I was exposed for mining on Mars

The main reason why Luo Faqi and others were sure that the other party would attack them was because these shielding extenders were no longer on track to Blue Star.

At this time, the distance between Mars and Blue Star is gradually getting farther and farther. If the shield extender wants to go to Blue Star, its orbit will be different from that of the aircraft where Luo Faqi and others are.

But now it seems that the other party's target is not Blue Star's aircraft.

And just when Luo Faqi sent back to Blue Star what he had just encountered, after the ten shielding extenders jumped over a group of Blue Star aircraft, the front-end engines used for attitude control also started, causing the entire extender to change its trajectory. , heading towards the direction of the moon.

The shield extender seemed to be designed to intimidate Luo Faqi and others. After frightening all the Blue Star astronauts, they left directly.

"The aircraft has changed its orbit." After passing the information towards Blue Star, Luo Faqi observed the shield extender again.

"Changed the track?" Yang Hongbin had already floated to Luo Faqi's side and looked at the locked shield extender on the screen in front of him.

The astronaut Mao Xiong made a sound and realized that the imagined event had not happened. At this time, he had already recovered. After putting the bag in his hand aside, he came over and said: "This direction is to go directly to Blue Star." ”

While the members on board the Chinese spacecraft continued to observe the position of the shield extender, Cao Guolin and others on Blue Star were also observing the ten oncoming black aircraft from various angles.

"The opponent's target is not our spacecraft. They have changed their orbit." Gou Wen, who has not yet received the message back from Luo Faqi and others, pointed to the shielding extender that drew an obtuse angle in space and said.

"It seems we are still coming to Blue Star."

Previously, Cao Guolin and others had been measuring the opponent's orbit after the shield extender left Mars.

After constant calculations, the orbit of the shield extender should coincide with those of Blue Star's spacecraft. In other words, the opponent's target is the spacecraft that is constantly approaching Mars.

But now the other party's sudden change of course has exceeded the expectations of Cao Guolin and others.

"According to the opponent's current speed, it will take only a few days to arrive at Blue Star." Gou Wen has been observing these ten aircraft. The opponent's speed is extremely fast. It only takes a few days to reach Blue Star at this speed. It’s time for days.

"call."

Of course Cao Guolin also knows this situation, but now Blue Star simply has no defensive weapons that can withstand this speed.

"time is too short."

For Blue Star, a few days left them unable to make any response. After all, this is not on land, but in space.

A few months ago, in order to land on Mars, various countries have mobilized all available spacecraft, and the spacecraft produced in these months have also been used to build orbital platforms.

In other words, even if the opponent reaches Blue Star now, Blue Star will not have a vehicle that can intercept it outside the orbit.

Of course, in addition to ordinary spacecraft, another thing Blue Star has the ability to launch into space is the numerous nuclear bombs in various countries. But this kind of weapon with high lethality in the atmosphere will not cause much damage in space.

Unless it hits the opponent directly, nuclear bombs that cannot cause shock waves in space basically don't want to intercept the shield extender.

And even if it hits the front, at the high speed of the extender, it will cause huge damage after falling to the earth.

Compared to a whole unit, a fragmented extender may cover a larger area.

Thinking of this, Cao Guolin could only shake his head slightly and wait for the arrival of the shielding extender.

When Blue Star was helpless against the arrival of the shield extender, Luo Xiu on Mars did not pay attention to the extender that would only arrive in several days.

At this time, after more than half a month of development on Mars, two more planetary shields on the equator are almost completed.

On both sides of the equator, there are already four electromagnetic railguns, which can fully meet the current orbit construction of Mars.

With the continuous construction of large-scale equipment, Luo Xiu's energy can no longer be obtained entirely from solar panels.

"Your Excellency Commander, this operation has exceeded the last test time, reaching 79 hours and 43 minutes."

In front of a huge oval building, the base control system was introducing a recent test project to Luo Xiu.

"Yes, the last test time has been extended by 17 hours." Luo Xiu seemed very satisfied with this test. After all, once this test is successful, there is no need to worry about the energy of Luo Xiu's spacecraft.

The experiment that Luo Xiu was concerned about was controllable nuclear fusion.

Normally, two atomic nuclei repel each other because they are both positively charged.

If you want to achieve controllable nuclear fusion, you must overcome the Coulomb repulsion before you can bring the nuclei together.

In other words, the atoms in the experiment need to be given high enough kinetic energy to complete the gathering action. The macroscopic representation of the high kinetic energy of atoms is temperature.

Only when the temperature of the substance is high enough can its atomic nuclei and electrons be separated. The object in this state is called "plasma."

When the protons and neutrons in the plasma are within a certain distance, nuclear force will be generated to bring them together. This is the nuclear fusion that Luo Xiu is experimenting with.

In Luo Xiu's era, controllable nuclear fusion was a very common energy source. Every one of their spaceships used controllable nuclear fusion as energy source.

But just because it is so common, the Cygnus civilization, which already possesses this technology, certainly does not need to study it anymore. Because of this, although the Migration Faction and Blue Star humans obtained most of the data, they did not make much breakthrough in this direction.

At that time, all the topics of the migration faction were basically focused on antimatter annihilation bombs.

Therefore, if Luo Xiu wants to regain control of the technology of controllable nuclear fusion, he still needs to conduct experiments on known data.

Fortunately, although the Migration Faction did not explore the subject of controllable nuclear fusion too much, their mastery of existing nuclear fusion technology allowed Luo Xiu to build it.

"Your Excellency, Commander, the equipment is still operating and no abnormalities have been found."

"The success rate of this trial is as high as 99.3%."

The words about the base control system undoubtedly made Luo Xiu very satisfied. Based on this success rate, the test of controllable nuclear fusion is considered a success.

"Very good, it shouldn't delay the production of the orbital dock."

Now in the orbit of Mars, a large amount of resources have been converted into equipment, and a huge orbital dock is almost completed.

If controllable nuclear fusion can be put into use in the near future, then Luo Xiu will be able to directly use controllable nuclear fusion energy on interstellar spacecraft.