Liu Qingpeng put on the helmet and carefully checked every seat belt. Then he reached out and opened the instrument in the cockpit.
He took several deep breaths and tried to make his expression not look so stiff. He reached out and touched the side of the helmet, and a row of light blue screens instantly spread out in front of his field of vision. A strange and ordinary female face appeared in front of him.
Navigator: "Navigator 01 is serving you … Are you nervous?"
Liu Qingpeng forced a smile, "What do you think?"
"You'd better control your heart rate. It will help to avoid accidents. In order to save fuel as much as possible, you will complete the acceleration step on the runway. "
"How much G?"
“20.1G。”
"… Can you apply for the Guinness World Record for me?" Liu Qingpeng smiled bitterly.
The navigator said without a sense of humor, "No, this flight is a top-secret flight mission. Unless you are willing to try again when you come back. "
"Let's wait until I come back."
The navigator said in a positive tone, "You will."
You will?
Liu Qingpeng didn't believe it at all. No one was more familiar with the machine than him. The flight distance of 30 million kilometers had exceeded the normal cruising radius of the Stingray X-1 by dozens of times, and it was a rather dangerous flight outside the Earth-Moon system. Even if there was a quantum computer to navigate for him alone, the probability of his survival was only one in ten.
What he was most worried about was not that he couldn't catch up with Earth, but that he couldn't decelerate due to lack of fuel on the return flight. He would eventually "miss" the Earth-Moon system and become a lonely ghost in the solar system.
All the sacrifices were just to take a look.
But he didn't regret it, because he accepted the mission himself.
Finally, he took a deep breath of the air in Celestial City, then he firmly pressed the takeoff button next to the joystick.
The robotic arm that pulled the Stingray A-1 slowly moved, grabbed it from the parking lot, and "stuffed" it into the dark runway.
The signal lights on the runway were turned on, but they still couldn't illuminate the runway that was hundreds of kilometers long. Blue arcs began to swim on the edge of the aircraft. To prevent retinal detachment, Liu Qingpeng chose to close his eyes.
Whenever he lay on this runway, he felt like a cannonball that was stuffed into the chamber of an electromagnetic pulse cannon.
The navigator's monotonous voice sounded in his ears.
"Ejection countdown."
“5”
“4”
“3”
“2”
“1”
“0”
In an instant, a tearing sensation came from every inch of his cells. Liu Qingpeng gritted his teeth and used his willpower to resist the accelerated tearing. At the same time, he silently counted down the seconds in his heart.
The torment lasted for a full minute before the pressure on his shoulder suddenly loosened. When he opened his eyes again, Celestial City behind him had turned into a wheel, and he was already in the bright starry sky.
From a distance, at the launch port in the center of Celestial City, the blue arc only flickered for a brief moment before a black dot was thrown into the vast universe. Compared to the entire Earth, this Stingray was like a lonely boat pushed into the deep sea, small and fragile.
The civilization on Earth, which was like a child in the sea of stars, extended its tender hand to the unknown existence for the first time.
Before he could reminisce about the Earth that was gradually disappearing, the navigator's voice rang in his ears again.
"Check the weapon system."
"Understood."
Liu Qingpeng pressed the red button next to the joystick, and two thick and long tubes popped out from the bottom of the Stingray A-1 and slowly opened to the wings. At the same time, under the command of the navigator, he opened the safety and pressed his thumb twice on the joystick.
The dazzling white light flickered, and several thigh-thick laser beams rushed into the distance and disappeared into the darkness in the distance.
"The weapon system is normal." Liu Qingpeng reported to the navigator and reached out to turn off the safety.
Although his task was only to get closer to take a look, no one could guarantee that the UFO had good intentions. The Stingray A-1 was equipped with Celestial Trade's strongest extraterrestrial attack weapon, the Type A attack module designed by the Pan-Asia Cooperation in the apocalypse.
If the UFO behaved aggressively after he approached, Celestial Trade allowed him to decide whether to fire back based on the situation.
After getting rid of the gravitational pull of the Earth-Moon system, Liu Qingpeng opened the throttle valve of the engine and accelerated toward the mission mark in his field of vision. When the speed stabilized above the speed of the second universe, he immediately turned off the throttle valve and began a long wait.
It would take 2.6 million seconds to catch up with the UFO, which was nearly a month in terms of days.
This kind of small aircraft naturally couldn't have a complete ecological cycle function. With sufficient power, the stored fresh water, liquid food, and oxygen could only last for about 15 days. However, Celestial Trade specially modified a hibernation chamber for his vehicle, and he would spend a long period of time sleeping. When he approached the target, the ground command center would naturally wake him up.
Of course, another possibility could not be ruled out.
That was because of an irresistible factor, such as the target suddenly accelerating and changing its position, causing him to miss it. When the ground command center judged that his remaining fuel could no longer help him catch up with the target, it would wake him up in advance to return …
The temperature in the cockpit began to drop, and the life-support device injected a special cell stabilizer into Liu Qingpeng's body.
His hands left the joystick, and his vision began to blur and eventually fell into darkness.
…
In the ground command center, Jiang Chen looked at the Stingray A-1 that successfully entered orbit with a frown, and his clenched fists gradually loosened.
Although he entrusted this matter to Calvin, on the day the volunteer set sail, he couldn't help but come to the command center and watch the hero fly into the distance.
"It's over." Calvin nudged Jiang Chen with his elbow and reminded him in a low voice.
Jiang Chen nodded and didn't say anything. He took one last look at the Stingray A-1 on the holographic screen and walked out of the command room.
Although there was no contact with the UFO, this sighting had a profound impact on Celestial Trade's scientific research strategy. According to Jiang Chen's instructions, Calvin immediately increased the research budget of the interstellar navigation engine, and at the same time, included "extraterrestrial attack methods" in the scientific research sequence for the first time … Originally, Jiang Chen planned to slow down the research. After all, the existing theoretical science was not enough to support overly powerful weapon technology.
It was like gunpowder for guns.
Without the formula of gunpowder, no matter how much ancient craftsmen studied weapons, they could only sharpen bows and spears, and they could not produce guns above this level.
Before the breakthrough of magnetic confinement technology in the apocalypse, laser weapons were generally regarded as the most promising form of extraterrestrial attack. The Type A attack module designed by the Pan-Asia Cooperation was also designed based on this concept. However, after the breakthrough of magnetic confinement technology, the plasma cannon that directly fired high-temperature plasma became a more promising choice.
However, now, sharpening the bow and spear became an urgent choice.
Regardless of whether the UFO was hostile or not, Celestial Trade, which represented the Earth civilization in pioneering the universe, must not show weakness!
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