Especially Captain Deng Yuanshu.
I didn’t know until I entered...
There was a slight tremor from the ship underfoot. It was as if under the interference of some mysterious force field, it let out an overwhelmed wail.
The staff sitting in front of the console quickly responded to the space port dispatcher, explained that they were performing a mission, and communicated with the Lagrange point through the space port's communication repeater. The space base got in touch and reported the good news of the success of the experiment to their superiors.
A huge pulling feeling followed and climbed up Deng Yuanshu's body.
In just five minutes, they covered a distance of hundreds of millions of kilometers!
"The Z particle oscillator itself does not have the ability to tear apart space... Its principle is to open a hyperspace channel along the direction of the gravitational field by perturbing the gravitational field between two massive stars or planets. After entering And you'll be affected by the turbulent gravitational field when you leave, so it might hurt a little... well, maybe more than a little."
Before he finished speaking, the scenery outside the porthole changed drastically. The starry sky that was originally speeding suddenly stopped suddenly. The front end of the Qinling seemed to have hit a transparent barrier. The space in front was squeezed like the sound barrier at the front end of a supersonic fighter and kneaded into a whirlpool. group.
"...But, I still don't understand, why is the speed on the speed indicator still 30 kilometers per second?" Adjutant Liu, who had been staring at the control interface for a long time without thinking about it, finally couldn't help but asked about his confusion. "How the hell is this done?!"
It wasn't until they reported this strange incident to the North American Space Agency that the whereabouts of the Qinling became clear.
…
Just as Lu Zhou endured the pain and said these words, the scene outside the porthole changed again.
Lu Zhou, who was staring intently at everything outside the porthole, muttered these words to himself.
At first, they didn't feel anything unnatural, until the space outside the bridge window began to distort, and the stars embedded in the long cold night began to gradually lengthen, turning from shining points of light into strands. The slender silver needles, with a little light blue cold light, converged towards the space in front of the starship.
The Qinling was obviously in cruising state, and the acceleration provided by the plasma engine was not great, but it felt like it was bearing a load of several G's.
This space seems to be made up of countless fragments, and the darkness flowing at a speed visible to the naked eye is like a chaotic ocean.
He gritted his teeth and spoke resolutely.
With an indifferent expression on his face, Deng Yuanshu looked away from the strange scene outside the porthole and looked at Lu Zhou next to him.
"How long we have to wait-"
"The reactor's magnetic field fluctuated violently, and a surge in the concentration of high-energy particle rays was observed around the starship!" The staff member sitting in front of the console swallowed, nervously looked back at Captain Deng Yuanshu, who was standing on the bridge, and struggled He said, "Captain..."
Cooperating with Lu Zhou's experiment was an order given to him by the headquarters.
Liu Zhengyi swore.
Just when he was almost ready to die heroically, the feeling that was tearing at the cells in his body suddenly left.
just like…
The voice full of excitement and excitement seemed to be answering Adjutant Liu's questions, but also seemed to be talking to himself.
Circles of ripples suddenly appeared in the tangled space, and the folds swept by the ripples all returned to calm one by one.
Let alone a hyperspace passage, even if there is a black hole or hell in front of him, he will rush in without hesitation.
When they saw the fiery red planet, everyone in the bridge had shocked expressions on their faces.
Looking at Captain Deng Yuanshu, whose face was filled with shock, he continued with a cheerful smile.
Captain Deng Yuanshu, who had no time to appreciate the excitement in Lu Zhou's tone, was staring out the window, completely in a daze.
Upon hearing this, Lu Zhou smiled faintly and explained the reason to him in as concise and easy-to-understand terms as possible.
"This is the Tiangong City Orbital Space Station dispatch center. You have entered the controlled airspace. If you need to dock at the port, please follow the prompts to switch orbits... Uh, where did you come from? Why didn't our radar notice it at all just now?"
"Where the hell is this...?"
There was silence on the bridge.
"Fuck..."
According to the timestamp in the briefing, just 5 minutes after the Qinling was lost in their field of vision, the North American Alliance spaceport in Mars orbit was discovered.
With the sound of this sound, the silence in the bridge was finally broken.
The alarms in the bridge sounded one after another, and the indicator lights flashed red, indicating that their starship was passing through an area full of danger.
"...Thank you for your trust and cooperation. Our mission has been successfully completed. As you can see before your eyes, we have made history!"
Sailing in this ocean, Captain Deng Yuanshu only felt that the cruiser he was sitting on, named after Qinling, was like a reed floating in the lake, as if a wave could knock it over to the bottom of the lake. .
Until the voice of the Mars Space Port Dispatch Center came from the communication channel.
However, in the past nearly 10,000 hours of flight time, he could not think of any hour, or even any minute, that could be more surprising than the moment he was experiencing now.
Everyone who was still in shock had forgotten their words.
Just like emerging from the deep sea, the Qinling, which finally broke through the barrier, seemed to jump from one world to another.
"Keep experimenting!"
After piercing the invisible membrane squeezing the front end of the starship, their spaceship seemed to rush from the universe they were familiar with into a space that no one had ever seen.
"Like, what about warp drive?"
He was chanting softly and staring intently at everything outside the porthole. Adjutant Liu, who was sitting nearby, had indescribable shock written in his pupils.
"We...were successful?"
"Don't worry about this. The channel has been set up. As long as the hyperspace channel remains stable, we will be able to get out if we can get in."
Deng Yuanshu clenched his fists and then released them. Deng Yuanshu could not describe the excitement in his heart, just like he could not use words to describe the surprise in his heart when he first entered the hyperspace channel...
"...Or, it should be called something else now."
Before he could ask what happened, the strong feeling of overweight hit him again, and the pain was so painful that everyone in the bridge fainted.
Finally unable to bear it any longer, he cursed under his breath.
From their perspective, the starship that was moving towards Mars at normal speed seemed like a submarine that suddenly sank into the sea and disappeared from their sight.
At the same time that the Lagrange Space Base received the good news from the Qinling, the Venus Space Station in synchronous orbit also had a panoramic view of this amazing process.
"The hyperspace channel fills the gap between the curved surfaces of the universe, an extra dimension beyond n dimensions. But it is different from the void. We have never really entered here, but just took a shortcut from it to a distant world... Unexpectedly This is what it looks like here.”
"How...how do we get out?"
The universe in front of them was undergoing some kind of collapse.
Hearing Lu Zhou's answer, Captain Deng Yuanshu felt his scalp numb.
As the adjutant of the Qinling, he has served in the First Fleet for some years. He has been on starships of all sizes and has flown nearly 10,000 hours.
That starship seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, leaving people confused.
"Is this situation also what you expected?"
In fact, the experiment was more than a success.
At this point, he paused for a moment.
However, he is a soldier.
As the advance order was issued, the output power of the reactor quickly climbed from MW to GW, and the power output of the plasma engine also reached its limit. The Z particle positive oscillation device installed at the front of the starship also released its force field.
When he saw this scene, Captain Deng Yuanshu's mood suddenly sank to the bottom.
He couldn't describe what he saw in front of him, let alone the shock in his heart at this moment.
"Because our speed is indeed 30 kilometers per second, but this refers to our relative speed in the classical universe with the sun as the reference system. However, in the non-classical universe, that is, the super space I described in the hyperspace theory In the space channel, the relative speed of the classical universe does not apply. The speed of our movement in the hyperspace channel and the total time spent only depend on the mass of the material being transported, and the power of the Z-particle oscillator itself, or... "
"If you are referring to the hyperspace channel, then it did open as I expected," Lu Zhou stared intently at the twisted universe outside the porthole, as if he was afraid of missing any detail. With a hint of excitement, he continued, "As for what the world behind the door is like, I'm afraid we won't know until we go in!"
At this moment, he only wanted to figure out one thing -
Looking at everything in front of him, he had uncontrollable excitement on his face, and with a gently trembling voice, he squeezed out the words from his stiff Adam's apple.
At first, Field thought that there was a bug in their observation system, which caused the focal length parameters to change and thus the traces of the Qinling were lost. However, no matter how they recalculated the course and searched with radar, they could not successfully find the missing "Qinling".
"5 minutes and 23 seconds, jump distance 120 million kilometers."
After taking a look at the time on the holographic screen, Lu Zhou looked at Captain Deng who was standing next to him, with a bright smile on his face and continued.
It can simply be described as a great victory.
If it weren't for the frontline observer who swore by his old mother's name and the name of God that he had definitely not mistaken the time of the sighting, the top brass of the North American Space Agency would not have been able to believe that all this was true...