If the mysterious black hole approaches during Kaiwuhao engine maintenance and causes Wang Jiacheng and others to fall into its inescapable horizon, everyone will be in great danger! If they fall into the black hole's event horizon for more than 22 hours, the anti-gravity engine will be scrapped!
Thinking of this, Wang Jiacheng felt his eyes darken. He knew exactly what this meant.
The Kaiwu salvage ship is an exploration spacecraft. It lacks various industrial equipment, does not have enough professionals, and does not have many rare materials to repair the scrapped anti-gravity engine.
In this way, the spacecraft will have no way to break away from the gravitational pull of the black hole. It will eventually fall into the black hole while orbiting the black hole in circles under the gravitational pull of the black hole.
Then Zhu Zhen said feebly: "The Kaiwu salvage ship was captured by a black hole. The tidal gravity of the black hole will fully affect the hull structure of the spacecraft. The spacecraft will be twisted and torn into pieces, and all the instruments and equipment in the spacecraft will be destroyed. All of us will die!"
Wang Jiacheng looked stern and said nothing. He quickly walked to the large porthole in the bridge room and looked through the glass at the deep sky in the distance.
Zhu Zhen said not far behind: "Chairman, fortunately our Kaiwuhao has not been greatly affected now. Engineering robots and power experts are working overtime to maintain the engine!"
"But we can't be sure that we won't be captured by this mysterious black hole before the maintenance of Kaiwu's power system is completed! If that happens, what should we do?" Wang Jiacheng looked at the scene in front of him and murmured to himself. The current situation really made him unable to be optimistic.
Junker Adam's eyes were rolling around, as if he was thinking of something, and he said: "How about we send people to the Fulcrum Star to ask for help? Then the Kaiwu will fall into the black hole's inescapable horizon, and the rescue team can also enter the black hole to search. , providing a new anti-gravity engine to allow the Kaiwu to escape from the constraints of the black hole."
Before anyone else could speak, he immediately added: "I am willing to fly my small exploration spacecraft 'Homecoming' to find help!"
Zhu Zhen stopped him: "Mr. Adam, this is inappropriate. The black hole is behind the route of our salvage ship. If you want to go back, you must pass near it. The scientific community has not yet reached an accurate conclusion on the impact of high-speed black holes on hyperspace. It is so rash. Action is very dangerous and the results are unpredictable!"
Wang Jiacheng stared at Juncker Adam with a complicated expression for a while. He did not answer directly. Instead, he turned on the communication equipment and spoke to all the crew members on the Kaiwu: "I have always believed that any hardship is a torment for our explorers. Practice, we will eventually be reborn from the ashes and stand at the pinnacle of the exploration world. I have never wavered in this belief. I am thinking why this series of disasters often happen to us explorers? Can we really overcome what is before us? Is it difficult?... We can definitely do it, because we are explorers with unyielding souls!"
After finishing the impassioned speech, he successfully inspired the fighting spirit of the crew members who became a little worried after knowing the situation. The mood in the bridge room was high, and everyone was busy with the things they were responsible for.
When passing by Juncker Adam, Wang Jiacheng said: "I'll give you an answer after thinking about it for a while!" When he returned to his private cabin, he felt decadent and uneasy.
The reality before Wang Jiacheng is cruel. Just when he was giving a speech, reports from Hu Lan and Su Pu came over. After retreating, unmanned spacecraft and resource detectors were still being lost, which meant that the black hole was rapidly approaching. Item number.
So the only way at present is to start the Kaiwu and sail forward immediately, but the engine under maintenance cannot be started at all, so we can only wait.
This waiting is likely to result in the loss of life of everyone on board the Kaiwu.
This kind of suffering brought Wang Jiacheng's mind to the brink of collapse. Since the expedition, he had never encountered such a desperate situation. Everything was completely controlled by luck.
In an empty room, he used various ferocious faces and distorted exaggerated movements to release stress and adjust his mentality.
Half an hour later, he tidied up his appearance and walked out of the room. He has returned to the kind of person who has wisdom in hand and cannot be defeated by any difficulty.
Before Wang Jiacheng could reach the bridge room, he felt violent shaking, as if an earthquake had occurred on the Kaiwu. But he knew that it was impossible for an earthquake to occur on the spacecraft.
"What exactly happened? Go investigate and report to me immediately..." He ordered into the communicator in a steady voice.
Although Wang Jiacheng was very panicked at the moment, he knew that this emotion could not be shown or seen by anyone.
Arriving in the bridge room, he finally understood the situation. It turned out that a high-speed meteorite hit the Kaiwu's protective shield. The early warning system was disturbed by various ions radiated by the unstable supernova explosion and failed to distinguish the danger.
Wang Jiacheng ordered Hu Lan to be connected and asked him to transmit the holographic image returned by the unmanned spacecraft to the bridge room.
Immediately, what appeared in front of everyone was a terrifying scene.
There was a twisted space with no tangible existence visible, only distant starlight twinkling around it. Wang Jiacheng knows that this is because the gravitational lensing phenomenon caused by the black hole makes the black hole itself invisible.
Wang Jiacheng could no longer see the unmanned spacecraft captured by the gravity of the black hole, and there was only intermittent communication. Through these communications, the spacecraft can be roughly positioned on the Kaiwu.
As a result, a simulated three-dimensional holographic image appeared in front of everyone. It is more realistic and vivid than the effect presented by the newly launched main control optical brain which relies solely on deduction.
The dark mass in the middle represents the black hole, and the scattered light spots around the black hole represent the unmanned spacecraft. At this moment, these unmanned spacecraft have been accelerated to extremely high speeds, and they are rotating crazily around the black hole. But their orbits are not stable. Their orbits are a bit like mosquito coils. Every time they orbit the black hole, they get a little closer to the black hole in the middle.
Their speed is getting faster and faster, and they are getting closer and closer to the black hole. And when this distance shortens to a certain extent, the tidal gravity will tear these spacecraft apart.
"Bang bang bang!" With the continuous explosions, the holographic image in the bridge room also collapsed, and the unmanned spacecraft captured by the black hole were finished.
At this moment, Zhu Zhen ran over in a panic and said: "Chairman, using the data just now, we have concluded that the black hole is rushing towards us at 0.1 times the speed of light, and will cover it with its inescapable horizon in 10 days." Item number!”
Juncker Adam was shocked after hearing this and said incoherently: "Ah, then we are not doomed! Kaiwu has only been maintained for 1 day, and it will take at least 14 days. In this way, we will fall into the black hole's inescapable horizon for 4 days , the anti-gravity engine will have been scrapped by then. We will become prisoners of the black hole forever, until the energy on the Kaiwu is exhausted, it loses its ability to fly, and the ship is destroyed. I... we should abandon the ship and escape for our lives. !”
"Old man, what are you talking about? There is no backup escape spacecraft on the Kaiwu. Are you going to let everyone die by abandoning the ship at this time! Ugh, I remembered, you also have the small exploration spacecraft 'Return'! Old guy , have you already thought that there would be danger, so you brought your antique spaceship and were ready to run away at any time! In addition, didn’t you say that the route marked on your star map is very safe? Why did we encounter the cosmic sea when we first came to it? Is it such a big danger?" The grumpy Hu Lan walked into the bridge room from the outside, happened to hear Juncker Adam's words, and immediately retorted.
Wang Jiacheng also looked at him coldly, feeling very disgusted with what Juncker Adam just said. How can such depressing and destructive thoughts be expressed in public? What's more, Juncker Adam is the second largest shareholder of this expedition.
Since entering the Cosmic Sea, Junker Adam's behavior has been extremely ordinary, which is very inconsistent with his status as the explorer who has penetrated the furthest into the Cosmic Sea in the past few thousand years. He is not like an explorer who died and lived again, but more like a rich boy who lives in fine clothes and fine food.
The Kaiwuhao was in crisis. It was just that Juncker Adam was unable to put forward constructive suggestions. He was not calm at all, he was impetuous, and now he was even more arrogant. If his identity hadn't been registered with the Fulcrum Star Explorer Guild, Wang Jiacheng would have really suspected that Junker Adam was a fake.
"Senior Juncker Ya, you are also someone who has rich adventure experience. Don't worry. We still have 10 days to slowly think of a way. With the professional team of thousands of people on the Kaiwu, we will definitely be able to do it." Solve any difficulties!" Wang Jiacheng said in an indifferent tone, and slightly changed his name to Juncker Adam, politely rejecting his proposal.
"Hu Lan, you are so messed up. Who said my star map was false? Didn't we reach here smoothly---150 million light-years deep in the cosmic sea. Besides, thousands of years have passed, and the cosmic sea was originally Crisis is everywhere, and changes are inevitable. I am an old man who can think of the abominable instability and supernova explosion in advance. Hey, people are afraid of death when they get old. Abandoning ships is just talk, don't take it seriously!" Junker Adam! Knowing that he was in the wrong, he first retorted Hu Lan's words, and then tried to fool him again.
"Humph, this is best!" Hu Lan was still a little angry and didn't talk to Junker Adam.
"Zhu Zhen, based on the research of your scientific team, do you have any suggestions for me?" Wang Jiacheng wanted to hear the scientific officer's thoughts.
Although it was Zhu Zhen's first time to participate in an expedition, he actually did not mess up when he was in such a predicament. This made Wang Jiacheng take a high look at him and felt that it was worth paying a high price to hire him to serve as a scientific officer on Kaiwuhao. From the current point of view, at least it is more reliable than Juncker Adam.
At this time, Su Pu also walked into the bridge room. He received Wang Jiacheng's order to stop resource detection work.
