The shining Shoko Toyokawa

It was confirmed that Xia Ya was Xiangzi.

We also know that she is Oblivionis, and everyone is likely to be hostile to her...

Also, Xiao Deng came to the universe to save himself, but still hasn't returned...

Since then, Aine has developed a habit of talking to herself.

Because Xiao Deng said that he would always be by her side,

If I don't talk to Xiao Deng anymore, then... how lonely she would be...

The so-called landing capsule was quite shabby. Apart from the most basic life support facilities and propulsion nozzles, there was nothing else. It was only slightly larger than a bus.

Aine drove it, separated from the return capsule, and slowly drifted towards the colony satellite that was rotating between the Earth and the Moon.

That... is the hope of humanity.

"Thanks to you, Xiao Deng, thanks to you, I can come here..."

There were no more tears in Aine's eyes.

"Xiao Deng, I'll convince Xia...Xiangzi for you. So after I convince Xiangzi, we won't have to fight anymore. Then, you'll definitely be able to go back, right? Yeah? You're definitely going to be able to go back, right?!"

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In this world, hope has a price.

The price of miracles is often too heavy to be accepted.

Chapter 163: Aurora, the Star of Hope

Keeping the colony in sync is probably the easiest thing on this journey.

Although the outer ring of this cylindrical structure rotates at a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour, it takes about two minutes to rotate once as a whole.

If you enter from the spaceport in the center of the north, you just need to make the landing capsule rotate once every 2 minutes to synchronize with it.

Due to the previous satellite war, no probe had ever entered a colony satellite before.

Fortunately, the 'people' who created this colony satellite don't seem to intend to make things more difficult for outsiders.

Aine exited the cabin and found the control console in a short time. The console showed that the spaceport was also in a vacuum state. However, just in case, she returned to the cabin and drove the landing module to a mooring position that could hold a small spacecraft.

If there is still air in the huge spaceport, the air rushing out from inside the moment the hatch is opened will

Being able to blow her simple landing capsule hundreds of miles away in the gravity-free universe is no joke.

After doing all this, she opened the colonial port, the port gate that was taller than Tokyo Tower.

This was the first route in the plan. If this route was blocked, then Aine would have to look for places like the colony's airlock repair cabin.

In order to maintain this giant machine with a length of 40 kilometers and a diameter of 6 kilometers, maintenance airlocks are spread throughout the colony satellite so that in the event of a micro-meteorite impact or module failure, maintenance can be carried out through the nearest airlock.

To keep the colony running smoothly, the necessary maintenance personnel alone would probably be in the tens of thousands. Although the sunlight, rotational gravity simulation, and attitude adjustment system are all running automatically,

But no one knows how long they can continue to operate automatically.

"I'm going in first," Aine waved through the camera in front of the landing module, "Communications may be interrupted for a while, but don't worry, I'll be back soon."

Aiyin packed up her equipment and floated into the harbor, which was big enough to accommodate several Ford aircraft carriers. "Everyone needs to get here as soon as possible... Xiao Deng, you think so too, don't you?"

She admired the grandeur of the port in her heart, but she moved quickly. She followed the signs in the port and first passed through the pressurized sealed lock of the employee passage to enter the air environment.

Then she went around to the 'airport exit' of a spaceport. Along the way, there were handles on the track to pull her forward, so she didn't have to perform a strenuous act of swimming in space, or use up the extravehicular spacesuit and the pitiful jet propulsion range.

People who normally arrive at the port by spacecraft seem to enter here through a place similar to the boarding walkway on Earth. During this period, there is this atmosphere throughout, so ordinary passengers naturally do not need to wear space suits.

Every detail of this spaceport reveals its maturity and reliability. A civilization or enterprise without many years of experience in operating zero-gravity spaceports cannot create one.

Although there was a landing capsule as a relay, the communication signal with the ground was still interrupted after Aine entered the port.

This is because the structure of the port is mostly made of metal. If there is no internal base station as a signal relay station, these metals will become a thick Faraday cage, and the communication equipment on the space suit will not be able to send or receive signals.

The young astronaut, through the 'down' handle, soon saw the sign indicating that there was gravity ahead.

The so-called gravity is naturally different from the real gravity on Earth. It is simulated by the "centrifugal force" of rotation.

Just because you have a reminder of gravity doesn't mean you'll suddenly feel 1G of gravity like on Earth.

When we got to the passenger sightseeing elevator that led into the colony, the 'gravity' was still quite weak. That was because this place was not far from the central axis of the colony's rotation, so the 'centrifugal force' was naturally not strong.

When riding the sightseeing elevator down to the more than three kilometers of the colony satellite "Earth", the "gravity" will gradually increase as you get farther away from the central axis of rotation, until it approaches the "gravity" on Earth.

It is obviously not a wise move to go down in the extravehicular spacesuit again.

Aiyin copied the video footage taken by the space suit, found an unlocked temporary locker, took off her extravehicular space suit and stuffed it inside.

Since she and Alice were similar in size, she could use the clothes and shoes originally prepared for Alice.

Although the lining of the space suit is good, it feels a bit strange to wear it.

"Well, let's go in..."

Aiyin put on her backpack, checked her pistol, turned on her handheld camera, and boarded the passenger sightseeing elevator.

Perhaps because they were too late to accept the advertisement, the clothes prepared for Alice did not have any strange company names or logos printed on them. Instead, they were casual clothes that young people like nowadays.

If it weren't for the gun hidden on her body, the pink-haired girl at this moment would look like an ordinary JK who came to the colony to study.

The sightseeing elevator in the spaceport is about 3,000 meters above the ground. People with acrophobia might be scared to death.

But for Aine, there was no scene more beautiful than the one before her eyes at this moment——

The climate in the colony simulates the Northern Hemisphere.

The elevator track descends along the peaks and ridges of the "mountain range". Through the mist and clouds above, the shadows of two other "lands" can be vaguely seen.

Warm sunlight penetrates the sky on three sides, and sprinkles on the misty lake, forest and city below.

A few white water birds flapped their wings and flew away from the trees where they roosted at night, blowing away some of the mist lingering on the surface of the lake, and landed in the gently rippling and shimmering lake, causing ripples.

The operation of the rail elevator startled several deer on the mountain. They stopped grazing and turned around to run deeper into the forest.

On the morning of early October, the forest still echoed with the chirping of cicadas and birds, butterflies fluttered among the wild flowers in the forest, and the little squirrels in the trees stood curiously on the branches, looking at the sightseeing elevator coming down.

These scenes, which are no different from those on Earth, appeared in space more than 30 kilometers away from Earth.

It was hard for Aiyin to describe her feelings at the moment. She just held up the camera and faithfully recorded this scene.

"The crystallization of human wisdom is right before our eyes..."

Aiyin had learned about Biosphere 2 in her textbooks. It was so difficult to create an independent biosphere on Earth, so the difficulty in space was even more imaginable.

It is no exaggeration to say that with this colony, humans can advance the time of entering the universe by hundreds of years.

After getting off the sightseeing elevator, you will see the station and subway facilities, and even a place to rent a car.

Aiyin walked in the empty station, but she didn't feel lonely.

One reason is that compared to the universe where there is nothing, there are traces of life everywhere. More importantly, she always believes that Xiao Deng is always by her side.

"Let's first find a way to get in touch with the ground from the colony."

Aiyin did not forget her mission and immersed herself in the magnificent scenery of the colony.

"Let's watch it together next time, Xiao Deng..." And she must return to Earth as soon as possible,

Although there had been probes that had taken photos of the colony's 'sky', and architectural experts had speculated on the specific functions of the buildings, after arriving at the colony, those speculative maps were completely meaningless.

Because there are road signs everywhere, you can find where you want to go just by looking up.

It is obviously impossible to rent a car, and the machine probably does not charge US dollars.

She found a bus and got on it, and found the key was inserted in the car.

The bus seemed to be electric, with no exhaust pipe visible, and turning the key only made the dashboard light up, with no sound of the engine igniting.

"What about the brake and accelerator?"

It's a bit embarrassing to say, although I have driven high-end things like Gundam and landing capsule, but Aine actually can't drive.

She held the handbrake and instinctively stepped on the left pedal.

She didn't want any accidents to happen because of driving without a license.

Fortunately, the left side wasn't the accelerator, and the car didn't move at all when I stepped on it.

Aine released the handbrake and tentatively stepped on the right pedal. The bus slowly began to move.

She tried to control the direction, which was easy.

"What? Cars are much easier to drive than Gundams."

Her goal was very clear. She went to the Colonial Administration from the beginning. As the name suggests, this place is the center responsible for controlling the operation of the colony. It not only controls whether it will rain today, but also can probably communicate with the outside world.

There were few high-rise buildings in the colony, and the Colonial Administration was only seven stories high.

Aiyin entered without any obstruction and found the Communications Management Department through the diagram in the hall.

All devices have no passwords set, and are thoughtfully equipped with fool-proof instructions.

After fiddling with it for a while, she figured out how to use it. However, she didn't send radio waves to Earth immediately. Instead, she checked the video footage taken by the cameras on the Rabbit Hole and the spacesuit.

She wanted to edit a video to tell everyone about her journey.

But she soon realized that it would be difficult for her to complete the film of the quality she had in mind by herself.

But what Aine is best at is causing trouble for others,

She tuned the communication band to Mr. Rabbit's, said hello, and then transmitted the video footage shot by the handheld camera and the video footage shot by the space suit entering the colony to the ground.

"Abandon any prejudice, edit the journey into a ten-minute video, and add touching background music,"

Amidst the bewildered gazes of the ground commanders, Aiyin indulged herself in being the client.

All the Palu who can enter the ground command center are good Palu.

Thanks to the efforts of all the Palu, the computers in the colony soon received several versions of the editing.

Although some will add some nonsense content, portraying Aine as an autistic child, making friends in America, the beacon of freedom and democracy, becoming more cheerful under the guidance of instructors and teachers, and smiling at minorities, and then adding overly sentimental subtitles and background music,

Normal people would find it weird.

There are also some clips that mislead the audience into thinking that Aine has become an Amika citizen.

But even if you cut all that out, you can still see the editing skills of the Palus.

Aine cut out all the nonsense and the drawings depicting her own 'growth', retaining the bumpy experiences along the way and that... aurora-like light, as well as the magnificent scenery of the colony.

Finally, I’ll end with a video shot by a camera in front of the French window on the top floor of the Colonial Administration.

“These two days have been incredibly long for me.

Maybe it is hard to believe, but I am now on that star that suddenly appeared.

Because of its appearance, our world fell into chaos. The satellite wars among the major powers involved all countries.

The space battleship that now appears next to the pyramid has put the world situation in a precarious situation."

The pink-haired girl slowly raised her head. The corners of her eyes, which had turned red from crying, seemed to have been painted with two lines of crimson eyeshadow.

"But please believe that this is where humanity's hope lies. In the Aurora, the wisdom and courage of future humanity are revealed before us!"

Aine firmly believed that the arrival of the colony satellite would bring dawn to mankind, so long ago, she called it "Aurora" in her heart.

"It tells us that one day, humans will be able to create such incredible colonies, break free from gravity and live in space."

"In the future, humans may even be able to control time... But right now, we are trapped in a recurring cycle of tragic wars on the surface of a tiny planet..."

Aine desperately shouted, "Are we humans so foolish that we would choose war even if it means destruction?!

Now, everyone, let’s show the wisdom of mankind to our children, the children of our future children!

We cannot allow those selfish politicians to lead the world into an irreversible situation!

Please choose peace and abandon unwarranted confrontation and hatred.

Let’s actively believe and cooperate to lead the world towards a bright future!”

After adding this section, Aiyin found all the frequency bands that had tried to contact the colony.

Perhaps realizing what Aine was about to do, Mr. Rabbit sent a series of messages, but Aine chose to ignore them and sent the video to the group.

She was not an American, and had no obligation to obey them.

If everyone is in the colony this time, she doesn't even want to go back to Earth.

But she had to go back.