"start."

Although there were only two very brief words, it made every staff member who paid attention to this scene extremely excited and excited. Everyone hoped that the final test would be successful.

I don’t want my two years of hard work to go to waste.

That is to say, due to various considerations, the test of the Dauntless was not made public on the Galaxy Live.

Otherwise, Li Chengzhe and others are not the only ones who are nervous right now.

"Instruction received completed."

"Start the space jump engine."

"The energy load has reached the highest critical value."

"Opening the wormhole..."

As the smart brain's prompt sounded simultaneously, everyone immediately saw clearly that energy began to gather at the head of the Dauntless, and finally shot out a special energy ray.

Then, under the monitoring of the space observation equipment in the second safe defense ring of the solar system, it was clearly seen that the space in the area where the energy rays arrived had significant fluctuations, and it was about to successfully open the wormhole space channel.

Considering the insufficient energy of the power engine, the target star field coordinates set for this test are only near the Pioneer star.

It is only a few light years away from the solar system.

To some extent, the difficulty can be said to have plummeted.

After all, as the saying goes, one bite cannot make you fat. For the first space jump test of the Intrepid, stability must be the priority.

As long as the wormhole space channel can be successfully opened, it will be a huge success.

At least it proves that the anti-matter power engine can replace the dark matter power engine, so there is no need to trouble the Civilization Administration headquarters.

According to relevant information records in the Science and Technology Museum, the special space energy rays emitted by the Dauntless will gradually form a hollow cylinder, and the diameter will continue to grow until the ship can pass through it smoothly. Once the warship is completely submerged in the wormhole, it will represent a test

of success.

Unfortunately, imagination is beautiful, but reality is cruel.

As time gradually passed, the space energy rays emitted by the Intrepid remained unchanged.

It gives people a feeling of powerlessness.

Seeing this situation, Xu Lei, who was experienced in theory, immediately realized that it was impossible to complete the space jump with the energy of the antimatter power engine alone.

If you continue to persist, not only will it be ineffective, but it may also cause permanent damage to the space jump engine.

You must know that the value of the Intrepid is not high, and the most important thing is the space jump engine. If there is any problem with the engine, not only will all subsequent work not be possible, even the test with the Blue Space will not be carried out.

This is the real heavy loss.

With his thoughts stuck here, Xu Lei dared to hesitate and quickly ordered to Zhinao: "Stop the test immediately. The Fearless is temporarily parked in the second defense ring."

"Command received, space jump test has been terminated."

Although the brain on the Fearless has almost the same strength as Xingtong, it does not have self-awareness after all. Faced with Xu Lei, who has the highest authority, he naturally has to execute orders unconditionally. The moment he receives the order, he stops sending energy to the space jump engine.

The transmission caused the space energy ray to disappear in an instant.

The entire space looked no different from before, and it was calm again.

Seeing this, Xu Lei finally breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the space jump engine is intact, it is not considered a failure.

After all, he had already anticipated this outcome.

"Substituting this method is really not feasible. It seems that we can only place our hope on the Blue Space at the Civilization Administration Headquarters." Xu Lei sighed and thought silently in his heart, considering when to go to the Administration Bureau.

Headquarters.

Compared with Xu Lei's calmness, Li Chengzhe, who was also in the main control room, found it a little difficult to accept.

After seeing that the space jump test was actively stopped, the person's face looked very dull, obviously he had not accepted this fact.

After being stunned for a moment, he finally came back to his senses. He immediately turned to look at Xu Lei and asked, "Dean, did our space jump test fail like this?"

If it were another project, Li Chengzhe would not have such a big reaction even if it failed. After all, scientific research is never smooth sailing, and occasional failures are normal.

But it is different for the space jump battleship project.

Not to mention that they, the top scientists in the solar system, have spent two years, and their investment of 500 million Galaxy coins alone is not allowed to fail.

More importantly, Xu Lei was personally responsible for executing this project.

According to various past experiences, under normal circumstances, as long as it is a project handled by Xu Lei, there is almost no failure.

It is precisely because of this that miracles have been created one after another.

Now that the previous tradition has suddenly been broken, it is normal for it to be a little hard to accept for a while.

And he is not the only one who has the same idea.

Xu Lei could understand Li Chengzhe's mood, but now that the facts were in front of him, he had no choice but to tell the truth: "It was indeed a failure. The antimatter power engine on the Fearless could not provide enough energy for the space jump, but this failure is not

Within my expectations.”

Li Chengzhe is not a vase.

Within two years, he cooperated with Xu Lei in the research and development of the space jump warship, and learned a lot of advanced technical knowledge from it.

Therefore, after learning the reason for the failure from Xu Lei, he quickly thought of remedial measures and said tentatively: "Dean, if we mobilize Star Destroyers to provide energy for the Dreadnought, will this be able to meet the demand?

"

"This won't work."

After listening to Li Chengzhe's proposal, Xu Lei shook his head and explained: "What a space jump requires is a qualitative change in energy, and it has nothing to do with the amount."

What he said is not wrong. After all, antimatter power engines are the product of level three civilizations. No matter how many there are, they cannot help the technology of level four civilizations.

On the contrary, relying on violent and forced transportation in this way, the entire battleship is at risk of exploding.

Of course, Xu Lei also understood that Li Chengzhe was thinking about the Fearless and did not want to see everyone's hard work go to waste, so in order to reassure him, Xu Lei then added: "In addition, you don't have to worry too much. I have already dealt with this issue.

Once we have a solution, we will go to the Civilization Management Bureau headquarters for help."

"Then let's go together?"

"This time I am going to the Civilization Administration headquarters. If everything goes well, I will take the Intrepid to go to the outer reaches of the Milky Way. I'm afraid it will take a lot of time, so you should stay in the solar system first."

"I see."

Seeing that his proposal was rejected, Li Chengzhe was a little disappointed, but he still chose to accept it.

Xu Lei saw everything in Li Chengzhe's expression. Although he knew that the other party wanted to witness the realization of the Dauntless space jump with his own eyes, fortunately, there would be many opportunities in the future.

Mainly, after he drives the Fearless to the Civilization Administration headquarters, once he successfully achieves a space jump with the help of the Blue Space's energy, he will go directly to the specific location of the Source Star Civilization's spark.

There is definitely no way to bring Li Chengzhe and others.

First of all, this trip is his own private matter. In addition to not knowing how much time it will take, the risk is also extremely high.

As the top scientists in the solar system, Li Chengzhe and others' main mission is to help the development of human civilization and continuously improve the level of science and technology.

If time is wasted in the outer reaches of the Milky Way or something happens, it will undoubtedly be a huge loss to the entire solar system. Xu Lei does not want to affect the development of human civilization because of himself.

But the current problem is that in the past two years, the super intelligent brain model who is the director of the Civilization Administration has never contacted him again. I don’t know how the calculation of the specific location of the source star civilization fire has been done, and how long it will take to get it.

result.

Xu Lei still needs to make careful calculations about this matter.

Once you think about this clearly, things will be easier to deal with later on.

As long as the Dreadnaught continues to be anchored at the second security defense ring, the psychological work of other project personnel will be left to Li Chengzhe.

Try to avoid psychological burden and loss of previous confidence and momentum.

Since the space jump warship project carried out by Future Technology has not been announced to the outside world from beginning to end, leaving it open to speculation and discussion by various civilizations in the galaxy, the results of this test do not need to be announced. Anyway, for a major project, the research on two

A year is already considered a very short time.

Therefore, even if the information is blocked for a few more years, the outside world will not doubt it.

It is worth mentioning that after the Dauntless space jump test was completed, Xu Lei returned to Earth Star Longhu Manor.

After careful consideration, we finally decided to drive the Intrepid to the Silver Core first, and then discuss the follow-up matters after arriving at the Blue Space.

In this way, even if the specific location of the source star civilization fire has not yet been calculated, he can wait there for a while. Anyway, the development of the solar system is on the right track, and nothing will happen even without him.

So after spending another Spring Festival with his family with peace of mind, Xu Lei drove his light-speed warp spaceship Golden Crow to the second security defense ring, and all the people and spaceships entered the Fearless.

Then start the Intrepid and first pass through the secondary star gate of the Earth star to reach the near-Earth star closest to the galactic core.

As for the rest of the journey, it can only rely on the anti-matter power engine of the Intrepid to sail. Although it is slower than the last time it was led by Uma, it does not waste too much time.

Anyway, he had to wait for the model to calculate the specific coordinates of the source star civilization's fire, so there was nothing wrong with deliberately slowing down.

In addition, although he was only one person on this trip, the Dreadnought was still equipped with many small frigates and tens of thousands of space combat intelligent robots newly developed by Future Technology, which could slightly make up for the shortcomings of the Dreadnought's lack of combat effectiveness.

.

In this way, if there is an emergency, there will be ways to mediate.

In this way, after sailing for seven or eight months, Xu Lei finally came to the Silver Core again and saw the Blue Space, the headquarters of the Civilization Administration...
Chapter completed!