If the accuracy is compromised, the resulting Gellér force field will have flaws.

In the warp, even a tiny hole, the size of a pinhole, is enough for demons from the outside to sneak in.

Therefore, this is very difficult to handle.

"This is too heavy to move..."

Andy rubbed his temples.

The laws of physics are merciless; they won't give you special treatment just because you're a time traveler.

Without a powerful enough means of transportation to work miracles, this treasure would just rot in the ground.

Andy's gaze swept across the hologram, finally settling on the overall structure of the "New Bang".

Although the ship had been buried underground for hundreds of years and its interior decorations had rotted away, Andy had completely dismantled its electronic equipment.

But at least its skeleton is intact.

The ships of wandering merchants were made of very solid materials in order to survive in unknown star systems.

The main keel was not deformed, the armor plates had scratches but no structural damage, and although the compartments had a lot of damage, they were all repairable.

Even the vectoring nozzles used for flight within the atmosphere look like they could be used with just a little repair.

A crazy idea began to pass through the core of Andy's logic.

If you can't move the parts, then don't move them.

Since we can't transport the engines to the shipyard to build a new ship, why insist on the concept of "building a new ship"?

Why not just use this old ship?

Although it is buried underground, it is covered by hundreds of meters of rock layers and the foundation of the nest.

But it is at least a starship.

It is a steel behemoth designed to struggle in the gravitational wells of stars and to traverse meteor showers.

Its thrust was designed to escape planetary gravity, and its armor was designed to withstand heavy artillery attacks.

A mere few hundred meters of soil is nothing compared to the power of a starship.

Andy tapped a few times on the console, bringing up a new simulation model.

in case……

If we don't dig up the soil, we won't dismantle it.

Instead, they took the repaired control system back and inserted it back into the body of the new ship.

They stuffed those twenty high-energy fusion fuel rods into the reactor.

Then, they lit a fire underground.

Start the main engine.

Activate Void Shield.

Using the ram at the bow of the ship as a drill bit, push the throttle all the way to the floor.

This steel behemoth, weighing several thousand tons, forced its way through the hundreds of meters of earth, carving a path through the ground!

This would trigger a massive earthquake that would completely collapse the Helios factory above, and might even cause half of District 9 to sink.

But so what?

As long as the ship can fly, as long as it can break out of the atmosphere, this is the most efficient solution.

Miracles happen with great effort!

Andy stared at the large green lettering indicating success on the STC simulation results screen, the blue light in his electronic eyes shining brightly.

"It's decided."

Andy stood up and grabbed the black metal box from the table:

"I'm not moving."

"Let's just sail this behemoth out!"

Chapter 73 Andy has been thinking! (4K complete)

Andy has been sitting in the core studio, maintaining the same posture for a full twelve hours.

His body remained completely still, and even the fan used for cooling kept its speed constant in a low frequency range.

But within the core of his logic, the data flow is rushing in at an alarming rate.

He was thinking, and the computing power he was using for this thinking even exceeded the large-scale simulation calculations of the Thinker array at the top level of a typical hive city.

On the holographic projection in front of him, "New Bang" was being cut, analyzed, and reassembled by countless red lines.

Andy decided to stop dismantling the ship and moving the parts; he was going to do something big.

It was ignited directly and rushed towards the orbital dock.

That sounds really cool, it has that "miracle happens with great effort" feel to it.

However, the simpler and more straightforward a solution may seem, the more astronomical the amount of computation it requires.

The first challenge Andy faced was his attitude.

It's important to know that the Shinbang is currently buried horizontally underground.

When it made an emergency landing hundreds of years ago, it slid a distance on the ground before being buried by collapsed buildings and strata.

This has resulted in its current posture being basically horizontal.

As is well known, any starship that wants to take off, especially if it wants to emerge from underground, needs an angle of attack.

If you ignite the engine directly in a horizontal position, no matter how much thrust the engine has, there will only be one result:

The spaceship would crash headfirst into the rock formations like a headless fly, then push its way through the entire underground structure of the Nest until it had plundered the whole thing. Instead of flying out, it would get stuck in some deeper place.

Therefore, we must adjust our posture.

This massive, three-kilometer-long vessel must raise its head in that already cramped underground cavity.

The problem is, how do we lift it?

This isn't like a car making a U-turn, where you can just turn the steering wheel.

The underground space of District 9 was dug out by Helios. Although it was large, it was only slightly larger than the ship's hull.

The bow of the boat was less than a few hundred meters from the rock face in front of it, and the stern was directly stuck in the landslide debris.

There was no room for it to turn around, let alone to look up.

Andy's electronic eye flashed, marking two large red areas below the bow and above the stern of the holographic map.

Since there isn't enough space, let's blast some out!

but.

This isn't something you can just throw in a couple of detonators.

Andy needs to calculate the density of the rock strata, the location of the load-bearing columns, and the structural load-bearing structure of the nest above.

He had to precisely control the explosive yield.

If there's not enough explosives, the rocks won't blast open, and the bow of the ship won't be able to be raised.

Too much explosives caused the foundation above to collapse, and millions of tons of concrete crashed down, burying the ship alive before it could even take off.

Andy pulled up the inventory list, which gave the Tri-Bomb explosives originally intended for high-explosive crossbow bolts, as well as the large amount of sapper explosives seized from Helios, a new purpose.

He needs to place these explosives at specific blasting points.

First, bomb the area below the bow to create a downward sloping space, then bomb the area above the stern to create an upward buffer space.

Then, with the assistance of the new control system and the attitude adjustment nozzles, the bow was forcibly raised by at least thirty degrees.

This workload alone, just drilling holes and planting explosives, would keep hundreds of heavy-duty engineering drones busy for several days.

But this is only the first step.

Having solved the attitude problem, we still need to solve the problem of "how to crash".

Although the merchant ronin's ship was indeed sturdy, with a keel made of adamantite and ceramic, and thick armor plates.

But that was meant to deflect artillery shells and meteorites, not to be used as a drill to burrow into the ground.

Without any protective measures, directly ramming the ship's bow against the bedrock, hundreds of meters thick of rock and reinforced concrete, while the ramming head might withstand it, would still wear down the ship's sensor arrays, navigation radar, and those precious large-scale cannon turrets.

Once the ship has sailed away, it will be nothing more than a smooth iron rod... Of course, this sounds a bit exaggerated, and in practice it wouldn't cause much damage to the hull, but that's roughly the idea.

Therefore, we must activate the shield!

The New Bond has a Void Shield, a powerful shield that can neutralize physical impacts and energy attacks through the principle of subspace displacement.

Only by activating the Void Shield can the New Bond maintain the integrity of its hull structure when it crashes into the rock formation.

Void Shield requires different parameters depending on the environment, and there are no parameters for directly creating rock layers in the default settings.

What kind soul would use a starship to create a rock formation?

Therefore, this requires Andy to create something original.

However, this leads to a third problem: energy.

The Void Shield is a huge energy consumer; activating it will burn through a lot of money.

The main reactor of the New Bond, that huge plasma heavy element fusion core, is still broken.

The cooling circuit burst, and it can only maintain the minimum standby power.

To support the Void Shield at full power and even the main engine's ignition and propulsion, Andy must first repair the reactor.

This is yet another massive undertaking.

Andy needs to build a cooling circulation system that can withstand temperatures of hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius by hand, using the materials at hand, without any original spare parts.

This is not finished.

If the goal is simply to fly out, then it doesn't matter which direction it crashes into.

But Andy's goal was to transfer his assets and run away.

Once the ship is thrown out, it will definitely be damaged. The shields will be overloaded, the hull will peel off, and even the engines may experience partial engine failure.

At that time, it will be a fat sheep hanging in the sky, completely unprepared.

If it just runs off somewhere and ends up in the wasteland, then all of Andy's efforts over the past few months will have been wasted.

Therefore, route planning is crucial.

Andy's finger drew an extremely tricky parabola on the holographic map.

The starting point is the underground D section of District 9.

The destination must be the orbital dock that he just repaired, located above District 9.

He wanted the New Bond to be like a precise missile, shutting down its main engines the instant it broke through the ground, using its inertia to glide into the dock's berth.

Only when it enters the dry dock can the robotic arms there catch it, and the maintenance facilities can immediately carry out emergency repairs.

This requires that the takeoff angle, speed, and thrust be extremely precise.

Even a slight deviation could cause the ship to crash into the dock's pillars, resulting in the destruction of the ship and loss of life.

Or it might fly too far and plunge directly into the atmosphere, becoming space debris without any warning.

Andy stared at the "safe launch window," which was less than five degrees wide, and felt like his processor was about to start smoking.

This doesn't even take into account the biggest variable: the reaction of the forces on this planet.

If the New Bond were to be ignited, the explosion of thousands of tons of explosives would be absolutely catastrophic.

The foundations of Zhongchao Ninth District and its surrounding areas will experience violent shaking, the ground will crack, and buildings will collapse.

According to the Ministry of the Interior's official definition, this was a terrorist attack targeting the Nest City itself, or even a declaration of war against the entire planet!

Andy wasn't afraid of Helios's private army. They just had some money, hired some mercenaries, and bought a few tanks. Their firepower was nothing compared to the New Bang.

However, Forge VII is, after all, a civilized world under the rule of the Empire. Although it is a second-rate one, another force is stationed on this planet—the Mechanicus's Guardians.

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