Earth Era

The speed of the space elevator's ascent has been increasing. Zhao Lan knew that this speed would eventually rise to more than five kilometers per second. Even so, it takes about three hours to get from the ground end of the space interactive base to the space end.

As the height increased, Zhao Lan finally took in the panoramic view of Mount Olympus. Although Zhao Lan has been to Mars several times and taken the space elevator several times, Zhao Lan is still a little excited when he sees this scene. This is Mars, which is tens of millions of kilometers away from its home planet. At this moment, as a member of the human race, I am watching the scenery of Mars above Mars.

Whenever this happens, Zhao Lan will feel proud of his human identity. Zhao Lan will be glad that he is a human being and not a horse or a pig, and that he has enough wisdom to explore and think about the universe.

Olympus Mons eventually merged with the Martian land and was never seen again. At this time, Zhao Lan could already see the whole picture of Mars. This huge fiery red planet appeared completely in Zhao Lan's eyes.

Zhao Lan withdrew his gaze from Mars and looked upward. The bundle of thick cables on which the space elevator relies extends straight into the endless darkness of space, with no end in sight. There is a bright star in the distance of endless space. Zhao Lan knew that it was the space base. The light it emits does not reflect the sun, but comes from its own internal light source.

There was an elevator falling quickly from above, flashing past Zhao Lan's eyes at a speed that could not be distinguished by the naked eye, and quickly falling into the vast land of Mars. After a few minutes, another elevator quickly descended...

That's the downward part of the space elevator. The space elevator connects the ground base and the space port. Naturally, it does not only have the function of going up or down. Those descending elevators are loaded with various materials from the earth. It is these materials that support the survival and development of Watson City...

Missing the descending elevators, Zhao Lan once again saw the bright Eta Carinae. Eta Carinae still maintains its brightness, quietly radiating light in the quiet and deep space, looking extremely gorgeous. But Zhao Lan knew that this burst of light could not last for too long. In about half a month. Within no more than two months, Eta Carinae's light will gradually dim. Eventually it disappears completely from the universe and it will be impossible to see anything from that direction with the naked eye.

A powerful black hole and a planetary nebula will be left there, and the name Eta Carinae will be history.

A star dies and a black hole is born. This is the change, birth and death of stars, for which humans can only look up.

As the height continued to increase, Zhao Lan felt that his body was getting lighter and lighter. The gravity that restrained Zhao Lan became smaller and smaller. Zhao Lan knows. Although it has been rising vertically, Mars also rotates. As the radius increases, if it has to move through the same angle in the same time, the orbiting speed relative to Mars will inevitably become higher and higher. So gravity will become smaller and smaller. After a while, I will probably become completely weightless.

The continuously shining star above finally changed from a bright point to a face. So Zhao Lan knew that he was not far from the space port. The space elevator began to slow down, and Zhao Lan, who had already sat in his seat and restrained himself with a seat belt, felt the pressure of the seat belt on himself.

If it weren't for the safety belt, Zhao Lan would have already taken off. Because the space elevator is slowing down. Zhao Lan himself did not slow down. The consequence of this was that Zhao Lan would fly to the ceiling of the space elevator.

The space elevator finally slid smoothly to the parking platform of the space port. The entire space port is a cylindrical structure that rotates by itself. Using centrifugal force, it creates an artificial gravity between Mars and Earth. So it wasn't until this moment that Zhao Lan got rid of the trouble of weightlessness.

The weightless environment is actually not wonderful. Because the human body structure itself has evolved for millions of years to adapt to the earth's gravity. Rushing into a weightless environment is not good for your body.

Zhao Lan is already quite familiar with the space port. So after getting off the space elevator, Zhao Lan went directly to a service window. After showing his identification, the service staff took Zhao Lan on the shuttle bus to the docking port. Zhao Lan's Sylvia spacecraft is parked in one of the berths.

This process took another fifteen minutes of Zhao Lan's time. Before arriving at the berth, he showed his identification and entered his password... Zhao Lan did all this with ease. However, when the huge screen door opened, what appeared in front of Zhao Lan was an empty berth. There is nothing there except the instruments and equipment in the berth itself.

Here, Zhao Lan did not see the familiar figure of the Sylvia spacecraft.

Zhao Lan's first reaction was that he was in the wrong place. But your identity certificate can only open your own berth, think of this. Zhao Lan gave up the idea just now. At this moment, Zhao Lan was even thinking. Did I remember it wrong? When I came to Watson City, did I not drive a spaceship, but took a ship?

But Zhao Lan clearly remembered that he indeed drove the Sylvia spaceship here, and indeed parked it here... But, where is the spaceship? Where did the spaceship go?

Zhao Lan looked at the service staff beside him. Beads of sweat immediately appeared on the service staff's forehead. Not to mention Zhao Lan's special identity, even the most common civilian spaceship is expensive to build. If it is parked in a port, the port has the responsibility of keeping it. If the spacecraft mysteriously disappears... this will undoubtedly happen. It was a big accident.

"Miss Zhao Lan, please wait a moment, I will contact the port supervisor immediately." The service staff said hurriedly, and hurriedly took out the communication equipment and began to report the situation here to the management staff.

The mysterious disappearance of a spaceship has never happened before in the space port. Every spaceship, whether it leaves or enters the port, will be strictly recorded by the port, and can only enter or exit after obtaining permission. If a spaceship disappears mysteriously, it proves that there is a serious problem with the security mechanism of the port, and the security of the port is related to the survival of hundreds of thousands of people in Watson City. This is a big event, one that can alarm the leadership of human civilization.

"Where's my spaceship?" Zhao Lan murmured to himself, "It's obviously parked here...how could it be missing?"

Zhao Lan really wanted to rush to the Xinghai Sky Survey Observation Base as quickly as possible, but at this moment he encountered such a strange thing - a well-parked spacecraft disappeared inexplicably. But now the outbreak of Eta Carinae has completely occupied Zhao Lan's attention, which makes Zhao Lan not want to waste too much time here. Anyway, the port is responsible for the custody of the spaceship. If the spaceship is lost, then the port should naturally compensate itself for another one. So now, it is business to get to the observation base as quickly as possible to study Eta Carinae.

"Miss Zhao Lan, the supervisor has received my report and they are organizing personnel to verify this incident. Please rest assured that the port will definitely give you a satisfactory answer." The service staff wiped his sweat "On behalf of our port, I would like to once again apologize for the inconvenience caused to you," he said.

"Let's not talk about this for now." Zhao Lan said, "Which is the nearest ship to return to Earth? How long is the voyage? I request the port to immediately coordinate a spaceship for me to take me back to No. 7 Hong Kong, as for the specific compensation for the loss of my spaceship...my lawyer will contact you later."

"Okay, okay, I'll go and help you coordinate this matter." The service staff said hurriedly. After leading Zhao Lan into the VIP room to rest, he quickly walked away to help Zhao Lan coordinate the matter. These things went away.

So after waiting for another two hours, Zhao Lan finally boarded a cargo spacecraft and embarked on the journey back to the sky survey and observation base.

The survey observation base is near Port 7, which is one of hundreds of intermediate ports on the route from Earth to Mars. Port No. 7 is about 20 million kilometers away from Mars at this moment. At the speed of this cargo spacecraft, it will take Zhao Lan about three days to arrive. This is another day later than the scheduled arrival time of the Sylvia spacecraft.

But there is nothing that can be done about it. If you don't take this cargo spacecraft, the next passenger spacecraft to depart will be three days later. Zhao Lan couldn't wait that long.

The space in the cargo spaceship is small and the living environment is very harsh. But at this moment, Zhao Lan no longer cares about these things. After three hellish days, Zhao Lan finally arrived at Port No. 7, and then transferred to the observation base's staff-only ship. After another six hours, he finally arrived at the Star Sea Survey Observation Base. among.

Finally sitting in front of the special observation equipment and finally seeing with his own eyes the wreckage of Eta Carinae after the explosion, Zhao Lan quickly became immersed in this matter.

At this moment, relevant scientists in all human civilizations are watching Eta Carinae, and relevant scientists in all human civilizations are analyzing the information collected from Eta Carinae. Every subtle change in this huge star is affecting the hearts of scientists. And Zhao Lan is just an ordinary one among countless scientists. (To be continued ~^~)

PS: The two updates have been completed~ Tomorrow’s update will be updated at a fixed time period, that is, 12 noon and 17:00. The plot line has almost been conceived, and Rainbow will speed up the writing process and strive to have an explosion in the near future. And then...some book friends complained about Rainbow's vulgar name? Humph, Caihong has decided. The name of the protagonist in the next volume Caihong is going to be an awesome name: St. Andrelessky. Wen Yeche. Lan Yingshang Zi Ledie. Dimethylresorcinol. Alps. .Tiezhu, what do you think of this name? If you like this name, please vote for it! ! ! If you don’t like it, please vote monthly! ! ! Rainbow will decide whether to adopt this name based on the number of support and opposition votes~