"But...... This is metallic hydrogen, and although it can be produced at present with the strength of our company, the cost is too high and it cannot be produced on a large scale. Wang Lei said, "Even if we can't get metallic hydrogen this time, we must at least confirm that such a thing does exist on Jupiter, right? ”

Chen Bing hesitated for a moment, nodded in agreement.

Millions of kilometers is an insurmountable chasm for the rest of the planet, but for Hope, it's less than half an hour's journey — and that's without reaching sub-light speeds.

In the distance, a huge planet appeared in the field of vision of every crew member on the Hope.

Before that, they had been informed that Hope was about to arrive at Jupiter and would enter the interior of Jupiter for exploration.

So they all crowded into the window to experience the first human up-close view of Jupiter.

In fact, at this moment, their hearts have long been less excited than before, after all, they had just landed on Mars a few days ago, and almost all of them had experienced walking on Mars.

In this case, the figure of the beautiful reporter Xiao Ran is naturally indispensable.

"Ladies and gentlemen, at the moment our spacecraft is moving at a speed of 10,000 kilometers per second, and directly in front of us is the familiar Jupiter. That's right, the big colorful guy is Jupiter. You may think that what we see is the surface of Jupiter, but it's not, and from what I've just learned, everything we see on Jupiter is actually in a state of gas. Based on current astronomical inferences, it is believed that Jupiter most likely has a stony core, but this has not been verified. This trip to Jupiter will unveil this mystery. ”

"Now the spaceship is slowing down! Because Phantom Immortal Technology uses the spacecraft's advanced gravity control technology on this spaceship, we don't feel the huge inertia caused by the deceleration at all. Xiao Ran continued, "I have to say that Phantom Immortal Technology is indeed a miracle-creating company. ”

Outside the porthole, the colorful planet was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, but in a few minutes, the view of one porthole could no longer contain the entire planet.

"You may not be able to imagine that the temperature outside is more than 100 degrees Celsius below zero, but inside our cabin, it's still warm like spring – just this morning, I had a delicious scrambled egg with tomatoes. ”

Xiao Ran's humorous explanation has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of every audience.

Although the vast majority of people on the planet are now addicted to the game of "Firmament", they will still watch the news every day, and the live broadcast of this Hope is also one of the must-see contents.

Every viewer was attracted by the charming scene transmitted back by the Hope.

A moment later, there was a slight jolt throughout the Hope......

However, the people on the ship did not panic in the slightest.

Xiao Ran said: "Everyone, this bump just now is because our Hope has entered Jupiter's atmosphere. Well, in fact, it is not so accurate to say that Jupiter's atmosphere is not so accurate, because Jupiter is a gas giant, and the planet is the atmosphere, and the atmosphere is also a planet. At the same time, Jupiter's gravity is almost three times that of Earth, and its main constituent material is gas, which makes it produce more complex and majestic air currents, so our Hope will have a bump. ”

The scene outside is incomparably magnificent, as if patches of colorful aurora are floating in the dark night sky.

This "aurora" is not only found in the sky, but in all directions.

Being in it is like entering a fairy tale.

"This is Jupiter!"

"It turns out that the week that looks like a wooden ball is so beautiful. It's a pity that this planet is not suitable for habitation, otherwise this would be a place to live. ”

"Brain-dead! It's good to appreciate this place once in a while, but if you really want to live here all the time, you're going to get mentally ill. ”

No matter what others say, the crew on the Hope is intoxicated by the beautiful scenery in front of them at the moment, even the dedicated Xiao Ran is no exception.

But there is such a group of people, but at the moment, they are not affected by the outside scene in the slightest.

They are the scientists aboard the Hope.

Wang Lei commanded a group of subordinates, on the one hand, they were busy collecting various data about Jupiter, and on the other hand, they were still engaged in related research.

Although Phantom Immortal Technology has extremely strong scientific research strength, some environments cannot be simulated by manpower, especially the environment they are currently in, which cannot be formed on the earth at all.

So, such an opportunity is very rare.

Just like the International Space Station in the past, many scientific research institutes want to cram their own projects into it. Wang Lei also had the same experience, after confirming him as the person in charge of the scientific research of this Hope space trip, the heads of the various research groups to which Shen Bing belonged came to the door, anyway, as long as it was an incurable topic, all of them were stuffed into his hands.

This also makes Wang Lei's gang have not been idle since the Hope took off.

Wang Lei kept wandering between the various project teams, giving them guidance from time to time.

Of course, while instructing, all kinds of data will also converge into his mind.

With his brain, which has taken the Spirit Trick Pill, these data are not only unforgettable, but also can be analyzed and summarized in real time, and he can grasp the research direction of each scientific research group, so that these scientific researchers can avoid many detours.

On the other side, Chen Bing was also busy.

He was engrossed in staring at the screen in front of him.

On that screen, there were strange scenes that were similar to what the other crew members saw through the portholes.

At this time, the speed of the spacecraft had been reduced to the extreme, and it was almost maintaining a speed of several hundred kilometers per hour.

A hatch slowly opened, and a small fighter plane flew out in an instant.

The small fighter was improved on the basis of the original A2 fighter, which not only has extremely fast flight speed, but also has strong attack capabilities.

This stronger is not a joke, nor is it compared with those so-called advanced fighters on the earth, but its target is a high-power weapon similar to the ion cannon.

It is the latest achievement of the military project team, and the person in charge of the project team gave it a relatively loud name: Eagle Falcon.

Now Chen Bing sent these two falcons, not to fight, but to explore the situation of Jupiter and explore the way for Hope.

The falcon was extremely fast, and it disappeared from view in an instant.

Well, there's not much of a view here.

Hydrogen and helium, which are completely invisible, act as a barrier to view on Jupiter.

This is normal, because the low temperature and high pressure here make the gas extremely dense, and if you go deeper, you may encounter liquid hydrogen.

Not only that, but the powerful magnetosphere, turbulence, and storms make the surrounding environment strange, and you want to see further? That's all.

Chen Bing could only keep in touch with the falcon through the communication system between the spacecraft and the falcon.

This kind of contact is just the eagle falcon sending back the picture and some data, and at the same time Chen Bing gives some instructions.

The control of the falcon itself is not done by people, it is a drone with an intelligent module installed, this level of automation is indeed not a difficult thing for Phantom Fairy Technology.

"Warning! The intensity of the magnetic storm continues to increase, and the communication interference is serious!"

"Return!" Chen Bing immediately ordered, he didn't want anything unexpected.

Anyway, the falcon had already probed a thousand kilometers forward, enough for the Hope to move some distance forward.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, the screen instantly froze.

"Warning! Passage is interrupted! Eagle Falcon 1 is lost, Eagle Falcon 2 is lost! Automatic reconnection to the middle ......"

"Connection failed ......"

Retry ......

"Connection failed!"

Chen Bing's face was a little unpleasant, and the two falcons were missing, which was not good news.

Although the falcon is extremely fast, although the falcon has a lot of combat effectiveness, it cannot deny the fact that its flight positioning is based on the hope. Without the Hope as a navigational beacon, the falcon would be blind.

"Captain, what now?" asked Chen Bing's assistant Ke Yu.

Chen Bing said: "Wait where you are! The falcon has an artificial intelligence system, it can remember the route it has flown and hope that it can fly back along the route it used to take." ”

In fact, when Chen Bing said this, he was not very sure.

He was very clear about the situation outside, the complex and changeable airflow conditions, there was no possibility of being recognized by memory, and the strong magnetic storm, although it could not destroy the falcon's flight direction recognition device, but it was inevitable to bring errors.

Even a slight error, thousands of kilometers, can make the Falcon and the Hope miss.

......

Above the silent moon, several lone charged particle cannons stand in the wilderness, and the black ground provides a good protective color for them.

In the direction where the muzzles of the charged particle cannons were facing, the light curtain that was originally as calm as water suddenly rippled, as if it had been thrown into a small pebble lake.

Then, the ripples grew bigger and bigger, and it seemed that no longer small pebbles were thrown into it, but large stones.

The light curtain seemed to be gradually expanding with the surging waves, and in a few minutes, the light curtain had increased tenfold, and the diameter even exceeded 100 meters.

At this moment, the center of the light curtain suddenly darkened.

It's not that the light curtain is gone, it's that something black is coming out of it.

The part that emerges is conical in shape, with a small tip and a larger and larger part at the back.

Slowly, its small half of its body struggled out of the light curtain, and its shape was no different from that of the alien warship that had visited Earth before.

Almost at the same moment, a light condensed on the top of one of the charged particle cannons below, and without any visual impact, the charged particle cannon's attack was complete.

The only thing that has changed is that there is a large hole with a diameter of three meters in the bow of the alien battleship that has just emerged.