226: Chapter 226 Nine Hundred Thousand Skill Points, Mingdi's Ultimate Weapon Fully Unlocked!

Countdown to the arrival of the sentry ship, Day 45.

Pangu Laboratory, Level B2, afternoon.

The technical package for the orbital airdrop had just been pushed into the encryption vault. Before Su Che could get up from the main console, the blue-white panel in his mind lit up again.

[Ding! Core of the Mingdi Interceptor and all maneuvering subsystems finalized! Research requirements for the fourth-priority firepower and reconnaissance system have been met! Main research task triggered!]

[Task Name: Equip the assassin with a full set of killing tools!]

[Task Content: The Mingdi Interceptor has bones, has the ability to drift like a dead man, and has a shell to be dropped from the sky, but it is still a lone commander!]

[A long-range precision particle beam sniper cannon, a set of aerospace orbital torpedoes, and a global stealth reconnaissance and locking system—these three items must be synchronized and in place!]

[The sniper cannon can seal a throat with one shot from three million kilometers away, the torpedo's fusion warhead can take out a large target with one hit, and the reconnaissance system allows the Mingdi Interceptor to see everything in deep space without being seen by anyone!]

[All core technologies are upgraded based on the mature firepower and detection frameworks of the Xuannv and the luan bird. Redeem the upgrade package directly!]

[Task Reward: 900,000 skill points.]

[Total redemption points for core and auxiliary technologies: 540,000.]

[Current host skill point balance is sufficient. Do you want to redeem everything at once?]

900,000.

Su Che scanned the list.

He understood the underlying logic of the three systems.

The particle beam sniper cannon was a long-range specialized version of the directed energy weapon from the ultimate version of the Xuannv, with a longer barrel, thinner beam, and sharper focus, specifically designed for precision strikes.

The orbital torpedo was a new system, but the principle was simple: it was essentially a smart munition with a micro-fusion warhead.

The reconnaissance system was an airborne miniaturized version of the Global Deep Space Quantum Radar combined with deep space passive detection; it was the "eyes" of the Mingdi Interceptor.

"Redeem all."

[Ding! Consumed 540,000 main skill points. All core technologies, auxiliary technologies, design blueprints, and adaptation plans for the three systems have been unlocked! The list of materials and equipment has been pushed synchronously!]

The three technical frameworks flooded in simultaneously.

The sniper cannon's structure was longer than he had anticipated; the total length of the barrel was 3.6 meters, accounting for one-sixth of the Mingdi Interceptor's 22-meter length.

The interior of the barrel was not a straight cavity, but a three-stage series focusing structure. Each stage compressed the beam diameter by 40%. After three stages, the beam cross-section at the exit was only 0.3 millimeters.

For targets three million kilometers away, the aiming precision was plus or minus two meters.

The solution to the problem Academician Qian Zhenhua had mentioned earlier—where a 0.3-millisecond communication delay caused a 30-meter deviation—was hidden in the fire control unit.

The main god ai sniper fire control unit had a built-in target motion prediction model. It extrapolated the target's displacement within the delay time window based on previous trajectory data and corrected the aiming point to the predicted position in advance.

The 30-meter deviation was reduced to within two meters.

Su Che confirmed this parameter in his mind.

The answer to the question Academician Qian Zhenhua had left was right here.

He walked to the public display screen, and the task allocation table refreshed.

"Academician Li, for the particle beam sniper cannon, the three-stage series focusing structure, barrel thermal management, and long-range ballistic correction are all yours."

"Academician Zhang Weide, the torpedo's cabin structure, the fusion warhead load-bearing frame, and the trajectory attitude control."

"Zhao Mingyuan, the main god ai reconnaissance analysis unit for the reconnaissance system, and the algorithm framework for passive detection and silent locking."

"Academician Sun Qiwen, the total power consumption superposition and thermal balance of the three systems."

"Academician Qian Zhenhua, the adaptation of the reconnaissance system's Quantum Radar receiving module. Regarding the delay compensation you mentioned earlier, the answer is here."

Academician Qian Zhenhua was sitting at the workstation on the east side, flipping a signature pen in his palm.

Su Che threw the prediction model parameters from the sniper fire control unit onto the secondary screen.

Academician Qian Zhenhua stared at it for five seconds.

"Motion prediction extrapolation, linear interpolation within the delay window... The precision is sufficient; 30 meters reduced to two meters."

He slid the signature pen back into his chest pocket without saying another word.

Academician Li Zhengyang had already laid out the cross-section diagram of the sniper cannon in the weapon adaptation area, clearly marking the spacing of the three sets of magnetic lenses for the three-stage series focusing structure.

"Chief Engineer Su, the second-stage magnetic lens of the three-stage focusing structure is the precision bottleneck of the entire barrel."

"The first-stage coarse focusing and the third-stage terminal compression have mature solutions. The second stage requires intermediate correction in the section where the beam velocity is highest, and the control precision of the magnetic field gradient must reach the nano-Tesla level."

Su Che replied, "A superconducting magnetic field control circuit driven by a Sub-nanometer chip. This was used in the directed energy weapon of the ultimate version of the Xuannv."

"It was used, but the working distance of the Xuannv's magnetic lens is in the centimeter range, while the sniper cannon's working distance is in the decimeter range. The uniformity of the magnetic field decays quickly at the decimeter scale, and edge effects will cause the beam to defocus."

Su Che walked to the weapon adaptation area and pointed to the position of the second-stage magnetic lens on the barrel cross-section diagram.

"Add a set of compensation coils, wrapped around the outside of the main lens, specifically to correct the edge field."

"Should the current control of the compensation coil be synchronized with the main lens or independent?"

"Independent. The main lens handles focusing, and the compensation coil handles uniformity. The two signals go their separate ways."

Academician Li Zhengyang marked the installation position and cross-section of the newly added coils on the blueprint.

Countdown to the arrival of the sentry ship, Day 43.

Two days had passed.

The B2 level was permeated with the smell of continuous, non-stop work. The pillows on the cots of several people were worn smooth.

Academician Li Zhengyang's particle beam sniper cannon completed its first round of individual simulation.

The beam quality of the three-stage series focusing met the design indicators in the simulator, and the compensation coils reduced the edge defocusing to a negligible level.

However, he discovered a new problem when testing extreme operating conditions.

"Continuous three-shot firing."

Academician Li Zhengyang pushed the simulation data to the public display screen.

"The first shot is normal. For the second shot, the barrel temperature rise causes the operating point of the superconducting coil in the second-stage magnetic lens to drift, and the beam precision drops from plus or minus two meters to plus or minus nine meters. The third shot, 14 meters."

Academician Sun Qiwen came out of the U-shaped array area. His thermos cup was on the second layer of the cabinet today, and he had to reach out to get it.

"Is the surface area of the barrel cooling fins insufficient?"

"It's not a surface area problem."

Academician Li Zhengyang pulled up the temperature rise curve.

"It's that the cooling speed can't keep up with the firing interval. The design firing rate of the Mingdi Interceptor's sniper cannon is one shot every eight seconds, but the cooling circuit takes 12 seconds to pull the barrel temperature back to the baseline after firing."

"The second shot was fired before the temperature returned."

Su Che walked over from the main console, "Change the firing interval from eight seconds to 15 seconds."

Academician Li Zhengyang looked up.

"One shot every 15 seconds, is that enough on the battlefield?"

"The Mingdi Interceptor is an assassin, not a machine gunner."

Su Che's tone was very calm.

"One target, one shot to solve it. If the first shot misses, 15 seconds is enough for it to re-lock and correct its aim. For things that require firepower density, let the Xuannv handle it."

Academician Li Zhengyang did not argue further and changed the firing interval.

Re-ran the three-shot burst test.

The first shot was normal.

15 seconds later, the second shot: the barrel temperature had returned to the baseline range, and the beam precision was plus or minus 2.3 meters.

The third shot, plus or minus 2.1 meters.

Clean.

The orbital torpedo progress on Academician Zhang Weide's side was faster than expected.

The torpedo structure was not complicated: a 1.8-meter-long streamlined cabin, with a fusion micro-warhead in the front, attitude control and trajectory propulsion modules in the middle, and terminal guidance components in the tail.

Total weight was 400 kilograms.

"For the containment structure of the fusion warhead, I referred to the magnetic confinement scheme of the Controlled Nuclear Fusion micro-power supply module, a scaled-down version."

Academician Zhang Weide rotated the 3D model of the torpedo on the supercomputing terminal, "But there is a problem at the moment the warhead is activated: where does the electrical energy required for fusion ignition come from?"

"The Mingdi Interceptor supplies power, pre-charging the torpedo through the mounting interface before launch."

"To what extent should it be pre-charged?"

"Fully charged. When the torpedo detaches from the Mingdi Interceptor, it carries all the energy required for ignition; no external power supply is needed during flight."

He drew the position of the power supply interface on the mounting point.

"Where is the torpedo mounted?"

Su Che called up the overall cross-section diagram of the Mingdi Interceptor.

"In the belly centerline, internal bomb bay. Two are hung side-by-side in the bay, and they are ejected sequentially after the rotating cabin door opens."

"Two 400-kilogram torpedoes hanging under the belly of a 12-ton Mingdi Interceptor, the center of gravity offset..."

"Zero, centerline symmetrical mounting, no offset."

Academician Zhang Weide nodded and went back to run the aerodynamic simulation of the ejection separation.

Zhao Mingyuan had been holed up in a corner workstation for the past two days writing the algorithm for the reconnaissance system.

The global stealth reconnaissance and locking system was the "eyes" of the Mingdi Interceptor and also the quietest part of the entire aircraft.

It did not actively emit any signals, but was purely passive receiving.

The high-sensitivity sensor array captured the target's thermal radiation, gravitational perturbations, electromagnetic leakage, and quantum state fluctuations, and the main god ai reconnaissance analysis unit pieced these fragmented pieces of information into a complete target image.

"Silent locking." Zhao Mingyuan wrote two words on the last blank space of his work uniform cuff, which was already covered in numbers.

He pushed the algorithm framework to the secondary screen.

"Chief Engineer Su, the signal-to-noise ratio of passive detection is sufficient in deep space, but there is one scenario that is troublesome."

"Which one?"

"When the target is also using stealth. If the other party has full-band stealth capability at the same level as ours, the signal that can be received by passive detection is almost zero."

Su Che looked at the algorithm logic on the secondary screen.

"Quantum Radar silent locking."

Zhao Mingyuan turned his chair at an angle.

"Doesn't silent locking require actively emitting quantum signals? Wouldn't that expose the Mingdi Interceptor itself?"

"Pre-stored entangled states."

Academician Qian Zhenhua's voice drifted over from the east workstation. He didn't move, just said two sentences.

"Prepare the entangled photon pairs on the luan bird before departure. Keep half on the luan bird and bring half on the Mingdi Interceptor."

"The Quantum Radar receiving module of the Mingdi Interceptor is only responsible for reading the state changes of the local entangled photons and does not emit anything. The signal source is on the luan bird, so it is the position of the luan bird that is exposed, not the Mingdi Interceptor's."

Zhao Mingyuan was stunned for two seconds.

"The luan bird emits detection signals from tens of millions of kilometers away, and the Mingdi Interceptor reads the results next to the target... It's equivalent to the luan bird acting as a flashlight and the Mingdi Interceptor acting as the eyes."

"Correct." Academician Qian Zhenhua turned a page of draft paper and began to write the pre-stored distribution scheme for entangled photons.

Su Che confirmed this technical path and asked Zhao Mingyuan to write the reading logic of the pre-stored entangled states into the algorithm framework of the reconnaissance analysis unit.

Countdown to the arrival of the sentry ship, Day 42.

B2 level, morning.

Academician Sun Qiwen submitted the total power consumption superposition report for the three systems.

"Single-shot full power of the sniper cannon, electromagnetic ejection of the torpedo, and full-load operation of the reconnaissance system—the peak power consumption of the three is within 83% of the rated output of the Mingdi Interceptor's micro-fusion reactor."

He unscrewed his thermos cup, took a sip, and screwed it back on.

"It's much more generous than the time with the White Emperor. The Mingdi Interceptor has no close-in defense missiles, no swarm command, and no cockpit life support. The power consumption units are halved, and the margin of the fusion reactor is even greater."

Su Che noted down 83%.

Academician Li Zhengyang completed the second round of correction simulation for the sniper cannon in the weapon adaptation area.

The three changes of compensation coils, firing interval, and cooling circuit were all implemented, and the firing precision of the continuous five-shot test stabilized within plus or minus 2.5 meters.

Academician Zhang Weide's torpedo ejection separation simulation ran two sets of conditions, and the entire process of cabin door opening, ejection, separation, and torpedo autonomous ignition showed no structural abnormalities.

Zhao Mingyuan's reconnaissance algorithm framework completed the basic coding of the two lines of passive detection and pre-stored entangled state silent locking, and was docking the interface with the deduction layer of the main god ai.

The three lines were moving forward in parallel.

Su Che stood up, walked to the monitoring wall, and switched the screen to Kaitian Base.

In the part-out area of the new Zhulong, two rows of the first batch of trial-manufactured components of the White Emperor had already been stacked.

The main load-bearing frame of the silver-white cockpit section was moving slowly on the conveyor belt, and its precision was visibly a cut above the Xuannv components.

In another screen, the three Xuannv mass production lines in the final assembly workshop were running simultaneously.

Technicians wearing anti-static jumpsuits were gathered in groups next to the final assembly racks, holding torque wrenches and tightening the connecting bolts one by one.

The first Xuannv had already passed its test flight.

The remaining 299 were lined up waiting.

Su Che turned off the monitoring screen and returned to the main console.

On the public display screen, the overall blueprint of the Mingdi Interceptor was rotating quietly.

A 22-meter narrow and long fuselage, 11-meter short wingspan.

Two torpedoes were hung side-by-side in the belly bomb bay, and the 3.6-meter cannon barrel under the nose was semi-buried under the stealth skin.

The sub-items of the three firepower and reconnaissance systems were still being refined in parallel.

In the corner of the main screen, the countdown to the arrival of the sentry ship.

42 days.