Chapter 561: The Disappearing Star
The twelve push engines of the Washington blew out a hot flame. Under the huge thrust, the orbit of the Iogawa Forty-one changed at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just three minutes, it had already left the gravitational range of Iogawa, and then began to fly rapidly towards the direction close to Iogawa Forty-one.
The pushing process has not yet ended, and the fragile structure on the Washington DC has begun to creak, but fortunately the core compartment has not been affected. Compared with the previous overload of up to 30g, this process seems much easier.
"The club has been hit, everyone!"
The navigator's high voice came from the communicator, and then the Washington turned on the backward push, and the flames ejected on the surface of Io forty-one, sending it for the last journey.
"The engine is in abnormal condition and the power is decreasing--but it doesn't matter."
Ye Zhou stared at the data on the screen and showed that under the extreme load state, the filter in the fusion core could not hold on any longer.
Ultra-high temperature plasma even began to run uncontrollably in the reaction core, and the local temperature difference of the filter even reached 30 million degrees Celsius. Such temperatures caused the filter to rapidly deform and brittle, and its functionality was greatly affected.
A few minutes later, 6 of the 12 push engines were shut down, and the self-sustaining state of the fusion reaction was broken and the reaction was instantly terminated.
But at this time, the Washington had completed the slowing down operation. Relying on the operation of two working fluid-free engines, it stabilized its hull and returned to the retrograde track of the carme.
However, at this time, the Washington was already at the forefront of the fleet.
"Dante, tracking the status of Io forty-one in real time, is the impact track correct?"
"The impact track is correct, and the impact countdown is expected to be 120 seconds."
"How is the situation with Wei Qinghao, carme?"
"The track is normal. If Irving Forty-one can knock Irving Eighteen away, everything will go as planned... Now it's only the last step."
While speaking, the four Chinese spacecraft had begun to enter the deceleration process. They could no longer continue to follow. The operation window had been closed. There was no point in continuing to follow up, and it would only increase risks.
The spacecraft slowly glided in space until it returned to the orbit of Jupiter. At this time, the four Chinese spacecraft entered the orbit of direct orbit. To meet Washington again, they needed to orbit Jupiter for nearly a year.
Everyone was nervously staring at the screen, staring at the two satellites that were about to collide.
After 20 seconds of countdown, Ye Zhou felt that his heartbeat had almost stopped, but it was obvious that there was no suspense in the collision.
In the silence, Io Wei's Forty-one was pulled into the tidal force range by Io Wei's Eighteen. The two satellites were not of great mass. Therefore, before Io Wei's Forty-one completely crashed into Io Wei's Eighteen, it did not disintegrate at all, but maintained its original shape.
“This is really space billiards…”
Ye Zhou said with emotion.
Then, huge clouds of dust surged, and the more fragile texture of Iokao disintegrated into pieces, and the orbit of Iokaokao immediately deviated.
It remains complete, but such integrity may only last for a very short time.
At that time, the broken Eighteen will continue to orbit Jupiter under the action of gravity until it becomes several brand new moons.
"The track change was detected and carme is safe."
The tone of the Navigator Wei Qing was filled with a hint of undetectable joy. His nerves, which had been tense for more than ten hours, finally got a brief rest.
At this time, there are still 6 minutes before Carme and Iokai collided.
Zheng He was flying around Io's near-Earth orbit at an extremely fast speed. It was like a moving target, and the projectile shot from a hundred thousand kilometers was about to concentrate the void behind it with one millionth of accuracy.
After two minutes of countdown, carme entered the gravitational range of Ioai and its motion trajectory was directly aimed at the Arctic area.
"Prepare to start to accelerate the departure, Zheng He enters the full load state."
"Received, enter full load state, ready to eject."
"The adjacent dimension channel is in normal state, the power of the beacon device is normal, and it is ready to decouple from the beacon."
"I received it and started to decouple. The power of the beacon device has entered the critical value, and the range of entropy increase jump is expanding. I can already visually see the edge of the jump zone. There is no light at all, like a black hole."
"To be precise, there is light around the black hole... Entering the decision window, Zheng He began to eject."
"I understand, start ejecting."
After the words came, the huge beacon device and a full 10 push engines behind the hull of Zheng He were thrown down, and the hull was suddenly reduced. Then, under the action of four push engines and two working-free engines, Zheng He suddenly accelerated, and the overload soared to 90g in an instant. All the excess structural parts of the hull were abandoned, and Zheng He began to escape the reserved collision zone at the extreme speed.
The collision countdown was 60 seconds, and Zheng He was still accelerating, and the distance between carme and Io had shrunk to its limit.
In the extremely thin atmosphere of Io, the speed of the carme was not affected at all, and the Twasta volcano was right in front of it.
In an instant, dust clouds rose everywhere.
Hit the bull's-eye.
The carme that had not completely disintegrated passed by on the surface like a water drift, and then immediately fell apart. Most of the matter decomposed into the most basic particles under the energy that burst out instantly.
This collision is completely different from the previous "space billiards". Carme dragged out a dust belt that lasted tens of thousands of kilometers. Lightning, flames, and electromagnetic pulses filled this dust belt, releasing vigorous energy that humans cannot reach.
The "target" that hit this time, the enriched adjacent dimension channel, absorbed this energy completely.
----In other words, this is not absorption, but pure "return"!
From the video, Ye Zhou saw a strange light flashing in the core area of the collision area. He could not describe the color of the light in his own language, but he knew that something unusual must be happening there.
A few minutes later, the dust cloud generated by the collision began to rewind under the gravitational force of Io, and the prototype of a star ring appeared. Perhaps decades or hundreds of years later, when Io's form stabilizes again, a halo like Saturn's ring will form around it.
----But, it doesn't seem to have this opportunity.
Just as everyone was nervously waiting for the detection of the adjacent dimension channel, the area suddenly fell into silence at an astonishing speed.
Darkness, darkness like a black hole.
In the darkness, the light like sparks gradually expanded.
Ye Zhou's pupils suddenly contracted, and he suddenly realized what was about to happen.
But before he could warn him, the light began to expand at a speed far beyond his cognitive limit. The Zheng He, who was still accelerating, was swallowed in an instant, followed by the entire Ioyu.
Singularity explosion.
A word flashed through Ye Zhou's mind.
Everyone stopped silently, and they had nothing to do.
In just a moment, the range of the flash expanded to cover the entire Jupiter.
Ye Zhou saw with his own eyes that many satellites decomposed into elementary particles under that pure energy. What surprised him was that his consciousness could still be retained.
He looked back and saw that behind him, the position of the largest planet in the solar system was already empty at this time.
In the human sky, there is a star that disappeared.
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