Chapter 35: The Real ......
As Yao Yuan drove the True Red Lightning away from the Hope again, after a few minutes, he caught up with the large force of space fighters, and at this moment, the brood had already set off from the centrifugal force acceleration orbit and was flying towards the star.
After an hour of singing interference, at this moment, the plant cells still occupy about one-third of the size of the mother nest...... Yes, even with the interference of the singing of the sunset sky, the cells in the mother nest are still slowly evolving and changing, and even begin to attack the plant cells, so far, the plant cells have fallen from about half of the size of the mother nest to about one-third of the volume again.
And as the song disappeared, the brood cells seemed to suddenly come to life, and its boiling speed and evolution speed intensified even more wildly, and on the electromagnetic scanner of Hope, the area where the plant cells were located was gradually eroded at a speed that was almost visible to the naked eye.
However, at the same time, a large number of necrotic cells were expelled from the brood, including a large number of metal and alloy blocks produced by the engulfment of plant cells, as well as a large amount of water and gas, etc., and the volume and mass of the entire brood were reduced by about seven-tenths, and this shrinkage and shrinkage continued.
In this way, in the anxious waiting of everyone, the time finally crossed the two-hour mark, and the speed of the brood was already very fast, through the continuous acceleration of the particle propulsion device, the speed of the brood had increased to 290 kilometers per second, and this speed was still improving, of course, the increase was not as huge as when the centrifugal force was used to accelerate before.
So far, the brood has flown nearly two million kilometers to the star, of course, the brood is still extremely far away from the star, in fact, there are about 140 million kilometers or so, however, it is not realistic to push the brood directly into the star, the real purpose of this operation is to make the brood reach its irreversible propulsion speed, such a large, massive biological structure, it is very difficult to re-pause at such a speed, and after the re-pause, It also has to escape from the gravity of the star, and during this time, it will also suffer long-range sniping from the Hope to blow up its hydrogen fusion reactor, which is the real purpose of the Sky Wolf battle plan!
"Stop...... We're back to Hope. Yao Yuan looked at the brood that was fading away, and its particle propulsion device, and he finally gave the order to return.
All that's left to do is wait.
The biggest difference between particle propulsion and traditional flame propulsion is that it can provide continuous acceleration, ordinary flamethrowing systems, limited by their fuel reserves, the fuel required for combustion itself is a huge mass burden.
However, the energy used by particle propulsion devices can be used for science and technology that has reached the fourth industrial revolution, and a device the size of a matchbox can reserve the power generation of a large thermal power station in the third industrial revolution for one day.
In this super-giant particle propulsion device, it is not an energy storage device that is used, but a miniature hydrogen polymerization reactor to provide energy at the moment, that is, unless the energy is consumed, the mother nest will continue, all the time accelerating, although the acceleration is getting slower and slower, but it is expected to break through to 300 kilometers per second in three hours, and in the next ten hours, it is expected to reach 320 kilometers per second, and at that time, the super-giant particle propulsion device will also be disintegrated...... So, as Yao Yuan said, all that remains is waiting.
At the same time, with the return of Yao Yuan and the others, and they each began to sleep and rest, the detection system on the Hope did not pause for a while, even if it returned to the original planet and picked up Wang Guangzheng and other defense soldiers, this detection was still continuing...... "Two hours and twenty-two minutes, all plant cells disappeared, and as in the pre-simulation, the brood as a whole entered the metamorphosis, and the duration of this metamorphosis is unpredictable......"
"At three hours and forty-seven minutes, the cells inside the brood began to die in large quantities, and it began to reduce its mass and volume again, preliminary calculations, its mass and volume were only about one-thirtieth of the original, and at the same time, the super giant particle propulsion device continued to accelerate, because of the reduction of the mass of the brood, the speed has been increased to 600 kilometers per second, and the speed is still increasing......"
"At four hours and fifty-six minutes, the brood stopped shrinking, and its mass was about one-ninetieth of its original mass, and at this moment it was at a speed of 1,400 kilometers per second......"
"At five hours and four minutes, the super-giant particle propulsion device was swallowed, the color of the mother hive's body began to change, and it was a her-green color, and preliminary calculations showed that supercells were forming and replicating on a large scale......"
"At 5 hours and 32 minutes, the gene resonance effect in the brood disappears, and the super cells are fully formed......"
When Yao Yuan was awakened, it was already about six hours after the implementation of the Sky Wolf Shooting Plan, as soon as he woke up, freshened up slightly, and immediately rushed to the bridge command room, and at the same time took over the captain's position and sat on the captain's chair.
“…… At present, the mother nest has been completely transformed into a supercell, and its current speed is about 1,500 kilometers per second, and it is now about 120 million kilometers away from the star, and it is expected that it will take nine hours to enter the irreversible danger zone. Polly stood beside Yao Yuan and muttered.
Yao Yuan carefully looked at the small form of the brood in the distance...... Yes, at this moment, it is only more than ninety times what it was at the beginning, and it no longer looks so hideous and terrifying, in fact, with its green skin, it no longer looks like internal organs, but more like a kind of fleshy skin.
"What about the energy response in its body?" Yao Yuan thought for a while and asked.
"There is no energy reaction, which is the strangest thing about us, it is completely degenerated, and we can't detect any energy reaction."
“…… Then just keep waiting and see what the hell is going to do. ”
The wait lasted for nearly two hours, during which the brood remained motionless as if it had resigned itself to its fate, allowing its speed to carry it away towards the stars.
But suddenly, while everyone was watching, a huge sarcoma appeared from behind the brood, and the tail end of this huge sarcoma spewed out a stream of particles, pushing the brood in the opposite direction and starting to slow down.
"The target is starting to slow down! The power is so great, the current speed is 1,567 kilometers per second, 65 kilometers per second, and 64 kilometers per second...... Still slowing down! ”
Yao Yuan immediately shouted: "What about the data that has been calculated? Instantly enter into the main gun and take a long-range sniper! ”
"Yes, Captain ordered......"
The next situation is as planned in advance, Hope uses the Super Electromagnetic Orbital Star Destroyer Cannon to snipe, of course, at this moment, the distance between the two sides is quite far away, even if it is fired at the speed of the Super Electromagnetic Orbital Star Destroyer, it will take several hours to get the answer, but thanks to the powerful computing power of the Hope's central computer, in the next fourteen hours or so, a total of three long-range snipers were carried out, and at this moment, the speed of the brood has been reduced to six hundred kilometers per second...... However, I don't know if it's because of the fusion of plant cells, the reaction power of the brood is much lower than before, and each time it reacts after being shot for a long distance, and reconstructs a new particle propulsion device, which may have advantages and disadvantages.
Even Yao Yuan and others are still thinking that maybe this so-called super cell is not as strong as imagined.
But I didn't want to be at this moment, another message came from the biological laboratory...... The vessel super cells in the previous culture have been metamorphosed again, and they have actually transformed into the shape of alien plant genes, that is, this cell looks as if it is the trademark of that gene!
Immediately afterward, the newly metamorphosed super cell began to expand directly, and if it weren't for the computer system that had been observing it to immediately incinerate it with a laser to completely kill it, the cell would probably have devoured Hope from within!
The most terrible thing is ......"...... Do you mean to say that this newly metamorphosed cell violates the conservation of matter, that it expands directly out of the void? Yao Yuan asked Ivan Dao very strangely.
Ivan shook his head and said: "No, it can't be said that it violates the conservation of matter, to be precise, it is any ion, the electron has completely become its nutrients, it no longer needs a fixed substance, it can synthesize water directly from the air, and at the same time fuse hydrogen atoms, and then produce energy, with this energy to synthesize other substances, in other words, as long as this kind of cell has various basic particles and energy, it can always replicate and expand." ”
Yao Yuan's face suddenly turned pale, because this situation is suitable for the current brood, as it gets closer and closer to the star, the particles carried by the solar wind are enough to become its nutrients, then it may continue to grow, such a terrifying monster that is almost immortal!
"Then why is it only metamorphosing now? What was the previous supercell? Yao Yuan asked puzzled.
At this time, Polly next to him suddenly interjected: "Perhaps...... It's parsing passwords. ”
"Parse password?"
"Yes, the genetic code of alien plants, the plants created by the creation of unknown civilizations, the genes that are like trademarks, this is a kind of super code in itself......"
"I see."
Yao Yuan's eyes were gloomy as he looked at the brood on the screen, he knew why the brood reacted so slowly, it was frantically analyzing the genes of alien plants, it was trying to completely obtain the creation secrets of the unknown civilization, and then evolve into the kind of terrifying cells in the laboratory!
(To be continued)