Chapter 9: The Assassin in the Shadows (No. 9) 2
Although Feng Fengxiang was surprised when he heard it, he didn't have time to care about these things now, first explained to Hua Lao, and then called Ye Kexin to ask her to deal with it, and then continued to discuss with Lu Er about the deployment of the test warship. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
What is on the ground is please put it aside for the time being, there will be a headache for Ye Kexin, and the big event that is happening now is in space. However, it can also be seen from this that the Admiralty is now working hard for mankind, while the human beings on the earth are blaming the Admiralty for the loss of the Admiralty, and now most of the Admiralty Security Council branches around the world have been attacked by demonstrators, some are fortunately just throwing stones and bricks, and some even throw military tear gas at the Security Council headquarters building, and Ye Kexin notified all the Security Council branches as soon as he was ordered by Feng Fengxiang to prohibit firing back. Even if there is a tranquilizer bomb, at most you can only use the lifting titanium alloy battle plate to defend the headquarters building, after all, it is not easy to build a building, and there will always be people sad to be killed like this.
"This is the 'Flat Top', which has entered the predetermined position, the faster-than-light engine is warming up, and it is expected that the wormhole tunnel construction will be carried out in five minutes." The "Flat Top" with a faster-than-light engine installed is a destroyer, which entered service on December 24, 2013, and is currently serving as the lead ship of the destroyer squad in the Fifth Fleet of the "Praetorian Guard" fleet, but because of the recent job transfer, the ship was temporarily shelved, which also gave the Institute an excellent experimental platform, so Director Nikolai had to send nearly a hundred emails to Ruhr, borrowing this ship from Ruhr for experiments. I really couldn't stand Director Nikolai's 10,000-word application every letter, so he lent this brand-new battleship that had just been in service for eight months to Director Nikolai, but then Ruhl also said righteously, this ship must go and how to come back, after hearing this sentence, Nikolai also swore that General Ruhr would be reassured, and then he made drastic changes to the ship, and finally became what it is now, although the appearance looks no different from ordinary destroyers, However, the internal structure and equipment have been refurbished, and even the dark gray exterior armor has been completely painted, making it look like new from a distance. Originally, Ruhl was dissatisfied with Director Nikolai's untrustworthy behavior, but now it seems that he will buy a cart of brain platinum for others when he returns.
"Steady, Captain, keep your current position still, we have enough time, and I'll let the other ships keep you safe until you're ready." Ruhl looked at the picture on the screen, he did not connect to the camera inside the battleship, but showed the picture on the screen as the picture taken by the high-definition camera on the outside of the battleship, a gray battleship was moored in the starry sky in the distance, there was not a trace of movement, but some white "albatrosses" were constantly coming and exiting from an inconspicuous entrance, transporting motorized infantry outward, the wounded motorized infantry was evacuated first, followed by the uninjured motorized infantry, and then the motorized infantry that had been killed. According to the statistics of the cowboy after the war, of the 510 motorized infantry who landed, 58 were killed and 96 were wounded, of which 19 were seriously wounded, and the rest were all lightly wounded. The mission was described by Cowboy at the end of the report as "a skirmish in which the mobile force suffered casualties second only to the Battle of Mars."
It is also true that in the previous Mars defense war, 534 paratroopers were placed on the entire surface of Mars, and the casualty rate of them exceeded 30 percent, while the 500 space combat troops launched this time had 30.2 percent casualties, and the casualty rate was already very high.
It is estimated that it is a big expense.
But now I didn't go back to think about trivial matters such as funeral expenses, now everyone's eyes in the fleet are focused on the earth's 400 kilometers orbit, the "Flat Top" destroyer This is the unknown model of the Pilgrim battleship confrontation, both sides are accumulating energy, but the Pilgrim warship has lost control, as long as the energy is accumulated, it will crash on the ground, and the "Flat Top" is to use the faster-than-light engine to erase the Pilgrim battleship from this universe before it crashes to the ground.
After the "Flat Top" arrived at the predetermined position, there were only ten minutes left before the movement time predicted by the Cowboy, but before reaching the position, the faster-than-light engine carried on the "Flat Top" destroyer had already begun to warm up, and when the bow was aimed at the Pilgrim warship, it had already completed the warm-up of 25 percent, and the remaining 75 percent only needed five minutes to warm up, which was completely in time to produce a wormhole tunnel in theory and practice, but the Cowboy was not a god, and the movement time he predicted was not 100% accurate. It's possible that the ship will move in the next second, or maybe the ship is not going to move and will automatically exclude after the energy is overloaded, these are all indefinite things, no one can predict what will happen next, not even the next second.
"By the way, do you know where the scooped water goes?" Lu Er stared at the screen and said, at this time, there were only two people left in the conference room, Lu Er and Feng Fengxiang, who could know who he was saying this time after thinking about it, but Lu Er's sudden words made Feng Fengxiang blindfold all of a sudden, and his brain did not turn this corner, and he couldn't help but put on a questioning look.
"What do you say? What water? Feng Fengxiang walked to Luer's side, first looked at Luer's serious face, and then looked at the place where Luer's eyes were focused, the screen was already a quiet starry sky and a quiet pilgrim battleship, not to mention water, because there was no air, and there was not even a trace of sound coming out of the stereo.
"I mean the metaphor of Ye Kexin's little girl." Ruer didn't dare to turn his head flatteringly, looked at Feng Fengxiang who was full of doubts on the side, shook his head slightly, and sighed at the same time, "When people are old, their memory is not good." ”
"You're talking about faster-than-light engines." Feng Fengxiang suddenly had an epiphany as if he had been enlightened, and at the same time turned around and patted his forehead, and said with a self-deprecating smile, "That's right, my memory is not very good." ”
"The report from the study doesn't say where the disappeared matter went." Ruhr speaks of a three-dimensional image screen that gently pushes forward, and the screen flutters in the air, and finally sticks to the glass window that acts as a giant screen, making the sound of paper being placed on the table, "clicking".
"I don't know much about this, and the little girl didn't explain it to me specifically, but she seems to have mentioned the annihilation phenomenon caused by the collision of positive and negative particles, will those substances also disappear?" Feng Fengxiang pinched his chin and thought about it.
"It shouldn't be possible." Ruhl shook his head with a serious expression, "If it is a particle-level matter that collides positively and negatively, annihilation will occur, but what if a planet happens to be on this pathway?" It will disappear too, so how did this 'if' planet disappear? ”
"I don't know, but from what you say, it seems that this technology will have a big impact on the universe." Feng Fengxiang nodded, "It seems that I want to give a little advice to the research institute after this is over, this technology is no problem as a weapon, but if it is used as an interstellar travel tool, it is not recommended." ”
"We'll talk about that later." Luer raised his hand and motioned for Feng Fengxiang to come to his side, but he had already turned around to face the aluminum and steel explosion-proof door Feng Fengxiang naturally didn't see Luer's action, seeing that Feng Fengxiang didn't move for a long time, Luer couldn't help but turn around in confusion, looking at Feng Fengxiang, who was leisurely thinking about these things, his head kept shaking slightly, and the doubts on his face turned into helplessness.
"Hey, I'll call you, can you concentrate when you're fighting." As he spoke, Luer patted Feng Fengxiang on the shoulder, which startled Feng Fengxiang.
"Ah, it scared the hell out of me." Feng Fengxiang trembled, and then with a frightened expression on his face, he slowly turned around, and his right hand kept patting his chest.
"The faster-than-light engine is ready, and you're here to witness the historic scene." Ruhl shook his head helplessly, then turned to look at the image displayed on the glass window.
"San Diego, this is the 'Flat Top', the faster-than-light engine is ready, and the wormhole tunnel is ready to be constructed." The voice of the captain of the destroyer "Pingding" came from the stereo, and it was not difficult to hear the excitement that was concealed by this forced calm voice, after all, this was the first time for human beings, and every first time was very excited, but don't be confused, this "first time" is not the "first time" of the other.
"Faster-than-light engine countdown five seconds, start, four, three, ready, start." Not all the time will appear as an accident, Ruhl looked at the screen is a static picture, deep voice, trying to suppress the excitement in his heart, otherwise this excitement is revealed, he will be one of the people who have witnessed a new leap in history, once the faster-than-light engine is successfully tested, it means that human beings have the ability to leave the gravitational pull of the sun, which means that human beings no longer have to be confined to the solar system, as the emperor of the earth, human beings also have the ambition to conquer the galaxy.
"The tachyon engine has been activated." The mechanical synthesis of the female voice sounded in the bridge of the "flat-top" destroyer, the entire destroyer began to shake slightly, the faster-than-light engine located in the stern of the battleship has been warmed up, as the captain clicked the start switch, the core heat has exceeded 1400 degrees Celsius The "Deck" device will send a steady stream of pure energy outward After a series of undisclosed technical processing, I don't know if it is a chemical reaction or a physical phenomenon, anyway, it is ten seconds after the faster-than-light engine starts, A circular unidentified object with a continuous glow of purple lightning appeared a hundred meters directly in front of the "Flat Top", and the black unknown object continued to expand until the "Flat Top" could pass through, and the black circular unidentified object with a diameter of nearly 100 meters was constructed five seconds after the speed of light engine was started.
"The contours of the wormhole have been constructed, and the data values are in perfect agreement with the calculations given by the research, sir." The adjutant looked at the data displayed on the organic superconducting glass in front of him, and reported with some excitement, "Sir, we succeeded. ”
"Don't take it lightly." The more this happens, the more excited the captains in the fleet become, because there is a rumor in the fleet that says, "The closer you get to success, the more defeat is coming you, and the only way to succeed is to be cautious." ”
"In preparation for the second stage of the faster-than-light transition, the wormhole tunnel begins to be constructed, and the target point is selected and set as an empty space between Pluto and Neptune to clear that there is no object on the wormhole tunnel path except for the mission target and thirteen asteroids." The adjutant pulled a three-dimensional screen in front of him, looked at the values on it, and backed up the recorded values, which were precious experimental data, and then sent to the research institute for disconnection and preservation.
"The second stage, the start of operation." The captain commanded to the lieutenant.
"Preparing, preparing." The adjutant raised his head and looked at the prototype wormhole outside the floor-to-ceiling observation window, "Start building." ”
The lieutenant clicked the start button that floated in the air.
The black wormhole prototype shook suddenly, and streams of black smoke were shaken out from the edge, but then, the entire wormhole prototype began to mutate, and the "Derker" device increased the kinetic rate of energy output, and at the same time activated new kinetic energy to shape the wormhole tunnel that was about to be completed, and the "-∞" displayed by the original thickness data value is now rising rapidly at a speed that is difficult to capture with the naked eye, and in just ten seconds, this data has become "Fault". The word was originally translated as "error, creating a fault", and here it is quoted by the Bermuda Institute as "a fault caused by the difference in internal and external lengths and cannot be measured", but when the ship was released from docks 5-12 of the "St. Thomas" shipyard, Director Nikolai himself explained that once the word "Fault" appeared, it meant that the wormhole tunnel had been constructed and could be used for faster-than-light jumps.
"The faster-than-light engine is started, here is the destroyer 'Flat Top', the radar has failed, 'San Diego', I can't detect the presence of the target battleship." The captain said as he stood in front of the captain's seat.
"The target is gone, but the area will be explored later, and the faster-than-light engine can now be turned off." Ruhl breathed a sigh of relief, a great success, an absolute success, not only the new interstellar travel device was successfully tested, but also the Pilgrim warship that invaded over the earth was also killed, killing two birds with one stone. But now doesn't seem to be the time to be happy, and the black line shown on the high-frequency radar still hasn't disappeared, that is, an absolute vacuum, and even radar waves can't detect what's going on inside.
"What's the situation, why didn't the faster-than-light engine be turned off?" Ruhl shouted at the screen.
"'San Diego,' there's a little bit of a situation here, the faster-than-light engine won't turn off." The voice of the captain of the "Flattop" came from the stereo, and although it sounded flat, Ruhl knew that the captain must not be calm now.
"What do you need to do, isn't it mentioned in the instructions given by the institute?" Ruhl gave some hints tentatively.
"There are hints for that." The captain sat on the captain's seat, looking at the three-dimensional projection screen in front of him, and the full English made the captain frown, "It is said that once the wormhole tunnel cannot be closed, it is necessary to let the battleship pass through the wormhole tunnel, the quality of the battleship will make the wormhole tunnel structurally deteriorate, when the battleship comes out of the wormhole endpoint, the wormhole tunnel will automatically collapse, and the cosmic matter that was previously deducted will be filled by the surrounding space." ”
"You mean that as long as you enter the wormhole space and then come out from the other side, this absolute vacuum area will disappear?" Ruhl thought for a moment, and summed it up in succinct language.
"That's true, sir." The captain nodded as he looked at the manual.
"Then don't delay any longer, enter the wormhole tunnel immediately, and I will inform the 'Stalingrad' fleet to send warships to meet it." Ruhl nodded, then turned his right hand to his side, and shook down hard, a blank three-dimensional image screen, and then entered the text content of the transfer application to it, which was roughly "Because of some minor accidents in the experiment, a destroyer named 'Flat Top' will appear in the middle of Pluto's defensive orbit and Neptune's defensive orbit, and I hope that the 'Stalingrad' fleet can split a destroyer team to respond." If Ye Zifeng had been on duty in the orbital space station in the past, he might have muttered something like "What's the small problem, it's some" while eating an apple, and then arranged for the nearest destroyer team to pick it up. However, it is not Ye Zifeng who is on duty now, the deputy commander of the fleet is sitting in the second-level command center of the "Stalingrad" super aircraft carrier, with his feet on the console, drinking instant coffee, while looking at the news displayed on the translucent screen of the organic superconducting glass of the tablet, the sudden transfer request made him jump, and the coffee in the cup almost spilled, but after seeing the sender of the request, he still did not hesitate to accept the request. After that, a miniature maneuver of the fleet began directly on the screen in front of him, and in less than five seconds, a squad of destroyers patrolling the orbit began to turn and move towards the target point mentioned in the receipt, and a minute earlier, the "Pingding" had already entered the wormhole tunnel.
The scene in front of him made all the crew members who passed through the portholes on the bridge and even on the "flat top" stunned for a while, their eyes were round, their lips were slightly separated, and they stared at the scenery outside the window with an expression of disbelief.
"Quick, record, take pictures!" The captain came back to his senses first, immediately bounced up from the captain's seat, quickly pulled to the floor-to-ceiling observation window, spread his arms, zoomed in on the scene in the observation window, and then clicked on the three-dimensional control panel that appeared next to him to take pictures of the scenery included in the floor-to-ceiling observation window.
(To be continued)