Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 574: The Threat of Collision

The Asia ship formation was still trapped deep within the star system. At present, Xiao Yu could only ensure self-preservation and was unable to make any breakout or counterattack. If there were no other means, the Asia ship, like the other more than nine and a half million ships, could only be blasted to pieces under the siege of the enemy fleet numbering in the tens of millions. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

But the addition of the planetary war star, the Earth, changed this situation. After witnessing the Earth’s might, the Level 5 Civilization Alliance had no choice but to tilt some of its combat strength and assign more interception forces against the Earth.

So far, ten million warships had been ordered to carry out this task. Correspondingly, the number of enemy warships besieging the Asia ship formation decreased somewhat. However, the enemy still maintained a considerable number to ensure Xiao Yu could not escape. Reinforcement fleets of the Alliance were rushing over continuously and rapidly, with tens of thousands of ships arriving every minute and every second. The shortage of combat strength for the Alliance was only temporary. After all, more than two hundred million warships were stationed by the Alliance in this star system.

All Xiao Yu could do was wait quietly. He waited for the planetary war star, the Earth, to fight its way here, then carve out a bloody path and lead the trapped ships back to safety.

At this moment, the planetary war star had already crashed into the Alliance’s first defensive direction. No fewer than more than ten million ships were engaged in the siege of the planetary war star. Those more than ten million ships had completely suppressed the planetary war star’s one million escort ships, but with the planetary war star as a backing, these escorts were not under any great threat.

The war now presented the following situation. It was common to see two warships chasing and grappling with each other, or four or five Alliance ships surrounding one of Xiao Yu’s ships. Just when Xiao Yu’s ship was in dire straits, a black line would lance up, or an invisible torrent of negative matter, or a light-beam weapon would surge from the planetary surface into space, striking the enemy ship with perfect precision and destroying it.

Not only did the planetary war star relieve pressure on its own escort fleet, it also launched proactive attacks. The weapons Xiao Yu had installed on the planetary war star were simply too many. There were more than eight hundred main weapons alone, counting space weapons and super negative matter cannons, with even more conventional weapons besides, so many as to be literally uncountable. With such numbers, a single planetary war star could simultaneously attack several million warships.

The multi-layer shield system supported by hundreds of thousands of large energy bases fulfilled its responsibility to perfection. No matter how frenzied the onslaught, it could not break the shields. Without breaking the shields, there was no way to threaten the structures on the surface. In fact, up to this point, Xiao Yu had not even run those hundreds of thousands of large energy bases at maximum power.

The countless combat weapons also fulfilled their responsibilities. They could precisely acquire the position and velocity information of enemy warships in space, then mercilessly deliver brutal strikes. The attacks of the super negative matter cannons and space weapons could destroy an enemy warship with almost every shot. If it was a medium or large ship such as a Nation-Class or Province-Class, it would take a bit more effort, but once locked by these weapons, destroying them was only a matter of minutes or tens of minutes. Conventional weapons were mainly directed at small ships like County, Town, and Village-class ships. From the current situation, the efficiency of conventional weapons in sweeping away small and medium ships was also extremely high.

Fragments of warships repeatedly fell from space toward the planetary war star trailing long tails. Some ships, damaged to a certain degree and knowing they had no hope of survival, launched suicide attacks in their final moments, pushing their speed to the maximum and ramming the planetary war star at tens of thousands or even more than one hundred thousand kilometers per second, attempting to use that enormous kinetic energy to destroy the planetary shield. Unfortunately, it was all in vain. Whether by shelling or kinetic impact, the planetary shield intercepted it all.

This was the formidable defensive power a four-dimensional shield and a multi-layer hybrid shield system possessed once supplied with sufficient energy.

The planetary engines kept firing, constantly pushing the planet forward, ever forward. In fact, from the moment the planetary war star joined the battle until now, whether facing one million enemy warships or ten million, it had maintained a steady acceleration. Its speed kept increasing, and no warship could stop its advance. The ships attacking were like swarms of buzzing mosquitoes harassing a lion. No matter how many mosquitoes there were, they could not make the lion stop.

The planetary war star continued forward and finally plunged into the Alliance’s formal defensive circle. By now, large numbers of warships had been transferred from other parts of the Death Flower Star System. Nearly eighty million warships had gathered here. Under the siege of so many warships, even the planetary war star felt immense pressure.

On the planetary war star, hundreds of thousands of large energy bases were already at maximum output. All weapon systems were operating at full capacity. At every moment, vast numbers of space fissures, torrents of negative matter, light-beam weapons, and bomb-type weapons were being hurled into space. The war had reached its most intense phase.

For monitoring needs, the surface of the planetary war star was lit like a most prosperous metropolis, lights shining every moment. But lamplight and starlight are fundamentally different. Here they were far from the star, and there was only lamplight, so on this planet the surface was ablaze with lights while the sky remained pitch black.

That was in normal times. Now was clearly not normal. In fact, even without the star’s radiance, the sky seen from the planetary war star had become entirely bright. In the pitch-black firmament, bursting points of light appeared constantly, as if the grandest fireworks display were being held.

Every exploding firework released more or less light, illuminating larger or smaller patches of sky. Countless fireworks together made the sky completely bright. Coupled with the ground-launched missile weapons trailing bright plumes and long tails as they rose, the spectacle upon this planet was filled with a beauty that mixed eeriness with grandeur.

The battle had reached its most intense moment. The Asia ship formation was striving to break out toward the planetary war star, while the planetary war star strove to approach the Asia ship formation. Because of its immense kinetic energy, the planetary war star’s advance did not stop, for nothing can block the advance of a planet except another planet.

The Alliance apparently understood this principle too. Thus Xiao Yu saw another planetary war star appear ahead, precisely the half-finished planetary war star that had hidden ten million warships and, at the critical moment, charged out to sever the Asia ship formation’s retreat.

As soon as this half-finished planetary war star appeared, the dense mass of warships ahead immediately opened a path. Xiao Yu then saw this planetary war star begin a slow acceleration, starting to ram the Earth.

If two planets collide, there is no doubt both will be destroyed. The energy released by planetary collision is simply too immense for any power to resist, not even the Earth.

It was certain that if the two planets collided, the Earth would be destroyed, and the Alliance’s half-finished planetary war star would also be destroyed. This was a mutually destructive tactic, dragging the enemy to die together by sacrificing oneself.

But for Xiao Yu, that was extremely uneconomical. He had only one planetary war star, and its technological sophistication was in no way comparable to the Alliance’s half-finished models. The Alliance had more than one hundred and thirty such half-finished planetary war stars. To lose one out of more than one hundred and thirty in order to destroy the enemy’s most formidable weapon was a very cost-effective trade for the Alliance.

Yet Xiao Yu could not evade this collision simply by dodging. This involved a simple mathematical calculation. Specifically, as long as the two planets made contact, whether or not they collided head-on, the energy released upon contact would be enough to destroy the planetary shield. Once the planetary shield was destroyed, the planetary war star would be finished.

The Earth’s maximum acceleration was two hundred meters per second per second. With that acceleration, Xiao Yu could not pilot the Earth to escape the other planetary war star’s projected collision zone in advance. A planet has a diameter on the order of ten thousand kilometers; two planets together mean over twenty thousand kilometers. Moreover, the enemy planetary war star also had its own mobility. Though inferior to the Earth’s, it still meant the potential collision zone was further expanded. Xiao Yu had no way to escape and no way to dodge.

As long as the two planets touched, even if they merely grazed each other, the planetary shield would be destroyed.

Thus the Earth now had only two options left.

Either collide directly with the enemy planetary war star, or destroy the enemy planetary war star.