Urban Sims

Chapter 321 Water Drops
Not long after entering this closed galaxy, Feitian encountered a mysterious attack!

"What is attacking us, Xiaokong?" Yun Xinghe asked Zhinao.

"It's some very small devices. These devices are very slow, and I have already left them behind!" Zhinao small air conditioner posted a few pictures.

But these pictures are very blurry, which is related to the high speed of Feitian.

The speed of Feitian is still 0.5C, it is normal that the mysterious attack device cannot catch up with Feitian.

"Xiao Kong, slow down a little and see what is chasing us?"

"Yes!"

Feitian adjusted the direction of the engine nozzle, began to reduce the speed, and performed a certain turning operation so that the rear pursuit device could keep up.

In this way, after more than 30 hours, Feitian's speed dropped to 0.3C, and the rear pursuit device almost accelerated to this speed, getting closer and closer to Feitian.

The straight-line distance is less than 5 light minutes.

Then through the high-power photoelectric sighting device at the tail of the Feitian, Yun Xinghe and the others finally saw clearly the complete appearance of the tracking devices behind them.

The number of tracking devices is about one hundred.

The volume is very small, not as big as a dormant chamber.

The surface is as smooth as a mirror, the shape is like falling water drops, the lines are smooth and crystal clear.

water drop.

This kind of device, which Yun Xinghe heard from the grandfather in his mind, is the masterpiece of the civilization in front of him - the "water drop" made of strong force material.

It is said that the surface of this device is extremely smooth without any friction, and the outer shell is extremely hard and difficult to break.

Water droplets are very destructive to other objects.

It even has a famous nickname - primary civilization harvester.

It is said that there was a civilization that had just stepped out of the planet and built an interstellar fleet with thousands of warships. It was ambitious to conquer another alien civilization in the adjacent galaxy.

But on the way, the Starfleet encountered a drop of water, and within two hours, the entire fleet was wiped out and turned into space junk.

Faced with such a heavy loss in this primary civilization, the hardliners were speechless, and the voices vowing to fight to the end were gone; I hope that higher civilization will give them a way out.

Because of the huge destructive power of water droplets, this weapon is strictly prohibited in the "Galaxy Civilization Convention", but the binding force of this convention is limited, and you can still often hear that a certain civilization is about to leave the planet In the starry sky, while flexing its fists, it was completely destroyed by an unknown drop of water, and its vitality was seriously injured. It is unknown that this drop of water was released by the unscrupulous person, but for elementary civilizations, Water droplets are indeed an irresistible and destructive weapon.

For a civilization at the level of the Blue Star Federation, although a mere drop of water poses a certain threat, it is not a serious threat.

Because water droplets have weaknesses.

Weakness one, limited to the volume of the internal power system, the speed of water droplets is very slow, not exceeding 0.3C. As long as the speed of the spacecraft is faster than 0.3C, the water droplets cannot catch up, and naturally there is no threat.

The second weakness is that the strong force material that makes up the shell of the water droplet has an extremely smooth and hard surface, but it is not that there are no materials with comparable strength to it.

S-level force field alloy is a hard material that is not weaker than water droplets. If you have a piece of S-level force field alloy that is thick enough and large enough to deal with water droplets, you can shoot the water droplets flying around like a pong ball. .

In addition, the destructive power of a water droplet lies in its speed, and its internal energy reserve is limited, not a so-called "perpetual motion machine". Once the energy is exhausted, the water droplet will become useless garbage floating in space.

So Yun Xinghe, who knew about this, deliberately slowed down Xiaokong's speed, in order to stimulate the appetite of the "water droplet" behind him, sometimes speeding up to widen the distance; Once it becomes space junk, find a way to capture it and study it carefully.

"Small-caliber laser cannon, attack!"

Gu Fan manipulated the weapons on the spaceship and tried to attack those water droplets to see if there was any attack effect.

An orange-red laser beam went straight to the water droplet.

After hitting the water droplet, the laser light is reflected to other places like the reflection of a mirror.

"The energy attack is invalid." Gu Fan said.

"Try a physical attack, launch a missile."

"Missile aiming is complete, launch!" Gu Fan pressed the missile launch button, and several missiles, dragging their flames, flew towards the water droplets.

Two or so hours later, several flares appeared in the rear, and the missile hit the target.

But there was no effect, the surface of the water drop was intact, and it continued to catch up with Feitian at a leisurely pace.

"Try a missile with a nuclear warhead. If it doesn't work, I'm afraid only the high-energy particles ejected from the engine at the tail of the Feitian can cause a little damage to the water droplets."

Yun Xinghe said.

What is the most powerful weapon on a spaceship?
Not the main gun mounted directly forward.

It's the motor engine at the rear.

The high-speed particles ejected from the nozzle of the engine can reach a speed of more than 0.9 times the speed of light in the helical acceleration force field. Particles with this speed can not only provide a huge reverse thrust, but these high-energy particles can hit any object. cause great damage to it.

But helplessly, this attack is only effective against the target directly behind the spacecraft's buttocks, and the shooting angle is embarrassing.

Moreover, the engine tail nozzle is in the shape of a radial chrysanthemum, and the particle beam cannot be concentrated. Due to various factors, it is just an unrealistic fantasy to rely on the engine nozzle to kill the enemy.

"Boom~Boom~"

Behind the Feitian, two bright fireworks were lit up, and a nuclear missile with an explosive equivalent of about 5000 tons exploded, hitting water droplets.

After the brief explosion ended, Yun Xinghe looked at the screen and saw that the water drop device was still there—even though it was blown upside down for a certain distance, the surface was still unscathed.

"Slow down and let the droplet approach the ship."

Many kinds of attacks didn't work, Yun Xinghe could only try the last trick.

5 light minutes, 3 light minutes, 30 light seconds, 1 light second...

The final distance is 0.001 light second, less than 300 kilometers away.

Feitian adjusted its attitude, and aimed at the water drop not far behind with the main engine at the rear.

"Maximum afterburner activated!"

With an order, Zhinao Xiaokong suddenly turned on the active engine in the center of the tail of the Feitian with maximum afterburner.

"Bang bang bang~"

With an instant acceleration of 10G, the backs of everyone in the seat slammed into the back of the chair violently, and the loose muscles on the face were all squeezed behind the ears, with distorted and painful expressions.

"Boom boom~"

The azure blue engine tail nozzle ejected a large number of high-speed particles, forming a dense barrage, covering a tapered channel-shaped area behind and covering the water drop device that had no time to dodge.

"Kakkaka!"

Under the impact of countless high-energy particles, countless tiny cracks suddenly appeared on the extremely smooth surface of the water droplets, amidst countless groups of invisible explosion flames. With the increase of high-speed particles hitting the surface, the cracks continued to extend and expand.

The water droplets made of strong force materials finally received an extremely fatal blow.

"Whoa!"

Like a fine ceramic, with a splash, the drop of water shattered into countless pieces.

The water droplet was finally completely destroyed.

……

Five days later.

Feitian successfully captured a water droplet that eventually became space junk due to exhaustion of energy.

Inside the spaceship's science lab.

Through various methods, the hard shell of this water droplet was successfully cut open.

"God, how is this possible?"

"Unbelievable!"

"The internal structure of this water droplet is more complicated than that of a planet."

"At least 10 billion parts exist, and there is also a miniature material reactor that is less than the size of a fist. The total length of various internal circuits exceeds 1 astronomical unit."

"It can be said that the precision of this device is much higher than that of the Feitian, and the number of parts is ten times that of the Feitian. What's even more astonishing is that with such a large number of parts piled up together, the failure rate of water droplets is astonishingly low. "

"To what extent has the civilization of this star system mastered precision machining technology?"

Lan Xiulong kept exclaiming with disbelief on his face.

You must know that the development trend of scientific and technological equipment has always been in the direction of modularization, simplification, and mass production. The more sophisticated and complex the device is, the more difficult it is to manufacture, and the equipment with more parts has a higher failure rate. The cost will also become unbearable.

This civilization has done the opposite, and has achieved the ultimate in refinement.

Carry forward the craftsman spirit to the extreme.

"If this water droplet is magnified ten thousand times and made into an object as big as the Feitian, the Feitian will have no chance of escaping."

Belekov said, turning a little strange: "Why don't they make the water droplets bigger?"

"Yes, why not make it bigger?" Sugaru also asked.

"This may be related to the characteristics of this civilization. These aliens are easy to make things small and fine, but they are not necessarily good at enlarging them. They are very proficient in small systems, but they have to integrate a large system into a simple and Practical, can be very difficult."

"Isn't this the case with the He people of our Federation? The performance of the parts they produce is very excellent, and no one can compare it, but if they are asked to enlarge things, even if they are doubled, they seem to have encountered a world-class problem. Measures, difficult to solve."

"This civilization must be a civilization that produces a large number of skilled craftsmen, but there are small advantages and great advantages. If this civilization can only produce offensive weapons such as 'water droplets', for us, this civilization, It should be very easy to deal with."

Yun Xinghe said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)