Chapter 186: Shoot down Phobos
Set your destination, Mariner Grand Canyon.
The Big Black ship roared away and soon reached Mariner's Grand Canyon. There is no need for Liu Xing to call and ask for specific coordinates, because the huge explosion sound and the sky-high fire can be found at a glance.
The Big Black spaceship quickly approached, and after reaching the vicinity, Liu Xing jumped off the spaceship, and found Goodreve's spaceship in a few jumps.
"Goodreve, what's the situation, why is there such a big commotion?"
Liu Xing's consciousness swept away, and he found Goodreve's figure, flew over and asked.
"It's almost, it's not a construction period, it's all about using explosives/charges to blow up the pit first, and then using engineering trucks to transport gravel." Guderev was covered in dust, his eyes were red, and he seemed to be very serious and responsible.
After Liu Xing and the other firelight disappeared, he flew to the top of the huge crater to check, and it was bottomless, and it was estimated that there should be ten kilometers.
"You Su people really have a set of holes!" Liu Xing gave a thumbs up, such a huge project was really completed by Goodrev in less than ten days.
Liu Xing originally wanted to ask for details, but Davis also came in this spaceship.
He also took a curious look at the huge crater and gave Goodreve a thumbs up in surprise.
"Looks like we're halfway there!" Davis smiled gracefully.
"Davis, how's your thruster doing?"
Liu Xing asked solemnly, there can be no mistakes in every link in between.
"Don't worry, it's all right." Davis smiled confidently.
"That's good, there are still two days left to prepare, let's rehearse the process first to make sure nothing goes wrong."
Liu Xing invited Goodleev and Davis into his spaceship.
There is excellent virtual technology on the Big Black spacecraft. You can measure your own data.
Liu Xing took them to the main control room and asked Xiao Jin to input the data of Mars and Phobos into the simulation system to create a virtual space.
A few minutes later, a virtual projection of Mars and Phobos appeared in the main control room, which was enough to make it real.
"Tsk, Mr. Liu, your spaceship is very high-tech!" Davis exclaimed.
"Hehe, pass the prize, let's talk about the thruster data you designed first, let's simulate it."
Liu Xing has always been quite satisfied with the Big Black, this is a medium-level civilization spaceship, and it has been modified by Xiao Jin, but I am afraid that it is similar to a high-level spaceship.
Davis cooperated very well and carefully explained the various data of the thruster, and soon, the thruster was simulated and placed in the designated position of Phobos.
This thruster has thrusters placed on all six sides of Phobos, controlling the height up and down, and controlling the direction of the front, back, left and right, so that Phobos can accurately hit the predetermined pothole.
The simulation begins, step one, to push up the height of Phobos.
As a result, the thrusters could not be pushed, and more thrusters could only be placed.
Started to impact, but did not hit the intended position.
The impact was successful, the gravitational pull of Mars was not activated, and the impact force was not enough.
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It took more than half a day to increase the success rate to more than 80 percent.
"Hey, let's stop here today, continue tomorrow, the actual operation will definitely be more difficult to grasp."
Liu Xing sighed and said helplessly.
Davis and Gudelev also nodded slightly, frowned and stepped off the Big Black spaceship, each going back to continue to improve the deficiencies.
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After a day of improved preparation, Davis and Gudelev confidently boarded the Big Black spacecraft again and continued the simulation test.
After dozens of tests, Liu Xing breathed a sigh of relief and was basically able to achieve a 100% success rate.
"Okay, let's do it today. Davis, contact the Mars Alliance Center and ask them to cooperate, Goodreev, and check the ship and the crater one last time to make sure everything is safe. ”
"Okay" Davis nodded, stepped off the ship, and prepared to go.
"Okay." Goodreve nodded heavily and stepped off the ship with a serious expression.
Liu Xing sat back in the cab and prepared to take off, aiming for Phobos.
It is up to him to install the thruster, otherwise it will be more troublesome.
Don't look at the spaceships now, but the robots are very disjointed, and there are many philanthropists in aliens, and they will not really teach the earthlings about science and technology. So, other technological advances are not very big.
For a job like installing a thruster, it requires a high-precision robot that can fly, which is not impossible to do, but it is too late in time, and Liu Xing will not let Xiaojin make this kind of disposable robot.
Liu Xing could only go into battle in person, but fortunately, Phobos was also at an altitude of more than 6,000 meters, and the temperature was more than 50 degrees below zero, so he could still bear it.
Davis's spaceship lifted off first, followed by Liu Xing.
Ten seconds later, two spacecraft landed on Phobos. Phobos is very irregular on the surface, but there is still room to land a few ships.
The people of Davis's team did not get off the spaceship, but carefully put down the thrusters, Liu Xing picked up the thrusters, and installed them one by one according to Xiao Jin's prompts.
It took two or three hours of busy work to install hundreds of thrusters accurately.
He breathed a sigh of relief, jumped on the ship, and left Phobos.
"Davis, start testing the thrusters!"
The thrusters lit up one by one, and after testing them one by one, and after confirming that each one was functioning properly, it began to ignite the thrusters on the side of the fire deimos, and the fire boimos slowly left their original orbit and flew high into the air.
8000 meters
9000 meters
10000 meters
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When you reach a predetermined height, turn off the lower thrusters, turn on the left and right thrusters, and adjust the position.
The predetermined position has been adjusted, and the upper thruster is turned on.
Phobos accelerates and falls down Mars.
Liu Xing stared nervously at the monitoring screen, for fear of a little error.
But fortunately, Phobos fell accurately towards Mariner's Grand Canyon without the slightest deviation.
"Looks like it's time to prepare champagne to celebrate!" Davis's face tightened, and finally a smile appeared.
Although the mission of shooting down Phobos, hitting Mars, and activating the magnetic field of Mars has been simulated and tested dozens of times, everyone can't help but be a little nervous when it is really implemented.
Phobos smashed into the pit that Goodreve had dug with a long tail of fire.
"Warning, warning, thruster 001 damaged, thruster 005 damaged, thruster 008 damaged......"
Liu Xing was shocked, it was only a dozen seconds away from the impact, and the thrusters had burned a lot on the scorching Phobos.
"Davis, look at the good things you've done!" Liu Xing roared angrily.
"This ......," Davis looked dumbfounded.
But now it's too late to say anything, and all you can do is pray.
Phobos crashed into the pit with precision.
There was a loud "bang", and this may have vibrated violently.
The entire Mariner's Grand Canyon was blazing red, and in an instant, the scorching waves of fire rushed up several thousand meters into the air.
The impact caused the crater to erupt, sending flames and smoke billowing out.
"Kim, how is the Martian magnetic field doing?" Liu Xing asked nervously.
"Some ...... restored"
"It's only a few !!" Liu Xing sat paralyzed in the driver's seat and was stunned.
"Don't worry, this recovery of the magnetic field is not an instantaneous thing, at least now the kernel has been activated, and the task is completed!"
"Mission accomplished?" Liu Xing looked at the churning magma below and was stunned.
Soon, Davis and Goodreve's call request came from the communication screen.
Liu Xing machinery's on.
"Liu Xing, how is the situation? Did it succeed or not? Davis asked nervously.
"Liu Xing, has the Martian magnetic field been activated?"
"Cheng ...... It worked! Let's go to the Mars Alliance Center to claim the reward! Liu Xing smiled nervously.
"Oh yes! We're going to live forever! Renault, hurry up and open champagne to celebrate" Davis danced happily and asked his men to open champagne to celebrate.
Goodleev also hammered the driver's countertop, and the picture shook for a while, and it could be seen that he was also very excited.
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In the central square of the Mars Alliance, reporters wearing protective clothing crowded the audience, and a speaker was busy answering various questions from reporters.
"Mr. Speaker, why did a massive earthquake suddenly erupt on Mars?"
"Rest assured, this is to activate the Martian magnetic field and use Phobos to hit the earthquake caused by Mars. Don't be nervous. The Speaker said with a smile.
"Excuse me, Mr. Speaker, is the magnetic field of Mars activated?" A reporter asked the question that was on everyone's mind.
"At present, it is initially activated, but it will take at least two months for Mars to fully recover its magnetic field." The Speaker replied cautiously.
"Mr. Speaker, can you invite the heroes who participated in this mission to come out and meet with you?"
A Chinese reporter said excitedly.
"You need to wait, the heroes will be back soon, and they are flying here at the moment."
Soon, three ships appeared in the sky.
The Speaker smiled heartily and said:
"Look, the heroes are coming in spaceships."
The three spaceships landed in the open space, and Liu Xing, Davis, and Gudelev walked back, and they wanted to leave as soon as possible after receiving the reward. As soon as they stepped off the spaceship, they were greeted by thunderous applause.
A staff member ran over and led them to the conference platform.
The Speaker smiled with satisfaction and presented them with the Martian Medal of Honor.
"Speaker, where's our Huobi reward?" Gudelev was more straightforward and asked directly.
"Don't worry, let's talk to the reporters first, share your heroic deeds, now we need heroes like you."
The Speaker said with a warm face.
Liu Xing and Gudelev kept silent, neither of them liked such occasions.
Davis was elated, took the microphone, and talked endlessly about what had happened.
He didn't invite credit, leaving the credit for digging the pit to Goodreve, and handing over the command to Liu Xing. It's eloquent, but it's not biased.
Amid cheers, Davis' speech finally ended.
Then the speaker took them to receive the bounty of the mission, 5,000 Huoyuan each.
Liu Xing nodded with satisfaction, and took out one thousand as the one-year membership fee for Immortal Alliance City.
He thought to himself that he must divide the annual fee equally next year. A thousand Huobi could buy a lot of things.
The three of them walked out of the center of the Mars Alliance proudly, waved goodbye, and Liu Xing piloted the spaceship and flew out of the Immortal Alliance City.