Interstellar Mecha Life

Chapter 45

Su Wei stood on the bridge with his hands behind his back, listening intently to his deputy's report.

The fleet he led included a huge city-level interstellar warship with more than 1 combat spaceships, [-] combat mechs, and over [-] combat and non-combatant personnel.Or rather, it's more like a Battlestar.Its main body is oblong in shape, with a maximum width of more than [-] square kilometers, which is equivalent to a large urban city in the earth age.From construction to decommissioning, such warships will not completely take off and land on any planet, and drift in space for a lifetime.Its function is equivalent to that of a modern aircraft carrier. It can not only provide supplies for its own carrier-based spaceships and mechs, but also respond to friendly forces. More importantly, it is equipped with large energy devices that can supply energy for large-scale long-distance weapon strikes. The long-strike distance can pass through one-fifth of the Small Magellanic Cloud.

The name of this warship is Shanfei, which is used to commemorate the Shanfei general who made outstanding contributions in the history of the development of the small Magellan of mankind thousands of years ago.

In addition, the fleet led by Su Weishen also includes more than a dozen destroyers, frigates, mobile battleships, etc. The ships are neat and well-manned. It is a very standard interstellar battleship battle group.Of course, it is also powerful and dreadful.

With the development of science and technology, human beings in the interstellar era are increasingly freed from low-level and repetitive manual labor, but they are more and inevitably involved in more complicated work.

Therefore, the requirements for employees in all walks of life are also constantly increasing, and soldiers are also one of them.Especially the space soldiers.On the battleship, almost every combatant has at least a bachelor's degree, and after studying in a military academy, he can actually board the battleship after graduation.

Although demanding and away from home all year round, the high salaries and high benefits of warship combatants are still very popular.

Especially in recent decades, the death rate of human beings in interstellar battles is extremely low.And most of the deaths were not combat deaths, but accident deaths.

Coupled with a higher and more detailed medical security system, the average life expectancy of combatants on board the ship seems to be longer than that of ordinary people.

However, even so, the number of ten thousand people is too small compared to the size of Shanfei.Most of the space on the battleship is empty and silent, but the bridge is always busy and full of people.

"Location: Q star sector (13, -360, 5), received a confirmation signal, received permission, and is about to cross the star sector boundary."

"Arrived at the target location."

"Switch the power source and wait for the latest instructions."

The status reports on the battleship are ongoing, and various operators are methodically making adjustments according to the current situation and waiting for the latest orders.

Su Wei was silent with a solemn expression.And his adjutant David stood aside, looking at him constantly, as if urging him to give orders.

Su Weishen still didn't move for a long while.David had no choice but to turn his head and asked in a hoarse voice, "Did you find it?"

"Visual signal, none. Heat signal, none. Electromagnetic signal, none."

"There are new coordinates coming!" At this moment, the communications officer shouted: "Michael, the special combat team, reports: new coordinates, R sector..."

"Start to go to the new coordinates!" David said immediately.

However, Su Weishen said at this moment: "Wait."

"commander?"

"David, don't you think such a chase is pointless?"

"But Tang Xing..."

Su Weishen raised his hand and signaled him not to continue: "We are an attack fleet, not a rescue team. There is no point in chasing victims. Only by attacking the enemy can we maximize our role. And I have been thinking about why this The sub-military is so cautious, yet so anxious? Why did they send us?"

David froze.He obviously never thought about it.

Su Wei sat down with his knees bent, staring at the starry sky far away.The visible window of Cambridge has been fully opened, and the depth of the universe seems to be invaded from the other side of the transparent glass.

"Could it be... still that thing?" David guessed with trembling voice.

Su Weishen didn't respond to him, but said: "Stop talking about this, hurry up and analyze the situation, and find the enemy. Now the enemy can't even see the shadow, and they are dragging tens of thousands of us around."

"That's right." Just when David began to organize reconnaissance and analysis according to the routine, Su Weishen said again: "Ask how the special team is going."

After speaking, Su Weishen got up and strode away from the bridge.

Qi Yue drew another dot on the star map: "Xing Tianhe, have you discovered it? The time to travel through the wormhole has also stabilized at one and a half minutes, and it will no longer drop."

"En." After restarting, the mecha has been changed back to the combat system, and Xing Tianhe is making minor adjustments according to needs and habits. "What about the changing law of orientation?"

"If I'm not mistaken, we are taking this point as the center and making a circular motion in the form of a space jump." After Qi Yue enlarged the star map, he pointed to the empty place in the center, "There were no stars here, There are no planets or even asteroids. Although the nearby is a relatively hot star-forming region, the gas density is also below 10 to the 9th power of molecules per cubic meter. It can be said that unless a black hole with a mass of 300 solar masses suddenly appears here, Or dark energy, otherwise there is no way to explain Tang Xing's movement."

"Even if there is, I can't explain it." Xing Tianhe completed the last few settings at an extremely fast speed.

"But that's not what I'm most worried about." Qi Yue frowned.Everything in front of her was beyond her cognition, and she was a little confused and unable to understand a lot of data.

"What I am most worried about is whether frequent planet-level wormhole shuttles in such a narrow range will cause the collapse of time and space in the area."

Xing Tianhe is not a theoretical scholar, he said "Oh" and asked, "What is that?"

"This is related to the theory of time and space. I don't understand it comprehensively and carefully. I can only say that I have a glimpse of it." Qi Yue's research on these has little to do with her major, but thanks to her It has been working hard to improve the functions of the McDull network, and to establish an independent information system for it that can escape the constraints of Skynet.

"Tell me."

"You should know the theoretical basis and basic principles of modern wormholes, right?" Qi Yue asked.

Xing Tianhe: "Just pretend I don't know."

Qi Yue then thought about it, and after sorting out his thoughts, he explained: "The so-called wormhole travel is actually a simple explanation. If we want to travel from point A to point B in the universe, if we travel at the normal speed of light, it may take hundreds of years. This is the fastest human being can travel in normal space. If this is the case, we may never be able to live in the stars.

"However, the emergence of jump technology fundamentally solves this problem. Because if you go from A to B through a wormhole, it may only take a few 10 minutes. But in this process, it should be noted that the speed of the spacecraft does not actually Change. What really changes is the length of the route.”

Xing Tianhe listened quietly and earnestly, not feeling at all that the person speaking in front of him was a girl who was about 17 years old, but a scholar with rich knowledge and vivid explanations.

At this time, the vibration came again, and they passed through the wormhole.Qi Yue draws another coordinate point based on McDull's comparison results.

"The distance from point A to point B has been shortened, so the navigation has become faster. But how is this distance shortened? It is by bending the universe and folding time and space. In principle, it can be compared to this..." Speaking of this, Qi Yuena Picking up the soft screen in his hand, "Look, if there are two points AB on this plane, if people live in the plane, their world is only front, back, left, and right, which is two-dimensional, and they cannot understand the third dimension outside the plane. So from The shortest distance between A and B is a straight line."

Qi Yue drew a straight line to connect the two points.

"However, if the plane is bent, or even folded, to introduce the third dimension, look, at this time, A and B can be closer together, or even stick together. The original shortest straight line becomes a long way, and it can be obtained from a place that is not in the plane. A straight line from A to B. The distance is shortened and it takes much less time."

Xing Tianhe nodded in agreement: "So if our world is three-dimensional, then the wormhole is a straight line in the fourth dimension. It is a shorter distance produced after the space is curved."

"Yes." Qi Yue said, "So, frequent wormhole travel means frequent folding of time and space. Especially Xiangtang Xing's current situation: the range of movement is relatively small, and the scale of wormholes is too large. And the space is frequently folded, Bending and extrusion will cause traces, resulting in local instability. When this instability is not alleviated in time and continues to intensify, collapse will follow. It is difficult to calculate the specific value with my current ability. But the sooner we can get out of this state, the better."

Xing Tianhe pondered for a few seconds and said, "Give me the result of the calculation first."

"it is good."

It's actually not that difficult.It took McDull less than a few seconds to calculate the orbital position based on the existing data and make real-time corrections.After each pass, it adjusts its predicted position according to the latest data.The coordinate error of the latest three crossing exits does not exceed 100 million kilometers.This has been quite rare.

After Xing Tianhe used the special channel to send McDull's data back, within half a minute, he heard Michael's voice: "Captain!"

"Michael." Xing Tianhe finally showed a little softness on his tense face.

"Captain! Great, we finally got in touch!" Michael shouted over there, "Hey, Captain, that star map was made by my sister-in-law, right?"
Nourishes—

Xing Tianhe reacted very quickly. As soon as Michael's hey voice came out, he had a bad feeling. When he heard that word, he immediately muted it.

"Shut up and listen to me." Xing Tianhe Han said in a low voice, "What do I ask and what do you answer, do you hear me? Say one more word, be careful I will go back and dismantle your mech."

Xing Tianhe's threat can make Michael tremble even through the vast starry sky.

"Yes!"

"You are on the Shanfei now? Report the location coordinates to me." Xing Tianhe said, "I only have one retired mech on hand. If the maintenance goes well, I should be able to barely break out of Tang Xing's atmosphere, but if it doesn't work, you have to Get ready. Tang Xing's movement is probably not a natural phenomenon, and something has appeared on the center of the trajectory. If Shanfei can't detect it, I hope you can take a closer look."

"No problem, captain, just wait for our good news."

"Leave the on-site command to York Wen. Watch Daha carefully and don't let him be reckless." Xing Tianhe warned again, "This time is a special case, and the clerk is not required to accompany him. If he asks, we must pay attention to let him Keep a safe distance."

After the explanation, Xing Tianhe breathed a sigh of relief.

Qi Yue just kept looking at him and listening to his conversation.After he finished speaking, she couldn't help saying: "Let them pass without knowing the situation, okay?"

"If they don't pass by, maybe they will never know what happened." Xing Tianhe disapproved, "You don't have to worry about these for now, I have other things for you to do."

"what?"

"Help me adjust the power system of the mech." Xing Tian said, "You heard me, I'm leaving Tang Xing. In view of Tang Xing's current situation, it's best to control the whole process within one and a half minutes. Do you understand?"

Qi Yue frowned: "Are you sure? I have checked. After the incident, there were also shuttles trying to leave Tang Xing, but without exception, they were unsuccessful. On the contrary, there are more cases of machine destruction... I think you It’s better to stay here honestly.”

"Don't worry, I know what the problem is." Xing Tianhe looked at her and asked in a provocative tone, "Don't you like mechas? Are you confident in your mecha skills? Now it's time to test whether you have real talents It's time to prepare. The little fights in your school usually make you very unhappy, right?"

Qi Yue's face was tense for a while, and finally said: "I see."

When Su Weishen returned to the bridge again, there was no difference in appearance.But David could sensitively detect the low air pressure he exuded, so he could judge that the commander who was admired by everyone was in a very bad mood.

"Commander, Xing Tian and Captain have sent Tang Xing's new orbit and resumed communication. He suggested that we look for abnormal fluctuations at this coordinate." David pointed out the center of Tang Xing's orbit on the huge holographic star map .

Su Wei said deeply: "What was the result?"

"No abnormality has been found so far. If there is an object there, it does not emit light and has the same temperature as the cosmic background. The mass is slightly abnormal, but it is not enough to attract the gravity of Tang Xing to do such a motion. Basically ruled out the possibility of a black hole ,and……."

At this moment, Su Weishen interrupted him: "Prepare a high-intensity beam, aim it at the center and launch it."

David was surprised: "Light?"

"Yes." Su Weishen turned his head and said calmly, "Let's see what the hell is in that center."

(End of this chapter)