Chapter 448: Overwhelming
The second connecting passage of Module 77 could be completely severed in just a few seconds. The first and second ships had already linked themselves to Module 77 with anchors and long iron chains, and their rear thrusters were all lit. Once Unit 1 completed its final task, they could push the control levers forward and pull Module 77 away from the Dyson Sphere that had been completely occupied by the Dolcia Military State.
What Xiao Ran and the others needed to do was completely hold back the Dolcia Military State fleet for the fifteen minutes it would take the two warships and Unit 1 to drag the module away and reach their maximum possible speed—or directly cripple most of the enemy's forces so they would not dare pursue.
But everyone knew those fifteen minutes would only allow Module 77 to escape its current predicament. Those two warships could not remain attached as tugs forever. They could only pull the module onto its planned trajectory in a short time and give it roughly the necessary speed, then let it coast through space on inertia until it reached the moon. There was simply no way to use the warships like draft animals, accelerating and advancing nonstop for the entire journey.
If it were just the warships themselves, from the Dyson Sphere's current location, they could reach the moon in around ten hours at maximum speed without any burden. But with Module 77 in tow, that time would have to be more than tripled, and that was with the engines and thrusters running continuously. Yet they would not even last thirty hours; after only half an hour of full-power overloaded thrust, the engines and thrusters would be scrapped.
Therefore, after at most half an hour, the warships would have