It was easy to send a fleet to another world, but it was not so easy to transport a planet's battleship. It took us almost three days to build a strong enough world beacon on the God Fog planet. This beacon would act as a lighthouse to pull Crystal Peak from the City of Shadows to this planet.
That should be attributed to her foresight. She had imagined the worst case scenario when she first came to this world, and had prepared for the planetary warship in advance. She had started building this gigantic structure a long time ago. When the ambush on Planet God of Fog broke out, the World Beacon had already completed its main construction at the outpost base. In the past three days, we mainly used our time to secretly transport this gigantic structure back from the outpost base and then assemble the gigantic structure into a single whole. The former was more daunting than dangerous. While the Vengeance Army had covered the entire solar system with information interference, they would not have sensed anything if they were just transporting a bunch of spare parts without a fleet in or out. Moreover, the information interference layer was mostly used to prevent the prey in the cage from escaping, and the Vengeance Army probably did not care what went in. Of course, a planetary fleet was an exception.
When the beacon was activated, an unprecedented storm was set off on the Divine Fog Star. Its thick atmosphere, which had not changed for tens of millions of years, was stretched out by the huge disturbance. The upper part of the whirlpool was unusually wide, enough to fit twenty-two of Mobredo's main planets side by side, while its lower part shrunk several times and stirred up tsunamis on the ocean of the Divine Fog Star that would not stop for millions of years. The whirlpool caused a hole in the thick clouds of the Divine Fog planet for the first time, and the Divine Fog astronomers could observe the colossal cyclone through their telescopes, and through the hole in the middle of the cyclone, they could see the surface of the Divine Fog planet that they could not normally see directly. The spectacle would probably distract them from the global panic, and then plunge them into another panic.
"That thing really looks like a shoehorn." Liliana muttered as she watched the Divine Fog planet's cyclone in front of a giant holographic projection in the central hall of the City of General's command center.
Icetis objected. "I think it's a pig's kidney, look at this position. The wind has stretched it out, and that's not the shape of a shoehorn."
"Oh, that makes sense." Liliana nodded to show that she understood.
I thought about it and felt that I might not be able to defeat Icetis by myself. Thus, I tossed Liliana into the basket at the side that was everywhere along with the plot. Then, I looked up at the huge cyclone in the shape of a pig's kidney on the holographic projection. Such a huge hole was obviously formed by a huge object passing through the atmosphere. When that object passed through the atmosphere, it created such a vortex due to the turbulence. Then, the entire movement of the atmosphere caused the vortex to stretch into an uneven strip. I really didn't think that aerodynamics would be so amazing. How could such a small ball make such a huge hole?
"Where is Jing Feng's current position?" Sandora licked her lips as she looked at the Pig Kidney Cyclone and asked in a deep voice.
The ship's mainframe (it should be called the city's central mainframe now) immediately replied, "The closest point has reached 130,000 kilometers below sea level and is still descending. It has already passed the depth plane of the mausoleum. Do you want to slow down now?"
"Will the Divine Fog Star interfere with the Crystal Peak's broadcast?"
"The Crystal Peak's amplifier has powerful anti-interference abilities. The Divine Fog Star's interference rate against the Crystal Peak's broadcast is less than one in a thousand. It can be ignored."
Sandora nodded. "Then, continue descending. Pay attention to suppressing the ocean turbulence to prevent damaging the 'Crystal Peak'."
"The mainframe understands."
Sandora was currently giving a series of clear and precise orders. It seemed that there was nothing for me to do for the time being. Thus, I turned my gaze to the scenery outside.
I had seen these things many times in the past three days. However, the scenery outside now was at least a thousand times more shocking than what I had seen in the past few days. I could barely tell what the outside world looked like. Even though the image processing program had made the scenes of the storm as highly as possible, I could only see a bunch of twisted gray clumps dancing on the screen. That was the gigantic nitrogen-helium-hydrogen wave that swept past the sky above General City. This gigantic wave was rather slow, only two thousand meters tall. It should only last for a short period of time. In any case, it would fall before I fell asleep.
This was the scenery that I saw after General City had risen. The original location of General City had been completely swallowed by a series of waves. It was predicted that it wouldn't show up for the next few days. Furthermore, the terrifying gravitational force of the Crystal Peak suppressed the current gigantic wave. If the gravitational force here was G, perhaps I could see the spectacular scene of a wave hitting Mistguard 13 (the thirteenth moon of the Divine Fog Star, an icy planet in a low orbit. Its position was very dangerous. Tawil estimated that it might fall into the atmosphere of the Divine Fog Star in two thousand years).
All this majestic and shocking scenery stemmed from one reason:
The Crystal Peak had fallen into the ocean …
That's right, you didn't see wrongly. I didn't go crazy either. That's exactly what happened. Crystalline Peak, that shiny glass ball that was one-third the size of Earth and completely made up of high-purity crystals, was now in the turbulent ocean of liquid nuclear fuel beneath our feet. Furthermore, it was continuously sinking at an extremely high speed. It had just passed the deepest man-made object below the City of General: the Mausoleum Ruins. Therefore, it had now become the deepest foreign object below the sea level of this giant planet. Of course, it was also the largest one.
"Gravitational disturbance is normal. General City has corrected the gravitational superposition brought by the Crystal Peak. The structure of the Divine Fog Star's ocean body is changing, but it's all under control." The voice of the ship's mainframe was reporting the work progress unhurriedly. It was as if what we were doing wasn't sinking a planet into another planet's ocean but adding sugar to coffee. Of course, for Schilling Technology, the situation was probably that simple.
"If the power of the beacon was a little higher, I should be able to pull a planetary fortress over." Sandora shook her head regretfully. However, looking at the Crystal Peak that was sinking under the heavy pressure of the liquid nitrogen-helium-hydrogen ocean on the monitor screen, she quickly felt relieved. "But successfully pulling the Crystal Peak over means that we have the most powerful beacon."
The Divine Fog Star was the largest gaseous planet in the Mobrado Star System. It was even big enough to wrap up thousands of Mobrado's main planets in its stomach. The universe was such a magical thing. It was always filled with all kinds of shocking wonders. Sometimes, the comparison of the size of two planets would make you feel like it was a fantasy story.
When I decided to pull the Crystal Peak over to act as a super powerful signal amplifier, I originally planned to make it a satellite of the Divine Fog Star. Orbiting this giant planet would save a lot of energy for the Crystal Peak itself. This was because our definition of the Crystal Peak was a signal transmitter and not a battleship. Its weapons and energy system were weaker … Alright, to be honest, it didn't have any weapons at all. Its energy system was only enough for it to swing around in the star system. Don't forget that the Crystal Peak had another function — it was Little Bubble's toy. Even though the little girl had recently lost interest in this huge glass ball, I still didn't dare to let my daughter's toy library have two things like a Star Destroyer Cannon and a battleship engine that could blast Earth two light years away. Getting back to the main topic, my plan was to make the Crystal Peak a temporary satellite of the Divine Fog Star. However, Sandora was much more open-minded than me. She felt that we should directly sink this precious amplifier into the Divine Fog Star, turn off the power, and use it as an antenna. It would be safer that way. And in reality, she really did do that. After the Crystal Peak teleported over, it directly appeared at the edge of the Divine Fog Star's atmosphere. It brushed past the Divine Fog Star's gaseous sphere, and the sudden appearance of a gigantic gravitational force instantly caused huge waves and storms that were thousands of meters tall to appear on the Divine Fog Star. These things were sucked into the sky like an inverted funnel. Now that I thought about it, it was truly a spectacular scene, second only to when the Crystal Peak fell.
Can you imagine the scene of a planet that was one-third the size of Earth falling into the ocean right in front of your eyes?
Let me tell you, that scene … Err, it was very abstract.
This thing was way too big. It was just like how the earth looked flat when we stood on Earth. When the Crystal Peak touched the Divine Fog Star, if you looked at it from a close distance, you would feel like two continents were colliding, as if the sky was falling and the earth was splitting apart. However, you definitely wouldn't have any direct impression of what was happening. I only realized that the messy abstract painting earlier was actually the scene of two planets colliding when the satellite transmitted the image back to me from a distant third-person perspective. Fortunately, General City remained calm about the terrifying waves and gravitational tides that followed. We weakened the Crystal Peak's gravitational force (Don't look down on its small size. Due to its high density, the Crystal Peak's gravitational force was almost on par with Earth's). At the same time, we reinforced General City's shields. This allowed us to peacefully enjoy the super blockbuster outside from the stable command center.
"The false coordinates have been inputted into the Crystal Peak's amplification circuit. However, we need a few hours to charge this huge antenna. According to the planetary battleship safety manual, it will empty the energy grid before teleportation."
Bubble leaned on the railing and swayed back and forth. From time to time, bright lines would flash across her eyes. When there wasn't a high-volume mission, she was also used to hanging herself in General City's data link. Thus, she might be even clearer about the Crystal Peak's current situation than the ship's mainframe. On the other hand, I was busy sorting out my basic knowledge of physics. I looked at the holographic image and poked the child's mother who kept coming up to me. "Say, if a planet with a gravitational force similar to Earth falls into the Crystal Peak, how much do you think the ocean of the Divine Fog Star will change?"
Bubble slapped my hand away. "It will capture trillions of tons of liquefied nitrogen, helium-hydrogen, and form a thick 'membrane' on its surface. The Crystal Peak will stir up the ocean currents during its descent. Its gravitational force will also affect the nearby undercurrents. In the end, it will form thousands of whirlpools in all directions and a huge vertical tunnel. This tunnel might be around 50,000 kilometers long and it won't calm down for many years. However, these are all partial. The Divine Fog Star is huge, thousands of times bigger than the Crystal Peak. Overall, the Crystal Peak is just a splash on the ocean of the Divine Fog Star. Of course, if we don't turn on the Crystal Peak's power system and let it fall freely, the situation will be different. It will crash into the Divine Fog Star's metal core. The core may be broken and then there will be some catastrophic consequences that affect the entire planet, such as a big explosion. After all, 90% of the Divine Fog Star is nuclear fuel and its metal core may act as a detonator. Ah, my child's father, don't you want to give it a try? "
This is really a sensational disaster. I don't know how spectacular it would be if a nuclear bomb that is thousands of times the size of the Earth is detonated. Of course, this is just for show. I don't believe that Bubble is willing to use her daughter's toy to set off fireworks in space. Speaking of Little Bubble, that girl has been quite well-behaved for the past two days. Originally, she would squeeze into the information link in the middle of the afternoon and fiddle with me for a long time. I haven't heard her for the past two days. I don't know what new gadget her mother used to attract the little princess' attention.
The Crystal Peak completed its recharging at around 12 o 'clock that night. It took slightly longer than expected because the capacity of the psionic recharging system that Tawil had recently installed under the planet's crust was much larger than before. Even though it took an extra hour, it greatly increased the success rate of the misleading broadcast. Bubble simulated the range of the Crystal Peak's signal after the broadcast. We were pleasantly surprised to find that this thing was enough to disguise the entire Mobrador Star System as a pay toilet. Thus, all that was left was to wait for the enemy to walk into the trap.
The signal wasn't going to be broadcasted right away. We had to wait for the right moment, which was the instant the enemy began to teleport. At that time, we would use the false coordinates to cover the entire star system. This way, the success rate of the operation would be increased to the maximum. In such a short period of time, the Revenge Army's fleet wouldn't be able to recalculate the coordinates in time, nor would they be able to decipher our false coordinates. Of course, it would be impossible for them to make an emergency stop. If we were to treat them as a high-speed train, we would have to pull the switch just as they passed through the mountain pass. I guarantee that they wouldn't be able to call the police in time even if they realized that they were heading in the wrong direction. Even if they could call the police in time, they wouldn't be able to brake in time. It's impossible for the Revenge Army to not notice that such a large star system's coordinates were suddenly replaced. If we started the broadcast in advance, even if they weren't able to decipher the true coordinates in a short period of time, they could still make the fleet wait for a few days and decipher the coordinates before teleporting again. At that time, we would be fools. That was why the Great Hoodwinker's method of success was to be fast, accurate, and ruthless.
"Medium and large Motherships need ten seconds to switch engines after a warp jump, while small warships are more agile. They only need five to six seconds to switch engines and enter the Prime Material Plane. That's why when the Imperial Army warps into the battlefield, the small warships would appear first, and the large ships would only arrive a few seconds later. Under normal circumstances, these few seconds of time difference wouldn't affect the outcome of the battle, and there's a chance that the Mothership could avoid the enemy's attack or avoid being locked onto by the enemy's long-prepared radar. But this time, these few seconds of time difference have given us an opportunity. "Sandora held her forty-second apple like a squirrel as she analyzed while eating." After the Revenge Army's small ships warp in, we can use Misdirection. That way, we can disperse their forces. The Divine Fog Planet's defense line won't have a problem against some small ships, and their Mothership will be teleported here. Sives, this is the position you've set up. Explain it to everyone. "
As Sandora spoke, a holographic projection appeared on the table. It was a rather unfamiliar starry sky — in any case, all starry skies were unfamiliar to me. My memory wasn't very good. There were many red lines marking the edges of this starry sky, crisscrossing and densely packed.
Sives pointed at the star map with the photon pointer in his hand. "This is a closed-off universe. The Celestial System's fleet has set up an ambush circle here, and all the defensive forces that we can still mobilize have their cannons focused on this spot. The enemy will be hit the moment they fall into this circle, and if everything goes well, we'll be able to reduce their numbers by thirty percent in a single move and deplete most of their shields. Then, the Psionic Death Star will activate the Emperor's Breath. With low shields, the Empire's warships have very little defense against the Psionic Death Star, and if we can hit it, the number of enemies we'll have to face in the future will be greatly reduced. But it'll depend on luck, whether the Emperor's Breath is faster or the Vengeance Fleet's reaction is faster. If the Vengeance Fleet's commander is cautious, he'll focus all the reactor power on the shields the moment he realizes that the fleet has been misled, and if he escapes the moment he's attacked, the Emperor's Breath will be destined to fail, and we'll only be able to destroy thirty percent of the enemy's ships. "
"Can't we use something like a gravitational trap to stop the enemy from escaping?" Shallow Shallow asked casually. It was hard for her to do something serious in such an atmosphere.
"It won't be very effective. Gravitational traps can only be used as an ambush and precautionary measure. After they're discovered, they'll be easily targeted and destroyed by gravitational waves. Moreover, gravitational traps don't have enough power to stop the massive number of Eternal-class Mothership fleets." Sives shook his head with a gloomy expression. "As for the giant space lock device that should be used in such a situation … there are some key technologies we're lacking, and we can't build it yet."
"Isn't there any other way to deal as much damage as possible to them in the shortest time possible before they escape?" Sandora asked with a frown.
I glanced at Sandora, thinking that it must have been hard on her to rack her brains to think of a way to harm her former troops.
But it couldn't be helped. Even if they were her former subordinates, they were now risking their lives to kill their enemies. In Sandora's tens of millions of years of war, she had long learned to suppress her pity until the very end. Even if she remembered her former comrades, she would only do so after the war was over.
"Killing in a short time." Icetis was unwilling to be left out and joined the discussion. She opened her fist and slowly clenched it. "For a large fleet, there's no way to make up for the fact that the same number of battleship cannons aren't enough. The gravitational trap's power and stability can't be made up for either. Then we'll think of a way … what's the name again? Let's start with that Emperor's Breath you mentioned earlier. Based on my experience, this kind of ambush requires speed. Casting a forbidden spell for half a day would be useless if it doesn't hit anyone. It's better to use a brick, right? Didn't your Psionic Death Star launch a fast attack? With such a huge thing, even a normal attack should be more powerful than the main cannons of a regular battleship, right? "
I instantly smacked my head. There's a saying that every profession has its own specialization. This kind of digging a hole, putting a gunny sack on people, and ambushing them is really something Icetis is good at. Just listen to her train of thought. Needless to say, tens of millions of years ago, she had dragged Protoss kids she didn't like into dark alleys …
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