Earth Invasion

Chapter 9 "Secondary Two" and Senior Two
In the world, there are many legends about huge, sky-reaching trees.The name "Building Wood in the Sea" is derived from the "Shan Hai Jing", a collection of Chinese myths.Legend has it that this tree is located in the wild of Duguang, with a height of hundreds of feet, above the fate of the gods.When the Shanghai Cooperation Organization with China at its core will erect the track elevator in the center of the vast Indian Ocean, "Jianmu" really appeared in this world.

It is said to be built with wood, but this track elevator does not look like a tree at all, nor is it a huge tower like in science fiction.The base part of this thing is less than 6000 meters high, and it is not ranked among the highest peaks in the world.This thing is just a magnetic channel connecting the synchronous orbit spaceport [-] kilometers above the ground.This thing basically has no physical connection.

"Directional magnetic field", this thing is the basic theory of building track elevators.After building a huge island with a radius of six kilometers at the equator of the Indian Ocean, the main part of the orbital elevator is basically composed of section by section confined magnetic field generators, which are connected by Lorentz force.In the near-earth part, it varies from a section of several hundred meters to a section of one kilometer. Starting from a low-earth orbit of 200 kilometers, there will be a section of ring generator for several kilometers or even tens of kilometers.These confinement rings are powered by nuclear fusion power plants at the base and hundreds of square kilometers of plasma solar cells on synchronous orbits, and are transmitted using microwave transmission technology.Then, the magnetic channel whose length is almost equal to the circumference of the earth is maintained through diffuse nano-terminals. At the same time, in places where the atmosphere is dense such as the troposphere and stratosphere, the atmospheric breakdown effect generated by lasers and microwaves forms a "circle elevator" "Typhoon Eye" protects passengers, cargo, and materials going back and forth through the magnetic channel from being affected by extreme weather.

The carrying capacity brought by this thing is many times that of ordinary space shuttles.Even the later mature plasma propulsion array technology cannot compare with it in terms of passenger volume.This is only passenger capacity, and in terms of cargo capacity, the "Red Ribbon of the Earth" 300-kilometer mass accelerator built on Kilimanjaro Snow Mountain in Tanzania is just an old antique.For the SCO, the completion of this elevator has avoided the independence of the L4 satellite group like the L5, and the political significance is even greater.

After the L4E95735 passenger spacecraft braked against the direction of the earth's rotation for the second time, it approached the "canopy" part of the "building wood in the sea", which is the spaceport, at a very low relative speed.It is called a canopy, but Zhang Mai thinks it is more like a big dandelion.The dense entrance and exit ports and the red and green navigation beams cover the 270-degree range of this thing, and only a small area below is the entrance and exit of the elevator train from the ground.Overseas Jianmu Airport, which undertakes 50.00% of the world's aerospace throughput, is even more busy during the Spring Festival travel season.

The passenger spaceship has been waiting outside the port for nearly 20 minutes, and the red Chinese and English words "Waiting" are still displayed on the workboat responsible for guiding.All transportation systems in the world are not designed for extreme situations, and rail elevators are no exception.Therefore, Zhang Mai and the others are still waiting there patiently.

Finally, the text on the working boat changed to green "Follow", and the passenger spaceship began to use the power stored during the voyage to allow the plasma engine array to operate at one-tenth of the power.Subcritical reactors need to be shut down before entering the port, as a rule.

After entering the port, there will naturally be a working boat to connect the elevator to the cabin.Zhang Mai and the others went through another anti-static operation, took out their salutes from the bag, and then floated bustlingly to the lower level of the port.

Their boarding pass is a pass, so they don’t have to wait half a day in this gravity-free space station to buy elevator tickets like those who don’t have a pass—if they’re unlucky, they’ll have to pay several times the price to take the shuttle.

The round-trip train is not comfortable at all, and the degree of freedom is incomparable with that on the spaceship.Due to the influence of the earth's gravity, they must be tied to their hemispherical seats honestly during this journey.These two or three hours are more tiring than a day on a spaceship.

Finally returned to the embrace of Mother Earth.The boundless Indian Ocean is much more comfortable than the environment where you can see the outer wall as soon as you look up on the satellite.People are much more likely to develop space phobias in satellites.The best cure is to go to a beach on earth for a few days.Unbeknownst to others, Zhang Mai has already made up his mind to send the salute home first, and go to the Andaman Islands to play for two days to relax.

"Hey? Why don't you come with us to Andra to take the train and visit the South Asian subcontinent?" Wang Keyi looked at Zhang Mai with a sad face.

Zhang Mai first went to the Andaman Islands to play, but Diao Wang and the others were more straightforward, planning to fly home directly from Haizhong Jianmu.

Zhang Mai glanced at the figure next to him. Chen Xiaofeng was leaning on the French window of the airport terminal to watch the scenery, but his ears were raised, and he could tell he was listening to the conversation here.It's not a lie that Wang Keyi is a coward when he encounters the real thing.

"I'm sick. I don't want to take the plane. I ran to Visakhapatnam and took the South Asia train. From that place, I took two days and two nights to Mandalay, and then two days and two nights to Hebei." Said, Zhang Mai said in a low voice.

"You really want me to give you a back, or watch your kid fire a flash bomb!"

If you don't stay in a space satellite city for half a year, you can't experience the beauty of the earth.Although China has actually built a batch of giant space satellites after dismantling the six larger asteroids of the Corvus family in the asteroid belt, the towering outer walls of the satellites and the artificial sky with the time-telling theme package remind the satellite city all the time People in China actually live in a large cage made of foamed metal and silicate more than 30 kilometers above the ground.While this kind of psychology makes people feel depressed in the sky, it also makes people miss the invisible sky on the earth.

Sunshine, sand, blue space, blue water, and passionate bikini girls.Zhang Mai let himself relax on the Andaman Islands for a day.After a good night's sleep, board the plane from the Andaman Islands to Jinan and embark on the way home.

Zhang Mai's home is in a small city in Hebei, and Jinan has the nearest international airport.Then there is the air bus and rail transit at night. Every year when he goes home, he will get off the plane from Jinan and fly back by air bus.Now the earth has entered the Little Ice Age, approaching the end of the new year, there have been two snowfalls in the north, and from the air, the farms on the ground seem to be covered with a thick blanket.

　There is another chapter in the afternoon

　　
　
(End of this chapter)