Beneath Deep Space

With this jump, blue ion flames instantly spurted out from behind the power armor, causing Tom's whole body to accelerate like the earth's gravity.

I had seen this scene many times on TV. Tom was not afraid, but worked hard to adjust his center of gravity to keep his body balanced.

Ten seconds later, the ion flame gradually disappeared.

His current speed is 100 meters/second, and he is leaving the Deep Space at high speed. His whole body is light and has completely lost weight. This is the feeling of weightlessness.

This high-speed movement, coupled with the rapidly retreating reference objects around him, gave him a wonderful feeling of lightning speed.

"Come on, I'm outside, come on!" Turning his head and seeing that he was going away quickly, Tom shouted excitedly in the earphones.

This kind of shouting, coupled with the teacher's encouragement, stimulated the nerves of other students.

A few timid ones also started to be eager to try, because someone took the lead!

These boys and girls couldn't wait to jump out one by one. The ion engine behind the power armor also helped them accelerate for ten seconds. Of course, according to the teacher, there were only ten seconds to experience it.

A minute later, Tom saw all his classmates jumping out, their power armors glowing blue, like dots of fireflies.

At this time, 6 kilometers away from the Deep Space, you can clearly see the whole picture of the spacecraft. It is really spectacular, and it completely matches the boy's yearning for the stars and the sea...

Only such a large warship can conquer the sea of ​​stars and span the distance between stars! It is the crystallization of wisdom and sweat, and a great symbol of defeating the "Great Filter"!

Just thinking about it, Tom felt a strong sense of pride and belonging to a civilization.

He felt that the teacher's lesson should be to teach them these things...

Below the Deep Space is a long structure that leads directly to the metal planet below.

Tom knew that it was the space elevator, responsible for the transportation of mineral products. But from this angle, it’s only so big...

Scattered lights flashed from time to time, which meant that more goods were coming... As for goods, of course the more the better, Tom reasoned.

Two minutes later, 12 kilometers away from Deep Space, it still looked so big.

Tom saw with his own eyes a small spacecraft rushing out from below, and it should be performing some patrol mission.

"The name of this small spaceship is Yu Yan. It's so handsome! It's almost the same as the one in the game, no, more handsome than the one in the game!" Tom thought to himself.

Maybe, when you grow up, it would be good to join the army and become a pilot.

"However, being a pilot also requires theoretical knowledge, which is really troublesome."

At this moment, the conversation in the earphones began to be sparse. It may be that the distance between them exceeds the talking distance of the radio.

"Is there anyone else?" Tom couldn't help shouting as he found that the sound in the earphones was getting less and less.

"have!"

"have!"

After faintly hearing a few responses, Tom immediately breathed a sigh of relief. The Deep Space still looks so huge, which brings enough sense of security, but the space elevator is no longer clearly visible.

There is no atmosphere here, the entire starry sky background is black, only the endless stars emit faint light...

It’s a very empty world. Is this space?

Because there is no surrounding reference object, Tom can't even feel that he is moving at high speed...

Three minutes later, 18 kilometers away from Deep Space, Tom felt a little guilty. The rope tied to his body was too thin.

It’s only the thickness of a headphone cable, a few millimeters wide, will it really not break?

Well, he knew very well that this kind of rope was the raw material of the space elevator. It was definitely safe enough. At least twenty of them couldn't break it.

He is trying to comfort himself that this is just an ordinary space trip, and everyone will go back soon...

Four minutes... He could no longer see any of his classmates. The brightness emitted by the power armor itself was not enough to illuminate the dim universe, and there was no sound in the headphones.

Even the figure of Deep Space has become very dim...

Tom felt an inexplicable fear in his heart. He realized that this was the universe, there was no friction, and the movement of objects would not slow down!

Due to the effect of inertia, they... are getting further and further away from their mothership!

"What's going on? Only 4 minutes?" Tom looked at the time on the power armor and felt that time was getting slower and slower.

Five minutes soon arrived, and the fear in his heart surged into his soul like a tide. At this distance, the planet GB131 was still so huge, as if there was no change.

But... Deep Space is so small, as if...

He is the only one in the entire universe!

He no longer had the pride of conquering a planet.

Yes, from this distance, Deep Space is too small, even getting smaller and smaller...

Too far!

What would you do if you were floating alone in space? How long can you live?

As soon as this idea came out, it lingered in my mind and couldn't get rid of it.

Frightened, Tom grabbed the rope and tried to pull himself back, but it was no use!

The rope is not stretched straight, it is soft and cannot withstand any force!

This gave him another frightening reverie.

"impossible!"

"The rope cannot be broken!"

"The teacher won't ignore us either! And those soldiers!" Tom was still trying to comfort himself. He thought of the pulley with the rope attached... That pulley would reveal more rope when pulled, so it must be unstressed!

As time passed by, six minutes, seven minutes... Tom's mood began to collapse rapidly. The universe was too spacious, and he was completely immersed in fear!

All the sense of pride and excitement has disappeared, replaced by incomparable panic...incomparable insignificance...

No matter how much you comfort yourself, you can't calm the fear in your heart.

Tom wanted to turn on the ion engine on his back, but found that he did not have that permission. The ion engine could only be turned on once? !

He tried every method, but to no avail!

In this case, a person's fear of facing the vast universe begins to multiply, and even the Deep Space is only a vague shadow.

Even this shadow is disappearing quickly!

what to do?

what to do?

Tom's forehead was sweating and his heart was racing. He stretched out his hands and tried frantically to shrink the rope.

But why are they soft? Why?

Is it really broken?

Or was it because... he was too noisy and was abandoned by the entire civilization?

Tom struggled wildly in the universe. He began to have random thoughts. The popularization of cosmology over the years gave them enough common sense, but they only remembered it in their hearts and did not empathize with it.

But at this moment, this group of students all felt a common emotion.

This is the world outside the mothership.

What else could they do but cry?

They left Deep Space without any recourse.

…

Ten minutes later, the female teacher standing in Deep Space retracted the rope with a smile and pulled them all back. Each of these children cried profusely, and some even fell paralyzed on the deck.

She had anticipated that mental shift. After all...that's how everyone got here!

The presence of surrounding soldiers is also to prevent accidents.

In just ten minutes, these new generation children received a lesson they will never forget...

A course that is a hundred times, a thousand times more effective than the teacher’s nagging!

Regardless of whether they are strong or weak, male or female, they have all been severely beaten by the vast universe.

Indeed, their living conditions have been very favorable since they were young, and they are also loved by their parents. However, as long as they leave civilization, what do they care about?

What qualifies you to be lazy? What right do you have to be proud of?

There are many such emergency courses, which are taught from the age of 14. Whether they are willing or not, every child has to accept the fact that individual human beings are so weak.

Only in unity can human beings be a weak spark in the universe!