At this moment, 509 was crossing a blocked warm ocean current with a group of several dozen-meter-long sea dragons. The Level 1 mutants had originally attempted to entangle the submarine and use their sharp, serrated scales to cut through the hull, but their keen sense of smell prevented them from doing so.
The uncleaned flesh and blood on the submarine's surface was an invisible deterrent, and most animals didn't dare to confront this stinking giant head-on. It was like a mud-covered dump truck, rampaging in the ocean.
To maintain maximum secrecy, they drove the 509 at a cruising speed of 25 knots, hiding within the swarm of sea dragons. While the current situation differed somewhat from the initial plan, it remained within all contingency plans. Therefore, the alarm within the boat was temporarily lifted, and the crew resumed a relatively relaxed pace of life.
It took Jiang Ling two days to figure out why they chose to risk their lives.
In theory, a submarine dogfight should be a suicidal act. But sinking a sea monster seemed like a trivial matter to the men aboard this submarine. They had apparently done it many times before, and never lost.
Theory certainly can't be applied mechanically to real-world situations, especially when they're even more complex. If I had to give an example, there's a calculation I can use.
The submarine's fastest torpedo could reach 200 knots. With its target fifteen nautical miles away, each attack by the 509 would take at least four minutes and thirty seconds, not counting the time needed to accelerate. A submarine's torpedo arsenal couldn't be unlimited. The 509 carried only sixteen torpedoes of various types on this mission. Their range was considered top-tier before the war, with the longest reaching approximately two hundred kilometers.
The mutant's attack was at the speed of sound, which was fifteen times faster than a submarine, and its range was almost infinite. Apart from the inability to navigate, it had almost no disadvantages.
After a simple comparison, it is easy to find that when 509 faces it, it absolutely cannot escape, as running away will stimulate the animal's hunting instinct; nor can it use weapons that are slow in its eyes to deal with it, as that is almost the same as provocation.
The best solution was to quickly close the distance and charge towards it with immense kinetic energy. Animals would instinctively avoid getting hurt. Of course, there was no need to hit it with a bow ram; that was just the captain wanting to save a torpedo.
Yes, you heard it right, they installed rams on the F2 and F3 of the 509, which can be folded and stored under a fairing.
When Jiang Ling heard about this, she was also in disbelief. What era is this? The last time a ram was installed in front of a ship was 200 years ago!
Fortunately, these people did not intend to use the ram as their main weapon. At least they did not give 509 traditional names such as "Brave and Fearless" and "Revenge Knight".
509 was called Pipi Shrimp by the crew. Jiang Ling guessed that it was just a nickname. Anyway, they couldn't see outside from inside the submarine, so they let them call it whatever they wanted.
The crew of F4 was allowed to move freely on the submarine. Jiang Ling took the time to go to F2 to take a look at the mechanical heart of 509. The quadruple magnetohydrodynamic tokamak device, which was highly praised by the crew, had just completed the preheating portion of the first cycle of Unit 2.
She could clearly feel the rapidly moving plasma inside the annular cylinder. Even though there was a protective wall between them, there was still a breathtaking heat coming from it - this was the confidence that gave humans the ability to explore the unknown.
The deuterium-tritium fusion fuel inside Unit 1 has reacted completely and has now entered the cooling stage, but the cooling is relative to the reaction stage. The current high temperature can still be used to generate electricity, but part of the electricity is diverted to Unit 2, so its power has decreased.
Of course, the rear half of the F2 compartment contains a lot of batteries similar to those used in Tranquility V. The lost power can be compensated by the stored energy, so even if the fusion reactor is completely shut down, as long as there is no problem with the batteries, the crew can always find a chance to survive.
Jiang Ling actually didn't quite believe that this was just an enlarged version of a car-mounted fusion reactor. It looked at least as big as an elephant. Even if it was shrunk ten times, it didn't look like it could fit under the hood of a car, at least not in the small family car she was familiar with.
Perhaps the vehicle itself was large? A tank, a massive piece of construction machinery, or even a train?
A car is passed down through three generations, the car remains even after the owner is gone!
Jiang Ling imagined a car that could be used for a lifetime without refueling. She felt that such a product was extremely unreliable. Putting aside the radiation issue, from an economic perspective alone, it shouldn't exist in the world.
Cars have always been consumer goods. The faster they are scrapped, the faster they will be replaced. Only in this way can the interests of capitalists be satisfied.
Of course, Jiang Ling didn't think it was possible for her to own a painsha anymore, at least not in the short term. It was because there was no way to get to the surface, and underground transportation was largely controlled by the government. The civilian auto industry wouldn't thrive until extraterrestrial colonization was fully underway.
And by the time that time comes, perhaps civilian transportation has become a kind of resident welfare, and private spacecraft will be the hottest money-making industry.
Jiang Ling felt her perspective shift. No longer confined to a small corner, her gaze had begun to reach far into the distance. In this dark, dark seabed, she saw a vaster sea of stars.
She seemed to be traveling among the stars, with some huge cosmic creatures accompanying her spaceship. The spaceship began to accelerate, and the tremendous force pushed her forward, allowing her to see the wonderful world beyond the light cone.
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