At 12 o'clock in the middle of the night on July 20, 115 AD
After Lin Sen officially issued the liberation authorization for Nanying Jian and Penosio, almost all the Arbiter's executives also received the meeting reminder at the same time.
Five hours later, when the sun came up, the Heart of Arno opened special passages many times to welcome participants from afar.
July 21, 6 a.m. sharp
The crescent-shaped aircraft with a pale golden color appeared on the launch pad again, but this time what was about to be launched was not a series of combat aircraft, but a transcendent star spaceship.
There were not many passengers this time, only ten people.
But these ten people have gathered the core of the entire arbiter's power level.
After everyone boarded the plane, Qin Wen opened the launch channel. Not long after, the aircraft code-named "Zhanyu 9" was propelled by the neutron warp engine at the third cosmic speed [approximately 16.8 kilometers per second].
It reaches the sky and reaches the Gaia low-Earth satellite orbit in just forty seconds.
After reaching a position 750 kilometers away from the ground of Gaia, the auxiliary engine of Zhanyu 9 was shut down, and the ailerons were deployed at the same time. The half-moon fuselage was also converted into a triangle, but this triangle was not complete.
There is a perfect circle at its center.
This circle shone with dazzling blue light. When the flashing frequency of the light exceeded the resolution limit of the naked eye, Zhanyu 9 accelerated again and rushed towards the stars at the fourth cosmic speed [approximately equal to 100-140 kilometers per second]
deep.
During the initial acceleration process, all passengers can clearly feel the distortion of space. This is a visual error caused by the folding of matter states at the speed of the fourth universe.
When the acceleration is completed, this phenomenon quickly disappears.
Then Qin Wen started the public broadcast: "Good morning everyone, welcome to the Zhanyu 9 Xingyu spacecraft. The current forward speed of the spacecraft is 137 kilometers per second. The current forward condition is good. You can leave your seat and move around freely, but remember
Don't try to open the windows, as that will turn the entire spaceship into a sesame seed in an instant."
Qin Wen's joke was lukewarm, but everyone smiled knowingly and stood up one after another.
Lin Sen first came to the unmanned bridge, where he could clearly see the neutron warp engine in the center of the spacecraft. The nearly silent neutron warp engine is the most powerful one that humans can create and apply so far.
Lin Sen didn't know the details of the special engine, but Manny once briefly described the working principle of the neutron warp engine to him.
"If we walk on the ground with the help of friction, and rockets need propulsion to lift off, then we can uniformly classify them as relative forces in which the overall space remains unchanged but objects move! Of course, my statement may not be correct.
It's too correct, and it's not too rigorous, but you should understand what I mean, right?" Manny was quite serious when she explained things.
Not only Lin Sen was present at that time, but also Han Kongwen and Amy.
"So now... the neutron warp engine is the warp force that establishes me unchanged, but folds space! Its highest goal in the future is the so-called 'warp speed'! And the simpler explanation is that we use the warp engine
Compress the space, compressing one cubic space into 0.5 square meters, and then expand the compressed space backward to replace our previous position, so that we can obtain the displacement in space! Is it easier to understand this way?
"
However... even top academics Amy and Han Kongwen have little understanding of the so-called space compression warp engine, let alone academic scumbag Lin Sen.
So after listening to the explanation, Lin Sen had an expression on his face.
“Although I don’t quite understand it! But it always feels great!”
And after Manny finished explaining, Lin Sen only asked one sentence: "Can the warp engine take us back to Earth?"
Manny replied: "Just give me a while and I will train it to the extreme!"
With these words, other explanations were no longer important. Lin Sen nodded, and then said to Manny and Han Kongwen: "Give money if you want money, give people if you want people. In short, give whatever you want, as long as you can
Once completed, you will be the greatest contributor to mankind! You must be recorded in history!"
Manny was really happy to receive such encouragement.
However, Lin Sen's words don't matter, the actual operators Han Kongwen and Amy have a headache...
Why do you say that?
To give a simple example, if it is an exaggeration to say that a hunting operation completed through super-element intervention costs tens of billions of Thanes, then the neutron warp engine will burn 50 million Thains worth every second.
Fuel, this is not just exaggerated, but terrifying and outrageous!
Of course, Manny's team has solved the most important problem for mankind to return home from a long voyage, but the new problem is that even if the Gaia star is mined, it may not be able to obtain enough fuel for this voyage.
This is also an important reason why Arbiter executives terminated cooperation with Pingyu Group and chose to take charge of energy on their own.
Now……
Lin Sen looked at the neutron warp engine for ten seconds. It burned through 500 million yuan, equivalent to all the equipment consumption of an integrated combat company.
After thinking about it like this, Lin Sen closed his eyes in distress.
At this time, Han Kongwen also came nearby, and her eyes fell on the engine.
"In another month, Sister Yan's comprehensive assessment report will come out. By then it will be clear how much fuel the entire Gaia star can provide and how far we can go, but I don't have a good premonition... ha... yes
Isn’t that weird?”
Lin Sen replied: "It's not surprising at all... I think about the same thing as you. This engine is still far from perfect... Although it has no noise, it is even more backward than the internal combustion engine in the steam era..."
Han Kongwen smiled: "No wonder, you don't look happy at all... But your metaphor is a bit too much. No matter how imperfect it is, it is still the most powerful engine currently controlled by mankind."
Lin Sen shook his head when he heard this: "No, it is not the most powerful."
Han Kongwen was stunned: "Huh?"
Just listen to Lin Sen continue: "You may have forgotten how we came to this planet, right? Humanity has already started the era of cosmic civilization as early as the earth's civilization. Although it is fleeting like fireworks, we have to admit that,
The things on the Quantum Voyager-class mothership that are still missing are what we really need."
Han Kongwen was not surprised or surprised after hearing Lin Sen's words. She had a completely different view.
"I think differently from you... Although the performance of the Quantum Voyager in the records is very powerful, and its ability to bring humans here is also a good proof of this, but there is no record of the Quantum Voyager
How long did it take to get here through the vast desert of the universe, so... the situation is different, and we have to have completely different considerations. It would be too shameful to just place our hopes on something that was born in the Earth era."