Give the universe a little earth shock

Chapter 99 The First Cruiser
In a blink of an eye, it has been four years since Dilian accepted the little ether dragon.

One morning in 2105, the cries of immature young dragons resounded throughout the Wuyi base, "Hungry!"

Li Kaiyang stretched himself, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and informed the people near Siberia to evacuate.

It's time for the dragon feeding once a month.

The size of the little ether dragon has grown rapidly under the feeding of the people on earth, and the dragon breeding ground established on the surface can hardly accommodate it.

During the past four years, under the unremitting efforts of biologists and linguists, the little ether dragon has learned a few simple phrases.

Including but not limited to 'hungry', 'unpalatable', 'want to eat living metal'

Just kidding, there is only so much living metal on the earth, of course it can't be used to feed dragons.

Li Kaiyang discovered that besides eating living metal, Little Ether Dragon's hobby is eating things related to circuit boards.

In order for this guy to grow up healthy, he had to tighten his belt and give it half of the monthly output of the robot factory on Venus, and let it eat.

Although it is very painful, the rewards are also immediate.

After four years of hatching, the body has grown to more than 30 kilometers, and some new skills have been developed. For example, it will emit the energy in the body in the form of a laser beam. The lethality is comparable to that of a purple laser, and the range has reached more than 4000 million kilometers. .

What kind of concept is this? You can directly attack targets on Venus from the earth.

If we can study the energy operation method of the little ether dragon, and reproduce this unreasonable range, the combat capability of the Star Sea Fleet can jump to a higher level.

And with the growth of the ether dragon, its abilities are still evolving. The thick scales of the adult body can resist even the sun's high temperature of one million degrees, so it can be said that it is full of treasures.

After eating, the baby dragon left a word of "unpalatable" and then flew out of the atmosphere, bursting out the suppressed energy in the body outside the exosphere, and plundered towards the Kuiper belt at full speed. It was going to play with the Starship Fleet.

This is exactly what Li Kaiyang wanted. Every time the young dragons play, they are used as exercise objects by the fleet. Anyway, the little ether dragon has rough skin and thick flesh, and it can't be broken by the previous generation of purple lasers.

Where can I find such a good opponent?
The Ether Dragon approached Neptune three hours later, and the energy in it ebbed and flowed, indicating excitement.

It's time to play with 'friends' again.

A laser beam that rips through the darkness was stimulated from its attacking organs, carrying all the destructive energy and going straight to the Star Sea Fleet. energy.

After that, the fleet engines were fully turned on, and they began to train today's subject one, attack accuracy.

The fleet avoided the light beams and approached within a range of 30 kilometers. Their target was the No. [-] eight scale armor [-] kilometers away from the young dragon's body. It is said that this is the pain point discovered by Li Kaiyang.

Although attacking this piece of scale armor will not break the defense, it will hurt, just like being attacked by a broken egg.

The ether dragon doesn't know what will happen to him yet, naively it underestimates the despicable earthlings.

It fluttered up and down in the space, and suddenly appeared on the flanks of the fleet group, and sometimes bypassed Neptune, and appeared above the fleet's head.

The two are inseparable.

Finally, Hayabusa made a beautiful acceleration followed by a recoil, and in everyone's eyes came a space slider, threw itself under the young dragon, and aimed at the scale armor with one shot.

The young dragon whimpered, curled up, and rolled towards the Kuiper belt.

Its screams seemed to be echoing in the fleet's translator.

Well, the exercises for subjects [-] and [-] can't go on.

"The exercise is suspended," Li Yufu shook his head with a smile. Mr. Li is really getting worse and worse.

Fortunately, Aether Dragon has no heart and no lungs. After a few days, he will forget the pain and come back to continue the exercise.

He took the fleet back to the Xinggang Dock to moor. The dock follows the construction style on the surface. It is rough and delicate. The dock, which is about [-] kilometers wide, is spherical in shape, with long passages in all directions for ships to enter and exit. The bottom is suspended. The first cruiser planned by the Union of Earth was built here.

The inside and outside of the dock retains the rust red color of the alloy itself, combined with the rough texture of the metal, it is full of futuristic and industrial atmosphere.

Quite a bit of Da Maozi architectural style.

In fact, this is also in line with the aesthetics of space science. In the empty space, majesty and grandeur are the only design criteria.

Big is better!

Li Yufu disembarked in a space combat suit and climbed aboard the cruiser to inspect the construction.

The Union's first cruiser was named 'Suiren'.

In order to commemorate the heroic spirit who lit the first flame of the earth in historical legends.

The name of the space fleet is more free than that of the navy on earth.

There is no need to distinguish between international recognition. Whether it is called Napoleon or Da Gama, it is a cultural label exclusive to the earth.

The construction of the Suiren was completed last year, but the X-laser launcher and advanced shields suitable for large cruisers will have to wait for a while.

Li Yufu was accompanied by the head of the cruiser.

There are very few robots working on the hull, and they are basically being debugged, so he asked as usual: "How is the installation of the shield generator, and how long will it take to test the voyage?"

"Two weeks. No, let me count 120 million seconds."

The person in charge has lived on the earth for more than forty years, and he still uses the year, month, and day habitually. If he wants to switch to the seconds, he has to do some mental calculations.

"Two weeks, that's pretty fast."

"Is it convenient to ask the destination of the sea trial? General Li."

Li Yufu smiled and pointed in the direction, where there was deep darkness.

The chief engineer in charge of the cruiser gave a meaningful 'oh', and pushed the untouchable glasses through the oxygen mask, "Oort cloud! Good place! It's the boundary of the solar system, the real interstellar space, unfortunately Europa VII The number flew to another place, otherwise we would still see them."

The Europa VII colony ship uses the four-year-old non-propellant engine technology, as long as there is enough nuclear fuel, they can keep flying.

It's just that the speed is very slow, up to one-thousandth of the speed of light.

The cruiser is equipped with the latest research results of the Earth Alliance, ion thrusters, and its maximum cruising speed can reach ten thousandths of the speed of light. It only takes more than 100 days to catch up with the colonial ship that has traveled for four years.

The two walked to the bridge of the Suiren. Li Yufu used the authority of the fleet commander to start the visualization data of the whole ship. He enlarged the partial view of the engine room, clicked on the vacancy next to the ion propulsion room, and asked, " What happened to the hyperdrive?"

According to the seized Fez star map, scientists have deduced the location of the gravity well in the solar system.

The so-called gravity well is just the fragile node of the space under the gravitational force of the galaxy.

The hyperspace engine can help the ship enter the node, realize superluminal flight, and reach the galaxy at the other end of the gravity well.

The gravity well is like a pipe, its beginning and end are fixed, this is the function of the star map, telling the user where the two ends are.

If you want to sail without using the gravity well, you must either slowly accelerate like Europa [-] and wait for endless years in hibernation, or have a jump engine like the Fez civilization.

Starport's cruiser plans to be equipped with the first hyperspace engine of the Earth Link, and Li Yufu is also waiting for the moment of inter-galaxy flight, so he is very concerned about the progress of the engine.

The chief engineer understood the mood of the fleet commander, including himself, and wanted to see the true colors of other galaxies. He called up the construction screen of the lower floor of the dock, pointed to the huge guy in the center, and said, "Look, the engine has already It’s almost finished, the scientific research ship has arrived near the gravity well to collect data, the physical model has been built, and the engine can be debugged.”

(End of this chapter)