Time was incredibly short.
Luo Feng could not afford to waste a single moment.
“Mum, Dad, all of you stay at home. If anything dangerous happens, immediately go into the gravity chamber upstairs,” Luo Feng instructed seriously.
The gravity chamber was built from extremely durable materials. Even a ninth level Planetary Stage expert would find it difficult to destroy. After all, it had been designed specifically for Planetary Stage cultivation.
It was one of the safest places in the house.
“Babata, give my parents, my brother, Zhen Nan and Xu Xin access to the gravity chamber,” Luo Feng said. “Also set it to one times gravity.”
“Done.”
Babata worked with remarkable efficiency, controlling everything remotely.
“Xiaofeng, be careful.”
On the journey back, Luo Hongguo and Gong Xinlan had already learned from Xu Xin how serious the situation was.
Only Luo Hua and Zhen Nan still did not fully understand.
“Brother, come back soon,” Luo Hua called.
Luo Feng waved before quickly disappearing into the night.
…
Tonight was destined to become a race against time for humanity.
Luo Feng’s intelligent fighter shot into the night sky, leaving Yangzhou City behind.
“How long will it take to reach Ruins Number Twelve if the fighter travels at its current maximum speed of 8,000 metres per second?” Luo Feng asked.
Originally, the fighter had not been capable of flying that fast.
During quieter periods, Babata had placed it inside his storage space and made a few simple modifications.
Its speed had immediately increased from just over Mach Ten to 8,000 metres per second.
According to Babata:
“What’s so impressive about this? Any spacecraft capable of travelling through the universe has to reach the critical point of light speed at the very least. Compared with light speed, this is nothing.”
Luo Feng had not argued.
After all, Babata’s technological level rivalled that of the highest universal civilisations.
To him, such modifications really were trivial.
“It’ll take just under twenty minutes to reach Ruins Number Twelve,” Babata replied.
Hmm?
Luo Feng’s phone rang.
It was Hong.
“Hello.”
“Luo Feng, I need you to make a sacrifice,” Hong said.
“Please tell me.”
Luo Feng did not hesitate.
“According to the hydrogen bomb attack plan, before the Honghuang class intelligent fighter makes its attack, several other Extreme class fighters carrying atomic bombs will launch attacks first.”
“They’re intended as decoys.”
Hong explained.
Luo Feng nodded immediately.
Of course.
The Honghuang class intelligent fighter was unique to the Limit Dojo.
It had a distinctive triangular shape.
Just like Luo Feng’s own aircraft.
Most other countries used disc shaped fighters.
Sending additional triangular fighters carrying atomic bombs would make the Honghuang class fighter far less conspicuous.
“Those other triangular fighters carrying atomic bombs will convince the Devouring Beast that these attacks pose no real threat.”
Luo Feng’s eyes brightened.
“Then suddenly… one seemingly ordinary fighter will be carrying the real weapon.”
The plan was simple.
Which made it all the more likely to succeed.
“However, there aren’t many Extreme class fighters in Asia,” Hong continued.
“I need to reach the battlefield as quickly as possible.”
“I’d like to use your intelligent fighter as one of the decoys.”
“No problem.”
Luo Feng agreed without the slightest hesitation.
An intelligent fighter meant very little to him now.
Especially at a time like this.
Even Hong was prepared to sacrifice his Honghuang class fighter.
How could Luo Feng possibly hesitate?
“Your fighter actually contains a hidden access system.”
“I can take control of it remotely.”
Hong continued.
“I’m taking control now.”
“Are you staying inside, or getting out?”
“I’ll get out.”
Luo Feng immediately flew out of the aircraft.
He looked at the deep blue triangular fighter hovering before him.
To Babata, such an aircraft, limited to atmospheric flight, was nothing more than a cheap toy by universal standards.
But it had accompanied Luo Feng for a long time.
“You’re doing your part for humanity.”
He looked quietly at the aircraft.
“I’m taking control now.”
Hong’s voice came through the phone.
The deep blue triangular fighter immediately accelerated away towards Jiangnan Base City’s main urban district.
It clearly needed to collect its atomic bomb first.
“Chief, can you tell me the yield?” Luo Feng asked.
“Time is short.”
“We’ll be using a hydrogen bomb with a yield of one hundred and fifty million tonnes.”
Hong replied.
“Before the Great Nirvana, there wasn’t anywhere on Earth suitable for testing something that powerful.”
“When it detonates…”
“Even here in China, despite it being night, people will probably see a second sun rising in the northern sky.”
One hundred and fifty million tonnes.
Luo Feng nodded slightly.
This truly was humanity’s ultimate weapon.
It would almost certainly cause further monster mutations.
But humanity no longer cared.
Even if more monsters mutated into King level monsters…
Could any of them possibly surpass the Devouring Beast?
“Luo Feng.”
“Ruins Number Twelve are in the Pacific Ocean, not far from the Hawaiian Islands.”
“The distance is roughly eight thousand kilometres.”
“You’ll have to rely on the Soaring Shuttle.”
“At roughly five thousand metres per second, the journey would take sixteen hundred seconds.”
“You’re actually a little faster than that.”
“You should arrive in around twenty five minutes.”
Babata calculated.
“Understood.”
“Let’s go.”
Without another word, Luo Feng stepped onto the Soaring Shuttle.
He transformed into a streak of light and sped towards Hawaii across the Pacific Ocean.
The European Union, China and Russia had joined forces.
The European Union contributed three atomic bombs.
China contributed five.
Russia supplied eight.
The Limit Dojo provided another two.
The eighteen atomic bombs were loaded onto eighteen separate triangular fighters.
One of those was Luo Feng’s own aircraft.
The hydrogen bomb with its one hundred and fifty million tonne yield, along with the atomic bomb required to trigger it, had been supplied by Russia.
Time had been so limited that the participating nations had simply gathered whatever weapons were immediately available.
Only then did everyone discover…
That Russia had secretly possessed such a monstrous weapon.
With humanity facing extinction, Russia no longer had any reason to hide it.
They proudly revealed their greatest weapon.
It was loaded aboard Hong’s Honghuang class intelligent fighter and sent towards northern Asia.
…
Including the eighteen decoys, there were nineteen triangular fighters altogether.
They came in various colours.
Red.
Blue.
Black.
And others.
Among them was one Honghuang class fighter.
One Qiankun class fighter.
Four King class fighters.
And thirteen Elite Extreme class fighters.
Although the thirteen Elite fighters were slightly inferior, they were all fully capable of unmanned flight.
Every one of the nineteen aircraft was unmanned.
From the outside…
There was almost no visible difference between them.
…
“It has to succeed.”
“It must.”
The United States.
Russia.
The European Union.
China.
India.
The leaders of twenty three base cities.
The senior members of the HR Alliance.
Every senior leader on Earth watched the operation unfold through satellite feeds.
They watched as the nineteen fighters departed from different locations.
Each approached the target from different directions and at different times.
…
Night.
Above the Pacific Ocean.
Luo Feng stood upon the Soaring Shuttle, streaking towards the Hawaiian Islands.
As a Spirit Reader capable of simultaneously controlling nineteen flying blades…
Watching his communication watch while flying required almost no effort.
“The first aircraft.”
His communication watch displayed the live feed.
A black triangular fighter rapidly entered northern Asia.
Meanwhile, the Devouring Beast was busy destroying another war base.
Across northern Asia…
The enormous black beast, more than one hundred and eighty metres long, beat its scaled wings as it flew high overhead.
Its dark golden eyes radiated coldness.
Violence.
Bloodlust.
The Golden Horned Beast was one of the most terrifying Star Beasts in existence.
Savagery and brutality flowed naturally through its bloodline.
Suddenly…
It stopped in mid air.
It had noticed a tiny object approaching from directly ahead.
No fighter could catch it from behind.
But guided by satellites, intercepting it head on was easy.
“Roar.”
The Golden Horned Beast swung its right foreleg.
“Detonate!”
The first triangular fighter, one of the eighteen expendable aircraft, was a King class fighter.
According to its programmed orders…
The instant the Devouring Beast launched a long range attack…
It was to self detonate immediately.
Distance was irrelevant.
Boom!
The King class intelligent fighter exploded instantly.
At precisely the same moment…
Its twenty kiloton atomic bomb detonated.
On Luo Feng’s screen…
The night suddenly gave birth to a miniature sun.
The explosion engulfed the distant Golden Horned Beast.
A mushroom cloud soared into the heavens.
The shockwave spread outward like ripples across water.
The entire region vanished beneath blinding light.
Barely a second later…
The Golden Horned Beast appeared over one hundred kilometres away.
Its body remained completely unharmed.
An atomic bomb exploding within several hundred metres…
Was no more significant to it than a passing breeze.
“The second aircraft is approaching.”
The communication watch switched to another live feed.
The atomic bombs carried by the eighteen decoy aircraft ranged between fifteen and sixty kilotons.
A twenty kiloton atomic bomb was capable of reducing only the central few hundred metres of a town to ruins.
The shockwave shattered windows within two or three kilometres.
In a city of several hundred thousand people, perhaps one hundred thousand would die.
Detonating such weapons across the vast, uninhabited wilderness of northern Asia posed no danger to humanity.
“The second aircraft.”
“It didn’t use a long range attack!”
“Excellent!”
High above the night sky.
The Golden Horned Beast spread its enormous wings.
It had found the previous explosion rather entertaining.
This time…
It allowed the second fighter to approach within fifty metres before casually reaching out with one foreleg.
Boom!
Another miniature sun lit up the wilderness.
Another mushroom cloud rose into the heavens.
“Roar.”
The Golden Horned Beast found the vibration against its foreleg pleasantly comfortable.
According to the inherited memories within its bloodline…
Once a Golden Horned Beast reached the Stellar Stage…
Nothing on a primitive planet like this could threaten it.
That was precisely why it had remained hidden beneath the sea until reaching the Stellar Stage.
The third atomic bomb.
The fourth.
One miniature sun after another illuminated the night.
One mushroom cloud after another towered into the sky.
The atomic bombs resembled fireworks exploding repeatedly across northern Asia.
Explosion after explosion.
Again.
Again.
Again.
Every leader across the world watched with their hearts in their throats.
Luo Feng flying across the Pacific.
Hong and Thunder God waiting at the Limit Dojo.
All of them found their palms covered in sweat.
Because…
Hidden among the expendable decoys…
The real weapon was finally about to make its move.