his sunglasses, staring at Renlong with his blue eyes.

"I'd say it's a bit of both... I'm just a bit more intense and direct about it. Kalishiki... she rarely expresses her true thoughts and wishes to outsiders, even after coming to this world."

"From what I've seen... Kaleesi seems quite restrained when it comes to expressing her desire for exploration and curiosity. Especially in this matter, after she came to this world and was transformed by you into this, she almost never mentioned flying to the world above to take a look."

"I feel...she...um..." Renlong began to feel some worry about the overly restrained behavior and emotions displayed by Kalisi after she came into this world.

"Are you being too restrained in your true desires and thoughts?" Cabot continued what Renlong couldn't say.

"Well... although she and I are like-minded friends, I know that her pursuit of this kind of thing is actually quite... unique... or more accurately,... unsociable in our original world."

"And in this kind of environment, she often never reveals her true desires and thoughts to outsiders."

"Compared to my more direct desires in this regard, she has barely mentioned anything about it since coming to this world. This is actually a bit unusual."

"But... people are selfish. I don't know how she managed to hold back, but I, who never likes to hide things in this regard, can't help it anymore."

"Even if he can suppress this idea for a long time, I can't do it. Ever since I came to this world, I have been unable to resist the urge to go and see the starry sky above the blue sky. I don't even want to wait for her to come back." Renlong said as he opened the cockpit door.

"Actually... I know very well why Carlisle became like this and never talked about what she had always wanted to do after coming to this world." Cabot stretched out her legs wrapped in black stockings and walked to the side of the aircraft. She leaned against the cockpit of the aircraft with a very relaxed look.

"Have you ever heard the saying? You don't know how to cherish your feet until you lose them."

"And this statement also applies to the opposite situation: if something that was previously out of reach suddenly becomes readily available, then the person who previously pursued it will not be so impatient to reap the fruit."

"Because of the power I gave you, the power that allows you to reach the starry sky at any time, she is not so anxious anymore."

"You mean... she actually seems uninterested in it because her long-cherished dream suddenly came true?" Renlong listened to Cabot's conclusion in surprise.

"No, it's just that she realized that she can realize her dream at any time, so she is not in a rush. Now she obviously thinks it is better to take it step by step."

"Steady and cautious? I don't think she intends to integrate all the countries and resources on this planet."

"Although she dislikes the idea of ​​a planet divided into numerous nations and ethnic groups, which would hinder the progress of civilization as a whole, she is not one to favor the use of force or economic means to unify the entire planet."

"Of course she isn't. That's not what she's good at, nor is it what you're good at. All she wants to do is to set a good start for the rest of this world's history and remind everyone in this world of the sword of Damocles hanging over their heads."

"Actually... she, or rather, you all, have doubts about certain things that happened in the past and in history."

"Therefore, I judge...you will definitely make future history more perfect according to your own ideas." Cabot said as if he had expected it.

"Then can I understand that you are actually taking advantage of our personalities?"

"You knew we would adjust the history and future of this world to our preferred direction, so you deliberately captured us?"

"You can understand it that way... But I think you wouldn't mind if I helped you fulfill a few regrets that you couldn't accomplish in your original world of Yiqilin (Three) Linqi (Four)?"

"Actually... I want to thank you, Cabot.")

"Oh?"

"Without you, we might be stuck in that monotonous life forever, trapped in it, and never able to satisfy our true curiosity and creativity."

"Ultimately, our curiosity and creative desire may be eroded by the monotony of life, and we will no longer have the desire and motivation to reach for the stars."

"Giving us the power to travel to the stars is a great gift. Even if you may have had some ill intentions at first, we don't care. We just want to satisfy our own creativity and explore the stars."

"I'm glad you said that. It seems I didn't find the wrong person."

"And... since you want to fly, then go and fly for once. Touch the blue sky yourself, and soar into the endless starry sky and darkness beyond it. I'll help you look after the house until you come back."

"Thanks a lot, Cabot." Renlong held the hatch and sat in the fully transparent cockpit. He closed the hatch and turned on the power and engine of the anti-gravity shuttle on the operating panel.

With the start-up of the miniature deuterium-deuterium fusion reactor in the middle section of the shuttle, the anti-gravity engines on both sides began to spew out blue particles. The holographic display image in the cockpit also unfolded in front of Renlong. Renlong grabbed the steering joystick in his right hand and pushed and pulled it back and forth. After confirming that there were no abnormalities in the direction of the aircraft and the tail, Renlong operated the steering stick to aim the anti-gravity engine's nozzle at the ground. A large amount of blue particles were ejected from the nozzle of the anti-gravity engine toward the ground, and the aircraft slowly floated up. Renlong pressed a button on the operation panel, folded the Y-shaped landing gear backwards and stored it, and adjusted the jet direction of the anti-gravity engine. With the fine-tuning of the jet direction, the entire aircraft began to slowly rise into the air.

"Okay...it's time to go check it out!" After confirming that the aircraft had completely left the ground, Renlong suddenly pushed down the throttle on his left hand side, and the shuttle rushed into the sky at an extremely high speed in an instant.

.........

After a moment, Renlong looked at the ever-increasing numbers on the altitude display, and finally confirmed that the altitude of the entire shuttle had reached 25,000 meters. Renlong stretched out his hand, as if wanting to touch the large cloud below the window.

"OK, this altitude is about right. Switch to space vacuum propulsion mode." Renlong gave new instructions to the interface inside the cabin.

Outside, it slowly closed its nozzle with an anti-gravity engine within the atmosphere and switched to the flight state of the vacuum mode outside the atmosphere.

"OK, the transition from inner to outer atmospheric mode is complete. Altitude 25000 meters. Everything is ready, only east wind is missing."

"Next, start the space environment flight mode!" Renlong pushed the accelerator to the bottom, and a large amount of blue particles flowed out at an extremely high speed from the annular nozzle of the anti-gravity engine, which had closed the flight mode within the atmosphere and entered the vacuum propulsion state.

"Wow! This is really exciting." Yuki looked at the shuttle's speed and altitude data that were constantly soaring on the instrument display.

And at the moment when the shuttle broke the speed of sound, a beautiful sonic boom cloud was naturally generated outside.

"7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8" Looking at the speed data on the dashboard, Renlong counted silently.

"Here we are! 7.9!" As the numbers on the instrument jumped, it officially exceeded 7.9 kilometers per second, which is the first cosmic speed. Renlong looked at the first cosmic speed of 7.9 kilometers per second displayed on the instrument and smiled happily.

"I'm here... the universe..."

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Looking at the dark night sky outside the cockpit and the blue earth below, as well as the feeling of weightlessness coming from his body, Renlong clearly realized that he was already in space. Renlong unbuckled the seat belt and relied on the weightlessness to float in the spherical cockpit.

"That's the feeling. I have to say it's amazing." Experiencing the weightlessness of his body floating in the air, Renlong took out a small ball from his pocket and gently threw it into the air. As Renlong loosened his palm, the ball flew out from between his fingers and moved forward under the effect of weightlessness until it hit the transparent cockpit of the cab.

"From this angle, the earth is indeed beautiful. The blue and green color is all over the surface of the planet, and the two echo each other..." Looking at the blue and green earth outside the transparent cockpit, Renlong almost put his face against the cockpit.

"Beautiful Earth? Although it's not my hometown at that moment, I have to say, it's exactly the same." Renlong said with emotion.

All the history known to mankind, all the human individuals and groups known from ancient times to the present, are on this blue and green ball. Even if the universe is changed, this will not change?

"It's this thin layer of atmosphere that separates this environment suitable for living things from the cold void outside the planet. Without this layer of atmosphere, perhaps everything I just mentioned wouldn't be possible at all?"

"As for this starry sky, is it endless?"

"4000 billion stars are shining above my head..." Although Renlong couldn't see the silver light band in the night sky very well from here, it didn't prevent him from using the holographic projection on the shuttle to view the entire Milky Way.

Just as Renlong was in low Earth orbit, admiring the planets below his feet and the Milky Way above his head, on the other side of the Earth, in London, a group of people were planning a military coup.

"Have all the weapons been distributed?" a man in a top hat asked in the dark conference room.

"Don't worry, everything is in place."

"First, the Third Division will seize an aerial battleship responsible for patrolling the airspace near the Imperial Palace tomorrow morning."

"The Second Division will be responsible for quickly surrounding the palace when the coup officially begins tomorrow. Our mission is to rush in when the Second Division surrounds the palace, capture the Duke of Normandy, and force him to release His Royal Highness Richard."

"What about the Queen?" asked another person in the conference room.

"The Queen is currently bedridden. She has no ability to directly participate in politics and has almost no chance of escaping. We only need to send a few people to the Queen's bedroom to force her to abdicate."

"Isn't this a bit too unsafe?" one of the voices questioned.

"Don't worry, our primary goal is to control the Duke of Normandy. As long as the Duke of Normandy is under our control, the Queen will naturally agree to our request."

"For the Queen, who has now lost her ability to govern and control the country, with both Mary and Princess Charlotte missing, and now without the Duke of Normandy, her only choice is His Royal Highness Richard."

"As long as we can get the Duke of Normandy to release His Highness Richard and allow His Highness Richard to take control of the kingdom, we can wipe out the kingdom's corrupt old aristocracy in one fell swoop!!"

"That's right! Only His Highness Richard is the future of the kingdom. Under His Highness Richard's leadership, we will definitely be able to wipe out those old aristocratic parasites!"

"That's right. We'll start the operation promptly at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. The First Division will be responsible for seizing air battleships to suppress the airspace near the palace. The Second Division will be responsible for surrounding the palace on the ground and blocking all entrances and exits. Our team will charge into the palace armed with weapons. If any guards resist, we'll kill them immediately. We'll go straight to the Duke of Normandy's office, capture him, and rescue His Royal Highness Richard. Then, once we control the Duke of Normandy, we'll force the Queen to abdicate and demand that she recognize His Royal Highness Richard as the legitimate heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Albion!"

"Gentlemen, the fate of the Kingdom of Albion depends on this. I hope you will give it your all!!!"

"That's right, long live His Royal Highness Richard!"

"Long live His Royal Highness Richard!!!"

"Long Live His Royal Highness Richard!!!"

As one of them shouted loudly, the others in the dark room also echoed loudly.

But what they didn't notice was that in this room, there was an optical stealth drone that was invisible to them and was faithfully recording everything.

.........

The Hundred-Armed Giant is at the center of the battle.

"Should we say these guys are too naive or too stupid?" Carlisle sighed as she looked at the images sent back by the drone.

"They may think they are powerful because they have an army and military power, but they don't understand one thing."

"Does that mean there are always people who are better than you? Do you think you can do anything just because you have military power?"

"Hehe... idiot..."

"Next, when they start their action tomorrow morning, it's time to give them a surprise..."

"Get all the drones ready. We're going to give them a big gift."

"Next, there will be a river of blood." Carlisle smiled with a sinister look.

(Sorry, the update is a little late and a little less. I will update more in the next few days and try to make the plot more complete.)

Chapter 85 is the Tower of Bitterness? ! !

At seven o'clock in the morning, the Duke of Normandy walked into his office as usual, went to the coffee table inside the office, picked up the kettle and made himself a cup of coffee.

Just as the Duke of Normandy was standing at his desk, pouring coffee into his cup, a voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"Duke of Normandy, is the freshly ground coffee good?"

The Duke of Normandy, who had been working in intelligence for many years, subconsciously pulled out a pocket pistol hidden under his desk by a metal clip after hearing the sound, and pointed it vigilantly at the source of the sound behind him.

A purple-haired girl, unfamiliar to the Duke of Normandy, was sitting quietly on the sofa in the office, looking very relaxed and at ease.

The Duke of Normandy was no longer calm. He pointed the pocket pistol in his hand at the girl on the sofa and asked warily, "I'm sure... when I entered the office just now, there was no one inside. How did you get in?"

"Maybe I was in there from the beginning, but you just didn't notice it?" Carlisle spread her hands and said indifferently.

"And... who are you?" The Duke of Normandy frowned and asked the purple-haired girl in front of him.

"It doesn't matter who I am, but... as a courtesy, would you please put down that useless pocket pistol in your hand?"

"Then I have to remind you that as soon as I give the order, the five armed guards guarding outside the door will rush in and kill you directly." The Duke of Normandy said in a threatening tone. He did not know the purple-haired girl in front of him, but the purple-haired girl exuded an aura that made him feel dangerous.

"Hehe...you mean those five useless guards outside the door? If I wanted to, I could knock them all down within a second of them opening the door...just like...like this!"

Carly raised her right hand and gently hooked her index finger at the Duke of Normandy. The pocket pistol in the Duke's hand, which was still pointing at Carly's head, flew out of his hand in an instant and was attracted to Carly's open right hand like a magnet.

"This is it!" At this moment, the Duke of Normandy recalled the information that his gendarmerie captain had reported to him before about the unknown person who could perform "witchcraft" and attacked them, as well as the information about aliens and other things beyond his cognition and imagination that his female secretary had sent him through coded telegrams.

"Could it be that you are..."

"That's right... Duke of Normandy, remember? I said I would visit you soon."

"And now, keeping my promise, here I am."

"Also, since I came all this way here, even out of courtesy, you should at least make me a cup of tea, right?"

"Your Excellency's words make sense. I'd like to ask what kind of tea you prefer, so that I can provide you with more attentive hospitality."

"In that case... give me some green tea..." Carlisle waved her hand indifferently and threw the pocket pistol in her hand back onto the desk behind the Duke of Normandy.

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A moment later, the Duke of Normandy was sitting on the sofa in his office. He looked at the man opposite him who had no grace in his straight hair and gulped down a large cup of green tea.

"It's okay... but I prefer sweeter drinks."

"Oh, does your Excellency like sugar in his tea?"

"No, I like to drink something called iced black tea, but it just happens to be sweet."

"If you wish, I can ask the kitchen to prepare the drinks you would like."

"Forget it... It doesn't matter to me what I drink. I'm not here to taste tea today." In a rather condescending tone, Calisi announced to the stern-faced Duke of Normandy.

"Oh... then I'm even more curious about what your purpose is in visiting my humble home today?" Facing the condescending attitude of Calisi, the Duke of Normandy, who still had a stern face, answered neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"Nothing... I just came to inform you that there will be a big trouble today. It will be a very troublesome problem for both you and the royal family."