Chapter 214: The Dust Belt
The five-second range, at today's speed, is about 400,000 kilometers. On the holographic display screen of the Yellow Sea, Lin Feng could already see that 400,000 kilometers in front of the route, there was a belt of interstellar dust that stretched hundreds of millions of kilometers and was 50 million kilometers thick.
How this belt of interstellar dust came into being is unknown. Perhaps it existed at the moment of the Big Bang, or it was formed by the violent collision between unknown celestial bodies in the 30 billion years of cosmic evolutionary history, or in its core area, there is an ultra-high-density celestial body that constantly absorbs the interstellar dust material in the surrounding airspace.
Of course, Lin Feng led the Adam team here not to study its cause, which is the research topic of future astrophysicists. This dust belt was the preset position that Lin Feng had chosen.
Ever since he came into contact with the battle fortress of the alien creatures, Lin Feng had been thinking about how to crack the other party's stealth technology. But when he consulted with Xiao Jin, he was told that the stealth technology of this creature uses a principle that humans cannot understand at all, and if they do not actively detect it, there is no loophole at all. Even the technologically advanced Atlanteans were at a loss for what to do, and could only resort to the most stupid method - wolf pack tactics to deal with it. This has also led them to suffer many losses that they should not have suffered.
Lin Feng, who returned disappointed from Xiao Jin, thought about it for two days and two nights before he thought of a solution that was not a solution. He noticed that each time it made contact, the other party was at a certain altitude, which was already beyond the atmosphere of Aden, that is, even if it traveled at the fastest speed, it would not cause disturbance in the atmosphere, so as to avoid the abnormal fluctuations of the air flow to detect its existence. And how does it manage to be completely invisible? Lin Feng made a bold guess. Perhaps, the stealth of the other party is only a pulse detection method for humans, in the form of absorbing and detecting pulse waves without dead ends. But if it's in the atmosphere, it's still going to be completely exposed because it can't completely solve the airflow problem. There is no atmosphere in space, but there are a lot of dust belts! Luring a battle fortress into the dust belt will inevitably cause small changes within the dust belt, and we only need to monitor the changes in the dust belt to be able to detect its traces. Only when it is discovered can the fleet's mass killer be able to play its due role.
So, that four-day space voyage that Atlantis underway. Its purpose is to find such a dust zone in the Proxima Centauri field or its surrounding airspace, which is most conducive to human warships.
For this preset position, its requirements are also very demanding. First of all, it had to be vast enough to allow the fleet plenty of room to maneuver, because the Annihilation Cannon was so powerful that if the two sides were too close together, it would probably destroy itself as well as the enemy; Secondly, it must have a suitable distance from Aden, too close will affect the stability of the Aden space. It can even lead to catastrophic consequences, and if it is too far, the battleship team responsible for luring the enemy will pay too much price, and may not be able to stick to the destination at all; There is another factor that is minor but cannot be ignored. That is the material density of the dust belt, and too dense the dust belt will inevitably cause damage to the battleship, and will scatter a large number of detection pulse waves, so that there is no guarantee of the detection effect. On the other hand, if it is too thin, it will not be able to effectively conceal the ambush battleship.
With such a demanding requirement, Lin Feng himself felt that there was little hope of successfully finding it. But he didn't want to sit still. And that's the only solution that can be thought of at the moment. So after some planning, Atlantus embarked on a short four-day space voyage. On this voyage, the Atlantis carried the most advanced high-power long-range detectors of the entire fleet, as well as up to a hundred medium-sized combat ships, so that the ambush circle could be arranged immediately after such a dust belt was found.
For four days, the Atlantis has been sailing around the outer reaches of the Proxima Centauri system at top speed, and the high-power long-range detector has been continuously scanning the hundreds of millions of kilometers of airspace around the starship, while the starship's central computer is running at full speed to process the massive data obtained from the scanning.
After three days and nights of sleepless work, Atlantis finally lived up to expectations and discovered such a belt of interstellar dust in the airspace more than a billion kilometers away from Aden. After more than an hour of measurement, all the data of this dust belt met Lin Feng's minimum requirements, which can be regarded as an ideal ambush position. It must be said that the luck of the fleet is so good that people have to admire.
The rest is simple. The Atlantis arranged the 100 combat ships it carried to various positions in this dust belt according to the careful calculation in advance, forming a three-dimensional ambush position with a radius of one million kilometers, and the center of this position is the A coordinate point that Lin Feng said!
And now, the Yellow Sea, where Lin Feng is located, can be said to be close to that dust belt. In the blink of an eye, it can burrow into the thick dust belt and thus get cover from the dust belt.
Lin Feng held his breath, looked nervous, and looked at the holographic display intently. Although he couldn't see each other's appearances from above, he could feel that these alien creatures were preparing for the final blow, and he could even imagine their hideous appearance, even though he had never met each other.
"Quick, three seconds to go! Two seconds! One second! Lin Feng's count was not over yet, the hull of the ship shook violently again, and a series of explosions came from the hull, shaking people's hearts and making their heads dizzy!
"Check for engine damage!" Without bothering to check whether he was injured, Lin Feng turned around and yelled at a staff officer, but before he finished speaking, he was stunned to find that this staff officer's cheeks were full of blood, and he looked at him blankly, his eardrums had been completely shattered!
"Is there anything alive? Is there anyone else who can hear voices? Lin Feng shouted again.
"Yes!" Far away, Chen Jianbin responded loudly.
"Check the damage to the battleship!" Lin Feng didn't look back, staring at the display screen while ordering.
"According to the statistics of the automatic control system, most of the hull of the ship is seriously damaged! 80% of the cabins were forced to close! The loss of personnel is nearly seventy percent! ”
"Is there any damage to the engine?" Lin Feng didn't care about these now, in the next battle, no, maybe it should be called an escape, the engine was the most critical.
"The bow main engine and the stern buffer engine are basically undamaged because they are made of pure YA metal! But all the auxiliary engines have been completely destroyed! ”
"If only the main engine wasn't damaged! Next, it's up to them. How long have we been in the dust belt now? ”
"Eight seconds!"
"Good! Keep your current speed and keep sailing towards this goal. Whatever happens along the way, leave it alone! ”
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And somewhere in this dust belt, a combat ship of the same type as the Yellow Sea is quietly levitating. Hidden in the darkness and dust, the steel beast is like a huge meteorite, without a trace of life. This combat ship, like the other ships involved in the ambush, has reduced the power of the various systems in the ship to a minimum, and even charged the annihilation cannon at the lowest speed, in order to prevent the hull from radiating energy fluctuations to the outside that are higher than the dust environment.
These hundred warships have been here for almost two days. During these two days, all people stopped any unnecessary activities to minimize oxygen consumption. The officers and men were wrapped in thick clothing to withstand the low temperatures close to freezing.
They endured it in silence, knowing that they were much happier than Adam's team, who was in charge of luring the enemy. Now it is also not known how much the squad has suffered, whether the commander and brothers are still alive.
In the main control room of this battleship, all the lighting equipment has been completely turned off, and only the self-luminous material of the bulkhead emits a faint blue light. With the help of this faint light, we can see that an officer in the uniform of a general is crouched on a cold metal seat, and from her graceful figure, we can tell that it is a woman. Her delicate countenance was now full of anxiety. "Fengzi, you must not have anything to do?" She muttered to herself, her voice low and inaudible.
She was Helen, the chief of staff of the fleet. (To be continued......)
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