Chapter 374: Chapter 256: Special Battle Fleet and Fire Dragon Giants_l
Translator: 549690339
The moment the final stage was completed, the project team in Summit Tech City simultaneously received the calculation results.
Fifteen minutes later, the design work for the last component was finished.
Atomic-level lab lathes immediately started working, rapidly moving into trial production of components.
Half an hour later, the first single-unit, ultra-high-frequency short sound player weighing half a ton emerged.
It’s a square iron box with sides measuring 0.5 meters long, with an incredibly complex structure inside.
Three days later, about a hundred kilometers away from the orbit of Pluto, a small battleship is stationed.
Harrison Clark, Nora Camp, and several other high-ranking officers of the United Government Armed Forces are standing on the battleship.
However, a square-faced soldier with no expression stands at the forefront of their group, staring into the depths of space with empty eyes.
Under the magnification of a super high-powered optical telescope, a large square box with a side length of one meter is quietly floating there.
The box contains a trial-production version of the ultra-high-frequency short sound player and a set of tarot cards belonging to the square-faced soldier.
Most people’s eyes are focused on Harrison Clark’s face, waiting for him to order the start of the test.
According to the original plan, as soon as Harrison Clark gives the command, the square-faced soldier will raise his finger and press the virtual button in front of his eyes.
2.3 seconds later, a distance of 700,000 kilometers away, the receiver on the outer shell of the large square iron box will receive the gravitational wave signal and respond immediately.
Minuscule direct currents will be generated on the receiver, and transmitted inside through the wires embedded in the thick sound insulation layers.
This is an ancient and traditional process with a not-so-fast response speed, but its biggest advantage is that it is not easily affected by interference and is stable and reliable enough.
Upon receiving the signal, the player inside will respond and immediately play the ultra-high-frequency short sound captured from Harrison Clark’s mind.
Instead of transmitting the sound through the familiar air vibration sound waves, it uses electromagnetic waves as the carrier.
This electromagnetic signal will be confined within the box due to the absolute soundproof materials surrounding the outer box.
A further 0.3 seconds later, as Harrison Clark had said, a terrifying explosion would occur.
The absolute shock of the explosion will sweep across a range with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers, turning this area into nearly a vacuum.
A secondary shock will spread to a thousand kilometers, tearing apart the test subject warship on the edge to pieces.
The deadly shock waves and strong radiation will spread a lethal radius of more than three thousand kilometers, causing death or injury to Hawk Armor-protected Eagle Strike Warriors.
At first glance, the power of this bomb does not completely exceed the imagination of military personnel and scientists, so when they first hear about the power of the particle-interference bomb, they are not particularly frightened, because today’s super-large-yield proton fission and force field tearing composite bombs can theoretically achieve such a level of damage.
But Harrison Clark tells them that invaders do not need any cost to produce particle-interference bombs, nor time constraints, and can also overcome distance limitations.
Furthermore, the killing effect caused by this kind of explosion is absolutely dozens or hundreds of times greater than that of mankind’s current most powerful weapon and is indescribable with words.
The moment the invaders reach the edge of the Solar System, they can ignore the speed of light constraint, directly locate the consciousness of all humans, and use human consciousness as thinking beacons to transcend infinite distances, attaching particle-interference bombs to any cosmic dust particle within the Solar System.
No matter how small the particle is or how far it is from the carrier of the thinking beacon, it can almost be completed instantly.
This means that as many people as there are invaders can create as many particle-interference bombs and make them appear anywhere at any time, allowing them to explode whenever they want.
Fifty-seven billion people, fifty-seven billion particle-interference bombs – what could be more terrifying than having one bomb per person, located right above everyone’s head?
In fact, Harrison Clark had never seen such a scene before; he simply made a speculation based on the previous situation.
When the invaders deliver the particle-interference bombs in advance through the Solar System barrier, they need to locate them on the heads of commander-level humans with more active thinking, stronger willpower, and more intense brain quantum storms.
However, when their warships arrive in person, allowing for more intense and subtle control, ordinary people are also not immune and can serve as carriers for bomb production without needing to locate a particular hobby as a medium.
The reason why Harrison Clark dared to conclude this is that the total number of particle-interference bombs sent by invaders in the previous timeline exceeded the total number of human commanders.
But even though humans have now obtained these bombs, they still cannot control them as subtly as the invaders, still requiring hobby-carriers as media and cannot accurately detonate them in specific locations.
If a large quantity of bombs is prepared and a handsome young man comes along saying, “I’ll set off a small firework first,” then the ultra-high-frequency short sound sweeps across the entire space, and when he looks back, the Earth has been blown up.
So, to solve the problem, they can only make a semi-closed system like this, with one box and one set of components.
In order to prevent interference during combat that keeps the signal from detonating, the most stable gravitational wave signal is used as the carrier when carrying out remote control operations.
Moreover, they cannot leave the detonation authority solely in the hands of commanders, as if the signal is cut off during battle, it will still be a waste of effort.
That is why they have adopted the cross-double control system as it is now: it can be commanded by Harrison Clark and executed by the operator, and can be independently decided by the loaders corresponding to each particle-interference bomb.
“Let’s start the test.” Seeing that Harrison Clark wasn’t making any moves, Nora Camp gently nudged his shoulder.Harrison Clark thought for a moment, “No more tests.”
“Why?” Martha Owen was puzzled.
Lowering his voice, Harrison Clark said, “No reason. Consider the experiment successful and immediately start expanding production capacity. Select… two hundred thousand load carriers.”
After saying that, he waved his hand.
Not every matter needs to be explained to technicians. It’s enough that he knows it himself.
Just now, he suddenly realized that since the invaders could temporarily change their strategy to abandon playing the ‘Song of the Wilderness’ and deploy the S Bacteria instead 500 years ago, it means that the invaders have a way to scan the situation inside the Solar System to some extent.
If the bomb was detonated in advance, the invaders who would arrive in less than a month might discover it beforehand and make preparations.
Their trump card would lose its element of surprise.
However, another possibility cannot be ruled out, that is, the existence of the stars, and the human research on particle-related matters has always been exposed.
If the enemy is so well-informed that they know even this top-secret information, Harrison Clark has no strategy for it either.
What can I do? I can’t just do nothing, right?
Let’s just try it. It won’t hurt if I guess wrong.
In the next twenty days, the human race completed several major tasks.
The fleet of two hundred thousand load carriers was successfully assembled.
The selection process was held in secret, and those selected would be clearly informed that they would be subjected to playing the ‘Song of the Wilderness’ and would lose their human emotions.
The entire selection process was voluntary, and before making a decision, those selected were forbidden to communicate with each other. People didn’t even know who among them had been selected.
Unfortunately, humans cannot control the ‘Song of the Wilderness’ to the same extent as the invaders.
After thorough research, the project team found that only middle and high-level leaders can catalyze special interest carriers after losing emotions.
Considering the instability and potential harm of the particle-interference bombs, and the fact that the battle sequence cannot lose all middle and high-level commanders simultaneously.
In the end, the Three Major Committees jointly deliberated, and with Harrison Clark’s decision, the middle and upper-level commanders were selected from the Eagle Strike Warriors and shipborne soldiers, such as medium-sized ship captains or Falcon squadron leaders.
The selection target started from the bottom of the comprehensive score ranking and worked its way upwards.
If anyone refused, it would automatically be postponed upwards until two hundred thousand people were selected.
A total of more than five million candidates in the army reached this level.
At first, Harrison Clark thought it would take at least nearly two million informed people to complete the selection.
After all, being a particle loader meant losing almost all emotions and carrying out the deadliest mission, which is not a simple sacrifice.
But unexpectedly, the selection was completed with just two hundred thousand inquiries and no refusals. Everyone agreed to change positions on the spot, quietly leaving the combat sequence and joining the special task force composed of fifty thousand small warships with specially enhanced mobility.
The special task force was led directly by Harrison Clark himself.
Each person in the fleet would receive targeted Hawk Armor training, focusing on enhancing their mobility and assault capabilities.
Each person’s Hawk Armor would be equipped with extra pseudo-curvature engines, surpassing the five of Sky Eagle and only second to the six of Dragon Eagle.
Rectangular Particle Bombs would be installed on 200,000 self-destructing combat beasts, working in tandem with the loaders.
The goal is to form a suicide squad.
The middle-level commanders who couldn’t await their selection saw lower-ranked peers suddenly disappear. Although they wouldn’t ask, they could tell with their toes that these people were on a secret mission, and they were envious.
In addition to the above work, the Science Committee and Industry Committee completed another task.
Beyond the ranks of the joint military fleet, the giant space shipyard worked overtime. Using all the remaining energy, 5,000 giant transport ships were produced, each capable of carrying approximately 600,000 people. They were named Fire Dragon Giants.
Each Fire Dragon Giants ship was 13,600 meters long, with a bullet-shaped layout, equipped with ultra-large pseudo-curvature engines and high-power, high-limit resistant medium engines, as well as advanced reverse magnetic unified triple force shields and transmission field shields.
When running at full power and full speed, the Fire Dragon Giants could reach higher acceleration capabilities than a carrier, only slightly lacking in maneuverability. Their endurance could reach 300 light-years.
To maximize acceleration capabilities, the Fire Dragon Giants only equipped light firepower, equivalent to that of medium-sized warships, besides the neutron shielding layer.
In addition, each Fire Dragon Giants ship had too small escape vessels, capable of accommodating 1,000 people and with a total endurance of 76 light-years.
Some escape vessels carried frozen embryos ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 in number.
With this, humanity completed all preparations..
