"As for you, wait here for a while. In about 5 minutes, the gate to space will be built on the torii at the steps."
"The main door leading to the headquarters of the Reality Secret Management Department is at the bottom of the stairs. It's the torii gate you walked through when you came here. Remember not to go the wrong way."
After saying that, Jinguji Kyushu held the hamster and left on her own.
Seeing this scene, Luo Shu couldn't help but turn his head and look at Kikyo beside him:
"Does Jinguji always look so cold when he's with you?"
Kikyo seemed to think about it for a moment, and said calmly: "She has indeed always been like this."
Thinking of Kikyo accompanying Jinguji Jiuhuicheng in the Abyss Warring States to study the Tree of Ages for two or three months, Luo Shu couldn't help but sigh:
"Then you must be very busy recently. How about I give you a holiday?"
"When I come back from my free time, I'll take you to Tokyo for a stroll."
Kikyo did not answer, but just stood there quietly, as if she had tacitly accepted Luo Shu's invitation.
At this moment, the torii gate that serves as the main entrance of the shrine, with brilliant rainbow colors, formed a vortex that appeared in the center of the torii gate, forming a huge circular vortex with a diameter of two meters.
Noticing this anomaly, Luo Shu turned his head and glanced at the Torii, and couldn't help but wonder:
"Didn't you say you wanted to debug it? So fast."
"That woman has always been very efficient."
Nangong Nayue explained, then looked at Lux and said:
"Come on, it's time for us to head out into space, isn't it?"
Lux nodded and looked at Luo Shu.
Seeing this, Luo Shu shrugged. He took the first step and took Nangong Nayue and Lux with him into the dazzling vortex.
——Let’s set off to the space city Copernicus! .
Chapter 38 Space City Copernicus
“Is this space?”
Along with the whispers, Luo Shu, who passed through the torii and came into space, was already suspended.
Surrounding him was a huge silver-gray space.
On the central floor of the space, something like a track was made of metal in a circle, and on the right side of Luo Shu, two metal tracks extended out, leading to the exit of the space.
Looking along these tracks, you can see a passage that continues to extend forward.
"From the perspective of the weightless environment, it is indeed space."
Nangong Nayue appeared beside Luo Shu, floating in the air, frowning and looking at Lux who had just teleported over:
"Is this the Copernicus you mentioned?"
"No, this should just be one of the landing bases. Judging from the situation, it should be the sixth landing port. It's strange, why is the exit set here?"
Lux, who was floating in the air, covered her cheeks with her hands and said with a little distress.
Because of the movement of her arms, she, who was already very light, floated directly towards Luo Shu, who caught her.
“Is there a problem with this landing point?”
Luo Shu asked while hugging Lux while adapting to the weightless environment in space.
Thanks to his good physical fitness, although he felt some discomfort, he quickly adapted to the weightless environment in space.
However, at present, Luo Shu can only adapt to standing still and cannot move freely.
"This is actually the portal for Copernicus' daily necessities. Generally speaking, it transports vegetables, fruits and other supplies from the ground..."
Lux leaned against Luo Shu, glanced at the track, and said:
"The track for transporting supplies doesn't seem to be activated. Well, I seem to know who is behind this."
Lux gave a wry smile when she said this, but she didn't explain. She just tapped the ground with her toes and floated towards the exit:
"Please come with me."
Upon hearing this, Luo Shu looked at Nangong Nayue, then followed and entered the passage.
Because she was not used to moving in zero-gravity conditions, Nangong Nayue used a little more strength and bumped into Luo Shu's back with a bang.
"Feel sorry."
"Be careful."
The force of the collision was not strong, so neither of them was injured.
Luo Shu thought about it, and in order to avoid accidents, he simply grabbed Nangong Nayue with his hand and floated into the passage with her.
After entering the passage, Luo Shu saw Lux propping up the wall with her hands, and using the reverse thrust to lean against the center of the right wall of the passage, which was similar to the handrail of an automatic elevator in a supermarket:
"Please hold on to the handrail on the right. This is the conveyor belt to assist staff in entering and exiting."
Hearing this, Luo Shu also pushed the wall, and with the help of the reverse push, he flew towards the handrail. After grabbing it, he moved forward with the help of the handrail.
As they moved forward, Luo Shu looked at Lux floating in front of him and asked casually:
"You just said you know who's behind this? Are you referring to Shinonozuka?"
"Eh?" Lux turned her head and looked at Luo Shu's face, then smiled and said, "Luo Shu, do you know the Doctor too?"
She was referring to whether there was any information about Shinono Tsukasa in Luo Shu's intelligence network of unknown origin.
“There is some basic understanding.”
Luo Shu nodded. He didn't have much impression of Shinono Tsukasa. He only remembered that she was a genius scientist in a certain animation series in his previous life and a very reckless woman.
After all, he watched that anime just to see the women and barely remembered the plot, let alone Shinono Tsukasa, who appeared only a few times.
Because of this, knowing that Shinonotake was one of the senior executives within Copernicus, Luo Shu could naturally guess that the error in the transmission location was caused by this doctor.
I guess only this lawless doctor would have the courage to deliberately tamper with the landing location of his superior, Lux.
Hearing Luo Shu say this, Lux smiled bitterly, and then said apologetically:
"The doctor seems to like joking with me a lot, but sometimes he doesn't know how to handle it properly, so..."
Lux seemed to want to take the responsibility on herself. In response, Luo Shu just glanced at her and said:
"You don't have to explain. Just because you didn't explain the existence of the Familia to her, I understand what's going on."
On the list of candidate families for the SDS internal investigation, Shinonotake ranked high, but was circled with the word "controlled" by Lux.
Luo Shu had read this report and naturally understood the reason.
After all, he is a mad scientist!
Having come into contact with Weildi, Luo Shu knew the temperament of these people.
If Lux really hinted at the existence of the Shinonozuki clan, Luo Shu suspected that this woman would immediately think of "studying and dissecting" him.
Because of this concern, it seemed normal to Luo Shu that Lacus concealed the matter of her family from Shinono Tsubasa.
Seeing Luo Shu being so 'considerate', Lux was silent for a moment, and then said quietly:
"...Actually, I feel that Mr. Shu still underestimates the extent of the doctor's recklessness."
At this point, Lux suddenly changed the subject and said, "To be honest, I asked the doctor to be in charge of the research base in outer space because I had some ideas of 'imprisonment' in mind."
Hearing this, Luo Shu's face twitched involuntarily, and his fear of the danger of Shinono no Tsukasa increased to a higher level.
Even someone like Lacus mentioned the word "imprisonment". How outrageous is this Shinono Tsukasa?
After all, he had never seen it with his own eyes, so Luo Shu still needed some reference objects.
"How is it compared to Willie?"
Luo Shu asked.
Lux didn't want to say anything bad about her "friend", so she just smiled reluctantly:
"Dr. Wildey, it's a baby."
When Luo Shu heard this, his face suddenly became expressionless.
In other words, compared to the destructive power of Shinonozuka, is Wildi just at the level of a baby?
Just at this moment, a bright light appeared in front of the three moving people.
"Huh?" Luo Shu raised his head in surprise and looked ahead.
In front of them, a transparent glass passage appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
Compared to glass, Luo Shu cares more about things outside the glass.
That is a huge blue 'celestial body'!
That huge celestial body, or man-made object, was made entirely of opaque azure glass, like an hourglass.
It is suspended in the orbit between the Earth and the Moon, shining brightly under the sunlight.
And around it, huge metal spheres, like satellites, are located on its side, emitting rainbow-colored light.
Luo Shu opened his eyes slightly wide, and Nangong Nayue behind him opened her mouth slightly wide.
"This is?"
At this time, Lux smiled and introduced:
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"That's the space city Copernicus. Of course, what's on the glass is just its holographic projection. Our real location is at the lower right section of Copernicus."
Lux pointed to the 'bottom' of the blue hourglass. Luo Shu looked in the direction she pointed and could clearly see a pipe with the number '6' written on it in the lower right corner of the hourglass, extending from the end of the hourglass.
Of course, from the perspective here, it looks like a pipe, but in fact, based on Luo Shu's grasp of spatial distance, he can vaguely determine that the diameter of this channel is more than 30 meters, which is equivalent to the width of an eight-lane highway.
Looking at the pipe that was almost just scraps compared to the hourglass, and thinking that the pipe was actually more than 30 meters long, even Luo Shu couldn't help but sigh:
"This is really... amazing..."
It's no wonder that a multinational force like SDS would be short of funds to build such a large structure in space.
This thing is not something that an organization can afford to play with. It is a "big toy" that can only be made by a big country.
At this time, Nangong Nayue also came out of her shock, glanced at Lux and said:
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"I suddenly understand why those people in the SDS Business Department dislike even you, the Speaker."
“This is really a big deal!!”
With the power of an organization, to build such a "wonder" in space, the people in the SDS Business Department must have lost all their hair just to raise the money.
Even with Nangong Nayue's superficial vision, she could tell that this space wonder was not yet fully built. It was already of this scale, yet it had not yet been completed. One could imagine the investment involved.
"This is a necessary sacrifice to protect humanity."
"Of course, the expenses are indeed too high. If Stargate hadn't lowered the price of the most critical material transportation, I'm afraid I wouldn't support such an exaggerated plan."
Lux's smile was a little forced when she said this.
No matter what, the people in the Business Department were like-minded partners, and she felt a little uncomfortable when she was opposed by her companions.
But fortunately, more people support her actions, and the space city in front of her is the fruit of this support.
At this time, Luo Shu looked at the blue celestial body and sighed:
"No wonder I haven't received your development application since I got the Abyss Warring States space. It turns out that the funds are all here!"
Hearing this, Lux said with some distress:
"In fact, because of the emergence of the alien space, I have also been thinking about whether to delay the construction of Copernicus."
"After all, compared to developing a space city, building a base in an alien space is far more costly and convenient than Copernicus."
But before Lux could finish, a female voice suddenly interrupted:
"In that case, I will have no choice but to stop cooperating with you, Lacus!"
Hearing the voice, Lux immediately turned around and looked towards the front of the passage.
