Chapter 945 - Like A Movie (1/2)

After the one-week visit, the group of international friends Celestial Trade invited started to return home.

The rectangular train moved from the edge of the celestial ring to the center track, then started its descend in the narrow elevator track. Almost at the same time, at the other end of the main axis, the blue electric arc flashed for a second and a black dotwas thrown into the vast universe…

“Phew.”

With a sigh of relief, the pilot moved his stiff fingers. His right thumb gently moved the joystick and turned off the breathing aid.

The feeling of electromagnetic acceleration was terrible. Although he was injected with the genetic vaccine that strengthened his body and he conducted anti-pressure training, without a breathing aid and decompression cockpit, the acceleration of 12G and the acceleration time of more than one minute could still squeeze out the last trace of air from his chest.

Liu Qingpeng moved his sore neck around, then opened the dial on the holographic helmet.

Half a year ago, he moved to Xin through the space volunteer immigration policy. Originally, he only planned to work for three years before transfering to become an electrician, but he didn’t expect to become an employee of Celestial Trade because of certain aspects of his talent, let alone that he would ultimately become a pilot of Stingray P-1.

The plan was executed half a month ahead of schedule, but it had no effect on him. Although it was his first mission, he was quite calm. After all, he lost track of the number of hours he flew in virtual reality. Now even with his eyes closed, he could pilot this spacecraft to Bennu asteroid.

There was no reference point in the universe. Even if he was moving away from the Earth at a speed of 7.2 kilometers per second, he couldn’t distinguish any change in the starry sky with the naked eye.

His finger pointed at the operation panel, Liu Qingpeng opened the voice control system.

“Open the task beacon.”

The side light of the helmet flickered, and an asteroid constructed by three-dimensional lines emerged in his field of vision. A line marking the word “Bennu” appeared on the upper part of the asteroid.

Then a yellowish path emerged in his vision, drawing a slightly curved arc from the cockpit of the Stingray P-1 to the position of the asteroid.

“Route is set.”

“Plasma engine output is 40%.”

“Move!”

In the dark universe, the tail of the Stingray P-1 formed faint blue light particle ripples, and the spacecraft soared away.

At the command center on the surface, a male and a female figure stood in front of a large screen. They watched the instant images returning from more than 400,000 kilometers away.

Outside the atmosphere, speed and distance were always just monotonous characters. If 400,000 kilometers was on Earth, it would be enough to circle the equator ten times. However, for the Stingray X-1 series spacecraft that cruised at a speed of 20 kilometers per second, the flight time was less than half of the duration of an international flight from Asia to North America.

After Jiang Chen learned that the first mining spacecraft set sail, he went to Space Launch Center.

Out of curiosity, Xia Shiyu also came along.

In the picture, Stingray P-1 that completed deceleration turned off the engine and slowly approached the asteroid that was intertwined by the graphene cable.

Stingray deployed the mining module like a water spider. A blue light blade formed in front of the two robotic arms. They weren’t laser knives but ion jets with temperatures up to tens of thousands of degrees. The highest temperature could poke a hole in steel with a single touch, and it could naturally cut through minerals.

The two ion jets interlaced together and cut two holes in the ore body easily. The other two robotic arms were like two pliers and attached to the outer shell of the asteroid. The two forearm tools changed, turning the ion jets into two alloy hammer-like props, and smashing along the cut.

The Stingray X-1 separated the ore chunk from the asteroid, and the entire operation stunned Xia Shiyu.

It was strange to see a stunned expression from her.