Chapter 876 Splashing Blood on Your Face

A deliberate attack disguised as an accident?

Who?

According to international practice, if it is unclear, it will be handled in accordance with the Da Piaoliang method.

There will be no mistakes.

Even if he is used as a pretext, those who have the technology and courage are all his lackeys.

Zhou Rui sneered in his heart. He was quite smart. He used rocket parts to touch porcelain. Even if there were any catastrophic consequences, it would be endless wrangling.

However, he had no time to care about how bad the enemy was. If he wanted to retaliate, he had to wait until he had safely survived the disaster.

And there were only 3 minutes left.

The countdown in his mind continued, with only 2:57 left.

At this time, Li Changping called back and told Zhou Rui that it was the European Space Agency's "Ariane 5 rocket", a launch vehicle aimed at synchronous orbit. Of course, this was not important.

What Zhou Rui really needed was to understand the size and approximate weight of its components through its public data.

As for Li Changping, he was confused at this time, and Zhou Rui had no time to explain.

This is the disadvantage of not being able to react to emergencies in time. Half of the time has passed in the phone calls.

If Zhou Rui did not have "mimicry control", if "Nantianmen" did not have a gatekeeper like Xiao Huasha to remind him in time, and if "mortise and tenon" did not have a power system.

I am afraid that Zhou Rui would not get the news until he was hit by this rocket.

Time: 2:50.

The "Hall thruster" continues to work, but from the current trajectory calculation, it seems that it is not enough to avoid it.

The most important thing is that both sides are in a powered state, and the opponent's engine is still on and off, and the trajectory is becoming more and more unpredictable.

Being able to make continuous adjustments, I am afraid that the help of the opponent's satellite is indispensable. It is really well prepared.

So under Zhou Rui's instruction, Xiao Huasha controlled the two "mortise and tenon" on Nantianmen to leave the platform and actively lead the rocket component away.

Although there is a combined splicing design, this is the first time that the basic module of Nantianmen has actively left

It is extremely difficult to replenish fuel in orbit, which directly affects the expansion speed and even the service life of Nantianmen. Every kilogram of fuel consumed must be counted in the future load.

But compared to pushing the entire "Nantianmen", it seems more cost-effective to use one or two "mortise and tenon" to push it open.

Above the dark track, the two "mortise and tenon" at the front of Nantianmen unlocked the platform and flew towards the "garbage".

The picture taken by the camera was also fed back to the control background.

This thing is really ridiculously large. More than four meters in diameter and more than ten meters high

When the two-meter-long "mortise and tenon" flew in front of it, it seemed like a small bean under a big stick that could be kneaded at will.

But it still has to work hard. One of them, four mechanical arms stretched out from the front and fixed in front of the "rocket component", and the engine reversed

Push and it's done, there is no need to stop it, just turn it.

And the other one is more flexible and moves directly to the bottom of the rocket component.

On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, in the secret command center of the "orbital car accident", the telemetry data also detected that the speed of their "rocket components" was decreasing.

They did not have a visual intelligence system to provide intuitive feedback, and it was difficult to find the two-meter-long and black "mortise and tenon" through ground observation, but relying on data analysis, they could guess that it was almost right.

"This deceleration obviously means something is pushing back."

"It should be the 'magic cube' that broke away from the gate of heaven."

"Engine afterburner! The power of a single 'magic cube' is far less than ours."

A "competition" in the air is going on in space.

However, just when they were full of confidence, the remote sensing signal relayed by Europe suddenly reminded them.

Engine failure.

Uh. This time it's a real failure, I won't spray it.

On the track, the rocket component that was originally arrogant suddenly misfired.

A mortise and tenon came to its tail at some point, and four mechanical arms stretched out to observe the surroundings.

If it were the intelligence of the mortise and tenon itself, this unset task would probably be difficult to accomplish, but with the control of Xiao Huashao, the four robotic arms began to flexibly try to sabotage it.

The robotic arms knocked and banged, but to little effect. After all, this was not a paper thing. The engine was even the strongest part of the rocket.

Finally, Xiao Huashao hesitated for a moment and looked at the fuel nozzles that were opening and closing.

The robotic arm swayed, as if it had made up its mind.

I'll plug it!

In the gap between the switches, two of the three nozzles were drilled into the robotic arm, and there was no need to guess what the structure was inside.

The deeper the better, and then stir it hard!

No matter how hard it was, it was obviously not thought about when it was designed to prevent one hand from being stuck.

After a short pause, the two robotic arms merged in the flames, and the hot chemical fuel directly scrapped the core components of the "mortise and tenon", but it seemed to have produced an effect.

After switching on and off several times, the two nozzles soon broke down, and the small shower separated another mechanical arm and inserted it into the third nozzle.

At this point, the rocket component finally lost power.

On the ground, Zhou Rui breathed a sigh of relief.

This broken thing must have carried more fuel than the normal launch requirements to make such a mess. Otherwise, with the strict pursuit of thrust-to-weight ratio by aerospace, even if there is still space in the fuel tank, it will not deliberately carry extra fuel.

But now it's fine. As long as there is no power, it can be easily avoided with the pure inertial state in orbit.

With such a big crisis, only three mechanical arms and part of the fuel of two mortise and tenon joints are lost, which is completely worthwhile.

Of course, I am still very unhappy. The other party has set a very bad precedent by directly weaponizing civilian aerospace to attack another aerospace equipment...

Zhou Rui even had the urge to push it away and return it to the International Space Station, letting them suffer the consequences.

With the stiffness and bulkiness of the International Space Station, even gods can't save it.

But after thinking about it, I gave up this crazy idea. There are living people on the International Space Station, and not all of them are Americans and their lackeys.

This incident reminded him not to underestimate the enemy's malicious intentions. Has the opponent set too many bad precedents?

More protective power is needed on the track, and it seems that some of my plans have to be advanced.

You see, I just said that what I wanted to make was "defensive" equipment, not weapons, right?

The countdown came to 0:20. With the reverse thrust of the two mortise and tenon joints and the combined effect of the Hall thruster, the rocket components and the Nantianmen no longer collided. The two big guys passed each other at a distance of about 300 meters. .

A crisis can be considered completely resolved

Zhou Rui felt relaxed, touched the big eyeball of the small shower head, and praised: "Well done, I will open an acre of flower fields for you later! Plant roses!"

The small shower head showed a happy expression.

next moment.

I don't know what's wrong, I just know that the engine was blocked by a rocket component and the tail exploded.

Zhou Rui's smile froze on his face.

Countless fragments were scattered close at hand, and then scattered jinglingly on the Nantianmen.

Many surfaces were scratched. There was even highly toxic fuel stuck to the Nantianmen.

There is a feeling that although I can't kill you, I can splash it all over your face.

Zhou Rui's temples were jumping.

Okay, okay. Is this how you play?

Then don't blame me.