Eight Hundred and Six Mosquito Legs
On May 31, 2027, the Third Fleet of the Expeditionary Force.
A dozen warships of various types, headed by the Nanzhou, silently passed through the asteroid belt. Not far outside the orbit of the fleet was Europa, which was traveling in the same direction as the ship.
From the star map, the small celestial bodies in the asteroid belt are very dense, giving people the illusion that once they enter the asteroid belt, they will hit an asteroid sooner or later. In fact, the distance between asteroids is very far, and the possibility of hitting an asteroid is Sex is very low.
Furthermore, the radar on the warship is not a display. It always monitors the airspace near the fleet. Even if an asteroid does approach, there is no chance of hitting the warship.
On board the Yushan, Ye Han's eyes were looking through the portholes at Jupiter in the distance.
Today is the third day after hibernation. Three days ago, Europa was just a small bright spot. Now it is two circles larger than the moon. In two days at most, the fleet should encounter Europa.
The current Io was no longer what Ye Han had seen before. The front of Io was full of large and small explosion craters. Several of the giant craters were as eye-catching as the craters on the moon. He found them at a glance. The explosion crater left by the Penglai.
At first, this explosion crater was the only giant explosion crater on the front of Europa. Now several explosion craters are surrounded by each other. Half of the Penglai explosion crater has been occupied by other explosion craters.
As for the small and medium-sized explosion craters left by the nuclear bomb, there are even more. The large and small explosion craters have completely turned the front of Europa into a pockmarked face, like a head covered with bald spots.
Although the moon also has this shape, Ye Han just thinks that Europa is a thousand times uglier than the moon.
Not only is the front of Europa densely covered with explosion craters, but the back side is not much stronger either. However, the back side can still remain icy white, and the closer it is to the planetary engine, the fewer the explosion craters are. The planetary engine is surrounded by a snowy snowfield, and an explosion Can't find any holes.
It is obvious that the aliens have completely given up on the front of Io. Anyway, no matter how much harm humans do, they cannot penetrate Io. On the contrary, the planetary engine must be the focus of the aliens' defense. Judging from the number of explosion craters, the aliens' defense is very successful.
Ye Han felt that it was necessary to understand the aliens' arrangements, so he took out the power armor, activated the telescope function of the armor, and continuously zoomed in on Io. Then he saw a patch of stars near Io, like scattered dust. Ice-white highlights.
Each bright spot is an alien battleship. If you continue to zoom in on the screen, you will soon be able to see clearly what the alien battleship looks like.
Ye Han roughly counted, there were about three to four hundred alien warships hovering near Europa.
The strength of the alien fleet is extraordinary. Even if the Beiyuezhou Fleet and the International Fleet are tied together, there are not so many warships. However, Io is not small. Hundreds of warships are scattered in mid- and low-altitude orbits near Io, and the density of warships is low. It's so pitiful that even if a handful of sand is thrown into the sea, its density will be higher than that of an alien fleet.
However, Ye Han knew very well that this was not how the score was calculated. If the alien fleet was so easy to deal with, the international fleet would not be unable to deal with Europa for so long.
Thinking of the International Fleet, Ye Han looked for it specifically. He turned around a few times around Europa and found no sign of the International Fleet. He couldn't help but secretly wonder, did the International Fleet know that the Third Fleet was coming and deliberately avoided it?
While he was thinking about it, Ye Han suddenly discovered that there was an asteroid directly in front of Europa, and it was hitting Europa head-on.
The alien fleet also discovered the asteroid blocking the way. More than a dozen alien warships rushed forward at the same time, crossing Jupiter and blocking the asteroid's orbit. The dense thin light flashed randomly, cutting the asteroid like a paring knife. After peeling off the layers, the good asteroid was cut into a bunch of pieces by the aliens in a short while.
After the alien warship chopped up the asteroid, it immediately retreated to its original position. After a while, Io flew over, and most of the fragments fell into Io's atmosphere, turning into a falling fire shower meteor in the atmosphere. Soon It burned up in the atmosphere, and not a single meteorite fell to the ground.
Ye Han felt that the aliens were quite skilled in dealing with asteroids, and a thought suddenly came to his mind: Wasn't this asteroid moved here by the international fleet? Could it be that the international fleet always does this?
Only aliens have such a sophisticated response plan?
But no matter how he searched, he couldn't find the International Fleet. After a while, another asteroid appeared directly in front of Europa!
Ye Han became so curious that he simply opened the Nanzhou's communication and applied for the right to use the optical equipment from the Nanzhou - the Nanzhou had the most advanced astronomical telescope in the fleet, and the Yushan was a one-time use The battleship is not equipped with optical observation equipment at all!
Ye Han's application was quickly responded to, and Ye Han, who obtained the right to use it, used the data link to control the telescope and observe the situation in front of Europa.
The astronomical-grade telescope was indeed extraordinary. After a while, Ye Han discovered anomalies deep in the asteroid belt. But what he found was not an international fleet, but hundreds of alien warships!
These alien warships are scattered near the orbit in front of Jupiter, either in groups of three or in groups of five, sending nearby asteroids to Jupiter's orbit one by one!
Ye Han couldn't believe his eyes. If it was normal for the international fleet to do this, using asteroids to hit targets was a simple space tactic, but what if the aliens themselves stumbled the moon?
He couldn't turn the corner for a while, but after a while, a thought came to his mind: Could the aliens do this to replenish Europa's body?
Eo Zero was not only attacked by the human expeditionary force, but also nearly fell into Jupiter when it was near Jupiter. At that time, the surface of Eo Zero was stripped by Jupiter's gravity, and a lot of mass was lost.
Ye Han still remembered that when the first fleet approached Jupiter, it was discovered that the alien fleet sent the captured asteroids to Jupiter. At that time, no one knew what the aliens wanted to do, and no one thought deeply. Now looking back, the aliens seemed to have planned to replenish the mass of Jupiter Zero since then.
He vaguely remembered that when Eo Zero left Jupiter, it seemed to accept a few small satellites, but it has been a long time, and he can't remember whether it happened.
As for the reasons, there are a lot of them. For example, the mass loss is too much, and the gravity of the planet decreases; another example is that the asteroid contains certain substances that aliens need; and the planetary engine, that thing can't generate thrust out of thin air, and the fuel consumed every day is an astronomical figure, and the fuel used by the planetary engine must come from Jupiter itself...
Think about it, to be able to push such a large planet, let alone how much fuel is consumed every day, I'm afraid it takes tens of thousands of tons of fuel every second.
Mosquito legs are also meat, although the asteroid is small, it is more or less a supplement.
Congratulations to the birth of the third leader of this book, "Scarlet Crescent Moon", well, it's still owed, and it can't be added for the time being, but brothers, don't worry, I will definitely make up for it.