Chapter 135: Planet Destroyer

In the Solar System, in the Kuiper Belt outside the orbit of Neptune, near a dwarf planet with a diameter of 1,200 kilometers, an Earth spaceship quietly stayed.

There were no humans on this spaceship; only a Digital Life observer named “Lloyd” existed on it.

Humans were conducting remote observations from Earth, which was 60 Astronomical Units away. This was an epoch-making experiment! Its impact was enough to instantly turn the situation between Earth and Leite into a confrontation.

From being in a weak position, Earth immediately became a completely equal existence. This was the interstellar strategic weapon independently developed by humans—the Planet Destroyer!

The rapid development of the Planet Destroyer should be credited to two master-level figures from a century ago, Xiao Boru and Lin Lei White.

Xiao Boru summarized the Grand Unified Field Theory, which was like truth, while Lin Lei White pushed the research on the first Dimension of energy described within it, Disintegration, to an unprecedented height!

It could be said that the foundation of Earth’s current scientific system was laid by these two figures, and the development of Earth’s technology now was entirely an extension of this foundation.

Even now, it was still limited to the first Dimension of energy and had not achieved a qualitative breakthrough.

A century ago, the various technical applications and conjectures proposed by Dr. Lin Lei White had still not been fully realized by humans, but every technical application that had been realized proved the correctness of this genius.

Just like now, the development of the Planet Destroyer could not escape the cage of conjecture set by Dr. White back then.

“He is like a prophet, holding a torch, guiding us forward in this dark age!” This was the words of Earth’s current Chief Science Officer, and it also represented the voice of most scientific workers on Earth.

At this time, on the spaceship, Lloyd had finished detecting the status of the Planet Destroyer and was ready to launch at any time.

The appearance of this super weapon was not ferocious. It looked like a silver-white javelin with a diameter of no more than twenty centimeters and a length of no more than three meters, even exuding an elegant aura.

“Lloyd, report current weapon status.”

“Star Destroyer No. 1, currently injecting energy, current progress is 15%, will be completed in five minutes.”

“Warp drive is preheating.”

“Setting the influence radius of the Disintegration Field to 600 kilometers, activating the peripheral Disintegration Field of the Star Destroyer.”

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“Prepare to launch… 3… 2… 1.”

Lloyd reported the current weapon status meticulously, and after the Star Destroyer was launched, he immediately began recording various observation data.

This elegant silver Reaper immediately activated its Warp Flight mode 0.5 seconds after launch, flying towards the target 100 million kilometers away at a curvature of 200.

Two seconds later, the Star Destroyer accurately hit the target. Its peripheral Disintegration Field immediately began to take effect, allowing this thing to effortlessly drill into the core of the dwarf planet.

One second later, this huge celestial body with a diameter of 1,200 kilometers suddenly disappeared from Lloyd’s optical observation Event Horizon.

The entire planet had been transformed into an existence similar to Dark Matter, but this did not trouble Lloyd, a Digital Life. He immediately switched his perspective to gravitational observation.

From this perspective, the entire planet was still in its original position without moving, but its surface had begun a violent collapse. The complete disappearance of the electromagnetic repulsion that supported its existence made it lose its stable structure.

On its surface, electrons, having lost the restraint of the nucleus, scattered one after another, and were then captured by the planet’s gravity, densely wrapping this tragic planet.

The contraction of the planet continued. All atomic nuclei, having lost their mutual repulsion, squeezed tightly together, relying entirely on the strong interaction force between nuclei to maintain their form.

Matter composed purely of atomic nuclei had an incredibly high density. The small-mass dwarf planet, originally composed of ice water and some mixed substances, had its radius reduced to one hundred-thousandth of its original size, becoming a small ball only 6 meters in diameter.

This small ball was periodically covered with dense electron clouds. On its surface, its gravity was astonishingly abnormal, just like a white dwarf star.

Of course, in this state, the Star Destroyer that had originally entered its interior was certainly completely destroyed, and the effect of the Disintegration Field it emitted quickly failed.

The electromagnetic force of this man-made white dwarf star recovered. This caused the sphere, which had originally been in some kind of balance, to begin a violent expansion due to the sudden addition of a powerful repulsion force. It was like a big explosion; the entire star began to disintegrate, turning into dust and fragments in the Universe.

The entire process took only two minutes, and this dwarf planet disappeared from the Solar System!

Shocking! Unknowingly, humans had actually mastered such powerful strength!

Moreover, the effect of this weapon increased with the mass of the planet being destroyed. If it were Earth, after deploying the Star Destroyer, the ultra-large mass, after compression, would mean that the strong interaction force between atomic nuclei would no longer be able to support a stable form.

Under ultra-high pressure, fusion between atomic nuclei would occur, and electrons would be pressed into protons to form neutrons. Then, even if electromagnetic force was restored, this neutron star-like object would continue to exist stably.

In Earth’s remote observation station, everyone remained silent by default.

In the course of its development, following nuclear weapons, humanity had unleashed another Demon of war. This Demon was far more terrifying than the nuclear weapons of the past. Once truly put into the battlefield, it would be far more than a matter of killing tens of thousands of people; it would be the destruction of a civilization!

After a long while, Lin Lei, who was also at the observation site, whispered: “May humanity forever grasp the direction in their hearts and control the Demon within!”

The entire human civilization, at this moment, stepped into a new era, and civilization began to have its ultimate safeguard.

Ironically, the provider of this safeguard was a Demon who had crawled out of hell from start to finish.

Facing any interstellar civilization, humans now had the ability to fight to the death. This purely chaotic power, even if a Tenth-grade Civilization came, could not control its outbreak and could only avoid it from afar.

The purpose of this weapon was its deterrent power, not its actual effect, so humans immediately published this information throughout the Galaxy.

This time, only a few months had passed since the Star Alliance recognized Earth as a Fifth-grade Civilization. The previous time, the interstellar civilizations of the Galaxy had merely sighed at the speed of Earth’s development.

This time, however, the impact caused was a true uproar.

The news reached Leite, and its Speaker immediately turned pale. After being silent for a long while, he said dejectedly: “Too fast!”

When it reached the Star Alliance, the Star Alliance immediately withdrew the Tiansuo spaceship that had maintained Earth’s peace for 131 years, effectively acknowledging Earth’s independent status, and the 150-year protection period previously promised was naturally lifted.

At this time, compared to the strategic deterrent effect of the Planet Destroyer, this protection, which existed in name only, was better off refused.

After this news reached Morentz Star, this friendly neighbor of the Earthlings also immediately set up a defense line on the border between the two, treating Earth as an equal competitor.

Earth did not sit idle either, immediately producing this destructive weapon with full force, and continuously improving the ultra-long-range strike performance of this weapon.

Today’s Earth had already begun developing the fourth generation of interstellar warships. The technology of these warships had matured, but the production cost was too high, so only ten had been produced.

These warships possessed stealth capabilities. The technology applied was still the usage method regarding the Disintegration Field proposed by Dr. White.

During flight, the surface of the warship would be covered with a layer of Disintegration Field, and a precise Space Loop was used to offset the warship’s minimal gravitational interference. At that time, no observation means of Leite could detect this warship.

Of course, after starting an attack, the stealth would be lifted. But this was enough. As long as these warships formed a scale, it was enough to give Earthlings the ability to launch a surprise attack.

The fourth-generation warships were not inferior to Leite’s mainstream warships in terms of dynamic performance, and even surpassed them in some aspects.

At least in terms of Warp Flight, they had caught up with Leite warships. The maximum Curvature of both had reached 800, which was also a limit bottleneck for the Curvature of a Fifth-grade Civilization.

On Earth’s side, the only regret was the lack of large War Fortress-style spaceships, just like the one-kilometer-long warship that Lin Lei had once destroyed.

This kind of warship was a Space Fortress that could provide supplies for Earth’s small warships anytime and anywhere, enabling them to conduct sustained combat, instead of having to fly back to the base in the Solar System for rest after every time.

Of course, Earth had already started to manufacture this kind of large spaceship, but this required time. This was a completely different concept from the two Fortress Stars that used asteroids as their main bodies. The gap in human and material resources consumed between the two could not be calculated.

At least within five years, Earth did not have the ability to fly out of the Solar System for sustained combat. The main body of the war could still only be defense.