Chapter 3356: Successive Setbacks

————It will be a bit late~~

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The assembly was complete. Xia Chengyue took a look; this teardrop-shaped spaceship of about 10 meters was much more compact than the 80-plus-meter "Feitian". As a personal spaceship, this size was just about right.

Of course, if he wanted it even smaller, it wouldn't be impossible. Based on the limits of what Xia Chengyue could achieve, he could make it roughly the size of a car, but such a small spaceship wouldn't even be as good as a hovercar. Why bother with such high-end components like an Ion Thruster and a fusion reactor?

Since it was called a spaceship, it naturally couldn't be that simple, and if it were that simple, Xia Chengyue wouldn't be able to bring himself to show it off.

After checking the connections one last time, Xia Chengyue began to start the spaceship.

The first thing to start was the central computer, which integrated a classical computer and a Matrix Computer. All of the spaceship's systems were connected to it. Although an easy-to-interact operating system had not yet been integrated, as the engineer who built the Matrix Computer from scratch, bit by bit, Xia Chengyue was very clear about the connections between the various systems.

Once the Matrix Computer started, the spaceship's brain had started.

Next was the Fusion Battery. When the Spiritual Qi in the Spirit Stone warehouse was guided through the Guidance Matrix into the Gravity Matrix of the Fusion Battery, this Fusion Battery, which resembled a cubic Crystal, suddenly erupted with a burst of intense, seven-colored radiance, then stabilized. Dense matrix patterns appeared and disappeared, as if changing in brightness with every breath.

At the same time, hydrogen in the hydrogen warehouse began to flow slowly through the feed channel into this iridescent cubic Crystal. The moment that hydrogen entered the cubic Crystal, it was affected by the gravity environment within it—which was independent of Li Jie—and began to gather toward the center.

However, the spaceship Xia Chengyue built was different; it could not independently calculate the changes in the Gravity Matrix during the spaceship's takeoff and landing. Although some exquisite operations could be performed, long-term use was still a problem.

That would be like replacing Earth with a black hole of equal mass; would artificial satellites be sucked in?

It is like a car that might be able to drive at 800 kilometers per hour, but the speedometer only shows up to 220, and that 220 is not the speed it can actually reach—the actual speed is at most around 120. This is the limitation of the legal speed limit.

If this could also cause a big problem, wouldn't the Primordial Spirit be too useless?

As long as one doesn't get too close, it is perfectly fine for satisfying spaceship testing.

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The answer is no. As long as the mass is equal, the influence caused in spacetime (outside the event horizon) is the same. The gravity received by the artificial satellites will not change at all. Of course, if Earth were to turn into a black hole, it might evaporate rapidly, who knows.

At this moment, the thruster was operating at full power, but this teardrop-shaped spaceship seemed not to have any Movement. This was naturally because Xia Chengyue had infinitely stretched the space here, a Near-at-Hand World's End effect.

To test this Gravity Lock system, it was necessary to provide an external Gravity Source. Testing in the Original Realm had this convenience; just by a thought, Xia Chengyue created a Gravity Source in this void. It had no physical form, only gravity; of course, it could also be viewed as a black hole.

Used to store some of the electrical energy for other spaceship equipment, "Feitian" had such a thing. Of course, it might not be needed here for Xia Chengyue, because the Fusion Battery he made was very exquisite; its lower limit of output power could infinitely approach zero, while its upper limit far exceeded the official fusion stations on the ground. Using it for this small spaceship could be said to be using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

If one wants the spaceship to stop moving rapidly, the most direct method is to install a thruster in the front as well, but that is truly not aesthetically pleasing. Plus, the time to decelerate by anchoring gravity is not that unbearable, so Xia Chengyue only designed one main thruster.

In a place invisible to the naked eye or Divine Sense, Xia Chengyue could still perceive the massive amount of electrical energy beginning to Flow through the Original Realm. In an instant, the Ion Thruster began to work.

The Gravity Lock test was very smooth. Besides testing takeoff and landing, Xia Chengyue also tested the limit state of the Gravity Lock and recorded it in the central computer. Later, when integrating the operating system, he would have to set limitations.

Through the precise control of the central computer, from lighting a light bulb to the thruster operating at full power, everything could be handled with ease.

However, this was also within Xia Chengyue's expectations. All the parts of the spaceship, from the large teardrop-shaped outer shell to every single Matrix, were designed by Xia Chengyue bit by bit. Before making the physical objects, detailed simulations and deductions had already been conducted.

And the blue tail flame behind the Ion Thruster immediately dimmed. This was the spaceship's conventional deceleration; to come to a complete stop, it would still require the cooperation of other systems.

Just like a very important system Xia Chengyue was about to test next.

One is when the spaceship takes off, resisting the planet's gravity; vertical takeoff is not a fantasy. The other is when the spaceship lands, locking onto the planet's gravity to be used for orbital deceleration.

This kind of Gravity Traction System, simply put, can be divided into two Application scenarios.

There hadn't been any accidents up to this step, but it wasn't very perfect either. At the very least, the electrical energy in the Fusion Battery didn't go through a transfer after flowing out; it flowed directly into the thruster. This needed something like a storage battery in between.

This was for the purpose of observing the spaceship's state of Movement, including acceleration, deceleration, turning, attitude adjustment, and so on.

It's just a pity that there isn't a very effective method for the spaceship to stop moving rapidly. Even "Feitian", when arriving at the moon, first anchors the moon's gravity and then decelerates by orbiting the moon until it reaches a suitable landing speed.

Anti-Gravity System, or it could be called a Gravity Lock system.

Of course, if one wants to grasp the Principles of it, it still requires the cooperation of the central computer. The Matrix Computer on "Feitian" is quite "dumb"; most data calculations are done on the ground and then transmitted to the spaceship.

In the future, with the development of the Matrix Computer, Xia Chengyue would also upgrade this spaceship at any time.

Finally gathering at a single point, boundless light energy erupted. In an instant, the photoelectric conversion material inside the cubic Crystal rapidly converted that light (electromagnetic waves) into electrical energy, outputting it along the superconducting wires.

After letting the spaceship fly for a while, except for the positions of some small attitude adjustment thrusters that needed adjustment, everything else went smoothly.

This was not a system used to create gravity inside the spaceship. Although the Principles of the two were the same, artificial gravity had not yet been installed in the test version of the spaceship.

Pulling and stretching, manipulating gravity at will, as if a Taiji master were fully demonstrating the technique of using four ounces to deflect a thousand pounds.

Next, Xia Chengyue controlled the central computer to lower the power of the thruster. The moment the command was issued, he received a response from the Fusion Battery, including the Gravity Matrix and the hydrogen feed channel working in coordination. The fusion reaction dropped to the lowest point in an instant. At this moment, the output power of the Fusion Battery was not even enough to light a light bulb.