Chapter 11 (Seeking to Follow-up and Collecting)
Lily's eyes widened, and she leaned forward, her body pressed against Wang's shoulder: "Where is the photon torpedo?" Where? β
Wang Chao: "It's so far away from us, it's hell if you can see it with the naked eye." β
"I can see the spaceship clearly when I watch the movie!"
Wang Chao: "That's a movie, you have to have a hot picture to be watched, if you shoot according to the facts, the two sides will fire at each other at a distance of hundreds of kilometers, and you have to use an optical lens like a small astronomical telescope and an intelligent algorithm to capture the optical image of the opposite side - shoot it like this, you will wait for the movie to be ignored." β
In fact, Wang Chao himself is also the first time to personally see the space battle in this world, and his impression of the space battle is that the two spaceships are close to each other, just like in the game "Starry Sky".
But he spoke like a veteran, as if he had already experienced two thousand real space battles.
Lily: "So what do we do now?" β
Wang Chao: "We are already changing orbits, and we can let unguided weapons miss us." β
"Huh? Has it changed tracks? But I'm just standing so well, shouldn't I be thrown around when the spaceship changes orbit? β
"That's also a movie," Wang Chao's tone was filled with regret, "In fact, the artificial gravity field of the spacecraft can fight against inertia, and in fact now we are changing orbits with an acceleration of 40G." Without the protection of an artificial gravity field, we are already squashed. β
Wang Chao paused and corrected his words: "Okay, you have been squashed, I have a high degree of prostheticization, but the part of the flesh will burst blood vessels, and I should be able to leave half a life." β
Lily: "But I can't tell we're changing orbit at such high acceleration?" β
Wang Chao pointed to the gas giant Lyra Gamma next to him: "Do you know how far we are from that thing?" Do you know how big it is? Our little change of track is insignificant to it. Without references, you certainly don't feel like we're shifting tracks. β
Lily: "Space battles are boring! β
Wang Chao: "I agree!" β
This is Wang Chao's true thoughts, the space battle in "Starry Sky" is much better than this, at least hot.
The next moment, the broadcast ship of Galaxy Entertainment on the main screen disintegrated.
Lily's eyes widened, "What's going on?" Could it be that the person who jumped over was a real pirate? β
Wang Chao: "How is it possible! This is clearly designed, in order to make everything real and believable, by the way, take a broadcast ship! The company must have insured the spaceship, and everyone on it! β
Wang Chao said as he put the picture of the disintegration of the broadcast ship on the secondary screen, and displayed the current orbit map of friend and foe on the main screen.
The orbit of Wang Chao's spacecraft is constantly flattening, because he is accelerating, so the orbit will gradually become a huge ellipse around the satellite.
And the enemy's spaceship is also changing orbits, and the orbit has been tracking Wang Chao's orbit.
Lily: "What now?" Is it with your signature flick? β
"No, now that we are in reality, the orbit change is much more complicated than that, and we are now ready to use the gravitational slingshot to assist in acceleration, as long as possible for the enemy to meet us."
Wang Chao replied while synchronizing his manned computer with the spaceship computer, adding computing power together to perform complex orbit change operations - at this moment, the computer suddenly issued an alarm.
Wang Chao ordered the spacecraft to change course in a ten-thousandth of a second.
The next moment, three luminous clusters swept past the ship.
Lily was startled: "Wow! What is this? β
"Photon torpedo, here it is again!"
Wang Chao changed direction again, and three more torpedoes grazed the shield of Wang Chao's spaceship.
Lily: "That's a bit of a movie!" β
Wang Chao: "Cold knowledge, the speed of the photon torpedo in the movie has been reduced, in fact, this thing flies at the speed of light, and the effect is just like what you just saw, in your opinion, it should be a thick laser beam pasting us, right?" β
Lily nodded like a chicken pecking rice.
Wang Chao: "Actually, ......"
He jerked his speed again, and three more light-flashing torpedoes grazed the ship's shield.
Wang Chao: "Actually, as you can see, although we are hundreds of kilometers away from the enemy, the flight time of the photon torpedo is negligible. β
"You're out of the way!" Lily's eyes lit up with adoration, "You're the invincible bounty hunter!" β
"No, I've been staring at each other with the spacecraft's optical telescope, and the computer has locked on to the enemy's position from the cosmic background noise, and observed the attitude of their spacecraft, and when the enemy's spacecraft attitude is adjusted to a state where it can fire, it will alert me."
As he spoke, Wang Chao flashed two more strings of photon torpedoes.
Wang Chao: "Okay! They're all done, and we've got a minute before the one that fired at the beginning finishes cooling down! β
As he spoke, he thoughtfully displayed the cooldown time of the enemy ship's photon torpedo launcher on the main screen in the form of a countdown - he didn't have to do this himself, all the data was sent to his onboard computer through a wired connection, and the numbers on the screen were for Lily to see, which made Lily feel a little involved.
Lily: "How do you calculate all this time?" β
"Mainly by observing the infrared signal of the other party's heat sink." Wang Yan explained succinctly.
Immediately after that, another alarm sounded, and the computer reported in a dull synthetic voice: "Laser irradiation, laser irradiation." β
Lily said happily, "I know how to deal with this!" You're going to get the ship to start rolling, aren't you? β
Wang Chao: "Yes. β
If the laser continues to shine on a point, the temperature of the point will rise rapidly, and the equipment on the ship's hull or surface will be destroyed. Therefore, when being irradiated, it is necessary to roll the spacecraft sideways to ensure that the enemy cannot be illuminated at one point all the time, so as to evenly distribute the temperature to the shell or various equipment.
But how the spacecraft rolls is also a science, because the spacecraft's optical telescope must always be aimed at the enemy in order to continuously obtain the enemy's information and judge when the enemy will launch a photon torpedo.
On the other hand, if the laser can be kept focused on the optical telescope, it is possible to burn out the optical element, or temporarily blind the spacecraft, creating an opportunity for the photon torpedo to attack.
As a result, concealing optical telescopes on spacecraft, or preparing plural telescopes, became a common means of defense in space warfare.
Wang Chao's spacecraft has three optical telescopes, which can ensure that one telescope is aimed at the enemy at any time while rolling.
He had just started rolling when the alarm went off.
Lily nervously shouted, "What's wrong?" β
Wang Chao smashed the alarm with a heavy punch: "Peace of mind, it's just an overheating alarm for the heat sink." Constant maneuvering, coupled with enemy irradiation, overloaded the heat sinks. β
"So what to do?" Lily was even more nervous, "Are we going to be burned?" β
Wang Chao: "If you have been irradiated, you will." β
Lily was about to speak, when she noticed that the top one in the row of countdowns on the screen was about to go to zero, and shouted, "Photon Torpedo is coming!" β
Wang Chao: "Until then, we'll jump away first!" Hara - no, gravity engine, start! β
The next moment, all the starlight turned into light, exactly like the effect of a spaceship in Star Wars when it was faster than light.
Then it was pitch black outside the window.
The sirens and all sorts of other sounds were gone, except for the roar of the engine.
Lily said in an uncertain tone, "We...... Escaped? Or is it dead? Is this on the way to heaven? β
"We escaped because now we are faster than the speed of light and are no longer under the jurisdiction of general relativity, so the starlight is gone." Wang Chao paused, and suddenly teased, "You don't think that the speed of light is the same as in the movie, and there will be clouds like things running backwards outside, right?" β
"I've been faster than light a few times!" Lily frowned, "Of course I know what a real faster-than-light looks like!" The movie is for an old farmer who has never left the ground in his life! β
Wang Chao: "You're right. β
Lily sighed and relaxed her entire shoulder, "So...... The rest of our lives? β
Wang Chao: "You're right again. β
After that, he called up the ship's damage map: "You see, our heat sink has melted 17 pieces, and now the heat dissipation effect is only about 70% of the original, and the temperature of the engine compartment and power compartment has exceeded 700 degrees. β
Lily wiped her sweat with hindsight: "I realized that the sweat on my body was not cold sweat, but hot sweat!" β
Wang Chao: "Of course, the temperature regulation of the living area can't completely fight the high temperature, if we run away more than ten seconds late, I'll be fine, you will be cooked." Those pirates will probably destroy us and then board a ship to find your corpse, extract the last thoughts of your life from your brain, and make sensory chips to sell to those cyber addicts. β
Cyber addict refers to a guy who is addicted to all kinds of extreme stimulation sensory chips and enjoys stimulation.
Lily clasped her hands on her chest and shrunk her neck: "This is also ...... The company is so damning! But I don't understand, those people who came later killed the broadcast ship, so won't the broadcast be stopped? How did they give me a grand curtain call? β
Wang Chao smiled: "You are still too naΓ―ve." β
Then he began to sell it like an old fritter, taking out a cigar and putting it in his mouth. Obviously, he was still a social animal sitting in front of the computer to catch up with documents a few hours ago.
Lily: "You mean! β
Wang Chao: "There must be a recording device in the pirate prosthesis, and I have it too." Soon the clips on these recording devices will appear on various black markets, and will be given various sensational titles. What a barbecue galaxy singer.
"No one knows if it was sold by pirates or secretly copied and distributed by the company. Someone will make a fortune from these films. β
Lily was speechless: "It's so hateful, Galaxy Entertainment!" β
But she immediately rolled her eyes: "Wait a minute, so now I'm free?" β
Wang Chao remembered this stubble at this time, and he slapped his brain hard: "And I'm in debt!" Wait a minute, not necessarily, we have to find some way to see if the middleman was cheated or if he was in league with Galaxy Entertainment.
"If it is cheated, we will find a middleman to settle accounts with Galaxy Entertainment. If it's a gang, we'll settle accounts with him first, and then find trouble with Galaxy Entertainment! β
Lily clapped her hands with interest: "Good! That's it! β
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The White Horse Mercenary Regiment's flagship Eternal King communications room.
This is a separate compartment dedicated to the quantum communication device, which is connected to a basement of the New Eden planet.
(Quantum communication is all point-to-point, one radish and one pit, one device corresponds to another, and there will never be a "third party".) οΌ
The White Horse Mercenary Regiment is actually the black glove of many giant enterprises.
"What did you say ran away?" On the projector of the communication device, the upper body composed of the dot matrix became visibly displeased. (Because of the bandwidth limitation of quantum entanglement communication, only the dot matrix of the person over there can be displayed)
The commander of the White Horse Mercenary Regiment, a man named Oguchi, replied, "Literally. Wang Chao's equipment is very good, the spaceship is also very good, and he has a lot of experience. That's why I objected to letting the broadcast ship come first, he must have seen the broadcast ship and immediately started charging the gravity engine. β
The person composed of the dot matrix snorted coldly: "Don't make excuses if you are incompetent." β
Oguchi: "I can't agree with that. β
"Bastard!" The dot matrix fluctuated violently, probably the one on the other side left the focus of the camera, and when the dot matrix returned to stability, he said in a calm voice, "Since you are so confident, go find Wang Chao and kill him!" Also, send back a copy of the records of all of your present prosthetics. β
Oguchi: "We failed, should we send it back as well?" β
"Of course, the Galactic Singer has finally eloped with her favorite action superstar, and this topic is no less than that of the Galactic Singer. Send them all back! β