Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 82: A Vast and Radiant Light

The core region of the Tarantula Nebula star cluster has a high stellar density, spanning over twenty light-years in diameter, yet containing more than ten thousand massive stars. Looking towards these stars, the 7th Fleet saw a sky filled with dazzling, incandescent suns, their brilliance reflecting off each other. The supergiant star, with a mass 920 times that of the Sun, was particularly dazzling, standing out starkly among these massive stars.

As the temperature rose, the signal transmission delay became increasingly severe. Eventually, everyone in the Seventh Fleet experienced a sudden, overwhelming sensation, as if they had entered a hall of holy light. When they tried to make further communication calls, there was no response.

Here, time seems impossible to calculate. The 7th Fleet continued its journey, heading towards the largest and brightest star.

No one knew how much time had passed when everyone was awakened by an AI alarm: "Warning, warning, massive stellar attack!"

The scene observed by the 7th Fleet was horrifying to everyone; they probably wouldn't encounter anything like it even in several lifetimes.

Not far from that largest and brightest star, there exists a gigantic, circular luminous transmission band. At both ends of this band, densely packed luminous spheres, each about ten kilometers in diameter, are arranged—each a miniature sun radiating light! Each miniature sun is surrounded by a transparent energy shield, similar to that of a planet called Changwang. Through calculations using advanced artificial intelligence, it was determined that there are over seven hundred thousand of these luminous spheres!

The annular luminous transport belt rotates rapidly, accelerating two luminous spheres at either end. At a certain point, the two spheres collide violently. The energy shields touch first, like two bubbles colliding, forming a larger bubble. Inside this larger energy shield, the two smaller suns collide instantly, releasing intense energy. The larger energy shield, stimulated by this energy, expands rapidly and then explodes violently. A large ball of light detaches from the transport belt, continuing to expand as it flies away at supersonic speed. Soon after, a massive, dazzling star appears. The process of the two luminous spheres colliding to create a star is extremely short.

Within just two minutes of observation, the 7th Fleet had already created more than a dozen stars, which then directly attacked the 7th Fleet!

The 7th Fleet, heading straight for the fifty-six giant suns, passed through them at near-light speed. During this rapid traverse, numerous black hole bombs were released, aimed at the luminous spheres at both ends of the conveyor belt. Under the gravity of the black hole bombs, the luminous spheres near the ends of the conveyor belt, protected by energy shields, were pinned to the center of miniature black holes. Thanks to the energy shields, the luminous spheres were not torn apart by gravity. Tens of thousands of black holes, each containing a luminous pearl.

The 7th Fleet's ten Hercules-class sniper ships unleashed long-range intelligent energy beams, directly targeting both ends of the massive circular luminous transmission belt. While the belt emitted rays and particles under the attack of five sniper ships, it was not immediately destroyed. The ten Hercules-class sniper ships continued to fire long-range intelligent energy beams, causing the two ends of the transmission belt to flicker incessantly, their light growing increasingly intense.

Suddenly, the 7th Fleet detected an anomaly in the brightest and most massive star; numerous clusters of light were emanating from the star and heading straight for the 7th Fleet.

"All warships, activate your intelligent superheated energy shields. Other warships, fire at those orbs of light!" Wei Shan, as commander of the 7th Fleet, issued the order.

All warships raised their energy shields, and then all the energy shields merged to form a very large energy shield that enveloped all the warships of the 7th Fleet.

Besides the ten Hercules-class sniper ships continuing to fire long-range intelligent energy beams to destroy the conveyor belt that catapulted the luminous spheres into stars, the 7th Fleet deployed all five neutron warstars in front of the fleet. Some large sniper ships fired first at the numerous orbs of light; nearly ten thousand long-range intelligent energy beams, propelled by the gravitational slingshot effect of the neutron warstars, fiercely bombarded the orbs, sending gamma-ray bursts hurtling directly towards them. Under the onslaught of the long-range beams launched from the five neutron warstars, some orbs shattered, emitting large amounts of ultraviolet and visible light. Later orbs attempted to evade the energy beams, but the deflecting beams still destroyed a number. Due to the sheer number of orbs, many bypassed the neutron warstars' effective range and flanked the 7th Fleet from the sides.

Due to the presence of five neutron stars, four or five stars near the fleet began to go berserk. Fiery fountains erupted from their surfaces, and their plasma streams were drawn towards the five neutron stars, continuously supplying matter and energy, and causing a series of nuclear explosions. These plasma streams formed fiery bands in front of the fleet, blocking the path of the light clusters. The clusters ignored these fire bands, passing directly through them and continuing their advance towards the 7th Fleet.

When the light orbs reached the sniper ship's firing range, the fleet's warships fired nearly one hundred million long-range intelligent energy beams, shooting at the light orbs one-to-one. The continuous firing shattered and exploded a large number of light orbs.

The 7th Fleet was in a state of mixed joy and sorrow. On the one hand, the conveyor belt was finally destroyed in two by the fire of the ten Hercules-class sniper ships, and the luminous spheres could not be loaded onto the conveyor belt for the time being. On the other hand, large numbers of light clusters continued to emerge from the brightest and largest star.

"No, we have to destroy that biggest and brightest sun!" Lefia shouted.

“We could indeed destroy it, but that would create a supermassive black hole, from which we ourselves would likely not be able to escape,” Wei Shan explained to Lefia.

"Shanmei, listen to me," Zhou Yuan said to Wei Shan after thinking for a few minutes.

"Ok."

"First, retrieve five neutron war stars, then rush towards the largest and brightest sun."

"Okay," Wei Shan gave the order.

The 7th Fleet accelerated, salvaged five neutron warplanes, and charged directly towards the giant sun, colliding with orbs of light along the way. Numerous orbs collided with the energy shield, creating rings of light. The fleet was like a small bird trying to break through a swarm of bees, desperately fighting its way out.

Under the powerful protection of the combined energy shield, the 7th Fleet disregarded everything and focused solely on the largest and brightest star. The fleet's sniper ships fired beams of light, clearing away the light in their path, ramming into it as they went, and in this way, each step forward took the fleet considerable time.

This massive star is gushing forth endless clusters of light. The impacts of these clusters on the energy shield are becoming increasingly violent.

"Shanmei, hurry! Speed ​​up! All sniper ships, go to maximum power and focus fire on that sun!"

The sniper ship's nearly one hundred million ultra-long-range intelligent energy beams began to converge on the brightest and largest star. The beams collided and shattered obstructing orbs of light along their path, unstoppable, carving a path that would soon reach the star. Numerous orbs of light continued to emerge, their speed increasing. These orbs constantly blocked the sniper ship's beams, preventing them from reaching the star. Even the orbs of light impacting the shields beside the fleet joined the obstruction. However, beams can bend, and no matter how they blocked, some beams always bypassed the orbs, attempting to strike the star. These orbs then continuously circled the star, densely surrounding it, using themselves to block the beams instead of attacking the fleet. Nevertheless, a large number of orbs continued to emerge from the sun, and the area of ​​the circle formed by the orbs continued to expand.

"Brother, this won't do. The beam energy is constantly being depleted, and the fleet's beam power supply will also be insufficient!" Wei Shan loudly reminded Zhou Yuan, feeling helpless.

"Stop shooting at that sun, release the hydrogen cloud, and create two small stars of the same mass!"

"Big brother, why not release a neutron star?"

“Shan, it’s not time yet. We need help to create a ‘Gamma Ray Morse Code Matrix’ and call the Joint Fleet.”

"clear."

The orbs of light simply circled the largest and brightest star, seemingly afraid of being fired at again by the intelligent energy beams, and did not harass the 7th Fleet.

The fleet projected two distant hydrogen ion clouds, which began to coalesce. Rotational force field generators were also deployed, and numerous warships emitted super-energy lasers. Soon, two distant, equally massive blue stars were created. Two "intelligent super-energy exchangers" were deployed, and two sniper ships simultaneously fired intelligent energy beams. The two blue stars instantly erupted in gamma-ray bursts, transforming into two white dwarfs. The gamma rays from the two star bursts were modulated by the optical path difference of the two "intelligent super-energy exchangers," becoming a "gamma-ray Morse code matrix."

The information carried by the "Gamma Ray Morse Code Matrix" was shot towards the Joint Fleet Base at faster-than-light speed.

The 7th Fleet detected that the previously quiet clusters of light surrounding the large sun were beginning to stir. The 7th Fleet activated its energy shield to maximum power, awaiting support from the Combined Fleet. Since the energy shield's energy was maintained by the fleet's Klein force field generators, there was no need to worry about it running out.

No one knows how much time passed, perhaps a long time, perhaps a short time, but at a certain moment, the 7th Fleet suddenly received a call: "7th Fleet, this is the Combined Fleet, we're here! Good heavens, what the hell are those things?"

The 7th Fleet observed that the Earth-Moon Joint Fleet, led by the Alpha Fleet, comprised a total of seventy-nine fleets, and was rushing towards the great sun. Each fleet was accompanied by an aura, which was an energy shield maintained by the Klein Force Field, just like the 7th Fleet itself.

The clusters of light surrounding the sun immediately took action. These clusters of light tightly touched each other and merged, forming rings of energy shields from the inside out, directly covering the large sun.

The sun continues to emit clusters of light, filling the gaps in the solar array that have been reduced due to the formation of a solar shield.

The sunlight dimmed instantly.