Chapter 34: Rockets

The dozens of egg-shaped projectiles that slid out of the spacecraft did not just fall into no-man's depth, but were caught between two metal clubs about 30 meters long.

The chopstick-like metal stick is a photon torpedo launch aid, which is wound with a magnetic field sensing coil and a fire aid gas device to stabilize the projectile, adjust the trajectory, and provide the initial launch power.

As the mothership's reactor slowly operated, the majestic energy poured into the launch aid, without any sound and light effect, and the oval projectile suddenly flew into deep space.

With each projectile fired, the sterilizer on the launch aid will perform a rapid sterilization and reload the ammunition - from a distance, the tower-shaped mothership of the Zetarians looks like an old hen, laying eggs.

Once the oval body is 200 meters away from the launcher, its automatic control program takes over the flight lock control system, and after a "bang", the oval shell is ejected, revealing a central photon torpedo that resembles a flat space shuttle.

True, the photon torpedo is not a torpedo in the narrow sense of the word, not a slender and narrow cylindrical shape as usual, but in the shape of a space shuttle - without auxiliary wings, but with five jet tubes in the tail section.

After the shell is ejected, dark blue particles are ejected from the end of the jet tube, and the energy battery inside the torpedo supports the coil on the outside of the torpedo, forming a miniature force field that allows the torpedo to accelerate rapidly, even at a sub-light speed of 3/4 of the speed of light.

Dozens of torpedoes are moving fast at 3/4 of the speed of light.

With such a high marching speed, they naturally did not allow them to make any glamorous tactical moves, and they could only disperse as much as possible at the beginning of the acceleration, so that the opponent could not intercept all the torpedoes at once.

At this moment, the distance between Leon and the Zitari mothership was 2 light seconds, and he stood in space as if he were completely absorbed in his own fate, maintaining the flatness of ignorance.

On the bridge of the mothership command, the Zetari soldiers held their breath and looked nervously and expectantly at the big screen.

They must succeed! Those who resist must die!

At the prays of the Zetari soldiers, the automatic flight lock control program of the photon torpedo dragged these terrible weapons capable of destroying the surface of the planet, and kept closing the distance between him and Leon.

The killing radius of three photon torpedoes is enough to cover an entire continental plate of the earth, and even if there is no air in space to amplify the shock wave, the photon torpedo can use pure destructive energy to collapse and crack everything within thousands of kilometers or tens of thousands of kilometers.

And now, the Zetarians shot fifty-nine.

Such a high price, even General Zetari's heart was shocked, the Zetari themselves did not have the ability to produce photon torpedoes, whether it was a sub-light engine or other supporting equipment, it all came from that great being.

The photon torpedoes obtained by the Zetari army are also limited, with one less than one.

In most cases, Photon torpedoes are used on vast interstellar battlefields within 10 lights, in "Kiss" level battles within 3 lights, and occasionally for "extinction orders" against an entire planet.

"So many photon torpedoes, all of them are used on individual life on a planet that has not yet left the star system..."

A junior officer on the bridge muttered to himself, "What a pity..."

No one responded, and a terrible silence remained throughout the bridge.

Under the action of the sub-light engine, the entire 59 torpedoes did not drag out 59 tail flames, only the star light in the extreme distance was pulled and twisted into mottled light points when passing around the torpedo, as if shining on the glass crystals.

However, in the face of this weapon that was enough to carry out a large-scale cleansing of the planet's surface, Leon simply opened his eyes.

The phantom of the god of the candle dragon appeared behind him, and Leon, who had temporarily borrowed the visual power of the Time Gem, succeeded in seeing the essence of some things that only four-dimensional creatures could see.

The lethal component of the photon torpedo is located in the warhead, and its lethality principle is still a huge torrent of energy generated when it touches antimatter with the help of matter.

However, the advantage of the Photon Torpedo is that it can sail at 3/4 of the sub-light speed, even in the turbulent and ever-changing interstellar ship battlefield, it is also a super speed - it is impossible for large ships to make tactical evasion actions at the speed of light, and can only use shields to resist damage, or find a way to intercept with the same sub-light speed weapons, and the difficulty of the latter is comparable to ascending to the sky.

Only precision-guided weapons that can enter sub-light orbits are worthy of being strategic-level weapons.

Leon, who temporarily has the sight of a four-dimensional creature, uses a mysterious state of divine clarity to remotely flip through the photon torpedoes that have not yet rushed in front of him.

Dialysis of its design principle, killing methods, missile design structure, and a series of data information.

"I see,"

Li Ang muttered to himself and said with a smile: "At the top of the warhead, there are six frozen heavy hydrogen structural support plates, and there is an antimatter reservoir suspended in the center of the heavy hydrogen structural support plate.

The micro-fusion starter on the outside of the missile body generates six completely equal magnetic holes under the energy supply of the missile engine, and the anti-heavy hydrogen suspension body protects the antimatter reservoir.

Once the warhead receives the command, the anti-gravity hydrogen suspension slides into the empty slot, rupturing the antimatter reservoir.

The energy in contact with the antimatter will initially be confined to the center of the projectile by a strong magnetic field, and then suddenly released, producing extremely terrifying lethality. ”

He looked at a photon torpedo approaching at sub-light speeds as if he were looking at a pebble from the beach.

"These Zetarians are using the wrong way...."

Leon shook his head and sighed: "The real value of the photon torpedo is not in the antimatter explosive device at its warhead site, but in its propulsion engine.

A sub-light engine capable of moving at 3/4 of the speed of light, this is where the torpedo itself is most valuable. ”

His sighs dissipated in the silence of the vacuum, like a clear spring melted into the deep night.

The real world does not depend on human will, in the expectant eyes of the Zetari soldiers, in the bewildered gaze of the inhabitants of the earth (they don't even know what is happening in space, only a few organizations such as S.H.I.E.L.D. can directly observe the scene on the back of Schwarzschild's throat), and in the light gaze of Leon, the photon torpedo rushed a hundred kilometers in front of him.

In the next second, the automatic control system of the photon torpedo will eject the anti-heavy hydrogen suspension into the empty groove, directing the majestic energy to shred everything in front of it.

In the midst of all the attention, Li Ang smiled slightly and disappeared.

More precisely, he appeared in front of a certain photon torpedo, reaching out and gently caressing the strategic weapon.

"Knock, knock, knock."

He tapped the torpedo's exterior armor like a crab, quickly disassembling the torpedo's sturdy metal carapace, revealing the intricate instrumentation inside.

"The vacuum zero-point absorption device, and the sub-light curvature engine, is a great gift."

Leon raised his head, smiled at the Zetari mothership in the distance, and muttered to himself, "Thank you for the super rocket sent by the alien Lao Tie." ”