Girls und War

Those were all major cities in the world. However, the complex weather made every place on the ground look unclear, with only a faint light visible.

If the orbit were higher, at the third or fourth satellite belt, we would be able to see more clearly.

Looking up from here, you can see the planet-sized "hula hoops" passing quickly from space.

But because many satellite belts are in different orbits from the first satellite belt they are in, they can only see the sixth and twelfth satellite belts a little more clearly.

As the spacecraft slowly approached the first satellite belt, they finally found a reference point and gained a sense of speed.

This behemoth, which is more than 50,000 kilometers long and 3.6 kilometers wide, looks as thin as a thread on the ground.

But when I got closer, I realized, wow, it takes an insane amount of technology points to make something like this float in space without falling to the ground.

Xia Shu felt that the world he used to live in was basically a primitive society, and it was still many years away from this level of technology.

As everyone watched the spacecraft slowly approach the satellite belt and their expressions gradually became tense, Xia Shu suddenly spoke.

"Speaking of which, regarding space travel, I suddenly remembered something."

Several girls turned to look at Natsuki.

"That's right, my batch of recruits will have a recruit competition, the kind that's a war zone competition. You know that?" she said to them.

"I know." Smiley nodded and replied, "Xia Shu, you won the championship, right? I remember."

Little Jack also nodded.

Xia Shu smiled and said a little embarrassedly, "I'm not talking about the championship. It's about the round of 16. Our opponent in that match was in the mixed zone, and whoever won would advance to the quarterfinals. But on that day, we advanced without playing."

"Why?" Smiley Face asked, a little confused. "Were they scared away by you, the mountain devil?"

"No," Xia Shu quickly shook his head and said, "Because they withdrew from the competition."

"Why do you want to withdraw from the competition?" Little Jack couldn't help but ask.

"I heard that the participating class went on a space trip the day before. After the girls in their battle zone heard about it, they went on strike that day, so we won." Xia Shu said helplessly.

After a moment's silence, the girls suddenly burst into laughter.

"Hahahahahahahaha...space travel...strike...it's amazing!" Smiley Face knocked hard on the armrest in front of him.

"They are worthy of it!" Elizabeth also smiled and applauded.

"Come to think of it, I have a few jokes about the mixed zone..."

"Oh? I'd like to hear the details."

Just like that, in a peaceful atmosphere, the girls gradually relaxed their minds, and the spacecraft gradually approached the gravity capture device of the satellite belt.

After the spacecraft attached to the docking shell, a hatch quickly opened and they slowly rose into the interior of the satellite belt.

Under the guidance of the tour guide robot, the girls quickly unbuckled their seat belts and walked out of the spacecraft's hatch.

Although it is said to be walking, the actual feeling is no different from floating.

Although the speed inside the first satellite belt has not reached the first cosmic speed, it is extremely close.

Inside, they would feel extremely little gravity, toward the Earth-facing side of the satellite belt.

You can jump seven or eight meters here and easily lift objects weighing tens of millions of pounds.

If you don't pay attention -

"Ah!"

——will hit your head like a smiley face.

"Uuuuuuuuuu——"

Chunxiang gently stroked the smiling dog's head, while the tour guide robot was still introducing them to the precautions of the tour, including not to jump too high.

Then the girls handed out a gravity suction cup to each of them. This thing looks like a small speaker, and when you press the button in a certain direction, it will generate attraction to that place.

Little Jack pressed against Xia Shu, and sure enough, the two of them stuck together.

Little Jack immediately laughed out loud with joy.

380. Towards the Universe and the Future

Several girls grabbed the cables handed out by the tour guide robot and quickly followed the ascending channel to the outer surface of the satellite belt.

This is the satellite belt tourist area. Looking out from the transparent shell, what comes into view is the morning of the planet and the two distant moons.

The tour guide robot continued to introduce them to the basic situation of the satellite belt and scientific knowledge about outer space.

They weren't listening at all, just looking at the fascinating space scenery and whispering to each other.

Xia Shu looked at the moon and somehow thought of someone.

rush.

Speaking of which, I haven't talked to her for a long time, and I don't know how she is doing now.

"What are you thinking about?" Haruka walked to Natsuki with a curious expression.

Xia Shu smiled and said, "Nothing."

Then he kicked the ground and flew forward.

The girls walked around the tourist area for a while, experiencing the low gravity area and the zero gravity area, and gradually felt hungry.

So they came back to the normal gravity area and started to enjoy their space lunch.

The ground here is equipped with a gravity generating device. Except for the scenery of outer space, the other physical manifestations here are exactly the same as those on the ground.

Smiley Face was so funny that he wanted to eat some zero-gravity food with local characteristics, so he took a few bags of liquid food that looked like toothpaste and ran to the zero-gravity area.

But after a while, she came back dejected.

"What's wrong?" Chunxiang asked.

"I can't swallow it. It's like eating shit." Smiling face opened his mouth.

"Ugh—you talk like you've eaten shit."

Everyone immediately showed disgusted expressions.

After lunch, they visited the core device of the satellite belt - the black ring.

This is a perfect black light ring with a diameter of 20 centimeters, rotating at a constant speed on the surface of the planet with the center of the earth as its coordinate.

It has no mass itself, but provides a correct coordinate system for the entire satellite belt.

The satellite belt will keep in sync with the black ring to ensure correct stress positioning.

There are more than twenty black rings around the entire planet, each of which is a satellite belt. The first step in building a satellite belt is to create such a perfect positioning system.

This black ring alone was beyond Xia Shu's understanding of technology.

Not to mention other off-track transfer technologies or track change guidance devices.

The girls continued to tour for a while and gradually became aesthetically fatigued.

So he sat in the sightseeing capsule and took a rest.

After Jack found a place to sit, Elizabeth followed and sat next to him. It seemed that she had something to say to her.

The remaining three girls were also very considerate and sat a little further away so as not to disturb their conversation.

After sitting with the two of them for a while, Smiley Face felt bored again, so he followed the tour guide robot to the zero-gravity area.

Then Haruka and Natsuki once again entered their alone time.

In order to prevent the atmosphere from becoming awkward, Haruka found a topic to talk to Natsuki.

"How long have you been in the army?" Chunxiang asked with a smile.

Xia Shu calculated and said, "Half a year... a little more. Time flies."

"In just half a year... you've already become a corporal. That's impressive," Chunxiang said with some admiration. "Even though I'm a major now, I've already joined the army..."

She paused and didn't say the time.

"I've been in the army for a long time..."

Xia Shu smiled and said nothing.

Chunxiang couldn't help but ask, "Looking at you, you look just twenty years old, right?"

"I'm sixteen," Xia Shu corrected, "I'll be seventeen next month."

Chunxiang was stunned and subconsciously touched her face.

Xia Shu forced himself to hold back the question that was about to be asked.

Chunxiang immediately calculated the time again.

"There will be a sergeant exam next month, and a staff sergeant the month after that. With your sniping skills, you'll have no problem getting promoted to staff sergeant. A seventeen-year-old staff sergeant sniper? Wow, that's unique." Chunxiang said excitedly.

"But the major I applied for is deputy conductor..." Xia Shu replied.

"Oh... well... it's hard to say..." Chunxiang immediately showed a lost expression.

Xia Shu smiled and was about to say something when he suddenly saw Smiley Face walking towards him with a sarcastic laugh.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, ah—"

Seeing Xiaomian making strange faces, Chunxiang said with some amusement, "What are you doing?"

"No, I didn't say anything." Smiley shrugged innocently.

"You really are..." Chunxiang smiled and was about to scold her.

Then they saw little Jack and Elizabeth suddenly stand up from their seats and walk towards them.

"Are you done talking?" Xia Shu and Haruka also stood up from their seats and asked the two.

Little Jack turned his head away from them, and Elizabeth said with a smile, "We're done talking."

It looked like the conversation was going smoothly, and the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.

But in order to protect little Jack's self-esteem, no one talked about the details of the incident.

Then the girls continued to tour the place happily for another half day until they were all tired and decided to go home.

On the way back, Elizabeth secretly told them that little Jack did not plan to retire and was preparing to apply for the Space Officer Academy exam.

Afterwards, she thanked Xia Shu again and asked for her online ID.

"Why are you thanking me?" Xia Shu was a little surprised.

Elizabeth smiled but said nothing.

After adding Xia Shu, she whispered again, "It's not for me, it's for her--"

Xia Shu followed Elizabeth's gaze and looked at little Jack, who was staring at the vast starry sky in a daze.

Then, the girls boarded the spaceship they came in, slowly left orbit, slowed down, circled the planet, and boarded the space elevator again.

They went down the elevator channel and soon returned to the ground.

It was almost dusk, and when I looked at the sun again, I felt a different kind of scenery.

After they sent little Jack home, they said goodbye to Elizabeth and hoped to meet again if the chance arose.

"It's great that there is a psychological counseling team to comfort you even if you die once. It's great!" Smiley Face muttered while sitting on the seat of the train and swinging his legs.

"If you die once, I promise to let you travel around the world." Chunxiang said to her with a smile.

"No, forget it." The smiling face shut up angrily.

Hearing this, Xia Shu asked with some confusion, "Does everyone who dies on the battlefield need psychological counseling?"

"Normally, everyone needs to undergo more than one assessment. It's just that some people are prone to psychological problems, while others are mentally healthier," Chunxiang said with a smile.

Xia Shu nodded, indicating that he understood.

It seems that the girls who were "sacrificed" before also received psychological counseling.

It's just private stuff, people rarely talk about it.

She thought so.