The shining Shoko Toyokawa

"3"

"2"

"1"

At this moment, the whole world seemed to be quiet. The last rays of sunset disappeared at the top of the transmission tower, and the whole world was sliding into darkness.

"boom!!!"

The machine that was clinging tightly to the enemy exploded!

The towering heavy rocket ignites!

Violent air and fire burst out under the restraint of the Laval nozzle. The steam and flames rising into the sky seemed to set the whole world on fire!

The huge heavy rocket, along with the launch tower, was shaking. The ice that had condensed on the shell due to the low temperature was shaking off, like a glass lens falling from a high building.

The remaining rotating fixed brackets quickly move away from the arrow body.

Thousands of tons of thrust acted on the rocket that was a hundred meters high. Amidst the rumbling roar, the rocket body began to 'slowly' rise, gradually accelerating, and faster and faster.

1000 meters,

10000 meters,

This distance is just the starting point for this heavy rocket!

The acceleration of nearly 5G acted on Alice No. 2's body, as if the entire Y organization's pilots were pressing her down.

Aine gritted her teeth and tried to catch her breath, "Ah! Damn gravity!"

The rumbling sound spread throughout the battlefield. Both sides of the battle seemed to have just woken up from a dream and looked at the heavy rocket rising into the sky.

Their fight has no meaning at this moment.

The defenders have completed their mission.

The rocket launches into the air, which means the attacking party has failed.

For a moment, the entire battlefield fell silent, as if... the world was truly at peace.

But this is just an illusion after all. When the heavy rocket rises to 20 kilometers or higher, it is just a weak flash when viewed from the ground.

So, the battle started again.

Only this time, the original attacker wanted to retreat.

The defending side turns to offense!

The battle... continues...

"Uh…"

Aine gasped for breath. 160 seconds after the rocket ignited, 'gravity' suddenly disappeared from Aine's body.

But she didn't feel relieved, nor did she feel that she had arrived in the gravity-free universe.

At this time, the instrument showed that the rocket was in the middle layer at an altitude of 42 miles (about 67 kilometers).

On the contrary, what she has to face now is another major challenge in manned space flight!

Many astronauts died here——

The first stage rocket separates!

"Bang-"

Accompanied by a slight explosion and the tremor of the arrow body,

"Rabbit hole, rabbit hole! First stage separation successful!"

As the small cheers came from the ground control center, Aine breathed a sigh of relief. At least she didn't die during the separation of the first stage rocket.

But her breath was obviously relaxed too early.

"boom!"

The ignition of the second stage rocket startled Aine. For a moment she thought the rocket had exploded.

But this time the G-force of acceleration appeared again,

"Damn gravity!"

After the second-stage rocket successfully ignited and ran for a short time, the escape tower, which served as a rescue measure in case of launch failure, ignited and separated from the top of the rocket according to the predetermined procedure because keeping it would only increase the empty weight.

Aine felt the gravity slowly shifting from vertical to horizontal, which was gradually accelerating and entering the Earth's orbit. After about 9 minutes, the 'pushing feeling' gradually disappeared.

At this time, the altitude displayed on the instrument has reached about 110 miles (about 170 kilometers).

The second stage rocket separated, and the third stage rocket ignited, bringing the spacecraft to an altitude of about 200 kilometers before stopping, but it did not separate because the mission of the third stage rocket had not yet been completed.

The spacecraft will temporarily stay in this orbit 200 kilometers lower than the International Space Station, waiting for the right time and orbit to accelerate to the second speed of the universe (11.2 kilometers per second), fly to the colony, and then use the deceleration engine to park at the Earth-Moon Lagrange point L1 where the colony is located.

This method of space travel is undoubtedly uneconomical. Rockets weighing thousands of tons can only carry tens of tons of payload away from the earth.

This is exactly why humans have not been able to reach the moon for 55 years. The universe is too vast and too empty...

But at this moment, Aine felt her body was more relaxed than ever before, because at this moment, she had broken free from 'gravity' (actually, she had reached the first cosmic speed).

Through the porthole and the hemispherical helmet, what appeared before her eyes was a world she had never seen before.

Florida on Earth has fallen into darkness, but Aiyin in space is like walking on the Little Prince's planet. If she heads east, the sun will rise.

…………

“Our terra firma~~”

In the morning in Tokyo, Li Xi made an appointment with Deng to go to a live house.

The new popular girl band Diamond Stardust is performing on stage now, and their song is the hit song "Tracer Bullet".

"Xiao Deng, what's wrong?"

Li Xi noticed that Xiao Deng kept raising his head.

"...I think..." Deng hesitated for a moment, and didn't say that he seemed to have sensed Aine.

…………

On the 200-kilometer-high orbit, Aine took off her helmet and removed the amulet that Xia had given her from her neck.

Then--

Gently let go of my hand

The T-shaped 'amulet' slowly floated up due to the slight movement of her hand. At the same time, Aine, who had unbuttoned her clothes, also floated up.

The amulet floated towards the porthole, as if it was flying towards the blue planet outside the mysterious window. I don’t know if it was an illusion, or the refraction of light, but Aine always felt that it seemed to emit a faint light.

Looking into the porthole again, the reflection was of a girl with sparkling eyes and a smile that looked like she had the whole world.

All her gloom was swept away in front of the stunning and magnificent Mother Earth.

The soul seems to have been redeemed and freed from the constraints of the body.

"This is…"

"Is this the universe?"

“This is freedom!”

…………

“Our terra firma~~” (Our land)

Chapter 158: Go to hell, my father!

"Chuhua, I love you the most!"

At the seaside, the setting sun cast a beautiful light on the girl's aquamarine hair, as if dyeing it golden...

"Xiao Xiang!"

Chu Hua suddenly opened his eyes and sat up, startling the assistant beside him!

In the morning, the plane was over Liuqiu Airport, slowly lowering its flaps and landing gear.

There was a slight bump when the landing gear touched the runway. Chu Hua took a deep breath, leaned back in his seat and rubbed his brows.

For some reason, she always had a bad feeling.

"Boss, are you okay?"

"fine,"

Chu Hua suddenly thought of the beach she and Xia Ya had visited a few days ago.

October is coming soon. If there are turtles laying eggs this year, the baby turtles may hatch soon.

After 20-30 years, the little turtles will return to the beach again. Thinking about it this way, it is really a romantic thing.

"Where's Hailing? Still can't get in touch with her?"

Chu Hua hasn't been able to contact her since the day before yesterday.

At first she didn't care much because Hailing was no longer a child, and there was also a message asking Chuhua not to worry.

But Chuhua was not worried...but rather uncomfortable.

Ever since she 'picked up' Hailing, the two have been inseparable like sisters, sharing their secrets with each other.

Many times, the moment we realize how important someone is to us is not during those miraculous daily times we spend together, but when we are apart.

Because of this, the moment people understand something, they can never go back.

"Ms. Hachiman, there's still no reply. I contacted my aunt, and she said that she only met her once a week ago. She even asked me if you had a fight."

"...We did have an argument, didn't we?"

Chu Hua thought about the time when Hai Ling suddenly found her and asked her to "tie" Xia Ya away from District 11 before she and Xia Ya went to the island.

At first Chu Hua thought Hai Ling was joking. Chu Hua didn't know how Hai Ling treated other people, but sometimes, she would indeed joke with herself.

For example; kill that damned 'old man' and let Chu Hua ascend to the position of the head of the family, and hold high the banner of Liuqiu's restoration.

Chu Hua was not very interested in these things, and she also thought she did not have such strong abilities.

But the current goal is to bring down the Toyokawa family, and then...

Well, Chu Hua really hadn't thought much about what happened next.

Maybe I should continue to be an idol.

Or maybe return to that small island and live an ordinary life.

If Xia Ya wants to return to her country, immigrating to the Fog City is also a good option. Xia Ya is such an ambitious person, she will probably run for election and become a politician. With her serious personality, it will definitely be very tiring. By then...

Chu Hua was amused by her own divergent thoughts. Although she demanded the suppression of the Toyokawa family on the condition of providing MS to the MS Sports Competition Committee, which had caused the Toyokawa family's main business, Toyokawa Real Estate, to fall in the stock market in recent months, it would be difficult to damage its foundation in a short period of time.

Chuhua also thought about physically eliminating the core members of the Toyokawa family.

But those guys still have the same blood as Xiangzi. More importantly, she still hasn't figured out the details of why Xiangzi's family has changed.

Because Xiangzi's mother passed away, did his father, who married into the family, suffer ostracism?

But even if they are squeezed out of the center of power, why should they be pushed to a desperate situation?

Although the Toyokawa family cannot be compared with the Genmaki family, they can still afford to support a drunkard and a girl, right?

This behavior seems like they are in a hurry to cut ties with Xiangzi's family.

Chu Hua is waiting, waiting until he is strong enough to completely break away from the Sanjiao family's network. By then, Fengchuan will not be able to sit still any longer.

Of course, it is possible that he died in an assassination before this.

This kind of thing is not uncommon in District 11.

But Chuhua didn't feel any fear. He might have felt a little regretful, but he didn't regret it.

"Help me book a ticket to Tokyo. Let's go meet Auntie first... Uh, let me inform Auntie first."

After getting off the plane, Chu Hua called Hai Ling's mother.

"Auntie, I'm fine. I'm in Liuqiu now. I'll come to see you this afternoon. Is there any local specialty you need me to bring?"