Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train-Chapter 913 - 375: The Cruel Truth

In the next hour, Ye Lan calmly explained to Lin Xian how the Blue Star Federation Government, after Apocalypse Day, went from paralysis to forming a temporary government, and how it mobilized the pinnacle of human technology to deal with disasters and darkness, but what it resulted in was still endless despair.

"During the first Extreme Night, our interstellar fleet had already attempted to break through the spatial layer, but without exception."

Ye Lan spoke patiently, and by this point, Lin Xian finally clearly understood what efforts the officials had made after the apocalypse.

Nuclear attacks, starship escapes, and what ordinary people could think of, the Federation had actually tried, but the results were always tragic.

Nuclear explosions might be useful for clearing zombies or waves of abnormal bodies, but attempting to pose a threat to Star Abyss or creatures above S-Class was of little effect. Firstly, S-Class abnormal bodies almost all possess a defense force field like Cloud Black Thorn, and if it can’t be broken, kinetic energy weapons and energy weapons are basically ineffective. Most critically, nuclear explosions would instead accelerate the expansion of Star Abyss, allowing those unspeakable creatures to revel in mutation, eventually destroying humanity’s own cities, while creating large areas of nuclear pollution, with radiation dust sweeping across the sky, causing a ’pseudo-black night’ state, similar to the special situation of the abnormal bodies appearing in the Palma Prairie blizzard previously encountered by Lin Xian.

Lin Xian’s expression was grave, and he asked in a deep voice: "Professor Ye, what exactly is the Heavenly Veil?"

"I don’t know. From the current research, it’s a medium we can’t understand, invisible and untouchable. It covers the Karman Line, and if I were to describe it, it might be like a giant soap bubble enveloping us."

"A soap bubble?" Lin Xian frowned slightly. This description made him feel somewhat strange: "Our weapons can’t break it?"

"For humans, breaking a soap bubble is easy, but what if it’s a water flea?" Ye Lan looked at Lin Xian with a calm expression: "To a water flea, a soap bubble is a barrier of despair that it can’t break no matter how much power it exhausts, and the Heavenly Veil, to us, is similar to the relationship between the water flea and the soap bubble."

"You really know how to use metaphors." Lin Xian smiled helplessly.

"And precisely because of facing such despair, Dawn City abandoned the previous plan to build 15 Underground Cities, focusing all its power on one location, Dawn City. Chu Zhaonan has given up resistance. Based on the recognition that ’humans will surely fail,’ all his efforts now are for one thing." Ye Lan continued.

"For what?"

"To send out a ’Far Star’-grade starship equipped with a complete ecosystem and interstellar navigation technology, carrying a human embryo repository and a civilization database, escaping Blue Star, using a space fusion engine without any propellant to accelerate over 3 months to cruising speed, or 15% of light speed. With low temperature hibernation pod technology, it will take 6 generations and 1200 years to reach Kepler-186f in the Cygnus constellation, which is a planet 20 light years away from the Sun Temple, and the most theoretically habitable one similar to Blue Star discovered so far."

Lin Xian was mute upon hearing this, not knowing what to say for a moment. After a long pause, he spoke with a heavy tone.

"So Chu Zhaonan doesn’t care who he cooperates with or whether Star Abyss expands, he’s bent on sending a spaceship out at any cost?"

"Yes."

"But..."

He was shocked internally, and halfway through his words, his expression changed. He looked at Ye Lan: "So the Phoenix Society came to Dawn City, and Chu Zhaonan recalled all the starships from Jin Hai. Does this mean Dawn City already has the means to break the Heavenly Veil?"

"You’ve asked the crucial question."

Ye Lan spoke seriously: "Actually, the vision for this plan was proposed by our research team two months ago. I don’t know if you’ve heard of the Qingluan Sky City’s fall event?"

Lin Xian nodded: "I know about this."

The first time he heard about Qingluan Sky City was when he first entered Yu Bei City, and Lao Mo mentioned it to him. Later, Wei Kexue briefly talked to him about this disastrous event, and the fall this time made Lin Xian extremely cautious about the sky.

"The fall of Qingluan Sky City was a huge loss for the Phoenix Society. That battle was the most brutal rescue plan led by the Phoenix Society after Apocalypse Day, with more than 420,000 deaths and disappearances. Qingluan Sky City entered an airspace with a large number of atmospheric creatures, including at least two S-Class abnormal bodies and multiple A-level Specials attacking. Tens of thousands of people fought desperately, but still couldn’t prevent disaster from occurring. Later, we sent rescue and investigation teams from the Dawn Center and Phoenix City, and through the information storage in the remains sunken into the deep sea, we discovered that before its crash into the Pacific Ocean, the chief commander of Qingluan Sky City, Comrade Xu Lichuan, had issued an action order to charge into the upper atmosphere at an unconventional angle.

Lin Xian frowned: "Escape?!"

Ye Lan calmly replied: "On the contrary, Comrade Xu Lichuan did this not to survive because we found a large amount of broken limb tissue from an S-Class abnormal body on the front deck area of Qingluan Sky City."

Lin Xian’s expression changed: "You’re saying Qingluan Sky City rammed an S-Class into the Heavenly Veil!?"

"Yes."

"And then?"

"We initially thought it should be humanity’s first war killing an S-Class, but the problem is that when we salvaged the sensors, we discovered that after Qingluan Sky City collided with the Heavenly Veil, that S-Class mysteriously disappeared."