Ye Zhou walked towards the main control compartment of the engine, and the pre-start status of all engines was displayed on the screen. After checking one by one, he pressed the unlock button of the working chamber.

The command has been transmitted to the central command system. After the captain confirms, the working fluid chamber will inject the stored working fluid water into the exhaust header, and then spray it out after heating the superheated plasma to provide a large amount of thrust.

Everything was ready. The big screen on the left showed a real-time picture in the spacecraft cockpit, and continuous command sounds came from Ye Zhou's ears.

"Have visually carme, the track calculation is completed, the optimal entry path is solved, and the companion flight orbit has begun to enter."

"Washington, Dante is ready, Dangyang, Changping, and Humen are entering the companion flight orbit."

"I received the Humen number coordination command, and the entry path has changed and is being adjusted in real time."

"After the adjustment, start to slow down, reduce the rotation track, and the track drops by 4 kilometers."

"The descent is completed, pay attention to the location of the Forty-two Telquinoe of the carme cluster, which is now only 6 kilometers away from us and is at risk of collision."

"I understand, the avoidance track calculation has been performed."

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Ye Zhou switched to the outer scene of the spacecraft. At this time, Wei Qing had already merged into the retrograde orbit of the carme star cluster, but it was still swaying outside the star cluster. Only when the final push operation was carried out can it further rise and adjust itself to the same plane as carme, that is, Ioba.

On the left side of the spacecraft's forward direction, the three Chinese spacecraft, Dangyang, Changping and Humen, are also undergoing orbit adjustments. The Washington, which belongs to Chou and Europe, have completed all operations and undertake orbital warning tasks behind the flight direction.

According to the plan, they will not participate in this promotion, but will only supplement when an accident occurs on four Chinese spacecraft.

This requires them to remain in a vigilant position at all times. Objectively speaking, compared with the four spacecraft in China, they face much higher risks in the early stages of pushing, because they need to perform uninterrupted short-range maneuvers to avoid all satellites of the carme cluster.

But again, they do not need to approach Io directly, there is no risk of falling into Io, nor do they need to enter Jupiter's low-Earth orbit, and the probability of a smooth evacuation is much greater.

In fact, in the early stages of the plan, the three-party representatives had discussed the issue of division of labor many times, and the final plan also fully considered the opinions of all countries and even astronauts. However, even so, the other party's people still expressed strong dissatisfaction with the plan.

They don't care what the Chinese have to face. They only know that their heroic astronauts are in danger of their lives.

But fortunately, most of the people who can enter space are the best and most loyal people among human beings. After leaving behind the shackles between countries, even Westerners can serve as trustworthy partners.

"The orbital law of Telxinoe has been solved, Wei Qing, the data has been passed to the central processing unit. This is Washington, we are behind you."

Ye Zhou subconsciously turned around, and the screen display immediately turned to the wall behind him. There, Ye Zhou saw a small highlight. In the light blue flash, the Washington, which was 2,000 kilometers away from the Wei Qing, sent them the latest detection signal.

"Wei Qing received it and began to fly along the booked track."

"Zheng He has completed the slingshot flight and arrived at the reservation assembly point in 4 hours."

"I understand, the location of the Zheng He number has been obtained and the data has been transmitted."

"According to the current rotation of Io, Zheng He needs to correct his course twice. Please use the Twasta volcano group as the course coordinates."

"Received, heading coordinates, Io-Arctic, Twasta volcano group, coordinates have been obtained."

After a series of orbital changes, the six spacecraft finally entered their respective positions. From Ye Zhou's perspective, all the spacecraft showed a relatively stationary state--or in other words, even the carme Iobo in the distance began to stop.

But in contrast, in the orbit around the spacecraft, countless satellites and small dust masses are flashing at extremely fast speeds. At certain specific angles, they occasionally reflect the sunlight from far away, as if they suddenly appear and disappear.

This scene was beautiful, which made Ye Zhou think of the fireflies in summer nights, and even the hallucinations of cicadas chirping in his ears.

But soon, he realized the horror of those "fireflies".

Because one of the fireflies was gradually growing in the spacecraft's field of view until it filled the entire porthole.

That is Europa Twenty-fourth of the nemesis of the Anan group. Its diameter is only 5 kilometers, but when it passes by at a distance of 20 kilometers, the instantaneous impact force is as if passing by a high-speed train at a distance of 10 cm.

Ye Zhou looked in the direction where Europa 24 disappeared with lingering fear. A report that pushed the engine detection to be completed jumped out on the screen. All data were normal, the filter was in good condition, and the temperature and radiation losses of the first wall were negligible.

All the things he could do were done at this moment.

"Push the engine inspection is completed and the ignition can be ignited at any time."

The so-called "ignition" is actually not a rigorous wording. It refers to letting the thrust engine enter a saturated working state and starting to output thrust to the spacecraft.

"Received, ignition preparation is completed, and the working chamber is unlocked."

"The unlocking signal of the working fluid chamber has been received. Zheng He, please start your thrust engine and prepare to enter the low-Earth orbit of the Iopause."

Ye Zhou issued an order to Zheng He. After a moment, with a brief reply, he saw the scene of Zheng He ignitioning the thrust engine on the display screen.

The working fluid pours into the fusion engine header. Under the heating of the plasma, the liquid instantly vaporizes and expands, and then is sprayed out from the tail of the engine.

The bright blue flame illuminated the night sky of the vast universe. In just one minute, the acceleration generated by Zheng He reached 30g. With such an acceleration that lasted for more than 5 minutes, no human body could maintain its original structure without damage.

But Zheng He doesn't have to worry about this problem, because there are no living people on that spacecraft.

Or, living people without any carbon-based form.

All crew members entering the Zheng He have undergone all-round transformation. Their bodies have been replaced by mechanical structures and their brains are protected in specially designed metal skulls. Such protection is enough to allow them to withstand the overload of nearly 50g under extreme circumstances.

"The acceleration has been completed and is expected to pass through the Arctic in two hours and 40 minutes."

"The channel enrichment state is normal, they are at our tail."

"The power of the Fenghuo device has reached the maximum. At present, the open state of adjacent dimension channels is normal, and the energy dissipation rate is normal."

"You can start to return."

Zheng He's reply message was passed to all six spacecraft on standby. After a brief pause, the Navigator of Wei Qing transferred the communication channel to the global sharing mode.

From this moment on, he was officially promoted from the captain of the Wei Qing to the commander-in-chief of the entire fleet.

All seven spacecraft must obey his orders.

Ye Zhou looked at the screen nervously, with the navigator's cold side face on it.

A moment later, he heard the voice of the navigator in his ears:

"Get to act!"

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