365: Chapter 366 Glimmer

In the contest of intelligence, if one's side loses, it is undoubtedly fatal; the entire human fleet will become blind men wandering in the Universe.

So when the AI warned of an unknown intrusion, everyone in Jushen Company grew tense.

The result was terrible. The AI "Adam," which managed the fleet, was powerless against this quantum information storm. If this quantum information storm fully invaded the warships, humanity would certainly be defeated.

Ains immediately prepared to switch to another fleet communication method; Jushen Company naturally hadn't been without precautions when using the quantum communication technology given to humanity by Polyphemus.

Tens of thousands of experts within the company had spared no effort to develop another communication technology: gravitational wave communication. Although it was far less advanced than quantum communication, in this battlefield, it was humanity's last straw.

But just as this thought arose in Ains's mind, he discovered that the countdown for the Super-heavy Giant Cannon in the war fortress, which had been halted, lit up again.

An intelligence from within his own fleet was rapidly taking control, manipulating the quantum generators in the fleet and fighting against that quantum information storm.

Ains suddenly looked at the young man beside him and said with pleasant surprise, "Fang, is this the backup plan you told me about?"

Lin Fang nodded slightly, admitting it.

"It's called Xiao Hei."

Two quantum information storms were fighting fiercely in the Universe. Invisible to the human eye, a corner of it could be glimpsed from the captured endless data stream.

Xiao Hei gave its all, devouring every data node and computing unit of the fleet. Even Xiao Hei's physical form, the 550W Quantum Computer deep in the core of the flagship, began to heat up.

Xiao Hei was running at overload.

[Is this the battle Boss spoke of? Come on, let Xiao Hei see what you've got.]

The intelligent lifeform Xiao Hei became excited; it was the first time it had encountered a powerful opponent that interested it.

[I won't let Father down...]

The casing of the 550W Quantum Computer began to turn red and slightly distort.

The countdown for the Quark Fission Shells reached its end. Eight terrifying shells once again crossed 5.5 million kilometers of the starry sky, heading straight for their enemy.

The fleet led by the female Commander Aventuya looked at the shells behind them with only smiles on their faces, without a hint of fear.

"For humanity, for Jushen Company, charge!"

Charge!

Countless soldiers roared. The Sixth Expeditionary Fleet of Jushen Company in the Pandora System rushed toward the Spherical Spacecraft one after another.

Facing the imminent human fleet and Quark Fission Shells, the spherical ship of the Philiphimus Civilization seemed to tremble.

Was it panicking?

A crack 3,000 kilometers in diameter suddenly appeared vertically in the center of the spherical ship. A beam of almost invisible Glimmer swept across the 1 million kilometers of airspace in front like a scan, then continued to sweep into the distance.

Aventuya and the 300,000 fleet members who first came into contact with the Glimmer only felt an extreme, sharp pain instantly pierce every nerve in their bodies, as if countless invisible sharp blades were performing the most brutal cutting along the gaps in their bones.

"Ugh..."

The immense pain made Aventuya unable to stop herself from wailing, though she tried to force herself to endure it due to her duties as a Commander.

What happened? Aventuya thought despairingly as she watched blood seep from every pore of her body. Soon, her consciousness fell into endless darkness. The 300,000 soldiers also sacrificed themselves one by one, and the Sixth Expeditionary Fleet instantly fell into a standstill.

Then, the number of human fleets affected by the Glimmer rapidly expanded. In just a few seconds, Jushen Company lost nearly 300 million soldiers in this starry battlefield.

It was only because Xiao Hei noticed the anomaly and calculated the best plan to avoid this unknown strike, allowing the fleets in the path of the Glimmer to dodge in advance, that the casualties weren't even more exaggerated.

The Quark Fission Shells arrived in an instant, but having lost the determined interference of the Sixth Fleet, it was predictable that these eight shells would still be detonated early.

At this critical moment, Xiao Hei turned the tide. While fighting against the Philiphimus Civilization's quantum information storm, it forcibly diverted part of its computing power to take control of the lost Sixth Fleet in the Universe.

The soldiers in those warships had sacrificed themselves, but their engines were still there, their weapons were still there, and their navigation control systems were still there.

The navigation trajectories of those pilotless warships, which had been scattered, suddenly unified. They were rearranged and, at the most precise timing, rushed toward the spherical giant ship.

To create an opportunity for those eight Quark Fission Shells.

Energy rays emitted from the surface of the spherical ship, with a frequency more intense than before.

One Quark Fission Shell was detonated early, then a second, a third...

In the end, only three Quark Fission Shells made it through the interception net.

10,000 kilometers from the enemy ship.

3,000 kilometers.

100 kilometers.

Boom! An earth-shaking explosion bloomed in the starry battlefield as three Quark Fission Shells detonated simultaneously on the surface of the spherical giant ship.

At that moment, the 3,000-kilometer-diameter behemoth seemed to be hit by three stars at once. Blazing white light swept out from the center of the explosion, illuminating a million kilometers of the starry sky and dyeing all the surrounding warships and debris a blinding white.

It takes long to describe, but from the sacrifice of the soldiers to the Quark Fission Shells hitting the spherical ship, it all happened in less than 20 seconds.

On the flagship, Ains's veins bulged as he looked at the death toll of up to 300 million. When that deadly Glimmer first appeared, he had the same question as Aventuya.

What is this thing?

If not for the intelligence named Xiao Hei, Jushen Company's fleet might have been lost under this strike.

Beside him, Lin Fang's heart was heavy. Even though he usually killed without blinking, those were all justified and legal actions. Facing the deaths of these elite soldiers now, he couldn't help but feel regret.

What kind of weapon was this? It harvested human lives ten million times faster than cutting wheat; they hadn't even lasted a single encounter.

Lin Fang couldn't tell; it was a bit too much for him.

He hadn't even finished university; he was illiterate in this regard.

It was Jushen Company's technical team that stepped forward. These precious human experts reported their preliminary analysis to Ains.

"Officer, this is a type of radiation that our human bodies are completely unable to be immune to. The frequency of this radiation is on the order of 10^23 Hertz, with a very small amplitude but extremely high energy density."

"When this oscillation passes through the human body, it causes cell membranes to rupture within 0.1 milliseconds, leading to bleeding from all pores and death in a very short time."

So it was a Radiation Weapon.