Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 377: Nebula Project

"Unified Force Field!"

Pegasus G76 solar system, G76d planetary battlefield, around the vast starry sky where countless warships were entangled, Tom resolutely issued the command.

Ten billion clones simultaneously died at this moment due to brain overload.

In deep space, over a billion Unified Force Field components also instantly exploded due to energy overload.

Surging X and Y bosons, carrying destructive power, poured out like a flood, completely covering this star region at the speed of light.

The next moment, extremely violent explosions erupted one after another, their light connecting and even obscuring the light of a star as large as a mountain.

After a moment of waiting, the light dissipated.

After tallying the results of the battle, Tom let out a faint sigh.

The Unified Force Field’s coverage was too large, reducing its average lethality; during the process of constructing the Unified Force Field framework, they suffered a desperate attack from the Purple Moon Fleet, resulting in approximately 40% of the Unified Force Field components being destroyed and unable to exert their power.

The combination of these two factors prevented the Unified Force Field from exerting its intended power, and the extent of the damage inflicted on the Purple Moon Fleet was also greatly reduced.

In total, it only caused the destruction of approximately 60,000 warships of the Purple Moon Civilization.

And based on recent battle calculations, the destruction of these 60,000 warships could only buy him no more than two years of breathing room.

"The Purple Moon Civilization has probably understood the Unified Force Field’s method of attack and countermeasures.

They cannot resist the flood of X and Y bosons, but they can reduce the damage they suffer by destroying Unified Force Field components, expanding the battlefield area, and interfering with our framework construction.

The last four Unified Force Fields have had decreasing lethality.

By the time I accumulate enough for another Unified Force Field, the damage it inflicts on the Purple Moon Civilization will likely drop below 50,000 warships."

The Unified Force Field was Tom’s most important reliance to persist until now under the siege of the Purple Moon Fleet, which had mastered the Gravity Cannon.

But now, the effectiveness of this reliance was irreversibly diminishing.

If this continues...

He glanced at the distant starry sky, which remained quiet and vast.

It had been almost a hundred years since the mission fleet broke through.

If everything went smoothly, the reinforcements he hoped for should have arrived by now.

But now... there were no signs of any reinforcements arriving.

Heimerlan, in this vast starry sky, what exactly did you encounter?

Was your mission successful? Are you... still alive?

Tom had no way of obtaining information from Heimerlan’s side at this moment.

The only thing he could do was to continue persevering, to continue waiting.

Time flowed silently, and the Purple Moon Fleet’s offensive remained as relentless as ever.

It would take approximately 5 more years for the next wave of Unified Force Field attacks to be ready. However, based on the current rate of damage and replenishment of their own warships, they could only hold out for a little over a year at most.

A little over a year...

If reinforcements were to arrive within a little over a year, then he should already be able to detect some signs by now.

Tom once again conducted the most detailed deep space observation.

But he was ultimately disappointed once more.

The starry sky remained quiet and vast, with no signs of reinforcements appearing.

The situation seemed to have truly entered a desperate state.

However, Tom remained calm in his heart, without the slightest panic.

This was because a project that Tom had been preparing for nearly a century, consistently dedicating a considerable portion of his extremely valuable industrial capacity to, had now truly been completed.

"Nebula Project, activate!"

At this moment, on the mottled and colorful surface of the large satellite designated G76d-6—those vibrant colors were actually all sulfides, which originated from the numerous volcanoes on this satellite.

This large satellite was a geologically extremely active satellite. Under the gravitational pull of the large planet, it was kneaded repeatedly like a ball of dough, developing extremely high temperatures and pressures internally. When the pressure reached its limit, it would erupt through volcanoes.

One of the important components of Tom’s Nebula Project was located on this large satellite.

Following Tom’s command, the next moment, a total of 2 million large-yield hydrogen bombs, pre-buried according to the satellite’s geological nodes, with the deepest reaching 1,600 kilometers and the shallowest at the surface, detonated simultaneously.

At this moment, the entire planet seemed to tremble.

The power of 2 million large-yield hydrogen bombs detonating simultaneously was entirely insufficient to destroy this planet. However, given its already active geological conditions, it was capable of making its geology even more active, even to a degree that natural factors could not possibly achieve.

Thus, this already volatile satellite became even more so at this moment.

The tens of thousands of active volcanoes it originally possessed were completely activated at this moment, simultaneously initiating an unprecedented super-eruption.

An endless stream of sulfur-containing compounds was squeezed out from the planet’s interior, which possessed immense pressure and extremely high temperatures, through the planet’s internal veins, surging and erupting from the volcanic vents into the sky.

In that instant, a total of hundreds of millions of tons of material erupted from the volcanoes.

Tom estimated that this eruption would last for about a month, and by then, the total mass of erupted material could even reach hundreds of millions of billions of tons!

And because the eruption was so violent, approximately one percent or more of the ejected material, meaning about 100–200 trillion billion tons, would be directly ejected into space, escaping the planet’s gravity field.

The entire Earth, with all its water combined, amounts to approximately 140 trillion billion tons.

This global volcanic eruption at this moment would eject a mass equivalent to all of Earth’s water into space.

At this moment, the entire G76d-6 planet seemed to be enveloped in a layer of mist, becoming indistinct.

Afterward, this "mist" began to spread outwards due to its immense kinetic energy.

The gravitational environment around the G76d planet was extremely complex. In this area of space, there was not only the gravity and magnetic field influence of the massive planet, a dozen large satellites, and hundreds of small and medium satellites, but also the influence of the massive G76 red giant star.

Thus, as if countless fans were blowing a cloud of smoke, once it escaped the original satellite’s gravity field, this "smoke" rapidly spread throughout the entire planetary system.

But this was only one part of Tom’s "Nebula Project."

On other planets, Tom was also carrying out extremely large-scale projects.

On G76d-5, a large satellite almost entirely covered by oceans, 10 million "water towers" had already risen in the vast ocean covering approximately sixty million square kilometers.

Each of these water towers stood at a height of 100,000 meters. Based on the thickness of this satellite’s atmosphere, this distance could be considered to extend beyond its atmosphere.

Originally, Tom’s plan was to build 10 million space elevators, not 10 million water towers.

But there was no alternative; space elevators were simply too long, needing to extend beyond 10,000 kilometers from the planet’s surface. And that area, with their side currently being completely suppressed by the Purple Moon Civilization, was already beyond Tom’s defensive limit.

Even if space elevators could be built, they would certainly be destroyed.

Tom could only build them as water towers, each 100 kilometers high, just barely extending beyond the atmosphere, and still within his side’s defensive range.

But this brought a new problem.

In the case of space elevators, there would be no need to consider height maintenance. This is because the essence of a space elevator is to pull itself up using a high-speed heavy object in the distance.

Although this satellite’s gravity was extremely low compared to Earth, extending the water towers without them collapsing due to the planet’s own gravity was still extremely difficult.

Even Strong Nuclear-level materials could not achieve the desired strength.

Tom solved this problem through a somewhat clumsy method.

On these 100-kilometer-high water towers, every 500 meters, Tom would install a "propulsion belt," and each propulsion belt had 20 propulsion engines.

Using high-speed ion jet propulsion, once these propulsion engines were activated, they could contribute a continuous upward thrust, forcefully "pulling" up these water towers to prevent them from collapsing.

As for the immense energy and propellant consumed by the continuous operation of these 10 million water towers, with a total of over 40 billion thrusters, Tom completely disregarded it.

"I have built many large nuclear fusion power plants. If they are not enough, I can build even more!"

"Let alone over 40 billion thrusters, even 400 billion would be nothing to me!"

At this moment, these 10 million water towers had truly been built and entered operational status.

Under the suction of multi-stage powerful water pumps, the seawater from the vast ocean surged into the water towers at an astonishing rate.

Assuming a water tower pipe diameter of 60 meters, its cross-sectional area would be approximately 2,800 square meters. With a seawater flow rate of 200 meters per second in the pipe, an average of 560,000 tons of seawater would be drawn into the water tower per second!

With 10 million water towers, that would be 5.6 trillion tons per second, and approximately 484 billion tons per day!

At this rate of pumping, it would only take less than 80 years to drain all the water sources on the entire Earth—its oceans, lakes, surging rivers, and so on.

Even though the total water volume on this large satellite was three times that of Earth, such a high pumping rate still had a very noticeable impact on the planet.

In the vast ocean, due to the planet’s tidal forces, kilometer-high giant waves were ubiquitous.

They swept everything with an unstoppable momentum, like movable mountains standing on the ocean.

This was the power of nature, something that human strength could not contend with.

But under the pumping of these 10 million water towers, the situation changed.

Tom saw that countless giant waves over a kilometer high, before they could sweep across the water area, collapsed within a few short minutes and vanished into thin air.

This was because the total volume of water stirred by a giant wave was only about 200 to 500 billion tons of seawater. Compared to these giant water towers built by Tom, it would only take 4 to 10 days to completely drain them.

If there were 6,000 to 15,000 water towers, all the water from a single giant wave could be pumped out in just one minute.

And at this moment, Tom had 10 million water towers in operation!

The seemingly unconquerable might of nature was merely a trifle in front of Tom.

At this moment, not only had the giant waves disappeared, but even the colossal ocean currents that previously traversed the entire planet had vanished.

The surging seawater no longer flowed along its original paths. At this very moment, all the seawater had 10 million cores, and all the seawater had to flow towards these cores.

This massive volume of seawater was forcefully pumped up to an altitude of 100 kilometers, and then, like giant nozzles, this immense volume of seawater was sprayed into space.

At this moment, the entire G76d-5 planet seemed to transform into a giant showerhead.

Due to the extreme expansion of the G76 star, even at a distance of 1 billion kilometers, the stellar radiation received at the G76d planet was extremely high.

If a steel plate were placed there, the side facing the star could even reach temperatures of over one hundred degrees Celsius.

This seawater, upon entering space, would not freeze at all; instead, it would be extremely heated.

What would this water become when its temperature rose and it was in a vacuum without atmospheric pressure?

Evidently, it would rapidly turn into water vapor, then decompose into water molecules. Furthermore, under extremely strong stellar radiation, the hydrogen and oxygen elements composing the water molecules had a very high probability of having their chemical bonds broken, decomposing into hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms, which would then, under the influence of the complex gravitational environment, magnetic fields, and stellar radiation, mix with the volcanic ash ejected from the G76d-6 satellite earlier and spread throughout the entire planetary system.