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"But the really important thing is," Yuan Yu tapped a button on the holographic projection control panel, and the surroundings of the cabin suddenly darkened, "We are now outside the atmosphere."

"What?!" Mint stood up from the sofa in surprise and even a little panic, and saw that the walls around the lounge had become completely transparent, and the black curtain of the universe outside the wall was so dark that nothing could be seen, as if it was completely pitch black one slice.

"This is—" Mint was lying on the wall in surprise, trying hard to see something from the outside, "This is space? Shouldn't there be something, why is there nothing outside?"

"Oh, I forgot to turn off the light." Yuan Yu clicked something again, and immediately all the light sources in the room, including the holographic control panel, disappeared.

Mint was a little scared reflexively, but then he gradually realized that when his eyes got used to the darkness, he could actually see—in the pure black universe outside, countless extremely small and fragmented light spots appeared.

"Look, the stars." Yuan Yu briefly introduced, and then said, "I have never memorized the navigation map of the Milky Way. I don't need those for planning the route."

However, Mint was not surprised: those stars looked so small and so many, even from his side, it seemed that they were the same everywhere, and it was impossible to tell any direction at all.

He suddenly felt unreal - he also clearly and firmly felt his feet stepping on the "ground", which was no different from the feeling when he was standing on the ground on the surface of pearls and jade.He even suspected that Yuan Yu was lying to him. Maybe this place was not outside the atmosphere, and they hadn't set off yet. The dark scene in front of him and the small and small perseverance were all shown to him on purpose by Yuan Yu.

He even suddenly began to feel that Yuan Yu was not a citizen of the fleet at all, not even a top class, she was just an unruly young girl from the A clan, who just played some tricks to trick the management of the tourist station into making everyone think she was It is the top class, and how to take him to visit a certain top class ship.Mint thinks she's just lying to her, there's no Fleet, there's no Gale, there's no Prohibition and a better time in history, just a base class A girl who wants to fuck him.

"That's not true." Mint soon believed his own doubts—rather than doubts, it was more like a refusal to believe.

He refuses to believe that he has left Zhuyu, the planet where he was born and raised, and even flew far away.Unlike the TV shows that the land and ocean in the atmosphere can be seen from the planetary orbiting space station, he can’t see it at all now—or he can see it, but the pearls and jades are no different from the light spots emitted by other celestial bodies, dissipating in an empty space. , Uniform in the shady scene with no characteristics at all.

He refused to believe it all.

Mint thought he wanted to do Star Trek at first, but only now realizes how terrified he is.He refuses to believe that he has left that planet—now he feels how safe and warm Zhuyu is, how grateful he is to work hard every day to earn money to support himself, why would he want to leave his original life?No, no, he doesn't want to leave Zhuyu, don't go into the void universe, don't travel with the citizens of some non-existent fleet - so please, Yuan Yu, tell him this is just a joke, okay?Stop playing with him, you can do whatever you want him to do, just stop playing with him, hurry up, reveal the truth, or he will break down and go crazy - then you will get nothing , Yuan Yu?

"Oh, that's true." Yuan Yu folded his arms and stood in front of the transparent bulkhead looking at the deep and vast universe that was not covered by the atmosphere outside. "This is the universe. From the naked eye, the word 'space' It's really fitting because it's really empty. It's so empty there's very little light."

"No, you're joking—how could this be outside the atmosphere?" Mint tried hard to search his mind for the knowledge of physics that he had almost forgotten, "If this place is far away from pearls and jade, why can I still stand on the floor?"

"We are accelerating at a G speed." Yuan Yu patiently explained, "Just when Elan disguised himself as a worker to secretly visit the black factory and was discovered in the movie, we got out from the horizon of Zhuyu, and when she When we were kicked out by the factory owner, we broke through the atmosphere. I think you should be able to feel a slight tremor at these two points in time. Afterwards, we went through a few fine-tuning of the orbit, but you may not even feel a little bit of it. This is the charm of the magnetic levitation shock-absorbing design that separates the inner cabin of the spacecraft from the outer shell."

"No..." Mint wanted to recall whether he really felt the tremors when the movie was just shown, but found that he was too immersed in the plot of the movie and couldn't remember anything else, "But, but we can't keep accelerating Right? The acceleration of a G should be [-] meters per square second. If it has been accelerating for more than two hours - what a speed! Don't fool me, if it is not driven by curvature, the speed of interstellar travel is There are limits!"

"That's the limit of the speed of light." Yuan Yu laughed, "But we are still far away from the speed of light. If we completely ignore the effect of relativity and only use the most inaccurate calculation of Newtonian kinematics, the acceleration of 300 meters per square second wants to Added to the speed of light, it will take more than [-] years."

Mint couldn't refute her at all.In fact, he has completely forgotten how fast the speed of light is, and he is not very clear about how much [-] meters per square second is.He only saw people in their settlement jump off the building after they got sick and couldn't get treatment. They fell from the roof of the building tens of meters high to the ground, as if it happened in an instant.Mint didn't dare to look at the bodies of those people, but only saw the blood on the ground after they were picked up by their family members. Those blood marks had not been cleaned for a long time, and had seeped into the cracks in the steel plate floor of the settlement.That's why he is especially afraid of falling, and he is especially afraid of heights.

However, this place is no longer "high altitude", even if he is thrown out of the spaceship now, he will not fall to the pearly ground.If Yuan Yu hadn't lied to him, there would be almost nothing outside now, almost no air, almost no gravity, almost no people, and no buildings, no trees, no steel plate ground—nothing he was familiar with.

Mint felt that he was about to collapse, he felt a hand holding his arm, and then he hugged Yuan Yu's arm tightly like a drowning man trying to catch the last straw, Then he moved along her arm and hugged her, burying his head deeply in her arms.

At this moment, Mint suddenly had an illusion, as if only he and Yuan Yu were left in the entire universe.Outside the bulkhead is an unknown nothingness, only inside the spaceship is real, he only has Yuan Yu, and by the same token, Yuan Yu only has him.

"It's okay, people who haven't received professional psychological training will feel this way when they go out of the atmosphere for the first time, and it will be fine after a while." Yuan Yu patted him on the back softly, "Don't be afraid, I'm with you And you."

Hearing what she said, Mint suddenly burst into tears. When he raised his head from the dark lounge, he saw the only bright spot in the room, the starlight reflected by Yuan Yu's eyes.

The author has something to say: This chapter is a fully reworked version as of January 2017, 1.