"Out of Earth's orbit?"
Nakajima Atsushi was certain that Kunikida Doppo was screaming, a volume he rarely heard from his blond-haired senior even when he was facing Dazai Osamu.
Standing next to Kunikida Doppo, Nakajima Atsushi felt that his eardrums would soon lose some of their function if this continued.
He tried to say something, but the tense atmosphere was obviously not in line with the theme of their meeting today, although the current situation had long deviated from the original intention.
But Nakajima Atsushi soon discovered that what he wanted to do was not easy.
Perhaps from the moment they left the atmosphere, oxygen was no longer supplied, and there were quite a few people in the elevator. After all the oxygen was consumed, the oxygen reserve in the elevator was now very dangerous.
"Air, air, cough cough cough, Mr. Dahl, we can't breathe!" Nakajima Atsushi waved his arms in the air in fear, trying to attract the man's attention.
Roald Dahl accepted this protest. The man waved his cane twice gracefully, as if he had received some instructions, and Nakajima Atsushi immediately felt his breathing become smoother.
Nakajima Atsushi noticed that Roald Dahl's expression seemed to be so natural all the time, as if he had not been affected by the lack of oxygen from beginning to end, as if men themselves did not need oxygen to breathe. However, seeing that Fukuzawa Yukichi was almost exactly calm in the situation just now, he just thought that he was being overly alarmed.
Although it is not clear where the oxygen is stored, as this lovely gas is injected, the temperature around the body seems to rise. After all, space is not a place that flesh and blood can reach easily.
Even though they had begun to realize how incredible and bizarre it was to be riding a strange glass elevator into space, and it even broke apart before it went too high, some places unexpectedly followed basic rules, making it difficult to distinguish between the dimensions of fantasy and reality.
"Mr. Dahl, when can we go back to Earth?" After wasting half a day, Nakajima Atsushi finally got himself next to Roald Dahl.
"Maybe an hour, maybe a day, maybe a month? Oh no, good boy, we have to figure out how to use these booster rockets first. Can anyone drive a car, I want to ask?" The man in a lilac velvet tuxedo raised his head from a button on the ceiling and said something that was really unreliable.
"I have a driver's license." It was Kunikida Doppo who spoke, and the blond young man soon looked a little regretful for saying this.
"That's great, Mr. Kunikida." The candy merchant blinked his caramel eyes at him and said in a happy tone, then picked up Kunikida Dopo with his cane at a speed that the naked eye could easily follow.
"Come here, young man, it's like driving a car, you'll like it."
"What?" Being pushed to the operating table unexpectedly was obviously beyond Kunikida Dubu's expectations. However, after a flurry of activity, he actually figured out some tricks and became quite familiar with the operation.
"What if I bump into something?" Kunikida Dopo complained.
"Without so many unexpected children, we won't run into anything." The candy merchant in a lilac velvet tuxedo said in a very determined tone, and I'm afraid anyone would be convinced by such a decisive tone.
What the hell? The young man complained in a low voice, but he finally operated it carefully. Apparently, the man who was already lying on the floor, carefully drilling on the buttons, didn't look like he would pay any attention to him.
The glass elevator was finally able to fly steadily in space.
Although they don't seem to be the only ones floating in Earth's orbit.
Roald Dahl was naturally paying close attention to the incarnation of the Holy Spirit right below them, but Dazai Osamu, who was able to sense a little about the power of God, and Ranpo Edogawa went to accept the invitation of the ugly Joe Stein, so naturally no one else noticed this.
Even Nakajima Atsushi couldn't help but shudder after he looked in the direction Roald Dahl was observing.
But among the members of the Armed Detective Agency, there are still some exclamations.
Obviously, something else must have attracted their attention.
At first it was just a tiny black dot, which made people think it was a meteorite or some other small debris, but in fact it was not a meteorite or space garbage, but a real spaceship.
Even though it looks so small, after all, everything seems too small in the vast universe. The spacecraft is no exception. No matter how big a rocket looks on the earth, it will have shrunk in size during the launch process, not to mention that the reference objects at this time are those larger planets.
Although spacecraft are not something that is often seen on television, people who are concerned about current political affairs still know something about major events such as rocket launches.
But this was probably the first time that the members of the Armed Detective Agency observed a spacecraft at such a close distance, not the images transmitted to the earth via radio waves, but the real observation of such a beautiful and incredible large spacecraft with the naked eye.
This realization almost took everyone's breath away.
"This is so cool!" Miyazawa Kenji was the first to cheer, followed by Tanizaki Jun and his sister.
In a world where science fiction is popular, flying in the universe or becoming an astronaut may be a dream for many boys and girls. Now they have completed the first one, but astronauts and spaceships look much cooler than Kobe's glass elevator.
However, Fukuzawa Yukichi frowned slightly. He keenly realized that encountering a spaceship at this moment might not be a good thing.
The fact that they can reach space itself has some supernatural elements to it, but special powers and psychic abilities are still too bizarre for astronauts and even people on the ground who are most likely ordinary people. If ordinary people find them floating in the sky, it will definitely be a big trouble.
But it was obviously too late to think like this. Not to mention the few children who first discovered the spacecraft, they seemed to have forgotten their current situation and were dancing with joy. Naturally, someone on the spacecraft in the distance also discovered them.
This is a spacecraft carrying three astronauts, two men and one woman.
The female astronaut named Catherine had been observing the instruments carefully, but soon the detection equipment showed a strange obstacle.
This is clearly not a fragment of a planet or some cosmic junk like an aging satellite.
She quickly used the electronic telescope, and was astounded by what she saw on the monitor.
"Come and look, you two, what's going on, there's a group of people, at..." She was so surprised that she was speechless.
"Floating in a glass box?" The two astronauts who came over helped her finish the sentence. At the same time, the same expression of surprise appeared on their faces as Catherine, as if they had witnessed something incredible.
Although this is indeed incredible, regardless of where they get the oxygen, the extremely low temperature and radiation in space are enough for them to eat a pot of food, but the guys inside look very lively and don't seem to worry about their lives at all.
Catherine didn't believe that the material of the elevator-like box was glass, unless the people in the elevator were not of the same species as them. But whether it was the material problem of the elevator or those people, it was big news!
She quickly shouted to her dazed companion, "Help me get in touch with the ground. I want to talk to the commander. This is a huge discovery!"
While waiting, the female astronaut was still sighing: "Oh my God, there are people in the glass elevator floating in space? Am I crazy or is the world crazy, God!"
"But we are in space now, and God may not be able to hear us." The companions who had recovered from their shock were still in the mood to joke. The male astronaut named Benjamin tried to call the ground while speaking in a vacant tone, which made people doubt his mental state.
After a wait that seemed like years, Catherine finally got connected to the ground as she wished.
"What's the emergency?" the operator asked nervously.
"Help me get through to the commander, we have made a major discovery!"
"I'm afraid that's against the rules."
"Just do as I say."
"Why don't you tell me what you found?" the operator tried to stop the overexcited astronaut.
"There's a group of people flying in front of us in a glass elevator! Hurry up, I need to get through to the commander."
"A large group of people? Are you sure?" The operator was shocked, and then he found it funny. He immediately thought these astronauts were crazy.
"I'm sure I'm not crazy, I can tell you there's a samurai with a sword, some students and teachers, and a purple goat, no, a gentleman with a goatee and purple clothes!"
"Oh my God, he must be crazy." The operator took off his headphones and complained loudly.
However, the collective mental disorder of the astronauts flying in the sky is also a major matter worthy of reporting to the base commander.
"I am the commander. What did you see?" An older voice came into the communication.
"A bunch of people floating in space! They're in a glass elevator. It's incredible! Oh my God!"
"Transfer the image."
Although he was skeptical, the commander decided to see the images himself in order to determine whether these carefully selected astronauts had really become insane due to life in space.
Although the signal was affected by unknown reasons, perhaps due to solar activity or something, causing the communication to be interrupted for a while, the image was miraculously transmitted back to Earth.
The images of the Armed Detective Agency team immediately appeared on the display screen of the Aviation Bureau.
The entire base fell into an eerie silence.
"Who are they?"
"Where are they going?"
The commander asked loudly, but everyone remained silent and no one could answer his question.
Everyone just stared at the screen in front of them with eyes wide open, motionless. This shocking scene left everyone stunned.
The next changes on the screen made them open their eyes wide again. Even though their eyeballs seemed to be about to fall out of their sockets, they could not suppress their surprise.
They had previously wondered whether these people were from Earth, speculated on the true material of the glass elevator, and explored how these people had not been killed by radiation, but what concerned them most was the purpose of these unplanned space tourists.
But they soon found out where Roald Dahl was going to take the members of the Armed Detective Agency.
A huge Easter egg, no, it should be said that it is a candy planet, appeared in a corner of the screen.
Roald Dahl still stared at the "Holy Spirit" in the distance. This candy planet was specially created by him to distract the members of the Armed Detective Agency. It can also be regarded as a good entertainment facility.
"What is that?" Nakajima Atsushi discovered the planet naturally.
"Well, you can think of it as the alien business of the Dahl Candy Company."
The man in the chocolate-colored top hat spoke nonsense in a serious tone, but perhaps his tone was too convincing, and the white-haired boy actually believed it easily.
"I see. Wait a minute," Nakajima Atsushi sighed before realizing something was wrong. "Extraterrestrial business? Who are we going to sell these products to?"
"Could it be that aliens really exist?" Nakajima Atsushi thought hard and looked at Roald Dahl with sparkling eyes, trying to get an answer from the man.
But not wanting to argue with Akiko Yosano, she burst out laughing. The teasing tone of the female doctor immediately made Nakajima Atsushi blush.
"I didn't expect you to believe in the existence of aliens, Dun."
"Aliens naturally don't exist for the time being."
Although with the current power of Haiyin Temple, outer space is also a part of this world, and it is not impossible to create an alien race.
It's just that he has no plans to travel across the stars for the time being, nor does he have any plans to have members of the Armed Detective Agency become aliens who discover humans and make the news. Besides, this is too shocking and outrageous. The glass elevator can be explained away as an industry secret, but aliens are too outrageous.
Everything that followed went smoothly. Although he was not proficient in multi-mode operations, it was not difficult for Kunikida Dobu to make them move towards such a big goal.
With the power of a few booster rockets, the glass elevator quickly flew towards its destination, out of the spacecraft's sight, and the astronauts lost their target.
Several boys and girls felt a little regretful, but Nakajima Atsushi couldn't help but look back in the direction that Roald Dahl had just looked.
What was there? Nakajima Atsushi hadn't figured it out until he reached his destination.
A feeling of sadness and loss suddenly came over him. He did not have the ability to see the "Holy Spirit", but perhaps it was the distance, or perhaps it was the special connection he had with the Haiyin Temple because of Roald Dahl. He briefly empathized with the unknown thing in the darkness and felt sad from the bottom of his heart.
However, he did not have long to indulge in this inappropriate and inappropriate emotion. When the man in the sauce purple velvet tuxedo put his hand on his shoulder and pushed him towards his companions with a smile, Nakajima Atsushi suddenly realized that the inexplicable emotion disappeared, as if it had been sucked away.
He noticed that this man, who had been very mysterious from the beginning and constantly brought him surprises and joys, winked at him implicitly. Nakajima Atsushi felt as if they had entered into some kind of agreement unconsciously. Suddenly, a chocolate-flavored happiness filled his mouth, and he couldn't help but smile.
Children should not be sad, Roald Dahl said in his heart.