Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 269: Massive Crackdown

The so-called energy cannon, of course, does not use gunpowder as its propellant.

In Tom’s weapon system, the energy cannon corresponds to the energy gun.

The energy gun fires small-mass projectiles that have no propulsion; once fired, their trajectory is fixed.

The energy cannon, however, fires shells that possess self-locking capability and propulsion, allowing them to track targets in space. Because of its similarity to the artillery of Earth’s past, Tom adopted the name ’cannon’. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Its initial launch propulsion is still electromagnetic force, relying on the same mechanism as energy gun projectiles to gain initial velocity under electromagnetic force and exit the barrel rapidly.

As for explosives, during the Electroweak Civilization stage, Tom used high-explosive chemical explosives. But now, at the Strong Nuclear Civilization stage, with a deeper understanding and utilization of the Strong Nuclear Force, his explosives have been updated, becoming a substance similar to electromagnetic cannon projectiles, in a strong nuclear excited state.

Such a shell, with a total mass of 50KG, is equipped with a 10KG shell in its warhead, which is in a strong nuclear excited state.

Once struck, or self-detonated, it, originally in a stable strong nuclear excited state, can immediately release its internal Strong Nuclear Force.

Although its mass-energy conversion efficiency is not comparable to a true nuclear bomb, nor to an energy gun projectile, it can only reach about 0.002\%.

But even so, this means that once detonated, about 0.2 grams of mass from the 10KG shell will be converted into energy, and this can release energy equivalent to the explosion of 4,000 tons of TNT explosives

Compared to true nuclear bombs, which have yields of hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions of tons, this power is extremely small.

However, if it’s precise enough, just 4,000 tons of TNT explosion energy is sufficient!

At this moment, approximately 10,000 of the first batch of energy cannons were transported into warships and turrets and began firing.

Inside the colossal energy cannon barrels, the surging energy from the nuclear fusion power plant was converted into electromagnetic force, propelling these cannons out of the muzzles at incredibly high speeds, rushing towards the millions of flame-like unknown organisms in space.

At this moment, just as they had previously faced nuclear bombs, the unknown organisms in the target area instantly scattered, beginning to flee to the surroundings.

But unlike the cumbersome interstellar missile equipped with nuclear weapons, these cannon shells were now lighter and thus more agile.

Propelled by their onboard ion thrusters, their course immediately changed, consistently locking onto the unknown organisms no matter where they fled.

These shells had lower mass, were more flexible, and their maneuverability far exceeded that of warships, yet they still couldn’t match those unknown objects.

Although they were locked on, actually catching up and getting within a certain distance was still difficult to achieve.

But it didn’t matter; their numbers were sufficient.

A full ten thousand shells were enough to blockade the entire area. No matter which direction those unknown organisms fled, there would be corresponding shells approaching them.

A cage constructed of energy cannon shells had taken shape. Those unknown objects had no way to escape.

This extremely complex maneuvering and orbital change lasted only a few seconds. During this process, dozens of shells were ultimately shaken off by the target unknown organism, but eventually, one shell did reach its side.

At this moment, the intelligent fuse instantly activated, and within the warhead, the strong nuclear excited state projectile instantly detonated.

In an instant, a bright fireball appeared, instantly engulfing that unknown object.

Although its radius was less than a hundred meters, and its absolute killing radius, meaning the area with sufficient thermal and high-energy radiation impact, was less than 200 meters, for this type of unknown organism, it was enough.

The bright fireball flashed and vanished, and the next moment, that space returned to darkness and profundity.

But...

After the fireball disappeared, that unknown object also disappeared!

It was completely annihilated!

"It works, as expected"

Tom was delighted.

Your doomsday has arrived

Tom immediately made a decision.

Mass production! Bury these strange-looking guys with sheer numbers!

The production lines for energy cannon shells were already complete. Now, to produce this improved model of cannon, it only required modifying the original production lines by adding some heat source recognition and shape recognition modules; the overall improvement was not significant.

In a short time, Tom completed the upgrade and modification of a considerable portion of the production lines. Then, large-scale production immediately began.

Endless shell materials poured into the factory, processed by precision casting equipment into the shape of shells. The rest, strong nuclear excitation energy modules, ion propulsion modules, intelligent propulsion modules, intelligent recognition modules, and most importantly, the shells in a stable excited state under the strong nuclear excitation process, and so on, emerged like a flood.

On the first day Tom decided on mass production, a full 1 million shells were produced.

And the production line modification process was still rapidly advancing. So, on the second day, this number became 1.8 million.

The third day, the fourth day...

Every day, the output of this improved shell model would increase by at least 50% or more. Up until now, the daily output of this shell has reached over 10 million.

Endless shells poured into space, entering space turrets, automatic launch systems, unmanned warships, and most importantly, manned warships.

The great counterattack then began.

Tom’s combat power no longer retreated to the vicinity of the planet but began to actively attack.

Cannons roared, and in the vast, deep space, countless self-propelled shells flew, chasing those strange flame-like unknown objects like raptors pursuing small birds.

During this process, at least 95% of the shells failed to hit their targets.

After exhausting their propulsion energy, they had to self-detonate to avoid causing trouble for their own other spacecraft in the future.

But among the large number of shells, a few did hit their targets. And each time a hit occurred, it meant the disappearance of an unknown object.

In this vast space, Tom was unbridled and thoroughly enjoying the slaughter.

In just one month, the number of these unknown objects Tom had counted plummeted from a peak of over 9 million to less than 1 million at this moment.

It was estimated that it would only take another month for Tom to completely clear out all these unknown objects.

But at this moment, something unexpected happened again.

Tom saw that the remaining less than 1 million unknown objects were no longer entangled with Tom, but instead, all of them rushed at their fastest speed towards the core of the entire solar system, that star.