Chapter 22: The Countdown to Destruction I

A month ago, in outer space, the Mirage space station. High-speed updates

The only way to get here from Earth is in a manned spacecraft. Even in the 22nd century in this parallel universe, it is still not easy to send people into space. In the field of aerospace, it may be the only remaining patented technology in the empire.

It is impossible for the rebel group to develop such a resource-intensive technology industry that does not bring much tangible return when the base area is not yet secure. Even if you don't count the cost of manpower and technology, just talking about the cost of a space shuttle can arm a ground force.

But in space, there is indeed a weapon of great strategic value - Genesis.

As mentioned above, these three words often come up with nuclear bombs, as they have one fundamental thing in common: they are both weapons of destruction that are recognized as needing to be disabled. Generally speaking, it will only be used passively when faced with a certain person or thing that poses a serious threat to the life and civilization of all mankind.

The reason why Zhuge Zhai dared to bring nuclear weapons to Tiandu as a backup plan was also to take into account the special circumstances of the situation. Today, the city is more than just a symbol. At this stage of the war, the nobles and royalties of the other counties on the earth have basically fled here, of course, it cannot be said that all of these people are evil, but no matter who they are, they will be hated by the common people equally.

In the face of great right and wrong, great favor and great hatred, personal thoughts and behaviors are insignificant.

It's like in another parallel universe, where the "patriotic youth" of a certain country always want to destroy a certain island country. In terms of the current situation, although the use of nuclear bombs against Tiandu is not a conventional means, it may not be without supporters. Under the rule of the empire, there are so many netizens on the Internet who are clamoring to enter the heavenly capital, and they should be applauding.

Getting back to business, let's talk about these two weapons. The most intuitive difference between the two is naturally reflected in the effect produced when attacking. This can be illustrated with an example: suppose God exists and that He has a big face. Then when the nuclear bomb explodes in his face, he will be widely disfigured and perennially under the influence of radiation, and when he is attacked by Genesis. His entire face would be intact, except that his nose would be gone, replaced by a large black hole in the circle.

It's a difficult choice, you want a detonator to explode against your face. I still want to be stabbed vertically in the face by the cylindrical laser sword......

From a strategic point of view, Genesis should be superior to nuclear bombs. Genesis sends shè directly from space, and the shockwave of destruction reaches the target area in seconds, with little time to escape and no means of defense. Even if you can create a directional force field that is strong enough to resist the power of Genesis, I am afraid that it will not be too late to react when the attack arrives, unless someone can tell you in advance when Genesis will be sent shè, and the time jīng is exactly a second.

Nuclear bombs seem to be easier to deal with, and there is still a chance to intercept them while the missiles are in flight, or on the way to be dropped by transport aircraft. After all, the reconnaissance weapons of this era are still relatively strong. The technology of various small UAV bodies is also quite mature.

Of course. There is only one Genesis device, and the nuclear warhead ...... It's hard to say how much of the earth exists.

The world's only Genesis device is located on the Mirage space station. As its name suggests, the "Phantom" is supposed to be non-existent, and as a project that generates financial expenditures every year, it does not even have an official designation. Therefore, it is even more impossible to have a complete archive.

The Mirage is both a space station and a spacecraft. After discarding some of its parts, it can return to Earth with the Genesis device. In order to ensure that the location is not discovered. The station's special force field can also shield 98% of detection methods from Earth, and theoretically even the naked eye of certain capable people cannot find flaws.

The Phantom is staffed by a total of twelve professionals, including six professionals with different professional skills, each with one full-time executive and one standby alternate, with rotations ranging from one to three years. The specific period and period of rotation are indefinite, and will generally be notified 48 hours before the proceeds, and after the replacement on the ground arrives by space shuttle, the replaced person must immediately return by space shuttle.

These twelve people are required to undergo psychological testing at least once a week, and if there is an abnormal state of the Jīng god, the Tiandu side will issue an order to the other crew members according to the situation, and the rest of the personnel on the Phantom are obliged to imprison or terminate the jīng god anomaly, regardless of their function.

The Mirage is not a weather satellite, nor is it responsible for scientific research, and the crew's mission here is to maintain the Genesis, as well as ...... In some cases, the command to use the weapon is carried out. The only base of communication with them is in the Imperial Palace of Tiandu, where a ground team with the highest level of authority in the Empire oversees the operation of the Phantom, and their job is to ensure that the weapon is in good condition and that the crew members who stay with it are sane and loyal. As for the only person who could give the order to use Genesis, there was only one emperor.

The whole project seems to be working very well and is foolproof, but ......

One day in February, an uninvited guest was welcomed into the universe.

A canister-shaped object the size of a telephone booth broke through the second cosmic velocity, flew out of the atmosphere, and approached the orbit of the Phantom. Humans have been flying into the universe for more than 100 years, and there is a lot of space junk of this size near the earth. So, when the thing approached, the crew of the Mirage simply used the beam weapons on the outside of the station to shatter it, turning it into a safe collision volume that the station could withstand...... That is, the pieces.

Little did they know it was a miniature space shuttle, and there was a passenger in it.

The shadow of yīn in outer space is as dark as the wet black velvet of cháo, and if one were surrounded by such darkness, one could fall asleep with his eyes open. It is under the cover of such an environment...... A black sè semi-liquid humanoid approached the Phantom and attached itself to the surface of the space station, waiting patiently in the universe for several days before finally finding an opportunity to dive into it......

What happened later was similar to a horror movie, "Alien I", "Black Hole Surface", "Black Sè Friday X", and I don't need to tell you that you know what Darkwater did.

In short, it didn't take long. The space station was controlled by him. Darkwater plays the role of the twelve horns and goes for a psychological test as usual (the process of the test is that a psychiatrist on Earth talks to the twelve crew members one by one on the weekend of each week. The conversation time required per person is generally about 10 minutes. So Darkwater kept coming out of the room, changing its appearance, and going back in...... ), and maintain some regular communication with the ground (regular communication does not require video to be turned on).

It's been like this for more than half a month. The dark water didn't show the slightest flaw, and Tiandu didn't have any suspicion at all.

It is clear that this operation has been planned for a long time, both in terms of the ability to survive in outer space on rudimentary lift-off equipment. It is still the ability to imitate, which can only be done by the powerful Fourth Kingdom outlier of Dark Water, and it is precisely because of his existence that the execution of this kind of task is possible.

As the gunsmith said to Tianyi, "You planned everything half a year ago, so let me and the marshal make 'that'." The "that" here refers to the miniature space shuttle.

Tianyi's requirements are very simple, it doesn't need to be treated as a thing for people to ride at all, as long as it can transport about a tank of liquid into space. It doesn't matter if you make a big can of titanium alloy and come out.

Thereupon. On March 11, when the sun rises in the 11th East Region (time zone), at the appointed moment, the dark waters will allow an inevitable destruction to fall from the sky.

............

At 4:30 a.m., the palace was on fire.

King Kong is throwing Samael into the sea. The black snake is huge, but King Kong's strength at the moment is not small. It was the monster that was flying in the air that was torn off alive.

Samael focused on the paper man and didn't notice it for a while. Unable to resist its strength, he was thrown off the outer wall on the east side of the floating island and fell into the sea.

But the height of the heavenly capital was there, and Samael had plenty of time to adjust in the air, and he stopped his fall before he could touch the sea, and just as he approached the surface, the fiery energy of his bony wings steamed up a large white mist on the water.

From a very long distance, the giant shadow of the black snake seemed to be a scorpion with no pincers and a straight body, slowly swimming upwards and re-landing above the floating island.

Samael rose in height, and as soon as he emerged, he was attacked head-on by a windy shredded paper. He didn't hesitate, the mouth of the snake opened, and the black mang exploded, this time the black mang did not spread in a straight line, but turned into countless ghostly black shadows and flew out.

The huge disadvantage of the ability in physical form made the paper man's paper quickly defeated, Samael's snake head was protected by those black sè substances, and there was a blazing flame of bone wings behind the snake body, and Paper Man was at a loss for a while, and it was difficult to get close.

King Kong was not afraid of this, after drinking double the standard dose of Doushen Wine, he only felt that the power was pouring out of his body, and the strength of his steel skin surged.

A little under his feet, his tall body burst out with a speed that was not inferior to that of a madman. He leaped high in front of Samael's snake's belly, ignoring the oncoming heat, his arms trembling, his ten fingers embedded in the snake's belly, his palms twisted outward, and he tore hard at the sides, disemboweling the monster.

He succeeded, and a section of the black snake's long and narrow belly was torn open by his brute force. But what happened in the next second made King Kong regret it.

After dissecting Samael's snake belly, a pool of black sè corrosive liquid gushed out directly from the inside, King Kong was close, naturally he was splashed, although he had energy protection, he had to quickly close his eyes, so as not to damage his eyeballs.

The moment he closed his eyes, a corpse soldier sprang out of the snake's belly, jumped onto King Kong's shoulder, opened his mouth and bitten. The corpse soldier's black teeth were shattered by King Kong's hard skin when its jaw closed, but the corpse soldier did not know the pain, and went crazy, and continued to bite with the broken teeth a few times, and slashed with his sharp claws, and attacked wildly. If it were an ordinary person, I am afraid that it would have been broken a long time ago, but King Kong could easily withstand this kind of attack.

King Kong didn't care about the monkey's tickling attack, but subconsciously kicked Samael, and flew backwards with his strength, he closed his eyes, grabbed the corpse soldier riding on his shoulder, and then raised his other arm, and with a loud shout, he pulled the corpse soldier in two and threw it out.

He wiped his face, hissing on his fingers and skin, but King Kong opened his eyes nonchalantly: "What the hell......" he spat and cursed in a low voice.

As soon as he saw the scene in front of him, King Kong's expression changed, and Samael's torn snake belly was like an open portal, and countless corpse soldiers jumped out one after another.

Those black sè corpse soldiers looked basically humanoid, their bodies covered under the corrosive xìng liquid of black sè, many of them lacked arms and legs, and most of them had sharp teeth and fangs. In addition to the hideousness on the faces of the corpse soldiers, there was an extremely distorted pain.

Every time Samael swallows a person, he can create one more such corpse soldier, as long as he wants, he can create an army with ** combat power several times that of ordinary humans, and he knows no fear and moves forward bravely. However, the weakness of the corpse soldiers is also significant, they do not have the ability to think, their intelligence is simply not enough to use human technological combat weapons, and if Samael does not control it, they can only act according to instinct.

From the appearance of the mirror face, until this moment, King Kong can be said to be more and more desperate the more he fights. Before, when it was four against one, it couldn't hurt each other at all, but now it's finally hurt, but it's just discovered a new ability of this monster.

"What the hell is this guy??, the demon god who escaped from hell?" King Kong gritted his teeth and punched out a few corpse soldiers who rushed forward, but there were too many corpse soldiers, and there was a steady stream of corpse soldiers, and if he went down, he would be buried in the corpse pile.

"The flying one is not easy to catch, so I'll swallow you first, hiss......" Samael said with the snake head lowered, and after releasing a considerable number of corpse soldiers, his snake belly healed quickly.

How could King Kong sit still and wait for death, seeing the pressure from the snake's mouth, he quickly shook off the two corpse soldiers who bit his arm, kicked a few more with a sweep, and quickly turned around and leaped backwards.

Samael's snake body was no slower than his, shaking off his bone wings and scattering his sparks. He kept his mouth open and flew straight forward.

In just a few seconds, King Kong was caught up and was about to be swallowed.

Suddenly, a bloody shadow flashed, and at an incredible speed, rushed into the black snake's huge mouth from the side, and then rushed out from the other side, pulling Samael's forked tongue with his hand, and pulling the snake's head in a different direction. (To be continued.) )

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