nashuaworldcup Chapter 132: 1 Death and many twists and turns
Chapter 132: 1 Death and many twists and turns
"Liu Peiqiang."
"To!"
"Han Duoduo."
"To!"
The new recruits who had just completed astronaut training were urgently called up again.
Just seven months ago, they had just experienced the space elevator attack. The surviving astronaut candidates immediately returned to training and spent another three months completing all the astronaut training and became the reserve of the navigator space station.
Unexpectedly, the astronaut space station had not yet been repaired, and they were re-recruited to carry out an urgent mission related to the fate of mankind worldwide.
"I won't waste any more time talking nonsense. You are all human elites selected from around the world."
"Raise an army for a thousand days, use it for a while."
"At this critical moment of human survival, it is time for us to prove our worth!"
Only one-third of the navigator space station had been built. Romanov, the old astronaut from the Bear Country, solemnly announced the orders of this mission to the astronauts.
The astronauts whose names were called out are the ones who performed the best in the flight assessment. They will drive the landing spacecraft to transport 3750 nuclear warheads to the designated location on the moon to complete the deployment.
3750, this is the total number of deployable nuclear weapons on Earth. If they cannot be deployed accurately, there will be no more usable nuclear weapons.
"Don't worry, honey. I'll be driving. Don't worry."
In the team, Liu Peiqiang whispered to the female astronaut next to him.
Han Duoduo rolled her eyes at him.
"What's there to worry about? At worst, we can die together and become a pair of star-crossed lovers."
The two had just confirmed their relationship not long ago. They had just received their marriage certificate and had not had time to hold a wedding ceremony when they were called up to participate in Operation Moon Blasting together.
Han Duoduo is a carefree person. She emphasized to Liu Pei: "Fortunately, we don't have children, otherwise we would have so many concerns."
"It's okay. After we blow up the moon, we'll go back and give birth to eight or ten of them. I've already decided. If it's a boy, we'll name him Liu Qi, and if it's a girl, we'll name her Liu Qi."
"Get lost! Do you think I'm a sow?"
As they bickered, the uneasiness in their hearts slowly dissipated.
The moon blasting operation is divided into three steps. The first step is for the bomb deployment personnel to drive the transport plane to deploy the nuclear warhead to the designated location on the moon's surface. The second step is to connect all the nuclear weapons in series and detonate them remotely from the navigator space station. The third step is to start the only planetary engine on the earth and adjust the earth's deflection so that most of the moon fragments fall into the ocean to minimize the loss of the earth.
At this time, a large number of debris from the explosion of the moon-chasing engine were floating in the orbit of the moon, like a meteorite belt blocking the passage of the landing spacecraft. In fact, the personnel who carried out the bomb-laying mission had a narrow escape.
But knowing this, they still stood up without hesitation, took responsibility, and embarked on a road of no return.
On the ground, a team responsible for deciphering nuclear weapons codes was also busy all night. They had to recode the nuclear weapons detonation procedures from different countries to ensure simultaneous detonation.
The task was so arduous that it would normally take at least ten years, but they only had sixteen hours to complete it.
If the moon cannot be detonated on time, the main body of the lunar debris will be captured by the earth's gravity, which will still cause serious disasters to the earth and may destroy half of the earth in an instant.
The bomb-laying personnel are divided into groups of six, and they drive a landing spacecraft to lay the bombs, ensuring that there is enough redundancy to deal with various situations.
Fate has assigned the two of them to the same landing spacecraft. Han Duoduo sat in the operating seat, and Liu Peiqiang sat in the main driving seat. The two looked at each other through the masks of their space suits, giving each other a reassuring look.
Han Duoduo tried to call her father to say her final goodbye, but was unable to get through.
Seeing this, Liu Peiqiang comforted him, "It's okay. There is no signal in the shelter. It's normal that we can't get in touch."
Other astronauts are in similar situations and are basically unable to contact their families to say their final goodbyes.
Han Duoduo nodded, indicating that she was fine and there was no need to worry.
[Landing ship No. 35 is in position and will depart in 20 seconds.]
Commands from the command center sounded in the headset.
Liu Peiqiang took a deep breath, adjusted his mindset, and stayed focused and calm.
The countdown ended and the landing spacecraft ejected from the hatch. He pushed the joystick and the spacecraft accelerated towards the surface of the moon.
[We will arrive at the meteorite belt in 20 minutes, please be careful to dodge. ]
A meteorite belt with thousands of large and small fragments floating on it appeared in front of the spacecraft. Liu Peiqiang did not slow down, but drove the spacecraft into the meteorite belt with the assistance of the intelligent system.
Rushing into the asteroid belt with him were more than thirty other landing spacecraft, each carrying dozens of warheads.
Liu Peiqiang controlled the spacecraft to maneuver continuously, flexibly dodging meteorites from all directions, and managed to make the bloated spacecraft drift like a racing car.
Other pilots were not as impressive as him.
boom!
A ball of fire suddenly exploded in front. A landing spacecraft was unable to dodge and hit a rolling meteorite as big as a hill. It instantly turned into a huge fireball, and the spacecraft fragments and the astronauts' bodies flew everywhere.
[Ship No. 18 crashed! ]
[Ship No. 22 crashed! ]
In just a few minutes, landing spacecraft crashed one after another. This meteorite belt was clearly a sea of death.
[Two hundred nuclear warheads lost! ]
[One hundred and eighty redundant pieces! ]
Before carrying out the bomb deployment mission, the command took into account the losses and left redundancy for the bomb deployment troops. After sacrificing several spacecraft, the remaining spacecraft finally successfully arrived at the surface of the moon carrying just enough nuclear bombs to deploy the phase matrix.
Campanus, the most prominent crater on the Moon, can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. It is also where the Lunar Drive 1 was built.
Although the engine exploded, this is still the best location to deploy the phase matrix to detonate the moon.
[Arrived at the scheduled location and switched to automatic driving. 】
【550C will assist in the deployment.】
With four hours left before the moon entered the Earth's Roche limit, the bomb deployment mission was finally completed as planned.
The pressure is on Earth. The code-breaking team on Earth is still working hard to decipher the nuclear bomb code, but the progress is very unsatisfactory and it is almost impossible to complete the deciphering on time.
Faced with this situation, the coalition government had to consider activating Plan B - manual detonation.
That is to select 3,000 suicide squad members, hold detonators, and manually detonate the nuclear bomb using the most primitive method.
In order to ensure the accuracy of simultaneous detonation and eliminate signal delay, the detonator must stay close enough to the nuclear bomb, which also means that they have no time to escape the nuclear explosion range. Doomed to death...
……
"All nuclear bombs are deployed!"
"Return immediately!"
After completing the mission and receiving the order to return, Liu Peiqiang breathed a sigh of relief and looked back at Han Duoduo on the other side of the cabin. At this moment, Han Duoduo also turned her head to look at him.
The two looked at each other and smiled.
Just as he was about to say something, the fuselage suddenly shook violently.
【Warning! Left engine failure! 】
Liu Peiqiang's face suddenly changed. He saw that the engine had sucked in debris and exploded, and the spacecraft suddenly lost balance. He hurriedly controlled the spacecraft with all his strength to restore its flight attitude, but the spacecraft, which had lost power on one side, still spun uncontrollably in the air.
boom!
Liu Peiqiang's out-of-control spaceship collided with another nearby spaceship. Both spaceships were spinning and completely lost balance, crashing onto the surface of the moon.