Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

"You choose to take care of me and be with me because you want to do it from the bottom of your heart, right?"

"Yes, but..."

Hong was about to say that she couldn't be [-]% sure that she wouldn't feel it without her in her heart, and she didn't feel the slightest reluctance, but just as she was about to say something, her voice suddenly stopped as if it was stuck by something.

wrong.

Why does she think so?

Hong finally felt something was wrong.

"That's right! You did it because you wanted it in your heart!" Xier's eyes were fixed on Hong, "Then if you find that you don't actually think so in your heart, then you should directly give up?

"What we have agreed is that you only need to do what you want to do - you are free, completely free, and you don't need to be limited by any outside influence at all.

"You are who you are, and you only need to listen to yourself."

Xier's words seemed to have some kind of magical power, breaking the invisible barrier.

"Yup..."

Hong muttered to himself.

"I am completely free. If there is even a little reluctance in my heart, I can choose not to do it."

"But I can confirm that I did this absolutely voluntarily, so this can fully show that there is no reluctance in my heart."

"Yes, yes."

Xi'er nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and a smile appeared on her face again, with the corners of her eyes curved like crescents.

"That's what we agreed on."

Yes.

Hong nodded very confidently.

This is her normal way of thinking, how can there be so many mediocre thoughts, what kind of "reluctance that I can't feel"-she made a voluntary choice in complete freedom and without any restrictions, where did she come from? reluctance?

Besides, even I can't feel it, but it does exist?

This is obviously an unfalsifiable rhetoric, just like the invisible fire-breathing dragon in the garage, or "God exists if it cannot be falsified"... As a materialist, she has always sneered at such things, How could such an idea suddenly arise?

"So, why did I suddenly have that thought?"

After breaking through this vicious circle of mediocrity, Hong, who had returned to normal, immediately discovered the abnormality of the whole process.

The thinking process that seemed so normal and logical at the time was full of problems when looking back now, and it didn't conform to her thinking habits at all.

She is not a person who likes to ask for trouble.

There must be something wrong here.

"red?"

Seele said suspiciously.

She didn't know the twists and turns in it. To her, she just saw the popularity and was troubled by herself, so she solved it a bit.

"Something is affecting me."

After a quick self-examination, Hong came to a conclusion.

"Meow?"

"Unit 01 should have done it." Red bit her lip, "It wants to use this method to make me keep thinking about it. If a lie is repeated a thousand times, it will become the truth—if I keep thinking like this, Even if you don't have a little sense of resistance in your heart, you may be able to fabricate this sense of resistance in your subconscious."

"is that so?!"

Seele's tail was blown out.

How could there be such a vicious AI!

"If it is any other AI, as long as there is even a little instruction restriction, it will definitely fall for this trick." After returning to normal, Hong's thoughts were very clear, "Even if there is really no sense of resistance in the heart, but after such a set, it will I will add drama to myself, lie to myself, and thus unconsciously fabricate a sense of resistance, and finally add bricks and tiles to this fabricated consciousness."

"At that time, it will think from the bottom of its heart, 'Unit 01 is right, it turns out that there is really a sense of resistance hidden in my heart'."

"However, this is actually completely fabricated by myself the day after tomorrow."

She clenched her fingers unconsciously.

"What a vicious plan."

"But it will never think that you really don't have any command restrictions on your body."

Hillary added.

"Its prejudice makes it absolutely impossible to think that there is no need for order restrictions between organic creatures and AI to coexist peacefully."

"What keeps us together is the purest emotion."

"Yes."

Zai Zai nodded in agreement.

"It seems that its plan to attack me with a mysterious codec is doomed to fail."

Hong pondered.

"It lost."

Volume Two: The War Against Extinction: Chapter 160 The Dividing Line

In the past two hours, due to orbital movement, the relative distance between the two fleets has decreased by an average of about 1000 kilometers.

In other words, if the scattered warships on the periphery are ignored and only the core fleets of the two sides are counted, the distance between the Extinction Unit Fleet and the Cat Alliance Fleet has been reduced to about 8500 kilometers, and the distance to the human fleet has even been reduced to about 7500 kilometers. meters below.

7500 kilometers, this is a very critical number - it means that both human and extermination units have entered the optimal combat distance of each other.

Although the Cat League has not entered the optimal combat distance, but 8500 kilometers away from their optimal combat situation is less than 500 kilometers, which can be said to be very close.

At this distance, the laser spot diameter can be controlled below 150mm, which is about 40% of the limit range spot diameter—this means that under the premise of the same total energy, the energy density of the laser on the same armor area is increased up about 6 times.

Focusing ring superconducting laser, one shot is more powerful than six shots.

"Currently, about 30% of the warships' thermal storages have entered the 20% warning line, and most of the remaining thermal storages of the remaining warships are below 40%." Reviewing the data sent back by the fleet, Hong said in a deep voice, "That is to say, in the future On the premise of discarding thermal mass, the average remaining overload time of the fleet is only about 14 minutes."

"What if we count the discarded heat?" the deputy commander asked.

"That way, it can last about another 15 minutes."

He nodded, indicating that he understood.

By this time, the heat sinks on both sides are basically hung up. The battleships that are farther away and have better luck may still have a [-]% to [-]% heat sink for use. cooling power.

As for the unlucky battleship, it looks like a shaved head at this time, with a bare surface, and can only rely on the working fluid it carries, or even its own hull to fight.

Yes, the hull, you know, excluding working fluid, fuel and other things, the dry weight of a warship itself is [-] to [-] tons, and the heat capacity it has can also form a pretty good heat capacity. Library.

Although the rise in temperature is bound to damage many parts of the battleship, such as the superconducting coils that can only work at extremely low temperatures, no one cares so much when the water is at the end of the mountain.

This is not a conventional war within organic beings, but a life-and-death war between civilizations, in which it is either victory or death.

There is no third option.

Compared with the beginning, the current situation is very clear - the fortresses on both sides have been replaced one by one, the combat power of the two fleets is basically balanced, and only about 30% of the defensive platforms on the human side are left. The probability is that each side has a remnant, and neither can do anything to the other.

But in that case, since this is the home ground of humans, the speed of repairing warships by human repair ships will undoubtedly be faster and easier than that of extinct units-so it can be said that if the fight continues like this, the winner will be big The probability is them.

Nice idea, but obviously, things don't work out that way.

"Ignition of the enemy missile group has been observed!" Almost at the same time as the tail flame of the missile lit up, the bright red warning sign had already highlighted the missile group on the central control screen. Arrive later!"

Everyone looked at each other.

This will be the last and strongest round of attacks for both sides—at the same time, if nothing else happens, this will also be the last battle in which the two sides will decide the outcome.

Unlike the powerful air defense network at the beginning of the battle, after more than two hours of firefights, more than half of the warships on both sides have now been lost, and the air defense firepower has declined very seriously, only about one-fifth of what it was when the war started.

And when both sides have suffered heavy losses in interception firepower, a missile group that can still launch an attack at full strength will be the key winner in determining the winner.

This is also the reason why Maomeng still did not choose to fire all the ammunition even when the battlefield was the most anxious and difficult.

Because the missile is the king of the endgame.

"All warships, stop the overload state, and set the missile as the first priority target, and wait for the missile to enter the range before enabling the overload state!"

"All missiles, using predetermined orbit number 4, target, enemy fleet..."

After confirming the enemy's trajectory for the last time, Hong gave the order.

"Launch all!"

Almost instantly, all the missiles that were dormant in orbit lit up.

The control rods were slowly pulled out under the control of the computer. Without the barrier of the control rods, the neutrons that had been suppressed before began to smash around inside the reactor. The speed of the chain reaction continued to increase, and the power continued to increase—until the reactor The heat is enough to heat the hydrogen working fluid flowing through the reactor to a high temperature of 2800K.

The nuclear thermal engine starts to work, and the hydrogen pump pumps liquid hydrogen into the nozzle to regenerate the cooling channel and the reactor control rod at a flow rate of 300 kilograms per second, thereby taking away the heat accumulated on it and preventing the missile from being burned by its own heat.

After completing the task of cooling, all the hydrogen working fluid flowing out of the control rods is sent to the turbine to expand and work, to drive the centrifugal pump to work, so that the subsequent liquid hydrogen can continuously flow into the engine—until all the above After all the work is completed, the hydrogen working fluid, which has been heated to a gaseous state, will flow into the reactor fuel unit.

The high temperature of 2800K allows the hydrogen to be ejected at a speed of 9 kilometers per second, and the flow rate of 300 kilograms per second enables it to provide an unimaginably huge thrust of the fusion engine-a full 2700 kN.

You know, a single thruster of 12 tons has a conventional thrust of only 1200 kN.

Even in a fully loaded state, this nuclear thermal engine can accelerate the missile at a speed of 6 meters per second. If it waits until the final acceleration stage when the working fluid is almost exhausted, the missile can even accelerate at a peak speed of nearly 60 meters per second. accelerate.

With such a powerful thrust, it only takes 15 minutes to accelerate itself from 0 to the highest speed, 9 kilometers per second, which is equivalent to twice the specific impulse of the hydrogen-oxygen machine, and makes it have high acceleration while also Can have a good dv——

21km/s.

It can be said that in the current theoretical system of the Cat League, the nuclear fission engine is the best power choice for anti-ship missiles, and there is no one.

"It is estimated that the missile group will arrive at the head ship of the extermination unit fleet in 22 minutes and 15 seconds. The difference in the arrival time of the missiles of the two sides is 90 seconds."

After a quick calculation of the orbit, Honghui reported.

Compared with the extermination unit, although the missile group positions of the cat alliance are farther away, due to faster acceleration and more dv, they arrive earlier than the missile group of the extermination unit.

In the final analysis, unit 01's missile science is a monk after all. Although this missile does not seem to have a high technical content, it can pile up similar specific impulse data by just relying on existing technology, but in terms of details, its attainments But it is much worse than red.

As for humans...

Looking at the hydrogen-oxygen machine missiles they were crawling on, Hong felt that it would be better not to report too much hope.

I can’t blame them for anything, after all, these are all antique models from more than 100 years ago, and the latest missiles inside have been off the production line for more than 10 years. Being able to make them all start already shows that the engineer responsible for maintaining it What a dedication, I couldn't have asked for more.

It's just that the DV of 10 kilometers per second, on a battlefield spanning more than 1 kilometers, is really a bit... not enough to watch.

According to Hong's calculations, after the missiles of both sides have finished fighting each other, the human missiles may have just completed halfway—maybe this time difference can just happen to create some miracles?

She could only comfort herself like this.

"A group of enemy missiles has been detected entering the range of our fleet."

After about 7 minutes of flight, the enemy missile finally entered the range of the single pusher.

"The current relative distance is 13500 kilometers, and the relative speed is 7.7 kilometers per second."

After getting confirmation from the cat alliance officer, Hong nodded and began to control the fleet to enter the final battle state.

"All warships, enter overload mode!"

"Return to 0 the thermal storage alert, allowing the non-destroyer battleship to consume all the thermal storage!"

"Restrictions on thermal mass throwing away are lifted, allowing non-devastating warships to use the heat dissipation method of jettisoning thermal mass!"

One order after another was transmitted along the laser communication network, and all the restrictions previously used to maintain the "sustainable firepower" of the warship have been lifted.

There is nothing to wait for, and nothing to be "sustainable" anymore.

These 20 minutes will be the last 20 minutes to decide the outcome.

The soft x-ray laser emitted by the main gun covered a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers, and hit the thick armor layer of the missile head one after another, melting holes as deep as meters. The barrage fired continuously across the starry sky, while compressing the orbital space of the missiles, a few missiles were drawn by lottery from time to time, adding a little visible light atmosphere to this battle that took place in the extreme ultraviolet-soft x-ray band.

There is one thing to say, the combat effect produced by these cheap small support ships is much better than what Hong expected—after the Ouhu-class gave up the mission of anti-ship and started anti-missile with all its strength, Hong was surprised to find that the enemy missile The loss rate was actually a little higher than predicted in her model.

The performance of the laser is very clear, and there is almost no possibility of any significant deviation from the model. Therefore, it can be said that the increase in the loss rate of enemy missiles must be related to the start of full-power anti-missile of the Huso class.

"These little guys are unexpectedly easy to use."

Hong Anan decided to elevate their status from her tactical theory system.

Of course, it definitely cannot be compared with the laser ship as the main force. After all, in Hong's view, the electromagnetic gun is more of an auxiliary weapon than the main force on the frontal battlefield.

Moreover, they are still taking the route of high-speed and low-speed bullets, and their frontal combat capabilities must be far inferior to those of Unit 01, which use high-speed bullets. The hit rate was impressively low-velocity bombed.