After Black Hawk landed and opened its cockpit hatch, Xiao Ran flipped straight into the cockpit. There was no need even to start it up; he directly ordered Haro to switch the control system to manual operation. With a push of his left hand and a pull of his right, Black Hawk raised its nose, its tail spraying white contrails as it vanished into the sky in the blink of an eye.
Black Hawk was not headed toward the area where Kira, Graham, and the others were fighting. Instead, it kept climbing until it reached its maximum altitude, then shifted its vertical frame and began breaking out of the atmosphere. This was not Xiao Ran's first time piloting Black Hawk through the atmosphere. He had long grown accustomed to the vibrations and various operations of the machine, and in only a few minutes, he brought Black Hawk into space.
After completely breaking free of Earth's gravity, Xiao Ran stopped Black Hawk. Just as he had done in the 00 World, he detached the heavy armor backpack and self-destructed it, then took out a brand-new missile-loaded backpack from the Storage Slot and attached it. He also released the thirteen GHOST Drones that served as components before charging fiercely back toward Earth.
The reason he had come all the way into space to do this was that only in a weightless environment like space could Black Hawk replace its backpack without relying on other equipment. On Earth, how could Xiao Ran possibly hold up such a heavy backpack for replacement?
Flying from Akatsuki Works in Orb's homeland into space and then returning to Earth took nearly fifteen minutes. By the time Xiao Ran piloted Black Hawk down from the sky, the battle at the edge of the main island had yet to