The formulas for calculating his own movement trajectory all came from the knowledge he gained at the East China Sea Station. Jiang Ling had indeed not expected that his careless investment more than 20 days ago would yield such a good return so quickly.
She had just passed the highest point of her orbit. If there was a way to accelerate horizontally, she might be able to get a near-circular low-Earth orbit. Unfortunately, the atmosphere here was too thin, and the reaction force of her telekinesis on the air was too small to achieve the level that looked like anti-gravity.
However, reaction force can be obtained not only by pushing the working fluid, but also by telekinesis itself.
Jiang Ling contracted her arms, engaged her waist muscles, and brought her legs and tail together, creating a 60-degree angle between her upper and lower body, forming a simple momentum wheel. Then, she quickly rotated her upper body 90 degrees clockwise, halting the original spin while simultaneously acquiring a new direction. Once her body was facing down, upside down, her lower body also rotated clockwise at the same speed and angle. She then straightened her body and slowly returned her six limbs to their natural position.
She repeated this many times until her rotation came to a complete stop relative to the ground. If anyone saw her, she would look like a stranded loach, constantly twisting and turning.
This set of complex movements has always been a compulsory course for astronauts. Although it looks unsightly or has little use with the help of modern exoskeletons, if you are in a zero-gravity environment, without power assistance and nowhere to borrow strength, you will know its ingenuity.
After more than ten seconds of changing postures, Jiang Ling found where he wanted to go.
It was once a continent surrounded by an ocean, but now half its surface is covered in snow. The edge of the snow line, the easternmost part of the continent, is covered with reddish-purple plants. Dozens of brown-red pits have not yet been erased by weathering, and their centers may still emit deadly radiation.
She subtly adjusted her landing point, and then, an invisible energy surged from her chest. The film of light surrounding her body instantly shifted, the air distorted, and her form vanished into a sphere of white light. Her overall mass instantly increased by approximately thirty-four times, and a large amount of special radiation emanated from her surface. The energy level of the radiation was so high, unprecedented, that it was detected by satellite weapons in medium and high orbits.
These weapons had never seen a target like her, and all the tentative attacks were strangely deflected. The high-energy lasers drew an arc around her and then hit places they shouldn't have hit.
At the same time, seven circular ripples shot out from the back of the sphere, like the smoke rings Ning Weihe exhaled when smoking, one after another, arranged in a very regular pattern. At first, they resembled the projection of light waves on a screen after passing through a grating interference. The rings closer to the sphere were smaller, then doubled in diameter in the next one, reaching their maximum size in the third or fourth one, and then gradually shrinking.
Then, like sine waves on a spring, energy peaks are generated from the sphere and discharged backwards, causing the ring to expand and contract in a certain pattern.
These ripples with huge energy are just the aftermath of the thrust. The real force is exerted in an unknown place, but on the surface, the sphere has gained a huge acceleration.
It broke through the third cosmic speed in a short time and rushed towards the island in the east of the continent in an almost straight arc.
A bowl-shaped, reddish-orange shield began to appear directly ahead of the sphere's trajectory, the result of intense friction with the increasingly dense atmosphere. The high temperatures ionized the air, creating an electric potential difference so great that it could even penetrate the dry air. Many blue-purple arcs appeared along its tangent, but they had no effect on the monster within the sphere.
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