Apocalypse: The Stronghold System

Chapter 169: Killing Space Worms, and Isolating Locations

Boom up!

A powerful explosion surrounded the Space Worm that was receiving attacks from space, making its body scar everywhere, it opened its mouth and roared, roaring, but it makes no sound other than strong electromagnetic waves spreading and there is a gravitational force around it.

The strong gravitational field pulls the projectile made of tungsten and falls to the ground without delay, the thrust of which should be faster and then to a constant, it also suddenly stopped without giving any damage to the Space Worm in the slightest.

The nuclear transport plane flew at a low altitude, so it was attracted by the gravitational field created by the Space Worm, forcing it to crash at a 90° angle.

Coupled with the maximum speed used by the aircraft, it crashed in seconds.

The aircraft activated the method of self-destruction by igniting the entire nuclear bomb that was transported inside.

Boom up!

Bigger explosions than ever occurred, and this time the fire was completely lit despite the lack of air on Mars. The fire soared to form a giant mushroom, the thick smoke rising very high beyond the height of Mount Olympus.

When the smoke passed through the gigantic flames, suddenly an aftershock came and formed a ring of fire that surrounded the smoke, it spread out in all directions with high temperature.

The ground at the center of the blast shattered into a deep crater tens of kilometers in diameter and continued to expand as another nuclear exploded. Severe tremors can be felt thousands of kilometers from the center of the explosion, followed by earthquakes in half of Mars due to plate movement.

Dust storms are created because the explosion is too large and affects the atmosphere above it, strong radiation also begins to damage the surrounding environment even though it is already very damaged.

Note: Chapter 71 previously said that there is no radiation only because it uses Energy Crystals, but in fact those associated with nuclear always have radiation in different levels. Chapter 71 has been edited.

Although there is radiation produced by nuclear explosions, Mingyue Defense has technology that is able to remove radiation, so it does not need to wait hundreds of years to remove it. Plus a nuclear manufacturing method that uses Energy Crystals, which is better than Helium-3 which is said to have lower radiation than Tritium and Deuterium.

The Plasma Cannon, which was on standby in space, fired a shot towards the center of the nuclear explosion to ensure that the Space Worm was actually dead!

A blue beam with a diameter of 12 meters shot down carrying particles and ions inside, it struck right in the middle of a nuclear explosion.

The thick smoke in the sky was split apart by the falling plasma rays, it gave rise to an enormous and destructive explosion. The ground exploded, scattering in all directions blown by the shockwave that carried hot air, sweeping away whatever it passed through and turning it into dust under the high temperatures.

On the other hand, thousands of kilometers from the center of the explosion, Fan Chen had already gathered with the other team, or rather he had forcibly transferred their consciousness to another Substitute Robot. As for the previous Replacement Robot, it was severely damaged due to being hit by electromagnetic waves generated by Space Worms and nuclear explosions.

Fan Chen did not know how things were going there, but sensing from the vibrations present and the thick smoke in the sky, he knew that this explosion was brought to Earth and dropped it into the sea, then unimaginable destruction will occur. However, whether the Space Worm could be killed or not, he did not know about it.

Yun Mingyue looked up, then turned to look at her son. "Chen'er, is there possibly another Space Worm here?"

Fan Chen did not immediately reply, even though many gazes were directed at him to wait for a response. He thought of the terrifying possibilities about the Space Worm and the peculiarities on the Hydrogen Wall.

Hydrogen walls are formed due to the confluence of solar winds and interstellar winds. The Space Worms come to a hot place like the core of the earth in the deepest part of the Mariana Trench even to dig it up, then there is a soak in the magma on Mount Sakurajima, the source said, and now there are people living on Mars.

Fan Chen thought there was most likely a Space Worm living on Mars to get high heat, moreover, there was a Space Worm that ate nuclear fusion to increase power. The largest nuclear fusion in the Solar System is the Sun itself...

How, if Space Worms come to the Sun to turn off the Sun faster than they should, then the solar wind is disrupted so that the Hydrogen Wall that protects the Solar System will disappear. At that time, all civilizations waiting outside the Solar System, would enter the Solar System and either annihilate humanity or take it to become slaves.

"Then, if we take place with a solid atmosphere other than Earth and have liquid, then Titan, the natural satellite of Saturn. There's a possibility there's a Space Worm."

Everyone fell silent without being able to say anything, they did not expect that there would be such an outcome.

Katerina herself remained calm, as if this was not all that surprising to her.

Admiral Su looked at the thick smoke that had just been split by the plasma rays, and quietly said, "The threat on Earth is not over yet, and now there is a new threat outside the Solar System."

Fan Chen did not say anything more, and the matter regarding the asteroid that led to Earth, he himself did not tell anyone other than Yun Mingyue, either, Fan Xiaoyu and the related personnel who did understand about outer space in Mingyue Defense, even the scientists who came from the Imperial City, the Bald Eagle Country, and the Bear Country did not know about this.

"We go there, and after that, the team will be back in split according to their initial mission. You also have to make sure there are no more Space Worms, and if you meet them, kill them, or ask for reinforcements if you can't."

Without delay, they returned to their respective Magnet Levitation Cars and went in the same direction.

It didn't take long to get there because there was no air resistance holding the Car Levitation Magnet, as well as the body used was a Replacement Robot, so the passengers inside did not suffer any internal injuries, although Fan Chen himself had experienced nothing despite wearing his real body and flying on Earth at Mach 10.

When they arrived, they saw a hollow ground with a diameter of over 100 kilometers, and the depth itself was unimaginable, the two Mount Everest piling up were still unable to cover the depth of the hole here.

But what is more interesting than that is not a deep hole, but the body of the Space Worm that remains intact in addition to experiencing severe injuries all over his body, or, should be said to be half his body.

Yep! Half-body, Space Worm has a length of more than 20 kilometers, and half of it is seriously injured, as for some, despite injuries, but only the release of skin, not until the flesh is destroyed and burned.

"How long is this worm?!" Admiral Su exclaimed as he looked at the length of the Space Worm, and it was seen that there were still parts buried within the solid ground.

Fan Chen ignored the voice of Admiral Su's chatter. "How's it?" He talked to Xiaochu about Space Worms.

“The scan does not detect life from Space Worm, but inside its body is still thinking about fusion reactions and can explode at any time.”

Fan Chen looked solemn upon hearing that the Space Worm could explode. To kill the Space Worm required a lot of manpower and resources, he knew how powerful this worm body was, and naturally the explosive power of the fusion within his body possessed unimaginable destructive power.

"There's a Warehouse on the Space Base. Xiaochu, use a wide variety of resources there, build a base surrounding the hole where the Space Worm died. If material isn't enough, capture an asteroid in the Asteroid Belt, grab a resource there and move it here."

The Asteroid Belt does have a lot of resources, but the distance from Mars to it is 300 — 450 million kilometers. It took 31 days and 6 hours to get there, so the project will take a lot of time.

“Good, Master. Xiaochu is ready to run!”

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