The shining Shoko Toyokawa

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Bad news came one after another, and even Miao Meng had no intention of going to sleep to adjust to the jet lag.

Naomi Misora ​​asked for the right to broadcast the real-time video from the Rabbit Hole back to the ground. The girls looked at the figure on the projector who was struggling to move outside the spacecraft, and their hearts sank.

"Is anyone there?"

"Talk to me...!"

"It's so cold being alone..."

No one could imagine how desperate the pink-haired girl felt in her heart at this final moment.

But now, the distance of more than 30 kilometers is a chasm between heaven and earth, preventing them from reaching anywhere.

"Anon-chan..."

At this moment, Deng thought of many things——

The hand that pulled me to the rooftop, the pink-haired girl's back, and the promise of 'a lifetime',

"I'm going to..."

She stood up slowly, the tears in her eyes disappeared.

Because crying is meaningless, so she stopped crying.

"I'm going to Aine,"

"Xiao... Xiao Deng?" Li Xi looked at the lamp at a loss, "We are... helpless now!"

"No," Deng shook his head slowly, "I can go!"

Su Shi's sleepy and sad nerves were suddenly stimulated by the feeling of an electric current rushing to his scalp. He felt a terrible "possibility" and quickly reached out to the gray-haired girl.

"No! No Xiao Deng! No way!"

Deng didn't look back, but took two steps forward. "Penelope, I will drive Penelope."

"That's impossible, Deng. Penelope is a machine designed for use in the atmosphere. It can't go into space!"

"Yes," the gray-haired girl turned around and said firmly, "Yes, I can go, I must go!"

Her eyes became increasingly empty, as if she was staring at some distant place, or as if her soul had left her body.

"Snapped!"

After a crisp sound, Deng's eyes refocused and looked at Misora ​​Naomi, "Misora, are you going to stop me? Or are you going to threaten me with my family again?"

"If you're going, just tell me straight away! I'm not a new breed like you. Tell me straight away how you're going to get there! Are you going to commit suicide?!

If you do this, even if the 'soul' can float into the universe, what will Chihaya think if she really comes back alive?!

And what will your parents and Xiangzi think?!"

"No matter what the outcome is, I have to go!"

"Deng..." Li Xi couldn't persuade Deng to stay, because Deng was more determined than ever before.

Su Shi also didn't know what to do. "Let me go, let me go! I've been prepared for death!"

Deng didn't say anything else, but just looked at Misora ​​Naomi calmly.

Misora ​​Naomi's fists were clenched until they turned pale, and finally... they slowly loosened.

"Come with me... and pilot your Penelope!"

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Penelope's huge body slowly rose onto the deck on a modified elevator. At this moment, it had no weapons, and even the four Vulcan cannons on its head were empty.

The gray-haired girl stood in front of the dragon-like steel giant. The whistling 'deck wind' lifted her hair, as if it wanted to sweep her frail body into the sky and disappear.

The seabirds seemed to feel that the wind was too strong, and they flapped their wings with difficulty and landed on the bridge. Among the flock of seabirds, only a solitary albatross landed on the V-shaped antenna of Penelope.

It is not as noisy as a seagull, but always remains silent, as if it knows that no companions will respond to it even if it calls.

Deng didn't know what expression he should show at this moment.

but,

"You should say something, right?"

Deng thought so, tucked the flying hair in front of her eyes behind her ears, smiled and said softly: "Everyone, Gao Song Deng... Penelope, attack."

The 'boarding rope' began to rise, and the gray-haired girl seemed to have grown wings to fight against the wind, and seemed to have broken free from gravity, and lightly 'floated' into the cockpit in the wind.

next moment,

Penelope's engines started, and she and the Albatross took off into the wind.

But in an instant he passed the albatross,

It switched to a steel dragon-like cruising mode in the air, and with a sound like a monster's roar, it climbed upward at an almost vertical angle. In a few breaths, it broke through the clouds and climbed to higher airspace!

Ten thousand meters!

Twenty thousand meters!

Forty thousand meters!

In just a short time, Penelope stepped on the fighter's highest ceiling.

When the Milovsky aircraft was unable to do so, it used conventional thrusters to continue climbing.

Penelope 'hovered' in the upper atmosphere, turning back like a bird, and then, like a fighter plane imitating Immelmann's maneuver, she turned the cockpit towards the boundless universe and slowly fell down.

Below it, the 10-ton aircraft carrier also became a small dot, like a bird flying in the sky, and directly above it, there was nothing to be seen, as if the sea below was the real sky, and the blue sky in front of the lamp was the sea.

In this environment where heaven and earth are out of place, people feel lonely, as if they are always fighting against another self.

"Penelope...we can do this, right?"

Therefore, in order to get rid of loneliness, people call out for "love" in this boundless void.

The lamp sinks 'consciousness' into the 'sea'

In an instant, or perhaps an eternity later, she vaguely felt a lonely and helpless soul in the void of the sea, and it was also calling out,

'Anon-chan!'

Between the boundary of heaven and earth, the lamp screams with all its might.

But the distance of more than 30 kilometers is still too far, or perhaps the gravity of the earth is too heavy.

A soul bound by gravity and the body cannot cross such a long distance!

Suddenly, an idea emerged in the quiet heart of the lamp.

She has one more thing.

There is one more thing that must be done!

"Xiangzi, please, please... please don't fight with us!"

She opened Penelope's system and created a document named "To Xiangzi" in a conspicuous place, and recorded her last words in it.

"And, I love you."

After finishing the recording, the lamp's consciousness focused on Penelope.

"Penelope, please, send my soul... into space..."

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"What's that? What's glowing?"

On the Ford, the officers who had been observing Penelope through binoculars exclaimed, "Penelope is glowing. It's a different color from the laser grid, a light green, like the aurora!"

"Is this a phenomenon of atmospheric refraction?!"

"Xiao Deng..." Tears streamed down Li Xi's cheeks, "Is Xiao Deng...going to space?"

The light emanating from Penelope grew stronger and stronger, and could be seen without a telescope.

The soft stars gathered into a shape like a comet's tail...

Flying into space,

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"Hey, what happened? Is the camera malfunctioning?!"

The camera outside the cabin captured an incredible scene.

Outside the rabbit hole, aurora-like light emanated from the T-shaped telepathic frame, and the space suit could not block it.

The light spans across space, building a star-studded aurora bridge between the lonely and dark space and the earth.

Gian soldiers at the Pyramid of Khufu,

A young boy harvesting rice in the rice fields of the South Asian subcontinent,

A couple on a date at the top of Tokyo Skytree...

People raised their heads and stared at the incredible scene intently.

Chapter 162: Girls who can never go back, the price of miracles

"Anon-chan!"

"Anon-chan!"

"lamp?"

In the endless darkness, Aine heard a familiar cry and sensed the girl's approach. "Deng, where are you? I'll come to you right away!"

Although Aiyin couldn't see the girl, she could feel that the girl was right beside her.

Something heavy was restraining Aine, and her vision was completely dark, she could not see anything.

"hateful!"

Then, Aiyin began to struggle hard, trying to break free from the cage that 'bound' her.

"No, Anon-chan!" Deng's voice was unusually stern, "You can't come to me now!"

“But…” Aine felt extremely depressed, “It’s so lonely being alone.”

"You are not alone, Anon-chan,"

The girl’s warm ‘hand’ caressed Aine’s cheek, “Everyone has been watching Anon-chan, and… I will always be with Anon-chan.

So, wake up quickly and come back to everyone!"

"But I feel so tired and sleepy, Xiao Deng, please let me stay here."

"No, Anon-chan,"

Although she couldn't see anything, Aiyin felt that Xiao Deng seemed to be shaking her head at her.

"Think about why you came here, Anon-chan. Wouldn't it be a shame to just give up like this?"

"Xiao Deng, are you sad? Is it because you deceived everyone? There's nothing you can do. How could you possibly betray Xia Ya... Xiangzi?"

"What's wrong with me, what am I talking about?

How is it possible that Xia Ya is Xiangzi or something like that? "

Aiyin's groggy mind immediately became even more confused. She felt as if she had become Xiao Deng, or rather, she understood Xiao Deng, as if Xiao Deng had merged into her body.

“Please, Aine! Wake up quickly! And then go and convince Shoko (Char) on my behalf.”

"Instead of a small lamp or something..."

Aine's heart grew sadder.

But for a moment, she didn't know where this sadness came from.

It was as if the little lamp was about to go to a distant place where it would never come back.

"Wait! Xiao Deng, don't leave me!"

Aine suddenly opened her eyes and stretched out her hand, but of course she grabbed nothing. Only a tiny bit of light like the aurora slowly dissipated in her hand.

"Little light!"

She miraculously woke up.