Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 575: A Simple and Brutal Method

Destruction is always easier than construction, which is a very helpless reality. The construction of the Earth was without doubt far more labor and time-consuming than the half-finished planetary war stars built by the Level 5 Civilization Alliance, and its technological content was higher as well. Yet if it collided with one of the Alliance’s half-finished planetary war stars, the Earth would also be destroyed, and its end would be no different from the enemy’s half-finished model.

The energy released by a planet-level collision is not something Xiao Yu, at this stage, can withstand.

Since Xiao Yu refuses to accept such an outcome, he has only one choice left, destroy the enemy planetary war star. As long as it is destroyed, it cannot ram the Earth.

But destroying a planetary war star is easier said than done. Although it is a half-finished model, it is still a planetary war star. Recall that in the Pegasus Civilization’s capital star system, Xiao Yu rammed the capital planet’s shield with a Continent-Class ship at tens of thousands of kilometers per second to break it. Now, after nearly a thousand years of development, the Alliance’s technological level has made great strides. Breaking its planetary shield again is nowhere near so easy.

It is likely that even the direct ramming of two, or even three, Continent-Class ships would not achieve the goal. Moreover, there is only one Continent-Class ship near the Earth now, and it is a standard model whose performance cannot compare with a ship like the Asia.

Most critically, there is very little time left before the two planets collide. At most, Xiao Yu has only three hours. If he cannot reverse the situation within those three hours, he will have to accept the reality that the Earth will be destroyed.

The situation has reached a moment of extreme peril, but Xiao Yu does not feel the least panic. The reason is simple. He knew long ago that planetary war stars existed within the Death Flower Star System; he even knew their numbers, orbits, and performance data. When piloting the Earth into the Death Flower Star System to rescue the Asia, how could he not anticipate that the Alliance might try to ram the Earth with a planetary war star?

Yes, Xiao Yu anticipated this, and he still chose to bring the Earth here, because he has absolute confidence in handling it.

Amid the sky-filling barrages and the shuttling warships, Xiao Yu focused on a light point that was gradually growing brighter.

Because of the large number of artificial structures, planetary war stars generally have very high albedo. This means that within a star system, near the star, the planet will reflect extremely bright light. Although space is now full of gunfire and the glare of exploding ships, the point of light that represents a planet remains steadily present, making it conspicuous.

Xiao Yu silently calculated the distance to that point of light, while quietly making preparations.

The planetary war star, the Earth, was about to exert its full combat power.

An hour and a half later, as seen from the Earth with unaided human vision, the enemy planetary war star finally expanded from a point that showed no details into a spherical object with faint stripes. It looked about one tenth the apparent size of the Moon as seen from Earth, with extremely bright starlight reflected from it, allowing Xiao Yu to perceive its presence easily.

There was less than half an hour left before the final collision.

“The time is about right. It is now.” After a brief calculation, Xiao Yu reached this conclusion.

The situation was in a delicate balance. Although many warships were besieging the Earth, under the formidable protection of the four-dimensional shield and the powerful counterattacks of conventional weapons, the Earth was not in immediate danger. Xiao Yu could even reassign the super negative matter cannons and space weapons in preparation to face the incoming titan.

Xiao Yu’s method for dealing with this half-finished planetary war star was very simple, destroy it directly. No tricks, no stratagems. If you dare approach, I will destroy you. That is all.

With five hundred space weapons and three hundred super negative matter cannons, the Earth has the right and the strength to do so. It was precisely this confidence that led Xiao Yu, even knowing a ramming attempt by a half-finished planetary war star was possible, to bring the Earth into the Death Flower Star System.

“Then let us begin.” Xiao Yu gave the order.

The fiercest volley erupted in an instant. On the Earth’s surface, countless busy robots and various machines transported resources to the five hundred space-weapon bases and three hundred super negative matter cannon bases. These resources underwent a series of indescribable physical reactions and, under the guidance of advanced machinery, finally converged within the space-weapon emitters.

At that moment, threads like electric arcs flickered there. After a dozen seconds of flickering, a black filament began to form. It writhed wildly within the emitter as if alive, as though striving to break free of the machine’s restraints.

After it struggled for a minute, it succeeded. Under Xiao Yu’s control, once it had grown sufficiently robust, it was launched. Not being matter itself, it was not constrained by relativity; it could easily exceed the speed of light. The instant it was launched, it passed through the shield layer, reached outer space, and continued forward, slicing everything that dared stand in its way, friend or foe, into two pieces without discrimination.

Accompanying it were another four hundred ninety nine space fissures and three hundred torrents of negative matter. These struck almost simultaneously on the fast-approaching half-finished planetary war star built by the Alliance.

Xiao Yu saw that at the instant it was hit, its brightness surged and then quickly dimmed, flickering once.

A single salvo could not break the planet’s shield. This was within Xiao Yu’s expectations, so without the slightest hesitation he immediately launched a second salvo.

Building upon a planet implies virtually limitless energy supply. With limitless energy, space weapons and negative matter cannons can attack continuously without pause.

The firing frequency of the space weapons and super negative matter cannons rose to nearly one full salvo every ten seconds. At first, the half-finished planetary war star was a thirty minutes’ flight from the Earth. Now less than five minutes remained. This meant that within the mere twenty five minutes of its approach, it had withstood one hundred fifty salvos, each consisting of five hundred space fissure strikes and three hundred torrents of negative matter.

Although this half-finished planetary war star also possessed limitless energy supply, the shield bases upon it simply could not withstand such wave upon wave of energy load demands in a short time. They collapsed. The planetary shield lost its energy supply and vanished.

The Earth’s one hundred fifty salvos shattered the hard outer shell of this half-finished planetary war star.

Xiao Yu’s plan had succeeded in its first step. Only the first step. The planet was still racing toward the Earth and would, in five minutes, collide head-on with it, bringing mutual destruction.

So Xiao Yu immediately initiated the second phase of his plan. Compared with the first phase, the second was unquestionably simple.

Without the protection of a planetary shield, a planet, no matter how advanced its surface-mounted weapons, was nothing but a living target. Under Xiao Yu’s command, a formation of ten thousand ships set out, heading for the planetary war star.

Upon arrival, the ten thousand ships encountered unimaginable interception. Over one million ships participated in intercepting them. Unfortunately for the defenders, a planet is simply too large. When attacking a planet, one does not even need to aim. One simply points the weapons downward and fires. Defending a planet without a planetary shield is the most input-heavy and return-poor endeavor imaginable.

The remaining several thousand ships, braving fierce fire, began ultra-low-altitude flight. During this run, a barrage of bunker-buster missiles was released. Some were destroyed, while others successfully reached the surface. The instant they touched ground, they plunged downward like parched fish seeing water.

These bunker-buster missiles were made with the most advanced Level 5 technologies. Their warheads were equipped with powerful drilling mechanisms and could even neutralize forward material with negative matter to open a path. At the tail, the strongest engines drove them deeper.

Given this planet’s geological structure, Xiao Yu estimated that these missiles could reach depths of three thousand kilometers without issue. Note that this planet’s radius was only a little over six thousand kilometers.

Mounted in the warheads of these bunker-buster missiles was the weapon most suitable for blasting, antimatter bombs.

That is right. Xiao Yu intended to blow the entire planet apart.

Once you are shattered into fragments, how will you ram me then?

That was Xiao Yu’s thought, very simple, very brutal, but very effective.