Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 220 - Crisis...Resolved (2 in 1 chapter)

Chapter 220: Chapter 220 Crisis…Resolved! (2 in 1 chapter)

Chapter 220: Chapter 220 Crisis…Resolved! (2 in 1 chapter)

“There are a hundred seconds left!”

At that moment, the command center of the Earth Era transmitted a massive amount of data.

Major Guo yelled, “All pilots prepare… Last course adjustment! Get as close to those missiles as possible!”

“Orders received!”

Major Guo narrowed his eyes, unable to see the so-called “nuclear bombs” with the naked eye without relying on radar. What a joke, if they could actually be seen with the eyes, they would have already whizzed past before a reaction was possible.

It was just a series of equations displayed on the screen, showing that the distance between both parties was rapidly closing!

Too fast…

These spaceships, many times faster than Earth’s fastest fighter jets, traveling over a hundred kilometers per second, humans couldn’t possibly react in time, everything had to rely on programs accurate to the millisecond!

Trembling fingers pressed a few keys, “Has everyone set their autopilot programs… any problems?”

“No problems!”

“Double check everything! Don’t miss it.”

1000 kilometers…

800 kilometers…

600 kilometers!

200!

The closing distance caused everyone’s pupils to dilate, including the various calculation personnel in the Captain’s Room of the Earth Era.

Just mere tens of kilometers passed in a blink, making it impossible to observe the position of the nuclear bombs with the naked eye!

But the data displayed on the instruments showed…

It was coming!

The heart seemed about to leap out of the throat, and at this critical moment, the bodies of these soldiers shook violently!

Buzz!

Three huge Deceleration Umbrellas were instantly ejected from behind the wings of the shuttle.

These Deceleration Umbrellas were tools used to slow down in the atmosphere, but at this moment, situated in the vacuum of space, without any atmosphere, the Deceleration Umbrellas twisted and turned, like crumpled plastic bags.

But that was enough!

“Quick, retreat!”

There was no time to look back; all the pilots simultaneously performed another action, crazily pulling the control sticks to rise! Even with autopilot programs, how could they dare to fly totally autonomously under the threat of nuclear bombs?

Under the tremendous acceleration, everyone’s head swelled to the color of a swollen liver. Major Guo felt the veins on his forehead bulging out one by one, but he didn’t dare slow down, only wanting to know whether the final interception was successful…

If the Mother Ship really was attacked, even if they survived, what meaning would it hold?

Zhang Yuan stared intently at the screen, watching the several “plastic bag” like Deceleration Umbrellas launch synchronously. The various observational devices inside the spaceship had magnified the resolution to the extreme.

Several high-speed missiles were successfully captured by the Deceleration Umbrellas.

“It’s a success!”

Cheers erupted in the Captain’s Room.

“After taking that hit, even a thin Deceleration Umbrella was enough to tamper with those missiles. If a plane can be brought down by a small bird, let alone a much faster missile!”

But the next second, before anyone could even be relieved, a massive nuclear fireball appeared in the middle of the battlefield! The intense light was painfully blinding. The screen filled with a lot of interference, and the communication with the Mother Ship and several shuttles was instantly cut off.

“Old Guo! Old Guo!” Captain Zhao took a deep breath and urgently called twice, but there was no response.

It was uncertain whether those shuttles were destroyed by the nuclear bomb or if the communication signals were blocked by an electromagnetic pulse.

Zhang Yuan stared at the various data on the screen and frowned, “Don’t panic yet, it looks like an atomic bomb that was detonated by collision… The yield doesn’t match our predictions; it won’t reach the spaceships a few kilometers away… Just one second, these ships could have flown tens of kilometers…”

Before he could finish his speech, one of the scientists pointed at the screen and screamed in horror.

Everyone followed his finger, instantly breaking out in a cold sweat again.

There was still one last nuclear missile, breaking through the Deceleration Umbrella’s interception, and it was heading straight for the Mother Ship!

What should we do?

The shuttles still needed to take a wide turn, and their speed couldn’t match those nuclear missiles!

Everyone’s face turned pale; this was undoubtedly devastating news.

Captain Zhao, with a solemn expression, asked, “What about our laser? Is it ready? Is there a theoretical chance we could shoot it down?”

Zhang Yuan immediately shook his head, “It’s ready, but there’s no feasibility. It would take tens of seconds of aiming to possibly melt the surface of the missile. Tens of seconds, how could that be possible?”

“Then get ready… to take a nuclear hit,” Captain Zhao vigorously pounded the table.

He was hesitating whether to let a large number of soldiers fire machine guns from the spaceship, using their lives for a chance at “drawing a lottery ticket”…

After taking that nuclear hit, he didn’t know if it would lead to extinction, but from then on, humanity’s days would certainly be much tougher.

“Damn aliens! Damn them!”

“Wait!” Zhang Yuan suddenly came up with an idea. The thought flashed through his mind, and he jumped up nervously.

He said loudly, “Can we activate that High-dimensional Fragment?”

“If we activate it at the precise location, could it possibly swallow the nuclear missile? Is there a chance?”

“There’s a possibility… though there are many difficulties.” Zhao Qingfeng quickly responded, and without hesitation, he immediately ordered someone to retrieve the High-dimensional Fragment from the storage room.

That thing was once a curse, and it was uncertain how to research it, but now, it had become a lifeline.

At this critical moment of potential extinction, everyone’s action speed greatly increased.

Many scientists were feverishly discussing the feasibility of the plan, especially some computational experts, who were sweating profusely, every muscle in their bodies trembling.

“…But using the High-dimensional Fragment to suck it in isn’t just talk; the most important thing is to calculate the exact landing spot of the missile! But the missile is still accelerating… especially our observation equipment, it’s very hard to precisely locate this high-speed moving missile, the error could be hundreds or thousands of meters.”

After all, the absorption radius of the High-dimensional Fragment was only a few meters, and if they missed, the nuclear bomb would still explode!

But in this situation, they could only clutch at straws.

All astronomical observation equipment was aimed at that last fiercely aggressive nuclear warhead, trying to detect the most accurate trajectory data.

“Only 400 seconds left! Hurry, hurry.” Zhang Yuan urged nervously, while at the same time, he kept thinking and calculating internally.

“Only 300 seconds left!”

He swallowed, wishing he could join in himself if he were not so unfamiliar with the software.

Li Zhendong rubbed his eyes. As an information expert, his heart was about to leap out at this moment, and his trembling fingers occasionally pressed the wrong keys, entering incorrect data.

Including the relative movement of the spaceship and calculating the acceleration of the missile, the entire trajectory would have been a simple matter in the past… at least not something difficult!

But now!

In this moment, he truly loathed every muscle cell in his fingers.

“Damn it!”

“Chop it off!”

“Once we return, I will immediately switch to a bionic mechanical hand!” Li Zhendong thought wildly to himself.

As the last digit was entered, Li Zhendong finally pressed the Enter key, anxiously awaiting the result.

“There are two hundred seconds left!”

Snap!

The result of the equation calculation emerged, and Li Zhendong shouted, “Coordinate location, about eight hundred meters to the right of us! The error is around 200 meters.”

“Is the equation correct?”

“I got pretty much the same result,” another expert also exclaimed.

Zhao Qingfeng glared, “An error of two hundred meters radius?! That’s such a large area, where do you want me to place the High-dimensional Fragment?”

Li Zhendong, sweating profusely, replied, “The main reason is that our observational data is not very accurate… wait a minute, just a bit longer. The closer the missile gets to our spaceship, the more accurate the data will become, and the error will decrease.”

But waiting longer also meant that the danger would increase exponentially.

He suddenly thought of a question, “Could this missile suddenly change direction?”

Zhang Yuan shook his head, “It shouldn’t, the missile’s speed is increasing, and it has entered the final sprint stage… theoretically, it shouldn’t change direction anymore…”

Zhang Yuan suddenly glanced at the time, “Sixty seconds left, 59 seconds… Damn it, did you get the calculations?”

“They’re done, the location error has been reduced to ten meters… I’m sending the coordinates…”

“Don’t worry about it!”

“Quick, hurry!”

Several soldiers who had been waiting for orders quickly maneuvered robots and placed the High-dimensional Fragment in the calculated position. Following that, various lasers were urgently activated at maximum power targeting the High-dimensional Fragment.

After completing all this, all personnel began to evacuate urgently.

“Thirty seconds left!”

Just a mere thirty seconds, and in thirty seconds, a nuclear explosion might occur in this area, no one knew how powerful the surging nuclear bomb would be!

Even if the explosion just seen was a small atomic bomb, it might… it could be just the detonation device of a hydrogen bomb.

Perhaps this nuclear bomb could have a yield of a billion tons?

Thinking of these consequences, Zhang Yuan felt his scalp tingle, and even breathing became somewhat difficult.

“It must… succeed!”

The lasers quietly continued to irradiate, and soon this became a deserted area.

Twenty-three seconds later, the High-dimensional Fragment emitted a bright white light, absorbing all the surrounding spaceship walls, and this absorbing power was very strange, as if the entire wall had abruptly vanished, a force from a higher dimension.

But compared to enduring a nuclear bomb, for humans, damage to the spaceship walls was already quite acceptable.

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A nuclear missile surged forward, staring straight at the light point, and charged over!

Zhang Yuan stared intently at the large screen; by now, everything that could be done had been done, and his mood gradually became calm.

That part wasn’t the most crucial engine section, but it was still a very important heat dissipation area. Once destroyed, all industries within the spaceship would have to halt.

After the spaceship’s industries halted, the industrial speed on the surface would also significantly slow down.

Next, combating this enemy civilization would undoubtedly become extremely difficult.

“Fortunately, this enemy civilization must use rockets to climb the gravitational wells of planets every time they attack humans. Such super rockets should not be easy.”

“If the cooling area is destroyed… it should…”

Amid such wild thoughts, a series of screams had already erupted in the conference room.

A tiny shadow suddenly appeared on the screen, bringing another civilization’s ferocious killing intent!

But it was merely a flicker of the eyes, and it disappeared directly from the screen!

The whole event was so bizarre that most people couldn’t even react, but the instrument data showed that the nuclear warhead, which had been so formidable, had disappeared from this world and could no longer be detected.

The video began to replay at a speed slowed down by a thousand times, and after it was clear that the nuclear missile crisis was officially averted, a huge cheer erupted from the Captain’s Room!

The last nuclear missile was directly neutralized by the high-dimensional fragment!

This escape from death filled Zhang Yuan with relief, so he randomly grabbed Li Zhendong next to him for a hug. Almost everyone did the same, unable to help celebrating and cheering for their narrow escape.

In his excitement, Li Zhendong accidentally drooled on Zhang Yuan’s arm.

“Damn it, that’s disgusting, what are you doing?” Zhang Yuan wiped off the mess with great disdain.

“Ah, I accidentally became a hero again… If it wasn’t for my calculations of the precise position, ah, we would have been done for.” Li Zhendong turned around, wiped his mouth, and said very smugly.

Zhang Yuan rolled his eyes, “I saw you excitedly press several wrong numbers, and I had to remind you. Looking at your trembling fingers, you were scared to death. It seems pulling up the internal monitoring of the spaceship isn’t that hard…”

Li Zhendong was immediately at a loss for words, as if a simple compliment would kill him…

Cheering aside, there was still one last matter that hadn’t been completely resolved; those three shuttles still had not made contact. There was even one hostile civilization that needed dealing with!

After repeated searches with various observation equipment, the traces of these few spaceships were finally found.

It turned out, these shuttles had taken a large detour and started to return, seeming like they hadn’t been destroyed by the accidentally detonated nuclear bomb.

Looking at those three intercepted nuclear missiles, aside from one that exploded on the spot, the other two had their trajectories altered; one flew wildly into outer space, while the other was likely to hit a planetary surface.

However, the impact site was a full 4,000 kilometers away from the main base, which wouldn’t cause much impact.

“…Calling the Mother Ship, this is Space Shuttle 001. I am the pilot Guo Qiang, the shuttle is currently in good operational condition…”

“…Calling the Mother Ship, this is Space Shuttle 002.”

“Space Shuttle 003 calling the Mother Ship, a nuclear explosion occurred 30 kilometers from my location.”

It was quite a while before the calls from several pilots came through in the Captain’s Room, mixed with various kinds of static.

Zhang Yuan immediately felt relieved; this meant that this crisis had been mostly overcome without any damage to humanity, except for a slight damage to Earth Era. This was almost the best possible outcome.

But the thought of facing a Wisdom Civilization immediately wiped out his relief.

Captain Zhao immediately responded, “The Mother Ship is still in slight motion and is not suitable as a landing point. You guys head directly back to the satellite surface… Do not leave the bay randomly; the surface rescue teams will come to search and rescue you.”

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