Chapter 89 Response

"...0.4 times the speed of light, too fast to reach even with controlled fusion technology, because nuclear fusion can only use up to about 7% of the mass of matter!"

"Yeah, according to our existing theories, nuclear fusion can only propel a ship up to one-tenth of the speed of light, no more than 15% at most!"

"But they really reached such speed ... = there must be more advanced energy sources, such as antimatter energy, or a more efficient propulsion engine - warp engine."

The monitoring and observation room is always the liveliest place on the Noah, where a large number of scientists stay all day and night, arguing and discussing. They want to find out traces of this alien ship. Any bit of information is vital to humanity.

"I see it, I see it!" One astronomer suddenly shouted, tapping his keyboard rapidly as a large number of images flashed on the computer screen.

In the astronomical photos of the last few minutes, an extremely fuzzy black dot finally appeared. If infrared rays hadn't already found it, humans might have simply ignored it, and the black dot was probably only a few pixels in size, and even the boundaries were fuzzy, but it didn't stop the scientists from calculating.

A group of people immediately sat down excitedly in front of their own computers, and they reasoned through the simulation screen of the Noah's central computer, which took several photos from different angles, and they finally got several possible reductions after calculating and processing its shape, location, direction of movement, and so on.

This is ...

What a huge and magnificent cosmic battleship!

It is an oval sphere, about 150-200 km in diameter. It's really too big, the diameter alone is more than 10 times the size of the Noah, and the volume is even more than 1000 times!

Strangely enough, the light twisted strangely on the surface of this ship, so much so that humans could not estimate its exact size at all.

"Well?" Oliver also got the news and immediately rushed over. When he saw the mockup on the screen, he immediately froze, such a size ... alone this kind of huge, it is enough to produce an oppressive feeling to humans, this is an existence that human technology can hardly imagine.

This one ship alone, if it descends on Earth, it is able to cover the skies of 70 New York City! Totally capable of exterminating the human race within a day ...

No, maybe just a few hours. There's no way humans would go to war with such a civilization, there's more than a 90% probability that they would just surrender, as long as these aliens don't commit genocide against humans ...

"Fuck!" Oliver cursed in his heart, such a behemoth might really be able to destroy a planet!

They did not know beforehand the size of the other side, if they knew so perverted, what camouflage plan, intimidation plan may not be implemented. But send out the airwaves, splash out the water, all the plans can only be carried out hard ...

Looking at the other scientists one by one silent, seems to be a lot weaker confidence, Oliver could not help but to speak out: "This should be the other side's main ship. Only such a huge ship is fully functional and can support a large population ..."

"Have you found anything else?"

An astronomer suddenly looked back and pointed his finger at a photo, "Look at this location, maybe there's really something wrong!"

Oliver squinted his eyes and took a closer look, it was an infrared light thermal image, there was a large amount of red light appearing on the right side of the photo, indicating that there was a large amount of thermal energy overflowing from this part. It was also these overflowing heat radiation that allowed humans to discover this alien ship!

What does this mean?

Humans haven't received radio waves since a few times, and it is likely that the other side fixed this vulnerability. However, this massive thermal radiation has been there, that is, it has not been fixed.

This is definitely a sign of abnormality!

"The ship might have really broken!" This was Oliver's first instinct.

He felt that what Dr. Rimbaud said was probably correct, why didn't the other side repair it? Lack of manpower, or ... lack of resources! They came to the solar system in a hurry to try to repair their ship!

In this way, the human camouflage plan, still has a high probability of success! The opponent's ship is broken, there is still the ability to start a war?

He clenched his palm so hard that his nails were embedded in the flesh. But he didn't pay the slightest attention to it, because his entire mind had flipped to the image he was observing in front of him.

...

It was such a torturous period of time.

People had waited anxiously for two more days, and it was now 10 p.m. sharp, but all the scientists were discussing unweariedly.

Now more than sixteen days have passed since the radio was launched, and in ten hours it will be the expected time when one will see the reaction of the other side to the radio waves.

Will it be direct fire? Or ...

If the other side uses the means of light speed strikes, as soon as people observe the attack screen, their own side will have already been hit, and there can be no time to react. {In fact, the human telescope also simply can not see the attack screen such details}.

Excitement, trepidation, apprehension ... various emotions at the same time, everyone's eyes are translucent red, a few have not slept for days, but still insist to see, the other side received the first scene of the radio signal.

Of course, Oliver is also one of them.

He pricked up his ears and heard the distant roar of Dr. Rimbaud. Rimbaud seemed to be on the optimist's side every time: "What are you afraid of? I'm telling you, every interstellar civilization has ships this big ... When we actually step into the stars, we can do it too!"

"What's the point of being big, can they destroy the Noah? I absolutely do not believe it!"

But it seems to be true, the Noah can be a god-like ship, can be said to be extremely hard, even if the other side opened fire, the laser can hit, he absolutely does not believe that the Noah will fall a hair ...

Only human facilities will be completely destroyed, when the time to reveal the ... but, since the war has begun, still afraid to reveal it?

In fact, Rimbaud has a point, the development of technology is leaps and bounds, humans can barely imagine twenty years later what technology is really like, but fifty years later it is difficult to imagine ... say, maybe the other side is only so advanced than humans a couple of hundred years it?

In this way, in the non-stop bickering, people's mood is getting more and more nervous, whether the universe is a dark forest or not, whether it is peace or war, will be revealed in a few hours ...

In this situation, who can not be nervous? Who could not be terrified?

Until seven o'clock in the morning, breakfast food has been delivered to the hands of various personnel, this time no one still think about eating breakfast, they just swallowed a few mouthfuls, and again is concentrated on the screen.

Time passes ...

"Drip, drip!" A countdown alarm clock suddenly rang, according to calculations, the other side received the radio screen should also be transmitted!

"Why don't they react much? Did they fire the gun? No, we don't seem to have been hit!" A scientist shouted anxiously.

"Don't rush, you have to give people some reaction time."

Oliver also swallowed hard, in fact, he was also panicking in his heart.

"They seem to have slowed down? An astronomer suddenly pointed to the screen, he used trembling hands to dial the computer, calculate over and over again. "That's not right either ... I made a mistake." He got it wrong several times and hastily vetoed his own.

In fact, so little time, with the accuracy of human measurement, it is difficult to calculate the other side of the state of speed change, especially the speed is extremely high.

However, the human did not take a hit, and the other side seems to have little reaction, what is going on?

An hour, two hours ... just when people were getting tired of waiting, "bared ..." a sound, the whole screen suddenly shuddered.

A radio expert shouted frantically, this time really frantically and loudly and wildly, "Electric waves! It's a radio wave!"