#977 - Chapter 977: A victory too late to celebrate? 10% chance of collapse, risk your life!
Gathering energy from the Dyson ring, Venus, and Earth, plus over a year's worth of energy reserves.
Completing a technological leap and creating an artificial wormhole.
And various other equipment.
The Hunters were far too careless, while the Earth civilization was prepared and waiting with a trap—in short, billions of people around the world worked hard for several years for this battle today.
The result is self-evident, victory is inevitable.
The outer layer of the enemy warship is severely damaged, and its power is completely lost, making escape impossible.
Next.
Use the weakened electromagnetic force device to assist the Xuanjia in penetrating the warship and carrying out the final cleanup operation.
"We...we won?!" General Wang was extremely excited.
"..."
Chen Hao frowned, without a trace of joy, and pondered with his head down.
He realized a problem.
With the current total energy, although an artificial wormhole can be created, it cannot allow the enemy warship to jump—the wormhole is not large enough.
Why not completely destroy the warship?
Why capture it alive?
Dragging it back to Earth in a conventional way...
How long will it take?
It will be too late!
"Commander, we have won!"
Seeing Chen Hao pondering with his head down, the extremely excited General Wang reminded him.
What's the situation?
Such exciting good news, why isn't the commander excited at all?
"I'm going to the Kuiper Belt," Chen Hao said suddenly.
"Huh?!"
General Wang was stunned for a moment, and then asked falteringly, "You...how are you going?"
There are two ways to go to the Kuiper Belt.
One is to take an ultra-high-speed aircraft.
The time required...
It didn't take too long to build the Sky Survey Probe, after all, the technology was readily available.
But it took several months to deploy it to the Kuiper Belt.
That's right!
At the speed of an ultra-high-speed aircraft, it will take several months to fly over!
The other way is to jump through the wormhole.
Instant arrival.
But...
Inside the star system, affected by chaotic gravity, artificial wormholes may collapse.
"Go through the wormhole," Chen Hao said in a deep voice.
"No! Absolutely not!"
General Wang's face turned pale, and he shook his head hastily: "Are you crazy? Two wormholes that transmitted the Xuanjia just now collapsed!"
That's right!
There have been precedents of collapse!
Including a long time ago, after the artificial wormhole generator was developed, Chen Hao asked General Wang to continue testing, and he also saw many collapses during that time.
Collapse ratio...
About 10%.
What are the consequences of wormhole collapse?
He asked Chen Hao: One is that the wormhole exit is not closed, and the exit randomly appears in the universe, and the other is that the exit is completely closed—no one knows the second result.
Anyway, no matter what, as long as the wormhole collapses, you are dead!
"Someone!"
General Wang shouted without thinking: "Tie up the commander!"
The guards ran over quickly, but when they heard the instructions behind, none of them dared to move.
Tie up the commander?
Dare not!
The guards felt that General Wang was crazy.
Offending your superior?
Or...
Should we tie up General Wang first?
"10% mortality rate, the commander is going to take a risk!"
General Wang glared at the guards: "Don't you know what the commander means to China? All of us can die, but he cannot have an accident! As long as you are still loyal to the country, you should know what to do!"
As he said that, he planned to tie up Chen Hao himself.
When the guards heard this, they no longer hesitated.
For the commander!
For China!
"Listen to me!"
Grabbing General Wang, Chen Hao waved to the guards: "Wait until I finish speaking, and then decide whether to tie me up, okay?"
"It's useless to say anything!"
At this time, General Wang completely ignored the relationship between superiors and subordinates. He would never accept the commander taking such a big risk: "Tie you up first, and then call the old man. If you want to kill or cut me afterwards..."
"Listen to me!"
Chen Hao interrupted him and shouted in a deep voice: "I told you, we know nothing about the Hunters, and I am not sure whether the strong field weapon can cope with future wars!"
General Wang stared at him, and nodded after a while: "I know—then what?"
"I need this warship, but the warship's exterior is severely damaged, and we have no ability to repair it!"
How to get the warship back to Earth?
Slowly drag it back?
That's much slower than an ultra-high-speed aircraft.
Drag it back...
The all-out war will be over, okay?
There are two other ways.
One is to go to the Kuiper Belt, directly station in the warship, and conduct in-depth research on the spot.
The second is to dismantle the warship.
With current technology, artificial wormholes cannot accommodate the entire warship directly jumping?
Dismantle the warship into parts and send it back through the wormhole.
If the first one is to conduct on-site research...
Chen Hao must go!
But taking an ultra-high-speed aircraft will take almost a year just for the round trip, which is also too much time!
"Then dismantle it!"
General Wang said without thinking: "Just dismantle it and send it back, right?"
"Can you dismantle it?" Chen Hao asked back.
"How would I..."
"Can you be sure that randomly finding someone to dismantle it won't cause damage?"
"This..."
"Do you think there is anyone on Earth more suitable than me?"
Worldwide.
Including alien civilizations, all the scientists combined are not as good as Chen Hao alone.
"We don't have much time," Chen Hao patted him on the shoulder and sighed helplessly: "You also know that it took the Hunters a total of four years from departure to arrival in the solar system."
Dragging it back to Earth is the most unrealistic, and the time will definitely exceed four years.
Go over by plane?
A round trip is a year!
No research?
"Commander..."
General Wang felt very blocked in his heart, and he was so aggrieved that it was indescribable.
Even...
Want to cry!
Four years ago, the Hunter crisis appeared suddenly.
The commander once again shouldered the responsibility of resisting the powerful enemy and became the hope of all mankind.
In the past four years, the commander has not had a good rest, nor has he had time to accompany his family, even his most beloved daughter...
The total time spent together is probably less than half a month.
For China.
For all mankind.
He has given too much!
Today, after preparing with four years of hard work, he finally completed this counterattack. At the exciting moment of victory...
The commander analyzed all aspects for him.
From an objective point of view, he knew that the commander's decision was correct in principle.
But...
The probability of death is 10%!
Four years of almost desperate efforts finally won this victory.
China won.
Humanity won.
But the person who created the victory is going to risk his life again?
"This...is unfair!" General Wang gritted his teeth.
"There is never fairness in a war between two civilizations," Chen Hao smiled faintly: "The weak are not qualified to talk about fairness, and we—are the weak!"
The alien civilization's predecessors once created a civilization more glorious than today's.
What was the result?
Except for a very few people who secretly hid and continued their bloodline, the entire civilization was destroyed.
Who can they ask for fairness from?
"Wait a minute!" General Wang gritted his teeth: "No matter what, we still have to tell the old man, and...those scum can be interrogated first!"
"Okay," Chen Hao nodded.
