Chapter 484 Rescue the Spacecraft Engine

In fact, when Xiaochun informed me, our position was still over Eastern Europe, but everyone knows the speed difference between aerospace vehicles and aviation vehicles. Flying from Europe to the coast of China by civil aviation will take up to several hours. Some aircraft with shorter ranges may need to come down and refuel in the middle, but the interstellar immigration ship is not an aircraft, it is a spacecraft. The minimum requirement is to be able to reach the first cosmic speed. Otherwise, how can we do spaceflight? Even now that we have destroyed part of the propeller of this immigrant ship and its speed has not reached the first cosmic speed, the first cosmic speed is 232 times the speed of sound. Even if it cannot be reached now, it is still 180 times the speed of sound. of.

The fastest fighter among aviation aircraft is only more than ten times the speed of sound. This is still an experimental aircraft. The maximum speed of practical fighter aircraft has not reached ten times the speed of sound, let alone civil aviation. Supersonic speeds are very rare. Most cannot reach the speed of sound.

Therefore, it takes several hours for civil aviation to travel from Europe to the eastern coast of China, but it only takes a few minutes for this spacecraft to survive.

The result of such a fast speed is that if this thing plunges into a densely populated urban area, the number of casualties will probably be in the thousands, and it is not impossible to exceed 10,000.

Of course we can't let this happen, so the best way is to blow it up now. We are currently over Eastern Europe, where the population is relatively sparse. Even if a few parts fall, it is not easy to hit people. And even if the spacecraft disintegrates now, with its speed, the wreckage will continue to fly far forward before landing. And Eastern Europe is almost no man's land further forward. The area near the Himalayas, the world's tallest mountain range, is almost a sparsely populated safe zone. Even if the spacecraft crashes, it will not cause much problems, and it will definitely not be a problem to keep the number of casualties within a hundred people. It is normal to have zero casualties if you are lucky. After all, this place is a mountainous area, and it is uninhabited for thousands of miles. The environment is harsh, let alone people, and there are not many animals.

Thinking of the existence of the psychic network, the moment I knew the situation, everyone on our side also knew the situation. At the same time, all administrative departments in the eastern coastal areas of our country have been notified to cancel all vacations and everyone is on standby. Once it is confirmed that the spacecraft will really crash into the coastal cities, emergency plans will be started immediately. Even if the entire population cannot be evacuated, more people can be rescued. One is also good.

While the coastal cities were nervously preparing for war, our side was really starting to work hard.

Since it is going to be destroyed. Then it cannot be dealt with simply. Everyone who got on the ship was trying their best to increase the output, and activated all available destruction methods to destroy the hull as much as possible. Moreover, this destruction is also very particular and cannot be destroyed casually.

It is equivalent to a spacecraft as big as eight aircraft carriers bundled together. It’s not something that people like us can simply tear down completely. Although we are not ordinary people, after all, our numbers are small and our destructive power is limited, so we cannot really have much impact on this thing. So destruction must be focused.

To make this thing fall early, the easiest way is to destroy three parts - the central control room, the power system, and the shell.

The ability of a spaceship to fly depends on its power system. The immigration ship is not a glider. The wings of this thing are very short and basically have no gliding effect, so once it loses power, it loses power. This thing will immediately become a free fall. The central control room is actually the same as the power system. This place controls all power systems. As long as this place can be destroyed, the spacecraft will lose control. Even if the power system does not stall, it will fly around and eventually fall quickly.

This part of the outer shell mainly plays a role in reducing resistance and ensuring the overall integrity of the spacecraft. As long as there is damage to the outer shell of the spacecraft, the resistance to the spacecraft will increase, resulting in a decrease in speed. As long as its speed decreases, the destructive power will also decrease a lot.

In fact, it seems that the power system is the most important. As long as this part is completely destroyed, the spacecraft will definitely fall immediately.

It's good to understand where the point is, but we're also a little confused now.

This spacecraft is different from those that were used as bait before. It is a spacecraft independently designed and built by the other party, and it has been completed in secret. Therefore, we do not have any design drawings for this thing, and we have no idea about its structure at all. This means that we cannot find the various cabins and passages of this thing very well at all, and we don't even know the location of the cabins inside it.

The reason why we were able to destroy the main thruster and an auxiliary thruster so quickly before was mainly because the location of these thrusters was easy to find. Although we did not know their design, we all saw that the thrusters were on the spacecraft before boarding the ship. The bottom, so as long as they walked back, they would definitely be able to find the thruster. This allowed Hans and the others to quickly find the location of the main thruster and destroy it. However, although the main propulsion was destroyed, we have not yet found the entrance to the auxiliary thruster. The one that exploded before was destroyed by accident. We have no idea where the entrances to the other five auxiliary thrusters are. have no idea. Fortunately, the positions of these thrusters are distributed in an annular shape, so we roughly know a range, at least we don't have to touch them randomly.

While resisting the attack of the armed men in the ship, we searched, and sure enough, we quickly found an auxiliary thruster, and Hans and the others who were separated from us also successfully found the entrance to an auxiliary thruster.

We found two entrances at the same time. Both of us quickly got in, and then left a few people to guard the entrance and shoot at the people outside. The remaining people ran directly to the propeller to prepare for destruction.

To be honest, when I saw the thruster in front of me, I really didn’t want to break it. Most people don't know how precious this thing is, but we know it very well. Although this kind of thruster is small and cannot support an immigration ship with one thruster, using this thruster as the main thruster and then attaching a circle of our rocket thrusters can send a medium-sized immigration ship out of the earth. Gravity Circle.

Currently, there are not enough immigration ships in various countries. The main reason is that the propellers dug out of the alien ruins are not enough. It does not mean that the hulls we built ourselves are not enough. I don't know about the situation in other countries. At least based on my country's current industrial level, we can build an immigration ship to carry more than 2 billion people before the final safe node is reached. In other words, if we take all the people away from the country, there will still be a lot of vacancies. But in reality the number of people we can take away is only a little more than one-third of this number. The reason why the data is so different is because the number of alien engines is not enough, so we can only mass-produce our own rocket engines. Our rocket engines are not only large in size, but also have limited production capacity, and cannot be equipped with many spacecrafts at all. This is the key reason why the production speed of immigration ships cannot keep up with the schedule.

As long as one of the engines in front of us can be taken away, there will be one more immigrant ship, which will save tens of thousands more people. This is definitely not a joke, after all, tens of thousands of lives are at stake!

Looking at the huge alien engine in front of me, I really couldn't bear to part with it, but it's too late to say anything now. This spaceship is now like this. There is absolutely no way to land smoothly, which means that these engines cannot be saved at all. In this case, it is useless to keep them. Sooner or later they will be destroyed in the crash. It can’t be saved anyway. Just let go and let it end as soon as possible.

"Ling, we..."

I was planning to let Ling and I do it together, but unexpectedly, I suddenly heard Nuwa's voice ringing in the spiritual network. "Wait a moment."

"What's wrong?"

Because Nuwa is also on the Internet, she also knows our thoughts. In fact, Nuwa really didn't want the engine to be destroyed. So when I was thinking about this, she was also thinking about whether there was a way to hold the engine. After much deliberation, Nuwa came to the conclusion that it can.

"I have a way to save the engine. Don't destroy it yet."

When I heard Nuwa's words, I didn't rush to ask how to protect it, but quickly contacted Hans. They couldn't hear our spiritual network, so we had to stop it quickly.

"Hans. Don't rush to destroy the thrusters yet. We might be able to save these thrusters."

Although Hans is different from me and is not particularly technical, he at least knows that this thing is very important. Even a country can fight for one or two of these things, so when he heard that he could save this thing, he came immediately interest.

"Do you really have a way?"

"I don't know. This is the suggestion given by my logistics support department."

"Then it should be no problem." After Hans finished speaking, he immediately added: "I want half of the saved thrusters."

I didn't answer immediately, but first contacted Nuwa using the mind network to ask her about her plan and success rate. Because I used the mind network, it was much faster than speaking. We exchanged hundreds of opinions in just one second. , Nuwa also took the time to demonstrate her entire plan to me using a simplified version of three-dimensional animation. Only a second passed after I learned all the information. Only then did I turn to contact Hans. "There are five thrusters left. I don't know how many of them I can keep. I promise to give you one complete one at most."

"If there is a damaged one, I want another damaged one. If all five are preserved in good condition, I want two intact ones."

"make a deal."

Although the damaged thruster cannot be used directly, the parts on it are actually of certain value, so Hans plans to get one more damaged version, and if all five complete ones are OK, then he can get two. A propeller, that’s a lot of money.

As soon as I agreed, Hans suddenly asked: "How about removing the two damaged thrusters? The big one belongs to you and the small one belongs to me, no matter how damaged it is."

Hans' idea is actually very simple. Now there are two damaged thrusters, and he gets a small damaged one, and then adding that among the 5 intact thrusters, he may get a damaged one, so that he may get a intact thruster. machine and two damaged thrusters, and the alien equipment seems to be very characteristic of large-scale mechanical industrial production, that is, all parts are of unified standards. In other words, there is great hope that two damaged propellers can be assembled into a intact one by using complementary parts. Of course, it doesn't matter if he gets two intact thrusters and one damaged one, that would be better. Therefore, this proposal can be regarded as guaranteeing harvests despite droughts and floods.

Anyway, if one is dismantled or five are dismantled, I don’t mind how to deal with it.

After the discussion, I gave up the plan to destroy the thruster, and started to deal with the thruster according to the suggestions given by Nuwa. Of course, I also had to send an explanation document to Hans. But Hans also had a command network, so in the end I simply asked Nuwa to directly station in their power armor and teach them what to do.

In fact, this plan is not very complicated. To put it simply, we don't destroy the hull first, but instead control all the thrusters. Try to ensure that the spacecraft does not crash first, let it fly over the coastal areas of China, and then directly discard the thrusters over the East China Sea or South China Sea, and Nuwa will be responsible for responding below. As for how to respond...it's actually simple. Nuwa will arrange a large group of biological force field generators on the sea, which are the kind of things that look like giant white eggs.

This thing has the electromagnetic force field control ability of our dragon clan, and its output intensity is much greater than ours. As long as the quantity of this thing is enough. The electromagnetic force field can be used to support the thruster to achieve a soft landing. Moreover, since it is airdropped over the sea, as long as the speed is not too fast, it will be fine even if it crashes into the sea. Alien's equipment is quite sturdy, and there will generally be no problems as long as it doesn't fall into the water very quickly. Of course, these biological force field generators alone cannot support things flying hundreds of times the speed of sound, so we still have several things to do.

First. Although we can't let the spacecraft crash, we can't let it fly too fast, otherwise it will be too late to slow down. What we need to do is to use our own electronic brain to connect the thrusters, and then directly operate the thrusters and control their output power instead of the control system on the spacecraft. This allows us to fly safely to the sea and control the speed below ten times the speed of sound, otherwise the biological force field generators below will not be able to catch this propeller.

Second, in addition to controlling the thruster. We also need to hack into the spacecraft control system and find the control switch for the forced ejection thruster.

As for why Nuwa knew that the propeller on this spacecraft could be forced to eject. In fact, it's because all immigration ships are like this.

Due to certain principles that we don't know, the thrusters of alien spacecraft are said to be unstable after being damaged, may explode, and are very powerful. so. Alien's engines are modular in design and are easy to replace. Once it is damaged in battle, the entire engine can be ejected and used directly as a bomb. This is also the reason why alien spacecraft usually do not have large propellers, but have a lot of small propellers densely packed at the stern. Because in this case, if there is a problem with one or two thrusters, throwing them away will not affect the flight of the entire spacecraft. But if there is only one large thruster, once it is thrown away, the spacecraft will lose power.

This feature of the alien's thrusters was found in a document we suspected to be a safety manual, and since the document was not encrypted, we could easily translate it and it was known to immigration ships around the world. thing, so everyone has designed a breakaway device for their immigration ship. When necessary, the alien's propeller can be completely separated from the hull.

Because of this reason that everyone knows, we can basically determine that the propeller on this ship should be the same, and there must be an ejection device. We need to find and control it so that the thrusters are ejected at the right time.

The speed of this immigrant ship was very fast. We simply confirmed the plan and it was almost over the Himalayas, and its altitude had already begun to decrease. When we were at the highest before, we were almost entering suborbital, but now the height is only over 40,000 meters high. It can be said that the height is falling very fast, and the speed is also the same. Because the bottom atmosphere is denser, the speed of the spacecraft is further declining. The current speed is only about 120 times the speed of sound, but this speed is still astonishingly fast.

While blocking the door, they found the control node on the thruster. Ling and Amynis teamed up to pull off all the other party's control cables. Then Xiaochun quickly connected the thruster data port with his own electronic brain external port. Because our dragon race itself is designed by aliens, the working modes of our and alien thrusters are the same. The two can easily complete docking and information exchange. In comparison, the link device on the spacecraft is complicated. More than that, a converter is needed in the middle to convert the computer signals based on human usage rules into alien standards in order to control these spacecraft thrusters.

After Xiaochun accessed the signal, he couldn't do anything. Instead, he had to maintain the status quo and maintain the stability of the spacecraft first, while we had to leave here temporarily. Let Jingjing stay and guard the entrance, while Xiaochun herself is connected to the thruster and cannot move, so the two of them control the cabin. Others quickly moved towards the next thruster compartment.

After finding one cabin, the remaining cabins are easy to find, because we roughly know the arrangement of the entrances, and as for enemy obstruction... it's really not a problem for us. The personnel on our side are very powerful in combat, and the other party does not dare to use heavy weapons in their own spaceship, so naturally they cannot pose a threat to us.

Make your way to the next power room and clear out everyone in the cabin. Then he found the connecting line with exactly the same location, but this time he asked Ling to connect the thruster, and Amynis was responsible for guarding the door, and then the rest continued running.

After we invaded the third power cabin, Shuangxue was responsible for connecting the thrusters, Lingling was responsible for guarding the door, and then the others continued running.

Next is the fourth power cabin, and Yeyue is responsible for connecting the lines. Then Xiaobai stayed behind to guard the door. And because it was inconvenient for Xiaobai, I also left behind two mechanical dogs to assist.

When they arrived at the fifth power cabin, Hans and the others were waiting outside. When they saw us approaching, they immediately welcomed us in.

I can only connect the thruster this time, because there are no more people here. There are not many people on board the spacecraft. Each cabin needs at least one person in charge of the thruster and one person in charge of the door. In this way, we really won’t have enough people to do this.

I still have Bailang by my side, and there are also a few robot dogs. After I connected the thruster, Hans asked one of his men to stay behind to help, and he rushed out with the others. Their mission was to get to the two damaged thruster bays, although they could not control the damaged thrusters. But they need to find a catapult to eject the two propellers.

We pretty much did the whole occupation on the run, and that was it. When everyone was in place, they almost missed it, because at this time the spacecraft had already reached the sky above Anhui Province, and the altitude was only more than 10,000 meters. Falling from this height is absolutely a matter of minutes.

In fact, when Xiaochun first controlled the thruster, we were already correcting the flight attitude of the spacecraft. Otherwise, based on its original trajectory, it would be considered good if the height of this thing is still two thousand meters when it reaches its current position. Now it can reach ten thousand meters, which we have spent a lot of effort to get back.

After we sent the signal of arrival, Nuwa immediately reminded in the psychic network: "Attention, psychic coverage is now started, and I will take over all lines. The countdown is three, two, one."

Nuwa's countdown is not a ten-second countdown, but a three-millisecond countdown, which is just enough time for us to keep pace. With the activation of the psychic overlay, the alien thrusters of the main spaceship were taken over by Nuwa, and as a result of the linkage of Shengyu's five thrusters, the attitude of the spacecraft was corrected, and it finally stopped shaking. , and the speed has been controlled and is slowly decelerating.

At this time, the attitude of the spacecraft is basically at an angle of 45 degrees, with the bow pointing diagonally toward the sky ahead and the stern pointing toward the ground. This has several benefits. One is to increase the windward surface and use air resistance to slow down. Twenty uses most of its power to resist gravity instead of accelerating, which can not only ensure the flight height but also reduce the speed. Of course, the height is actually still falling, but it's just under control, not as drastic as the initial drop.

After all our efforts, we finally managed to get the spacecraft to leave the skies above our country. Now it won't be a big problem even if it falls completely, but we still need to control our posture carefully.

"Attention everyone, prepare to cut off the thrusters in order." Nuwa reminded again.

"We are ready."

"Okay, follow my command, thrusters No. 1 and 3 will shut down."

"Turn off complete."

"Adjust the flight attitude and make the spacecraft stand upright."

"Report, the power output is insufficient and the attitude cannot be changed."

"Then throw down the No. 1 and No. 3 thrusters first."

"Are you sure you can catch it down there?" I interjected and asked.

"You just throw it away, it's just for nothing anyway."

Nuwa's strong argument left me speechless, so I could only command to cut off the No. 1 and No. 3 thrusters as required. However, there was a slight accident during the process. (To be continued ~^~)