Inter-fire

The signal, from ahead of Hawke's course, 10,000 kilometres away.

The trigger type hydrogen bomb detonator is something that Hawke has also done. The basic principle is that it sends out a signal at any time to detect if an object is within a certain distance of itself, and if so, it automatically explodes.

Generally speaking, trigger-type hydrogen bombs are impossible to dodge. This is because with the loss of visible light, the trigger-type hydrogen bomb detonator only emits an extremely weak signal to detect if an object is close to it. Once this signal is observed by the device, it means that it is close enough to detonate the hydrogen bomb.

This time, if Hawke had not happened to align his fleet into a radio telescope array, Hawke would have died without knowing how he died.

There was no way Hawke could have placed a hydrogen bomb on top of his route, so it could only have been placed by that unknown civilization. The purpose was simple: to destroy Hawke.

A large yield hydrogen bomb exploded at close range would instantly explode with extremely intense radiation of all kinds, instantly disrupting electrical circuits and burning sensitive components. It is certain that if these hydrogen bombs are detonated, Hawke will die a horrible death.

Hawke and this hydrogen trap are approaching at a speed of ten kilometres per second. According to the forecast, in fourteen minutes, Hawke will be at the hydrogen bomb detonation point.

This distance was really too dangerous.

"Damn it!" Hawk cursed, no longer caring about hiding his form, he manoeuvred the entire fleet to explode with the strongest power and charged violently towards below.

The array of radio telescopes was instantly broken and the faint signal of this trigger-type hydrogen bomb detonator disappeared from sight.

Hawke didn't dare slow down, manoeuvring the fleet down hundreds of thousands of kilometres before coming to a startled halt. The instantaneous acceleration and deceleration had consumed at least ten percent of the fleet's energy, and Hawke was furious.

"Why? Could this alien civilization be sure that attacking me would gain more benefits than making peace with me? Where did they get the confidence? How can I say that I have mastered controlled nuclear fusion, which is not much different from their level of technology!"

In thousands of years, Hawke had never been so angry.

It was so close! Just a little closer to death! This was a dangerous scenario that Hawke had never even experienced in the Wooden Moon collision. In particular, it was an unmitigated disaster, and originally, Hawke had thought of making peace with the other side.

"Damn, you think I'm a soft touch? I'm going to fight you!" Huo Ke's heart was fierce, and he made up his mind instantly.

While Hawke was thinking about how to launch a counterattack, a little light suddenly emanated from the distance, hundreds of thousands of kilometres away.

Hawke quickly pointed his detection device there, and immediately, his heart grew even more furious: "How dare you launch a missile at me?"

That's right, that bright spot, the flame emitted from the engine of an interstellar missile!

The relative speed of this missile had reached at least three thousand kilometres per second! In other words, in just about thirty seconds, this missile would reach Hawke. And it was certain that this missile, in its combat section, was definitely a large-yield hydrogen bomb.

Hawk immediately manipulated the ten country-class ships to lock onto the missile, aimed at it with the high-powered laser cannon, and then, without hesitation, pressed the launch button. Immediately, ten high-energy lasers were launched from the ten laser cannons and fired at the missile.

Back on Earth, the Yanks had a Star Wars programme, the main part of which was to study how to use satellites placed in space to launch lasers to intercept enemy countries' intercontinental missiles. It can be said that the use of lasers against missiles has precedents on Earth and has been studied in depth.

But the Yankee Star Wars program was never implemented, and no country on Earth has ever actually intercepted a missile with a laser; at most, they have only conducted some tests and shot down a few target satellites.

Now, Hawk is really using lasers in real combat.

The speed at which lasers operate is the speed of light. So even if an interstellar missile were to reach a speed of three thousand kilometres per second, it would be impossible to escape the laser. However, there is a crucial point in this: the speed of the laser is very fast, but the muzzle rotation of the laser launcher is not that fast.

This means that there would have to be extremely fast computers that could calculate the trajectory of the missile in an instant and then manipulate the laser launcher to target it.

The laser's principle is to gather extremely powerful energy in a very small area, which is why it is so powerful, but since the area of effect is small, it means that the laser is unlikely to cause damage to the missile as a whole, instead opting for precision strikes.

For example, by destroying the combat section of the missile and deactivating its detonator. Hawke did not dare to cut the missile directly with the laser. Because of the power limitations of the laser cannon, it would take at least two minutes to cut through a missile made of an extremely tough material.

The time left for Hawke was only thirty seconds. Gritting his teeth, Hawke's powerful calculations burst out at full force, calculating the most likely location of the detonator, and then without hesitation, he shone his laser at that location.

The powerful laser rays continued to burn and melt the area of effect, and finally, the laser penetrated and destroyed the hydrogen bomb detonator. After that, Hawke aimed the laser at the missile engine and began to destroy it. Ten seconds later, the entire missile disintegrated with a loud bang.

The size of the explosion was not large, which proved that it was only the fuel in its engine that had exploded, and not the high yield hydrogen bomb in its combat section.

Hawke was relieved, but the next moment, Hawke's heart tightened up again.

In the distance, hundreds of dots of light appeared at the same time! This meant that there were hundreds of interstellar missiles flying towards Hawke!

"Motherfucker!" Hawk cursed, manipulating all the laser guns and laser cannons on top of the 800-odd ships, using his powerful computing power to the extreme, the usage rate of the central computer shot up to almost ninety percent, and countless lasers shot out.

In space, countless bright lights erupted, among them, missile engines exploded, there was a combat department hydrogen bomb explosion. That was because Hawke had accidentally triggered the damaged detonator of the hydrogen bomb.

Hawke's energy reserves were being depleted at a rapid rate. But at this moment, Hawke could not care less about the pain.

The whole battle lasted only a minute. Hundreds of missiles were wiped out by Hawke, while Hawke's fleet lost twenty village class ships and one village class ship due to three missile interception errors.

"Come on, I'll show you what I can do too." Hawk thought ruthlessly in his mind as the ship's launcher was extended and with the command, nearly one hundred interstellar missiles were launched, trailing their long trailing flames as they raced at a speed of nearly two and a half thousand kilometres a second towards an unknown location in the darkness of space.

By calculating the trajectory of the hundreds of missiles, Hawke had roughly determined the location of the enemy fleet.

Thirty seconds into the flight, at that unknown location, thousands of lasers were suddenly fired, each missile chased by dozens and hundreds of lasers, and in the end, could only explode helplessly in space.

And right in the midst of the glow of the missile explosion, with the help of a high-precision optical detector, Hawke saw an amazing sight.

There, there was a planet.

The planet, from Hawke's position, appeared to be about a few metres in diameter, which suggested that it was, roughly, twice the size of the Earth, and that it was, roughly, one point six times the mass of the Earth. This was the same as Hawke's previous speculation.

Finally, Hawke understood what the satellite was used for. All doubts were cleared up.

Their fleet, indeed, was twice the size of the Earth, and their mass, indeed, was one point six times that of the Earth. For, their fleet, it was a planet!

Through spectral analysis, Hawke also had some data on its atmosphere, a planet with a thick atmosphere, whose main components, were sulphur and nitrogen.

Looking at this amazing scene in front of him, Hawke was shocked.

What was this place? This was the vast universe, the endless darkness of space! Here, even the nearest star was five light years away, how could a planet appear here?

Gradually, a name, appeared in Hawke's mind.

Wandering Planet. In space, a special kind of celestial body existed, and by mass they undoubtedly belonged to the category of planets, yet they did not belong to any star.

Perhaps they had originally had a primary star, but as victims of a gravitational battle, they had been expelled from their otherwise stable stellar orbits and left to wander around in space without a home.

"But how could this planet, in the midst of such an environment, have a gaseous atmosphere? Shouldn't they be frozen solid and fall to the planet's surface? Most importantly, how could intelligent life evolve on such a planet? How could intelligent life have evolved?"

There were more doubts surfacing in Hawke's mind.

The nuclear strike had not received any effect. But this was originally expected by Hawke, who had no intention of hitting the other side with the hundred hydrogen bombs.

After the nuclear bombs exploded, emitting radiation that blocked all signals, Hawke took advantage of the confusion and quickly changed the fleet's course, while maintaining radio silence and isolating all radiation from visible and invisible wavelengths.

Hawke re-hid himself, and at the same time, Hawke locked on to the position of the star sphere.

In war, the side that hid itself would undoubtedly have a great advantage. All Hawke had to do was to hide himself in the darkness and look for an opportunity to strike a fatal blow.