59: Chapter 59 Vertical Ascent and Descendance! Suspended in Mid-Air!

Captain Liu Zhihui accepted the order.

With an excited look on his face, he bounded over in a few steps and arrived beneath the Aerospace Fighter.

With a light leap, he jumped over four meters high and arrived in front of the fighter's cockpit.

The back of his Exoskeleton Armor's right hand flashed with a green light.

A second later, the cockpit door responded with a green light, indicating successful identification!

The hatch popped open!

After Captain Liu Zhihui sat in the pilot's seat, he poked his head out and shouted to the crowd.

"Chief Designer Lin, leaders, I am ready!"

Seeing Captain Liu Zhihui enter the fighter's cockpit, Lin Mo shouted back, "Test Pilot Captain Liu Zhihui, begin the test flight!"

Captain Liu Zhihui extended his right hand and made an "OK" sign.

Thus, he pressed the fighter's lift-off activation button inside the cockpit...

The next moment, a sudden change occurred!

"Buzz-buzz-buzz-buzz-buzz!!!" A tremendous engine roar suddenly erupted within the research base!

Just then, an exceptionally powerful blast of wind began to spread from the center of the research base in all directions.

The wind was so strong, like a gale force seven or eight, that everyone couldn't even open their eyes!

"It's flying!!!" shouted a member of the inspection team.

Everyone endured the discomfort and managed to open their eyes.

There, they witnessed a shocking scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives!

The sci-fi fighter in the field was slowly rising!

As the fuselage rose, a set of massive propulsion engines were revealed at the bottom of the fighter, continuously spraying deep blue flames downward!!!

Chief Designer Bai Yannian and Engineer Liu were petrified on the spot!

As the fighter slowly lifted off, the wind force decreased significantly.

Chief Designer Bai Yannian couldn't believe it at all; this fighter had actually flown just like that!

"Wait... No!!! This is..."

Engineer Liu blurted out, "Vertical takeoff and landing, it's actually vertical takeoff and landing!"

An exceptionally intense light instantly burst forth from Chief Designer Bai Yannian's eyes!

Just as he was preparing to explain it to the leaders, an even more explosive scene occurred!

Captain Liu Zhihui's Aerospace Fighter had ascended over twenty meters.

Now, it had actually descended by seven or eight meters.

It hovered and came to a standstill in mid-air, ten meters above the ground!

"Holy crap!!!" Engineer Liu swore for the first time.

"Vertical takeoff and landing, hovering in mid-air!!!"

At this moment, even the leaders who didn't know much about fighter technology understood the importance of these two technologies!

A fighter jet is different from a helicopter; it has no propellers, only engine thrusters.

How could it achieve vertical takeoff and landing and mid-air hovering?

Such maneuvers usually only exist in UFOs in sci-fi movies!

In other words, if this could really be achieved on a fighter jet, why would carrier-based aircraft need catapult launches? They could just take off vertically!

If these two technologies were mature and reliable, they would also have a revolutionary impact on the domestically produced aircraft carriers currently under construction!

Just as everyone was immersed in unparalleled shock, an accident suddenly occurred!

"Lin Mo, what are you doing!! Come back quickly!" Chief Engineer Peng Yu shouted, his eyes splitting in anger.

Suddenly, the joints of Lin Mo's Exoskeleton Armor spurted pale blue flames, and he leapt into the air!

He dove straight into the fighter's cockpit and sat steadily in the co-pilot's seat!

"Captain Liu, let's go!" Lin Mo was extremely excited.

If they didn't leave now, they wouldn't be able to get away later!

The leader on the ground felt dizzy, his face flushed with anxiety, and he shouted toward the fighter, "Lin Mo, get down here right now!!!"

Unfortunately, the roar was so loud that the people inside the fighter couldn't possibly hear the voices below.

Another terrifying engine roar resounded throughout the entire research base!

"Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom!!!" The deafening roar directly interrupted the leader's words!

The Aerospace Fighter hovering in mid-air saw its bottom propulsion engines gradually shut down, and the fuselage tilted upward.

The two sets of propulsion engines at the tail instantly ignited, shooting out two streams of deep blue flame backward!

"Boom!!!" In just a few seconds, this incredibly sci-fi Aerospace Fighter rapidly climbed into the sky at an unimaginable speed, disappearing bit by bit into the blue sky!

"It, it flew away?" Everyone present was instantly dumbfounded.

"What should we do? Lin Mo went along on the test flight too!"

"Nothing must happen to them, they must be safe!..."

The leader knew the gravity of the situation and quickly pulled out a red phone.

After triple-unlocking with face, fingerprint, and voice recognition, he calmly pressed six "0"s.

This represented the emergency coordination line for the highest-level Supreme Military Region emergency!

The phone rang only once before it was immediately answered.

"This is 002, this is 002!"

"Comrade Zhou Wuzheng, it's me!"

The person on the other end of the line was none other than the second-in-command of the Supreme Military Region, who was normally on duty at the national tactical command platform, the Chief of General Staff, three-star general, Chief of Staff Zhou Wuzheng!

"Leader, please instruct!"

"Immediately dispatch ten Jian-20 fighter jets to come to the Youquan Satellite Launch Center for support!"

"Received!..."

"Report, Leader, the dispatch order has been issued! Please briefly inform me of the reason!"

The leader didn't understand fighter technology and immediately handed the red phone to Chief Designer Bai Yannian, letting him handle the subsequent communication.

Chief Designer Bai Yannian used the briefest of words to explain the sequence of events in roughly 30 seconds.

"Comrade Zhou Wuzheng, you must ensure the absolute safety of the subjects!"

"Received!"

Hanging up the phone, before everyone could even catch their breath, the red phone rang in less than thirty seconds.

Chief Designer Bai Yannian quickly answered.

"Report, Leader, our Supreme Military Region cannot detect the fighter you mentioned at all!"

"What did you say? You can't detect it???"

The leader and Chief Designer Bai Yannian were shocked.

In this world, there was still a fighter that China's radar detection technology couldn't monitor?

Chief Designer Bai Yannian spat fiercely, disregarding his image.

"Lin Mo, that guy, did he actually build an epoch-making stealth fighter?!"

"Leader, is there really a new type of fighter that took off from the Youquan Launch Center? Did you make a mistake?"

"There is absolutely no mistake; we are at the launch center right now and saw it with our own eyes! You must immediately enable the highest authorization and access the monitoring system of the No. 1 Aerospace Base at the Youquan Launch Center to check!"

"Received!"

After waiting for more than forty seconds, "Holy crap!!!" came a Chinese expletive over the phone.

"There really is a fighter!"

"Leader, I will contact the pilots immediately!" Chief Designer Bai Yannian said quickly.

"Quick, you must be quick!!!"

Two minutes later, the air force base of the Northern Military Region received an emergency order.

Ten Jian-20 fighter jets took off one after another, flying rapidly toward the Youquan Launch Center.