my tech museum

Chapter 322 Collision
Xu Lei was not attracted by the conversation between Li Chengzhe and Ye Junmin, but involuntarily stared at the planetary defense railgun deployed in the orbit around Mars in the picture, just looking full of shocking momentum.

Li Chengzhe obviously noticed this at this time, and after finishing the call with Ye Junmin, he quickly interjected: "There are currently five planetary defense orbital guns deployed in orbit around Mars. In addition to being able to easily destroy celestial bodies entering Mars, An important combat force of the Mars military base."

Xu Lei basically knew what Li Chengzhe said.

It is clear that Sunan and Zhao Jingbin, two military experts, have put a lot of effort into the construction of the planetary defense orbital gun project.

Otherwise, Mars would never have such space power.

It is not an exaggeration to say that based on the force value of the Mars military base alone, even if there are a small number of extraterrestrial civilization warships, they can still be shot down, and they will definitely not pass through the defense line of Mars.

But it is a bit regrettable that as of today, only five planetary defense orbital guns have been produced.

And all of them are deployed in orbit around Mars.

Mainly, Mars is a special barrier for the planet Earth. In the future, if a space battle breaks out, it will definitely not be carried out near the planet Earth. Therefore, protecting the safety of Mars is also protecting the planet Earth.

But after a little hesitation, Xu Lei still explained one more thing seriously.

"The planetary defense orbital gun is our backhand in response to the Pluto crisis, and it has far-reaching significance. Regardless of whether the impact mission is successful or not, the manufacture of the planetary defense orbital gun cannot be stopped."

"Don't worry, Captain, the institute also attaches great importance to the planetary defense orbital gun." Li Chengzhe assured.

This time because their goal was not Mars, they did not choose to stop or slow down, and still escorted the space kinetic energy weapon to Jupiter.

With two interstellar warships escorting the whole process, the flight of ten space kinetic energy weapons was very smooth.

During the period, the flight angle was optimized under the control of Xingtong to ensure that it can hit Pluto 100% of the time, and maximize the advantages of space kinetic energy weapons.

But this also presents a problem.

Because the space travel in the middle is too boring, Xu Lei feels like doing nothing.

After all, even if an obstacle is encountered, the Future No. flying ahead will clean it up immediately, and there is no need for the Shenzhou No. to take action.

For this reason, Xu Lei even took the initiative to experience the life of an anchor for a few days.

I want to pass the time with the audience in the live broadcast room.

It's a pity that he underestimated the number of viewers.

As a live broadcast room that gathers audiences from all over the world, it is still a live broadcast of the exciting scene of impacting Pluto, which is related to the future of mankind. It can be said that there are more than [-] million people online in the live broadcast room at any time.

Can think about what will happen when they see Xu Lei appearing in the live broadcast room.

It just exploded on the spot.

Even if the live broadcast signal is transmitted by the quantum relay station, there is a delay of several seconds or even a freeze under the rapid refresh of the massive barrage.

In addition, the questions raised by the audience were all kinds of strange, and they were even very interested in Xu Lei's personal life. In the end, Xu Lei couldn't stand it anymore and had to pull Xingtong's mechanical body over to replace him. As for himself, he simply chose to lie down in biological hibernation in the cabin.

Set yourself a time to automatically wake up after two months.

Yes.

Battleships have long been equipped with dormant cabins.

In fact, the main significance of the existence of the dormant cabin is to prepare the crew for long-term interstellar voyages.

In this way, the crew can directly spend the long flight time with the help of the biological dormancy cabin, avoiding various factors brought about by the mind and spirit.

Otherwise, if you really want to stay on the ship in a normal state of life for several years or even ten years, even the best crew members will suffer mental breakdowns to varying degrees.

Seriously affect the overall combat capability of the warship.

It is precisely in order to avoid this situation that the biological hibernation chamber was specially developed.

Although Xu Lei made the biological dormancy chamber mainly for the underground dormancy base, it is completely no problem to equip the two warships. At least it can help the crew to adjust their psychological problems well.

In addition, using the biological hibernation cabin, his brain will almost fall into a state of deep sleep, which greatly reduces the impact on the body.

There are only benefits.

Who wouldn't like the idea of ​​being able to reach Jupiter just by sleeping?

However, before entering the dormant cabin to sleep, Xu Lei also specifically explained to Xingtong that if there is no special situation, he must not be woken up temporarily.

Although this kind of active awakening from the outside world will not affect your health, I believe that no one wants to sleep just to be pulled up by others.

that's it.

With Xingtong and Li Chengzhe in charge of the operation of the battleship and kinetic weapons, Xu Lei slept peacefully for two months.

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"Is this the effect of the biological hibernation chamber? Sure enough, there is no discomfort in the body, but it is indeed easy to dream." As the biological hibernation chamber automatically opens at the preset time, Xu Lei feels his physical state and finds that it is what Song Le said at the beginning. It made no difference, but when he tried to recall the dreams he had, he couldn't remember anything.

Of course, he didn't spend too much time studying this situation.

Then forget about it.

Noticing that Xingtong was approaching, he quickly asked, "What time is it now? How long will it be before the kinetic energy weapon collides with Pluto?"

"Today is April 4th. According to calculations, the space kinetic energy weapon and Pluto will collide tomorrow." Facing Xu Lei's question, Xingtong didn't dare to hesitate and answered quickly.

Hearing the sound, Xu Lei straightened his face immediately: "It seems that the time for me to wake up is just right!"

After speaking, he changed into the blue ship uniform and walked towards the core command and control cabin.

"Captain, you are awake." Li Chengzhe, who was still busy in front of the console, greeted Xu Lei immediately after seeing Xu Lei's figure.

"Well, you have worked hard for these two months." Xu Lei nodded to Li Chengzhe, and walked over to understand the current state: "How is the current situation of the space kinetic energy weapon, and whether it meets the conditions for a formal collision with Pluto tomorrow?"

"After these two months of acceleration, the speed of our space kinetic energy weapon has reached one-thousandth of the speed of light. The force brought by the impact will definitely be able to put Pluto out of orbit." The obvious excitement and excitement, it is obvious that tomorrow's task is already in the chest.

After listening to these reports, Xu Lei felt completely relaxed.

Knowing that Li Chengzhe and Xingtong are there, there will be absolutely no problems.

"That's good, let the Future get out of the escort." Immediately, such an order was issued without any hesitation.

The future escorts the space kinetic energy weapon, mainly to clear possible obstacles and ensure that the space kinetic energy weapon will not be affected by celestial bodies.

Now that the space kinetic energy weapon has successfully completed the acceleration, and is about to collide with Pluto, the future interstellar battleship naturally has no reason to continue escorting, and needs to withdraw from the range affected by Jupiter's gravity in advance.

Even the Shenzhou has to temporarily stop flying and choose to park in place.

After all, ten extremely fast space kinetic energy weapons collided with an asteroid with a diameter of more than 20 kilometers. The energy generated at that time may be enough to describe it as an earth-exploding star.

Its power can be imagined.

Although the Shenzhou and the Future are heavy-duty cruisers, their defense is not bad when they have strong combat capabilities.

But it is not necessarily that the armor can withstand the attack brought by the impact.

In particular, if the meteorite fragments shattered by the impact of Pluto really caused damage to the battleship, the loss would be great.

It is completely worth the candle.

It's better to stay away as soon as possible and pay attention to the final result silently.

Anyway, the situation has progressed to this point, the result can be said to have been doomed, no one can change anything, as for the final success depends on God's will.

Li Chengzhe naturally understood the meaning of Xu Lei's order, so he immediately conveyed the order to Future.

At the same time, control the Shenzhou so that its flight speed began to decrease slowly.

But I don't know if there is a feeling of being close to the hometown. The closer the date of the collision, the more worried Li Chengzhe is. He always feels that this mission may not be too smooth, and it may be a result that is unacceptable to all human beings. .

In order to eliminate this worry, he could only try to reassure himself from Xu Lei.

After thinking about it, I finally couldn't help asking: "Captain, do you think we can succeed tomorrow?"

Although Xu Lei didn't know why Li Chengzhe suddenly asked about such a thing, he didn't think much about it, and just expressed his opinion truthfully.

"Maybe, I'm not 100% sure."

"However, we have put so much effort and sweat into making these ten space kinetic energy weapons, and we have concentrated global resources to finish it on time. If we can't solve the Pluto crisis, how will we face the public?" Li Chengzhe obviously couldn't accept this answer for a while, subconsciously He threw out his own doubts.

The main reason is that he always has a feeling of great trust and admiration for Xu Lei.

I think that as long as Xu Lei does something, there is absolutely no time when he fails.

So when he learned that Xu Lei proposed space kinetic energy weapons and was willing to pay a huge price for it, he firmly believed that this method would definitely solve the Pluto crisis.

But what people didn't expect was that on the eve of the official implementation of the task, Xu Lei said that he was not 100% sure.

This makes the results confusing.

Fortunately, the audience in the live broadcast room only saw the view of the battleship and could not hear the communication in the core command and control room. Otherwise, they would definitely be stunned.

As for Li Chengzhe's last words, Xu Lei only spit out a few words: "Do your best to obey the destiny, we have already done what should be done, the next step is to depend on God's will."

Just after saying these words, it seemed that he didn't want to dampen Li Chengzhe's passion too much, so as not to affect tomorrow's impact mission, so he added: "However, we still have the two guarantees of planetary defense orbital guns and underground dormant bases. I believe Human civilization will eventually be invincible."

"I know how to be a captain." Li Chengzhe's eyes lit up when he heard these words, and then he nodded heavily.

Yes, there are more than one preparations made by future technology to deal with the Pluto crisis.

What if I fail this time?
Moreover, with the use of ten space kinetic energy weapons, Li Chengzhe really didn't know how to escape Pluto.

at the same time.

After the exact time of the impact was announced in the live broadcast room, the audience's emotions were once again mobilized, and they all expressed their expectation for the arrival of this scene.

concern of all mankind.

Its barrage refresh rate has pushed to a new height.

"The big one is coming."

"Whether the threat of Pluto can be resolved depends entirely on tomorrow."

"No one is allowed to sleep tonight."

"Earth-exploding stars."

"My live broadcast actually got stuck. It's the first time in many years."

"Human beings are awesome!"

……

As the audience in the live broadcast room said, facing such exciting things, it is basically difficult to fall asleep at night.

So even though it was late at night on Earth and Star, the number of people online in the live broadcast room still didn't decrease much. Everyone wanted to see the space kinetic energy weapon successfully hit Pluto with their own eyes.

The next day.

Xu Lei, Li Chengzhe and the crew finished their meal early and arrived at their posts.

Strictly monitor the flight status of Pluto and space kinetic energy weapons.

Prevent unexpected impact on tasks at this time.

According to the calculation results given by Xingtong, the space kinetic energy weapon will collide with Pluto at around [-]:[-] a.m. Earth time, and the collision location is near the orbit of Jupiter. It can be said that the countdown to the final battle has begun.

Whether human civilization can successfully get rid of the crisis of Pluto, or make the situation more complicated, all depends on this shocking collision.

At this time, Shenzhou and Future were moored side by side in a region a little far from Jupiter, using the monitoring equipment on the space kinetic energy weapon and the specially released detectors to pay attention to the result of the impact.

"Report to the captain."

"The countdown to the collision time has entered one hour, and the entire ship has entered a first-level alert state."

In the core command and control cabin, as Li Chengzhe shouted these words calmly, a countdown appeared on the main screen.

The beating numbers were like a sledgehammer, hitting Xu Lei's heart very frequently.

The whole person involuntarily tensed up.

To be honest, although the kinetic energy weapon in space was his plan to deal with the Pluto crisis, it is impossible to judge what the impact will bring.

With his heart beating faster, Xu Lei subconsciously asked Xingtong beside him: "Are you sure there is no problem? Can they collide accurately?"

The diameter of Pluto is more than 20 kilometers. This size is indeed not small on the planet, but in the infinite space, it is no different from a small meteorite. If the flight trajectory of the two cannot be accurately calculated, maybe Will miss it.

We must know that the reason why space kinetic energy weapons can knock Pluto off its original orbit is that in addition to its own power, the acceleration brought by the two-month flight is also important. If the direction is reversed at that time, then even if it can catch up with Pluto, It will no longer have any effect, so there is only one chance for these ten space kinetic energy weapons.

Facing doubts about the data, Xingtong gave a very formal answer.

"The calculation results are correct."

Compared with the traditional calculation method of scientists, Xu Lei undoubtedly believes in Xingtong more.

Now that that's been said, there's no need to worry about anything.

Looking at the rapidly approaching Pluto and the space kinetic energy weapon on the screen, Xu Lei also had many thoughts uncontrollably in his mind: "Could it be that the crisis brought about by Pluto will be resolved just like this? Arranging other double guarantees is not necessary at all?"

But soon he cleared similar thoughts from his mind.

Because regardless of whether the planetary defense orbital gun and the underground dormant base can be used or not, if space kinetic energy weapons can really directly solve the Pluto crisis, it will be a great joy for human civilization.

It is worth commemorating this day.

Let countless younger generations know what the ancestors have done to realize the rise of human civilization.

Under the common gaze of audiences all over the world, an hour passed in a flash. With the help of the probe's camera, people could clearly see Pluto and the space kinetic energy weapon.

At this time, the figure of Pluto continued to enlarge in the screen, and it looked very intimidating.

It is impossible to imagine what kind of environmental changes will be brought about if such an asteroid with a diameter of more than 20 kilometers collides with the earth and stars.

I'm afraid not to mention human beings, all species on the planet will become extinct.

There is no guarantee whether life can be bred in the future.

Of course, the Taishan space kinetic energy weapon produced by the space shipyard is not vegetarian.

The ten space kinetic energy weapons are like ten giant dragons soaring in the galaxy, and they slammed towards Pluto with a fearless and indomitable momentum.

Relying on Xingpu's precise calculation and flight route optimization, all ten space kinetic energy weapons finally hit the surface of Pluto, and the metal body with the armor was directly submerged into Pluto, causing a violent explosion and energy impact.

Almost instantly, the perspective picture of the space kinetic energy weapon was disconnected.

From the perspective of the probe, Pluto can be seen to be fragmented, as the impact stripped a large number of meteorite fragments from the main body.

Two of the probes were scrapped and turned into space junk on the spot after being hit by meteorite fragments.

Fortunately, Xu Lei had the foresight to order the Shenzhou and the Future to evacuate this area in advance. Otherwise, if they really faced the attack of these meteorite fragments flying at high speed due to the explosion, I am afraid that the outer armor of the battleship would not be able to resist it.

At that time, a maintenance ship will need to be dispatched for repairs, not to mention, I don't know how long it will be delayed.

As for the moment Pluto collided with the ten space kinetic energy weapons, the huge body paused for a moment, and then quickly fell towards Jupiter.

no doubt.

This time the impact was successful.

And it was a great success, successfully solving the Pluto crisis.

Pluto itself does not have power, and it is so close to Jupiter at the moment, it will definitely be captured by Jupiter and become a new satellite.

So far, Earth and Star will no longer be under any threat.

Seeing such a scene, all the crew members of the Shenzhou Future also stood up and cheered, applauding to celebrate what they thought was a success.

"Success, we succeeded."

"Pluto broke away from its original flight orbit under the impact of Taishan's space kinetic energy weapon. This is completely within our plan, which is really great."

"Human civilization has finally got rid of the threat of Pluto."

"Captain, have you seen that our efforts have not been in vain."

In the core command and control cabin of the Shenzhou, Xu Lei listened to the cheers of the surrounding crew members and Li Chengzhe's words, and a smile appeared on his face after his tense heart was completely relaxed.

However, he was not overwhelmed by joy and remained calm.

Then he told Li Chengzhe: "Continue to observe the position information of Pluto to ensure that it becomes a satellite of Jupiter."

"It's the captain."

Seeing the success of this collision mission, Li Chengzhe was also extremely excited, as if his whole body had been beaten to death, and he immediately executed it after receiving the new order.

After all, although Pluto has deviated from its orbit, if it is not captured by Jupiter and becomes a satellite, staying in this place is always a hidden danger.

At that time, measures must be taken to forcibly destroy it.

After all, although the impact just now shattered the surface of Pluto a lot, it is nothing compared to the volume of more than 20 kilometers.

As for the live broadcast room, the pot exploded completely, and everyone was immersed in this joyful atmosphere.

I don’t know how many people around the world shed tears of excitement in front of the holographic screen, expressing their feelings at this time through barrage, and praising the personnel in charge of the task.

"I really cried this time, I was so moved."

"Who says no, we have worked hard for several years to solve this Pluto."

"Fortunately, everything has settled down."

"Humanity successfully defeated Pluto, and I knew it would be like this."

"I have a feeling that we may soon be individuals of a second-level civilization."

"We made it."

"The scene of the impact just now was really shocking. The human body looks so weak under this kind of force."

"The Pluto crisis can be resolved smoothly, thanks to Councilor Xu's development of a space kinetic weapon. He is the hero of our entire human civilization."

But what no one expected was that when everyone was still immersed in this joy, the accident happened suddenly, and it immediately attracted the attention of the personnel on the Shenzhou who monitored the status of Pluto.

"Report Captain, Pluto... Pluto is out of Jupiter's gravity!"

Almost as soon as the crew member's voice sounded, it immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Especially Xu Lei's complexion changed slightly.

Everyone knows what will happen if Pluto is crashed into Jupiter's gravitational region. Even if it cannot become a satellite, it will still follow an irregular flight orbit, but it is only limited to Jupiter's gravitational range, and it is absolutely impossible to get rid of Jupiter's gravitational force on its own. .

Not to mention how long Pluto had just been hit.

No matter how you look at it, it is not realistic to get rid of gravity.

But when Xu Lei and Li Chengzhe saw the picture from the detector with their own eyes, their expressions immediately froze on their faces.

Because at this moment, Pluto seems to have installed a super-large nuclear fusion power engine, which just helped it to forcibly get rid of Jupiter's gravity, and adjusted the angle to continue flying towards the planet.

Even with the help of this strange power, the flying speed is faster than before.

That is to say, they have worked so hard for so long to successfully manufacture ten space kinetic energy weapons, but they did not have any effect at all.

Instead it makes it faster.

Xu Lei did think that this operation might fail, but it was impossible to think about this situation, which completely overturned the previous cognition.

Originally, he thought that Pluto was just an ordinary asteroid that escaped from the Kuiper belt, but now it seems that this is a super-large kinetic energy weapon modified by an extraterrestrial civilization, and its target is very accurate. .

(End of this chapter)