Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 556: Planetary Curvature Flight
A layer of mist had always shrouded Xu Junpo. Xiao Yu watched him every moment, from the day he was born to the present. Xiao Yu knew every piece of intelligence about him like the back of his hand. Xiao Yu even dared to say that he understood Xu Junpo better than Xu Junpo understood himself. He watched him grow up, watched him go to school, watched him fall in love, watched him break up, watched him mature, watched him start working…
Xu Junpo could not be considered a good person in the usual sense. But he could not be considered a purely bad person either. While he possessed good qualities like humility, simplicity, and sincerity, he also had bad qualities such as narrow-mindedness and a strong desire for revenge. Yet people are precisely this complex. That is what makes a real person. This time, after the big problem was solved through Xu Junpo’s handiwork, Xiao Yu found that, emotionally, he no longer particularly rejected this young man.
He really was a genius, was he not? Moreover, during hundreds of years of strict surveillance, Xiao Yu had not discovered anything abnormal about him. A person like this, if not for his name, Xiao Yu would already have given him better treatment.
“Let us watch for a while longer.” Xiao Yu shook his head and sighed. In the clash between emotion and reason, reason ultimately gained the upper hand. Reason told Xiao Yu that before everything was completely clear, he could not fully trust this young man named Xu Junpo.
Xiao Yu and the team of scientists once again threw themselves into busy scientific research. The greatest obstacle had already been resolved, so the sudden, leapfrog advances that followed were very easy to understand. Xiao Yu knew he had pried open the gate of a Level 6 civilization by a crack. He was getting closer and closer to a Level 6 civilization.
Under these circumstances, the planet that Xiao Yu had transported far away suffered all kinds of ravaging. Every moment, large numbers of robots labored upon it, with the deepest operations reaching as far as one thousand kilometers underground. A great many instruments were transported over. Numerous construction tasks proceeded simultaneously. Among these construction tasks were energy supply modules for the planetary shield system, bases for attacks such as space weapons, negative matter cannons, gravitational bombs, and light-beam weapons, modules responsible for the power system that were still under development and not yet fully completed, and even large numbers of mining bases on this planet. There was a shipbuilding system, as well as a dedicated residential zone.
Xiao Yu intended to build this planet into a comprehensive planetary war star integrating various functions. Just think about it. When supplies were exhausted, they could be replenished directly on this planet. If a spaceship was damaged, it could come here for repairs. If a spaceship was destroyed, a new one could be built right here. Large numbers of intelligent beings could also live directly on this planet. Most importantly of all, the planet itself was a very formidable weapon. Paired with a four-dimensional shield and space weapons, Xiao Yu did not believe any Level 5 civilization could break through his defenses.
Aside from research related to the planetary war star, new computer technology also made great strides. With the technological supplements from the Pegasus Civilization and that Predator Civilization, Xiao Yu gained significant inspiration and prepared to begin developing a half-quantum half-light type of computer. Compared with the computers Xiao Yu currently used, this kind of computer had many advantages. Most importantly, according to Xiao Yu’s prediction, if the new computer were successfully developed, he would obtain at least a one hundredfold increase in computational power.
That was in computer technology. Besides that, there were various other fields, such as materials science and life science. The entire Divine Ark Civilization presented a thriving momentum.
Under such circumstances, thirty years quickly passed. Research related to gravity and curvature flight finally bore abundant fruit. The planetary war star had finally reached the time for its first trial voyage.
With the formula provided by Xu Junpo as the foundation, various derivative formulas and transformed formulas sprang up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. A new door opened. Relying on these numerous formulas, the scientific workers spent thirty years to develop, in the laboratory, curvature flight instruments that could to a certain extent be unaffected by strong gravity and could act over an ultra-large range. They also completed research in energy supply, efficiency improvement, materials structure, and other aspects, and ultimately moved this instrument out of the laboratory. This meant that this kind of instrument had truly entered the practical stage.
At this moment, this instrument had already been installed on the planet. The final acceptance phase had arrived.
“No need to be nervous. We have already conducted tens of thousands of related experiments and only after ensuring nothing could go wrong did we apply it to this planet. We cannot fail.” A scientist comforted another scientist.
“Right. We even conducted a test on a small asteroid with a mass reaching one trillion tons, and the result was also successful. This has already fully proven that our direction is correct. This test cannot fail.”
“Mm, I was not worried our test would fail.” the scientist being comforted said, somewhat puzzled. “I am just a little nervous.”
“All right, actually I am a little nervous too.”
“Uh, although I can ensure the energy supply module I am responsible for will be foolproof, I am still a bit worried that in actual operation, the energy supply module might malfunction.”
“It is all right. The instruments installed on this planet were personally inspected by the Master. The Master cannot be wrong. Do not worry. Nothing will go wrong.”
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Amid the rising chatter, Xiao Yu issued the final start order.
Immediately, the hundreds of thousands of curvature engines installed on this planet started up simultaneously. Vast energy flows surged along the lines into these engines, where a series of indescribable changes occurred within them. As they operated, the entire planet began to blur. This was a very obvious phenomenon of space being distorted.
In front of the live broadcast room, the hearts of many scientists were in their throats. They stared straight at the three-dimensional animation image and refused to move their eyes away.
The planet grew increasingly blurred. As the degree of blurring deepened, the planet began to move and rapidly accelerated. Yet the instruments Xiao Yu had installed on this planet did not detect any inertia being generated. Phenomena such as crustal damage, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, or seawater backflow, caused for example by using planetary engines to push a planet into motion, did not appear at all. This planet remained very quiet.
The reason for this was that curvature flight was the motion of space rather than the motion of the object itself. Naturally, there was no generation of inertia. In fact, the most important feature distinguishing curvature flight from conventional flight was whether inertia would be generated during the observed acceleration process.
“The first step of the test has succeeded.” Xiao Yu announced. “This planet has truly entered curvature flight. It is just that the current curvature flight has not yet exceeded the speed of light. Only by exceeding the speed of light does it count as complete success.”
The planet moved faster and faster. Its speed increased rapidly and finally reached a critical point.
Zero point nine nine nine times the speed of light. When this figure appeared, many scientists even forgot to breathe. Because in the very next moment, the answer would be revealed.
Only Xu Junpo still maintained that faint expression. Likewise, Xiao Yu did not show much reaction. Because Xiao Yu was confident that the instrument he led so many outstanding scientists to create would certainly succeed.
“I just do not know where Xu Junpo’s confidence comes from. Why is he so calm?” Xiao Yu thought about this question for a moment, then heard cheers rising from the hall.
“One point zero zero one times the speed of light. Faster than light. We succeeded!”
“We succeeded. I told you there would be no problem. We were bound to succeed!”
“Look, the speed is still increasing. It has already increased to 1.13 times the speed of light!”
Before the scientists began cheering, Xiao Yu had already received the relevant data. Every instrument installed on this planet was under Xiao Yu’s direct control. Xiao Yu smiled and said with some emotion, “We have finally succeeded.”
The number representing the current forward speed of the planet continued to grow and ultimately stopped at the figure of 3.13. This meant that at this moment, this planet, a planet with a mass of 8.64*10^24 kilograms, was moving at a speed more than three times the speed of light.
One should know that this planet’s mass was roughly 1.5 times that of Earth.
“With our current technology, pushing the speed of this planet to just over three times the speed of light is already the limit. But that is fine. We have made the key breakthrough. I believe that in future research we will certainly be able to raise this number to thirty times, even forty times, fifty times the speed of light.” Xiao Yu smiled and said, “I have absolute confidence in this.”
The scientists all cheered together.
While the Divine Ark Civilization was filled with jubilation, in a corner of the Milky Way, two powerful existences were faintly confronting each other. At the moment, they both seemed to be catching their breath, as if they had already fought very fiercely before.
One of these two existences had no body at all. It was completely invisible in the universe and could only be perceived through that faint spatial fluctuation. The other was a planet sized structure invisible to the visible band of light, a neutron star.
