Chapter 423: Walking into a Trap
By the time the Libra law enforcement spacecraft arrived near Pluto, the oxygen generator had produced tens of thousands of cubic meters of pure oxygen.
In the end, the Libra could no longer accommodate all the oxygen, so Zhang Hao and his team could only hang all the oxygen they produced outside the spacecraft.
The lowest temperature in the universe can reach around -273°, and the temperature at which oxygen liquefies is around -200°.
Under such conditions, all the oxygen produced by the oxygen concentrator is converted into liquid oxygen and stored in oxygen tanks.
This provides enough oxygen to detonate the methane within a certain range.
Qin Wuyan drove the "Libra" spacecraft towards Pluto.
Pluto is getting closer.
This was also the first time that Zhang Hao truly saw this solar system planet, which is the farthest from the Earth, although it had been removed from the list.
The Pluto in front of us has towering icebergs, deep canyons, overlapping craters, and vast and monotonous plains in the distance.
Although Pluto is large in size, its gravity is only one-fifth of that of the Earth.
Libra passed through Pluto's thick atmosphere, which is about 15 times thicker than the Earth's, reaching about 1,600 kilometers.
Pluto's outermost atmosphere is mainly composed of nitrogen molecules, which have a low density but are non-combustible.
The conditions for an explosion are not present here.
Libra continues to move towards Pluto.
Outside the spaceship, light blue began to appear more frequently.
Zhang Hao knew that they had entered the middle atmosphere of Pluto.
The atmosphere here is filled with a mixture of methane and nitrogen.
At the very bottom of Pluto's atmosphere, there are hydrogen compounds.
"Stop here." Zhang Hao looked at the blue color outside and it became increasingly darker, indicating that the concentration of methane here had reached its peak.
The Libra spacecraft slowly hovered.
It is surrounded by blue methane gas mixed with colorless and odorless nitrogen.
"You still have two hours. In two hours, the Predator will fly over Pluto." Qin Wuyan said after taking a look at the route map.
Zhang Hao said "hmm".
He came to the porthole of the spacecraft, took a look at the atmosphere outside the window, and then sat down cross-legged.
Wang Qingbao had never seen how thoughts were manipulated.
So he stood aside and stared at Zhang Hao.
Zhang Hao closed his eyes and the lights inside the spacecraft flickered.
Wang Qingbao didn't feel anything unusual and looked around.
"The intention has been activated already?" He looked at the light that flashed once and thought in his heart.
I just finished muttering to myself.
The atmosphere outside the window began to stir as if it had encountered something.
Wang Qingbao was startled and quickly ran to the porthole, pressed his eyes against the window and stared outside.
In front of you.
The atmosphere around Libra slowly swirled, as if attracted by something.
The speed was getting faster and faster, and with the rapid flow of the surrounding atmosphere, the vision gradually became clearer.
After a while, Wang Qingbao saw a sphere forming a hundred meters away from the Libra.
It was the rapid rotation of the sphere that sucked in the surrounding atmosphere.
The sphere continued to rotate, and its laughter grew from the size of a football at the beginning to several times larger than the Libra spacecraft!
Then, the rotation speed of this huge sphere slowly slowed down.
When the sphere came to a complete stop, a brief blank area formed within a hundred meters around it.
The amazing thing is that at the boundary of this blank area, there seems to be a transparent wall of air, isolating it from the outside atmosphere.
Wang Qingbao turned to look at Zhang Hao. The other party's eyes were still closed and there was no trace of effort on his face.
Just when Wang Qingbao thought that a methane sphere had been created after such an operation, the sphere, which had been stopped, slowly accelerated and began to rotate.
Wang Qingbao continued to stare at it, marveling at it.
The sphere started spinning again, faster and faster.
Gradually, something seemed to escape from the inside of the sphere, and the sphere itself became more solid and its volume slowly shrank.
Wang Qingbao stared at the side of the sphere, where the escaping gas was gathered together.
The escaping gas appears translucent in color.
"Oh~ Zhang Hao separated the nitrogen in the sphere." Wang Qingbao said in his heart.
Nitrogen is non-flammable and must be stripped out, otherwise it will affect the effect of the explosion.
Eventually, the second rotating sphere also slowly stopped, and finally, became motionless.
Now its color is bluer than at the beginning.
The spacecraft made a clanging sound.
Wang Qingbao was shocked! He didn't know what happened.
Zhang Hao closed his eyes and said, "It's the sound of the oxygen tank. Don't worry."
Wang Qingbao looked outside the spaceship again.
Sure enough, one of the oxygen cylinders that was originally hung on the spacecraft broke away from the spacecraft and flew towards the sphere that had just formed.
The oxygen tank approached the sphere and then stopped.
Then, Wang Qingbao saw the threaded wrench of the oxygen cylinder move.
The liquid oxygen in the bottle turned into oxygen again due to the change in pressure and escaped.
Although the oxygen could not be seen, Wang Qingbao observed that as the thread of the oxygen cylinder was unscrewed, the originally blue sphere became chaotic in color.
That was the change that occurred when oxygen was injected into it!
About ten minutes later, the oxygen cylinder that had been hovering next to the sphere fell toward the surface of Pluto.
At this time, the surface of the sphere appeared blue, and there seemed to be gas flowing inside.
Zhang Hao opened his eyes and said, "Huh~ All right."
As Zhang Hao opened his eyes and withdrew his thoughts, the atmosphere that was originally blocked by the air wall rushed towards the blue sphere.
Soon, the area around Libra was filled with Pluto's colored atmosphere.
The sphere a hundred meters away was hidden in it, becoming difficult to find.
Zhang Hao stood up and said to Qin Wuyan: "Captain Qin, remember the coordinates of this explosive ball."
Qin Wuyan nodded, read the longitude, latitude and altitude of the explosive sphere created by Zhang Hao, and entered it into the spacecraft system.
After resting for a while, Zhang Hao sat down again.
In the next two hours, Zhang Hao followed the same method and created other identical spheres around the first explosive sphere.
Until all the oxygen they produced is used up.
Finally, Zhang Hao counted and found that a total of nine such explosive balls were created.
Zhang Hao arranged the next eight explosive balls around the first sphere at a distance of 500 meters, forming a large explosion range.
"Hey, if the Predator enters this explosion range, it will be seriously injured if it doesn't die!" Wang Qingbao said, looking at the nine explosive balls that were quietly floating.
"Let's go now and meet the Predator!" Qin Wuyan felt a little excited in his heart.
The "Predator" has escaped many times and never been defeated, what will be waiting for it this time!
