Chapter 120: Order! Shoot Down!
“Report! A launch vehicle has been detected lifting off within United States territory. The other side has not previously reported it to us.”
The voice from the monitoring station interrupted Liu Shengzhan’s thoughts. After hearing it, he said expressionlessly, “Contact their Nasa Command Center and tell them the rocket must return immediately, or we will take measures.”
“Yes!”
Liu Shengzhan looked at the mark labeled as a red dot on the radar screen, a disdainful smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.
Outside the window, a gigantic rectangular body, astonishingly 300 meters long and nearly 100 meters high and wide, with a very ‘ugly’ appearance, was slowly detaching from the hub port.
Seeing this scene, Liu Shengzhan couldn’t help but cover his eyes.
It was simply too ugly.
If not for the four nuclear fusion engines hanging on the rear of this giant rectangular body, no one would recognize that this thing was an ultra-large cargo ship responsible for transportation missions.
He understood the reasoning: spaceships did not need to consider aerodynamic layout, and the overall construction goal was to utilize the hull space as much as possible to carry cargo.
But in his view, it should at least look a bit like a spaceship.
“Giant Elephant One has detached from the port and is expected to arrive at the Moon space hub in 1 day.”
The adjutant’s voice rang out. He looked at this transport ship and couldn’t help but find it very amusing.
Who could have thought that Fan Ren, the ‘designer’ who always emphasized good looks, had an extremely firm attitude when designing this transport ship. He ignored all notions of aesthetic curves, focusing on just two words.
Practical!
Of course, this thing was indeed very practical. Simply put, it was a huge iron box built from tri-titanium alloy, with four additional nuclear fusion engines at the stern to provide power.
Loading and unloading cargo was very convenient. The compartment covers at the front and top could directly detach from the hull itself, and after completion, be ‘closed’ again by fixed cranes.
“Report, Nasa has rejected our order. They will continue with their space station deployment as planned and have explicitly stated they will not install our monitoring equipment.”
Liu Shengzhan opened his eyes. A monitoring team member not far away was looking at him with excitement on his face.
And the words from this military commander next did not disappoint him.
“Order: Young Dragon One departs port, proceed immediately to the designated airspace and destroy the rocket’s separated second level propulsion system.
Order: Star-2 departs port, salvage and tow the opponent’s space station main body to the space hub.”
“Yes!”
Nearby, the adjutant’s response was particularly loud.
The orders were quickly passed to the team members on the two corresponding spaceships. They moved quickly, their faces unable to suppress their excitement, yet their hand movements were flawless.
Immediately after.
Young Dragon One and Star-2, with highly aggressive shapes, detached from the spaceport one after the other. White streams of gas continuously jetted from around their hulls.
This was to adjust the hull attitude.
Once these two spaceships were a certain distance from the spaceport, their rear nuclear fusion engines suddenly ejected intense plasma tail flames.
That Young Dragon One shot out like an arrow off the string.
Meanwhile, the other Star spaceship accelerated much more slowly, gradually picking up speed and finally disappearing from sight with a long tail flame trailing behind.
At the space hub, in Fan Ren’s workspace, he had seen these two spaceships depart one after the other, and his work came to a halt.
After pondering for a while, he couldn’t suppress his curiosity and headed toward the command headquarters via the connecting passage.
He knew the nature of deploying Young Dragon series spaceships: some fool must be stirring trouble at this critical juncture.
Due to his special circumstances, Fan Ren had very high access privileges. Outside the command room, he swiped his personal card, and the heavy door quickly opened to let him in.
Seeing that the visitor was him, Liu Shengzhan was not surprised.
This kid, not to mention the Command Headquarters, exaggeratedly speaking, he can come and go freely even in Elder Ye’s Office now.
“Nasa itself launched the Hunter Nine Rocket originating from Spitz Company, which carried the main cabin module of their new space station.”
The Adjutant briefly introduced the situation to Fan Ren and then quietly stayed by the side.
“Didn’t report to our side?”
Fan Ren became puzzled. He knew that the Nasa group was extremely arrogant, and Roy even carried arrogance in his attitude toward him. But no matter what, things were different now compared to the past, right?
After the previous Space Elevator impact incident, Great Xia had already issued a statement. Although most countries around the world were unwilling, perhaps to prove their innocence or for other reasons, they all tacitly agreed to implant Great Xia’s monitoring system on their satellites.
Great Xia is not some scoundrel either; the monitoring system is open and transparent, only responsible for monitoring the operational trajectories of these spacecraft.
Even with the help of the Xinghai Supercomputer, it would occasionally remind the other party of the correct orbit adjustments, thereby minimizing fuel consumption as much as possible.
There aren’t any other bad aspects either.
Why do those people from the United States keep jumping out repeatedly, unwilling with this and unhappy with that?
Haven’t you seen that Mark’s Spitz Company’s Mars Project, now with the help of Xinghai, has the Mars Base expansion construction proceeding very smoothly?
“Report, Young Dragon One has arrived, Hunter Nine second level booster has entered the atmosphere.”
The voice of Young Dragon One’s pilot came through the speakers in the command headquarters.
Liu Shengzhan said without a trace of emotion in his tone: “Destroy it immediately.”
“Yes.”
United States, Nasa Aerospace Base Command Hall.
“Second Level Propulsion System re-entry into the Atmosphere, entering recovery phase, attitude good.”
“Spaceship has reached the predetermined orbit.”
Roy stood in the Command Hall, his expression much more relaxed.
After just now informing Wells of the progress here, the other party rarely indicated that he would increase the budget for Nasa afterward.
With the budget, as the highest Person in Charge of Nasa, the rights in his hands could exert even more influence.
Nasa now already had a series of plans.
First was the construction of the Space Station, followed closely by the launch of the Moon Landing plan.
Although it was a bit embarrassing to say it, after Great Xia announced the existence of Tri-Titanium Alloy, as the former global Overlord, the United States could not possibly turn a blind eye to it.
At that time, large amounts of funds and budget would tilt toward Nasa.
“Look! Look at what that is!”
The Adjutant’s cry of surprise echoed through the Command Hall.
On the Central Big Screen, the Second Level Propulsion System, thanks to the black barrier technology provided by Spitz Company, was now able to receive image footage from the Camera.
But now, all the on-site personnel couldn’t help but feel that the Camera had malfunctioned.
Not far from the screen, a Spaceship with jet-black paint and protrusions at both ends of the bow was following closely behind, its body under the plasma flames generated by friction with the Atmosphere, looking like the fire god descending.
“Quick! Start the recovery process, the altitude is approaching the critical point.”
Roy was stunned for an instant, then he saw the altitude panel on the other side, where the Second Level Propulsion System’s Rocket Body altitude was now only 50 kilometers left.
At this speed, if the Engine wasn’t fired to decelerate, the Rocket would definitely crash.
