First generation female Alpha

The five mechas that cleared the roadblocks with high-energy weapons returned to their cabins one after another as the ship moved forward. The remaining small amount of meteorite fragments were not a threat to the ship's shell, just smashed open.

The five team members returned to the room, each with undiminished excitement on their faces.

They didn't expect the attack just now to be so powerful, and even they were shocked by the shot!

During the space simulation training before, although they also used weapons, in order to save energy, they only turned on 100% of the power. They only tried the effect, and the focus was on practicing the operation, so no one thought that the power was turned to [-]%. His weapon is actually so strong!

Why are they going back to the cabin now? It’s entirely because the mech itself has limited energy. One shot consumes most of it. It’s not enough for them to do other things. If they don’t return to the cabin quickly, they may run out of energy after flying for a while. become space junk.

Several people looked at Cen Zhao who was typing something on the terminal with bright eyes, and the admiration in their eyes almost became substantive.

But Cen Zhao didn't even turn his head: "Go back to your seat and sit down."

"Yes!"

Cen Zhao lowered his volume and said to Bai Ningguang: "The effect is better than imagined, but the energy consumption is also higher than imagined. It seems that the difference between the simulated environment and the real environment is a bit big. Under ideal conditions, the energy carried by a single mech should be It was enough to take two shots, and now it is withered by one shot, which really disappoints me."

When Bai Ningguang heard it, the corner of his mouth twitched: "The ideal state will always only exist in the ideal, I thought you knew it."

The captain is good at everything, but he is too insanely demanding of himself. If it were someone else, he would have jumped up happily because of the high-energy attack power of [-] N per shot. Only she is not only unhappy, but also disappointed?

How does this let others live?

Cen Zhao pouted, but didn't answer.

She knew she knew, but she thought she could do better.

After all, this weapon system is not only her work, but also with the help of Nie Xingli and other researchers. I don't know how much time and energy was invested, and how many brain cells were burned to death.

Even if it wasn't for herself, she had to make them more amazing.

Bai Ningguang squinted at her, and added helplessly: "I've done the math, it's not your design problem, it's an energy problem."

Cen Zhao frowned: "Really? I remember the energy ratio is already optimal."

"Isn't it far from the ideal state? This impact value is higher than the budget. Look here."

Bai Ningguang called up a graph, the upper half was full of various data and formulas, while the lower half was a complicated graph with a lot of colorful lines on it, even a layman would not be able to see it Come out what each line represents.

Cen Zhao frowned and watched carefully.

Seeing this, Bai Ningguang took over the work from her.

Anyway, he's not busy, and he can still exercise his abilities. When the captain's inspiration strikes, it's best not to disturb her, otherwise the consequences will be dire.

After a few minutes.

Cen Zhao lowered his head, clicked on the terminal, began to input some data, and then calculated something. His previously frowning brows had loosened, and there was a frightening light in his eyes. At a glance, he knew that she must have gained something, but I don't know what I got.

However, before Bai Ningguang could smile and ask, Cen Zhao's expression collapsed, and he angrily turned off the terminal interface, leaned back on the back of the chair, and watched the screen in front of him stop moving.

Bai Ningguang was taken aback: "What's wrong?"

Cen Zhao twitched his lips: "I found a method that can optimize the weapon arsenal to the greatest extent, and also updated the design, but the energy source is not enough. None of the currently known energy sources can meet the conditions I need."

Bai Ningguang shut his mouth and did not speak.

The intelligent system he upgraded with abilities also suffers from energy problems, and he knows how it feels.

After thinking for a while, he turned his gaze forward, looking at Star Field 66 full of unknowns.

"According to estimates, there should be new energy sources we want in star field 66, and all we can do now is to believe in the future."

Cen Zhao twitched the corner of his mouth again, but didn't answer.

The Federation was trapped in energy last time. It took 50 years until new energy sources were discovered. During the 50 years, countless scientific researches were shelved due to energy issues. If they could be discovered earlier, the current Federation would What will it be like?

Of course, it is impossible to guess what didn't happen, and Cen Zhao didn't intend to really care about the time issue, her thoughts were more pessimistic than Bai Ningguang's.

The conclusion that star field 66 is rich in energy is only based on calculations. The truth is unknown. The last time the federation waited for 50 years, and now the overall technology of the federation has not yet reached a bottleneck due to energy. The discovery of new energy will really go so smoothly. ?

Cen Zhao, who occasionally believed in metaphysics, felt that there must be other tests in the process.

"Forget it, now our top priority is to complete the task. As for the research, let's talk about it after we go back."

"Ah."

The ship quickly arrived at the location where the meteorites were dense again, and stopped slowly.

The five exploration mechs were still moving forward, exploring the deeper space.

This place is even worse than the surrounding environment. In addition to the dense meteorites, there are also unpredictable spatial turbulence and various unknown cosmic waves. Some high-speed meteorites from unknown sources are rampaging in it, disrupting a piece of space.

Even though the mechs were moving very slowly, they were still hit by accident and began to suffer damage one after another.

After a while, the exploration mecha team sent back a report.

"The remaining energy is estimated to be insufficient, and I can no longer move forward. Apply to return to the team!"

Cen Zhao glanced at the remaining energy of the five mechas, and pressed the call button: "I agree to return to the team, please return according to the route."

"Yes!"

"Three teams!"

"exist!"

"ready to go!"

"Yes!"

Five new mechs left the cabin again, and flew forward along the existing route quickly, passing by the returning team.

The members of Cen Zhao's team rotated in teams like this, and under the premise of ensuring the integrity of the mechs and ships to the greatest extent, they pushed the originally difficult passageway into twelve stars (the three-dimensional distance unit of space / /made up), and updated the latest version of the star map, and attached a bunch of data calculated by the joint efforts of Cen Zhao and Bai Ningguang.

The mission was completed on the first day, and the ship returned home to repair and resupply on the Shanshen planet.

Cen Zhao left all the task of repairing and supplying to the team members who left the division, while she and Bai Ningguang went into the research room and continued to study the data obtained today.

The same task was carried out for six days, and the team members opened up a total of 53 new passages in the star. After confirming that the front could no longer continue to advance with the same method, the members of Cen Zhao's team had a short rest time.

But Cen Zhao and Bai Ningguang did not rest.

They are working on several special data files.

Before talking about these special data, let's popularize one thing first.

Still talking about the 50 years when technology was not advanced due to energy constraints.

Now that we know the importance of energy to scientific and technological progress, what is the biggest scientific and technological progress brought to the human federation by the development of new energy last time?

The answer is space jump technology.

The most direct result of this technology is that the federation that originally had only one star field has been rapidly expanded to the current territory. Human beings' ability to explore the universe has been greatly improved. At the same time, it has also greatly stimulated technological progress in other industries. After harvesting a large amount of extraterrestrial resources, human productivity and population have ushered in explosive growth. In order to adapt to the transition technology, new shuttle ships and jump ships have emerged, thus laying the foundation for the design of today's major spaceships.

Let's not talk about it, let's just say that these mechas newly designed by Cen Zhao, many of the basic parts of the design are derived from the batch of new technologies back then.

So what are the conditions for space transition?

In addition to requiring a large amount of energy, what is also needed is two jumping points that can be connected to each other.

The jump can only be realized if the start/point and the end point exist at the same time, and the space channel between the two points is stable enough.

The amazing thing is that although the space jump technology has been developed so far, humans have been very proficient in it, but the space channel between the two points that does not exist in reality is still a blank field of human research.

They exist in large quantities in calculations, but no one can see or touch them, and they cannot prove their real existence. Even space scientists cannot describe them in detail, and laymen directly regard them as metaphysics or magic—since they cannot If you understand, let’s push it all to God.

……

The science is over.

Based on the data collected these days, Cen Zhao and Bai Ningguang discovered two suspected jumping points beside the newly opened passage.

In addition to the asteroid belts and meteorites all over the outer area of ​​star field 66, there are many chaotic cosmic waves and space turbulence. Meteorites and even asteroids can use violent bombing, but various energy Waves and turbulent currents cannot do this, because once the cosmic torrent is caused, space collapse may occur. If the impact is too large, it is not impossible to directly swallow and annihilate a star field.

In this context, these two jumping points are very troublesome.

The appearance of the jump point is a good thing, maybe they can no longer continue to push forward with brute force, and can directly enter the interior of star field 66 through the jump point, but if the jump point is unstable, or the middle passage is unstable, then there are not enough spaceships to fill it in. Yes, it is not worth the candle.

Not to mention that these two unstable jump points may have jumped back or jumped elsewhere.

And what Cen Zhao and Bai Ningguang are doing is to calculate and speculate the final landing point of these two jumping points, as well as their stable period.

If these two jumping points can be used, the mission points alone will be twenty times that of the six-day mission, and no one will be tempted.

The author has something to say: the scientific and technological content in this chapter is pure nonsense, just read it, don't take it seriously.

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