Survival on the Star Sea: Starting from a small broken ship and becoming stronger

Chapter 220 Taking off~【4000】

As the [Conqueror] slowly descended towards the surface of the planet, the slowly enlarging hull indicated that the preparations were nearing completion.

2 hours later, the personnel preparations were completed, and Beta handed over the control of the airport to the [Conqueror] Optical Brain.

"Ding! The personnel reinforcement has been completed..."

"Engine fuel injection completed."

"The engine cooling system is working properly."

"The control rights of the floating airport are being connected...The connection is completed."

"The airport is activating the floating system. The current altitude is 10 meters... 100 meters... 1,000 meters."

"The current height of the airport is 5,000 meters, and it has reached its ultimate height."

"Confirm again the preparedness of the personnel inside the airport... Once the preparations are complete, the launch steps can continue."

"The surface shield system has been activated."

"Oxidant is injected into the combustion chamber, fuel is injected into the combustion chamber, countdown to launch... 10, 9, 8"

"3, 2, 1, ignite."

As the countdown ended, dozens of flames with a diameter of 100 meters were sprayed out from the tail of the airport floating in mid-air.

As the injection rate of fuel and oxidizer into the combustion chamber gradually increases, the length of the tail flame increases from tens of meters at the beginning to hundreds of meters. . . thousands of meters.

I saw that the flames were like a boxer throwing a heavy punch, hitting the surface of the planet below quickly and violently.

The sound of the air being torn apart was like the scream of an opponent, resounding throughout the world.

Under this powerful thrust, as if cheering for victory, the main structural components in the airport also let out a dull "roar".

. . .

"The engines are running normally, the thrust is normal, and the airport is increasing altitude..."

"The current altitude is 5500 meters, 6000 meters, 7000..."

"The fuel consumption level is 99%, and the oxidizer consumption level is 99.5%"

Staring at the messages coming from the big screen, Zhao Feng narrowed his eyes and suddenly activated megatons of telekinesis at this moment.

Invisible telepathic tentacles were seen pouring out from his limbs, first wrapping the [Conqueror] tightly, and then entangling towards the airport below.

The purpose of this is mainly to ensure that when he exerts force next time, the force can be applied evenly to every part of the ship.

To prevent uneven force from causing the hull to explode.

As the telekinesis tentacles spanned a distance of 16,000 meters, they quickly wrapped up the airport that was trying to climb upwards.

The next second, hundreds of millions of tons of pulling force slowly acted on the airport.

At the same time, the corresponding reaction force also fell on the [Conqueror]'s hull.

First it was 100,000 tons, then 1 million tons, 10 million tons, 100 million, and 1 billion. . . 100 billion tons.

The shipboard brain, which had been prepared in advance, began to simultaneously adjust the power of the anti-gravity system when the ship was under tension.

Of course, an anti-gravity system alone is definitely not enough. The reverse thrust engine on the belly of the battleship is also at full output at this time.

But the good times didn't last long. Just when Zhao Feng was outputting his mind power to 110 billion tons, the battleship brain issued a warning.

"Warning! Warning! The battleship has insufficient lift, the battleship has insufficient lift,"

Listening to Zhinao's voice, Zhao Feng frowned and at the same time slightly withdrew some of his telekinesis power, allowing the pulling force to return to 100 billion tons.

Just as he adjusted his telekinesis output, the alarm sound stopped abruptly.

‘Okay, let’s hold it like this for now’

There is nothing that can be done about it. Now [Conqueror] and [Floating Airport] are in a relatively vertical position one behind the other.

If the [Conqueror] stood up directly and started the main engine, it would indeed be able to unleash all 10 megatons of telekinesis.

But if we do that, the airport will also face the scorching flames from the tail flames of the 10,000-meter-long battleship.

Obviously this is not advisable.

And there is no need to rush to do so, after all, the airport plug-in engine is still online at this time.

Even with only a tens of billions of tons of pulling force, it still climbed several times faster than at the beginning.

At this time, regardless of how unreasonable the airport's aerodynamic structure is, with the support of the laser wind-breaking system, its wind resistance is directly forcibly reduced to the minimum level.

Coupled with such operations of pulling forward and pushing back, the acceleration of gravity is like taking a shot of chicken blood, from about 6G to 19G abruptly.

Converted, that’s an acceleration of 192 meters per second.

To put it bluntly, Mach 1 is Mach 1 in 2 seconds, and Mach 2 is Mach 2 in 4 seconds.

This speed is much faster.

The 3-8G acceleration of the launch vehicle is simply incomparable~

Of course, Zhao Feng also wanted to save some effort and use a launch vehicle to launch it up to the airport.

However, all launch-related values ​​such as self-weight, fuel consumption, thrust-to-weight ratio, etc., are calculated through the optical brain and all point to the same result.

"Crash."

Even if the engine were several times larger and modified to the limit, it would not be possible to launch successfully.

Because with Zhao Feng's existing engine technology, his engine capability is almost certain.

Of course you can add an engine, but the space for placing the engine is limited.

In addition, bigger and more engines also require more fuel.

When the weight does not decrease but increases, it will take longer to accelerate to push the airport up.

And longer acceleration requires more fuel.

More fuel makes the airport heavier.

It's too heavy and you need to add an engine. . .

Repeating this way is almost an endless loop.

Therefore, while ensuring the thrust, an upward force must be added to bring greater acceleration.

In this way, before the fuel is consumed, the airport can be launched to a low-Earth orbit that is less affected by the planet's gravity.

It is precisely because of this that he uses [Conqueror] to pull the airport upwards.

At this time, as the altitude continued to rise, the airport soon reached the stratosphere of the planet, which is an altitude of 55,000 meters.

"Ding! The current altitude has broken through the stratosphere. Currently, 70% of the fuel remains and 73.5% of the oxidizer remains."

Listening to the real-time report from the optical brain, Zhao Feng didn't particularly care about it.

Then, as he thought, the holographic screen in front of him switched directly to the picture of everyone in the airport.

I saw a building filled with rows and rows of safety seats.

At this time, the seats were filled with legion members.

Everyone has fastened their seat belts, and their bodies are constantly fine-tuning their angles under the control of the belt, always keeping the players perpendicular to the direction of acceleration to avoid unnecessary attrition and injuries.

With such a scene and such an environment, the seeds of fear sprouted in the hearts of the legion members unconsciously.

Of course, if left unchecked, the seeds will turn into wildly growing vines and cause riots.

But with careful guidance, a completely different situation will occur.

Fear will become fertilizer. . .

And that's what happened now. The legion members sitting together were unconsciously holding each other's hands.

The members who had not dealt with each other in the past also let go of their grudges at this time.

Comfort, trust, and silent prayers spread silently at this moment.

An indescribable sense of faith emerged in everyone's hearts.

Looking at everyone's performance, although Zhao Feng said nothing, his eyes still showed approval.

‘That’s right. . . ’

Heaving a sigh of relief, Zhao Feng moved the camera and focused on observing the situation of the elderly and children.

After confirming that no accident occurred to them, they felt relieved and switched the information on the holographic screen back to the monitoring screen of the airport's attitude.

As the altitude continued to climb, the battleship and the airport soon passed through the middle layer and reached an altitude of 85,000 meters.

At this time, the gravity of the planet displayed on the computer began to slowly decrease.

However, the fuel consumption rate increased instead of decreasing, and dropped to less than 50% at double the speed.

The reason why the fuel consumption doubled was mainly because the shipboard optical brain began to fine-tune the flight angle of the airport.

The optical brain adjusted the angle, and at the same time, Zhao Feng also controlled the warship to change its angle, from pulling vertically upward at the beginning to flying diagonally.

As a result, the wind resistance increases slightly and the pulling force is also lost. The engine has to increase fuel consumption to stabilize the thrust.

When the hull adjustment is completed, the semi-vertical hull can start the main engine to assist.

The pulling power that can be provided will also increase exponentially.

Of course, he couldn't start the engine completely yet, and the current deflection angle was only between 5° and 15°.

If the engine is fully turned on, even at some angles, the tail flame will still cause great harm.

The laser wind-breaking device can break the wind, but it cannot break the temperature.

When the thousands of degrees of high temperature penetrates, it will inevitably burn everything.

In fact, it is nothing if the laser wind-breaking device is burned. After all, the air at this height is already very thin, and the wind resistance is not very big.

But if the outer armor of the airport is burned, it will be over!

. . .

The main engine cannot output at full power, but the thrust brought by the main engine is much stronger than the auxiliary engine on the belly of the ship.

The pulling force has been increased from 100 billion tons to 500 billion tons.

As the flight continued, it then reached the ionosphere of the planet. At an altitude of hundreds of thousands of meters, gas molecules are ionized by solar radiation, forming a plasma layer, which has a great impact on radio waves.

Earth-era rockets or return capsules are basically unable to communicate when passing through the ionosphere.

But this is not a problem at all for the battle cruiser [Conqueror] with quantum communication.

I didn't even feel the slightest impact, let alone affect the control of the ship's optical brain.

100,000 meters, 200,000 meters, 300,000 meters. . .

The flight angle of the airport has gradually changed to 60°.

At this time, the [Conqueror] was finally able to exert its full power. The output of the main engine increased step by step, and 10 megatons of telekinesis almost completely acted on the airport.

When it reached an altitude of 150,000 meters, as the last trace of fuel was consumed, the external engine automatically went offline and left the airport in accordance with the procedure.

At this time, the [Conqueror], who was pulling the airport forward as a "carriage" in front, took over the next task.

With a pulling force of 10 megatons, it is not easy to fly with an airport in an environment where the gravity is almost half.

As the airport reaches an altitude of 200,000 meters, it has actually entered outer space.

200,000 meters, which is an altitude of 200 kilometers.

The height of the space station in the Earth era was only 408 kilometers.

At this time, the [Space Dock], which has reached 500 kilometers away from the planet after adjustment, is quietly waiting for the arrival of the main base.

At this time, everyone in the airport was surprised to find that the pressure on their bodies had completely disappeared. Of course, along with the pressure, there was also the gravity of the planet.

Everyone's legs and feet all floated up involuntarily.

After detecting this situation, Airport Intelligent Brain automatically turned on the gravity system.

"Ding! Please note that the gravity system is activated, please do not forcibly unfasten the seat belt."

The prompt sounded three times in a row.

And as the artificial gravity system came online, there was a brief vibration and buzzing, and everyone in the airport felt that gravity had returned to normal again.

The floating legs and feet also slowly fell down.

"The gravity field is operating normally and the gravity value has returned to standard."

"Ding, this voyage is over perfectly, the seat belt buckle has been unlocked."

The sound of the radio reached everyone's ears, and at the same time, the seat belts that were tightly fastened to everyone also made a crisp sound.

The red light that previously represented locked status now turned green to indicate that it was unlocked.

Outside, Zhao Feng also disconnected the telepathic tentacles from the airport.

At this time, the airport is relying on inertia and moving towards the established area.

You can reach the airspace where the dock is located in about 20 minutes.

Next, the floating airport does not need Zhao Feng to interfere too much in its operation.

Even though the airport cannot fly into space on its own, it fully meets the basic requirements for space life.

As for movement, it can lock onto surrounding massive celestial bodies through superconducting magnetic fields and then pull itself there.

Similarly, superconducting magnetic fields can also be used to generate repulsive force to slow down.

But as for the speed, even if it is extremely slow, it is praised.

However, the cosmic environment has enough space for acceleration, so it doesn't matter if it is slower.

Now Zhao Feng has released control of the airport and handed it over to Beta again.

At this time, she was controlling the airport, slowly slowing down.

In the end, the airport will dock next to the dock at just the right speed.

In the airport, the legion members returned to their respective affairs after a brief cheer.

According to their respective talents and attributes, everyone started moving in an orderly manner, decomposing resources, learning frigate driving, marine training, and shipboard member training.

One part of the scientific researchers is responsible for accelerating technology, and the other part is responsible for teaching the children.

No one is lazy and no one is slacking off.

After all, everyone has experienced various crises, such as zombies, beasts, and lizardmen. Fortunately, Zhao Feng can deal with these man-made disasters.

But for things like tsunamis, low temperatures, and big storms, Chun Chun just leaves it to fate.

Everyone knows how difficult it is to survive in this world.

In order to protect the hard-won stable life now, everyone is working hard to improve themselves.

. . .

The members of the legion are fighting for the future, and Zhao Feng is also not stopping for a moment.

He connected the surrounding "underground city", "resource mountain", [space dock], [underground airport] and other buildings through giant steel cables.

Considering that he is currently in a space environment, and in order to avoid the solar wind explosion, he has to drag his home to the back of the RTX4090.G, which is 100 light seconds away, within 12 hours.

Relying on the magnetic field of the planet and the planet itself, more than 99% of the threats from stellar winds can be avoided.

. . .