Great Power Technology.

Chapter 561 The Disappearing Star

The twelve propelling engines of the USS Washington exploded with fiery flames. Under the huge thrust, the orbit of Callisto 41 changed at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just 3 minutes, it had left Callisto. The gravitational range, and then began to fly rapidly towards the direction of Jupiter XVIII.

The pushing process is not over yet, and the structurally fragile parts of the USS Washington have begun to creak, but fortunately, the core cabin has not been affected. Compared with the previous overload of up to 30G, this process is much easier.

"The club's out, folks!"

The navigator's high-pitched voice came from the communicator, and then Washington turned on its reverse thrust, and the flames sprayed on the surface of Jupiter 41, sending it on its last journey.

"The engine is in a strange state, the power is dropping-but it's all right."

Ye Zhou stared at the data on the screen, which showed that under the extreme load state, the divertor in the fusion core could not hold up after all.

The ultra-high-temperature plasma even began to scurry uncontrollably in the reaction core, and the local temperature difference of the divertor even reached 3000 million degrees Celsius. Such a temperature made the divertor rapidly deform and embrittle, and its functionality was greatly affected.

A few minutes later, 12 of the 6 propulsion engines were shut down, the self-sustaining state of the fusion reaction was broken, and the reaction was terminated instantly.

But at this time, the Washington had already completed the deceleration action, relying on the operation of two non-propellant engines, it stabilized the state of the hull, and returned to Carme's retrograde orbit.

However, at this time, the USS Washington was already at the forefront of the fleet.

"Dante, track the status of Jupiter 41 in real time, is the impact trajectory correct?"

"The impact trajectory is correct, and the countdown to impact is expected to be 120 seconds."

"Wei Qing, how is Carme's situation?"

"The orbit is normal. If Jupiter 41 can knock Jupiter [-] away, then everything will go according to plan. Now it's just the last step."

While talking, the four Huaxia spaceships have already started to slow down. They can no longer follow up. The operation window has been closed. It is meaningless to continue to follow up, and it will only increase the risk.

The spacecraft glides slowly in space until it returns to the orbit of Jupiter. At this time, the four Huaxia spacecraft entered the prograde orbit. To meet Washington again, they need to orbit Jupiter for nearly a year.

Everyone stared nervously at the screen, watching the two satellites about to collide.

With a countdown of 20 seconds, Ye Zhou felt that his heartbeat had almost stopped, but it was clear that there was no suspense about the collision.

In the silence, Jupiter 41 was pulled into the range of tidal forces by Jupiter XVIII. The mass of the two satellites was not large, so before Jupiter 41 completely crashed into Jupiter XVIII, it did not disintegrate at all. Instead, it maintains its original shape.

"It's really space billiards."

Ye Zhou said with emotion.

Subsequently, a huge dust cloud surged up, and the relatively fragile Jupiter 41 disintegrated into pieces, and Jupiter's orbit was immediately deflected.

It remains intact, but perhaps only for a very short time.

At that time, the broken Jupiter will continue to orbit Jupiter under the influence of gravity until it becomes several brand new moons.

"Track change detected, Carme safe."

The tone of the navigator of the Wei Qing was tinged with imperceptible joy. His nerves, which had been tense for more than ten hours, finally got a short rest.

At this time, there are still 6 minutes before Carme collides with Io.

Zheng He is flying around Io's low-earth orbit at an extremely fast speed. It is like a moving target, and the projectile fired from a hundred thousand kilometers will be within a millionth of a millionth. With one accuracy, focus on the void behind it.

With a countdown of 2 minutes, Carme entered the gravitational range of Io, and her trajectory pointed directly to the North Pole.

"Prepare to accelerate the departure, Zheng He, and enter the full load state."

"Received, enter the full load state, ready to eject."

"The status of the adjacent dimension channel is normal, the power of the beacon device is normal, and it is ready to decouple from the beacon."

"Received, start uncoupling. The power of the beacon device has entered a critical value, and the range of the entropy jump is expanding. I can already see the edge of the jump zone. There is no light at all, like a black hole."

"To be precise, there is also light around the black hole. Enter the decision window, Zheng He, and start ejection."

"Understood, start ejecting."

After the words fell, the huge beacon device and 10 propulsion engines behind Zheng He's hull were thrown down, and the weight of the hull suddenly decreased. Then, under the action of four propulsion engines and two non-propellant engines, Zheng He accelerated suddenly. , the overload soared to 90G in an instant, all redundant structural parts of the hull were discarded, and the Zheng He began to escape the predetermined collision zone at the limit speed.

The countdown to the collision is 60 seconds, Zheng He is still accelerating, and the distance between Carme and Io has shrunk to the limit.

In the extremely thin atmosphere of Io, Carme's speed is not affected in any way, and the Tvasta volcano group is just in front of it.

In an instant, dust clouds were everywhere.

Right in the bull's eye.

The carme that was not completely disintegrated brushed across the surface like water, and then fell apart immediately, most of the substances in it were decomposed into the most basic particles under the instantaneous burst of energy.

This collision is completely different from the previous "space billiards". Carme dragged out a dust belt that is tens of thousands of kilometers long. Lightning, fire, and electromagnetic pulses filled this dust belt, releasing vigorous energy beyond the reach of human beings. .

And the “target” of this collision, that piece of enriched adjacent dimensional channels, completely absorbed these energies.
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In other words, this is not absorption, but pure "pouring"!
From the video screen, Ye Zhou saw a strange light flashing in the core area of ​​the collision zone. He couldn't describe the color of that light with his own words, but he knew that there must be something unusual going on there. occur.

A few minutes later, the dust cloud produced by the collision began to roll back under the gravitational force of Io, and the prototype of a star ring appeared. Maybe decades or hundreds of years later, when the shape of Io stabilized again, Around it, a halo like Saturn's rings will be formed.
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However, it seems that there is no such opportunity.

Just as everyone was nervously waiting for the detection results of the adjacent dimension channel, the area suddenly fell silent at an astonishing speed.

Darkness, darkness like a black hole.

In the darkness, the spark-like light gradually expanded.

Ye Zhou's pupils shrank suddenly, and he suddenly realized what was about to happen.

But before he opened his mouth to warn, the ray of light began to expand at a speed far beyond his cognitive limit, and the Zheng He, which was still accelerating, was swallowed instantly, followed by the entire moon Io.

The singularity exploded.

A word flashed through Ye Zhou's mind.

Everyone stopped in place silently, there was nothing they could do.

After just a split second, the flash expanded to encompass the entirety of Jupiter.

Ye Zhou saw with his own eyes that many satellites were broken down into elementary particles under that kind of pure energy. What surprised him was that his consciousness could still be retained.

He looked back, and behind him, the position of the largest planet in the solar system was empty.

In the human sky, a star disappeared.

(End of this chapter)