Chapter 216: Entering space for the first time, the world remains the same!
"Reach the designated altitude and abandon the escape tower."
"Escape tower separated successfully!"
"Reaching the designated altitude, the booster separated... the first stage rocket separated, the fairing separated... the second stage rocket's main engine shut down... the rocket and ship separated!"
"The propulsion module sails are deployed, and the sun positioning is successful... The orbital module sails are deployed! Entering the preset low-Earth orbit!"
The staff in the launch monitoring hall are busy all the time. All the data and monitoring video images show that this manned rocket launch was a complete success.
Chen Jue, lying in the manned cabin, felt that he was getting further and further away from the earth.
Along with the sounds of several rocket separations, the radiation from outer space that one feels when riding on an airplane became stronger and stronger.
However, due to the special space suit, the space radiation that can penetrate his body is very weak.
“Here it comes!”
“That’s the feeling!”
"Negative radiation from outer space!" The moment Chen Jue sensed the negative radiation, he immediately activated the Red Dust Golden Body Technique, and a layer of golden luster appeared on his body hidden under the space suit and aerospace combat suit.
Observing his body's surface cells through the [Inner Vision] enhanced by the [Tongyoudongwei] state, Chen Jue discovered that under the enhancement of the Red Dust Golden Body Technique, his body's surface cells actually began a fierce battle with the negative radiation that penetrated into them.
The surface cells were rapidly dividing, transforming, and strengthening, and then gradually adapting to coexist with this negative radiation, while Chen Jue saw that the proficiency of [Red Dust Golden Body Skill] kept jumping up by +1+1.
Originally, this kind of horizontal training and hard skills needed external stimulation to improve quickly, just like when Chen Jue first practiced Shaolin martial arts, he needed to use bricks to hit the body surface to improve his proficiency.
Now, he has changed his way of practicing. He no longer uses physical weapons to stimulate his body, but uses the endless radiation from outer space to stimulate his body!
After a long period of study in the base, Chen Jue already knew the composition of these space radiations. It is a special mixture of gamma rays, high-energy protons and cosmic rays. It has extremely strong penetrating power and is extremely harmful to the human body.
If an ordinary person lives in space for a month, the first thing he has to face is the terrible space radiation. The amount of radiation in one month is equivalent to staying on Earth for 10 years and taking eight to ten X-rays every day!
"Fuck! It's painful and joyful at the same time!"
“If I stay here for too long, I won’t really turn into a green...golden giant, right?” Chen Jue observed the changes in his body. The rapid improvement of [Red Dust Golden Body Technique] was a good thing for him.
But under this cosmic radiation, Chen Jue vaguely felt that his life was slowly slipping away.
Although the life span number has not decreased as shown on the panel, because the life span column on the panel is rounded up to 1 year, it does not show a decrease in life span by 1 day, 1 hour, or a few minutes or seconds, but Chen Jue can detect the changes in his body through the celestial perception.
Fortunately, I have a long life, so I don’t take this little damage too seriously.
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"Comrade Chen Jue, can you hear me?"
"You can now enter the cargo module and move freely. The cargo module will be arranged to dock with the space station in about four hours. Please wait patiently." After more than two hours, the spacecraft had been operating stably in low-Earth orbit, and Chen Jue heard Liu Chengdong's voice in the communication channel.
"OK!"
Chen Jue responded, knowing that he was being monitored throughout by the ground base, so he opened the door between the manned cabin and the cargo cabin with confidence.
Compared with the small and crowded passenger cabin, the cargo cabin has more space and can float back and forth.
And it was after entering the cargo hold that Chen Jue felt the feeling of floating in the air for the first time.
This is an extremely wonderful state of weightlessness. Since it has reached a low-Earth orbit hundreds of kilometers above the earth, the gravity exerted on the aircraft and the people inside will not be significantly reduced compared to that on the ground, but they will still feel the state of weightlessness due to the impact of free fall.
However, although this state of weightlessness seems wonderful, it actually hides subtle harm to the human body similar to space radiation.
Chen Jue could sense that his muscles were beginning to slightly atrophy, his bones were becoming porous, and his arteries were beginning to harden. These negative symptoms were all caused by entering space. It was as if he had been given a weakening aura BUFF that reduced all his status.
Ordinary people will lose 20% of their muscles due to weightlessness if they stay in space for more than ten days. After returning to the ground, their neck muscles will atrophy to the point that it becomes difficult to support the weight of the head. This is why astronauts staying in space stations are often seen doing similar stretching exercises to resist this muscle atrophy and loss of bone tissue.
But for Chen Jue, it was not that troublesome. He just sat cross-legged and floated in the cargo hold, using the [Small and Large Circulation] to move his Qi and blood.
Wherever the qi and blood go, muscle cells, bones, organ tissues, etc. gradually stabilize and begin to slowly adapt to the weightless environment of space.
"What a pity! This cargo hold cannot see the outside world, otherwise we could see what the earth looks like from space." Chen Jue felt bored and started practicing.
He practiced Qigong from the earth’s surface all the way to space, and the title of little Qigong expert is truly worthy of his name!
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Four hours later, when the cargo and manned spacecraft officially merged into orbit and docked with the lunar space station, Chen Jue finally stopped practicing.
Under the guidance of the staff in the communication channel, the cabin valve was opened and we officially entered the lunar space station.
Coming towards him were three astronauts. Chen Jue had already had remote video conversations with these three astronauts from the space station when he was on the ground and had already gotten to know them a little bit.
Now we meet again in low-Earth orbit hundreds of kilometers above the earth. The feeling is very wonderful, just like when two fellow villagers meet with tears in their eyes!
"Comrade Chen Jue, welcome!"
"We have been looking forward to seeing you for a while." The leader was a middle-aged man in a blue uniform. His name was Wang Zhihai, and he was the commander of the space station.
The other two are Liu Yaming, who is in his early forties, and Ye Guangming, the only female astronaut in the space station.
"Thank you for your courtesy, comrades. It is fate that we meet. I hope you won't blame me for robbing you of the first chance to land on the moon." Chen Jue smiled at the three of them. With their help, he took off the heavy special space suit outside his body, revealing the slim aerospace combat suit inside.
It was the first time for these three people to see such a sci-fi combat uniform. They talked with Chen Jue about the functions of the combat uniform, and then out of curiosity they touched the texture.
"This combat suit is amazing. It can be condensed to this extent. It is much better than wearing a space suit."
"It's just that its endurance is not good enough, and it requires strong physical fitness to support it." Wang Zhihai looked at Chen Jue's equipment and couldn't help but admire it.
Compared with their blue uniforms, Chen Jue's outfit was indeed a bit flashy.
"After you practice the ten body-building exercises, you will have the opportunity to wear it in the future." Chen Jue replied with a smile. After taking off the burden on his body, he talked with the three people while strolling around the lunar space station.
When he came to a lens window that could directly see the earth, Chen Jue stopped floating and looked at the planet hundreds of kilometers away. The excitement of going to outer space for the first time suddenly calmed down at this moment.
The azure ocean, the brown and green land, and the white clouds. Looking down from the space station, such a scene makes people feel calm. The visual impact is even more shocking than when Chen Jue climbed the snow-capped mountains and faced the sea.
"It's so beautiful!" Chen Jue couldn't help but exclaim in admiration. The three astronauts beside him also chuckled in empathy when they saw it.
"Comrade Chen Jue, you must be feeling fresh as you just arrived here, unlike us who have been here for a long time. We have become accustomed to this earth and have been thinking about going home all the time." Ye Guangming, the female team member among the three, said.
They have been on duty in the space station for more than half a year, and they do miss their homeland after a while.
But Chen had already let go of the worldly affairs and was determined to pursue the avenue of the universe. Naturally, he would not be shaken by the words of outsiders.
After standing by the window and looking at the earth, chatting with the three people, and taking some nutritional supplements and energy water to replenish his strength and water, Chen Jue suggested going outside the cabin to take a look.
Originally, a new member of the space station had to spend a long time adapting to and becoming familiar with the environment of the space station before being allowed to carry out extravehicular activities.
However, Chen Jue's identity is not a traditional astronaut. He is also the first special candidate of the second home and is qualified to act independently. Therefore, after his proposal was sent to the ground monitoring center by Wang Zhihai for confirmation, he a reply allowing him to leave the cabin.
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After entering the airlock and closing the door to separate themselves from the main part of the space station, the air in the surrounding environment began to be pumped out into a vacuum state, and the aerospace combat suit began to work. Then, under the guidance of Wang Zhihai, Chen Jue found a safety rope from the hatch of the isolation cabin, buckled the safety rope to the mounting point at the waist of the aerospace combat suit, and opened the exit valve.
Since it was an extravehicular activity, Chen Jue specially loaded an oxygen supply and pressurization device on the back of the combat suit, which could increase the flight time by nearly twenty minutes.
After the equipment on the back is used up, the built-in system of the combat suit's helmet can continue to remain stable for more than five minutes, which leaves Chen Jue with plenty of time to leave the cabin.
Climbing out along the valve, Chen Jue looked up at the earth that looked like a huge blue sphere hundreds of kilometers away from him. Chen Jue felt that overlooking the earth like this was more soul-stirring than seeing the earth through the window!
The beauty of the curves and arcs and the shock of the azure color are like a natural cosmic golden elixir hanging in the dark space!
And human beings, including the lunar space station under Chen Jue's feet, seem so small in front of this huge blue planet!
“So beautiful!”
"No wonder so many rich people dream of traveling in outer space. This kind of scenery is truly incomparable to the beautiful sights on Earth." Chen Jue couldn't help but sigh. He felt that if a cultivator who had obtained the Golden Elixir saw the Earth from this angle, he would be able to better understand what a Dan Yuan was.
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Looking at the shocking scene in front of him, Chen Jue was filled with emotion. Recalling the dream of flying that the ancient sages had regretted for thousands of years but could never realize in their lifetime, he felt that he was very lucky to grow up in modern times.
Of course, in addition to overlooking the earth, Chen Jue also used the bonus of [Clairvoyance] to see the large and small floating objects in low-Earth orbit.
Those are all so-called space junk, which are discarded objects left behind by humans in the process of exploring outer space. Most of them are composed of scrapped spacecraft and debris.
In addition, Chen Jue suddenly saw that dozens of kilometers away, there was a satellite that was constantly accelerating and changing its orbit, heading towards the other side of the moon.
"Is this a satellite that explores the moon?" Chen Jue muttered to himself, feeling that he was truly living in a world of great contention.
As soon as it took off and entered the space station, it encountered a lunar exploration satellite that was also heading to the moon.
You know, Chen Jue's physique was originally several times more than the human limit. In addition, he practiced several eye skills and awakened the bonus of [Clairvoyance]. As long as he used his skills, he could see things dozens of kilometers away at a glance.
The satellite that was changing its orbit and accelerating happened to fall into Chen Jue's sight. Chen Jue discovered that among the row of flag patterns on one side of the satellite, in addition to the Eagle Country Space Administration and some unfamiliar patterns, there was actually a flag with the Hongmu Group's logo printed on it!
As soon as he saw the LOGO, Chen Jue's pupils shrank, he opened his mouth, grinned and said to himself: "Isn't this a coincidence?"
He reached out to a mounting point on his waist and abdomen and removed a metal cylinder.
After pressing the button in the middle of the metal cylinder, a nearly 2-meter-long javelin with sharp ends mechanically unfolded in front of him. Chen Jue raised the javelin and aimed it at the lunar exploration satellite that was changing its orbit dozens of kilometers away.
With the enhanced celestial perception from [Holy Heart] and the enhanced vision from [Clairvoyance], and the intelligence exceeding 2, he continuously calculated the trajectory of the lunar satellite, and then swung his right arm violently.
The pitch-black javelin broke away from Chen Jue's right hand in the vast space at an initial speed exceeding Mach 5, like a streak of black lightning, shooting towards the lunar exploration satellite sponsored by the Hongmou Group!
