Chapter 48: Flying! Shoulder to Shoulder with the Sun

"Host: Su Lie
Template: Bronze Superman

Awakening: 40%
Powers: Super strength, super speed, super senses, heat ray, freezing breath, man of steel, bio-force field."

When people think of Superman, the first thing that comes to mind is his immense strength and ability to fly. Su Lie had awakened his super powers when he was six years old. But flying has only been achieved now.

What does it feel like to fly?
Since the early days of ignorance and barbarism, humans have been looking up at the sky. They are curious about the existence of the sky, and envy the winged birds that can soar in the sky, envy them for being able to cross the water with their wings, and for being able to easily reach dangerous places that human feet cannot reach.

Mountains, flowing water...some beautiful scenery can only be truly appreciated when viewed from the sky.

So humans used their wisdom to invent hot air balloons, and then went a step further to invent airplanes. With these tools, humans can finally reach the sky and see the beautiful scenery that only birds can see.

However, flying with the help of tools has its limitations. Restricted by weather and space, even if you reach the sky, you will still feel regretful.

What would it feel like if humans could truly get rid of these tools, ignore restrictions and fly freely in the sky with their own power!
“So, that’s what it feels like.”

On the deserted cliffs of the northern Shaanxi plateau, Su Lie opened his arms wide as if hugging someone. Gradually, his body began to rise.

It wasn't that he was getting taller, but that his body was gradually rising. First his heels left the ground, then his toes, and then his entire body was suspended in the air.

Looking at the cliffs getting farther and farther away, and the mountains and rivers getting smaller and smaller in his eyes, Su Lie's body flew higher and higher under the influence of the biological force field, feeling the whistling wind in his ears, his body twisted recklessly in the sky like a fish.

Flying while standing, lying down, or even free-style swimming in the sky. Free, unrestrained, and unfettered, at this moment, he seemed to have broken off a shackle from his body, and from now on, he could roam freely in the sky, and Beihai Cangwu could be seen at any time!

"Hahahahahaha"

The unbridled laughter echoed in the sky along with the sound of the wind, and Su Lie's body flew higher and higher in the laughter.

500 meters, 3,000 meters, 10,000 meters
Soon he arrived at the troposphere, a layer with plenty of water and a temperature that dropped as the altitude increased. When Su Lie reached the top of the troposphere, the temperature was only minus 55 degrees Celsius.

But these had no effect on Su Lie at all. His speed did not slow down at all, and even increased a bit.

In less than two seconds, Su Lie's speed exceeded 500 times the speed of sound, and this was far from his limit. The distance from the surface of the Earth to outer space, that is, the exosphere, was only kilometers.

At such a terrifying speed, Su Lie's body was no longer visible. And under the wrapping of the biological force field, his clothes were not burned by the friction of the atmosphere. If an ordinary person were to look at the surrounding scenery at this time, it would only be a blur.

Even because the vision cannot keep up with the dynamics of the scenery, it will cause a strong sense of discomfort, but Su Lie can capture various ions floating in the atmosphere.

His body passed through the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere in turn. After a few seconds, Su Lie finally arrived in real outer space.

Deep, dark, and vast.
This is everyone's understanding of the universe, but because of the distance from space, people know more about the universe with beautiful visions and fantasies. Apart from these fantasies, the universe is full of unknown dangers.

Su Lie was suspended in space at this time, with a slowly rotating planet under his feet. Just like the Earth in his previous life, the Earth was also dominated by blue, with a little white, yellow and green mixed in.

Su Lie's eyes moved away from the planet under his feet and turned to the endless and deep universe. It was not until this moment that Su Lie truly felt the vastness and danger of the universe. Even with his super vision turned to the maximum, he could only observe some scenes nearby. He saw some meteorites floating in the universe and unknown bacteria and viruses clinging to the meteorites.

Including where he was standing at this moment, there were countless unknown germs around him that were invisible to the naked eye, but because of the biological force field, these germs could not get close to him. In addition to these germs, the most deadly thing for ordinary people was undoubtedly the low temperature here.

There is no life in space, and the temperature here is kept at more than minus 270 degrees Celsius all year round. Once ordinary people are exposed to space, even without various radiation, the low temperature will instantly freeze them into ice.

However, the universe is vast. Although Su Lie cannot travel in it alone at this moment, as his strength grows, one day he will be able to travel freely in the universe and even hold the entire universe in the palm of his hand. What he is doing now is to continue to increase his strength.

Su Lie turned his body and faced in one direction. 1.5 million kilometers in front of him, an eternally burning yellow star was emitting scorching heat.

When he was on Earth, due to the presence of the atmosphere, more than half of the sun's radiation energy was blocked and absorbed. Now in space, Su Lie faced the sun's rays directly, and felt that more energy than ever before was being absorbed by his body, and his abilities were growing at more than twice the speed of before.

It can be imagined that if this progress is maintained, Su Lie will only need to stay in space for a year, or even less than a year, for his strength to enter the next stage.

In fact, if he could get closer to the sun, or directly enter the sun, it would not take long for his system template to 100% unlock the strength of a bronze superman.

The idea is good, not to mention that Su Lie's current speed is far from the speed of light.

You know, even at the speed of light, it takes eight minutes to reach the earth from the sun, not to mention Su Lie now. And even after reaching the sun, Su Lie would not dare to enter rashly.

After all, in previous film and television works, some superheroes died because of absorbing too much solar energy.

Therefore, before his strength reached a certain bottleneck, Su Lie decided to develop steadily and slowly. Besides, there were still many secrets on Earth waiting for him to explore.

Just as Su Lie stood in space, receiving the sunlight, on Earth at this time, the space agencies of various countries were bustling with activity.

"How is it? Have you found out the take-off location of the unidentified object?" asked a middle-aged man in formal attire at the Haichang Provincial Aerospace Bureau.

"We have found that the target's take-off point is on a cliff on the Dachangling Mountain in the northern Shaanxi Plateau. The coordinates are longitude 127°34′ and latitude 148°29′."

"Is there any footage of the object taking off?" the middle-aged man continued to ask.

"No, that place is not within the monitoring range. Moreover, according to calculations, the speed of the object is more than 100 times the speed of sound, and the images transmitted by the satellite cannot be seen clearly."

"One hundred times the speed of sound."

The middle-aged man remained silent. Even the most advanced satellite launcher in Daxuan today has a maximum speed of only 18 kilometers per second. And this is the result of some breakthroughs in those advanced technologies in recent years.

However, the unknown object could easily break through the current technological barrier of Daxuan. Moreover, it was still within Daxuan territory. So was it an enemy or a friend, or did those missing people appear again?
Thinking of this, the middle-aged man quickly left the monitoring room and walked towards the office.

Su Lie's super senses also captured some of what was happening on Earth, but he did not care about it. Instead, he continued to stay in space to carefully experience the changes in his various abilities.

(End of this chapter)