Chapter 353 The Roar of the Void Force
"Captain Chen! The physical mass of this thing is collapsing rapidly!"
The deputy captain's voice on the communication channel was being torn into a distorted tone by the extremely sharp static noise.
Two kilometers of defense line on the far side of the moon.
Chen Ge slammed the mech's throttle valve shut, attempting to hold the newly fitted Star Iron Ship-Slaying Blade horizontally in front of his chest. However, the thick black fog that had shot into the sky in the Aitken Basin below him did not dissipate.
Millions of void entities, those monsters with compound eyes and arthropods, were bizarrely tearing at and melting each other in the vacuum. The extremely yin, high-dimensional black water forcibly glued their remains together, condensing them into a black spear with a diameter of over ten kilometers, writhing like a living thing, within a few seconds!
Without uttering any roar, a raging howl, powerful enough to tear apart the soul, suddenly exploded in the minds of all the defenders.
"Stop it!"
Chen Ge's eyes were bloodshot. Ignoring the overload warning light of the mecha, the engine spewed out an extremely thick orange-red tail flame, and he crashed into the side of the black spear like a reckless meteor.
late.
"boom--!"
There was clearly no air, no medium, and no explosions should have occurred. Yet, when the black spear, formed from the compression of countless void entities, was activated, the light near the moon's orbit was abruptly bent as if crushed by a heavy object, forming a pale ring of spatial oscillation.
It completely ignored the group of human mechs that resembled flying insects.
A powerful gravitational vortex swept across the defense line in an instant.
"Clang!"
Chen Ge, along with his mech, was tumbled around in the vacuum like a leaf caught in a heavy truck, rolling more than a dozen times before crashing heavily onto the wreckage of a discarded drone.
He struggled to lift his head, and through the snowflake-covered mask, he could only see an extremely deep black trail, traveling at a terrifying speed that completely defied astrophysics, traversing 380,000 kilometers of deep space, heading straight for that pale blue planet.
……
Earth. 700 meters underground in Kyoto, in the joint control room.
"Bang!"
Lin Feng slammed the half-cup of instant coffee in his hand onto the control panel. The brown liquid dripped down the gaps in the motherboard, but he stared intently at the large screen as if he had been frozen in place.
"Warning! High-energy physics impact warning! Estimated mass: 1.2 billion tons! Relative velocity: 3% of the speed of light!"
The radar operator yelled at the top of his lungs, causing his tactical headset to slip down to his neck, "Impact countdown: thirty-five seconds!"
The red alarm lights in the entire control room flashed wildly, making everyone's faces appear deathly pale.
The military representative grabbed him by the collar, veins bulging on his forehead: "A mass of 1.2 billion tons?! That's a fucking asteroid! Intercept! Launch all interceptor missiles in low Earth orbit immediately!"
"It's no use! We can't lock on!" Lin Feng's fingers furiously pounded on the coffee-stained keyboard, his hands trembling. "It has an extremely yin magnetic field; all conventional radar and psionic guidance are swallowed up the moment they sweep across it! It's trying to crash into our shield!"
Wang Mingyuan gripped the edge of the titanium steel tabletop tightly, his fingernails scraping against the metal with a teeth-grinding "crunch".
He stared at the black spike hurtling toward him on the holographic projection, his jaw clenching so hard it cracked. He didn't issue any interception orders, because in the face of absolute mass, any fancy tactics were futile.
"Let it crash."
Wang Mingyuan's voice was like sandpaper, carrying an extremely ruthless confidence: "I want to see if their bones are harder, or if this turtle shell of our Earth is harder!"
Countdown: 10 seconds.
The new Chang'an City at this time.
Old Zhao was squatting at the entrance of the Third Heavy Industry factory, smoking. Suddenly, his fingers holding the cigarette stopped, and a bit of ash fell onto his oil-stained work clothes.
He raised his head.
The once bright morning sky suddenly darkened. It wasn't that dark clouds were obscuring the sun, but rather that an enormous black hand was pressing down forcefully on the atmosphere.
That intense sense of oppression, through the bluish-gray Nine Cauldrons array patterns, was projected directly onto the retinas of every person on Earth.
"Clang!"
An apprentice nearby dropped his wrench onto the concrete, slumped down, and pointed to the sky, stammering, "Master...it's...it's getting dark..."
High in the sky.
The outer edge of the atmosphere, locked by the Nine Cauldrons Array, emitted a bluish-gray halo interwoven with the Earth's oceans and ley lines. This halo, which originally seemed thin, now revealed its extremely dense physical substance.
Countdown: Zero!
"boom--"
There were no earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.
In the minds of all Earthlings, this terrifying impact, enough to wipe out dinosaurs ten thousand times over, should have triggered a super earthquake that would affect the entire globe.
But in the underground control room, Lin Feng closed his eyes tightly, held his head in his hands, and prepared to face the impact. After several seconds, he opened his eyes in surprise.
The half-cup of spilled coffee on the table only caused a very slight ripple on the surface.
Only from the extremely distant stratosphere came a muffled sound, like a dull drum being struck through a dozen layers of cotton blankets.
On the large screen, the impact point is located above the equator of the Pacific Ocean.
That arrogant black spear, the moment it touched the bluish-gray barrier, was like mud being smashed into a titanium steel bulletproof plate!
The terrifying kinetic energy of 1.2 billion tons was smoothly cut and absorbed by the bluish-gray hexagonal array patterns within a thousandth of a second of contact with the shield, and then instantly spread throughout the global crustal structure along the spiritual pressure network of the nine cauldrons.
The "space-locked layer," formed by the removal of the Earth's core gravitational field, did not undergo even the slightest inward deformation.
"Sizzle—"
An extremely piercing friction sound exploded outside the stratosphere.
The tip of the spear began to crumble layer by layer, countless fragments of void limbs, carapaces, and black liquid being crushed into the finest dust by the terrifying recoil. The force that had once been enough to pierce a planet could only slide and splash wildly in all directions along the surface of the pale blue shield!
"It blocked it..." The military representative stared blankly at the seismograph that hadn't even triggered the alarm, then slapped his thigh and roared with ecstatic joy, "It blocked it! Not even a scratch!"
"Professor Wang, the array's structural integrity is 100%!" Lin Feng, leaning on the tilted control panel with half his face pressed against the screen, spoke with an excited, almost trembling voice, "The Nine Cauldrons have completely dissipated their kinetic energy! Earth didn't even sneeze!"
"Don't get too excited yet. Keep a close eye on the permeability of the barrier's surface." Wang Mingyuan took a deep breath, reached for a walkie-talkie next to him, and pressed the full-channel broadcast button.
"This is the joint control room. The first impact and pressure test is complete. The Nine Cauldrons Barrier is undamaged."
He paused for a moment, listening to the deafening cheers erupting from arms factories and streets around the world through his headphones, and a smile finally appeared on his hard face.
Wang Mingyuan turned his head and switched to the inter-satellite data link.
"Chen Ge, can you hear me?"
His voice traveled with exceptional clarity to the vacuum defense line 380,000 kilometers away.
"The enemy's all-out attack was successfully contained at home."
"Now, take your men and cut off these bastards' escape route."