Chapter 220: Chapter 220 Crisis…Resolved! (2 in 1 chapter) Chapter 220: Chapter 220 Crisis…Resolved! (2 in 1 chapter) “There are a hundred seconds left!”
At that mont, the command center of the Earth Era transmitted a massive amount of data.
Major Guo yelled, “All pilots prepare… Last course adjustnt! Get as close to those missiles as possible!”
“Orders received!”
Major Guo narrowed his eyes, unable to see the so-called “nuclear bombs” with the naked eye without relying on radar. What a joke, if they could actually be seen with the eyes, they would have already whizzed past before a reaction was possible.
It was just a series of equations displayed on the screen, showing that the distance between both parties was rapidly closing!
Too fast…
These spaceships, many tis faster than Earth’s fastest fighter jets, traveling over a hundred kiloters per second, humans couldn’t possibly react in ti, everything had to rely on programs accurate to the millisecond!
Trembling fingers pressed a few keys, “Has everyone set their autopilot programs… any problems?”
“No problems!”
“Double check everything! Don’t miss it.”
1000 kiloters…
800 kiloters…
600 kiloters!
200!
The closing distance caused everyone’s pupils to dilate, including the various calculation personnel in the Captain’s Room of the Earth Era.
Just re tens of kiloters passed in a blink, making it impossible to observe the position of the nuclear bombs with the naked eye!
But the data displayed on the instrunts showed…
It was coming!
The heart seed about to leap out of the throat, and at this critical mont, the bodies of these soldiers shook violently!
Buzz!
Three huge Deceleration Umbrellas were instantly ejected from behind the wings of the shuttle.
These Deceleration Umbrellas were tools used to slow down in the atmosphere, but at this mont, situated in the vacuum of space, without any atmosphere, the Deceleration Umbrellas twisted and turned, like crumpled plastic bags.
But that was enough!
“Quick, retreat!”
There was no ti to look back; all the pilots simultaneously perford another action, crazily pulling the control sticks to rise! Even with autopilot programs, how could they dare to fly totally autonomously under the threat of nuclear bombs?
Under the trendous acceleration, everyone’s head swelled to the color of a swollen liver. Major Guo felt the veins on his forehead bulging out one by one, but he didn’t dare slow down, only wanting to know whether the final interception was successful…
If the Mother Ship really was attacked, even if they survived, what aning would it hold?
Zhang Yuan stared intently at the screen, watching the several “plastic bag” like Deceleration Umbrellas launch synchronously. The various observational devices inside the spaceship had magnified the resolution to the extre.
Several high-speed missiles were successfully captured by the Deceleration Umbrellas.
“It’s a success!”
Cheers erupted in the Captain’s Room.
“After taking that hit, even a thin Deceleration Umbrella was enough to tamper with those missiles. If a plane can be brought down by a small bird, let alone a much faster missile!”
But the next second, before anyone could even be relieved, a massive nuclear fireball appeared in the middle of the battlefield! The intense light was painfully blinding. The screen filled with a lot of interference, and the communication with the Mother Ship and several shuttles was instantly cut off.
“Old Guo! Old Guo!” Captain Zhao took a deep breath and urgently called twice, but there was no response.
It was uncertain whether those shuttles were destroyed by the nuclear bomb or if the communication signals were blocked by an electromagnetic pulse.
Zhang Yuan stared at the various data on the screen and frowned, “Don’t panic yet, it looks like an atomic bomb that was detonated by collision… The yield doesn’t match our predictions; it won’t reach the spaceships a few kiloters away… Just one second, these ships could have flown tens of kiloters…”
Before he could finish his speech, one of the scientists pointed at the screen and scread in horror.
Everyone followed his finger, instantly breaking out in a cold sweat again.
There was still one last nuclear missile, breaking through the Deceleration Umbrella’s interception, and it was heading straight for the Mother Ship!
What should we do?
The shuttles still needed to take a wide turn, and their speed couldn’t match those nuclear missiles!
Everyone’s face turned pale; this was undoubtedly devastating news.
Captain Zhao, with a solemn expression, asked, “What about our laser? Is it ready? Is there a theoretical chance we could shoot it down?”
Zhang Yuan imdiately shook his head, “It’s ready, but there’s no feasibility. It would take tens of seconds of aiming to possibly lt the surface of the missile. Tens of seconds, how could that be possible?”
“Then get ready… to take a nuclear hit,” Captain Zhao vigorously pounded the table.
He was hesitating whether to let a large number of soldiers fire machine guns from the spaceship, using their lives for a chance at “drawing a lottery ticket”…
After taking that nuclear hit, he didn’t know if it would lead to extinction, but from then on, humanity’s days would certainly be much tougher.
“Damn aliens! Damn them!”
“Wait!” Zhang Yuan suddenly ca up with an idea. The thought flashed through his mind, and he jumped up nervously.
He said loudly, “Can we activate that High-dinsional Fragnt?”
“If we activate it at the precise location, could it possibly swallow the nuclear missile? Is there a chance?”
“There’s a possibility… though there are many difficulties.” Zhao Qingfeng quickly responded, and without hesitation, he imdiately ordered soone to retrieve the High-dinsional Fragnt from the storage room.
That thing was once a curse, and it was uncertain how to research it, but now, it had beco a lifeline.
At this critical mont of potential extinction, everyone’s action speed greatly increased.
Many scientists were feverishly discussing the feasibility of the plan, especially so computational experts, who were sweating profusely, every muscle in their bodies trembling.
“…But using the High-dinsional Fragnt to suck it in isn’t just talk; the most important thing is to calculate the exact landing spot of the missile! But the missile is still accelerating… especially our observation equipnt, it’s very hard to precisely locate this high-speed moving missile, the error could be hundreds or thousands of ters.”
After all, the absorption radius of the High-dinsional Fragnt was only a few ters, and if they missed, the nuclear bomb would still explode!
But in this situation, they could only clutch at straws.
All astronomical observation equipnt was aid at that last fiercely aggressive nuclear warhead, trying to detect the most accurate trajectory data.
“Only 400 seconds left! Hurry, hurry.” Zhang Yuan urged nervously, while at the sa ti, he kept thinking and calculating internally.
“Only 300 seconds left!”
He swallowed, wishing he could join in himself if he were not so unfamiliar with the software.
Li Zhendong rubbed his eyes. As an information expert, his heart was about to leap out at this mont, and his trembling fingers occasionally pressed the wrong keys, entering incorrect data.
Including the relative movent of the spaceship and calculating the acceleration of the missile, the entire trajectory would have been a simple matter in the past… at least not sothing difficult!
But now!
In this mont, he truly loathed every muscle cell in his fingers.
“Damn it!”
“Chop it off!”
“Once we return, I will imdiately switch to a bionic chanical hand!” Li Zhendong thought wildly to himself.
As the last digit was entered, Li Zhendong finally pressed the Enter key, anxiously awaiting the result.
“There are two hundred seconds left!”
Snap!
The result of the equation calculation erged, and Li Zhendong shouted, “Coordinate location, about eight hundred ters to the right of us! The error is around 200 ters.”
“Is the equation correct?”
“I got pretty much the sa result,” another expert also exclaid.
Zhao Qingfeng glared, “An error of two hundred ters radius?! That’s such a large area, where do you want to place the High-dinsional Fragnt?”
Li Zhendong, sweating profusely, replied, “The main reason is that our observational data is not very accurate… wait a minute, just a bit longer. The closer the missile gets to our spaceship, the more accurate the data will beco, and the error will decrease.”
But waiting longer also ant that the danger would increase exponentially.
He suddenly thought of a question, “Could this missile suddenly change direction?”
Zhang Yuan shook his head, “It shouldn’t, the missile’s speed is increasing, and it has entered the final sprint stage… theoretically, it shouldn’t change direction anymore…”
Zhang Yuan suddenly glanced at the ti, “Sixty seconds left, 59 seconds… Damn it, did you get the calculations?”
“They’re done, the location error has been reduced to ten ters… I’m sending the coordinates…”
“Don’t worry about it!”
“Quick, hurry!”
Several soldiers who had been waiting for orders quickly maneuvered robots and placed the High-dinsional Fragnt in the calculated position. Following that, various lasers were urgently activated at maximum power targeting the High-dinsional Fragnt.
After completing all this, all personnel began to evacuate urgently.
“Thirty seconds left!”
Just a re thirty seconds, and in thirty seconds, a nuclear explosion might occur in this area, no one knew how powerful the surging nuclear bomb would be!
Even if the explosion just seen was a small atomic bomb, it might… it could be just the detonation device of a hydrogen bomb.
Perhaps this nuclear bomb could have a yield of a billion tons?
Thinking of these consequences, Zhang Yuan felt his scalp tingle, and even breathing beca sowhat difficult.
“It must… succeed!”
The lasers quietly continued to irradiate, and soon this beca a deserted area.
Twenty-three seconds later, the High-dinsional Fragnt emitted a bright white light, absorbing all the surrounding spaceship walls, and this absorbing power was very strange, as if the entire wall had abruptly vanished, a force from a higher dinsion.
But compared to enduring a nuclear bomb, for humans, damage to the spaceship walls was already quite acceptable.
A nuclear missile surged forward, staring straight at the light point, and charged over!
Zhang Yuan stared intently at the large screen; by now, everything that could be done had been done, and his mood gradually beca calm.
That part wasn’t the most crucial engine section, but it was still a very important heat dissipation area. Once destroyed, all industries within the spaceship would have to halt.
After the spaceship’s industries halted, the industrial speed on the surface would also significantly slow down.
Next, combating this enemy civilization would undoubtedly beco extrely difficult.
“Fortunately, this enemy civilization must use rockets to climb the gravitational wells of planets every ti they attack humans. Such super rockets should not be easy.”
“If the cooling area is destroyed… it should…”
Amid such wild thoughts, a series of screams had already erupted in the conference room.
A tiny shadow suddenly appeared on the screen, bringing another civilization’s ferocious killing intent!
But it was rely a flicker of the eyes, and it disappeared directly from the screen!
The whole event was so bizarre that most people couldn’t even react, but the instrunt data showed that the nuclear warhead, which had been so formidable, had disappeared from this world and could no longer be detected.
The video began to replay at a speed slowed down by a thousand tis, and after it was clear that the nuclear missile crisis was officially averted, a huge cheer erupted from the Captain’s Room!
The last nuclear missile was directly neutralized by the high-dinsional fragnt!
This escape from death filled Zhang Yuan with relief, so he randomly grabbed Li Zhendong next to him for a hug. Almost everyone did the sa, unable to help celebrating and cheering for their narrow escape.
In his excitent, Li Zhendong accidentally drooled on Zhang Yuan’s arm.
“Damn it, that’s disgusting, what are you doing?” Zhang Yuan wiped off the ss with great disdain.
“Ah, I accidentally beca a hero again… If it wasn’t for my calculations of the precise position, ah, we would have been done for.” Li Zhendong turned around, wiped his mouth, and said very smugly.
Zhang Yuan rolled his eyes, “I saw you excitedly press several wrong numbers, and I had to remind you. Looking at your trembling fingers, you were scared to death. It seems pulling up the internal monitoring of the spaceship isn’t that hard…”
Li Zhendong was imdiately at a loss for words, as if a simple complint would kill him…
Cheering aside, there was still one last matter that hadn’t been completely resolved; those three shuttles still had not made contact. There was even one hostile civilization that needed dealing with!
After repeated searches with various observation equipnt, the traces of these few spaceships were finally found.
It turned out, these shuttles had taken a large detour and started to return, seeming like they hadn’t been destroyed by the accidentally detonated nuclear bomb.
Looking at those three intercepted nuclear missiles, aside from one that exploded on the spot, the other two had their trajectories altered; one flew wildly into outer space, while the other was likely to hit a planetary surface.
However, the impact site was a full 4,000 kiloters away from the main base, which wouldn’t cause much impact.
“…Calling the Mother Ship, this is Space Shuttle 001. I am the pilot Guo Qiang, the shuttle is currently in good operational condition…”
“…Calling the Mother Ship, this is Space Shuttle 002.”
“Space Shuttle 003 calling the Mother Ship, a nuclear explosion occurred 30 kiloters from my location.”
It was quite a while before the calls from several pilots ca through in the Captain’s Room, mixed with various kinds of static.
Zhang Yuan imdiately felt relieved; this ant that this crisis had been mostly overco without any damage to humanity, except for a slight damage to Earth Era. This was almost the best possible outco.
But the thought of facing a Wisdom Civilization imdiately wiped out his relief.
Captain Zhao imdiately responded, “The Mother Ship is still in slight motion and is not suitable as a landing point. You guys head directly back to the satellite surface… Do not leave the bay randomly; the surface rescue teams will co to search and rescue you.”
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