Wandering Meteor-Chapter 30 Space Cold Welding

Just as Lu Chen took care of several hundred annoying "flies".

Another battle was also becoming clear between the Wandering and four giant warplanes.

The Wandering had always believed in its own strength, vowing not to drag down its brother Lu Chen.

However, it turned out to be overconfident.

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Despite all its calculations, it had failed to consider one thing: the Yin Yang Star People had already acquired much of its information, knowing that it was a pure metal flying machine capable of splitting and transforming.

When it battled with the four giant warplanes, the enemy used a peculiar weapon.

This weapon didn't create a terrible explosion like ordinary ammunition but would disperse into a mist of gas that once the Wandering's metal clones came into contact with,

they couldn't merge back into the main body upon return.

The Wandering encountered this situation for the first time and was immediately frightened!

"Big brother, come save me, my metal clones can't merge back together!" the Wandering cried tearlessly.

"Ha!" Lu Chen burst out laughing at the Wandering's words.

But seriously, he hadn't anticipated that the Yin Yang Star People would use the principle of cold welding in space to defeat the enemy!

If he wasn't mistaken, the Yin Yang Star People had used Oxidation Bombs—these weapons had no other function but to rapidly oxidize certain substances, especially the metal elements among all materials.

This seemingly insignificant detail was what prevented the Wandering's metal clones from merging again.

As we all know, metal on Earth requires a very high temperature for welding, mainly because the Earth's atmosphere and oxygen prevent the fusion of metal atoms.

However, in space, there is no atmosphere, or at least not a dense one, so when metal reaches the space environment, its atomic surfaces have no obstacles, allowing them to easily fuse together.

This principle is known as cold welding.

As the name suggests, it means metal can be welded without high temperatures.

Lu Chen, who was formerly an astronaut, is naturally no stranger to this.

Space stations, spacecraft, and other equipment on Earth used to be made with anti-cold weld materials (oxidized metal) to prevent cold welding phenomena that might affect the operation of the machines over time in space.

And if we delve into the cause of cold welding in space, we would have to talk about the special structure of metal atoms.

Metal elements are heavy elements in the universe. Their atoms have a vast number of free electrons that differ from the fixed electrons of conventional elements. Most atoms' electrons have their own fixed orbits which require a lot of energy to change, but free electrons can move freely.

Therefore, in science there is a description.

The nuclei of metal atoms are like babies swimming in a sea of electrons.

It is precisely because of the existence of free electrons that the structure of metal atoms is somewhat disorderly. When two metal atoms come into contact without any surface obstacles, their free electrons cannot distinguish each other, so they will fuse together, allowing their nuclei to move freely and easily.

This is the deeper reason why metals can cold weld in space.

Because only metal atoms possess this characteristic, only metals can experience the phenomenon of cold welding.

Metal may seem like the hardest solid at the macroscopic level, but at the microscopic level, it's "liquid"—isn't that amazing?

"Wandering, stand back. I'll take care of them!"

Despite some admiration for the wisdom of the Yin Yang Star People, Lu Chen was still resolute in his intent to kill, for he felt a hint of threat from the Yin Yang Civilization!

He ordered the Wandering to fall back, then a large amount of lava erupted from the mouth of the volcano, cooling in space to form a kilometers-long Cosmic Giant Sword, which slashed towards one of the gigantic warplanes like lightning.

The giant warplane proved remarkably agile, dodging aside by thousands of kilometers in an instant.

Just when the giant warplane thought itself safe, it could never have anticipated that the sword, having missed with its initial strike, would suddenly turn around and slash at it once again from behind.

"How could this be possible? Number One warplane, watch your back!"

The other three giant warplanes, stationed at a distance, hastily warned, but it was already too late.

Crash!

The kilometers-long Cosmic Giant Sword cleaved the four-kilometer giant warplane in two with a single swing, then continued its deadly arc towards the other three warplanes.

The scene completely dumbfounded the Yin Yang Star People, as the Cosmic Giant Sword seemed to have the automatic enemy-tracking ability of a missile, which was stupefying!

However, the planet's fleet had a wealth of combat experience and quickly regained their composure. They immediately maneuvered the giant warplanes to evade and switched to powerful nuclear bombs.

Boom!

A nuclear bomb hit the Cosmic Giant Sword, blasting it into fragments.

"Hmph!"

Lu Chen let out a cold snort and then stirred up the Earth's Core to spew out more lava from the volcano.

He divided the lava into Molten Lava Balls roughly fifty meters in size, with a portion of Consciousness Particles inside each ball, using the particles to control the Molten Lava Balls to attack the planet's fleet.

This time, he was determined to strike with full force, not only targeting the three giant warplanes but also sending hundreds of Molten Lava Balls toward two distant Cosmic Battleships. It was time to let the enemy taste the strategy of overwhelming numbers!

Boom rumble!

After a fierce and chaotic series of explosions, the three giant warplanes were sunk.

However, the two Cosmic Battleships used a barrage of dense missiles to intercept all of the Molten Lava Balls.

Lu Chen wasn't surprised by this.

He never really believed those Molten Lava Balls could sink the two massive battleships. It was merely a feint, a tactic.

While the planet's fleet was busy defending against the Molten Lava Balls, Lu Chen had already taken the initiative, quickly closing in on the two Cosmic Battleships.

During the rapid approach, he also absorbed all of the previously ejected Molten Lava Balls and the wreckage of the sunk fighters, all valuable materials for increasing the planet's mass, which he would not let go to waste.

"Once you've entered my gravity range, you have no chance of victory!"

Lu Chen surged forward at a speed beyond the Cosmic Fourth Speed, and soon, his gravitational reach of two million meters enveloped the two Cosmic Battleships. Then, he activated the Gravity Increment, pulling the Gravity Strength to its maximum and securing a direct lock on the two Cosmic Battleships.

"We're doomed!"

By the time the Yin Yang Star People aboard the Cosmic Battleships realized it, it was too late.

At this moment, the battleships were pulled by a gravity strength as high as four thousand, impossible for them to escape. Regardless of how fiercely they fired their engines, the inevitable result was their battleships being dragged in reverse and plummeting onto the Demon Star.

Boom!

With a loud crash, the fleet stationed near the planet, along with the Yin Yang Star People inside, all perished upon the Planet.

The entire planet's fleet was annihilated in an instant, a fate they probably never imagined possible, especially since they believed they could defeat the Demon Star, only to discover how easily they were vanquished.