Chapter 11: Chapter 11 : The dark forest after leaving the city
As they talked, the airship has already broken through the fog and turned from a tiny white dot when Cici saw it just now to a behemoth. In less than ten minutes, it had already caught up with the Newton.
This airship was unusually huge, coming blotting out the sky and covering up the earth. At the present distance, it looked like six or seven stories high to the naked eye, and was nearly tens of times the size of the Newton. Its shone with a silver-gray light all over, emitting a cold aura in the night as it gradually approached.
Such a huge airship, moving so fast, was obviously not owned by any of the Avalon labs, which also indicated that Jason's story was true - the competition for Dao was obviously not limited to those labs thinking highly of themselves, but also other more powerful organizations.
There was just no way to know now just who the enemy was that was already close at hand.
"Robo, report the data of Newton." Master Wu said, the situation was urgent, Master Wu and Merry briefly exchanged glances and planned to let the Newton full speed forward to run first.
"There's plenty of fuel, and it can last ten hours at full speed." Robo quickly responded.
Master Wu looked at Merry again, and Merry nodded.
"Switch to full speed forward flight mode." Master Wu made an immediate decision.
"All members of the cabin, please get ready, take the seat close to you, the airship is about to enter the full speed mode." Robo informed through the radio.
"Everyone find a place to sit down." Master Wu said, "When the Newton enters full speed, the speed and inertia is very high, which may cause everyone to be injured, the bulkhead is set with an automatic protection system that can form a small protective area, everyone sit close to the bulkhead."
The airship had already entered the acceleration state, and as everyone sat against the wall, the wall behind them automatically became the most suitable for the body curve, and gradually formed a small area to wrap people inside. Like a bubble of liquid, this ensures that no passenger is hurt even when the airship is flying at high speed and making sharp turns.
The same liquid came out of the walls and floors in other places on the airship, wrapping up the tables and cutlery in the airship's living areas.
The good performance of the Newton was not only in its internal facilities, but also in all aspects of its external strength and the drive system, which made it undoubtedly the highest-end airship.
"What is the movement speed of that airship?" Merry asked.
"Based on the distance extrapolated just now, its speed is about a thousand kilometers per hour, and the Newton can reach twice its speed when it runs at full speed." Robo answered.
"It is huge in size, and the range must be far longer than 10 hours..." Merry said worriedly.
"We can take advantage of the Newton's small size and dexterity, since it is clumsy with the large size, we can find a chance to dump it." Master Wu said, "Robo, are you ready."
"Yes, ready to accelerate." Robo replied.
"Let's go!" Jason shouted in the direction of the head of the airship, scaring the already nervous Mimi, Rum and Coffee.
"Robo is underneath us..." Master Wu whispered a reminder, "Robo, full speed ahead."
Jason scratched his head, the flowing bubble made his face look very abstract and distorted, but he could still be seen a little embarrassed.
In the past, when Jason made such noisy and dumb jokes, it always worked very well, except for the slow Bob, it worked on everyone. But recently, in the past two days, he failed again and again, probably because the members of the team really had too different backgrounds in life.
After a short acceleration, Newton turned into full speed flight, the airship behind was gradually getting far away again, slowly retreating into the previous small bright spot.
"Alert, alert! Dense obstacles ahead, please slow down as soon as possible!" The Newton suddenly sounded an alarm.
"The airship is going to be hit, countdown to one minute!" The broadcast system alerted again.
"Robo! Slow down!" Master Wu shouted.
"Slowing down. The obstacle suddenly appeared, we are only able to slow down as much as possible, rather than fully stop before the impact." Robo's voice remained as calm as usual, felt cruel in a moment of crisis such as this inexplicably.
"Countdown to 38 seconds!"
"Can we turn around?" Merry asked.
"It's too close, I'm afraid it's too late, let's try!" Master Wu said, "Robo, turn around in the direction where there are no obstacles."
"Roger, high number of obstacles ahead, it can only turn 90° to the left." Robo replied.
"Countdown to 26 seconds!"
"It's too late, it's too late." Master Wu was always steady and optimistic, but now he also started to panic.
Merry looked at the tense crowd, according to Newton's current speed, if there was a collision, it would be instantly squeezed and deformed, and explode before turning into a pancake, by then, everyone will definitely die.
It was her own impulsive obsession that dragged everyone down.
Merry looked to Dao, Dao waved to Merry and pulled his lips to the sides with his fingers, squeezing out a clown-like smile, trying to tease Merry, but he himself was obviously very worried and scared.
No one can remain calm in the face of death.
"Countdown to 10 seconds!"
The airship's announcement system continued to broadcast the countdown, like announcing the countdown to death, the scythe of death was about to swing down...
Merry closed her eyes and let the despair pour in with her rapid breathing, fill her body and be about to burst.
"Countdown to 5 seconds!"
"Countdown to 3 seconds!"
"Countdown 15 seconds!"
"Countdown to 22 seconds!"
Merry opened her eyes and looked at Master Wu, trying to figure out what was going on.
Obviously, Master Wu also looked puzzled.
"Robo, what's going on?" Master Wu asked, "Was there a problem with the obstacle detection earlier?"
"No, the obstacles are still there, but they're backing up. The obstacles that were just intercepting in front are moving back, as if they are avoiding impact." Robo replied. They were backing up and the Newton was slowing down, so it pulled away again and the impact was avoided.
"Moving?" Merry was puzzled.
"How come there are so many obstacles outside the city that are at the same height as our airship? And they can move." Jason also reacted to the countdown just now, which made him think that he was going to lose his life at the starting point of pursuing his dream at a young age.
"It's the airship!" Jason and Merry shouted with one voice.
Master Wu also immediately responded, "Robo, turn on the monitoring system to see what's in front."
"No information can be detected, only their presence, it is like a solid block that never existed, neatly arranged into a huge net." Robo said.
"It's the signal blocking system!" Bob said, "I've seen people on the Internet reporting that someone at Avalon has worked on a small signal shielding system that can be loaded on the airship. Once this stuff is installed on the airship, the other side can only detect the presence of the airship when it is extremely close, and it can only be detected with the presence rather than being analyzed into any data, it must be this stuff."
The penny dropped, no wonder the Newton did not detect the presence of them until just before impact.
The airships in front of them were small, probably similar in size to the usual car airships, but the number was extremely large. Robo detected that there were a total of 2,500 airships ahead, arranged in a 50 by 50 square, intercepting the Newton on its path. Like a fishing net, they were quietly waiting for the fish to enter.
There was no point in running away in either direction, so the Newton had to back up slowly after coming to a complete stop.
The airships suddenly lit up and stared at the Newton like a million pairs of eyes suddenly opened in the silent wilderness outside the city.
The airship that had previously retreated backwards to avoid the impact, followed suit as the Newton gradually retreated, like a sponge with a dent poked out by a finger, gradually regaining its flatness as the force of the finger eased, and the airship swarm once again reverted to a 50 by 50 fishing net.
Those lighted airships, silently hanging in the night sky, like the intermission of a large light show performance, were exceptionally spectacular. With such a big show, it was obvious that they were coming for Dao, but they did not take any action for the time being.
The Newton retreated to a safe distance away and stopped. Now was not the best time to escape, but to wait and see what would happen.
An airship at the very center of the square slowly pulled out, and their message was clear - obviously they looked like they wanted to negotiate peacefully.
"The airship behind us is catching up." Cici said.
They looked towards the aft of the cabin, the giant airship that was left behind earlier was also catching up.
With a huge net of 2,500 airships in front of it and a giant airship chasing it, the Newton was like a lamb that had crashed into a wolf's den to avoid the tiger's pursuit, stopping in the middle with a restrained voice and quietly waiting for the pronouncement of fate.
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