All Novel Full Chapter 1154
Chapter 1154: Chapter 1054: Space Odyssey!_1 Chapter 1154: Chapter 1054: Space Odyssey!_1 “Xiajing City, can you hear me?
This is Glen.”
“Doctor Li and I are on our way to the Tiangong Space Station, planning to return to Earth in the escape pod.”
“Tiangong Space Station, if anyone can hear me, we need rescue…”
The distance from the wreckage of the [Nine Heavens Aircraft] to the [Tiangong Space Station] is dauntingly vast.
Add the fact that both sides are moving quickly in low Earth orbit, the actual mileage they have covered in this chase is even more stunning.
But this isn’t a problem for players in the game.
After all, Lincoln, Mavis, and Camille Victoria had carefully designed this journey.
The dazzling lights of human cities beneath them, especially those built along rivers, can be seen from space as a brilliant band of light, utterly beautiful.
The edge of the atmosphere, ranging from dark yellow to bright yellow, to white, and then from deep to light blue, until it gradually melds with the universe, inseparable.
The sun slowly rises, its rays illuminating the entire arc as if a dazzling diamond rises on a ring of light.
The twilight line, once a dashed line on geography textbooks, now becomes unprecedentedly clear and magnificent.
The grand continental shelf, narrow straits, protruding peninsulas, pearl-like lakes, and the dark green rainforest…
Overlooking the Earth from space reveals so many beautiful scenes that one can’t finish seeing them all at once.
Source: AllNovelFull.com, updated on Ɲ0νǤ0.ᴄο
Moreover, changes in time, light, weather, and orbital angles will all correspondingly change the scenery.
Lincoln even arranged for the NPC to guide players through dialogues to appreciate these incomparable scenes.
In addition, Glen, who possesses the secondary artificial intelligence, would occasionally engage in casual chats with players to relieve their boredom.
So, although this journey is long, and players are pulled by Glen to drift in space while not needing to do anything themselves, they don’t find it boring.
However, this grand space drifting, if not experienced personally and instead watched through a screen, inevitably appears less impactful.
— And if the screen is small, it’s even worse.
One could say that it’s a game that is “more enjoyable to play” than “to watch”.
But this also puts the capabilities of a live-streamer to the test.
After all, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, if everyone sees it from the same lens, it’s as if everyone is there enjoying the view together.
Then why should they stay in your live-stream room?
So…
there has to be a spotlight!
That’s exactly what Yi had been doing since the beginning, but many live-streamers only realized it at this moment.
Although Xu Shenghan didn’t tread this path consciously, his unique life experiences largely make up for it.
For example, right now, he is pointing at the lights of the Malacca Strait and telling his viewers about his first ocean voyage.
His stories encompass the dramatic scenarios of the open sea, unique local customs of different countries’ seaports, and the surprisingly quick love affairs among crew members during the oceanic voyage.
— Perhaps they had just met at the beginning of the voyage, but within two to three days, they could be in a fiery romance, rolling in the same bed.
Even people who were married onshore didn’t affect these shipboard affairs from happening.
Such “love affairs” started when the ship left the port, and ended when it returned, with no further contact between the two parties after disembarking.
Of course, if they met on another ship, rekindling their old romance would be just a matter of a glance.
These stories, barely reachable and comprehensible for ordinary people, have attracted a significant audience to his live stream room.
They appreciate the stunning space scenery while listening to Xu Shenghan’s intriguing stories.
Even though all his ocean faring experiences put together are not as shocking as this space odyssey, the viewers are still very interested.
Summoned by the mood, Xu Shenghan even begins to recount the love affairs he had in different countries during his ocean voyage years.
— Since he’s already nicknamed the “Sea King,” he doesn’t avoid discussing his global love affairs.
Now, the interest of the viewers is fully piqued, they are completely enthralled in listening.
Not until the Tiangong Space Station is getting closer, does his teammate Glen interrupts his story telling: “I have good news and bad news.
Which one do you want to hear first?”
Xu Shenghan thinks for a moment, “The good news first?”
“The good news is, we will reach the Tiangong Space Station in 5 minutes.”
“Hmm, indeed good news.
I have only 1% of oxygen left here.
And what’s the bad news?”
“The bad news is, I’m 10 minutes short of breaking the world record for the longest spacewalk, and also…”
Before Glen could finish, a sudden alarm sounded, prompting him to ask, “What’s happening?”
Shawn sighed.
“I’m out of oxygen, it looks like I won’t make it.”
“No!” Glen immediately retorted, “You’ve used up the oxygen in your tank, but there’s still oxygen in your spacesuit!
Breathe slowly, don’t take deep breaths, control your rhythm, you can make it to the space station!”
“Alright, I’ll give it a try.” Shawn ceased his narrations, slowing his breath to conserve the last bit of oxygen.
To distract himself, he looked towards the Tiangong Space Station.
Glen, like he was at the beginning, continued reporting to the nonexistent command center: “Xiajing City, this is Glen, we can see the Tiangong Space Station.”
“Surely the personnel on the station have already evacuated because the No.
1 escape pod is gone, and the No.
2 escape pod appears damaged and its parachute has been deployed.”
“There are no other escape devices available.”
Obviously, this was bad news.
The worse news was—
“Should we change course now?” asked Shawn.
He didn’t understand how to operate the manned mobile device, but after trailing behind for this long, he’d gotten the gist of it.
They didn’t have a computer or ground command center to assist them, so they were adjusting their flight course entirely on Glen’s intuition, which was obviously a problem in terms of precision.
Particularly considering that they were tied together with a safety rope, which added to their inertia concerns.
This made controlling their trajectory even more complicated!
So every time they drifted a certain distance, Glen would activate the manned mobile device to discharge some propellant, adjusting their course.
Ɲονǥᴑ.с0
But now, even Shawn could feel their course skewing, and Glen hadn’t made any adjustments.
“It’s not time yet.” Glen responded.
“I didn’t finish delivering the bad news earlier – we’re almost out of propellant on the manned mobile device.
If we’re lucky, we may have one or two boosts left.
We need to save these chances for the last possible moment.”
Shawn had a bad feeling about this.
He tried to control his breathing rhythms, but as the oxygen in his spacesuit continued to decrease, his breathing rate was uncontrollably accelerating.
Chest tightness, panic, and breathless all ensued.
The Tiangong Space Station was getting closer and closer, transitioning from a white shadow to a clear and concrete entity.
It was generally shaped like the Chinese character “å„”.
From their angle, the dark solar panels, under direct sunlight, appeared glittery.
Getting closer, Shawn noticed troubling signs:
There were many damages on the solar panels, and the space station itself showed significant shell and component damages.
The biggest problem was that: the red and white giant parachute deployed by the No.
2 escape pod was entangled with the space station and solar panels, their ropes tangled into a mess.
“Prepare.”
“Aim.”
Glen was unnervingly calm.
They were just about to float over the top of the space station when he pressed the jet key: “Fire!”
The slow floating momentum was instantly broken, the safety rope tightens, pulling Shawn towards the space station!
The speed was astonishing!
Shawn, who was already dizzy due to oxygen deficiency, was pulled into sheer darkness.
“Slow down!
We’ll die if we hit it like this?!”
“I wish, but we’re out of propellant!” Glen delivered the unfortunate news, “The impact is going to be violent – grab onto anything you can.”
“What if there’s nothing to grab onto?” The world was spinning in front of Shawn’s eyes, and he could hardly tell what was going on, let alone attempt any precision maneuvers.
“Then pray for aliens to suddenly show up!”
The two hit the outer shell of the Tiangong Space Station hard and then—
they were bounced off violently!