Chapter 75 Unexpected Death
Just when the female bishop was immersed in her fantasy of killing, what she did not expect and could not expect was that in the engine control room at the rear of the battleship she commanded, the top alloy wall was being heated by something unusually hot. The object slowly melted through, revealing a warhead that seemed to have a "round cap". It has to be said that even if the battleship was damaged to this extent, its cabin detection system was still running. This tiny The fault information caused by the gap made the nearby engineers who were still alive and capable of moving quickly get up. After all, this is the engine, which is the basic power source for the movement of the ship. If there is a problem with it, the remaining people may have to wait for a long time. Died while waiting.
By the way, the sleeping compartments equipped on warships are very limited, and the permissions required to use them are not low. After all, the purpose of warships is to fight. Unless they are performing ocean-going escort missions for colonial ships, they will not be equipped with them. There were too many sleep chambers. At this time, an engineer stumbled and opened the door of the engine control room. Behind him was a suspended maintenance robot with blue ion light spraying from the bottom. In fact, the engines used by space battleships and Its cooling and control system is very large. If it relies solely on manual maintenance, it can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to inspect the engine area where the fusion engine is located.
Under the current circumstances, relying on the detection system terminal in the engine control room to accurately find the fault point is the most efficient method. Looking at the tiny red dot on the holographic screen, the engineer breathed a sigh of relief, but looked at the screen The screen was full of red engine failure messages. He clenched his fists and completely forgot why he was attacked. He just cursed at the three-star port of Jupiter:
"Those low-class people who have not been enlightened by the Holy Seal actually put my ship in this predicament. If there is another chance, I will make them pay hundreds of times the name of the low-class people to repay."
It has to be said that to a certain extent, these people of the United Church are indeed "united as one" and have cruelty, coldness and pride deeply engraved in their bones. But at this moment, he discovered in an inadvertent glance that In a corner at the top of the engine area, a very strange-looking light spot flashed. He rubbed his eyes and asked himself in confusion:
"Strange, am I hallucinating?"
He was not mistaken. It was the previous Punisher anti-ship nuclear missile. Although it had lost the opportunity to detonate remotely due to distance issues, its own control system would allow it to be detonated as much as possible under the right circumstances. It entered the enemy ship and detonated it. At this moment, it had detected the status of the engine part of the warship, so it activated the light wave and sonar attraction device. This device feels very ridiculous when used on missiles, but the Punisher lives up to its name. , as long as it is adsorbed to the surface of the cabin, unless the particle shield of the outer armor is not removed, sooner or later it will melt through the armor with the nuclear energy it carries and enter the attack range of the ship.
The subsequent light waves and sonar emitted by the Punisher missile were as expected, not only attracting the engineer's attention, but also some nearby soldiers. At the same time, in order to facilitate timely evacuation, the heavy explosion-proof door in the engine area was It was not completely closed, leaving a small gap as an evacuation channel in case of maintenance accidents, but it was this tiny gap that became the door of "opportunity" for these believers to pay for all their previous sins.
After detecting an increase in the number of people approaching them, the Punishers suddenly started the detonation process without warning. The nuclei of plutonium-239 and uranium-235 split into two or several fragments under the bombardment of thermal neutrons. and several neutrons, releasing huge energy at the same time. The newly generated neutrons bombard other atomic nuclei. If this continues, the number of nuclear fission will increase sharply, forming a chain reaction, which will occur violently within a few hundred seconds. Explodes and releases a huge amount of energy instantly.
These people almost felt that all the scenes in front of them were instantly covered by unstoppable strong light, without any chance to react. The high-temperature and high-pressure fireball formed by the nuclear explosion radiated extremely intense light and heat within tens of seconds. Its main effect on the material is thermal effect. After the material absorbs energy, the temperature rises rapidly, so that it burns or melts. This is also one of the main ways of direct destruction by nuclear missiles. The thermal radiation that is more than ten times more powerful than sunlight instantly evaporates all nearby materials. In biological and most alloy products, the alloy wall as a load-bearing structure is not melted through immediately due to thickness and material reasons, but this is only the beginning.
The huge airflow and the shock wave formed by the overpressure generated by the explosion carried extremely hot air waves. Some of them surged out along the gap in the heavy explosion-proof door of the engine area, and most of the remaining ones continued to wreak havoc in the huge area structure. , the huge pressure made those thick alloy walls finally unable to withstand it, stretched back to the limit and then burst open, part of it exposed the bright stars outside the ship, and the other part exposed the corridors and other rooms, and inside the engine area The two fusion reactors are actually not greatly affected by these shock waves and light radiation. The protection standards of their surface protection devices and material design are very high. Although the explosion caused by nuclear fission at close range is stressful, it cannot reach it. Let them crack directly in place.
However, the instantaneous electromagnetic field radiated outwardly generated by the interaction between the strong pulse rays generated during the nuclear explosion and the surrounding material can be up to one million times stronger than ordinary radio waves. When it encounters a suitable receiver, it can instantly produce a very high voltage and a very strong current. In addition, coupled with the penetrating radiation of the nuclear explosion, it is the radiation with strong penetrating ability released by the nuclear explosive head within ten seconds. Neutrons and R-rays, one after another, first paralyzed the cooling system, and then the neutrons and R-rays directly overloaded the reactor's power control system. The originally stable energy in the reactor instantly became extremely violent. .
After a few seconds, the magnetic restraint device could no longer control the huge force. The huge energy combined by the two reactors instantly surged out of the guarantee device. Even the heavy-duty explosion-proof door could no longer control the situation. It was enough. The power to destroy and burn everything began to wreak havoc inside the battleship at an alarming speed. All the equipment in the bridge suddenly emitted a dazzling red light, and the alarm sound was unprecedentedly loud, but the content changed significantly:
"The ship's hull has been irreversibly damaged! Please evacuate all personnel immediately! Evacuate immediately..."
All the people on the bridge were stunned for a moment, but the violent vibrations that followed made them realize that this was not a drill. Under the test of life and death, even these believers who had been brainwashed by the church did not give up their instinct to survive. They all got up and rushed towards the captain's command podium quickly, because the entire command podium was actually part of an emergency escape device. When encountering an irreversible crisis and there was no time to move, the captain could activate the escape device in a few seconds. Close and then escape from the battleship.
Looking at the surging people, the bishop had no intention of letting them leave together. In fact, the area of the captain's podium was not small, and the total number of people in the bridge did not exceed thirty people. It is completely possible to take them away together if they are squeezed, but this bishop is obviously not prepared to try. After all, even if they are squeezed, it still requires a certain amount of "loading" time, but now the situation of this ship does not have that much time. Looking at the hull inspection Special warning signs for the bridge kept popping up on the system. She grabbed the railing and calmly said to a liaison officer on the side:
"Activate the automatic defense system and stop them!"
"But Lord Bishop, they are also part of the glory of the Holy Seal! I can't..."
The automatic defense system refers to the automatic electromagnetic machine gun on the top of the bridge and the electromagnetic restraint net on the ground. They are installed to prevent someone from seizing command of the battleship by attacking the bridge. But now, it is true that this bishop used it to massacre his own church. tools for believers, and the purpose is just to prevent them from hindering their own escape opportunities.
After hearing what the liaison officer said, the female bishop did not wait for him to finish. She drew out the Gauss pistol from her waist and quickly hit him in the chest. The liaison officer looked at the bishop he respected in front of him with disbelief. He was afraid that He never thought that his life was not sacrificed in the process of spreading "civilization" for the Holy Seal as expected, but that he died in the hands of his superiors.
The huge momentum of the Gauss pistol made the liaison officer fly backwards. Those who were about to come to the captain's podium were obviously stunned for a moment. Then the female bishop did not let anyone else "do it for her", but used her own authority. The automatic defense system of the bridge was activated through the AI implanted in his body. The electromagnetic restraint net on the ground was activated first. The powerful instantaneous current directly burned through the legs of those believers. You must know that this restraint net is to limit the exoskeleton armor. Even those designed as powered mechas would be an absolute disaster for ordinary people without protection.
The automatic electromagnetic rifle on the top immediately popped up, and immediately began to capture the target and start shooting. Bullets with powerful kinetic energy instantly penetrated the crowd of more than ten people. Flesh, flesh and severed limbs began to fly. At this moment, the vibrations of the ship's hull became extremely strong. , as if the bridge would be crushed in the next second, and relying on the containment of the automatic defense system, the captain's command platform immediately completed the initial outer layer of protective coverage, and when it was fully covered, half of the body of a believer unexpectedly squeezed in to the captain's podium.
