Ultra: Heroes Don't Ask Where They Come From

The Hieilong took off from the Tucker team's base. Once the huge silver-white fighter took off into the air, it continued to rise into the sky at an extremely high speed. Beidou controlled it seriously and frantically.

"Captain, we need to go there."

Even until this point, Beidou still asked in confusion;

Until the mission started, the captain did not reveal the destination, but it is about time to reveal it now.

"Go to Kyushu."

“Kyushu…?!”

Beidou thought about it, Kagoshima, no, it can be said that Sakurajima is in Kyushu...

"We are heading to the Tanegashima Space Center, but we are not going to actually reach there. Given our speed, our direction will deviate slightly. We will meet them halfway about five minutes after they launch."

“How strange.”

Beidou couldn't help but speak out.

It's more than just strange, it seems completely beyond the norm. How could there be such a nonsensical action? It's simply abnormality written all over his face.

Captain Long was silent for a while, then slowly said;

"Logically, I shouldn't say more, but since we've come this far, it doesn't hurt to say more."

"Team member Kaji Yoichi?"

In response to Captain Long's question, Team Member Kaji Yoichi waved his hand and said with a smile;

"Don't worry about me. If it's leaked like this, it means it can't be stopped at all. I'm more or less prepared for this, but I can't make a big fuss about it. Please go ahead, it's okay."

Captain Long nodded.

"Our mission this time is to escort a team of scientists to the International Space Station. I don't know the specific details, but generally speaking, the ultimate goal is not to escort something, but to allow scientists to complete an experiment on the International Space Station."

"What kind of experiment needs to be carried out in space, and with such a high level of confidentiality?"

It was still Beidou who blurted out hastily;

At this time it was Kaji Yoichi who answered. Beidou turned to look at him and found that he shook his head gently and said.

"That doesn't need to be said, because it's still unclear whether the experiment will succeed. If it doesn't, even if you tell people about it, it will only disappoint them."

Hearing that, Xia Long said suddenly.

"Is it an experiment related to the Yawa people, or is it something they suddenly planned to do because of the Sakurajima incident?"

Team member Kaji Yoichi showed a look of being defeated and said with a wry smile;

"Really, you are very perceptive, that's true, but I won't tell you the purpose and process of the experiment, because I really can't be sure. If it succeeds, the results of the experiment will be applied to us immediately. If not..."

Beidou didn't say anything, but he could feel that team member Kaji Yoichi's words became more and more low-pitched as they went on.

Xia Long looked at Kaji Yoichi without saying anything and found that Kaji Yoichi's expression became a little gloomy.

This was the first time that team member Kaji Yoichi showed such an expression. It was a very obvious emotional expression that did not allow bystanders to comfort or comment. It was a personal emotion.

To give an example, it's like a relative of the doctor's own has developed a terminal illness that cannot be cured by modern medicine. The doctor is in pain and has not much time left, but he has to suppress his emotions and work every day. A non-medical friend who occasionally visits him is shocked and then comforts him by saying "Hold on, there must be hope." It's the same feeling of despair because no one knows better than him that it is absolutely impossible to cure.

"If it doesn't work... no one will know about the existence of the experiment."

Xia Long did not continue speaking. He also had emotional intelligence and knew that in this situation it would be best to say nothing.

But soon, Kaji Yoichi recovered and said;

"We'll be there soon. Anyway, I'll ask for your escort. I hope we can complete the experiment safely."

The Hiei Ryu is very fast. Although it cannot be felt inside the fighter, as a fighter designed with space combat as its premise, its normal speed is the third cosmic speed, which is 16.7 km/s.

In a world where humans can reach the speed of light, these ordinary things don't need to be so clear.

Could the Showa screenwriters not write the science fiction part like a fairy tale...assuming that there is some archetypal relationship between this world and the world before it?

Although Xia Long also knew that the reason for this technology might be related to the Yabo people.

If all aliens are at this level, then Xia Long feels that it is a blessing that the universe has not been destroyed by them, or it is also surprising that the earth has not been affected and destroyed by a galaxy-level battle.

In such a short period of time, it was almost time. The Hieilong quickly broke through the stratosphere and mesosphere at an inclined angle. Slowly, the white around it began to disappear, and the blue became thin and transparent, as if the air was decreasing, and slowly it became like a thin mist, and the vast black universe gradually revealed its figure among the stars.

"I can see it... Is that a United Nations fighter plane?"

"The synchronized flight of rockets and fighter jets is a scene you don't usually see."

Captain Long even had the time to make a joke.

Yes, the rocket and the fighter are flying in sync.

It was said to be five minutes, but in fact it only took three or four minutes. Five minutes is obviously a cautious and tolerant number.

“So beautiful…”

This was the sigh uttered by Nan Xizi, who had remained silent since boarding the plane.

Although the concept of the universe is no longer unfamiliar to people, the number of people who can actually go to the universe and see it with their own eyes is still a minority among the minority. No matter how many times you have seen it in photos or observed the astronomical phenomena and beautiful sights praised by the media, it is still completely different from seeing it in your hands or through a telescope.

They are leaving the Earth, and before them is the endless vast universe, a magnificent and vast world where every star may be inhabited by a person.

Perhaps in the starlight that was coming from now and was who knows how many millions or tens of millions of years old, it still carried the gaze of someone who had long since passed away, a civilization that had just escaped the clutches of gravity.

For Xia Long, the universe was no longer full of amazing colors. Although he had no time and no need, if he wanted to, he wanted to actually observe the darkness and stars in the sky. The situation was no different from an ordinary person going out to a nearby convenience store to buy something.

And it is precisely because of this lightness and time that he has this ability but rarely does it, so in response to Nan Xizi's words, he was a little hypocritical, looking at the scenery of the universe, and said;

"Yes, sometimes when I walk into this vast world, I realize how great and intelligent those great men of humanity are who can analyze the laws of celestial motion and their shapes using only their naked eyes and observation instruments."