The Scorpion Tail Nebula had become the resource and industrial center of the Federation of the Milky Way because it was located at the intersection of many twisted passages and had a great number of heavenly bodies of various types.
After their rebirth, the civilization of mankind had been progressing at a high speed. After the first cocoon breaker appeared and forged a firm strategic alliance with the female priest, wiping out the violent will of certain divine beasts, the speed of the civilization's development was even more unimaginably fast. The various industrial bases in the Scorpion Tail Nebula presented different but equally splendid pictures.
Countless huge industrial platforms were floating in the dark space, and the large nuclear furnaces provided a steady source of energy. Some galaxies had even tried to use the energy of the permanent stars through the gravitational passages.
Under the control of the energy, the huge gaseous planets had formed layers within a dozen years, and then they were transported to the industrial platforms on the synchronous orbit through countless passages, where they were turned into various industrial products. The scene looked like thousands of hummingbirds sipping on a large lump of candy.
Some solid planets were still in the old excavation stage, with the surface full of mines and automatic equipment and living bases inside the protective shields, like the mining planet where Jian Xilai had hidden himself. However, the solid planets developed in the last thirty years had entered a new stage. The humans had started to develop the planets as a whole by relying on a steady source of energy. In simpler terms, they had ignited the whole planet and then melted it.
It was a large and complicated process of modification. The central computer of the Federation of the Milky Way had reawakened a part of the data of the distant ancient civilization. The experiment had finally begun, and they had made great progress.
There were six planetary industrial bases in the Scorpion Tail Nebula, which meant that the six solid planets had been ignited. It was unclear whether it was the idea of the young woman or the grandmasters of Aoyama, but it was definitely not the result of the vote of the citizens of the Federation. The names of the six planetary industrial bases were not industrial at all, and they were full of the pink bubbles of a young girl.
The name of one of the planetary industrial bases was the Dream Fire, which was the place where the space crack had appeared.
The energy level of the planetary industrial bases was very high, and only the gravitational field devices could restrain it and apply it regularly. The higher the energy level of the gravitational field was, the more frequently it appeared, and the probability of the space crack appearing was higher. As such, the Federation of the Milky Way had strictly monitored and restricted the space crack during the development of the bases. Unexpectedly, the accident had occurred.
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"The temperature on the surface of the planet is too high, so the scouts can't get over there and ascertain the exact range of the Sea of Dark Matter; but it shouldn't have reached the surface of the planet yet. Those workers were mainly infected by the spores that floated over. There were less than three thousand of them, and the number of pets was about the same. They have been eliminated by the guard fleet and have been tested for inactivation. There were no omissions. "
Jiang Zhixing took the latest data he had just received and pointed at the black dot in the middle of the planet on the light screen. "After the first melting failed, the space fissure has been slowly expanding, from the initial 300 meters to the current 400 meters. There's no sign of it stopping."
Ceng Ju stood in front of the light screen and looked at the magma planet in the distance. "There's no lack of melting equipment. It's just a matter of whether there's anyone who can hold it steady."
The incandescent light emitted by the planet had turned pale yellow, looking like a ping-pong ball.
After the first explosion, the large nuclear power furnace in the base had been shut down; but the temperature hadn't dropped below the critical value until more than ten days later.
A professor on the 857 Base suggested exploding the large nuclear power furnace; but he was almost beaten to death by his colleagues. The ultra-high temperature of light and heat could kill most of the monsters rushing out from the Sea of Dark Matter, but it could also cause a greater disaster, like making the space fissure bigger. It was well known that the melting of the space fissure needed to be controlled in an orderly and precise manner; it was not as simple as blowing up a building.
The most important reason was that Shen Yunmai was missing, and the space fissure had exceeded the melting range of the nuclear bombs.
The burning planet emitted a strong light and heat, which swallowed a great deal of the light inside and caused a great disturbance. The scenes they saw at the moment were not entirely composed of visible light; they were regenerated images after data processing. The black dot in the deep part of the planet looked like the mouth of a bottomless well after being enlarged; it was impossible to see what was at the bottom of the well.
Looking at the mouth of the well in the deep part of the Dream Fire Base, Jiang Zhixing remarked in astonishment, "This is the first time I've seen the bottom of the ocean."
"It's the first time for most people," said Ceng Ju.
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After the distant ancient civilization and the Sea of Dark Matter perished together, the space of the local galaxy had been dead for more than one hundred thousand years. The Sea of Dark Matter didn't appear again until the human civilization recovered and the technology became more advanced.
The human civilization that had just recovered possessed the advanced technology, but it didn't have the corresponding intelligence to control this kind of ability. And that girl couldn't completely control the barbaric and powerful desire of expansion and progress of the human civilization for various reasons. As such, the human civilization still suffered a great loss even though they had learned their lesson from the experience. Many habitable planets like the Huangyu No.2 Planet had been swallowed by the Sea of Dark Matter, and they were in a worse state than the Huangyu No.2 Planet. They sank to the bottom of the ocean, and all the lifeforms on the planets had become mindless monsters.
The expansion of the Sea of Dark Matter was not fast; it was only a bit faster than the traveling speed of the regular celestial bodies. However, those monsters and the spores with the ability to infect could pass through the warped voids and expand at a terrifying speed in the local galaxy. Fortunately, these monsters and spores had no consciousness and didn't seek out the warped voids on their own; all they did was drift randomly in the universe.
Those formerly prosperous human planets had more monsters. They stayed in the deep part of the Sea of Dark Matter and seldom encountered the human civilization, which was why they were called the undersea.
There was only one special circumstance, which was when the newly formed space crack connected this world with the galaxy occupied by the Sea of Dark Matter. When it happened, the humans would see the dark undersea and those tens of thousands, or in other words, innumerable monsters gushing out of the space crack like the tide and heading toward them.
After the girl and the grandmaster of Aoyama worked together to stabilize the situation and take control of the Federation of the Milky Way, such an event had occurred only five times. The last time was when the Stargate Base suffered a catastrophe decades ago.
It had to be said that the new human civilization was quite lucky, and it had survived until now.
The space crack was very long, but it happened to be in the deep part of the burning planet. Most of the monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter flying out of the space crack were killed by the high-temperature lava and the light and heat before they could reach the surface of the planet. Only two living bases were attacked by the monsters, and thousands of humans were infected. In the end, they were turned into nothingness after being bombarded by the nuclear bombs of the escort fleet.
Yet, those monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter coming out from the deep part of the planet and withstanding the high temperature lava of hundreds of kilometers without dying were truly formidable. Of course, they were not the Gray Wood or the Jia Scale. These beings that had been infected by the darkness still retained some of their characteristics when they were alive. The plants and insects couldn't withstand the high temperature, and neither could they. Most of the monsters that escaped from the surface of the burning planet into space were extremely tiny blood thumbs, and most of the ones that could be seen were lightning-fast half-tails. For some unknown reason, it was rare to see a Sequence that possessed considerable intelligence.
The gloomy and gray dark beings gushed out from the space crack like tornadoes, and they looked like the wind in the Thousand-Mile Wind Corridor when they were at their most violent. The rock flows on the planet were like the water in the lake; the lotus flowers scattered abruptly, and the water rippled.
Ceng Ju fell silent while looking at the scene on the light screen; it was unclear if he had recalled the past.
Seventeen light battleships were on the outskirts of the burning planet, attacking the surface of the planet incessantly. All kinds of weapons dropped down from time to time, creating countless lava blossoms in an attempt to swallow the tide of monsters that looked like the black wind.
These battleships were not part of the three major fleets, but were the galaxy guard fleet of the Scorpion Tail Nebula. They were mainly used to deal with the space pirates, and the weapons and equipment on the battleships were more suitable for space warfare than for killing the monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter. Fortunately, they had some useful weapon platforms in addition to the laser cannons, like the seven thousand metal balls floating not far away from the planet.
These metal balls had their own names, but the soldiers of the Federation of the Milky Way preferred to call them the Steel Dandelions.
It was probably because the thousands of gun barrels poking out from the surface of the metal balls looked like the white threads on the surface of the dandelions.
The diameter of the Steel Dandelions was one hundred and thirty meters, with complicated ammunition storage facilities and automatic delivery devices inside, which could transport the bullets to the positions to be fired in the shortest time possible and ensure that the bullets could be fired without interruption.
The Steel Dandelions were a kind of consumable physical weapon, which used physical bullets instead of chemical agents to accelerate the bullets. Tens of thousands of bullets the size of nails shot out from the thousands of gun barrels on the surface of the Steel Dandelions in less than one second after being accelerated by the miniature electromagnetic rings.
Under the precise calculation and control of the computer, the seven thousand Steel Dandelions shot out an unimaginable number of bullets to ensure that there would be no loopholes. They tore the monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter that came to the surface of the planet into powder and destroyed their existence. The dark spores drifted up incessantly and soon covered the surface of the Steel Dandelions. Fortunately, there was no life on the planet, so there was no need to worry about the spores being contaminated.
The violent dark wind gushing out from the cracks in the space was wiped out by the more violent rain of bullets. The command system of the battleship issued an order automatically. Hundreds of Steel Dandelions covered with spores approached the surface of the burning planet. They hoped to kill the spores in the shortest time possible with the help of the extremely high temperature.
As the dark monsters gushing out from the cracks in the space were killed, the burning planet grew quiet. The communication system of the industrial base became relaxed, and some military officers even started chatting with each other.
On the distant Scorching-Sun Battleship, Ceng Ju listened to the background noise of the monitoring system and looked at the dark speck in the deep part of the planet. He sensed something eerie in the tranquility.
The temporary tranquility reminded Jing Jiu of the unpleasant memory when he faced the monster invasion of the Snowy Kingdom in Chaotian many years ago. With furrowed eyebrows, Jing Jiu took over the command of the distant battleships and keyed in the number 6546549, requesting the seventeen battleships to evacuate to the deep space as quickly as possible. In the meantime, he asked the seven thousand Steel Dandelions to finish the self-examination in advance and get ready to fire again.
The commanders of the seventeen battleships didn't understand why they had to evacuate all of a sudden; but their authority was too different from Ceng Ju's, so they didn't dare resist or question him. They retreated to the deep space as quickly as possible. In the meantime, hundreds of Steel Dandelions drifted up from the surface of the planet and lined up with more of their comrades, getting ready to fire again.
As soon as those battleships had retreated to a safe distance, the space crack in the deep part of the planet had suddenly expanded to twice its original size. A great amount of lava shot up into the space under the guidance of an invisible force. In the next moment, innumerable monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter swarmed over from the dark and gloomy side like the tide, reaching toward the deep part of the space like the ocean waves.
If those battleships hadn't evacuated in advance and stayed in their original positions, a few of them would have been swallowed by those monsters instantly.
The seven thousand Steel Dandelions shot out the physical bullets like a rainstorm, cutting the surface of the planet and the deep space like countless sharp flying swords, cutting those monsters into pieces.
In an instant, it seemed as if a great many sandbags had been broken, and innumerable spores shot out, forming a cloud that covered an area as large as a layer of cloud, blocking much of the light emitted by the lava on the planet.
The Half Tail that had broken through the rain of metal bullets drifted in the vacuum with the remaining flames. The flames were soon extinguished due to the lack of oxygen. One could only see the scorched shapes of the bodies with twisted limbs, exuding a deathly aura that was the opposite of life.
The Steel Dandelions had an upper limit on the number of bullets they could load. They had been intercepting the monsters drifting out from the space crack for a long time, and they had encountered a monster invasion of such a large scale that day. The gun barrels protruding from the golden surface had gradually stopped shooting, and the dim blue glow of the electromagnetic rings had gradually disappeared, as if they had become dead objects or a pile of scrap metal.
Nothing could stop the monster invasion anymore. The black wind drifting out from the space crack grew thicker and thicker, as if it would turn into a sandstorm. Gradually, many figures of the first generation could be seen.
On the distant battleship, Ceng Ju didn't say anything when he saw the scene. The monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter had gradually occupied the entire industrial base. He reached out his hand and grabbed the controller, ready to let the Steel Dandelions make their final contribution.
The seventeen battleships that had retreated to a distant place and the soldiers on more battleships that were on the way to reinforce them all looked at the burning planet in Silence.
The dark speck in the deep part of the planet seemed to be expanding abruptly. Though it was invisible to the naked eye, the people seemed to see a patch of dark ocean at the bottom of the ocean, which was deathly still.
It was then that a cold and emotionless voice as sharp as a sword rang out in the communication system of the fleet, "I'm on my way back. Wait for a moment."
Ceng Ju loosened his fingers.
A sword light suddenly appeared in the deep part of the space crack.
The sword light was exceedingly bright, and it illuminated all the objects within a radius of a few thousand kilometers, as if it had passed through those objects.
The monster invasion that looked like a sandstorm suddenly halted and then disintegrated.
A Daoist in black clothing flew over from the other side of the space crack.
The sword light that had traveled at a high speed among the monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter returned to his hand, illuminating his black clothing, pale face and Daoist bun.
The expression on the face of the Daoist in black was nonchalant, like a tourist who had come back from a stroll at the bottom of the ocean.
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