Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 995 Star Destroyer: 0.2% Power
"Wait!" Ke Lan suddenly had an idea and focused his attention on the ball of antimatter - when antimatter and matter come into contact, an "annihilation" phenomenon will occur, thereby generating a large amount of energy. What if this energy is charged to Yagunactor?
Although theoretically, controlling the energy generated by annihilation is more difficult than controlling nuclear fusion, there are multiple space barriers inside Yagunakotor, which can even lock the energies belonging to the alien gods. The annihilation energy should be a piece of cake for it, right?
"Zeluo, separate one tenth of the antimatter." Ke Lan immediately decided to put this idea into action.
One tenth of the antimatter was quickly separated and stored in another smaller space container. Everyone quickly returned to Yaguna Kator. After Ke Lan entered a long series of instructions on the console, a space channel that had never appeared before was opened.
The space channel leads to a very strange room, which looks only ten meters square, but when people walk in one direction, they can never touch the boundary of the room... Everyone's position is fixed in place the moment they enter the room. No matter how they move, the space will move with them. When two people move in opposite directions, the space between them will be briefly distorted, and then the two people will be immediately pulled back to their original distance.
"This place is perfect for use as a prison," the Hound commented. "There is no chance that anyone imprisoned here will escape."
"This place was originally a prison, used to imprison bodies infused with Esgo's energy." Ke Lan said, "Those bodies are extremely dangerous to both Alpha Civilization and Ark Civilization. Once out of control, the body's rampage is a small matter, but if the Esgo's energy leaks out and attracts the attention of that being, that would be the most fatal."
"That's right..." The Hound looked around, "It feels like the Alpha civilization is playing with fire. If they are not careful, they will burn themselves..."
"But only a strong enough flame can illuminate the darkest night... They have no other choice."
After Ke Lan finished speaking, he snapped his fingers, and two "coffins", one black and one white, "floated" up from the ground.
The White Coffin was still sealed and could not be opened, but the Black Coffin was empty - the body that had been nurtured in the Black Coffin for decades had already merged with Ke Lan.
Ke Lan was the only one who could move freely in this room. He walked to the black coffin, put the one-tenth antimatter into it, then took out a bunch of sundries used for annihilation reaction from his backpack and poured them into the black coffin.
"Suddenly I feel that this coffin is a bit like a crucible." Ke Lan curled the corners of his mouth and closed the lid of the black coffin.
The next second, Ze Luo removed the space barrier that isolated that one-tenth of antimatter.
The pattern on the surface of the Black Coffin - or rather, the extremely precise crystal structure - suddenly emitted a blinding light, and the surrounding space was strangely distorted. Ke Lan, who was closest to the Black Coffin, suddenly felt a strong sense of crisis and immediately took a few steps back.
The distorted space spread out with the black coffin as the center like water ripples, and it was about to affect everyone in the room. Ke Lan quickly opened the space channel and teleported everyone, including herself, out.
"What happened? What happened?" The hound asked hurriedly as soon as his feet touched solid ground.
"No... Yagunakotor's energy reserves are increasing rapidly... Although this energy is far from enough compared to the maximum reserves, it is much stronger than when it just came out of the magma. Some weapons that were unusable before can now be used!" Layton said excitedly while staring at the console.
"Since antimatter charges so quickly, why didn't the Alpha civilization use antimatter to charge the Yaguna Tor, but instead soaked the battleship in magma to let it slowly absorb geothermal energy?" The Hound said in some confusion.
"Antimatter is hard to come by... It takes a terrifying amount of energy to capture or create antimatter. Using the energy on this and then using antimatter to charge Yaguna Kator is not only redundant, but also will result in huge losses." Ke Lan explained, "Even Alpha Civilization itself does not have much antimatter in stock."
"Okay, so what weapons can we use now?" The Hound turned and looked at Layton.
"This, this thing has a brilliant name! Damn, this thing can actually be used?!" Layton brought up a page of weapons list and shouted, pointing at the string of characters at the very front.
Ke Lan had already changed the Alpha text operating interface of Yaguna Kotor to a Chinese interface, so other people could also understand the contents of the operating interface.
"Star…Body…Split…Dissolve…Stand…Field?" The Hound pronounced the name of the weapon word by word. "It sounds very powerful. What is the effect of this thing?"
"I haven't tried it either." Ke Lan shrugged , "But judging from the literal meaning, this thing is probably... a star destroyer cannon?"
"Star destroyer?! Can this shot destroy the entire Alpha planet?" The Hound's eyes widened.
"I'm afraid it's not going to work... But I think it should be fine to use it to destroy some smaller asteroids." Ke Lan clicked on the specific option of "Asteroid Disintegration Field", only to find out that although the name of this thing is bright, there is an extra line of small notes below: Due to lack of energy, it can only maintain 0.05 seconds at 0.2% of the power.
"It turned out to be a castrated version..." A hint of disappointment flashed across the Hound's face. "If this one-tenth of antimatter could activate the full-power star destroyer, we wouldn't have to go to such great lengths to blow up the roots of the giant tree. We could just blow up the entire Ark, along with the giant tree and the damned undead crew. Anyway, what we're going to explore in the future are the remains of the Alpha civilization, and the resources on the Ark aren't that important to us."
If the current number of the survivors alliance is tens of millions, then losing the Ark is tantamount to the end of the world. However, according to statistics from various fortresses, the total number of all the survivors alliance, including the army and civilians, is less than 300,000. This population can be fully supported by the ecological zone in Yaguna Kotor.
At most, life will be a little tight during the early stages of development, but once resources begin to enter normal circulation, the output of Block 1 will definitely not be less than the combined output of the largest agricultural and industrial areas on the Ark.
"There are only four hours left. We must march to the Ark immediately." Ivan checked his watch and urged, "According to the secret code, when the roots of the giant tree penetrate into the ground of Alpha, I'm afraid only a 100%-powered star destroyer can solve the problem."
"Well, without further ado, let the Skadi cooperate with the ground forces to launch a second round of attack." Ke Lan nodded, "Tell them that this is not a fire reconnaissance or a feint attack, but a decisive battle between us and the enemy. This time, we have no way out."
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The Skadi heavy cruiser had recently undergone emergency repairs at the Mukach Fortress. Although materials and engineers were urgently transported from Griffin, the repair work was still less than one-third complete. Wounds on the surface of the ship were visible everywhere, and in many places one could even glimpse the internal structure of the ship through the broken external armor.
If Skadi was a person or some kind of creature, such injuries could be described as "deep enough to see the bones."
"This is already the limit." The chief engineer in charge of maintenance work said to Alexander, "The speed and firepower of the battleship have basically been restored. The energy shield generator has damaged its core components, so its maximum power is only 60% of the previous one, and it cannot be maintained at maximum power for more than half a minute, otherwise there is a risk of self-destruction. In addition, the physical defense of the battleship... You can see this even without me telling you. If we encounter a battle like the last time again, those monsters will rush in straight away. You must have the marines and aviation brigade on the ship ready to fight at any time."
"Those monsters shouldn't appear." Alexander glanced at the screen, which showed the real-time footage taken by the drone - the pale giant tree, with the base of the Ark, reaching straight into the sky. As for the fleshy fungal carpet that originally covered the surface of the Ark, it had completely withered, cracked, and curled up, just like a reptile shedding its skin, revealing the Ark's own external structure.
"What about that tree?" the chief engineer couldn't help asking, "What do you know about it?"
"Nothing." Alexander shook his head. "I only know that my goal is to send the 'VIP' into the core area of the Ark. Other things have nothing to do with me."
"Ah..." The chief engineer was silent for a full minute before he sighed and nodded to Alexander, "Then I wish you good luck."
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There were still three hours and forty-five minutes left before the deadline in the secret code. The Skadi slowly drove out of the temporary airport built for maintenance operations. Hundreds of transport planes approached and attached themselves to the outer deck of the Skadi with fixing devices.
The flying speed of the transport planes was far slower than that of the Skadi battleship. In order not to be disconnected from the battleship, they could only attach themselves to the outside of the battleship like a fish seal attached to the belly of a whale. As for the cabins and hangars inside the battleship, they were already crowded with soldiers and tactical mechas ready for airborne operations.
This is the final battle of the Ark Recapture Operation. Except for Yaguna Tor , the Alliance of Survivors has staked all their chips.
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Time remaining: three hours and five minutes.
The Skadi once again approached the Ark's airspace, and Yaguna Tor turned on the optical camouflage device, hanging far behind like a ghost.
"Although I've seen this thing on the surveillance camera, I can only feel its magnificence when I see it up close..." Chi Hanfeng murmured, "This tree is too tall and too big... I can't even see its top when I look up..."
"The top of this tree must have already pierced through Alpha's atmosphere and reached low-Earth orbit..." Layton continued, "I really can't figure out what kind of fertilizer the undead crew gave it to make it grow so fast and so big... This doesn't conform to the law of conservation of matter at all."
According to the size of the giant tree, even if all the materials that make up the Ark were disassembled and reassembled, it might not be enough to form such a large tree.
"If you can't figure it out, don't think about it. If it's related to that damn god, don't worry about whether it complies with those outdated laws of physics... In his eyes, maybe our laws of physics are a joke." The hound bared his teeth and said, "Damn, such a tall tree makes me feel suffocated just by looking at it. Let's blow it up quickly."
"No rush." Ke Lan rested his head on the "control ball" on the console, his eyes fixed on the images sent back by the external monitor.
Two squadrons of fighter jets flew out of the Skadi's hangar. They first dived to lower their altitude, and as they got closer, they fired all the missiles on board and began to bombard the Ark's superstructure.
The Ark's automatic protective shield was immediately activated, but due to the existence of the giant tree, a huge hole appeared in the originally "seamless" protective shield directly above the core area. At the same time, due to the existence of this "gap", the state of the energy shield at the edge of the hole also became very unstable, and it seemed that it would go out at any time.
This automatic protective shield is generated by many shield generators. The output frequency of each shield generator has been adjusted. When two shield generators are superimposed together, the effect of one plus one being far greater than two will be produced. Similarly, when half of the shield generators in a certain place are suddenly shut down, the strength of the energy shield will definitely not be weakened by only half.
"Dongguai calling the mothership, Dongguai calling the mothership, to find the weak point of the target's shield and conduct a test attack."
Six bombers disguised as fighter jets were lined up in a row. When they were about to hit the trunk of the giant tree, they all raised their noses and began to fly straight up along the trunk. At the same time, the bomb bay was opened directly, and all the bombs that had been prepared were poured into the gap in the energy shield!
These bombs were all small nuclear bombs equipped with tactical nuclear warheads. After falling into the energy shield, they exploded violently. The famous "high-rise surface buildings" adjacent to the core area of the Ark sank one after another into the interior of the Ark amid the explosion. Under the impact of the explosion, the energy shields near the gap went out one after another, and the area of the gap began to become larger and larger.
"The first step of the combat plan was successful!" Major General Alexander looked at the images taken by the drone with some excitement. "A large number of shield generators were destroyed, and the gap in the energy shield was torn open... Let the Marines prepare for airborne operations!"
