The No. 037 combat spaceship piloted by Lu Yan rushed to the front of the queue. This was not because her spacecraft had better performance, but because she ignited the spacecraft's engine before the nuclear explosion fireball had dissipated.
Due to the very fast relative speed, the target quickly changed from a slender icicle to a huge mist-shrouded behemoth in front of her. Through the thin white mist, she could even see the mottled pits on the icicle. The entire icicle
Dirty, like a gnawed corn kernel.
Lu Yan activated the fire control radar, and the target was locked close to the missile's limit position. She pressed the launch button without hesitation, and several missiles with thermobaric warheads were launched from the combat spaceship. The trajectory of the missile
It didn't directly attack the icicle, but flew to somewhere on the ice's path.
Soon, the icicles like the Pillars of Creation passed silently past her eyes. While feeling the shock of its huge body, she seemed to see even cracks on the icicles.
Lu Yan looked at the radar screen, and the image above immediately confirmed her guess. This was not a complete icicle, but a combination of several even small segments. On the radar image, every broken gap could be seen.
They were very clear. What surprised her was that their broken lengths were as even as if they had been cut by a huge kitchen knife.
"Why haven't you launched yet?" Lu Yan asked angrily on the radio.
"We have accelerated with full thrust, but we still have not entered the effective range. It is accelerating!" The radio sounded the roars of other spacecraft pilots.
At the last moment, the missile launched by Lu Yan finally caught up with the icicle that was heading towards the blue planet behind her. After a few faint flashes of fire, the icicle did not change much. And Lu Yan, who was deep behind the icicle,
I saw the red light glowing on the blackened material at the back end of the icicle.
She piloted the spacecraft to speed up and catch up to see what was going on, but soon a crimson light appeared on the head of the icicle. The light illuminated the entire icicle as if it had just been taken out of a forge and was burning red.
Steel bars. This means that the icicle has entered the outer atmosphere and the combat spacecraft cannot continue to attack.
A huge fire dragon crossed the sky of the Eastern Hemisphere. It was carrying scarlet flames and dragging billowing black smoke across the blue sky. It was like a blood-stained butcher knife cutting a tragic path in the sky.
of scars.
Zhou Cheng looked at the fire dragon slowly streaking across the sky through the porthole in the stratosphere, as if he heard its rumbling roar. He grasped the armrests of the seat tightly with both hands. Although he knew very well that his location was far away.
The burning icicles were very far away, but its terrifying atmosphere seemed to come from the nearby air. He felt like he could smell the burning smell of the air.
"Report! The target height is 50,000 meters, the speed is 970m/s, and it has passed over Jinghua!"
"Report! The target height is 40,000 meters and the speed is 720m/s. It has passed over Yuzhou!"
"Report! The target height is 30,000 meters, the speed is 560m/s, and there are signs of splitting!"
The bright reports of technical officers sounded densely in the Space Force combat command center. As the number of reports increased, the atmosphere became more and more relaxed, because the position of the icicle passed over most densely populated areas and important military strongholds.
The last reported altitude was below 10,000 meters, the speed had also dropped to 300m/s, and the position of the icicle had entered the desolate northwest territory. Soon, a staff officer walked up to Chai Shizheng in unison. His face was filled with joy.
With a proud smile:
"Report General! The target disappeared somewhere above Lop Nur in the northwest desert. At the same time, the Shadu City Seismic Monitoring Station received a set of seismic wave signals with a magnitude of 5.2 on the Richter scale. The epicenter position basically coincided with the location where the signal disappeared, and the focal depth came from the surface.
The target fell into the desert, and there are no reports of casualties or property losses! General! Our interception was successful!" At the end of the sentence, the staff officer's voice was already trembling with excitement. The officers in the combat command center all cheered spontaneously
There was loud applause.
Chai Shizheng let out a long breath and straightened his military cap. Xia Lan looked at the seismic waveform diagram that was extremely even and divided into several segments on the big screen and was in a daze.
"Dr. Xia Lan, this seismic wave pattern was transmitted from the Shadu Seismic Monitoring Station. Do you see any problem?" a staff officer asked.
Xia Lan shook her head, with a long-lost charming smile on her face:
"The waveform graph shows uniform fluctuations. I think it is caused by the continuous collision of the icicles after they break into several segments before hitting the ground. This should be no problem."
"That's great!" the staff officer replied excitedly.
Wei Xu, other colleagues who were housed in the Academy of Sciences, and their families gathered on the second floor of the underground garage. Most of them were wearing helmets and holding weapons in their hands. Because it was a danger warning, they did not
They did not form a column and line up at the garage door like they did during the battle drill. Instead, they gathered densely around a few thick pillars in the center of the garage on the second floor below.
Under the dim light, LCD monitors were hung on the four sides of each pillar, and the broadcast footage of the interception operation was being played on them. The flickering light of the monitors was reflected in more than a thousand pairs of expectant and nervous eyes. In the garage
It was so quiet that it was as if there was no one here at all. People held their breaths and watched the movement of the ice debris on the map.
The moving map on the screen finally stopped on a rooster-like figure, and the intersection position of the crosshairs was locked somewhere on the rooster's tail.
"According to the latest confirmed situation, the ice debris after being intercepted by the nuclear bomb fell somewhere in the northwest desert. There are currently no losses of personnel or property! We have achieved a significant first in the face of the invasion of powerful alien civilizations.
victory...."
The expected cheers did not appear immediately, and everyone was still staring blankly at the screens in front of them. A few seconds later, one after another mobile phone text message notifications broke the tranquility in the dark garage. Wei Xu struggled
He took out his mobile phone from the pocket under his armed bag:
"Dear citizens, please note that the emergency evacuation alert has been lifted. Citizens are asked to leave their respective underground civil air defense projects in an orderly manner..."
Wei Xu was reading the message repeatedly, and the same broadcast came from the TV screen on the pillar. Lin Tianyu beside him patted him on the shoulder and shouted excitedly:
"Old Guard! Our interception worked! We won!"
The crowd that originally stood like statues suddenly became excited, and cheers and cries echoed in the garage. People congratulated each other and began to walk out, but they did not return to the building through the stairs, but all at once.
and walked out of the garage.
This situation happened in almost every building, supermarket, community and subway station. People took to the streets one after another. The streets that were empty a few minutes ago were completely deserted in almost the blink of an eye.
Before the crisis era, such grand events were only possible in the major urban centers of the countries that won the Football World Cup. Now, whether it is noon or early morning, the streets of most cities around the world have turned into a sea of jubilation.
Wei Xu followed the crowd onto the crowded streets. People waved their helmets or weapons. They raised their arms and shouted, cried with joy, hugged each other, or shook hands... Everyone was suppressed by the twelve years of the crisis era.
It's too heavy.
Wu Fan and Liu Mengzhu were hugging each other and kissing each other as if no one else was around. Lin Tianyu had disappeared. Wei Xu took off his heavy helmet and stretched his neck. When he subconsciously looked at the sky, the smile on his face was
He froze involuntarily.
In the clear sky, the two flowing clouds, light and dark, that almost collided with each other, were still in the sky.