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Originally, Mint had already made complete mental preparations, but when he knew that in order to "rise", he had to "fall" first, and he was a little afraid to go.

He worked at the tourist station for a month, but for the first time he knew that the spacecraft at the tourist station did not land from the sky, but "lifted" up from the ground.In fact, at the location of the Pearl and Jade Tourist Station, there is a long tunnel going straight down to the inner core of the planet, and then opened out from the other end, forming a long diameter tube that runs through the Pearl and Jade.Whether the spacecraft takes off or lands from the tourist station, it enters through this pipeline.

Such a tunnel through the planet has many advantages, the most notable of which is that the planet's own gravity can be used, and acceleration and deceleration underground can avoid interference with the spacecraft from other buildings on the planet's surface.Moreover, when the motion follows the direction of the planet's gravity, there is no need to apply additional force in the vertical direction of the motion trajectory, so that the trajectory of the spacecraft can be easily kept from shifting, and the acceleration can be easily constrained to an amazing Feel less uncomfortable range.

Of course, such a take-off and landing track also has disadvantages.The most obvious disadvantage is that the orbit through the core of the star cannot be built very wide, and in order to prevent collisions between passing spacecraft, usually only one spacecraft is allowed to pass at a time.Fortunately, most of the spaceships that take off and land on this orbit are tourist spaceships. Real cargo ships do not need to consider the acceleration limit, and there are not many tourist spaceships in various planetary countries, so this way of taking off and landing through planets is widely used. use.Another less obvious shortcoming is that, since it is specially designed for passengers, the average speed of the spaceship on this takeoff and landing track will not be too high—of course, compared to the normal curvature of the spaceship.” It’s not too high”—so it may take at least half an hour to cover the more than 1 kilometers.However, the top class of those planetary countries that have the money to travel to the stars are here for vacation. I am afraid that they would rather comfortably enjoy double the gravity and delay a little more time, and they are not willing to make themselves feel tired because of the acceleration in order to catch up with that time. uncomfortable.

However, from Yuan Yu's point of view, falling into the center of the earth in a spaceship is no big deal. It doesn't mean that Mint, who has always stayed on the surface of the planet, is not afraid.When he saw the bottomless big hole next to the entrance of the spaceship, his legs and feet were so frightened that he really wanted to confess to Yuan Yu that he didn't want to go outside the atmosphere.

"I don't feel anything." Yuan Yu held his shoulder reassuringly, pointed to an ancient stealth fighter-like black spaceship parked in front with his other finger, "Look, that's my curvature spaceship, 'Crow'. In fact, except for the wings that are designed to maintain the aerodynamic layout, the rest of the parts are made of liquid crystal materials, and the light transmittance can be changed after activation, and can become completely transparent."

Her tone seemed to be very satisfied with her spaceship. Mint guessed that the spaceship must represent the highest level of human curvature drive technology, but this did not prevent the terrible fact that it was about to fall into the center of the earth.Mint felt that rather than having a poor sense of direction, he should declare in advance that he is afraid of heights.

But it seemed too late to say it now, Yuan Yu had already pulled him towards the hangar.On the way, I met Mr. Ray Fox, the administrator of the tourist station. He saw Yuan Yu and Mint were surprised: "Mr. Yuan Yu, are you leaving now?"

"Almost." Yuan Yu said happily, "The engine of the new spaceship is running normally, and there is no problem with the navigation. I wish you a happy use."

"Oh, oh - thank you, thank you very much." Fox bowed deeply to Yuan Yu.Mint hurriedly turned sideways to avoid receiving his bow as well.

The top officer of the tourist station bowed to him, even though it was not for him, it still made Mint feel secretly refreshed, but at the same time he felt a little disgusted.This was the first time someone bowed to him, but he didn't find it pleasant to look at the back of other people's necks. Instead, he felt a little disgusted by Fox's slavishness.

He sneaked a look at Yuan Yu, and found that she also frowned slightly, as if she didn't like others bowing to her either.Mint couldn't help but think that he also bowed to Yuan Yu when he met her for the first time, wondering if that would make her have a bad impression of him, but after thinking about it, Yuan Yu still called him "cute" anyway Well, why is he worried about those.

Mint didn't realize that although he had known Yuan Yu for less than a day, some views that had been consolidated for 22 years had begun to loosen.

Maybe he didn't realize it, but it's the fact: the exploited and oppressed may be oppressed all their lives but regard this exploitation and oppression as a "tradition", but if he wakes up, he may soon discover the reasons for exploiting and oppressing them before. How ridiculous everything is.

It's just that Mint is still afraid of sitting in a spaceship and falling towards the center of the earth at this time.When Yuan Yu took his hand and stepped into the hatch of "The Crow", she could feel the astonishing coolness of Mint's fingers.

"Don't be afraid." Yuan Yu joked, "It's just a matter of closing your eyes."

"It's the same as jumping off a building." Mint also tried to respond to her easily, but the more she thought about it, the more she felt panicked. She didn't even bother to look at the interior decoration of the curvature spaceship. She just held Yuan Yu's arm tightly, wishing to take her His face was also buried in her.

However, he soon noticed that although the spaceship looked huge from the outside, the place where people stayed inside seemed to be very small, only as big as a two-meter by two-meter cube, and there were no seats or panels inside. some type of.It's hard to imagine a long journey in such a cubicle.

However, before he could lament the small interior space of the spaceship, he felt the "ground" under his feet tremble, and the spaceship had already started to slide on the ground of the hangar.Mint hugged Yuan Yu's arm tightly again in fright, closed her eyes and waited for the coming feeling of falling.

"Don't worry, 'Crow' has to go to the entrance of the cave first." Yuan Yu patted him on the back reassuringly, "Little Mint is so timid."

She took out a candy from her jacket pocket and handed it to Mint: "Double-sided fudge, mint flavor."

Mint couldn't help giving her a blank look, and opened the candy wrapper to take a look, and found that this round piece of soft candy was divided into three layers of red, white and blue, which looked quite strange.However, after putting it in his mouth, he almost spit out the candy—what the hell is this? !When holding it, there is a numb feeling of electricity passing through the mouth!

"The red noodles contain electron-deficient pectin compounds, and the blue noodles contain electron-rich pectin compounds, so they can generate a slight electric current." Yuan Yu said with a smile, "How do you feel?"

Mint looked at her, confirmed that she was not joking with herself, and then whispered: "It's really perverted."