Chapter 531: Space Shatterer_1

Yue Tong and the crew had been flying over the surface of the massive planet.

Yue Tong had also heard the conversation Jiang Yu had with the creatures on this planet. He imagined in his mind that Heavenly Mother now had only one weapon left to use, yet it was still so powerful.

If used in conjunction with other weapons, could the Second Group Army still fight on equal terms with the enemy?

The enemy was continuously using a very primitive tactic: ramming!

As a result, this form of suicidal ramming had already led to the loss of hundreds of human warships.

However, the casualties among the personnel were not significant. Aside from the first few warships that lost contact, when other ships were attacked by the enemy's debris, the crew would take the opportunity to abandon ship quickly while the enemy was occupied with Galaxy III.

If the enemy had any other long-range weapons, the situation would have been ten times, or even a hundred times, more difficult.

In Yue Tong's wild imaginings, the warship coming to their rescue entered the atmosphere of the giant planet.

Heavenly Mother's reaction really seemed like that of a "vegetable", only knowing how to set traps, attacking humanity's main force, but when humanity landed on her "body", she had no reaction at all.

After rescuing Yue Tong, the rescue fleet immediately headed back.

The warships climbed laboriously for a long time, exerting all their effort before they finally escaped the gravitational pull of the massive planet.

After the fleet had flown some distance, Yue Tong and the others suddenly heard a strange sound.

Woo-hoo~

It was like the sound of wind.

Immediately after that, there was another sound: Hum~

And a violent shaking followed.

This sensation of shaking was strange, as if the air around them, everything around them, was vibrating, even their souls seemed to be vibrating.

Was this the legendary Dark Matter Detonator? How powerful was it?

Yue Tong immediately looked at the effect image created by Galaxy III. At the location of the massive planet, it seemed as if space itself had been shaken apart.

Indeed, it was shaken apart.

That was the most intuitive feeling from the effect image, as if a long crack had appeared at the location of the massive planet.

What followed was the space collapsing like shattered glass.

This was an explosion without visible flames, yet it was the most powerful explosion in human history.

Even in a severe nuclear explosion, only the matter in space would be affected, but this explosion had blown a hole in space itself.

It was as though the previous weapons of humanity had been like slapping hands in a spacious room, but this time it was like swinging a hammer, smashing a hole in the ceiling!

Two minutes later, the spaceship detected a brief phenomenon of spatial reversal around it.

Looking back at the position of the massive planet, there was nothing left. All the matter there had been blasted into other dimensions, leaving a void in space.

The surrounding space immediately closed up the void, and the brief spatial reversal that had occurred was due to space concentrating towards the void.

Next, they began post-battle cleanup.

Three group armies began to clear every planet in Star System Three from different directions, to ensure no Trisolarans slipped through the net.

A planetary system was so vast; if a few Trisolaran ships hid inside some celestial body, it would be almost impossible to find them.

Since they were so hard to find, they might as well dismantle these planets. Photon Particle No.2, which had been completed, was also brought over with the Star Accelerator, started storing energy, preparing to destroy the star of Star System Three.

After such a thorough search, they truly flushed out a group of Trisolarans who had hidden on the planets, hoping to escape after the human warships had withdrawn.

They generally lacked interstellar vessels, having only some planet-class warships of a smaller scale.

Such spacecraft were neither fast nor capable of traveling great distances.

In both the present and the future, battles with the Trisolarans were doomed to never produce prisoners of war.

...

Jiang Yu and the others arrived at the frontier base on the outer edge of the Qingnv Star System as scheduled.

When Cao Yang was setting forth on his campaign, this frontier base was essentially just a steel framework; now, it has become a bustling Space City.

There were three of these frontier bases in total, one of which was still under construction.

In the future, the frontier bases would serve as the ports of the New Continent Star System.

Jiang Yu couldn't help but reflect on how about ten centuries ago, humanity used the edges of continents as ports, crossing the Atlantic and Indian oceans onboard sailing ships—a single trading voyage would take several years.

Several centuries ago, humanity began building spaceports in near-Earth orbits. To this day, Jiang Yu still remembered the appearance of Yellow River Station; initially, the journey from Earth to Jupiter required six years.

Now, humanity was constructing frontier bases on the periphery of planetary systems, and reaching nearby star systems took only a few years.

In a few years, would traveling from one planetary system to an adjacent one be as convenient as current travel from one planet to another?

Usually, one could reach their destination within a few days to a month, and crossing an entire star system took no more than half a year.

This was because the acceleration and deceleration phases took up too much time; without the need to stop within star systems, the spacecraft could truly stretch their legs.

In a few years, would journeying from one planetary system to a neighboring one be as quick as traveling from Asia to the Americas today, where an aircraft only took a dozen minutes or so, with most of that time being spent on taking off and landing?

Even underground transportation took at most half an hour.

Gazing out of the porthole at the starscape from his luxurious suite, Jiang Yu marveled at the grand sweep of human progress.

"Wow~"

The cry of a child brought Jiang Yu back to reality, and he quickly got up to help Yang Dong soothe the baby.

On the way to the frontier base, Yang Dong had given birth to a chubby little boy for Jiang Yu.

Holding his son, Jiang Yu swayed him in his arms and said, "In a few days, we're going to travel at the speed of light, aren't you excited?"

He sighed, "By the time our first leg of the journey is over, your sister will be sixty years old!

"Back in your dad's younger days, that was an old granny."

It was unclear whether it was the rocking motion or the child's interest in hearing Jiang Yu's rambling speech, but the child really stopped crying.

After a few days of rest, the fleet linked up with the Star Accelerator, and they began their forty-plus light-year journey at the speed of light.

Before entering light-speed, the military and the Academy of Sciences each presented their summary report on the Earth battle and analysis report on the communication with the gigantic planet's lifeforms.

These two reports could serve to relieve the boredom on the trip.

The first report was a military one co-authored by Zhuang Yue and Cao Yang, who both believed that the battle had exposed a gap in human warships' mobility.

The current mode of operation was that the nuclear engines could only function at low power during light-speed flight to avoid damaging the Star Accelerator.

This posed a major problem - during the period of entering warp, the warships were almost bereft of fighting capability.

Although the current Star Accelerators were much more powerful, they still required about a day to switch into warp flight mode.

During this day or so, warships were placed in a perilous position.