The big planet, the blue death world, the size of 63 earth volumes, the weight of 14000 earth, a "quiet" world without any disturbance!
This is Hao Zhi's general impression of Uranus before.
After discovering mirage 001 on Mars, he once drove it around the solar system. The farthest distance is to fly through the orbit of Saturn. His main purpose is to see the spectacular Saturn rings of this super ball and the dark tides swallowing thousands of miles on the surface of giant gaseous planets.
But he didn't fly to Uranus, because he knew that it was a "dead planet". The ultra-low temperature made everything on its surface seem to be frozen. Moreover, the light conditions here were very weak. People could look directly at the sun here, which was four hundred times weaker than the sunlight seen on the earth.
It is a dark blue hell of death.
It was not until the frigate flew to the near side of Uranus that Hao Zhizhi witnessed the huge of the blue icy star for the first time. Maybe it was because Jupiter was seen from Europa and had a viewing distance of hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Now looking at the planet at a height of 60000 kilometers from Uranus, he feels much larger than Jupiter.
Hao Zhi once saw the earth's horizon from phantom 001. When he reached the height of 20000 meters, there was an obvious arc line on the horizon. Now, looking out from the porthole, at the height of 60000 meters, he could not see both ends of Uranus's horizon at all. It was like drawing a straight line in the universe, dividing the world into black and gray parts, The line extends indefinitely on both sides until it disappears into the Dark Universe.
It's a shocking vastness. The domineering spirit of the "third largest planet in the solar system" doesn't need to be displayed more. It just needs to appear calmly in front of you, which has subverted Hao Zhi's attitude towards the planet.
From the horizon to the foot, to the infinity behind, there is a light and dark cross line vertically. One side of the line is a bright sunny surface, showing a smooth bright blue. After the shadow area, it is mixed with reflective blue and black. That color is very difficult to describe and imagine. The reflection of methane in the atmosphere makes the whole shadow area covered with a dark blue halo, It's like lighting alcohol spilled on the dark room floor.
Holy and quiet, there's nothing else here.
The interstellar frigate was suspended at the edge of the atmosphere and slowly adjusted its attitude. The ship turned sideways, facing the laser launcher for drilling directly to the ground. Due to gravitational capture, it maintained a height consistent with the rotation of the planet, and had entered directly above the blasting area calculated in advance.
"Start the planetary drilling equipment!" Captain Cao xiongyuan gave an order, and the soldiers answered loudly from the communicator. Yes!
Across the window, Hao Zhi saw a bright red light beam coming straight out from the waist of the ship and inserted into the Uranus cloud like a straight chopstick from a height of 60000 meters. The powerful impact made the cloud crack a ring with a diameter of dozens of kilometers. The surrounding air flow rolled and rippled mistily, like ripples slowly on the thick sea surface.
"It's so beautiful!" Hao Zhi sighed.
The beauty of the laser is even and fine. It is also like the wonderful integration of this quiet world. It silently and continuously emits powerful energy. With the impact, the fog halos around it are generated layer by layer, like breaking through the atmosphere of Uranus through a cylindrical patio. You can directly see the surface of Uranus from here.
Captain Cao Xiong didn't care whether it was beautiful or not. He leaned lazily on his captain's seat and just wanted to finish his goal and go back to Xinggang as soon as possible.
"Ma, those grandsons of the local fleet are lazy and leave the garbage to me..." Captain Cao muttered, "it's just to make a hole. I have to come by myself. I think I'm a worker doing chores!"
Hao Zhi smiled: "it is estimated that you will be sent because this work is so important. After all, we can't fight with the first group of blood moon without battlefield laying!"
"Release P!" Cao xiongyuan finally burst out his pent up anger while waiting anxiously. "My name is xiongyuan, you know? I'm born to do big things. I'm happy to kill the enemy in the battlefield. That's the job suitable for me. I'll just hand over these low-energy drilling and digging to the next people. They just can't see me idle!"
Hao Zhi smiled helplessly and didn't answer his words.
Cao Xiong didn't answer. Instead, he came over and stood side by side with Hao Zhi in front of the window, looking at the bright red laser beam outside the window: "Mr. Hao Zhi, I heard that you once drilled a well on Europa, which is now the new moon base?"
"Hmm!" Hao Zhi nodded. "It was a long time ago. At that time, the equipment was not so advanced. We can only drive exploration vehicles to drill wells on the surface like coal workers in the last century. The progress is very slow!"
"You say... Can we win this battle?" Captain Cao Xiong sincerely asked Hao Zhi for advice.
Hao Zhi turned his head and smiled at him: "what if I say I can't win?"
Cao xiongyuan was stunned. Presumably, he didn't expect Hao Zhi to tell the truth. After a pause, he opened his eyes and looked blankly at the vast atmosphere of Uranus: "if you can't win, you have to fight!"
Hao Zhi smiled: "so, what do you want to do so much, but don't ask about your future. For example, we are ready to fight. Before we start, we all think we can win. This is the essence of war. It's a game for aggressive people!"
Cao xiongyuan nodded thoughtfully. Hao Zhi was right. If one side is soft, there will be no war. It will only happen between eggs, stones and stones
"Report! The drilling depth has reached 1000 kilometers!" a report voice came from the mechanical engineering area.
Captain Cao turned back and asked loudly, "how much more?"
"The estimated depth is 23500 kilometers, and the bomb can not be buried until outside the rock core inside Uranus!" technicians reported.
"What about the rest of the time?"
"The completion time of drilling is about 25 minutes. We have an hour to go from Uranus orbit to the expected blasting point!"
"Hmm!" Cao xiongyuan nodded with satisfaction. At present, it seems that the task is going well. As long as you drill the hole and hit the missile, you can go home!
As soon as he finished speaking, suddenly, the blue light in Uranus's atmosphere flashed, followed by a violent explosion, which unfolded like a chain reaction. From the center of the laser beam, the blue explosion halo quickly changed to bright white, and then turned to a red flame tide, which slowly expanded like a huge bubble on the calm water for two or three seconds, It exploded!
A strong air current directly impacted from the top of the broken bubble to the source of the light beam, overturned the battleship, and all the people turned upside down in an instant