At the end of the week-long visit, the international friends invited by Transwarp Trade began to return home. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The long carriage runs from the edge of the ring to the center track, and begins to fall down the narrow elevator track. At about the same time, at the other end of the main axis of the ring, a dark blue arc flickered for a short moment, and a black dot was thrown into the vast universe......

"Whew. ”

With a sigh of relief, the driver moved his stiff ten fingers, and his right hand, which was held on the joystick, moved his thumb slightly, turning off the breathing aid.

Electromagnetic acceleration felt terrible, although he was injected with drugs to strengthen his physical fitness and had anti-stress training, but without a breathing aid and a decompression cockpit, the acceleration of nearly 12g and the acceleration time of more than a minute could still squeeze the last trace of air out of his chest.

Moving his stiff neck, Liu Qingpeng opened the dial on the holographic helmet.

Half a year ago, he moved to the new country through the new country's space volunteer immigration policy, originally he only planned to mix for two or three years and then change to become an electrician, but he did not expect to become an employee of the warp trade because of some aspects of talent, and eventually became the pilot of the electric ray P-1.

The plan was half a month ahead of schedule, but it didn't have any effect on him. Although it was his first mission, he performed quite calmly, after all, in virtual reality, he no longer knew how many hours he had flown in. Now even with your eyes closed, you can fly this space plane next to the Bennu asteroid.

There was no reference for navigating the starry sky, and even if he was moving away from the Earth at a speed of 7.2 kilometers per second, he could not distinguish the slightest change in the starry sky in front of him with his naked eye.

Pointing to the operation panel, Liu Qingpeng turned on the voice control system.

"Open the mission beacon. ”

The side lights of the helmet flickered slightly, and an asteroid made of three-dimensional lines appeared in the field of vision directly in front of him, and an upline was drawn above the asteroid, marked with the word "Bennu".

Immediately afterward, a yellowish path emerged in the field of view, drawing a slightly curvature arc from the 1st capsule of the electric ray P-1 to the asteroid's position.

"The route is set. ”

"The plasma engine produces 40 percent power. ”

"Forward!"

In the deep and dark starry sky, the tail of the electric ray P-1 swung out layers of faint blue light particles, turning into arrows from the string and speeding away.

……

In the ground command center, the figures of a man and a woman stood in front of a large screen, watching the real-time images transmitted from more than 400,000 kilometers away.

Outside the atmosphere, speed and distance are always monotonous characters. If you put the number of 400,000 kilometers back on Earth, it would be enough to circle the equator ten times. However, for the X-1 series spacecraft, which cruises at a high speed of 20 kilometers per second, the flight time is less than half of the flight from Shangjing to California.

After hearing that the first mining spacecraft had arrived, Jiang Chen came to the Space Launch Center.

Out of curiosity, Xia Shiyu also followed.

In the footage, the electric ray P-1, which has completed deceleration, turns off its engine and slowly approaches the asteroid that is intertwined with graphene cables by inertia.

The electric ray with the mining module unfolded resembles a water spider, with dark blue blades of light popping out of the ends of the first two mechanical arms. It wasn't a laser knife, but a jet of ions with temperatures of up to tens of thousands of degrees. Such a high temperature can even poke a hole in steel with a light touch, and it is no problem to cut minerals.

The two laser knives staggered, cutting two holes in the ore body without any suspense. The other two mechanical arms, like two pincers, snapped into the asteroid's outer shell. The two forearm tools changed, jumping from a laser knife to two alloy hammer-like props, and smashed along the incision.

Seeing that the electric ray P-1 separated the ore body by dividing the ore block by two, Xia Shiyu couldn't help but open his mouth in surprise.

It was a surprise to see the look of surprise on her face.

"It's like making a movie. Xia Shiyu exclaimed.

"And it's a sci-fi blockbuster. Jiang Chen teased.

He had already seen the three-dimensional simulation of the electric ray P-1, and he was certainly not as surprised by the sci-fi mining method as he saw it for the first time.

At this time, Xia Shiyu suddenly remembered something, looked at Jiang Chen and said suspiciously.

"Why don't we put it in a synchronous orbit for mining?"

Hearing her question, Jiang Chen smiled and flaunted his aerospace knowledge that he had learned and sold.

"Don't look at this asteroid with a diameter of 500 meters, it doesn't seem to be as large as our Star Ring City, but its net weight is much heavier than ours. If it gets too close to the Earth, gravity will have to pull it straight away. Of course, if you really want to move it to a synchronous orbit, you can just add a spiral arm behind it as a counterweight like the Star Ring City, and you can hang it in the sky. ”

"But in terms of cost, there is no need for this. ”

"The pulse engine used in our electric ray is powered by a fusion battery, and the fuel cost is not too high. Except for the acceleration and deceleration phases, the aircraft with a set route is only doing inertial cruise for a long distance. ”

"All we need to do is send the electric ray to the asteroid, cut the ore off its body, and pull it back through the cargo ship. ”

At this time, the electric ray P-1, like a mosquito feasting on a piece of fat, constantly peels the ore from the ore body and collects it into an open folding container. Waiting next to it is a cargo spacecraft independently developed by Transwarp Trading, which uses the RM-400 plasma propulsion engine, although it is inferior to the pulse engine of the electric ray in terms of acceleration performance, but it is better than the thrust and is more suitable for large and medium-sized cargo spacecraft.

After all, the cargo ship doesn't need to do any high-maneuver maneuvers, it just needs to be able to transport things straight through.

Xia Shiyu glanced at Jiang Chen, and a smile curved into the corner of her mouth.

Unlike Aisha, if you want to ask when Jiang Chen's appearance fascinates her the most in her mind, her answer is undoubtedly confident.

Now the relationship between the two is much closer than it was at the beginning.

As promised last year, Jiang Chen selectively told Xia Shiyu about the end of the world.

In fact, even if he didn't say it, Xia Shiyu had already guessed something, but he never said it.

However, when she heard Jiang Chen say it himself, she was still quite surprised.

Just as Jiang Chen expected, the answer she imagined in her mind was simply 108,000 miles away from his actual situation. She originally thought that Jiang Chen had traveled to a human realm in the galaxy that had entered the interstellar age, and the reason why Jiang Chen spared no effort to develop aerospace technology was precisely to help the earth fight against that interstellar civilization......

And because of some kind of restrictions, I have to go back and stay for a certain period of time at a certain time.

I have to say that a woman's brain is really big enough, and she can make a Hollywood blockbuster.

In a few moments, a crate of minerals collected by the electric ray P-1 had been filled. The two mechanical arms clamped the hook of the cargo box, and the electric ray flew to the side of the cargo ship with the cargo box, and then slowly placed the cargo box in the cargo compartment on its belly, and at the same time, the mechanical arm took out a memory alloy plate from the cargo ship.

After powering up, the memory alloy plate unfolded into a cargo box similar to the previous one.

The next step is to repeat the homework, and there is no more ornamental viewing.

Xia Shiyu still had something to deal with, so Jiang Chen took her out of the launch center first and got on the yacht in the port. Just as he was about to return to Koro Island from the sea, a phone call from the presidential palace suddenly hit his watch.

As soon as the phone was connected, Zhang Yaping came directly.

"We're in trouble. (To be continued.) )