Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 266: Stars

The moment the self-detonation occurred, Tom perceived that this type of explosion was not a nuclear explosion, but just an ordinary chemical explosive blast.

However... chemical explosive blasts couldn’t release such bright light.

Yet, in reality, Tom saw that at the explosion points of those 20 gigantic aerospace carriers, 20 bright suns seemed to appear at that moment.

A full 20 bright suns rose slowly, illuminating the surroundings and, over ten seconds had already passed, under normal circumstances, the light from the explosion should have disappeared long ago, but those suns still existed and had not vanished.

This seemed... not to be an explosion?

The next moment, those 20 suns suddenly expanded, their volume instantly increasing severalfold.

Tom immediately mobilized nearby observation forces, aiming countless telescopes at them, and upon careful discernment, he clearly saw that it wasn’t a sudden increase in volume at all; they had clearly differentiated.

What he had seen before was not actually 20 "suns," but countless tiny bright spots. These endless bright spots gathered together, resembling a single sun.

Now, the bright spots that made up these suns began to separate. Like bees leaving a hive, they instantly spread outwards.

Thus, to Tom’s eyes, it looked like a sun was rapidly expanding in volume while simultaneously decreasing in brightness.

The sun, eventually, transformed into a multitude of stars.

These countless stars, differentiated from the sun, seemed to possess their own will; as soon as they separated, they immediately rushed towards the nearest technological construct.

This was deep within Tom’s defensive line. Everything here was Tom’s warships, turrets, satellites, fortresses, and other constructs; there wasn’t a single one from the Havilah Civilization.

It wasn’t until they got closer that Tom truly saw the real appearance of those "stars."

They resembled a mass of fire, a fire without a fixed shape. They continuously changed their shape in the vast emptiness of space, rippling and undulating like waves.

This is...

Regardless of what they were for now, they were definitely not good things.

Even before they approached, Tom, through his clone, manipulated the surrounding warships and immediately issued an order to Goku AI, instructing it to control the unmanned combat forces, launching a fierce bombardment against these countless "flames" that resembled a sky full of stars.

In an instant, countless powerful energy cannon projectiles roared out, carrying world-destroying power, smashing into these flames.

Even a large mountain or a small asteroid could be torn apart by this fierce attack.

But when these projectiles reached these "flames," Tom witnessed a scene beyond his expectations.

These projectiles passed directly through these flame-like unidentified objects, as if penetrating a vacuum.

Because they did not suffer external impact, although they were already in an excited state, they still failed to be stimulated and failed to release energy originating from the Strong Nuclear Force.

After passing through, their trajectory and speed did not change at all!

"Physical attacks seem ineffective"

Tom immediately drew this conclusion.

The next moment, the bodies of those flame-like unidentified creatures suddenly brightened, and highly directional, extremely concentrated beams of light, containing extremely high energy, emanated from them, shining upon Tom’s technological constructs.

In an instant, thousands of satellites were scorched and penetrated, numerous mines were destroyed, many unmanned warships exploded with a roar, and even some manned warships suffered damage.

Although many combat equipments were lost, Tom felt a sense of relief in his heart at this moment.

These are laser cannons. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Although he couldn’t figure out exactly what these things were, at least their attack methods were clear.

What Tom feared most were attack methods whose mechanisms he completely couldn’t understand, or whose principles he couldn’t grasp.

As long as he could understand them, then they weren’t scary!

At this moment, Tom also understood the Havilahs’ plan.

These flame-like unidentified objects were clearly under the control of the Havilahs before. Now, the Havilahs had paid a heavy price to send them behind his defensive line, hoping to use them to tie up his fleet and create conditions for their escape.

So the Havilahs had this fallback plan; no wonder they dared to send out their fleet to escape, risking running out of supplies and being trapped in space...

At this moment, Tom completely understood.

It’s just that, what you consider your fallback, your life-saving trump card, although it looks quite intimidating and peculiar, its combat power seems to be not that great, just mediocre...

It’s just laser cannons. Although the power of these laser cannons seems to be greater than that of my laser cannons, they are not undefendable and simply cannot tie up my combat power.

Even with these strange things, your Havilah Civilization must stay here today; you cannot leave.

But the next moment, something unexpected happened again to Tom.

He saw that those flame-like unidentified objects, while maintaining the laser beam illumination, rapidly accelerated with even greater maneuverability than his own warships, fiercely pouncing onto his own warships.

Due to the energy shield, that seemingly intangible light and shadow could not directly contact the warship’s hull, but instead adhered to the energy shield constructed from the Strong Nuclear Force.

The next moment, numerous warning messages were transmitted to the combat control base via super-distance communication, and then to Tom’s mind.

The energy shields seemed to be affected by some unknown influence, starting to become unstable!

Tom saw that the energy shields of the warships attached by the flame-like unidentified objects all began to flicker uniformly, and at the same time, the internal equipment’s temperature continuously rose, entering an overloaded state.

The next moment, energy and instability exceeded the equipment’s limits. Accompanied by a dazzling flash, the energy shield collapsed and disappeared, leaving the warship’s hull exposed and unprotected in space.

"How did this happen! What’s going on!"

Tom’s heart was filled with shock.

Having lost their energy shields, and the shields’ ability to deflect and weaken lasers, the lasers released from those flame-like unidentified objects truly shone upon the warship hulls.

At the same time, various pieces of equipment inside the warships also seemed to be severely interfered with, beginning to malfunction or even crash in large numbers.

Among the numerous warning messages, one warship after another either exploded with a roar, or lost contact, or lost power, or lost detection devices, etc., losing their combat capability.

Just then, Tom saw that at the Third Planet, the Havilah fleet, totaling 600,000 warships escorting the main fleet, once again launched a fierce assault on his defensive line.