Chapter 158: Nuclear Bomb Test
Inside the Conqueror, it wasn’t just Fan Ren who marveled at the power of this cloaking capability; Li Jian and Dan Wu were the same.
Radar wave scan yielded no result.
The naked eye could not discern it.
This was the power of spatial science technology!
“Commander Liu, I can hear you. It means there’s absolutely no trace revealing the location of our spaceship, right?”
“Yes, there’s nothing in front of me, but I know you were just in front of me moments ago. This is too unbelievable.”
Fan Ren was also somewhat excited, but then felt a bit regretful.
The technology was excellent, but currently humanity had few research results even on the most basic theoretical knowledge of spatial science.
To research this kind of advanced technology, it wasn’t something that could be solved merely by reverse engineering.
He sighed inwardly, then rallied himself again.
No matter what, with this spaceship in hand, humanity would have some confidence when facing disaster again.
“Commander Liu, now use a missile to shoot at the position where our spaceship was just now.”
On the Young Dragon, Liu Shengzhan hesitated upon hearing this. He didn’t know what the current state of this spaceship was, and whether this method would cause damage to it.
As if sensing his thought, Fan Ren explained: “Commander Liu, rest assured. This spaceship now has only me with full access to it, and according to its operation manual, its ship hull armor does not weaken with changes in cloaking state.”
Hearing this, Liu Shengzhan was immediately surprised.
If Great Xia had this spaceship, then from now on, wouldn’t they be able to act without restraint.
“Good, two air-to-air missiles are in position, firing!”
He put away those indescribable thoughts in his mind, pressed the launch button, and from the missile launch ports of the Young Dragon, two small missiles instantly shot out rapidly.
50 kilometers was nothing; for air-to-air missiles with 10 Mach speed in vacuum, they arrived in the blink of an eye.
In Liu Shengzhan’s view, the missile did not continue surging forward into the space ahead; it was as if blocked by an invisible wall.
Instantly, two huge fireworks exploded in space.
Visible to the naked eye, the dark green ship hull of the Conqueror immediately appeared at the explosion site.
However, it didn’t last long. After just a few seconds, as the explosion energy dissipated, the struck areas on the Conqueror, those two patches of dark green ship hull, rapidly vanished again.
Liu Shengzhan hurriedly reported the result: “Fan Ren, after the missile hit, the struck part of the ship hull appeared for about 3 seconds, then vanished again.”
“Commander Liu, your missile did not cause any damage to the ship hull. The armor of this ship is currently still at 100% integrity. Perhaps you can try a nuclear bomb.”
A’dai’s words seemed like a provocation, but Liu Shengzhan knew it was fact. Currently, ordinary explosives developed by humanity could not inflict any damage on it.
But a nuclear bomb was another story.
Currently, the Young Dragon carried atomic fission nuclear bombs with strong radioactivity, not hydrogen bombs which had greater power but lower radiation.
There was an essential difference between the two.
The former might not have greater energy than the latter, but the radioactive nuclear waste and radiation left after explosion far exceeded the latter.
In a sense, humanity feared fission-type nuclear bombs more.
Conversely, in earlier times, humanity even used hydrogen bombs to blast mountains and create lakes, with very good results.
“Commander Liu, give it a try. We need to know this spaceship’s resistance to attack. I have other matters to report to you later, so all these tests now are very necessary.”
Fan Ren’s voice was somewhat serious.
Hearing this, Liu Shengzhan’s heart tightened. Were there other issues?
“Good, one 100,000-ton equivalent nuclear bomb, launch immediately!”
As his words fell, a cabin door opened under the belly of the Young Dragon’s ship hull, and a large missile several meters long with a diameter of about one meter was ejected.
The missile, carried by the inertia of ejection, fell about ten meters outward, then its tail began to ignite and spew intense tail flame, and it surged forward.
Liu Shengzhan watched the nuclear bomb fly out, his face twisting in conflict.
However, he didn’t dare delay and immediately ordered the spaceship to fly at full speed in the opposite direction.
In his heart, he hoped this weapon, the most destructive that humanity could produce, would cause damage to the Conqueror.
But at the same time, he hoped this colossal behemoth now on their side would not suffer any harm, thereby indirectly proving that its powerful external armor could withstand all damage.
Behind, the nuclear bomb suddenly ‘stopped’, and then intense white light erupted from that position. The brightness of this light exceeded thousands of times the intensity of midsummer noon sunlight on Blue Star’s surface.
The violent energy immediately centered on the impact point and swept toward the surroundings.
At this time, the Young Dragon was still frantically ‘fleeing’ forward. For a 100,000-ton equivalent nuclear explosion, 100 kilometers away was its safety range.
The Conqueror behind showed a reaction.
“Boss, the ship hull is being pushed backward by the strong force from the explosion. It cannot cloak during movement. Should we activate the lateral thrust system to stop the spaceship?”
“Yes, you handle it.”
Fan Ren’s reply was concise.
A’dai didn’t hesitate. Several small engines on the other side of the Conqueror responsible for ship hull maneuvering started up. With their effort, this spaceship with a mass of tens of billions of tons slowly came to a stop again.
“Activate the advanced cloaking device.”
With A’dai’s operation, from a space perspective, the colossal behemoth that had just revealed its form quickly entered cloaking state again, starting from the foremost part of the ship hull just like before.
“Boss, the armor is currently still at 100% integrity. The nuclear bomb did not cause any damage to the Conqueror.”
“Then the only conclusion we can draw now is that, unless this spaceship is directly hit or pulled by gravity, it cannot be detected?”
“Not exactly, Boss. You forgot, this spaceship has its own anti-gravity system, which can adjust the subtle gravitational influences from planets and stars on it.”
Hearing this, Fan Ren slapped his forehead. That’s right.
In space, any objects relative to each other, without external force, cannot remain completely motionless in any meaningful sense.
According to the law of universal gravitation, there is mutual gravity between any two objects with mass, so in space, no perfectly stationary objects can exist.
This is the wonder of gravitational waves.
But this problem was solved by the former humanity.
The civilization seed system in Fan Ren’s mind also had anti-gravity technology, but he didn’t know when it would be unlocked.
Yet the former humanity had already reached this level.
