Quan Yujing's boys' school uniforms are basically the same style, all black and slim-fitting, but they will wear the school badge as decoration. Shangluo put on the Wutaishan Training Institute's enamel "Luban Bird" school badge on his collar, straightened his appearance in front of the mirror before walking out of the suite.
It was just time to land. Thanks to its extremely wide wingspan, the Hercules takes off and lands at very low speeds. Although guests need to be seated when taking off, there is no need to make any additional preparations when landing.
The fuselage landed on the waterway in Changi Port, and the bumps were not much greater than when encountering air currents. There is no need to slam on the brakes on the plane at all. The water itself is the best speed bump. Standing in front of the mirror, Shangluo just held on to the handrail and followed the Hercules smoothly to the seaplane terminal at Changi Port.
Like a ship, the Hercules slowly entered its berth - this giant aircraft with a wingspan of nearly 100 meters has a special berth at the home port, and can be boarded and landed without the need for a ferry. Also parked in the berth was Hercules One, which was also loading and unloading passengers.
After the plane stopped, Shangluo walked out of the suite.
"Good morning." The stewardess greeted him as he was going between the cockpit and the galley. "Where will you have breakfast? In the suite?"
"I'll go eat in the dining room downstairs." Speaking of which, it had been almost a day since he got on the plane, and he hadn't been to any place other than the suite, so he felt like it was a waste of air tickets.
"Okay, breakfast will start immediately. You can take the food by yourself. If you still want to eat the dishes on the menu, you can tell us directly. You can order food at any time in the port, and we will order it from the waiting room kitchen in your terminal. Let’s have dinner. Would you like a lemonade?”
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Shangluo came down from the second floor while drinking soda through a straw. The dining room on the first floor is open, but there are also many passengers queuing up to go out for sightseeing. The airport has prepared a tour bus that allows you to visit and shop in Xingzhou City, but Shangluo feels that staying on the plane is comfortable enough.
When he sat down at the dining table, he was the only one among the four seats facing each other. The southern sunshine shines in through the porthole and shines on the hibiscus flowers on the table, which are fed with water. The waves lapped gently at the pier, and occasionally hit the fuselage, making a "dong-dong" sound like a wooden fish being knocked.
"Ah, this day of holiday may also be the last day as an ordinary person. Maybe after becoming a heavenly being, I won't be able to take any time off."
Before he finished drinking the lemonade, he started eating the curry chicken on the dinner plate. For some reason, perhaps due to the influence of Zhu Xianmen, he had to eat some meat in the morning to feel "full".
With some refried beans and rice, he ate a small plate of curry chicken, leaned back in his seat and continued to look at the sea view. Anyway, there was plenty of time today, and he could eat another meal later, so he didn't have to worry about eating enough now.
"Huh?" Suddenly, he noticed that there seemed to be a big cylinder parked on the pier not far away. The cylinder looked incredibly large, like a submarine. However, the draft is very shallow, and most of the entire huge cylinder floats on the water, as if it is hollow. The cylinder is pointed at one end and spreads out like a trumpet at the other end. They are all wrapped in black cloth. There are five-color tassels of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth hanging down from the edge of the cloth, giving it a strange and gorgeous feeling. These five colors are quite common. They are the colors on the Taichang flag and are generally used by the Forbidden Army.
He tilted his head slightly towards the window, trying to see more clearly.
"Where are you looking?" Lu Huaiyang's voice suddenly appeared behind him - although it was a bit scary, he was used to it now.
"Over there, what's that cylinder? Is it a fuel tank?"
"Ah..." To his surprise, Lu Huaiyang actually smiled, "You guessed more than half of them right. Indeed, more than half of them are fuel tanks. Do you want to take a closer look?"
"Is this something I can see?"
"There's nothing you can't see. In fact, there was a fleet cruising on the Tianzhu Sea last night, and I guessed that this 'thing' was almost here. I didn't expect it to be parked in the port - how about going and taking a look? If the plan doesn't go well If you do, this will probably be the last time you see it. Of course, if your plan goes well, you can see it many more times."
The place where the "Great Cylinder" docked was not far from the Hercules. The two people walked over. There were Imperial Guards wearing golden armor standing guard in front of the berth. After showing their IDs to the other party, the guard announced and let them go.
"It doesn't seem to be a special secret?" After passing the checkpoint, Shangluo found that there were not many people here.
"Ah, it was indeed classified at the beginning. Now after several failed experiments, the information control is slowly relaxed. What do you think this is?"
Shangluo raised his head slightly - looking at it from a close distance, the big cylinder was even bigger than it looked from a distance. Like a skyscraper lying across the water, the length of this thing is indeed 150 meters long, and the width is about the same as a building.
"This is. Wait, can this be..." He looked at the tail and confirmed that there was indeed an expanded trumpet-like structure at the tail. Although it was wrapped in a huge black cloth, it was obviously the structure of the spout, and it was still a huge spout.
"You guessed it right. This is a rocket. What is in front of you is the finished product of the 'Water Dragon Project' that was promoted at the same time as Lan Fang's 'Artillery Project' - the Water Dragon-class sea-based super-heavy space-to-ground shuttle launch vehicle, or Water Dragon Arrow for short. It is forged entirely of stainless steel and is ignited by the only giant squeeze rocket engine. It has a total displacement of 18,000 metric tons, which is equivalent to a heavy cruiser. It can push a giant object of more than 450 metric tons into space at a time, and if the plan goes well, it You can still come back.”
"Can this thing come back??? How?"
"Smash it back. This is why we must use stainless steel rocket bodies and squeeze rockets. This way there is no need for complex and sophisticated turbopumps, multiple engines in parallel, or even any mechanical structure. For squeeze rockets, just use The high-pressure gas tank can squeeze out the rocket fuel. With a simple deceleration, the hollow stainless steel cylinder can be directly 'smashed back' for reuse - the first consideration at that time was the same as Lan Fang's consideration: if it soared into the sky It’s meaningless just to take a look. After all, no one is competing with us, and there won’t be any prizes for being the first to go to heaven. Before we can actually use the resources of the universe, it doesn’t make much sense to take a look. So we have to God has made it right in one step! It’s just that there’s still a little problem.”
"Structure?"
"The structure is not a problem. We reinforced the structural part with Shen Chromium, which is generally enough. And it is already enough. After the reinforcement, it is only convenient for recycling when smashing it back. What is a little troublesome now is that this one is not easy to open. Because there is no good way except to let people go up and drive. The first two times they exploded and started rolling in mid-air. In the end, the qigong practitioner parachuted down, but after all, there was no need to stuff the heavenly being into the barrel. In this new experiment, we have added the Jusu fuel injected by Yingtian Manufacturing Institute, which should be more stable. If everything goes well, my senior brother will be able to land yesterday after orbiting the earth for a few weeks. At the landing site cleared by the Lanfang fleet, he will eject and parachute before landing. Well, good luck with the Shuilong 4 arrow. If everything goes well, we will be able to hear the roar of the water dragon in a few days."
(End of chapter)
