Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 368: What Is Going On?

Immediately after occupying two large planets, Tom began large-scale industrial construction.

Of these two large planets, the inner one is 460 million kilometers away from the star.

If it were the Solar System, its position would be slightly farther than Ceres in the Asteroid Belt, but closer than Jupiter.

Ceres in the Solar System has a surface temperature of tens of degrees below zero Celsius.

However, in the Pegasus G76 star system, this planet, which Tom numbered Pegasus G76c, has a surface temperature of over 100 degrees Celsius, already exceeding the boiling point of water.

Through some geological research, Tom confirmed that hundreds of millions of years ago, this planet was a large ice ball with a large amount of water ice on its surface.

But as Pegasus G76 continuously expanded, its temperature gradually rose, eventually melting the water ice and forming a vast, global ocean.

Its average water depth could even reach over 6,000 meters, and its total water volume was equivalent to more than three times that of Earth.

At that time, this was also a beautiful planet with shimmering blue waves.

But unfortunately, as the star continued to expand and its temperature continued to rise, all the water on the entire planet was evaporated.

Like the mythical boiling of the sea, the energy of this star boiled the entire ocean, turning all of it into water molecules, then violently tearing them apart into hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms with fierce radiation, and then stripping them into space through exfoliation, turning them into interstellar dust.

The ocean disappeared, leaving only dry large pits on the planet’s surface.

Only the alluvial traces could prove that this planet once had such magnificent oceans.

Even the planet’s atmosphere was almost completely stripped away by the violent stellar radiation.

Currently, its atmospheric density is less than one percent of Mars’.

The other planet is a gas giant, about 1.01 billion kilometers from the star, and it is orbited by over a dozen large satellites that have reached hydrostatic equilibrium.

Originally, the surface temperature of this gas giant was extremely low, only over 100 degrees Celsius below zero.

The satellites orbiting it, due to the lack of internal heating mechanisms, had temperatures as low as around 200 degrees Celsius below zero.

But similarly, with the expansion of the star, everything changed.

The surface temperature of this gas giant was directly heated to over twenty degrees Celsius, and due to the sharp increase in temperature and the imbalance between internal and external temperatures, unimaginably violent and chaotic hurricanes were triggered within it, turning the entire planet upside down.

The temperatures of those satellites also sharply increased.

There was even one ice satellite whose surface water ice completely melted, just like the past scene of G76c, acquiring a vast, global ocean.

And, due to the gravitational influence of this gas giant, it experiences extremely immense tidal forces, with giant waves as high as a thousand meters, like mountains, frequently appearing on its surface.

At this moment, Tom’s main fleet was hovering above this large satellite, numbered G76d-5.

Below were thousand-meter-high giant waves, above was the massive gas giant tinted light red by the star, and even higher up, was an even more wondrous sight.

That was a colossal red star with an apparent size 400 times that of the Sun as seen from Earth.

At the same distance, if this red giant were replaced by the Sun, the Sun Tom would see would be only a few thousandths of its current size.

It hung quietly in space like a massive mountain, occupying a significant portion of his field of view, making Tom feel an unparalleled sense of oppression.

He could even directly see the violent stellar activities on its surface with his naked eyes.

Those surging plasma waves, enormous prominences, massive sunspots...

Below it, there was a tiny, extremely bright speck compared to its surroundings.

Although the entire star was enormous, it was not dazzling and could be looked at directly.

However, that tiny bright speck, which occupied only a few hundred thousandths of the area, felt a bit dazzling in Tom’s eyes.

He knew that this bright speck was the white dwarf.

It was bright because it was violently accreting stellar material.

Amidst such a wondrous spectacle, facing the star, the white dwarf, the gas giant with its endless violent hurricanes, and the satellite with its constantly rising thousand-meter waves, Tom’s industrial construction officially began.

One industrial spaceship after another landed, and one massive factory building after another rose from the ground.

It had only been a month since they arrived here, and the appearance of many planets had already been altered.

Currently, the construction of the industrial system is still in its early stages, far from being truly completed.

However, the deployment of the warship fleet, the preparation of supplies, and the arrangement of combat facilities had already been completed in advance.

Under the gaze of that massive star, Tom’s fleet immediately set off, carrying supplies brought from other solar systems, flying towards the two large planets occupied by the Purple Moon Civilization on the other side of the star.

Tom knew that as soon as he arrived in the solar system, he began preparing for war, and the Purple Moon Civilization was doing the same.

At this moment, a large number of Purple Moon warships were also gathering.

Then let’s go.

Hundreds of millions of kilometers were rapidly crossed, and two massive fleets belonging to two civilizations violently collided in space.

"Although my technological level is slightly inferior to yours, I have the advantage of an unmanned combat system, a tactical advantage, and an industrial advantage.

At this moment, neither of us has completed the construction of our industrial systems, so we cannot temporarily obtain resources from our homeworlds.

But I still have the Flying Star, and you have nothing.

So I have one more advantage, a resource advantage.

With so many advantages combined, Purple Moon Civilization, I truly cannot find a reason why you can defeat me.

Let this Pegasus G76 star system be your burial ground, so that the true Purple Moon Civilization can rest in peace, and stop you disgusting and lowly Demonic Eyes from wandering the universe under their name... "

Infinite flashes of explosions instantly filled this part of space.

As soon as the battle began, both sides started the most brutal and intense slaughter.

However, Tom’s brows furrowed slightly, and his heart gradually grew heavy.

He noticed something was wrong.

What’s going on?

He clearly saw that when one of his Earth-class battleships was maneuvering at full power, attempting to break out of a certain encirclement, a part of its hull suddenly detected an immense pulling force, as if an invisible and intangible rope was fixed to that spot, pulling desperately.

The hull retreated backward, but that part was held by the rope.

Both the hull’s backward maneuver and the rope’s pull were so immense, so irresistible.

When two forces converged, with neither able to resist, the only thing that could be damaged was the hull structure.

A massive 1.5 times 2.2-meter armor plate was forcibly torn from the hull!

All circuits and pipes installed on this armor plate were completely severed, and the corresponding area immediately lost its function.

The barrel of a close-in energy cannon attached to the armor was also directly torn off, the hard Strong Nuclear metal material almost twisted into a pretzel.

Another Venus-class battleship, while maneuvering at high speed, suddenly had its front armor dented, seemingly having suffered a heavy blow, eventually causing a large piece of armor to be dented into the internal cabin.

Because it happened to affect a critical area, a fire instantly broke out inside the cabin, and it exploded with a roar not long after.

This was only a spaceship that suffered a single type of force.

More spaceships simultaneously suffered unknown forces transmitted from multiple directions.

There were forces to the left, to the right, forwards, backwards, upwards, downwards, inwards, outwards, and so on.

One of the largest Mars-class battleships, roughly estimated, suffered over a thousand different directional forces!

At this moment, Tom even felt that his Mars-class battleship had become a human undergoing torture.

That form of torture was very famous in human history.

Dismemberment by five horses!

But now, the "horses" participating in the dismemberment of this Mars-class battleship were far more than five, there were over a thousand!

Under the pull of these more than a thousand unknown forces, coupled with the inherent power of this Mars-class battleship itself, the next moment, its hull was completely torn apart, as if it had been forcibly ripped to shreds, splitting into thousands of pieces.

Explosions of various sizes instantly erupted within the different wreckage.

A spaceship that Tom considered a flagship was thus destroyed.

This unknown force seemed to be being used on a large scale by the Purple Moon Civilization’s warships.

Not only manned warships, but unmanned warships also suffered similar attacks, as did armed satellites, auxiliary spaceships, and interstellar gun emplacements...

Even interstellar missiles were no exception!

Normally, when facing high-speed interstellar missiles, there were only two interception methods.

Either fire lasers, relying on high temperature and radiation to burn and destroy the missile body, rendering it unable to explode or pinpoint its target.

Or fire intercepting energy cannon projectiles, destroying its structure or changing its trajectory through violent impact and explosion.

But now, having mastered this unknown principle of force, the Purple Moon Civilization, facing Tom’s interstellar missiles, which are extremely lethal and even relied upon as one of their main offensive methods, had a brand new, more efficient, and higher interception rate method of interception.

As long as it was acted upon by this force, the trajectory of a high-speed interstellar missile would be deflected, just like an arrow in flight being struck hard by a stick, immediately deviating from its target.

Yes, it didn’t even need to destroy the missile; it only needed to use that force, a light touch, to deflect the missile, rendering it harmless.

The more crucial point was that the transmission speed of this force seemed to be the speed of light.

This meant that it could not be warned against, and therefore could not be avoided!

What, what exactly is going on?!