Escape from Death
As the thruster output power changed, the Hope's acceleration dropped by two Gs, which immediately made everyone on board who was still conscious feel much more comfortable.
Of course, the comfort is relative; in reality, it was still very uncomfortable, just a little better than before.
It's like putting your hand, which has been soaked in 60-degree Celsius water, into 50-degree Celsius water next to it. It will definitely feel a little cooler, but the water is actually still hot.
An acceleration of 10 G should not be fatal to humans given their current tolerance.
Yue Yuan is currently experiencing tinnitus and Venus, and his condition has not yet improved. He feels that the surrounding environment has become very irritating, and sometimes he can't even hear the system's voice announcements. However, he can still see the information displayed on the screen, which proves that the Hope is accelerating at a speed of 10G.
Before he lost consciousness, he managed to scan the bridge with difficulty and found that about a third of the people were unconscious. Zhu Pete on his right was still staring wide-eyed with gritted teeth, as was Man Yuemei on the other side, but the blood spilling from the corner of her mouth said it all.
He almost got killed by the thrusters he built himself.
Yue Yuan felt a bitter taste in his mouth. He suddenly realized that human physical fitness did not seem to have reached the level of Tier 1 Civilization.
Controlled Nuclear Fusion technology has been achieved, but humanity lacks a matching Biotechnology.
In other words, Controlled Nuclear Fusion technology proves that human intelligence has reached the level of Tier 1 Civilization, but the fragile body is still in a primitive state.
This disconnect means that while humanity possesses Controlled Nuclear Fusion technology, it cannot fully realize the potential of this technology.
Humans are ultimately just mortal beings.
Having experienced such a life-or-death acceleration, humanity should understand what the most urgent problem is to solve.
The less than half hour felt like an eternity to Yue Yuan. Throughout the ordeal, he remained steadfast and kept his eyes glued to the big screen.
Looking at the vast expanse of Silver Mist in the picture, watching it gradually enlarge from afar until it filled the entire large screen, at this point, the Hope's external camera switched the image to a panoramic view.
At this moment, illuminated by the exhaust flames of the five Fusion Thruster at the stern of the Hope, the entire scene presents a shimmering silver curtain.
Very close, so close that the exhaust flames from the Hope's thrusters were almost scorching it.
Inside the bridge, it seemed as if the entire Hope was about to be swallowed up by the Silver Mist, and Yue Yuan almost couldn't help but order the ship to accelerate again.
However, real-time monitoring data from 'Tianhe Light' indicates that this is already the closest point Silver Mist has come to the Hope.
Three thousand five hundred and seventy-nine kilometers! This distance seems far, but in interstellar space, it's practically face-to-face. Fortunately, this number hasn't continued to decrease.
After agonizing twenty-odd minutes, humanity finally managed to accelerate the Hope to a speed exceeding that of the Silver Mist within the limited time available.
The value representing the distance between the two sides starts to increase after reaching 3750 kilometers, and then it keeps getting bigger and bigger.
"Finally, I'm free!"
Everyone felt like they had escaped from a dead end.
The moment the distance was widened, the Hope finally stopped maintaining high G acceleration and adjusted from 10 G for almost half an hour to 4 G.
Acceleration is not the same as speed. Even if the acceleration decreases, the Hope will still accelerate, only at a slower pace. Therefore, even if the Hope's acceleration is reduced, its speed will still steadily increase.
The acceleration had decreased, but the humans on the Hope still couldn't relax. Just to be on the safe side, the program required maintaining an acceleration of 4G for about two more hours. Only after leaving the Silver Mist far enough away did the Hope reduce its acceleration again to 1G.
At such low acceleration, people were finally able to get up from the cushioned seats and begin treating those injured during the high-G acceleration.
Once the crew has fully recovered, the Hope will resume its 6G acceleration.
After ten days of medical rescue efforts, the people on board the Hope gradually recovered from their various injuries.
During this period, the Hope continued to receive messages from the Silver Mist.
Yue Yuan also saw it. The message started with angry curses, then slowly turned into promises of technological benefits to humanity, and finally turned into clamors to kill humanity.
This time, Yue Yuan did not respond to Silver Mist at all, but kept the matter deeply in his heart. Humans would settle this score with Silver Mist sooner or later.
With a long trail of flame, Hope accelerated rapidly once more, carrying humanity to bathe in the last rays of the Ross 154 Star, and slowly sailed into the deep cosmos.
At this moment, the five Fusion Thruster once again applied a 6G acceleration to the Hope.
Prior to this, the Hope had already increased its speed to 5% of the speed of light. Now, by accelerating by 6G for another 141 hours, it can reach the highest speed achievable by Nuclear Fusion energy, namely 15% of the speed of light.
As the light accelerates away, its wavelength shifts towards the red end, making the light from Ross 154 appear redder.
Judging from the images taken by Hope, Ross 154 looks like a bright red ball of light, as if a lantern has been covered with a pink veil, or like the neon glow of a red-light district—very beautiful and alluring.
But humans know that a man-eating behemoth lurks there, a devil's abode, a place of nightmares that humans cannot escape.
But at the same time, it is also the place where humanity entered Tier 1 Civilization after its technological regression.
The technological regression caused by the catastrophe delayed humanity's entry into Tier 1 Civilization by a full millennium. If it weren't for the solar disaster, humanity should have successfully built the first Fusion Thruster for interstellar travel during the Earth Era.
Gradually, Ross 154 shrank in the human eye, then became an ordinary point of light in the starry sky, and finally it slowly disappeared from the human eye.
141 hours, which is roughly six days. However, the Hope could not maintain 6G acceleration for six days indefinitely. Instead, it needed to accelerate for half a day, then enter a steady-speed phase to allow people to rest for half an hour to an hour, eat, drink, and relieve themselves, before continuing to accelerate.
Therefore, the Hope spacecraft will actually take longer to accelerate to 15% of the speed of light than it theoretically would.
Given the inherent fragility of humankind, such voyages are currently unavoidable.
"Where is the destination?" On this day, Yue Yuan arrived at the bridge in a relaxed manner. The Hope had reached its maximum speed, 15% of the speed of light, and was currently sailing quietly against the backdrop of stars at a constant speed.
Because there were no reference points around, the Hope, despite trailing five long plumes of flame, seemed like a spaceship quietly floating in the Void.
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