Chapter 206: Aurora Ritual, Fire!
Blue Star.
Everyone knew that today was the day the countdown arrived.
Xinghai Technology seemed to deliberately disgust people, as their public channel countdown never stopped throughout the 49 years of the crisis.
On today’s Blue Star, war has basically completely left humanity.
Under Great Xia’s overt and covert promotion, Blue Star’s situation was unusually calm.
People occasionally looked back and found that since the United States that once actively started nuclear war disappeared, today’s Blue Star was like the legendary paradise.
Great Xia’s top grain planting technology made everyone no longer hungry.
Xinghai’s medical technology, which could be called future technology, eliminated all viruses that could be fatal to people.
Since A’dai artificial intelligence connected to the global network, the crime rate dropped to rock bottom in a short time.
Mars and Ganymede seemed to always lack population, no matter how many criminals were sent, Xinghai Technology’s transportation company still happily provided free off-world living spaces needed for criminals to various nations.
Under A’dai’s supervision, any clues left at crime scenes would be followed to find suspects in a very short time.
Criminals had nowhere to hide.
In 20 years, it was truly the peaceful life humanity had never enjoyed.
So much so that when the crisis timer showed 0 today, everyone deliberately forgot this reminder.
They were still immersed in happy and beautiful lives.
In space, two alien spaceships landed one after another 200 kilometers away from the Space Hub.
4.1 billion kilometers is a very long distance; under full speed state, Punisher would need half a month to arrive.
But in front of these two alien spaceships, in just one minute, they arrived one after another.
“Order, railgun aim immediately, fire!”
Liu Shengzhan’s command style was obviously more direct; he had no pause and directly issued the attack order the moment the two spaceships landed.
In the command headquarters, several Space Force headquarters personnel solemnly operated their respective equipment, with no panic on their faces.
These two rails were 10 kilometers long; although far inferior in power to the electromagnetic railgun on Conqueror, they were much more powerful than the ship-mounted railguns on Punisher.
No sooner said than done.
The moment the turret lit up, two penetration rounds carrying massive kinetic energy deeply embedded into the armor of that super battleship.
Liu Shengzhan saw all this, but his always solemn face did not brighten.
He knew that just these two penetration rounds could not cause too much damage to it.
Moreover
The super battleship’s turret instantly burst into intense firelight, and in just an instant, two explosion fireballs lit up in the middle of the rails of the two railguns not far from Blue Star Hub.
Liu Shengzhan secretly sighed; it was because they were fixed turrets, unable to evade or maneuver.
His gaze fixed on the super battleship in the distance, and several seconds later, the kinetic ammunition just embedded in its armor was ejected.
After that, the opponent’s armor recovered as before.
In the command room, Liu Shengzhan looked at the opponent’s hull that still hadn’t raised the previous dim yellow force field, frowned and said:
“A’dai, must we wait for the force field to open?”
“Commander Liu, must wait! Otherwise, they can warp at any time relying on planetary gravity positioning.”
Hearing this, Liu Shengzhan no longer hesitated, waved his big hand, gaze very firm as he said: “Headquarters, dispatch 5000 Punisher, surround it for me!”
After speaking, he paused, a trace of regret flashed on his face, then murmured: “A’dai, then it’s up to you.”
“Don’t worry, Commander Liu, leave the rest to me.”
After that, the command room fell silent.
At this moment, all operators stopped their actions, and the entire combat system was taken over by A’dai.
“Commander, here”
“Very backward, right?”
“Yes, very backward. They have no anti-gravity technology. Completely a closed and backward civilization.”
“Then us?”
“Occupy here, turn it into a new base.”
“But.”
“No buts, shut up and prepare for battle.”
Commander Fox interrupted Deputy Leader Beng Ju’s doubt; at this time, the Punisher fleet ahead, covering the sky and blocking out the sun, pounced again.
“A bunch of damn bugs.”
Beng Ju cursed darkly inside the dreadnought, then without much hesitation, directly ordered: “Activate war fortress system, free fire, destroy everything here thoroughly!”
In the other small spaceship, Fox’s mouth twitched, feeling a bit heartbroken, but seeing those warships charging as if fearless of death, he couldn’t help but feel a bit helpless.
Thousands of battleships, even with the most backward firepower configuration, their combined destructive power was not to be underestimated.
Seeing this, Fox didn’t stay here longer, directly maneuvering the spaceship to fly far away to avoid being affected in the melee.
But just as he flew far, he found dozens of small cruiser-sized spaceships chasing behind.
These spaceships charged fearlessly; even though they couldn’t catch up to his speed, they still pushed their engines fully to try to keep up.
But Fox couldn’t muster any interest.
No matter what, this place would become his legion’s new garrison after; in his view now, all spaceships of this civilization, even if very good, were his own assets.
Retain as many as possible.
His gaze swept behind; the force field around the dreadnought’s hull rose again, and it became like that invincible ship descended from gods, standing proudly in space in a one-against-five-thousand stance.
“Commander, these warships seem all unmanned? No survivors detected in space after destruction.”
Beng Ju’s surprised voice came from the voice communication; Fox laughed upon hearing and directly said: “Cease fire, launch electromagnetic bomb, cut off radio wave communication here.”
Too naive, trying to use remote operation to successively consume the dreadnought like ants biting an elephant to death.
“Warning, abnormal energy fluctuation detected.”
Just as Fox was issuing this order confidently, the spaceship’s monitoring equipment suddenly blared a piercing alarm.
Fox frowned and instinctively looked at the marker indicating the abnormal energy on the display.
Then he quickly opened the simulation map and switched to close-up mode.
There, a building 100 kilometers long, wide, and high. From the outside, it looked like a standard basic research facility. No threat.
“Warning, energy fluctuation exceeds spaceship tolerance limit, please evacuate the area immediately.”
Fox watched the energy detection data skyrocketing, a trace of unease flashing in his heart.
Next to the Space Hub, Xinghai’s super-large laboratory building suddenly cracked open a seam in the middle.
Then, this seam instantly expanded, directly splitting the entire building in half.
Immediately after, Fox saw the edges of this seam densely packed with micro engines forcefully pushing the building’s ‘shell’ slowly to both sides.
And then, a terrifying energy convergence center in the form of a light spot gradually emerged from inside the building.
This moment.
The communication channels in the dreadnought and the alien small spaceship fell silent.
But the light spot’s convergence speed wouldn’t stop because no one praised it; that light spot still madly gathered at the center, as if undergoing compression.
The building also accelerated pushing to both sides in this process; in just over a dozen seconds, at the center, the massive body of Conqueror, which had been wrapped for over thirty years without showing, finally stood tall again in this universe.
“Doomsday weapon, Aurora Ritual, fire.”
In Conqueror’s command room, Fan Ren subconsciously shouted the name of the weapon used by the main cannon.
This was also the first time since success that this Titan-class battleship used the main cannon to attack.
In space, Conqueror’s dozens of seconds of energy convergence, after Fan Ren’s words fell, turned into a super-large, blinding cyan light wave 30 kilometers in diameter, charging straight at that invincible warship.
In this instant, the originally very ‘lively’ battlefield quieted down.
Commander Fox stared blankly at the apocalyptic scene before him, lips unconsciously trembling.
The dreadnought before him, his legion’s only super battleship, was now engulfed by that blinding cyan light.
At this moment, thousands of Punisher near the light wave seemed sucked by some unknown attraction, all drifting toward the light pillar.
Commander Fox’s small spaceship was inevitable too.
At this moment, he regretted immensely why he had to be cheap again—not just run far to watch the battle, but circle nearby with a bunch of small spaceships.
The spatial traction force was not something his spaceship’s afterburner could resist.
Clearly, his spaceship was also being attracted by the light beam, rapidly ‘approaching’ toward the beam’s center.
A bitter smile appeared on Fox’s face.
Done for!
In space, this doomsday weapon fired by Conqueror lasted a very long time.
Fan Ren stared closely at the spaceship fuel value plummeting, but he didn’t order to stop.
Originally, that small spaceship had been temporarily abandoned by him; the opponent ran too fast, they couldn’t catch up, so they could only destroy this super battleship first.
But now, unexpectedly, there was a pleasant surprise.
This so-called Aurora Ritual could actually attract all objects around its path.
Then don’t blame him for not being polite.
At this fuel consumption rate, before it was completely depleted, he could fully wait until that small spaceship was dragged into the beam and destroyed.
As for those unmanned Punisher that lost control due to electromagnetic shielding, they were completely out of his consideration now.
Even the buildings at the Space Hub, including the previous research room enclosure surrounding Conqueror, were all attracted by this world-destroying beam.
But Fan Ren ignored all these at this time.
