A few days later.

The huge solar storm caused by Venus falling into the sun moved away from the orbit of Jupiter and flew towards Saturn further away.

After confirming that there was no danger, the human fleet replenished its helium-3 reserves and began its journey to the Kuiper Belt again.

Under Zero's control, the Hall thrusters at the tails of the 1,251 starships emitted intense light, pushing all the starships gradually away from the huge Jupiter.

Being in a star system, the starship's acceleration and traveling speed are not very fast.

The reason is also very simple.

They need to use asteroids in the solar system for "training".

Although it has passed through the relatively dense asteroid belt, it is possible to hit a few asteroids along the way in the solar system.

Just like now.

Not long after leaving Jupiter, a piercing siren sounded in the command center of the Earth.

【Asteroid impact alert!】

A row of highlighted characters appeared on the holographic image directly in front of the command center.

[Maximum diameter of asteroid: 5 kilometers]

[Asteroid coordinates: x (573.4267 kilometers); y (-328.7123 kilometers); z (1038.3422 kilometers)]

The coordinate numbers are accurate to the 0.1 meter level, and as time goes by, the numbers on the coordinates continue to beat.

The coordinates here are naturally a three-dimensional coordinate system established with [Earth] as the origin. The x-axis represents the left and right sides of [Earth], the y-axis represents up and down, and the z-axis represents front and back. www.bǐqυgetν.℃ǒm

Through this coordinate positioning method, starship pilots can find target objects extremely quickly.

"A five-kilometer-diameter asteroid..."

Lu Yongchang raised his eyebrows slightly, turned to Zhao Zijie and said, "Use the electromagnetic gun and high-energy laser to solve it."

After hearing Lu Yongchang's order, Zhao Zijie looked slightly solemn, nodded and pressed the communication button on the console in front of him.

"[Golden Crow] b31, please reply when you receive it."

With almost no delay, a clear voice came from the communication device.

"[Golden Crow] b31 received."

"Speaking."

Without any hesitation, Zhao Zijie reached out and pressed a few buttons on the console in front of him.

"B31, there is an asteroid with a maximum diameter of five kilometers 1,100 kilometers away from you. According to calculations, its trajectory coincides with the fleet."

"The solution and the asteroid's exact location have been sent to your onboard computer."

"solve it immediately."

As soon as he finished speaking, a response came from the communication device: "b31 received!"

A few seconds later, a series of firelights and several extremely bright lasers appeared in the lower right corner of [Earth].

That innocent asteroid, under the action of the electromagnetic gun and high-energy laser, didn't even last a few seconds and turned into a piece of powder.

"Report, target successfully resolved."

As the report sounded, a new line of reminder flashed across the holographic image directly in front of the command center.

【The alarm has been cleared】

Lu Yongchang looked at everyone who was getting familiar with this process and nodded slowly.

"Yongchang, it seems that your training method is quite good." Fang Xu chuckled and said in a low voice.

Facing Fang Xu's compliment, Lu Yongchang shook his head and showed a helpless smile.

"This is also a helpless move on my part."

"Everyone leaves the solar system and goes into hibernation."

"When hibernation ends, we will have a fight with the Proxima Centauri civilization."

"With such a tight schedule, I can only choose this method for simulation training."

Yes, all of these are training tasks assigned by Lu Yongchang.

He ordered that Zero's automatic interception function be disabled, and all interception operations be manually operated by starship pilots, in order to allow these starship pilots to adapt to space operations as soon as possible.

Fang Xu ignored Lu Yongchang's complaints and said happily: "Now it seems that the effect is quite good."

"At least, their operations are much more skillful than before."

"Think about the scene in the asteroid belt...tsk, tsk, tsk, it's really terrible."

Lu Yongchang also smiled bitterly and shook his head.

In order to train these pilots, he specifically ordered Zero to choose a route with the highest concentration of asteroids.

The results can be imagined.

If Zero had not taken over most of the [Golden Crow] battleships at the critical moment, it is estimated that the human fleet would have been attrited before it even left the solar system.

But the benefits of that shocking incident were also huge.

At least, these starship pilots are much more skilled in attacking targets.

Thinking of this, Lu Yongchang shook his head and sighed: "Unfortunately, there are still a few asteroids in the solar system."

Fang Xu rolled his eyes angrily.

"You can pull it down."

"Why don't you look back and see how the asteroid belt has been destroyed?"

Lu Yongchang's face froze, and he scratched his head with a smile: "Isn't this to improve their proficiency as much as possible?"

"Improvement of proficiency won't mean you have to go around the asteroid belt three or four times, right?!" Fang Xu complained again, "If this were in ancient times, you would definitely be a master at stealing houses."

"Ahem!"

Seeing some of the scientific researchers around him giving him strange looks, Lu Yongchang twitched the corners of his mouth, coughed twice and then changed the topic directly.

"Who is that? Academician Mo Zeyang, come with me."

After saying that, he turned around and walked directly outside the command center.

…

Hearing his name, Mo Zeyang suddenly raised his head and looked at the command podium beside him.

Seeing that Lu Yongchang had already walked out of the command center door, he quickly reached out and pressed the controller on his watch.

The magnetism of several electromagnetic devices connected to the chair on the back of the spacesuit disappeared instantly.

Then, with the help of electromagnetic boots, he stood up from the chair and walked quickly towards the door of the command center.

As soon as he walked out of the door, he saw Lu Yongchang standing by the porthole, silently staring at Jupiter, which had shrunk into a small ball.

"Professor, what's wrong?"

He slowed down, walked to Lu Yongchang, and asked softly.

When Lu Yongchang heard the sound, he turned to look at Mo Zeyang and said with a gentle smile: "Academician Mo, how is the development progress of photonic computers?"

The moment he heard the question, the expression on Mo Zeyang's face suddenly became a little dry.

"Professor, there's still not much progress."

"Unlike superconducting circuit quantum computers, photonic computers require new architecture methods and higher manufacturing technologies."

"At present, it seems that we do not have such capability."

Lu Yongchang's face turned slightly gloomy.

Photon computers, as the threshold of the second-level civilization in the technology tree system, must have their own unique difficulties, which is also to be expected.
Chapter completed!