99: Chapter 99 Detonation

Fifteen minutes later.

Giant World - Outpost Base.

Temporary Launch Silo No. 3.

The massive steel silo cover slowly opened, emitting a low roar.

Sunlight poured down, illuminating the behemoth standing within the launch silo.

Dongfeng-5D Heavy Modified.

The one-hundred-meter-tall steel giant tower, like a sharp sword pointing straight at the vault of heaven, gleamed with a cold metallic luster under the sunlight.

"Attention all units," Tao Zhe's voice spread throughout the entire base via the communication System, "Missile launch countdown, 5 minutes."

"Guidance System self-check complete, status normal."

"Fuel pressure stable."

"Multiple warhead release mechanism, inspection complete."

"Target coordinates locked, error less than five meters."

One report after another sounded.

All Systems, fully ready.

Inside the Outpost Base Command Center, everyone stared at the screen.

On the large screen on the left, it displayed the real-time footage sent back by the drone — —

The black torrent composed of five hundred thousand giants was advancing at a speed of forty-five kilometers per hour.

Dense and overwhelming, covering the sky and earth.

The earth trembled beneath their footsteps, and dust and smoke blotted out the sky.

At the very front, that one-hundred-forty-meter-tall fire-breathing Super Giant walked like a demon god, leaving deep charred footprints on the ground with every step.

"Target distance from Outpost Base... four hundred eighty kilometers."

"Location confirmed, 43 degrees 27 minutes north latitude, 118 degrees 53 minutes east longitude."

"Movement speed stable, estimated trajectory matches calculated data."

Tao Zhe took a deep breath:

"Very good."

He looked at the clock on the wall.

Six eighteen.

Six nineteen.

Six twenty.

"Launch!"

Boom — — !!!

At that instant, the entire world seemed to have stopped.

At the bottom of the temporary launch silo, orange-red flames suddenly spewed out.

That was not an ordinary flame.

Instead, it was a high-temperature plasma jet with a temperature exceeding three thousand degrees, like an enraged fire Dragon, lifting the four-hundred-fifty-ton steel behemoth into the sky slowly.

The roaring sound was deafening.

The earth vibrated violently.

All buildings within a ten-kilometer radius were trembling.

Zhang Xuan and Liu Guang stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Command Center, dumbfounded as they watched this scene.

That one-hundred-meter-tall steel behemoth was slowly rising into the sky.

The orange-red flame wake dragged out a light pillar hundreds of meters long, illuminating the entire sky.

"This... This is..."

Zhang Xuan could no longer speak.

He had never seen such a magnificent, such a shocking sight.

That steel monster taller than the city wall actually... flew up?

"Good heavens..." Liu Guang slumped in the wheelchair, tears sliding down his aged cheeks.

He had lived for more than seventy years.

At this moment, he knew how ridiculous his past so-called "well-informed" nature was.

The rocket's ascent speed was getting faster and faster.

Five seconds later, a Breakthrough of the sound barrier.

Ten seconds later, the speed reached Mach 2.

Thirty seconds later, the missile had turned into a tiny speck of light in the sky, dragging a long white wake, piercing straight into the clouds.

"First-stage rocket separation," the voice of the technical officer sounded, "Second-stage ignition, normal."

"Altitude fifty kilometers, speed Mach 6."

"Third-stage ignition, altitude one hundred twenty kilometers."

"Multiple warhead release sequence initiated."

On the screen, the three-dimensional trajectory map of the missile clearly displayed its flight path.

A perfect parabola, crossing a distance of over four hundred kilometers, pointed precisely at that red target area.

"Flight time, seven minutes and thirty seconds."

"Warhead re-entry into the atmosphere, countdown... three minutes."

Inside the Command Center, there was dead silence.

Everyone held their breath.

Tao Zhe stared at the screen, his fingers sliding quickly across the tablet, adjusting the strike coordinates of each warhead in real time.

"Warhead number one, correction angle zero point three degrees."

"Warhead number seven, delayed release point two seconds."

"Warhead number fifteen..."

Countless data flowed before his eyes.

The trajectory of every warhead, the precise coordinates of every strike point, were under his calculation and control.

"Countdown, two minutes."

On the screen, the footage sent back by the drone showed — —

The giant legion was still advancing.

They were completely unaware.

Unaware that high above in the distant sky, twenty warheads carrying destructive power were diving toward them at a speed exceeding twenty times the speed of sound.

"Countdown, one minute."

"All warheads enter the terminal maneuvering phase."

"Target lock... complete."

Tao Zhe's voice was exceptionally calm:

"Thirty seconds..."

"Ten seconds..."

"Three."

"Two."

"One."

"Detonation."

That fire-breathing Super Giant was raising its head, letting out a heaven-shaking roar.

It seemed to sense something.

In the sky, something was approaching.

Twenty tiny black dots tore through the clouds and fell at an unimaginable speed.

The next second — —

Light.

Pure, absolute, unfaceable light.

Twenty suns rose on the earth simultaneously.

Boom — — !!!!!

That was an explosion that human language could not describe.

Fifteen million tons of TNT equivalent energy was released in an instant.

A fireball with a temperature exceeding one hundred million degrees Celsius expanded on the ground, and light ten times hotter than the surface of the sun instantly illuminated the entire earth.

The shockwave spread outward at a speed exceeding twenty times the speed of sound.

The air was instantly compressed, heated, and ionized.

Forming a visible white ripple to the naked eye, sweeping away everything like a substance.

That one-hundred-forty-meter-tall fire-breathing Super Giant didn't even have time to make any sound.

Under the triangular-encirclement strike of three nuclear bombs, the thermal radiation of one hundred million degrees hit it instantly.

Its proud high-temperature outer skin?

The flames stored within its body?

In front of the real "Hell's Fire", these were all just jokes.

The Super Giant's body was heated to one hundred thousand degrees within 0.01 seconds.

Skin, muscles, bones, and even its hard skull were all vaporized in an instant.

Turning into high-temperature plasma, dissipating into the fireball.

It didn't even know how it died.

The surrounding giants were the same.

One-hundred-meter-class Super Giants, fifteen-meter-class ordinary giants, three-to-five-meter small giants...

In front of this destruction, they had no difference.

All of them were instantly evaporated.

The fireball continued to expand.

One kilometer, three kilometers, five kilometers, ten kilometers...

Immediately after, the shockwave arrived.

Those giants slightly farther from the epicenter, who luckily were not directly killed by the thermal radiation, similarly had no resistance in front of the shockwave.

A hyper-high-speed, ultra-high-pressure air wall swept across.

The bodies of the giants were torn apart, thrown away, and crushed like pieces of paper.

The sound of bones breaking could not be heard at all amidst the explosions.

Their remains were thrown into the sky, and then torn into smaller fragments by an even stronger shockwave.

Eventually turning into flying ashes, dissipating in the flames.

Twenty mushroom clouds soared into the sky.

Each one reached a height of twenty thousand meters, with a cloud top diameter exceeding twenty kilometers.

They stood between heaven and earth like twenty sky-supporting giant pillars.

The orange-red fire glow dyed half the sky red.

The area within a fifty-kilometer radius turned into scorched earth in a short three seconds.

The earth was plowed with countless huge craters, the deepest exceeding one hundred meters.

The rocks on the surface were melted, forming a black glassy ground.

Vegetation, soil, stones, everything, was erased.

Leaving only a dead, smoking, Hell-like wasteland.

And those five hundred thousand giants...

No.

They no longer existed.

No corpses.

No remains.

Not even a complete bone could be found.

Under the fifteen-million-ton equivalent thermonuclear strike, they didn't even have the qualification to become a "corpse".

All vaporized.

Thoroughly erased from this world.