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The Washington's twelve propulsion engines burst into blazing flames. Under the huge thrust, the orbit of Jupiter 41 changed at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just three minutes, it had broken away from the Jupiter. The gravitational field of the star then began to fly rapidly towards Callisto.

The pushing process is not over yet, and the fragile parts of the structure on the Washington have begun to creak, but fortunately the core cabin has not been affected. Compared with the previous overload of up to 30G, this process seems much easier.

"The club's out, guys!"

The pilot's high-pitched voice came from the communicator, and then the Washington turned on reverse thrust, and tongues of fire sprayed on the surface of Europa 41, sending it on its final journey.

"The engine is in abnormal condition and the power is decreasing - but it doesn't matter anymore."

Ye Zhou stared closely at the data on the screen, which showed that under extreme load conditions, the divertor in the fusion reactor core could not hold up after all.

The ultra-high-temperature plasma even began to flow uncontrollably in the reaction core, and the local temperature difference in the divertor even reached 30 million degrees Celsius. Such temperatures caused the divertor to rapidly deform and become brittle, and its functionality was also greatly affected.

A few minutes later, 6 of the 12 propulsion engines stalled. The self-sustaining state of the fusion reaction was broken and the reaction was terminated instantly.

But at this time, the Washington had completed its deceleration. Relying on the operation of its two non-working fluid engines, it stabilized the hull and returned to Carme's retrograde orbit.

However, at this time, the Washington was already at the forefront of the fleet.

"Dante is tracking the status of Jupiter 41 in real time. Is the impact orbit correct?"

"The impact trajectory is correct, and the estimated countdown to impact is 120 seconds."

"Weiqing, how is Carme's situation?"

"The orbit is normal. If Europa 41 can knock Europa 18 away, then everything will go as planned. Now there is only the last step left."

While they were talking, the four Chinese spaceships had begun to slow down. They could no longer follow them. The operating window had been closed. There was no point in continuing to follow them and it would only increase the risk.

The spacecraft slid slowly in space until it returned to Jupiter's orbit. At this time, the four Chinese spacecraft entered a prograde orbit. To meet the Washington again, they would need to orbit Jupiter for nearly a year.

Everyone was nervously watching the screen, watching the two satellites about to collide.

Counting down for 20 seconds, Ye Zhou felt that his heartbeat had almost stopped, but it was obvious that there was no suspense about the collision.

In the silence, Europa 41 was pulled into the tidal force range by Europa. The mass of the two satellites is not large, so before Europa 41 completely collided with Europa, it completely It did not disintegrate, but maintained its original shape.

"This is really billiards in space."

Ye Zhou said with emotion.

Subsequently, huge dust clouds rose up, the relatively fragile Europa 41 disintegrated into fragments, and Europa's orbit immediately deflected.

It still maintains integrity, but this integrity may only last for a very short time.

At that time, the broken Europa will continue to orbit Jupiter under the influence of gravity until it becomes several new moons.

"Orbit change detected, Carme is safe."

There was a hint of unnoticeable joy in the tone of the pilot of the Wei Qing. His nerves, which had been tense for more than ten hours, finally got a short rest.

At this time, there are still 6 minutes before Carme collides with Io.

Zhenghe is flying around the low-Earth orbit of Io at extremely fast speeds. It is like a moving target, and the projectile fired from a hundred thousand kilometers will be within one millionth of a million. With one precision, it focuses on the void behind it.

With a two-minute countdown, Carme entered the gravitational range of Io, and its trajectory pointed directly to the Arctic region.

"Prepare to accelerate the separation, Zhenghe, enter full load state."

"Received, enter full load state, prepare to eject."

"The adjacent dimension channel status is normal, the power of the Fenghuo device is normal, and we are ready to decouple from the Fenghuo."

"Received, start decoupling. The power of the beacon device has reached the critical value, and the range of the entropy increase jump is expanding. I can already visually see the edge of the jump zone. There is no light at all, like a black hole."

"To be precise, there is light around the black hole. Entering the decision window, the Zheng He begins to eject."

"Got it, start ejecting."

After the words fell, the huge beacon device and 10 propulsion engines behind the Zheng He's hull were thrown away, and the mass of the hull suddenly lightened. Then, under the action of four propulsion engines and two non-working engines, the Zheng He suddenly accelerated , the overload soared to 90G in an instant, all redundant structural parts of the hull were abandoned, and the Zhenghe began to escape from the predetermined collision zone at extreme speed.

The countdown to collision is 60 seconds, Zheng He is still accelerating, and the distance between Carme and Io has shrunk to the limit.

In Io's extremely thin atmosphere, Carme's speed is not affected in any way, and the Tewashta volcano group is just in front of it.

In an instant, dust clouds rose everywhere.

Hit the bullseye.

The carme that had not completely disintegrated passed by on the surface like water, and then immediately fell apart. Most of the substances in it were decomposed into the most basic particles under the instant burst of energy.

This collision is completely different from the previous "space billiards". Carme dragged out a dust belt tens of thousands of kilometers long. Lightning, fire, and electromagnetic pulses filled this dust belt, releasing a vigorous energy that is unmatched by humans. .

The "target" of this collision, the rich adjacent dimensional channels, absorbed all this energy.

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In other words, this is not absorption, but pure "influx"!

From the video screen, Ye Zhou saw a strange light flashing in the core of the collision zone. He could not describe the color of that light in his own words, but he knew that there must be something unusual going on there. occur.

A few minutes later, the dust cloud produced by the collision began to roll back under the gravitational pull of Io, and the prototype of a star ring appeared. Perhaps decades or hundreds of years later, when Io's shape stabilized again, Around it, a halo like the rings of Saturn will form.

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However, it seems that there is no such opportunity.

Just as everyone was nervously waiting for the detection results of the adjacent dimensional channel, that area suddenly fell into silence at an alarming speed.

Dark, as dark as a black hole.

In the darkness, a light like a spark gradually expanded.

Ye Zhou's pupils suddenly shrank, and he suddenly realized what was about to happen.

But before he could open his mouth to warn, the light began to expand at a speed far exceeding the limit of his cognition. The still accelerating Zheng He was instantly swallowed up, followed closely by the entire Io.

The singularity explodes.

A word flashed in Ye Zhou's mind.

Everyone stopped in silence, there was nothing they could do.

Just a moment later, the scope of the flash expanded to cover the entire Jupiter.

Ye Zhou saw with his own eyes that many satellites were decomposed into elementary particles under the pure energy. What surprised him was that his consciousness could still be retained.

He looked back and saw that behind him, where the largest planet in the solar system had been, was now empty.

In the human sky, a star disappeared.