Earth Invasion

Chapter 23 Insomnia Zhang Mai

Zhang Mai has been suffering from insomnia for some reason these days.It stands to reason that he has already passed the age of sleeping and accepting the bed.And he had no problem sleeping when he first arrived at L3.Now that he has been here for more than a month, it is really unreasonable to accept the bed instead.As a last resort, he went to the company's doctor to see it, and the doctor told him that it might have something to do with the fact that he always carries an automatic translator.Things like automatic translators are becoming more and more convenient now, but, after all, they are electronic voices, and they are somewhat different from real people in terms of speech speed and accent.If I listen to this stereotyped voice too much, I am afraid that some neurological problems will appear.For example, Zhang Mai's current insomnia.

But this is not a big problem after all. The doctor told him that one way is to try to drink a small glass of wine before going to bed.

Folk remedies are not only believed by Chinese people, foreigners also have many strange methods.Zhang Mai once heard that eating fresh milk and black bread for breakfast can cure stomach ulcers.Zhang Mai still tried this way of drinking a glass of wine. Does it work? It's okay.After all, he is not a heavy drinker, and a glass of red wine is enough for him as a sleeping pill.So, every night, he would buy a few small packages of dried tofu and drink a small cup.Spiced tofu is the only Chinese food in this shabby place.

But tonight, this recipe failed.Today is his day on duty in the factory area.Usually go to sleep in the gravity dormitory outside the satellite.Today he has to spend the night in a stationary sleeping bag in the factory area.So after he bought a few pieces of dried tofu wrapped in glutinous rice paper and wine in a Tetra Pak bag, he just waited for the sleepiness to come up so that he could sleep.It's a pity that he was still in good spirits after drinking up a pack of 225ML wine.

People who have never had insomnia do not know the pain of insomniacs.Zhang Mai kept rolling in the sleeping bag, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.After about an hour, he finally gave up on his plan to let himself fall asleep so easily.

Putting on his clothes, he floated out of the lounge like a ghost and into the corridor.The sensor lights in the corridor exude a dim, milky white light, reminding the staff that it is late at night.He sat on the teleportation armrest, wandering aimlessly in the corridor.After spending about 10 minutes in it, he finally decided to go to the workshop to have a look. Anyway, he is idle now.Maybe, there are still some interesting things, and after tossing for a while, I will probably fall asleep.

His so-called interest is nothing else, but the UFP on an interstellar passenger spacecraft that entered Hong Kong yesterday.

UFP, the full name in Chinese is "Universal Stepping Combat Platform", which is a humanoid weapon unit developed from a gravity-free engineering robot using a follow-up control system.

During these years of development, space warfare was initially carried out by aerospace fighters and warships equipped with directed energy weapons.Later, the power of directed energy weapons became larger and larger, and the energy part required was also larger and larger.At the same time, where there is a spear, there is a shield, just like the armor and artillery of tanks are developing. At the end of the 23rd century, at the same time as the "directional magnetic field" technology breakthrough, the defense system for qualitative weapons-"deflecting electric field" "It has also reached the practical stage.

In the current stage of weapons, directed energy weapons are generally divided into two types, one is light speed or near light speed directed energy weapons represented by laser and charged particle beam weapons.This weapon attacks at the speed of light and is basically impossible to dodge.At the same time, this kind of weapon generally uses the high heat generated by electromagnetic waves to attack.In the case of a charged particle beam weapon, it will also cause the attacked target to generate an induced strong magnetic field to generate heat.

Charged particle beam weapons, known as charged particle cannons, may be twisted by strong electric fields due to mainly electrons.The deflection electric field is to use a local strong magnetic field to deflect the defense system of this directed energy weapon.

As for lasers, modern aerospace warships generally use armor materials and laminated armor with a thermal expansion coefficient that tends to zero to reflect and absorb.

The second weapon is the railgun and plasma cannon.The electromagnetic gun is easy to explain, it is a weapon that uses Lorentz force to launch solid projectiles and uses kinetic energy to kill.The plasma cannon uses electromagnetic force to launch high-temperature plasma clusters, and uses high temperature and electron bombardment to cause damage.The problem with these two types of weapons is that they are relatively slow, and they are nothing at a combat distance of tens of thousands of kilometers. Even if the combat distance is close to three to five thousand kilometers, the speed of these weapons is still not enough compared to directed energy weapons.Among them, the defense against the electromagnetic gun is to use its own particle beam weapon to continuously irradiate it during its flight, let it enter a melting state and carry an electric field, and then be bounced by the deflected electric field.Plasma weapons (plasma weapons) are easier to handle. As long as the power of the deflection electric field is sufficient, just wait and see the plasma fireworks.

But the deflection electric field is not a panacea.First, this thing can't wrap the whole ship.Now all warships are powered by fusion furnaces plus plasma thruster arrays.The rear of the spacecraft is generally arranged with the main thruster array and the attitude engine.When this thing is working, it cannot be wrapped by the deflection electric field. In that case, it will end in one end, and the entire propulsion array will be scrapped.

Second, this thing does not distinguish between the inside and the outside, it can block local artillery fire, and the particle beam or plasma jet it fires can also be reversed.

Although there are shortcomings of one kind or another, the deflection electric field is still indispensable as a means of life preservation.Therefore, in a short period of time, the aerospace fighters used for space warfare were abandoned.It is replaced by a small single-seat combat boat with a larger volume and heavier tonnage, which is large enough to install a deflection electric field.There is also UFP.

The UFP at the beginning had no feet, or in other words, the UFP at the beginning was a ball with two robotic arms.The driver is in the center of the ball, controls the two mechanical arms with both hands, and the rotation of the body controls the direction.

At the beginning, UFP was just a supporting role, or almost like a clown.For a long time, UFP's job was to be the external maintenance worker of the spacecraft.Because what it can do, a single-seater combat boat can do.UFP used to be awesome for a while because it had arms and more flexible pointing, but after the single-seater combat boat was equipped with a rotating object tower, UFP immediately withered.

Later, in order to solve the problem of mutual fireworks in space battles, people developed a weapon called "heavy particle cannon", which finally allowed UFP to find its own position.

The so-called heavy particle cannon is something between ordinary energy weapons and mass weapons.It is essentially a high-temperature heavy metal jet, which is different from the same high-temperature plasma cannon.The main way of killing this thing is kinetic energy.To put it simply, it means that the metal atoms of bismuth, tungsten and uranium are heated to a high enough temperature, and then accelerated to a very high speed by the reconnection gun fixed on the hull, which may be [-]/[-]th of the speed of light.

The kinetic energy can be imagined by accelerating the matter calculated in grams to 1500 km/s.Although the spaceship flying to the wormhole with a giant accelerator can also reach this speed, it is achieved after continuous acceleration for a month.It is not a concept with this weapon-level thing.

The emergence of this kind of weapon means that the deflection electric field can only be weakened, but not directly defended.This requires warships to have armor that can self-remember and use nano-machines to continuously repair themselves.

The single-seater combat boat can't be installed, because with those armors installed, the single-seater combat boat has to be called a small combat ship.

The UFP is different, because of the right hand, it can be equipped with a shield, and one can be broken and replaced.Battleships don't have the ability to change their shells.In addition, because of the hands, no matter where the attack is, it can be defended with a shield. Unlike things like battleships, the second half is streaking.

Later, people installed feet on UFP, allowing people's legs to control the moving part, making UFP develop into a generic model.Now, whether in space or on the ground, these humanoid weapons can be seen.

Zhang Mai is interested in these things.

It is strange to say that it is obviously a passenger spaceship, why is there a UFP?Zhang Mai couldn't understand it.The ship flying to the Assyrian star needs to be accelerated by a mass accelerator, and the ordinary method of adding a square cabin to a tugboat is not acceptable.It is necessary to use a monolithic spaceship that is a standard of a warship.At the same time, it is necessary to provide the suspended animation equipment for the personnel in the initial acceleration stage.These are easy to understand, but UFP...

Those white skins have committed too many sins, and they have to use UFP to embolden them.Zhang Mai guessed maliciously, and at the same time, he also looked down on the arrogant British guys on the boat.These guys have nothing but the richness of their ancestors, but each of them has to pretend to be arrogant.

As for the behavior of the British, the French, who have always been against them, also sneered.Allen evaluated them with a sentence of Chinese he had just learned.

"England and Wales are left in the Kingdom of Great Britain. Even the Celts in Scotland have become independent, and now they are still grabbing his grandma's claws."

Well, swearing is always a quick learner.Zhang Mai remembers that the first English word he learned was "F.U.C.K".

The dilapidated households belong to the dilapidated households, and the British still spare no effort to put on a facade.The three UFPs on board are all the latest models. They are MTA series of the same period as the Americans, and the batch number should be MTA-24A2.It is mainly equipped with a 57MM electromagnetic rifle for land warfare, and a 150MM heavy particle cannon with a diameter of 120 times for space warfare (it can only be called a pseudo-heavy particle cannon, and the acceleration and temperature of this thing are much worse than those on warships).In addition, in addition to the standard armaments on the British ship, there is also a movable plasma cannon on the rotating weapon rack behind the left shoulder.In addition, these white UFPs are burnt and painted with gold edges.The large and small shields equipped also have sharp angles for decoration.

Leaving aside the performance, this appearance is really cool.

These burning buns were just parked upside down on the floor of the maintenance workshop. Zhang Mai, who was sleepless at night, flew into the maintenance workshop unsteadily, ignoring the spaceship parked next to him and the one who came to deliver the goods a few days ago. The civil 653H2 ship I was using just used my own maintenance authority to break open one of the UFPs, and got in on my own.

I unplug a few of your data cables and let you drag them!

Many years later, Zhang Mai himself thought that if he hadn't suffered from insomnia, his life would have been different.And from the moment he got into the maintenance workshop, it was doomed that he had to be entangled in a maelstrom.

But on the ship named Glide No. [-], where all the crew should have fallen asleep, it was a different scene.On the bridge, the guy who was smoking in front of Zhang Mai was sitting on the back of the captain's chair, crossing his legs and talking to the scumbags on the ship about the mission.On the [-]D monitor in front of him, a [-]D image of a young girl who was obviously Assyrian was constantly rotating and changing.

"That is, we're going to go inside that ship and snatch this Assyrian out? It's so boring, why are we making a cameo appearance as Snake in this abstract big potato. Won't we be able to just beat him down outside the space station? Come on. My battle boat is already hungry and thirsty." Mei Manyue said listlessly, shaking her two pointed ears that looked like fairies in fairy tales.

"Yueyue, the Assyrian cells in your body have already begun to erode your brain? Or is it that the nutrients that should have flowed to the brain have all been turned into fat and accumulated in your chest." Ankalin wore a white coat like a ghost. When he came up below, even a sensitive person like Ai Cixiu didn't notice him.

"Go to hell! You bastard with zero sense of existence, you are half responsible for my becoming like this!"

"How is it possible? You are the one who wants to avoid the pursuit of your enemies and undergo sex reassignment surgery. Who knew that you were so lucky that you became a girl with Assyrian characteristics, and you also have elf-like pointed ears because of cartilage hyperplasia. .”

"Huh!? What kind of good luck is this? Do you want to make you like this too, you Akalin of Akalin...wow, it hurts!" Mei Manyue was arguing with Ankalin, and she suddenly grabbed a wrench He flew over and blocked her next sentence directly.She raised her head, and found a woman with some freckles on her face looking at the two of them unkindly, a wrench was spinning back and forth between her fingers like a butterfly wearing flowers.

"Shut up, both of you!"

"Yes! Sister Xia Jia, we dare not!" The two pieces bowed together to the freckled woman.

The people sitting in the captain's seat didn't care about the people below playing tricks, or they were used to their unreliability.He turned his head and looked at a middle-aged man who had been standing by the wall with his hands folded.

"I'll leave it to you on the spot, no problem, cook."

"Don't worry if you're older than me, space battles are fine for me, and the place where my feet touch the ground can't trouble me." The cook's name is Ai Cixiu. He used to be a marine, but now he works as a cook on Glide No. [-].One of the reasons he came to be a cook was to chop things.

"There's also Curry, so don't go there. Embroidering with naval guns on the bridge is not the same concept as face-to-face headshots. You'll spit it out."

"It's Feite! Takamachi Fete!" A long-haired girl sitting on the gunner's seat directly in front of the captain's seat pouted dissatisfiedly, "The cook really looks down on me again."

There was a clapping sound, and the blond girl named Sophie, whom Zhang Mai had seen, clapped her hands to signal the people on board to be quiet.Her rimless glasses had been removed.His hair was still tied up high, and his expression was still stern.

"Attention everyone! If everyone is meaningless, prepare as Captain Dongfang said! The combat time will reset to zero in 10 minutes! Disband!"

　There are many settings in this one today, so I won’t separate them to cheat clicks
　　
　
(End of this chapter)