Chapter 5 Going to the Moon
“To the Moon?!”
Upon hearing Elus say this, Lonis was instantly dumbfounded.
Elus, on the other hand, stood with her hands on her hips, a triumphant smile on her face, and arrogantly declared:
“Heh heh, it’s on the Moon indeed! That’s why ordinary people can’t reach it. You can only find the teleportation gates that still have energy by searching ancient ruins.”
“Th-this kind of thing…”
Although Elus’s words were bizarre, upon careful consideration, Lonis didn’t find them so strange.
After all, if ancient people could create civilizations as vast as the sea, then colonizing the moon wouldn’t be impossible either.
“At that time, humanity, for various reasons, established the largest Hero base on the Moon. But later, many things happened, causing the functions of the Land of Eternity to almost cease. I am the only one in modern times who could reach it.”
“After that, Elus, you…”
“Sigh, I spent a lot of effort to restore a teleportation gate. I thought my investment would pay off and I’d get a somewhat useful Hero, but I ended up getting just a little idiot!”
“Wuwuwu…”
Having been with Elus for so long, Lonis knew that Elus wasn’t looking down on her; she was just saying that to tease her!
It was probably like having a cute little pet at home that one always wanted to play with.
So Lonis wasn’t disappointed, just a little annoyed: “You’re bullying me… But that’s because the character creation system was too weird, and it caused me to misunderstand!”
“Oh? Or is it because as soon as the little idiot sees a beautiful girl, she gets infatuated and her mind only thinks about lewd things, not even paying attention to the explanations?”
“Ah… There were explanations?”
“Hmph, you still want to install little toys on this Master? Do you want to see me blush and be played with~”
As she said this, as if she hadn’t vented enough, Elus pressed another switch.
Now, Lonis didn’t even have the courage to retort and could only plead:
“N-no more talk about that… let’s, let’s talk about business.”
“Hmph, so, we’re going to the Moon next! It’s just that, when the Time Shuttle was first designed, it was a spaceship, but compared to a real spaceship, it’s missing some modules.”
“Modules…”
“Yes, for example, a navigation system, or an anti-gravity adaptation system… Without these, we can still travel in space, but it will be very troublesome.”
“Th-then what should we do?”
“It’s simple, there should be many similar devices in the near-Earth space station. We just need to remove some and install them on our ship.”
“!”
“Alright, we have prepared all the necessary resources. We can take off tomorrow and head into space?”
And so, that’s how things turned out.
As Lonis had expected, when she told Su Ling that she was going to space, the pink-haired girl didn’t show any fear but instead became very excited.
“Hooray, going to space, going to space !!!!”
“Lonis, why are you so excited…”
Lonis blinked her eyes. Perhaps it was because she was bullied by a tentacle monster before? When it came to going to space, she felt more fear internally.
Lonis knew that there were terrifying monsters on the Moon, and even compared to those on the ground, these monsters were even faster and larger.
“Eh? Going to such an amazing place like the Moon, aren’t you excited?”
“Ah…”
“No one in the academy has probably been to space yet! And Sister hasn’t either, so I can show off to my sister! I’m no longer the ordinary Su Ling Zhou, but the invincible cosmic beautiful girl Su Ling Zhou!”
“Mm, it seems that way of thinking isn’t wrong…”
…
Lonis remembered that when she was in the past, astronauts had to undergo more than ten years of training on the surface before going into space. Now she could receive such an honor and go into space to observe this world.
If that’s the case…
“Mm, then Su Ling, remember to comfort Little Starfish and the Slimes, okay? Everyone might not adapt to the low-gravity environment.”
“No problem, please believe in Su Ling~~~”
After a night of preparation, the Time Shuttle officially set sail towards space.
In reality, compared to the vastness of the planet’s surface where one could travel 80,000 li per day, the height of the planet’s atmosphere was undoubtedly relatively small. From the ground to the outermost exosphere was only 800 kilometers.
This meant that even if you ascended at the speed of a car, you could reach the vastness of space in 10 hours – the exosphere is the boundary between Earth and space, and most space stations are not higher than this altitude.
“Wow, we’re ascending, ascending! The ground is getting smaller! The trees look like sesame seeds!”
Su Ling excitedly pressed her cheek against the glass, watching the thrilling scene outside the window.
But Lonis?
She didn’t dare to get too close.
Because this silver-haired little fox had a fear of heights, and she was also worried that Elus couldn’t handle everything alone, so she honestly stayed by her wife’s side.
“What’s wrong, little fox?”
“Um, are all the data still normal…”
“Yes, of course, they’re normal. With this Princess piloting the ship, what could possibly go wrong?”
“Mm, mm…”
“If nothing’s wrong, then go adapt to the feeling of weightlessness first. Otherwise, the little idiot might get into trouble later?”
…
…
Elus was right.
Although the Time Shuttle sailed very smoothly,
As you sat in it, you could hardly feel any bumps, but soon, Lonis felt her body becoming light and floaty.
Now, they were about 450 kilometers from the ground.
And the gravity acting on the human body? It was only about one-tenth of that on the ground.
This meant that
Lonis’s weight was now less than 5 kilograms, not even as heavy as a bucket of oil.
It took no effort to move her hands and feet, and with just a light push of her toes on the ground, she could…
“WAAAAH!”
Lonis tumbled and crashed towards the ceiling.
Gravity being one-tenth meant your jumping ability increased tenfold. If you could normally jump 80 centimeters, you could now jump 8 meters high!
“WAAAAH, my head hit the ceiling, it hurts QAQ”
“Hmph, I told you earlier to adapt in advance. The little idiot is just silly.”
“Wuwu…”
“Alright, I’ve found a space station. I’m going to dock now. Little idiot, go get ready with Su Ling. Don’t be so jumpy anymore, okay?”
“Eh? A space station, we’re already here…”
“Yes, the height of the space station isn’t actually that high. It’s generally only about 400-500 kilometers from the ground. And the Moon is nearly 400,000 kilometers from the ground?”
“Ah!”
“So, we’ve only ascended about 1% of our journey so far. This is just the beginning, don’t be so surprised.”
“Oh, oh…”
The Time Shuttle’s speed gradually slowed down.
And what appeared before the girls was an incredibly grand space station.
