Chapter 51: To Each His Means
It was confirmed that as the narrator had predicted, Charon was now gathering momentum, waiting for an explosion, and that all the powerplants in the Life Freedom were only in the warm-up phase at the moment, and that they could go beyond their current speed at any time, but in a race that would take around 80 hours, it was clearly too aggressive.
In the third minute after the competition, Xia Long said to the computer: "It's almost time to speed up, right?" What is the current state of operation of the main power system and auxiliary thrusters? ”
Computer: The power plants in the subship are working well, the super thermal conductive material of the main power unit has begun to feedback energy, and the auxiliary thrusters are all working fine and can continue to accelerate, please be ready, start accelerating in 10 seconds!
The huge recoil after the subship accelerated again, making Xia Long in the cockpit lean back suddenly, and it took a while to get used to it, Xia Long couldn't help muttering: "Computer, why don't you remind me?" Let me fix it! ”
PC: You have the option to upgrade my system!
Most of the competitors who participated in the F2 Formula Star race had the same mentality as Xia Long, and did not leave regrets in such an era of worshipping speed, although many ships had just reached the speed standard of the competition.
Now Xia Long can already see that in the vast universe, in front of him, there are many points of light, which are the spaceships in the most rearly group of the competition, and these points of light are getting clearer and larger as the speed of the sub-ship increases, until the outline of the spaceship can be vaguely seen.
After Xia Long participated in the competition, it attracted a lot of live broadcast footage, and the commentator continued: "It seems that my judgment is correct, Xia Long's Life Freedom has accelerated again!" Oh no, in the blink of an eye, the ship sped away from the nearby probes, and we couldn't capture more footage for longer periods of time, sorry for the people who were following the game! ”
At this time, the flame spewed out by the auxiliary thruster at the tail of the sub-ship was no longer an intermittent blue flame, but a continuous blue beam, which was the embodiment of the efficient use of hydraulic nitrogen oxide in the thruster.
Jeff's owner, Vero, saw this brief scene and couldn't help but sigh: "If Cass is not difficult enough to arrange the exclusive track in the second half of Xia Long, I'm afraid that this spaceship will have no suspense to win the championship!" The spaceship I modified for Jeff, although it is also equipped with the same idea of accelerator, but in comparison, mine is too backward, and what people are spewing out now can be described as beams, and mine is still a flame! ”
Vero still stayed in the underground entertainment city he had built, and the people inside had now stopped their usual gold sales activities, but gathered in groups around the large stereoscopic screen, focusing on the game, and when the Life Freedom accelerated again, the crowd also let out a deafening cheer, and even Vero in the secret room could clearly feel the noise outside.
The time continued to pass for 2 minutes, and Xia Long, who was 3 minutes late for the competition, could already clearly see the spaceship of the group behind the competition, and then it was surpassed!
The pilot of a dilapidated spaceship, who was once a cosmic shipwreck, was sent back to New Blue Star by Xia Long from the state of fantasy drifting, and saw that he was surpassed, but the pilot was quite relieved: "I really can't see this reality, but I have nothing to say when I am overtaken by you!" ”
"The live broadcaster temporarily added a large number of detection devices to the track, so that we can see the performance of life and freedom more clearly! At present, the spaceship is accelerating steadily, and the 12 auxiliary devices in the tail are running efficiently, leaving 12 long blue beams in its path! ”
"10 minutes after Xia Long participated, he had already surpassed many spacecraft, according to our uninterrupted speed measurement, this spacecraft stabilized again, and the speed was infinitely close to the level of the second F2 speed record refreshed before, according to this speed, it is shortening the gap with the front Tuquan Man 7 series spacecraft with an advantage of 0.12 seconds per 10 kilometers!"
"It's just that the track area that Xia Long is entering now is gradually becoming more complicated, with a large number of participating spaceships on the way, and some nearby meteorites, I don't know how long the speed of Life Freedom can be stable in this situation!"
After listening to the narrator's explanation, the clone Dolly said with a smile: "You still underestimate the level of the master Dr. Mel, when the subship made its first space voyage, in the face of so many infrared interception warships, under the interception beam like a fishing net, it didn't have any impact, not to mention some spaceships that have just reached the speed requirements of the competition, and some meteorites that are not very moving?" ”
There are many people who have the same idea as Dolly, needless to mention the No. 1 to No. 4 who built the sub-ship, not to mention Bane, Li Hu, Wang Qi, Martin and others who followed Xia Long, and the No. 6 city-state lord Howard, Vero, Jeff, and even Cass did not expect the current difficulty, which would affect the sub-ship and reduce the speed!
At the same time that Xia Long began to surpass the spacecraft behind the most difficult spacecraft, the stage in front of him gradually became difficult, in the dense meteorite, many spaceships overtook each other, and there was no room for distraction, otherwise it would be the end of the collision, some dangerous places, the interval between meteorites was only a few hundred meters.
The distance of hundreds of meters, in the high-speed astronautics without resistance, is not a reassuring distance, only a hundredth of a second, or even shorter, this kind of location and easy to make people desperate, from this interval past, must save a lot of time, but the control is not good, did not dodge nearby spaceships and obstacles in time, either emergency acceleration, or passive termination of the end of the game.
However, during this stage, David's ship navigated very smoothly, and considering David's importance and his fiery temper, Dolly did not equip the Hope Star with a device such as hydraulic nitric oxide, but made a fuss about other techniques.
As researchers who have been staying in Dr. Mel for a long time, Dolly and David know a lot about the techniques of this scientific and technological genius, but compared with Xia Long's data box, the skills mastered by the two of them are quite different, and half of the effect in the data box is very good!
The Powerplant of the Star of Hope is also equipped with thermally conductive materials, but it is nowhere near the level of the super quality of the subship. The way the ship accelerates mainly during the difficult stages, with a decent amount of liquid metal inside, as well as a lot of special space.
According to the data calculated by the computer in the spacecraft, these liquid metals will flow to these special spaces in a certain proportion, thus changing the center of gravity of the Hope Star, which can have a huge advantage in adjusting the direction, and the more stages that need to be redirected, the more time can be saved.
After a series of difficult turns, David's spaceship began to approach the front group of Earthdosphere 7 series ships.
After catching up with a 7 series spaceship, Davy was in front of a dense group of meteorites, you come and go, the two spaceships have no intention of avoiding, the relative distance is only tens of meters, and they all want to pass through the gap between the two meteorites.
Seeing that they were about to hit a meteorite, the two spaceships became vigilant and did not continue to fight too much, but the fiery David did not choose to slow down, and forced the 7 series spacecraft around him to dodge.
The remaining distance and time are extremely harsh for David, as a robot, even if he is highly intelligent, David is unlikely to be nervous or panicked, under the rapid control, the liquid metal inside the spacecraft began to flow, the center of gravity shifted, and narrowly avoided the meteorite, the closest distance between the spacecraft and the meteorite was less than one meter.
At this point, David's Hope Star entered the first group, because David and Dolly are of the same nature, both represent the suffering robots and clone compatriots of New Zealand, leading them to create a home, so at this moment many robots and clones cheered.
Dolly listened to the cheers of his homeland, but he breathed a sigh of relief: "You David, you are really playing with your life!" The robot is also very good, if this is the case of my driving hopeful star, I am afraid that I would have chosen to slow down or change the lane a long time ago! ”
Compared with David's playfulness, Jeff's modified Earth Circle Man 6 series spaceship sails much more calmly, and in a more relaxed place, or grasps a large area, Jeff chooses to use the speed to directly surpass.
In those more dangerous areas, or other ships competing with him for the route, Jeff simply took a step back and opened the sky, preferring to slow down and make a detour rather than take risks, and when the route was a little smoother, he used hydraulic nitrogen oxide to accelerate and make up for the time, and he was currently in the first group.
The Tuquan Man 7 series spacecraft was originally rushed, and it was more used in the military, and so far in the competition, no signs of accelerating the configuration of nitrogen oxide have been found.
Just rely on the cooperation of the group of 50 ships, with the help of the formation to stabilize the current advantage, let the ships in your team take turns to lead, and not let other ships easily overtake.
The ships of the Jueying and Peregrine Falcon series, which have also performed well in F2 races, are not satisfactory in this race, and are rarely stable in the first group, and most of them are in front of the second group.
It's understandable that it can't compare to David's Star of Hope, after all, his master, the technological genius Dr. Mel, designed a perverted spaceship like the Life Freedom subship, which easily broke the speed record twice in less than one race.
Dolly and Davy are there, and the Star of Hope must contain a lot of Dr. Mel's ideas in its technological content, and it may have many of the same configurations as the Life Freedom.
But the spaceships of the Jueying and Peregrine series are not as good as a 6 series spaceship transformed by ordinary people, so it is too much to say, is it possible that the scientific and technological strength of the city-states where these two spaceships are located is not as good as that of ordinary people?
Now the most proud thing is Cass, who said to himself: "I really don't know what kind of operation team is behind Jeff Ludao, even if he developed a little transformation technique before, the comprehensive performance of the transformed spacecraft is also quite good, stronger than the Jueying and Peregrine Falcon spaceships."
Although Jeff is still unwilling to sell his skills to Cass, Cass has a way to get his hands on it, as long as he is interested in private territory, he can definitely get it, and from the current situation, Jeff's spaceship is still inferior to the Hope Star, and it is difficult to win the championship.
As the sub-ship continued to surpass the spaceship in the rear, and the stages it faced slowly became more complicated, Xia Long was a little worried: "Computer, with the current difficulty, I believe you can still easily deal with it, right?"
Computer: That's natural, it's just a stage of this difficulty, I can always calculate the factors used by the sub-ship in the 5-second flight, the variables used, all the data, the probability of a mistake in the 5-second flight is only 0.9%!
Computer: Please note that now I will automatically control the sub-ship, and while ensuring your safety, I will finish the race with the highest quality, and please do not give unnecessary orders unless there are special circumstances! If you want, choose to use ideology, or coma yourself!
Xia Long felt as if he was despised by this hard computer, and muttered: "I warn you, don't mess around, don't risk yourself in order to complete my instructions to win the championship, your maintenance cost is very high, and the output of various supporting materials is very low!"
It seemed that the computer wanted to say something, Xia Long hurriedly stopped: "I know what you want to say, upgrade the system for you, right?"
After being silent for a while, the computer: I actually want to say, Xie Lu Xie cares!