MTL - Lord of Ashes-Chapter 1002 Break through the mantle! Destroy Vesta!

Lord of Ashes Chapter 1002 Pierce through the mantle! Destroy Vesta!

November 2, Monday, the first day after Halloween, and also the first day Zhang Yanhang left the world of ashes, at 9:45 in the morning, Vesta.

After arriving at the periphery of Vesta, Zhang Yanhang simply scanned the environment of Vesta, and found that this is indeed a very classic asteroid, with a gray outer layer, nothing but rock layers, and scattered It is a large crater formed after a large number of meteorite impacts.

The largest crater is located on its inner side. It is suspected that it was hit by a giant meteorite, causing the entire Vesta to become an irregular sphere, with the outer side protruding larger.

To put it more vividly, it was like being punched in the head, and then a big bump grew.

Specifically, the composition of asteroids is mainly divided into three types, the first type of which is naturally formed.

As for how to form naturally, it is actually the same principle as the formation of ordinary planets, but these asteroids are half grown and disabled, and their size is much smaller than normal planets, so they are called asteroids. The origin of the name of the asteroid.

The second way asteroids are formed is through aggregation, that is, a large pile of miscellaneous meteorites or other planetary fragments are aggregated during the process of colliding with each other and slowly form an asteroid .

But Vesta belongs to the third type, that is, the original normal planet was shattered by people, leaving only a nucleus, so its volume shrank by a large amount, and it became an asteroid.

The evidence is that the interior of Vesta is completely an iron planet. The average diameter of the entire asteroid is only more than 500 kilometers, but the diameter of the iron-nickel alloy ball wrapped inside it, that is, the iron-nickel star core is as high as more than 200 kilometers. Fully occupies half of its diameter.

That is to say, in fact, the entire Vesta is covered with a thin layer of rock on the outside, but the inside is all composed of iron-nickel alloy and the outer core and mantle formed by the magma layer that acts as a buffer.

This basically fits perfectly with the composition of an asteroid that has been stripped of its crust and only its mantle and core remain.

As for how Vesta was stripped of its crust, in fact, it can be roughly judged from its appearance. It should be that a huge meteorite similar to the one that destroyed the dinosaurs slammed into the outer layer of Vesta, causing Vesta The earth's crust disintegrated, leaving only the relatively hard star core barely preserved, but a large crater was also created by the meteorite.

It has to be mentioned that Vesta is located in a meteorite belt, and it is a fairly dense meteorite belt. Zhang Yanhang estimates that although natural meteorites may account for a large proportion of this meteorite belt, the meteorites formed by the stripped crust should It also occupies a considerable proportion of it.

Therefore, with such sufficient evidence, it is indeed difficult for Zhang Yanhang not to judge it as an asteroid formed after the disintegration of an ordinary planet.

After briefly observing the structure of Vesta, Zhang Yanhang began to stack, that is, to activate various skills such as the indestructible golden body, and then cast aura blessing, and then cast the skill of Fatianxiang to expand the body to 784 meters , and finally performed the four-piece giant enlargement technique to expand the body to 864 meters.

That's right, Zhang Yanhang's current body size has grown from the original 850 meters to 864 meters. If you want to ask the reason, it can only be said that his current body size growth rate is too fast, even if the transmission cost just now Those 24 minutes didn't increase his size, but the previous time alone allowed his maximum transformation limit to grow to the current level.

But for the accuracy of the experiment, Zhang Yanhang canceled the eight arms and eight toes. After all, the eight arms and eight toes increase the attack speed, and it is easy for him to be unable to distinguish his current basic attack speed, resulting in a misjudgment.

After getting ready, Zhang Yanhang swung an ordinary but powerful punch at Vesta in front of him.

If it was normal, Zhang Yanhang believed that the moment he swung his fist, the huge sonic boom would spread wildly in all directions and engulf a huge air current to act as a pioneer for him.

But this is space, and Vesta itself does not have any air, so Zhang Yanhang's fist hit the surface of Vesta's surface in an 'unremarkable' manner without any waves or ripples in the silence.

This ordinary blow, which seemed to lose its special effects instantly after leaving the atmosphere, set off layers of waves on the surface rock layer as soon as it touched the surface of Vesta.

That's right, it's a real wave. The huge impact force rapidly expands on the surface of Vesta, causing the outer rock layer to be completely unable to withstand the conduction of the impact force and being directly peeled off, which causes the outer rock layer to continuously break away from the planet's surface and fly into space. And the craters with layers of different heights could not escape the fate of being destroyed at this time, and they were stripped from the outer side of Vesta.

After the outer rock layer shattered, the black-gray basalt below was immediately exposed. Yes, it is the same basalt layer as the bottom of the earth's crust. This is also a strong evidence for Zhang Yanhang's judgment that Vesta was originally a normal planet.

But it's a pity that things like basalt seem hard, but as early as the fourth level, they have no hindrance to Zhang Yanhang. When he was on the earth, Zhang Yanhang might restrain his hands and feet for fear of breaking the earth, but Vesta But without any scruples, he directly exerted himself with all his strength.

Under such a difference, large chunks of gray-black basalt layers that are several kilometers in size quickly detached from the outer side of Vesta like pieces of broken egg shells, and flew into the surroundings under huge kinetic energy like the previous stripped rock layers meteorite belt and a violent impact occurred.

But all of this has become silent because of the vacuum environment. It is obviously an impact with terrifying kinetic energy, but because there is no blessing of sound, everything is just like a silent film farce.

It's just that occasionally Zhang Yanhang can hear some violent impact sounds, but it's not the meteorites colliding with each other, but the sound made when the impacted meteorites and other planetary debris hit his energy shield.

As for why he can hear sound at this time, the principle is also very simple, because sound does not travel in a vacuum, but sound travels in matter, especially solid matter as the fastest medium.

When the outer rock layer and the basalt of the last remaining part of the crust were peeled off, Vesta finally exposed its inner egg white-like magma layer. This thick layer of magma, that is, the mantle layer, occupies at least a quarter of the entire Vesta. diameter of.

Zhang Yanhang once said that magma, as a non-Newtonian fluid, can be used as a buffer to effectively reduce the impact force, but there is also an upper limit to the mitigation of the impact force, and the impact force caused by Zhang Yanhang's current punch is obviously far beyond The upper limit that the mantle layer can alleviate.

It's like you can't try to resist a bullet to the head just because chewing gum is a non-Newtonian fluid and put it in the face, that's unrealistic.

Moreover, compared with real solid matter, non-Newtonian fluids are actually more flexible than solid matter, not that their defense can really surpass solid matter by a lot.

Therefore, when the impact force formed by Zhang Yanhang's punch and flat a continued to transmit to the rear, it was not surprising that the thick magma layer of more than 100 kilometers in the mantle layer began to circle around the contact point. Layer after layer of huge fiery red waves formed again and again, rushing towards Vesta in other directions, or flying directly into the sky due to the shock.

From Zhang Yanhang's perspective, the spreading speed of these layers of circular arc-like fiery red waves is a little slow, which shows that they still play a slight buffering effect, but from the conventional perspective, they have been eliminated almost instantly. Make a huge pit of tens of kilometers.

This huge crater reaches the bottom, immediately exposing the iron-nickel star core inside like a big red-hot iron ball. From the perspective of Zhang Yanhang, it can be clearly seen that the shape of the iron-nickel star core is irregular, as if it has been It looked like someone had forcibly flattened it, and there were many crooked cracks all over it.

Zhang Yanhang felt that the reason why the iron-nickel star core was in this state must be because the injury caused by the meteorite impact last time had not recovered. Well, this is not something that can be recovered naturally.

Moreover, the kinetic energy impact, which is far greater than the impact of the meteorite, has been transmitted to the interior of the star core at this moment, and it no longer needs to be repaired.

Different from the past, Zhang Yanhang this time, in order to prevent the embarrassing situation of the asteroid being unable to be destroyed due to the excessive spread of the impact, so this time, he deliberately used the control technique given by the fighting master this time, or it has not been for a long time. The strength of the whole body is accumulated in the fist and exploded concentratedly, allowing it to form a fixed-point impact and fixed-point blast.

Therefore, with the eruption of terrifying impact, a huge fist print that spanned hundreds of kilometers clearly appeared on the iron-nickel star core. In the next second, irregular cracks like the veins of tree roots instantly spread throughout the entire star core.

At this time, the interior of the star core suddenly fell into a strange calm, but soon, the iron-nickel star core with a diameter of more than 200 kilometers and an irregular oval shape suddenly shattered rapidly, and carried huge kinetic energy with a terrifying force. The speed exploded in all directions.

Perhaps because of the uneven density, although the entire iron-nickel star core was broken into hundreds of dense pieces, and most of them were small, Zhang Yanhang could clearly see that a star core fragment located at the side and rear was lucky to keep it. The larger body of tens of kilometers smashed through the meteorites blocked along the way and flew towards the distance.

If nothing else happened, Zhang Yanhang felt that the original Vesta might have been hit by such an inexplicably born meteorite, but the one that hit Vesta should be an ordinary rock meteorite, and its size was definitely much smaller.

And the meteorite composed of this star core is the highest-grade iron meteorite, and it is as high as tens of kilometers in size. Not to mention that the original Vesta can't stand such a blow, even the earth can't stand it. After all, the meteorite that destroyed the dinosaurs was just an ordinary rock meteorite with a diameter of about ten kilometers.

It can be said that this huge iron meteorite formed by an iron-nickel star core with a size of tens of kilometers is basically enough to destroy the entire human civilization, and the earth may not disintegrate like Vesta when it hits the earth , but it must be inevitable to be smashed out of a big crater like Vesta that causes the deformation of the star.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang can only silently pray for the planets along the way of this iron-nickel star core here, hoping that it can be as fragmented as possible.

Although Vesta was shattered, the chain reaction caused by Vesta is obviously far from over. After breaking away from the star core, the original magma layer of Vesta is currently scattered in large areas in the surrounding meteorite belt.

However, these magma layers are rapidly cooling and hardening in the ultra-low temperature of minus 270 degrees in space because they have separated from the star core and the earth's crust as an insulating layer. They are almost frosting and ashing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

That's right, the magma is frosting.

After all, minus 270 degrees is indeed not something that magma, which is only about 1,000 degrees, can resist.

The gaseous water molecules originally contained in the interior and the small amount of water originally contained in the earth's crust are currently in the ultra-low temperature environment of minus 270 degrees. It seems magical, but it is very scientific and helps the magma to quickly frost and cool down into magma. Rock ~www.novelbuddy.com~ Therefore, a gray-black continent floating in place, like the legendary round sky, soon appeared in this meteorite belt.

Of course, in fact, the meteorite belt where Vesta is located is not only a meteorite belt, but also an asteroid belt. In addition to Vesta, the largest asteroid in the solar system, it also contains some other asteroids.

However, these asteroids are basically not too big, the largest may only be hundreds of kilometers, and the small ones may even be only tens of kilometers.

It is also because the other asteroids are not too big, so Zhang Yanhang chose Vesta as the target this time. From the current point of view, Vesta is neither suitable nor suitable as the target.

The suitable place is that the diameter of Vesta is not bad. The unsuitable place is that Vesta is actually a star core disguised as an asteroid. The difficulty of destroying Vesta is actually much greater than that of an asteroid of the same size. After all, asteroids with rocks as their cores and asteroids with iron-nickel alloys as their cores are obviously not difficult to destroy.

In fact, asteroids like Vesta with the three major elements of the crust, mantle and core are extremely rare. Most asteroids use rocks as their cores, that is, the entire asteroid is completely a big stone ball. There is no magma and no star core.

Therefore, without the magma buffer and the obstruction of the star core, it is naturally much easier to destroy, and the asteroid that Zhang Yanhang originally expected to be destroyed by him is exactly that type of asteroid.