Chapter Ninety-Seven: Leaving the Ground
Now the speed of the Voyager's advance has reached a point where ordinary people are completely unable to react, although it only took Zhou Xin less than a second from discovering the mountain in front of the Voyager to reacting and should dodge, but in such a short period of time, the distance between the spaceship and the mountain peak has quickly narrowed from being able to see it just now to almost close in front of his eyes. To add insult to injury, most of the probes outside the spacecraft had been severely damaged due to the previous Norsanite attack, which greatly affected the detection range of the Atlas and Voyager mainframes, and the two of them also did not detect the mountain that suddenly appeared in front of them earlier.
"Get out of the way." The moment Zhou Xin reacted, these three words popped out of his mouth without thinking.
"It's too late." Before Zhou Xin's words fell, Atlas replied in a desperate tone. The moment she spotted the peak, she immediately gave the order to turn. However, although the order came into effect in time, it was completely too late for the Voyager to turn in such a short period of time. Then, as soon as the little girl's words fell, the spaceship did not even change its direction a little, and the huge Voyager crashed straight into the mountain in front of it at an unprecedented speed under the action of inertia.
At the moment when the spacecraft collided with the mountain peak, Zhou Xin and the others only had time to hear a loud noise, and then they felt that their bodies were flying forward uncontrollably. But fortunately, because of the violent bump before, everyone had fixed their bodies to their seats, so they didn't really fly out, but were tied to their seats by seat belts. At the same time, with such a large force, the length of the seat belt is stretched to the limit. In addition, while feeling the huge impact, Zhou Xin and the others also felt that they were being lifted up quickly like an elevator.
Turning our attention to the exterior of the Voyager, perhaps due to the relatively solid rock in the area, the impact did not cause much damage to the mountain itself, but rather a large groove-like depression similar to the shape of the mountain appeared in the front belly of the ship due to the violent impact. As the Voyager moved forward, the depression spread towards the tail of the ship at the same speed.
But even if such serious damage was caused, Zhou Xin and they should be happy. Because if the mountain peak that was hit had been more steep, at the kind of flight speed just now, there was a good chance that even the sturdy Voyager would have been completely destroyed in the impact just now. Today's spacecraft has not only been relatively intact, but has not even lost much of its forward speed.
After the initial impact had passed, the Voyager was forced to change direction of flight and "glide" along the mountain to the summit of the mountain. In this regard, Zhou Xin, who had just experienced a similar situation not long ago, did not feel uncomfortable. At extremely high speeds, it took only a few seconds for the spacecraft to "ascend" to the top of the mountain from the initial impact point. When the first half of the Voyager rushed past the top of the mountain, Zhou Xin and the others felt that their bodies were light, so they were ready to feel the fall and weightlessness in the future.
However, to their surprise, the weightlessness experienced this time was significantly shorter than the first time. It only took half a second for the feeling of falling that Zhou Xin felt disappeared. Before he even had time to wonder, he felt the Voyager return to the climb it had been half a second ago.
"Brother Captain, the ship has left the ground." At the moment when Zhou Xinzhong's doubts just appeared, Atlas's happy voice sounded in his ears.
"Did you finally take off?" Hearing the little girl's report, Zhou Xin was slightly stunned, and then he saw the shot of the Voyager on the screen raising its head and leaving the ground, so he subconsciously breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Uh-huh." Atlas thought Zhou Xin hadn't heard clearly, and she repeated, "We've indeed left the ground. At this time, she had already analyzed how the Voyager took off, "In fact, our speed was already enough, but because of horizontal flight, we didn't get enough lift." After hitting a mountain peak and changing the direction of flight, part of the engine thrust is converted into the ship's lift, which pushes the ship off the ground. Then she added with some regret, "Why didn't people see such a simple principle?" If people had seen it sooner, we would have been able to take off. ”
However, not many people were listening to Atlas's explanation at this time, and most of the people in the command module were now immersed in the joy of leaving the ground, and many people even began to cheer loudly. But Spred heard the little girl's words, and he said, "Even if you know it earlier, it's useless, do you have a way to replicate the way you just took off?" Not to mention whether you can find an object that is enough to change the direction of the Voyager's flight, and even if you do, do you dare to control the spacecraft and crash directly into it like you did just now? If it is not well controlled, it is impossible to say whether the Voyager will be able to leave the ground or be directly destroyed, so it is just a fluke that it was able to fly just now. ”
Zhou Xin also nodded and said, "Anyway, I don't want to experience a similar take-off method again." ”
"Me too." Dart chimed in.
After a brief discussion about the take-off just now, Zhou Xin and the others returned to focusing on the Voyager. After the intensive bombardment of the Norzans and the forced take-off from the ground, the Voyager can now be said to be badly damaged. At least from the outside, it doesn't look like a spaceship capable of navigating space, but more like a pile of space junk. The original streamlined hull has long since turned into an indescribable strange shape, and the surface is also covered with large and small holes, through some large holes, you can even see the internal structure of the ship, and the original one or two intact decks that can be seen occasionally have disappeared without a trace. Among them, the most obvious is the huge V-shaped depression at the head of the spacecraft, which was formed by the violent collision between the spacecraft and the mountain peak before takeoff.
Although due to the loss of a large number of external probes, Zhou Xin did not know the specific damage to the exterior of the Voyager. But judging from the entire take-off process, he can also determine that the damage to the spacecraft is not light. Thinking of this, he hesitated for a moment, and then asked with a solemn expression, "How damaged is the Voyager ......?" ”