220: Chapter 220 Impacting Jupiter

Gao Yuan had been there himself. Although he had returned alive, he wasn't sure if others could do the same!

"I have a plan, but the person who carries it out might... never come back!"

"Marshal, I'll go!"

"What do you mean you'll go? I'll go... I was among the first batch of Aerospace Force soldiers. Marshal, please give the order!"

Gao Yuan saw many captains volunteering!

He hesitated for a moment and chose the oldest one.

"Lao Sha, I'm counting on you!"

"Please give the order, Marshal!"

"Carry one hundred tons of Dark Matter and one thousand tons of Antimatter. Head to the Moon immediately. Here are the lunar coordinates. Release the Antimatter and Dark Matter at this position..."

"Marshal, I'm off!"

...

Gao Yuan watched as Lao Sha piloted the warship toward the Moon!

He silently gave a military salute to his retreating figure, and the others followed suit!

"Marshal, is Lao Sha really not coming back?"

"Let's go. We're heading to Mars first!"

Gao Yuan said.

Who knew? Maybe he would live, maybe he would die, but he certainly wouldn't be coming back!

After all, the Moon would soon crash into Jupiter, and the wormhole entrance would be gone by then... How could he return?

Success or failure now rested in the hands of fate...

Gao Yuan had arrived at the Mars Sector, orbiting Mars at an altitude of eight thousand kilometers.

They were here to take shelter. If the Moon really struck Jupiter, Mars would be affected by the shockwave, making its surface extremely unsafe. Therefore, they had to stay in space.

Distance was a tricky thing. If they were too far, they would be hit by the shockwave wrapping around; if they were too close, they might be pulled in by Mars' gravity!

An altitude of eight thousand kilometers was just right.

There was still half a day until the calculated date of the Moon's impact with Jupiter when a fragment of Vesta visited Mars first.

The massive impact increased Mars' eccentricity, and its surface tectonic plates began to shift. Once-mighty mountains became low valleys, and former plains rose into high peaks. The volcanoes now truly resembled hell, with volcanic ash filling the entire Martian atmosphere, and the polar ice caps melted! The massive amount of dust and water vapor unexpectedly brought a heavy rain to Mars...

Hiding behind Mars, Gao Yuan witnessed the planet's entire transformation.

He was secretly stunned. A single meteorite caused such a massive disturbance; if the Moon truly struck Jupiter, how spectacular would that scene be?

...

The Human Fleet began to hover, hiding at Mars' center of mass!

The Moon was about to impact Jupiter. Gao Yuan didn't know if Lao Sha had succeeded, so he released over a dozen monitoring drones into the surrounding space to observe the plan's outcome.

Jupiter was 500 million kilometers from Mars, which was further than the distance from the Earth to the Sun. This meant that even if Jupiter really exploded, it would take 25 minutes for the light to reach the Mars Sector!

Gao Yuan checked the time. If the plan had succeeded, the impact would have already occurred.

However, the probes had not yet received any images...

After a long wait...

The images sent back by the sensors finally changed.

Because the distance was so great, the sight of the Moon falling into Jupiter wasn't spectacular; it was like a grain of rice landing on a basketball.

But soon, along the ecliptic plane, a searing and dazzling light suddenly surged forth, far more brilliant than the Sun's rays!

Everyone around Gao Yuan was dumbfounded...

It was as if a sun had suddenly exploded ahead. The intense light flooded the entire Solar System like a deluge, making even the Sun appear dim and lusterless for a moment.

The next moment...

The image cut out.

Gao Yuan knew his sensors had been destroyed.

That intense light was accompanied by dense, high-temperature, high-energy radiation!

Any matter would melt under such radiation.

At this moment, the violent shockwave began to reach Mars. The powerful high-energy rays and radiation directly blew away Mars' thin atmosphere, and storms broke out everywhere on the planet...

The surface of Mars, struck by the shockwave, began to melt in the high temperatures, with magma flowing continuously in all directions...

The side of Mars facing the impact had now turned into a disc-like structure, low in the middle and high at the edges!

Gao Yuan hid behind Mars' center of mass, not daring to move...

The others didn't dare to move either.

This world-ending situation was too terrifying. Even Mars' moons were melted into molten iron by the shockwave and fell onto the planet!

The shockwave continued to spread.

It surged toward the sectors of Earth, Venus, and Mercury!

The energy Jupiter released in that instant far exceeded the light emitted by the Sun...

At this moment, if one were to look from outside the Solar System, they would find that within the system, Jupiter was the primary star, and the Sun was at most a companion star!

But soon, the storm passed, and the Solar System seemed to regain its peace!

The intense light faded...

Sunlight once again dominated the Solar System.

But Gao Yuan and the others still hid behind Mars.

"Marshal, Lao Sha succeeded, right?"

"Yes, Lao Sha did an excellent job! The Moon successfully impacted Jupiter!"

Mo Yun continued, "Marshal, it's quiet outside. Should we go clean up the Jupiter Sector now?"

Gao Yuan shook his head.

"No, we can't leave yet..."

"Huh?"

"You ask Elder Zhong!"

Mo Yun looked at Zhong Guoqiang.

"High-energy rays come and go quickly. The rays have passed, but they are followed by a high-energy particle stream! This kind of particle stream isn't visually apparent like high-energy rays, but it deals fatal damage to our warships and aerospace carriers!"

"This high-energy particle stream is also called solar wind. The auroras on Earth are a phenomenon caused by charged particle streams interacting with the atmosphere! When the solar wind is strong, it causes accidents like satellite signal loss and power grid failure on Earth. With an explosion like Jupiter's, the solar wind intensity will definitely be dozens of times stronger. Moreover, we are in space without an atmosphere to protect us. If we go out like this... we will all die!"

Mo Yun looked astonished...

"Sorry, I didn't know!"

"Marshal, how many more days do we need to stay here?"

"Two weeks. We'll clean up the Jupiter Sector in two weeks!"

"Ah? Why does it take so long?"

"high-energy particle streams travel relatively slowly..."

After Gao Yuan finished speaking, he sent out more probes toward Jupiter...

Two days later, the probes reached the outskirts of Jupiter.

All sorts of first-hand information were sent back.

Gao Yuan saw the current Jupiter; there was actually a faint light coming from within it.

This was...

Gao Yuan looked at the screen and asked Zhong Guoqiang beside him.

Zhong Guoqiang's eyes widened.

"This... this is Nuclear Fusion. Jupiter has been temporarily ignited!"

"What do you mean?"

"Jupiter's composition is identical to the Sun's. The reason it doesn't emit light is that it's too small compared to the Sun; its internal pressure isn't enough to trigger fusion! Now, with this impact from the Moon, the internal pressure has reached the critical threshold for Nuclear Fusion. So Jupiter... has been ignited. Jupiter should be a dwarf star now!"

"Elder Zhong, do you mean that from now on, the Solar System has a second star?"