PFC Chapter 522 Planetary Light Cannon
Chapter 522 Planetary Light Cannon
Chapter 522 Planetary Light Cannon
In a region of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, a red star burns quietly.
Its light is no longer as bright as it was when it was young, but it still emits a warm and soft glow, illuminating the surrounding universe and the three planets that have always followed it.
The star has entered the twilight of its life, and once it has exhausted the nuclear reactions of heavy elements in its core, this star with a mass three times that of the Sun will expand into a red giant, fusing even heavier elements in its core under certain circumstances.
The star then evolves into a degenerate form and returns some of its matter to the interstellar environment to help a new batch of stars form.
However, this will happen in the very distant future. Even if the star has entered its twilight years, it will still take hundreds of millions of years for it to rapidly expand and become a red giant.
For some civilizations, the resources that this star system can provide are too few. After all, there are many young stars in the universe with more abundant material energy.
The three planets around this star do not have any special substances. The most abundant substance is probably iron, and they are all dead planets with no signs of life.
In addition, due to factors such as being far away from the shipping route and space gates, this star system has always been deserted although recorded on all maps.
And today, in this dead galaxy, new changes finally appeared.
Under the cover of the starlight, a dazzling light appeared out of nowhere and the space was distorted.
When the light dissipated and the space returned to normal, a figure appeared in the vacuum of the universe.
"Hiss... There's something wrong with the coordinates. The coordinates transmitted are a little too close to the star. It seems that the celestial motion calculation model that Wenshan gave me is a little outdated. I need to improve it a little bit when I have time."
Looking at the star that was less than two light minutes away from him, Zheng Shu frowned, and a large number of protective magic arrays appeared on his body to protect him from the close-range stellar energy radiation.
Behind him, the biomass space jump engine began to twitch abnormally, and then the black shell on the surface cracked, and finally exploded into a pool of biological debris mixed with mucus.
Even though Zheng Shu used a large number of magic arrays in time to protect it from excessive energy radiation, the overly "fragile" space engine could not withstand the double squeeze of high gravity and high heat and collapsed under the overwhelming mass and energy pressure of the star.
Zheng Shu felt a little regretful when looking at the collapsed space engine, but he quickly suppressed this emotion and turned to look at several planets not far away.
Through blood sensing, he could sense that there was a breath of life inside the three planets that he had marked.
"As expected, this is one of their hidden bases. I see, they use the large amount of metal in the earth's crust to block detection by interstellar joint reconnaissance equipment. No wonder they can hide all this time."
The three planets in this star system are all metal planets containing large amounts of iron. The iron content in the planetary soil can even exceed 50%, making it a veritable mineral-rich planet.
But precisely because they are iron ore, these three planets are of very low value to the high-tech civilizations within the Interstellar Alliance, and are even less valuable than ordinary rocky planets.
After all, although iron is used in large quantities, it is just a by-product of energy generation for civilizations that have reached a certain level of technology.
In conventional energy manufacturing plans, except for antimatter, whether it is the fusion of heavy elements or the fission of light elements, the final product is iron, and it is iron alone without any impurities.
The most important thing is that compared to the iron element in nature that needs to be smelted before it can be used, the iron produced in this way has no cost at all.
It is for this reason that even if a large amount of metal reactions are transmitted from the interior of these three planets, it will not attract the attention of the interstellar joint inspectors.
The complex magic array gathered in Zheng Shu's eyes, turning his eyes into a bright blue in a short period of time.
By continuously strengthening the power of his clairvoyance magic, Zheng Shu was finally able to see through the thick crust and various energy protection devices and see the interior of the planet directly below.
At this time, the base inside the planet seemed relatively calm. After all, although Zheng Shu's appearance was somewhat magical, he did not look like a member of the Interstellar Alliance's annihilation force. Instead, he looked more like a traveler who was lost in space due to an accident.
Therefore, only a few emergency combat personnel were arranged inside the base just in case, and no major actions were taken other than that.
After all, building such a base would take a lot of time and effort, and there are not many such suitable galaxies even in the entire galaxy. If it is exposed, all previous investments will be wasted.
Therefore, before confirming whether Zheng Shu has the ability to communicate with the outside world, the people in the base will basically not act rashly.
However, the originally peaceful atmosphere inside the base was soon interrupted by a piercing alarm, because the base's monitoring equipment discovered that the seemingly ordinary figure outside suddenly showed unreasonable energy fluctuations.
Moreover, as time goes by, the energy level continues to grow rapidly, and soon reaches the level of planetary weapons.
"Oh, your reaction speed is quite fast, but it's a little late now."
Standing in the void, Zheng Shu smiled as he watched the planet-level energy shields erupting from the three planets. Above his head, a huge magic circle was constantly gathering energy.
However, Zheng Shu's purpose of providing energy for it was not to allow the magic circle to release attacks such as shock waves, but to make the magic circle more solid and durable.
On the surface of a star not far away, another huge magic circle is slowly taking shape.
Soon, as the magic circle on the surface of the star took shape, the diameter of the magic circle above Zheng Shu's head also expanded to thousands of kilometers.
A large number of exits opened on the surfaces of the three planets, making them look like a beehive. A steady stream of aircraft and combat creatures poured out of these exits like a swarm of bees, gathering into three black clouds and flying towards Zheng Shu.
"As expected of a universe-class evil force, even a hidden base has so much combat power."
Zheng Shu was slightly surprised when he saw the three black clouds flying towards him. Although most of them were unmanned machines controlled by supercomputers, some of them were genuine biological weapons.
If each combat unit were brought to Earth, it would be able to suppress the military power of the entire planet before its energy was exhausted.
And such a terrifying force that can rule the earth is now gathering to an unimaginable scale before Zheng Shu's eyes.
If you count carefully, there are more than 100 million black clouds in each group, and this number is increasing rapidly with the continuous pouring out of the three bases.
"Unfortunately, it's not strong enough."
Zheng Shu raised his arm indifferently and pointed at one of the three planets in the distance.
The giant magic circle above his head slightly changed direction with his gesture. The magic circle that was originally only emitting a faint glow suddenly released an intense light. For a moment, it seemed as if there was another small star in the galaxy.
At the same time, another giant magic circle deep inside the star also emitted light.
Through the space channel between the two magic arrays, the hot energy inside the star was instantly moved to the magic array above Zheng Shu's head along with the operation of the magic array.
The restraining arrays prepared in advance lit up one after another, and a large number of arrays formed a long passage in front of the space teleportation array, which looked like a cannon barrel that restrained energy.
Due to the energy difference between the two sides of the space, the terrifying power inside the star gushed out the moment the space array was linked, and in the next instant, a blazing beam of light was formed under the regulation of the massive restraint array.
Not only was the energy restrained, making the force more concentrated, but the speed of the energy tide was also becoming faster and faster under the acceleration of layer after layer of magic arrays, and it was directly bombarding the target planet.
Faced with such a simple, crude but extremely terrifying attack, the combat units released by the planet also tried to defend, but faced with the high-energy bombardment from the interior of the star, all the combat units that tried to intercept disappeared in an instant.
After being brushed by the giant energy beam, the black cloud composed of a large number of combat units, the combat units in the center were completely vaporized and disappeared, and the combat units at the edge of the beam were barely able to maintain their shape, but were all destroyed by the high temperature.
Only a few lucky ones were able to escape the attack, but they were frightened by the terrifying attack and gathered towards the other two black clouds without looking back.
After erasing the "black cloud" released by the planet, the front end of the energy beam suffered a slight loss and became unstable.
It then exploded immediately when it came into contact with the energy shield on the surface of the planet. Although the thick energy shield kept fluctuating, it did allow the opponent to withstand the first round of attacks.
However, with the continuous infusion of energy from the star behind it, this planetary-level energy shield could only block the attack for a short moment.
The next moment, the energy shield generators throughout the planet collectively overloaded, and the huge heat even caused fires and explosions inside the base.
But no one paid attention to these things anymore, because the horrific attack had already landed directly on the surface of the planet.
The surging and violent infusion of energy caused the surface of the planet to change from hard and cold rock to magma at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the entire planet emitted a faint red light.
The hot light cannon that had been restrained and strengthened by Zheng Shu was still drilling towards the interior of the planet unswervingly. It quickly melted the specially reinforced outer crust of the planet and entered the interior of the planet that had been drilled hollow.
After a brief period of calm, the planet, whose surface had completely turned into a sea of magma, began to emit a faint light from within, as if some difficult-to-conceal light source inside was about to erupt.
! ! ! !
The planet, which had long since turned into a crimson color, exploded silently in the universe, with a large amount of crimson liquid gushing out from its interior, which quickly cooled into metal in the vacuum of the universe.
The thick crust and solid energy shield did not change the fate of the planet at all. The entire planet exploded like an egg hit by an arrow.
Although sound cannot be transmitted in a vacuum, everyone who saw this scene couldn't help but associate it with the sound of a violent explosion.
"monster……"
Looking at a base that was completely destroyed in the blink of an eye, the commanders of the bases on the other two planets couldn't help but roar in anger.
"All combat units, disperse! Unmanned machines enter overload mode, biological combat units release genetic restrictions! Quick! He definitely can't use this move continuously, kill that guy while he's weak!"
"How's the main gun charging going? Why is it taking so long?! Overload the energy reactor. Don't worry about whether it explodes or not. Survive first! Put all the energy into the engine. Keep the secondary guns busy too. Use them to contain and harass him first!"
"Open the emergency passage. I will take the initiative to attack the enemy!"
One order after another was issued from within the two bases. The two planets that originally seemed ordinary suddenly revealed hideous faces, with densely packed gun barrels extending from under the crust.
One of the planets even began to split from the center, revealing a giant cannon barrel in the middle of the planet that looked like a black hole.
At this moment, a large number of energy balls like starlight are constantly gathering inside the barrel, and gradually forming a dazzling ball of energy under the restraint of the restraint device.
Excessive power usage even caused the power reactor inside the base to become unstable. This terrifying power reactor, whose energy output is comparable to that of the core of a planet, is on the verge of exploding at any time.
But now they can no longer care about all this and must launch a counterattack before the other party is ready for the next attack.
Unfortunately, Zheng Shu did not give them a chance to fight back.
Under the desperate gaze of everyone, the beam of light did not dissipate after blasting a planet. Instead, it became thicker due to the infusion of energy, and under the command of Zheng Shu's finger, it began to "slide" towards the other two planets.
"Impossible!!! With such a high output power, why doesn't the energy ring he constructed show any disorder?!"
The scientists inside the base exclaimed, feeling that all the knowledge they had learned in their lifetime had collapsed.
Although they didn't quite understand the specific operation of the magic circle above Zheng Shu's head, they could roughly infer its operating principles based on the effects.
The fact that this magic circle could draw energy from the interior of a star was beyond their imagination, but the fact that it could continue to be used after releasing such a high-powered bombardment was simply against common sense.
Simply put, if his energy structure could really withstand this level of force, then he would not need to rely on the power of the star in the first place to directly destroy the planet.
"This is impossible!!!" The desperate roar was swallowed up by the surging beam of energy the next moment.
(End of this chapter)