"Yes, Captain!"
Following Zhao Xiaofeng's command, Tomcat pressed a button on the console.
The cabin began to shake slightly, which meant that the spacecraft's deceleration engine had started.
A 3D map appeared on the main screen in front of the bridge. The blue dots on the map were the coordinates of Earth, and the red ones were the coordinates of Galaxy.
The other densely packed light spots were the satellites and other small celestial bodies that were being pulled into orbit by the gravity of the inner solar system planets. Galaxy had to calculate the trajectory of all the light spots during the entire deceleration process to avoid collisions.
The distance needed to decelerate was equivalent to the safe distance for a car to brake.
However, for a spacecraft of tens of millions of tons to enter Earth's orbit, it needed to slow down from 30,000 km/s to 0.4446 km/s.
The minimum distance needed to complete the entire deceleration process was 26 million kilometers.
Because the faster an object moved, the greater its moving mass would be.
The energy required to decelerate was also extremely shocking.
Galaxy's decelerating engine needed to release a counter-propulsion force in the direction of the ship's forward movement during the 26 million km journey to offset the astronomical moving mass of the ship.
Considering the maximum inertia reaction force that the human body and the spacecraft's materials could withstand, as well as the output power of the deceleration engine, the entire deceleration process could only be completed through slow grinding.
In the meantime, they had to calculate the trajectories of hundreds of thousands of asteroids accurately to avoid the collisions of various celestial bodies. It was quite difficult!
"Captain, the spaceship is about to enter deceleration mode. Please check your protective equipment!”Tomcat turned its head to remind him as it secured the safety rope to its body.
"Alright, Old Cat!" Without needing Tomcat's reminder, Zhao Xiaofeng had already begun putting on the speed-reduction life-support equipment.
Even though there was a deceleration distance of tens of millions of kilometers, the fragile carbon-based life forms still could not withstand it.
The fully-enclosed decelerating life-support equipment could release a magnetic field that was harmless to the human body and offset 99% of the reaction force caused by inertia.
During the entire deceleration process, Zhao Xiaofeng had to put on the deceleration equipment and secure himself to the wall of the spaceship with a safety rope!
Throughout the entire process, he could not see anything.
He had to close his eyes tightly, or else his eyeballs might fly out of his eye sockets due to inertia!
He could only use the earpiece in his body to communicate with Tomcat urgently, using Tomcat to control the spacecraft.
In this aspect, Tomcat's robot made of metal alloy was undoubtedly much stronger.
This little bit of inertia reaction force would not cause any harm to him. The safety rope was only used to prevent him from flying out of the seat.
After Zhao Xiaofeng was ready, he closed his eyes and informed Tomcat through his earpiece,""We can start decelerating!"
"Yes, Captain!"
Zhao Xiaofeng followed his habit and chanted," The Human Alliance will last forever!”After that, as the deceleration engine began to work with a huge amount of energy, even if he closed his eyes, he could feel a golden light appearing in front of his eyes, followed by a sharp pain!
Zhao Xiaofeng understood that this was an illusion caused by the excessive blood supply to the human brain.
Every astronaut had undergone physical enhancement and adaptation to the environment, but that didn't mean that their body structure could surpass the framework of basic physics.
The blood of the human body was also a kind of substance. Under such a decelerating environment, the blood was in a state of " weightlessness "!
Every time the human heart beat, it could provide three times the amount of blood supply compared to the usual environment, and the pressure in the brain was extremely high!
If Zhao Xiaofeng hadn't gone through the body strengthening process, he would have suffered a brain hemorrhage!
(Note: During the acceleration of the spacecraft, there will be a reverse blood supply deficiency.)
During this process, he could not choose to hibernate!
This was because Tomcat was only an AI robot. It couldn't handle situations that exceeded its understanding of the program library!
At the same time, Zhao Xiaofeng felt as if all the blood in his body had been thrown onto his spine, and his internal organs had been pressed into a thin piece of paper!
The muscles on his face began to distort, and he felt difficulty breathing. Tears could not stop flowing!
He had to endure it and restrain his desire to fall unconscious!
Being unconscious was a protective measure for the human body when it was in great pain.
When the central nervous system sensed that the body was experiencing unbearable pain, it would forcefully issue the command to faint and seize the control of the brain over the body.
The structure of life was the same as this universe, so wonderful!
Every human who walked into the starry sky would silently suffer the corresponding pain when they could enjoy the wonders brought by the starry sky that others would never be able to see.
From this point of view, the universe was undoubtedly fair.
But to Zhao Xiaofeng, this was undoubtedly very cruel!
He had to endure such immense pain every second of the twelve hours of deceleration without collapsing!
Moreover, he had to fight against his own instinctive reaction to keep his mind clear at all times and deal with possible emergencies at any time!
This was one of the prices that puny humans had to pay to explore the universe!
This required superhuman courage and endurance!
Without a doubt, Zhao Xiaofeng was one of the most powerful people in the Human Alliance!
Only such people with courage and faith were qualified to explore the vast universe!
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