April 20, 2205, Proxima Centauri, Yangtze River.

"Ye Fei, are you sure?" Lu Jian in the communication asked expectantly.

Ye Fei hesitated for a long time, not knowing how to answer, and Lu Jian, who was waiting impatiently, urged: "Are you sure, you should give me an answer!" ”

"Theoretically, it's fine, but ......" Ye Fei rubbed his forehead in annoyance, smacked his mouth, and smiled bitterly.

"But what? You kid don't sell off with me. Lu Jianhuo hit up, if Ye Fei was in front of him, he would have to drag his collar and beat him violently.

"Proxima Centauri's diameter is only one-seventh to one-eighth of the Sun, which is about 200,000 kilometers, and it takes less than a second to fly such a short distance at the speed of light, and the minimum speed of a torpedo at the speed of light is 2.3 times the speed of light, and it takes less than 0.3 seconds to fly over 200,000 kilometers...... There are no problems with firing torpedoes, but I don't dare to guarantee that the torpedoes will explode within the range of Proxima Centauri. Ye Fei came to a bamboo tube and poured beans.

Lu Jian still didn't give up: "Doesn't the light-speed torpedo have a timing device?" Accurately timing explosions shouldn't be a problem, right? ”

"There is no problem with timing the explosion, but the light-speed torpedo is designed to deal with faster-than-light vehicles, and it was not designed to use it to blow up stars." Ye Fei retorted vigorously, "When I bombed the Wolf Bone Grave, I didn't find any abnormalities in the normal space, and the possibility of an explosion in a faster-than-light state affecting the normal space is very small. ”

Lu Jian fell into a speechless silence after hearing this.

If the explosion of a torpedo at the speed of light does not affect normal space, then whether it is launched or not does not need to be discussed anymore.

Hu Bin, who had not spoken, suddenly stood up: "That." Let me say a few words. ”

"You say." The thoughtful Lu Jian nodded in agreement.

"I don't know if an explosion in a faster-than-light situation can affect normal space, but I know the particularity of a star in the Dao, even if it does enter another universe when traveling faster than light, the huge mass of the star can also affect a vehicle in another universe that is in a faster-than-light state." Hu Bin pushed his glasses, "The light-speed torpedo explosion will definitely affect the stars, but the magnitude of the impact cannot be determined." ”

There are two very different theories about faster-than-light flight.

One theory is that matter that exceeds the speed of light will break through the existing cosmic barrier and enter another higher level of the universe, so it can travel faster than the speed of light. Because the higher-level universe is exclusive, it needs to be separated from the speed of light. Just reduce the speed. The rules of the universe itself will send the craft back to the normal universe.

This theory is based on the fact that the speed of light is the highest speed in the universe.

However, there are also a small number of people who believe that the speed of light is not the highest speed in this universe, and the so-called other universe is simply fabricated out of thin air, which makes no sense in theory, especially after mastering the superluminal speed technique. When traveling faster than the speed of light, it is able to observe the stars in front of it. Prove that the craft is still in its original universe. Instead of flying into some messy space.

The reason why the speed of light gives people the illusion of detachment from the universe is that the human eye sees visible light, and the eye cannot see the aircraft beyond the speed of light.

Although humans have mastered the art of faster-than-light technology. However, no one is willing to waste precious faster-than-light vehicles on an illusory theory, and even the expeditionary force has to calculate the flight path before the flight to ensure that there are no celestial objects in the flight path that endanger the flight.

The two views have always been at odds, and Hu Bin clearly supports the latter.

"I don't care about so much bullshit theory, it's a great waste of a light-speed torpedo." Lu Jian said loudly, "Who dares to say that they are 100% sure in a war?" Of course, it's good to be able to kill the bone mound, but if you can't kill it, you should teach it a lesson. Ye Fei—"

"Here!"

"Prepare to launch a torpedo at the speed of light!"

"Yes!" Although there was still some resistance in his heart, Ye Fei still answered firmly.

The Yangtze River, having received the order, immediately accelerated and flew away from the formation.

The distance between the fleet's current position and Proxima Centauri was less than half an astronomical unit, and it only took four minutes for the light-speed torpedo to cross this distance.

The light-speed torpedo could be launched at any time, but Ye Fei did not give the order to launch, but ordered the battleship to speed up, and it was not until the battleship maintained a three-point-one-line state with the bone mound and Proxima Centauri before finally giving the launch order.

Although Lu Jian's idea is good, the danger of failure is too high, if the light-speed torpedo does enter another space, it will be okay to pass through the bone mound and Proxima Centauri, if it does not enter another space......

The Yangtze River opened its belly, and the only remaining light-speed torpedo flew away from the battleship according to the recalculated data, and after a few hours of flying away from the battleship, it suddenly accelerated into a faster-than-light state.

"Entering the speed of light, the time is accurate, there is no error, and it is expected to touch the target in 1 minute 44 minutes and 34 seconds!" Scissors reported the situation to Ye Fei.

Ye Fei suddenly felt that his whole person was relaxed, and his eyes fell on the bone mound that was being scorched by the light and heat of Proxima Centauri and the millions of creature warships that were dodging behind the bone mound, silently thoughtful.

Ye Fei was not the only one who was silent, the expeditionary force was from Lu Jian down, and everyone's attention was drawn by the light-speed torpedo.

The position of the light-speed torpedo was always marked on the large screen, and it was a theoretical orientation that was accurately calculated, not the exact position of the torpedo.

One hundred and four seconds is a very short time, so short that there are countless one hundred and four seconds in a person's life, but now, every time the seconds beat, it seems like a century.

The front of the bone mound has been burned red, and some of the surface has even entered an incandescent state, and the million creature warships hidden in the shadow of the bone mound are deflected with the movement of the bone mound like an alternative wisdom tail, always hiding under the protection of the bone mound.

The torpedo flew closer and closer, and I don't know how many people in the road subconsciously held their breath at this moment.

The light-speed torpedo was about to coincide with the bone mound, and suddenly part of the biological battleship of the "Huiwei" directly disintegrated without warning, and the position of the disintegration completely coincided with the position of the light-speed torpedo!

Lu Jian stood up suddenly, his face suddenly flushed.

Hu Bin's eyes lit up. At the bottom of my mind, I began to wonder if this phenomenon could be the theoretical basis for a faster-than-light state.

Ye Fei let out a long breath, a long-lost smile on his face.

The light-speed torpedo passed through the "wisdom tail" of the bone mound in a very short time, and half of the biological warships hidden in the shadows were directly disintegrated by the strong light blast impact, and the remaining half, and half of them escaped from the shadow of the bone mound because of the panicked escape, and were directly baked into charcoal by the light next to them, and the enemy ships that were still alive were less than a quarter of the total!

The blood and qi in Lu Jian's whole body surged, and his face became more and more red.

Even if you don't achieve your goals, it's enough to take out so many creature warships. However, this is only the beginning. The moment when the light-speed torpedo coincided with the bone mound. The back of the bone mound silently cracked countless deep ravines.

There was no explosion and no light, only ripples like water waves spread from the back of the bone mound, and in the middle of the waves, part of the bone mound quietly disappeared. It's like an apple that has been bitten by a naughty boy and then discarded.

And that's not all. The bone mound, which was originally a very stable trajectory, was like a football with a strong flying foot from a world-class star. Suddenly deviated from its original orbit and flew towards Proxima Centauri at a high speed visible to the naked eye!

Lu Jian jumped up violently, his face flushed with excitement. Clenched his fists and yelled, not caring at all about his commandership.

The Sirius colony is over!

All who witnessed all this had the same thoughts.

The bone mound that deviated from its original orbit flew closer and closer to Proxima Centauri, and as the distance shortened, the shadow behind the bone mound became less and less, and a large number of biological warships hidden in the shadows had to face the scorching heat wave, but the biological battleship was still a creature after all, and the moment it got out of the shadows, countless biological warships shrank, shriveled, and dehydrated in the heat, and then turned into a red and blazing mass, and turned into flying ash at the most.

If they stay away from Proxima Centauri before they get close to Proxima Centauri, they still have a chance to escape, but as the bone mound gradually goes deeper, the biological battleship that has been hidden in the shadow of the bone mound no longer has the ability to escape, and can only dodge into the smaller and smaller shadows of the bone mound as much as possible.

However, it was all in vain, and the bone mound inevitably cut into the coronal layer of Proxima Centauri, and the corona composed of high-energy particles with no regularity swept across the bone mound with hundreds of thousands of degrees of heat, and the surface of the bone mound peeled off, vaporized, and disappeared layer by layer in the high temperature.

The remnants of the alien fleet hiding on the back of the bone mound were unavoidable, and in despair they disappeared in the irresistible heat.

Everyone who witnessed all this was so nervous that they held their breath,

In the face of the great forces of nature, no matter how invincible they may seem, they are powerless to resist.

"Old Hu, didn't you say that the surface of Proxima Centauri is more than two degrees? How could the bone mound vaporize so quickly? Lu Jian asked softly in surprise.

Hu Bin calmed down as if he had suddenly been awakened: "The surface temperature should be about 2,000 degrees, but beyond the surface of the star, there are chromospheres and coronal layers. The surface temperature of the sun is less than 6,000 degrees, but the temperature of the coronal layer is as high as 1 million degrees. Proxima Centauri is smaller than the Sun, but no matter how small it is, the temperature should be 180,000, right? He wasn't sure what Proxima Centauri's coronal temperature was, 180,000, which couldn't be lower.

The bone mound is just an ordinary asteroid transformation, basically a super-large stony asteroid, thousands of degrees of high temperature can turn the surface of the bone mound into a sea of magma, tens of thousands of degrees of high temperature, the surface of the bone mound does not even have time to melt, it will directly vaporize into rock vapor, quickly converted into a plasma state.

"It's incredible!" Lu Jian was amazed, originally thought that it would only burn the surface of the bone mound, but he didn't expect that the result would far exceed expectations, and he could completely burn the entire bone mound.

The only remaining shadow area on the back of the bone mound finally disappeared in the heat of the coronal layer, and the entire bone mound entered a completely red-hot state, like a red-hot glass ball.

Although the shrinkage of the bone mound cannot be seen with the naked eye, the distorted light near the bone mound obviously comes from the action of rock steam, and it will not be long before the Sirius bone mound will completely disappear into the universe.

"Report, Proxima Centauri's magnetic field strength has increased abnormally!" The officers and soldiers, who were in extreme shock, did not forget their duties, and suddenly a shout woke everyone up.

"What?" Lu Jian was taken aback, "All attention, immediately stay away from Proxima Centauri-"

The expeditionary force that had been orbiting Proxima Centauri immediately turned around, but just after flying far, the surface of Proxima Centauri suddenly turned into a boiling ocean. Countless intense flares simultaneously eject a large number of charged particles into the universe, just like Proxima Centauri expands hundreds or thousands of times in an instant.

"Lu Jian-" Hu Bin shouted, and even the commander didn't care to shout, "faster-than-light, quickly enter faster-than-light!" ”

Lu Jian immediately changed the order: "The whole fleet, immediately start the faster-than-light engine-"

"Twenty-second countdown!"

"Seventeen seconds countdown!"

"Twenty-two Second Countdown ......"

The ships of the expeditionary force are different in size, and the power of the faster-than-light engine is also different, and the time to enter the faster-than-light speed is naturally longer and shorter.

It took only a very short time from the discovery of the magnetic field anomaly to the large-scale eruption of the flare on Proxima Centauri, and the material of the flare erupted at a speed close to the speed of light, and it did not take long. A large amount of radiation such as external wires and X-rays, as well as electrons, protons and some heavy ions in the coronal layer will reach the area where the fleet is located.

Although the battleship was consciously enhanced in its design to resist radiation. But that's for ordinary space radiation, not including intense flares of stellar explosions!

The superluminal countdown of the Great Wall submarine first went to zero, but the battleship did not enter the superluminal state, and then the Yangtze River and four destroyers, which also had a countdown to zero, also failed to enter the superluminal state. The ships were suddenly in chaos. The situation was reported to the headquarters.

Lu Jian, who received the report, also panicked. In the face of the chaotic situation of the captains of the ships, I don't know how to deal with it.

At the critical moment, Hu Bin grabbed the right to communicate: "Shut up!" Proxima Centauri's magnetic field anomaly intensifies. A massive flare erupts beyond the critical line, the faster-than-light engine is affected by a magnetic field, and the original power cannot bring the battleship into a faster-than-light state, so the engine energy intensity must be increased and forcibly enter the faster-than-light state! ”

All the captains closed their mouths, some of them understood what Hu Bin meant, and some were simply stunned by Hu Bin's hustle and bustle.

"Are you all deaf? All give me the energy of the faster-than-light engine and forcibly enter the faster-than-light state! Lu Jian did not hesitate to confirm Hu Bin's statement...... Other than that, he couldn't think of a way.

The time for humans to obtain the tachyon engine technique is very short, so short that no one even knows that the tachyon engine will be disturbed by strong magnetic fields. Lu Jian is an expert in iron and iron in the military, but he is a complete layman in terms of technique.

It only takes more than four minutes for the flare energy to break out and reach the position of the expeditionary force, and in such a short time, it is impossible to find another way, but to be a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

"Strengthen the power output and force the faster-than-light engine to start!" Ye Fei, who received the order, gave the order without hesitation, and the colorful glimmer shrouded in the surface of the battleship became more and more intense.

The colorful light outside the Great Wall, which is the smallest in size and the most powerful in engine, has been transformed into a magnificent colorful light, as if the actual colored light completely disappeared from the hull of the ship, and the Great Wall suddenly disappeared, leaving only the colorful light of the whirlpool ship to gradually dissipate.

The success of the Great Wall was like a shot in the arm for all officers and soldiers, and then the Yangtze River, which was more than two kilometers longer than the Great Wall, also successfully entered the superluminal state.

Expeditionary warships flew faster than light one by one, in descending order of size, but the longer the time dragged on, the higher the energy required to enter faster-than-light. The twenty-four fusion reactors of the two main ships, the Yanjing and the Jinmen, were running at full power, almost bursting the faster-than-light engines, and finally broke through the light barrier at the critical moment when the flare energy was about to engulf the battleship.

After entering the faster-than-light state, Ye Fei immediately ordered to reduce the energy intensity of the faster-than-light engine and return to its normal state. Ten minutes later, however, the Yangtze River suddenly broke out of its faster-than-light state.

The sudden accident made Ye Fei's heart tremble: "Jiang Xue, what's the situation, why did the faster-than-light engine stop?" He silently prayed that the faster-than-light engine would not burn out from overload.

The faster-than-light engine is a cutting-edge technology that mankind has just mastered, and even in the solar system, only China and the United States have mastered the specific technology, and once it is damaged, there is no possibility of returning to the solar system for repairs, so the warship with the damaged engine can only be abandoned.

The General Staff of the Expeditionary Force had ordered a fairly complete emergency plan for the fleet long before leaving the solar system, and according to the provisions of the plan, the emergency entry into the faster-than-light state should be out of the faster-than-light state after one hour, which was only ten minutes.

"Report, the engine is running out of energy!" Jiang Xue looked at it three times in a row before she was convinced that the data she saw was accurate.

"Impossible?" Ye Fei's eyes were full of incredulity.

The Yangtze River has twelve fusion reactors, as long as half of them are working normally, it can ensure the operation of the faster-than-light engine, and in the months from the solar system to neighbors, the faster-than-light engines working at the highest power have always been powered by six reactors, and the twelve reactors have just been running at full power to strengthen the power, although he ordered to reduce the energy supply, but the current operating power has not dropped by a few percent, how can there be a lack of electricity?

"Captain, I don't want to believe it, but the data doesn't lie." Jiang Xue said aggrievedly.

"Sorry, I didn't mean that." Ye Fei's brows were tightly twisted into hemp rope, "Recharge the faster-than-light engine and prepare to enter the faster-than-light state......

"Hey, boss, I think we'll just stop here." Scissors suddenly interjected, "The current distance between our ship and Proxima Centauri is about twenty-two astronomical units, and even if the sun's flare reaches such a distance, there will only be a little bit left. ”

"You, what did you say?" Ye Fei couldn't believe his ears, "Are you crazy, twenty-two astronomical units?" The maximum speed of the battleship is only 9.2 times the speed of light, and the distance of flying out of more than a dozen astronomical units in ten minutes is already up to the sky, how can it be possible to fly so far away from more than 20 astronomical units? ”

The distance of twenty-two astronomical units is probably farther than the distance from Biyang to Uranus, and the distance of more than ten astronomical units, how can it be said that you can fly? (To be continued......)

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