Wandering Meteor-Chapter 263 - 262: Destroying Lithium Eagle Ten

The vast universe, broad and shadowy.

Suddenly, a strong burst of light appeared from within the darkness.

In an instant, this light expanded rapidly, becoming an extremely bright luminary.

It was only at this point that the local civilization realized that this was in fact a star, which seemed to have burst out of the void so abruptly, leaving no chance for defense.

It is known that even the use of space wormholes would result in some fluctuations and warnings, but the emergence of this star felt truly as if it was born and grew rapidly from the void.

The star appeared suddenly, expanding from the size of a basketball, to quickly encompass the surrounding space, which restored and overlapped with the current space, making the star body appear to expand at superluminal speed, swiftly enveloping everything around it.

In reality, the size of the star had not changed; only the space around it had.

Viewed from the cosmic scale, this sight resembled a rapidly expanding red giant, devouring everything within the galaxy.

Wandering had already breached within one million kilometers of Lithium Eagle Ten, their distance originally not exceeding one million kilometers. However, the suddenly appearing star had a diameter exceeding ten million kilometers, so as the star body expanded and grew, it directly engulfed the entirety of Lithium Eagle Ten!

Turns out, this was the Wandering Alliance’s ultimate battle tactic.

Harnessing the fact that the Lithium Hawk squadron was unaware of his presence, Lu Chen allowed Wandering to advance within a certain range, then suddenly released himself with the Celestial Body Capture Device, using his massive size to engulf Lithium Eagle Ten in one fell swoop. The two avatars of Wandering split into half-planet masses to resist the Unified Energy Extinction Cannon’s strike, and leveraged the blast wave of the cannon to swiftly escape outward, ultimately narrowly avoiding the suddenly emerged star, Lu Chen.

It can be said that all the previous offenses by the three civilizations were merely creating an opportunity for this final blow.

Lithium Eagle Ten could never have expected that the real leader of the Wandering Alliance was actually a star with more than forty thousand times the mass of the Sun; they had no knowledge of the existence of the Celestial Body Capture Device, nor were they aware of the presence of Lu Chen. They thought Wandering was the leader of the Wandering Alliance, and it was this critical lack of information that led them to misjudge the current situation, falling victim to the Wandering Alliance’s cunning plot.

Now, Lithium Eagle Ten, the entire Battle Star, was engulfed by the star, situated between the star’s surface and the outer atmosphere.

At this location, temperatures soared to over five million degrees; no substance could exist intact and only ion states were possible. Less than a second after being engulfed by the star, the surface layer of the alloy on Lithium Eagle Ten vaporized instantly due to the extreme heat, not even a liquefaction process occurred!

The temperature aboard Lithium Eagle Ten rose by several dozen degrees in that same second.

As a Level 4 Civilization’s Battle Star, Lithium Eagle Ten naturally would not succumb to fate without a fight.

At this critical moment, Lithium Eagle Ten immediately activated its heat insulation energy field, using high-density, highly mobile ions to isolate contact with the ion-state matter within the star body, avoiding the transfer and influence of temperature, since temperature at the microscopic level is essentially the transmission of vibration.

Furthermore, Lithium Eagle Ten utilized its equipment to absorb excess thermal energy from within the starship and discharge it into the energy field. This energy field comprised three layers: the first ion layer responsible for insulating high-energy and high-vibration ions, the second electron radiation layer responsible for absorbing heat radiation that penetrated the first layer, and the third insulation layer guaranteeing the normal temperature inside the Battle Star. This entire heat insulation field system was a technological device developed by the Metal Civilization to cope with high-temperature environments.

Of course, even with the presence of the heat insulation field, Lithium Eagle Ten could not remain in the high-temperature environment for too long.

Otherwise, if the energy limit is exceeded and the thermal shield collapses, they will ultimately face death.

Hence, to resolve the current crisis, Lithium Eagle Ten activated the heatshield while rapidly maneuvering the Battle Star. Unexpectedly, instead of fleeing outwards from the Constant Star, Lithium Eagle Ten moved inward toward the Constant Star, an action that looked like certain death!

Since engulfing Lithium Eagle Ten, Constant Star Lu Chen had been closely monitoring the situation inside.

He immediately noticed the strange behavior of Lithium Eagle Ten, but he didn’t believe they truly sought death. Instead, he grew increasingly grim.

Because he was very clear about Lithium Eagle Ten’s intentions and also very aware of his own situation.

The coldest part of a Constant Star Celestial Body is not like that of a planet, where it’s the atmospheric surface; the structure of the Constant Star Celestial Body is unique, and the lowest temperature is actually at the Constant Star’s surface within the atmosphere. Taking the Sun as an example, the temperature of the Sun’s internal surface is only five or six thousand degrees, while the atmospheric temperature can be several millions of degrees. The mass of Constant Star Lu Chen is much higher than that of the Sun, making it a medium-mass star, and the temperature of his surface is approximately over a hundred thousand degrees!

Lithium Eagle Ten’s plan was to move to this relatively cooler area, to buy enough time, and then, when the time came, use the Absolute Zero Domain to completely exterminate Constant Star Lu Chen.

And why didn’t Lithium Eagle Ten escape outward from the star?

It was because the moment they entered the Constant Star, many devices on Lithium Eagle Ten (including weaponry) vaporized from the high temperatures, and the heatshield was barely activated. If they stubbornly escaped outwards, they would have to consider how to endure the millions of degrees of high temperature while passing through the Constant Star’s atmosphere.

If all the equipment was intact and complete, they might have been able to attempt it, but now with missing equipment, if they were to forcefully pass through the atmospheric layer of the Constant Star at millions of degrees, their related equipment would certainly fail, and once the heatshield disappeared and they were exposed to tens of millions of degrees of high temperature, it is estimated they wouldn’t last even a tenth of a second. They, along with the Battle Star, would vaporize in an instant!

Lithium Eagle Ten took the risk to move toward the surface of the Constant Star because the computer had calculated the outcome in advance, in hopes of securing their only chance of survival!

Constant Star Lu Chen was very clear about Lithium Eagle Ten’s thoughts and admired their bold decision. However, concerning his own survival, he could not possibly allow Lithium Eagle Ten to successfully reach the Constant Star’s surface.

Therefore, Constant Star Lu Chen immediately increased the internal gravity, causing the internal pressure to rise. His body of over ten million kilometers suddenly compressed inward by over ten thousand kilometers, causing the region where Lithium Eagle Ten was situated to swiftly be pushed outward, directly into the atmospheric inner layer at over eight million degrees.

Following this, due to the sudden increase in internal pressure, the core’s Nuclear Fusion Zone accelerated the rate of nuclear fusion reactions and, in an instant, released a terrifying amount of energy through a mass of nuclear fusions to withstand the pressure of internal collapse, slowly restoring the Star Body’s size outward.

During this contraction and expansion, Lithium Eagle Ten experienced huge temperature changes in a short time, which became the last straw that broke the camel’s back, causing their equipment to permanently fail due to the drastic temperature environment, and the heatshield quickly disappeared. In an instant, Lithium Eagle Ten and its soldiers were disintegrated into ions by the high heat.

Lithium Eagle Ten never would have imagined that the lack of a single piece of intelligence would result in their annihilation—a grave tactical miscalculation!

However, despite the intense clash between Lithium Eagle Ten and Constant Star Lu Chen, the actual process didn’t even last two minutes. When Constant Star Lu Chen completely dealt with Lithium Eagle Ten, he had also fully returned to real space.

At this moment, as Constant Star Lu Chen fully appeared in the Universe, all matter within hundreds of thousands of kilometers was forced to change direction of motion at the same time, rapidly falling towards Constant Star Lu Chen. Yet, with the fierce Constant Star Wind blowing outwards, smaller mass particles were blown away, leaving only larger mass meteorites or gas clusters to be engulfed by Constant Star Lu Chen, melted by high temperatures, and becoming a part of Constant Star Lu Chen.

The entire process took just two minutes and ten seconds.

Lithium Eagle Ten was finally annihilated within half an hour, at 29 minutes and 30 seconds, just 30 seconds shy of half an hour!