I Am the Swarm

Chapter 157 Ignition

After everything was ready, Queen Kerrigan gave an order, and the countdown to the launch of the rocket began.

Ten seconds later, amidst the billowing smoke, the cluster grenade-like rocket flew towards the sky with flames.

The rocket continues to climb, and the bundled secondary thrusters are in groups of four. After the fuel is exhausted, they will separate from the main body of the rocket.

Perhaps because the shape of this rocket is too unique, the wind resistance is too great. Rowan felt the violent vibration in the warehouse at the front of the rocket, and the riding experience was very poor. If it wasn't for his relatively strong body, he might have been smashed into a paste in this box.

Fortunately, the speed of the rocket is still very fast. After more than 20 minutes, three sets of twelve secondary thrusters were used, and the rocket finally successfully flew out of the atmosphere.

Next, another set of propellers was used, the rocket reached the planet’s parking orbit, the propellers began to turn off, and the main body of the rocket was captured by the gravity of the planet.

There are two moons on this planet, and they are actually about the same in mass and size. The yellow and white moon is larger than the red and white one because it is closer to the planet.

Rowan's goal this time was the yellow moon. After several failures and sophisticated calculations, the Ratmen came up with the easiest route to land on it.

The rocket stayed in orbit for more than ten hours and circled half a circle around the planet. The thrusters then began to re-ignite, propelling the rocket into lunar orbit.

The next two days or so will be a boring flight time. Fortunately, Rowan can hang up offline, so he doesn't have to spend time in a narrow box.

"The vital signs of the experimental subject are normal, but they are not very active. It is suspected that some damage was caused by the strong shaking and impact when flying out of the atmosphere." A female ratman in uniform looked at the monitoring equipment and reported to Old Morgan with data.

Queen Kerrigan couldn't stay here forever, she had already left after the rocket broke out of the atmosphere. Now here is the old Morgan, who is the president of the Aerospace Research Institute, presiding over the overall situation.

Of course he knew what was going on with the worm as an experimental creature, and it must be another special body made by the master. He knew that Juggernaut had conducted some experiments in some private laboratories, and this worm body should be the result of the experiments, and this time he also went to outer space to test its performance.

Two days later, through old Morgan's perspective, Rowan knew that the rocket was close to Huang Yue's orbit around the earth. The rocket will collide with the rushing Huang Yue three hours later.

That's right, they did collide. Since there is no atmosphere on the yellow moon, the rocket will not slow down when it meets it. This means that Rowan will experience a very hard-core landing.

Time passed quickly, and as the two approached each other, the ratmen in the command center gradually became tense. Some Ratmen in charge of detecting the data didn't even dare to blink.

There are only four secondary thrusters left around the main body of the rocket, and it is running out of fuel. With just half an hour left before impact, the four secondary thrusters ran out of fuel and began the disengagement procedure.

The metal frame that holds them to the rocket's body begins to be opened remotely.

Because of this 1+32 structure, Ratmen are also used for the first time. And this is where the Ratman Flyer arrived for the first time. After such a long flight, there was an accident after all.

One of the secondary thrusters failed to open when the ejection mechanism failed, preventing it from being propelled away from the rocket body. Because it was too close to the main body of the rocket, after it broke away, it hit the bottom of the main body of the rocket by inertia.

In the ground command center, harsh sirens sounded, and the observation device showed that the right side of the rocket engine was damaged, but the specific damage was unknown.

But immediately, abnormal black smoke began to emit from the bottom of the rocket in the monitor. After the rocket persisted and flew for another ten minutes, the engine at the tail blew up, followed by the fuel tank.

The head of the rocket was blasted out of the black smoke with the warehouse behind it, deviated from the established track and flew forward.

The rat people were in a mess and began to recalculate their orbits nervously.

Luo Wen remembered that a wise old man once said that a weapon that does not look good must not be easy to use. This rocket is stuffed with explosives in the top cabin, which can also be regarded as a kind of weapon. Thinking of this, Rowan suddenly realized, no wonder it felt unreliable when he first saw the shape of its cluster grenade.

With this ugly appearance, it's not normal if there are no accidents. Luo Wen was a little speechless. His body was still rolling, flipping and flying into the deep space of the universe. It might become a decoration floating in the deep space.

However, at critical moments, he can self-destruct his body, and then re-breed on the planet. Therefore, losing a worm body is not a big problem. The point is, if it fails this time, it will take a long time for the next moon landing. And this huge sense of anticipation that had been waiting for a long time was suddenly extinguished, which was very uncomfortable.

As the minutes passed, the Ratmen came up with some information after some nervous calculations.

"Master Master, are you still there?" Old Morgan asked.

"What's the matter?" Rowan's words sounded in his mind.

"Master Master, the situation is very pessimistic."

Luo Wen had already expected it, and it seemed that he would have to wait for a while.

"However, there is still the possibility of redemption." Morgan paused for a while, then continued.

Luo Wen choked for a moment. He felt that the rat man did it on purpose, but there was no evidence. Maybe he could just search his brain.

"The rocket head and cargo compartment will be captured by the yellow moon's gravity in more than ten minutes and pulled into orbit around the moon." Seemingly aware of Rowan's dangerous thoughts, Morgan hurriedly continued.

But before Luo Wen breathed a sigh of relief, the mouseman said again: "But, although the propulsion device of the rocket was blown up, because of its high initial speed and the lack of resistance in space. Therefore, after being captured by the yellow moon's gravity, it The speed of the rocket is still greater than the escape velocity of the orbit around the moon, and after 34 minutes of flying in the orbit, the rocket remnant will be thrown out of the orbit under the action of its own speed and the gravity of the yellow moon, and fly towards deep space."

Rowan also became serious, and he understood Morgan's meaning.

"So, during the thirty-four minutes that the rocket remains in orbit, I need to control the bug and get out of the rocket?"

"Yes, Lord Master."

"Next, do you have any suggestions?"

"There are two options. One is that after detaching from the main body of the rocket, the speed of the insect body will still reach 3.5km/s. You need to control the speed of the insect body and immediately reduce and maintain its speed at 2km/s to stay in the ring. Lunar orbit. Then wait for the opportunity, then accelerate the speed to 2.5km/s, leave the orbit around the moon, and then fly to the yellow moon."

"What about the second one?"

This chapter was originally called Landing on the Moon One...

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