Chapter 1134

3 km..

9 km..

27 km...

As altitude kept rising, Lin An clearly felt the gravity he needed to resist growing stronger. The spiritual energy in his body was also visibly draining away.

Fortunately, he had already reached the peak of the Fourth Rank, his spiritual energy reserves being almost dozens of times that of an ordinary Fourth Rank; such a massive consumption was still manageable for him.

The wind howled fiercely, the surrounding gales like angry waves, incessantly sweeping in.

He instinctively glanced down at the launch base; the base, which originally covered a considerable area, was now only a tiny dot.

The entire land lay exposed in his view; at a glance, he could even see the ruins of surrounding cities.

It was his first attempt to fly this high; such a wondrous sight inevitably left him dazed.

Lin An inexplicably chuckled inside; he never imagined he would one day drag a rocket into outer space. This feeling was too eerie..

However, the 'launch' was still fairly smooth.

The mutant birds that he and Chu An had been worried about never appeared; otherwise, it would have been quite a trouble.

As he kept rising.

Now he had risen to 79 kilometers altitude; the temperature at this height was already near freezing, belonging to the middle layer.

This altitude had long surpassed the cruising height of ordinary aircraft in the troposphere, placing him in the mid‑atmosphere region.

The atmosphere was thin, with hardly any air left.

Looking up, the blazing sun, like a halo, appeared far larger than it does from the ground.

Besides the wind of flight, the whole world was silent, as if nothing existed.

"Going up, it should be the upper layer now. Then comes the ionosphere.."

"Going outward is the exosphere, where the temperature is nearly a thousand degrees Celsius, reaching up to 3000°C.."

Constantly estimating the distance, Lin An began to feel his spiritual energy straining.

Holding up a massive object while continually adjusting his flight angle, his mind and computational power were rapidly depleting.

He glanced at Yun Tian flying in formation not far away, nodded slightly, and sent a private message.

"Yun Tian, get ready—it's your turn!"

According to the plan, the final ionosphere breach would be driven by a temporarily modified spiritual energy fighter, overcoming the most difficult distance. After breaking into the exosphere, a spiritual energy engine would propel the rocket to a 200‑kilometer space orbit to dock with the first satellite.

It can be said that he and Yun Tian only need to escort the rocket halfway.

Of course, this is also the hardest part.

"Received!"

Inside the spiritual energy fighter's cockpit, Yun Tian, after checking the real‑time altitude, gradually approached Lin An. The fighter, with a temporary fuel module added, now bulged like a mutated bat. The high‑altitude handover, smoothly docking with the rocket, was undoubtedly a huge test of Yun Tian's control.

Ten minutes later, as the two worked together, a deep, muffled collision sound boomed.

"Click"

Only seen, the rocket on one side, latched onto the fighter's back, resembled a huge missile, firmly fixed in place.

At the same time, Yun Tian inside the cockpit turned pallid and let out a big sigh, unable to help wiping the sweat from his forehead.

"Report to ground command! Docking succeeded!"

"We are now heading for the final flight path!"

On the ground, countless Awakened Ones and researchers eagerly listening to the returned information, upon confirming success, the whole venue erupted in excited cheers.

"Success!"

"No mistakes!!"

And at this moment, it was not just them.

The various high‑level officials worldwide who had bought the broadcast rights also stared in shock at the continually transmitted images. Although there was no actual scene, they could only see the surroundings captured by Lin An as he dodged the rocket's tail fin.

Yet the height and imagery shown in the pictures all proved that this rocket was truly about to break through the atmosphere!

"My God! They actually did it!"

"Unbelievable—was the fighter that just docked really the spiritual energy fighter they talked about? What technology could possibly guarantee such high‑load operation of this machinery?!"

"A sci‑fi‑like fighter—are they intending to send the rocket into orbit like a space shuttle?!"

"Who can tell me where their technology comes from!? Why won't their fighter sustain damage?!"

"It's truly a miracle... I thought they were just bragging..

"I feel like we might actually have hope now..

Under the indescribable shock, high‑level officials of all war zones gazed in awe at the returned images. Even those who knew nothing called in experts to explain. At this altitude, restarting the satellite network was already an iron‑clad fact; the only doubt was how the Long An faction would transmit the information back.

Envy, jealousy, admiration.

Even though they had been hostile nations in mortal combat, at this moment all survivors felt only excitement and emotion.

In the Apocalypse where electricity is hard to obtain, on the distant Asian continent, there actually exists a group of survivors who have broken through Earth!

"Long An No. 1 spiritual energy fighter ready to disengage—please initiate ignition procedure!"

"Repeat: the fighter has disengaged; please prepare ground command to adjust orbital attitude."

The fighter disengaged; Yun Tian looked at the rocket's tip with a complex expression, the final attitude adjustment to be controlled by Deng Xiang according to ground commands.

After completing this step, the rocket will jettison its fuel tank, retaining only the upper cabin to seek the predetermined satellite in outer space.

Silent ignition.

As orange‑red to sky‑blue flames spewed from the rocket's rear, the white rocket shot toward space like an arrow.

Inside the crystal core, Deng Xiang continuously operated the engine's attitude via instruments linked to his body, his heart surging with excitement.

Through the camera linked to his body, he could also see the external scene clearly.

Indescribable, while flying at the outer edge of the exosphere, he beheld infinite space and, in deep space, that eternal, scorching massive fireball.

At this moment, he truly became the brightest star in human history.

Beep..

Beep..

Beep..

Crystal core flickered, Xuan Haicheng, who had never taken a plane in his life, looked around in extreme shock. Under extreme tension, he even began to breathe heavily, though he no longer had that function, he could not breathe anything.

Under Deng Xiang's self-controlled micro-thruster, the two of them have already synchronized to an orbit of a satellite about four to five meters in size.

Looking at the satellite stationary before them in the synchronized state, both found it hard to describe their feelings.

Half an hour later, Deng Xiang, clinging to the satellite like a spider robot, carefully used the mechanical arm to open the satellite's access port, preparing to connect.

After inputting a series of complex passwords, he felt as if he had gained another body, and miraculous streams of information surged into his that kind.

A few minutes later.

The camera on the satellite moved silently.

At this moment, humanity saw the whole world again.