SFS Chapter 344 Engine Modified into Weapon
Chapter 344 Engine Modified into Weapon
The escape of the Seventh and Eighth Fleets affected the entire solar system's defense lines.
The Star Ring Group's fleet advanced with unstoppable momentum, quickly destroying one defensive turret after another.
"No retreating! No one is allowed to retreat! Keep pushing!"
Communications on the command band were in complete disarray, the entire battlefield was in chaos, and explosions were occurring one after another.
Inside the command center, Radiaz frowned deeply as he watched the casualty figures jump by hundreds every second.
It's a veritable meat grinder on the battlefield. Less than half an hour into the war, the death toll had already exceeded 160,000.
Although most of them were clone soldiers, even if human soldiers only accounted for 10%, it was still a terrifying number of casualties.
The Earth Alliance hadn't experienced such a brutal war in almost a century, but what moved Radiaz so much was that it was all arranged in advance by Luo Congmin.
The conversation that took place half an hour ago included a few words exchanged between the two parties that are unknown to outsiders.
"Radiaz, this war concerns the fate of humanity."
"I know, I will definitely do my best."
“No, you didn’t understand what I meant.” Luo Congmin paused for a moment before saying this.
"Wang Miao said that the third phase of the Ringworld has been completed, but the utilization rate of the residential areas in the Ringworld is 30 percent lower than the original design."
“So… you mean…” Regiaz seemed to have guessed what Luo Congmin was about to say, but he was still unsure.
Luo Congmin did not answer the question directly, but instead made a baseless statement.
"Sometimes, personal suffering is also a choice made by history."
Luo Congmin had a very open-minded view of the outcome of this war, believing that no matter who won in the end, it would not affect the internal development of humanity.
Both sides are aware of this, after all, humanity now possesses the ability to leave the solar system and avoid the Dark Forest attack.
This is also the premise of this war. Without this premise, any attempt to interfere with the normal construction of the Earth Alliance can be regarded as a terrorist organization's action.
The reason why the Star Ring Group dared to launch a sudden attack at this time was because it seized the opportunity that the Ring World had just been completed, and planned to use the technological advantages and popular support of both parties to dismantle the Earth Federation's ruling position.
Many people can't understand why the Earth Alliance, as a regular army, is so far behind the Star Ring Group in terms of technology, even though it has only been a few decades since Luo Congmin granted the Star Ring Group the rights to manufacture weapons.
But after analyzing it, many things become clear.
First, the only thing the Earth Federation has done in recent years is to build the Ring World.
Secondly, everyone knows where the funds to build the ring world will come from; the common people will have to suffer first.
Third, there is a brain drain. All of the Earth Alliance's funds have been invested in the massive project of "Round the World," resulting in extremely low research salaries, making the brain drain almost inevitable.
The combined effect of these three events was that Xinghuan Group had accumulated hundreds of years' worth of skilled workers, leaving Luo Congmin with no one to rely on. As a result, funds could not be collected, which only increased the burden on the people.
Ordinary people don't care whether you're building a ring world or not; they only know that their lives have become harder and their cost of living has increased. Then, when they look at the life of the Star Ring Group next door, it's not surprising that a lot of public intellectuals will praise how great the Star Ring Group is.
After all, in their view, the Land Union is the Land Union of the Lin Party. So what if the Ring World can't be built? At worst, they'll just die. Does the fact that the Ring World can't be built have anything to do with my three thousand dollars a month?
Did you notice? Doesn't this scene seem familiar?
That's how PDC was back then.
Lin Xuan was able to successfully reclaim the rights from PDC using this very tactic.
Now, the boomerang has finally returned, but the roles have been reversed.
The local alliance of the Lin Party is about to be destroyed.
Therefore, Luo Congmin's words actually have two meanings.
First, I want to reassure Rediaz that he can fight without worry. Even if he doesn't fight, I'll still have to kill some of these people later. There are too many people, and I need a reasonable way to reduce their numbers.
Secondly, it involves cleaning up the mess left by the aftermath of this war.
That's right, Luo Congmin wanted to do one last thing for human civilization—to settle accounts with the corrupt officials of the Earth Alliance over the years.
Regardless of who wins the war, she will kill these corrupt officials; this is also a way for her and the Lin Party to protect themselves.
If AiAA successfully overthrows the Earth Alliance, the newly established dynasty will have only two options regarding these corrupt officials in order to maintain stability.
One option is to continue using them, since the Star Ring Group simply doesn't have enough officials to manage the entire civilization; the other is to kill them as soon as possible.
However, based on Luo Congmin's understanding of Ai AA, she would most likely choose the latter. Regardless of whether the official was loyal or treacherous, as long as he was from the previous dynasty, he would be killed. But if Luo Congmin helped her deal with this mess in advance, Ai AA's succession would be much easier.
Ai AA is like a mirror of Cheng Xin. She is an absolute egoist. Such people usually don't have many friends because everyone knows what kind of person she is.
Only a fool like Cheng Xin would consider her a friend.
Radiázs is killing people, and Luo Congmin is also killing people with Zhang Xiang.
Reducing the population by 30% in a short period of time is no easy task.
Not only do we have to kill people from the Earth Alliance, but we also have to kill some people from the Star Ring Group.
The Seventh and Eighth Fleets fled, relentlessly pursued by the Star Ring Group fleet.
But just as the entire Star Ring Group fleet entered the solar system... both fleets suddenly began to slow down collectively.
The next second, streaks of light suddenly lit up in the dark universe.
"Please enter the urn!"
The Star Ring Group's fleet then discovered that, without them noticing, four fleets had gathered around them.
No, they didn't gather; they've been there all along.
However, none of the radar detection devices detected their presence.
They didn't reveal themselves until the entire Star Ring Group fleet was inside the encirclement.
"Damn it, there's an ambush!"
These words did not come from the Star Ring Group's fleet communication frequency, but from the communication frequency of the Seventh and Eighth Fleets.
Clearly, even the Earth Alliance fleet was taken aback by this sudden appearance of reinforcements.
"Damn it, you should have told me you had reinforcements sooner! I thought we were done for."
"All ships, change course! The offensive and defensive strategies have been switched!"
This fleet, which suddenly appeared on the battlefield, was less than one-tenth the size of the Allied Fleet.
But when everyone saw the paint job, they couldn't help but gasp in shock.
"That experimental fleet from the Academy of Sciences!"
The Earth Alliance has three elite fleets: Galaxy, Sun and Moon, and Stars.
However, what people usually see are only the Sun and Moon Fleet and the Galactic Fleet. The Star Fleet, as the Earth Alliance's trump card, is generally difficult to make public.
What people usually see are the ships that have been phased out by the Star Fleet. Only then can people roughly estimate the strength of this fleet.
And now, this fleet, which only existed in legends, has finally appeared before everyone!
"Keep your distance, don't get too close!"
The commander of the Star Ring Group fleet was also taken aback when he saw the fleet that had suddenly appeared.
However, he quickly calmed down.
Although they had long heard of the prowess of Wang Miao and Ding Yi, the Earth Alliance had been focused on building the Ringworld for years and probably hadn't devoted much time to weaponry.
In contrast, the group alliance has far surpassed the Earth Alliance in its research on ships in recent years.
Although Luo Congmin only granted the warship construction rights to the group alliance in recent years, it's easy to guess that the Star Ring Group has been building its own military without authorization all these years.
Take them for example, the starport of this fleet isn't even in the solar system.
While the Earth Alliance was still working tirelessly to build the Ring World, the Star Ring Group had already extended its reach to the vast and boundless universe.
They refused to believe that the fleet these two had developed could be so miraculous...
However, the moment they were proven wrong, it happened so quickly.
All that could be seen were streaks of black light erupting from the main cannons of the Star Fleet, attacking the Star Ring Group fleet, which was surrounded in the middle, from all directions.
That line was completely black, as if it had swallowed up all the light.
Wherever it went, even the light emitted by stars was completely swallowed up.
Although no one knew what it was, the moment the leader of the Star Ring Group saw it, alarm bells went off in his mind.
"Full fleet, advance and avoid these black lights..."
But before he could finish speaking, the black lines began to take effect.
"Buzz!"
A deafening roar resounded deep within everyone's hearts. Although there was no medium for sound waves to travel in the universe, everyone could hear this roar clearly.
In an instant, hundreds of Star Ring Group ships that had not yet managed to leave those black lines were completely swallowed up and disappeared into the universe.
"What the hell is this?"
The remaining fleet of the Star Ring Group was stunned by what they saw. They watched as their own warships, which were densely packed on the radar one second, vanished in an instant the next.
At this moment, on the 7th observation platform, Wang Miao and Ding Yi, whose hair had long since turned white, looked at the star map and smiled at the same time.
"Old Ding, your idea is quite interesting. This kind of space acceleration device can actually be used as a weapon. I always thought the [Dark Tide] project was a research project that advocated gentleness."
Ding Yi shook his head helplessly.
"You've really misunderstood me about this. The Dark Tide project does indeed intend to conduct an experiment on the utilization efficiency of dark matter. Including the initial design concept of the Science Department, it was designed based on the launch star engine."
"But... something unexpected happened."
"What kind of minor accident could cause an engine design project to deviate from its intended purpose and become a weapon?" Wang Miao asked curiously.
“Originally, I had assigned this project to a student because it is quite time-consuming... It would take decades to complete, and I have many projects on hand. However, that student works at the University of Earth Alliance, and their school requires graduates to stay on campus.”
"Promotion or dismissal?"
"Yeah, that's how it is now. There are too many tenured university teachers, so they have to find ways to squeeze out some of them, to force them to resign... You know this, the least important thing for a university teacher is to teach students. A professor without research ability is no good at teaching, and to the university, he is nothing but a useless piece of trash."
Ding Yi's words were harsh, but they did speak the truth. This was the reason why Luo Ji became an academic tailor when he was a professor at Tsinghua University.
"So he had no choice but to ask me if he could use the Dark Tide experimental project to do some research in a few sub-fields and publish a few journal articles. I agreed to this, but I told him that he couldn't use the experimental data I did. So he had to change direction and make innovative breakthroughs, turning the original engine into a weapon."
"The more experiments he conducted, the more he realized that using this thing as a weapon seemed to have a simpler technical process than using it as an engine. So I asked the Academy of Sciences to give him a separate project, and it took two years to develop this thing. And I must say, the results are really good."