43: Chapter 43 Steam Age vs. Interstellar Civilization

"Farewell, all you monkeys." Captain Bi Qilin projected his grotesque face over Blue Star via countless small carrier-based aircraft: "This noisy planet of yours will soon be dead silent. And I am the Grim Reaper reflected in your eyes before you die!"

Some humans on Blue Star suddenly pointed to the sky and cheered loudly: "The deity has appeared, the great deity has appeared again!"

Soon, the billions of people across the globe all knelt, chanting with the most pious postures and expressions: "Great Deity Xingyang, You are the ancestor of all things, the cornerstone of civilization. The only deity in the entire universe, the eternal truth of all time and space!"

Captain Bi Qilin grinned hideously: "Know fear now, do you? Unfortunately, it's too late! It's useless even if you mistake me for a deity."

Communications Officer Xiliu pointed behind him: "Captain, I don't think the people on Blue Star are kneeling to you!"

Only then did everyone in the bridge command room notice that someone was standing behind the captain, which was also the reason why the humans on Blue Star could see the captain and him through the projected image.

Captain Bi Qilin was scared out of his wits, leaping up from his seat and shouting in alarm: "Who are you?"

Chu Xingyang kicked him aside and sat brazenly in his seat.

Then, he addressed all the humans on Blue Star through the image receiving device in front of him: "I know that the ugly, iron-faced freak just now didn't scare you, but he certainly disturbed the children's study and play. Watch closely! I'll perform a magic trick for you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the countless alien small carrier-based aircraft hovering over Blue Star simultaneously turned off their images.

In an instant, these triangular aircraft transformed into snacks, toys, balls, sticky notes, hairpins, and so on, fluttering all over the sky.

The adults had tears in their eyes, and the children cheered and jumped for joy.

The great deity had sent them so many gifts.

After all, in the adults' teachings, there was only boundless piety and fanatic worship for the Xingyang God, but the children at this moment truly felt the deity's love and even cuteness.

Countless children either raised their hands or bent down to pick up the various gifts slowly drifting to the ground, rubbing their faces against them.

Thinking to themselves, this must be the warmth of the deity.

A child hugged a floral dress to his chest, full of excitement: "Wow, so pretty!"

The mother on the side snatched the dress and handed it to the Little Girl beside her: "This is for your sister, why does a boy like you need a floral dress!"

Compared to the harmony and happiness on Blue Star.

The invading interstellar warship was in a state of chaos. An enraged Captain Bi Qilin ordered his crew: "Kill this magician for me!"

The lasers fired from dozens of handheld phase weapons struck Chu Xingyang's body.

But by this time, he had already switched to his Consciousness Projection, so the lasers could only pass through his body, riddling the entire command room with holes.

Xiliu promptly called for the others to stop: "Stop firing, don't you see he is completely unharmed? Do you want to destroy our bridge if you keep shooting?"

Captain Bi Qilin looked unwilling: "You magician, hurry up and change those carrier-based aircraft back. Are you using some kind of stealth device?"

The navigator and the Helmsman were frantically searching for clues on the radar.

Xiliu said: "Don't bother looking, the signals for those carrier-based aircraft vanished in an instant."

Captain Bi Qilin was furious: "I will launch all weapons at that planet right now, and none of your monkeys will survive!"

Chu Xingyang looked indifferent, even slightly mocking: "I advise you not to do that. Since I could turn those triangular things into little gifts, who knows what I could turn your weapons into."

This remark immediately stunned everyone on the starship.

A moment later, the first mate stiffened his neck: "How do we know if we don't try?"

This sentence instantly ignited the fighting spirit of everyone on the ship.

Chu Xingyang clapped his hands: "Fine, fine, fine! You won't shed tears until you see the coffin. But since you keep calling them monkeys, I'll let the monkeys you speak of destroy you."

Captain Bi Qilin flushed: "Are you joking or insulting us? That group of monkeys has only just invented telephones and airplanes. They have only just entered the industrial age, how could they possibly destroy our interstellar civilization!"

All the crew members were also extremely angry, feeling that their dignity had been thrown to the ground and trampled upon.

Ignoring their feelings completely, Chu Xingyang turned and left the starship, returning to the surface of Blue Star, on the south bank of the An Shen River.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Three Continents Alliance Army, You Yangrong, scrambled to throw himself at his feet, weeping bitterly: "great deity, the people of the northern and southern continents actually dare to use electric lights. For so many years, we in the three continents have been committed to destroying that evil object."

The people from the Star Fire Nation also arrived by boat, and naturally, no one dared to use guns or cannons at this moment.

Yu Lan pulled Wei Wei, stumbling through the air as they flew to the deity they had been longing for, both of them with uncontrollable tears on their faces.

Chu Xingyang kicked You Yangrong, who was clutching his trouser leg, to the ground: "You two sides have been fighting for decades over something as trivial as an electric light? Can you find something else to do? Is using an electric light blasphemy?"

Everyone, including those from the Star Fire Nation, was so terrified that they lay on the ground, trembling all over.

Army General Ba Lei tried to appease the deity's anger: "great deity, we felt that only You can bring lasting light to humanity, and electric lights are just..."

"Shut up!" Chu Xingyang interrupted him: "You like to fight, right? Then you go and destroy that alien warship!"

Everyone was stunned with fear; they had seen that starship make the towering Dongshan Mountain disappear with a single beam of light.

They naturally knew that Blue Star humans, with only conventional shells and bullets, could never defeat an interstellar civilization.

Moreover, the warship at this moment seemed to have been deterred by the deity's power and had already hidden behind one of Blue Star's moons, using the moon as cover. How could we possibly have equipment that can enter space now?

Could this be the deity's punishment for humanity's civil war?

Everyone closed their eyes in despair.

"All humanoid mechs from the Three Continents, take your positions! All submarine crews from the Southern Continent, get ready! All pilots from the Star Fire Nation, enter your cockpits!" Chu Xingyang ordered mercilessly.

Everyone executed the deity's order with ashen faces; they did not believe that human steam engines could defeat an interstellar civilization at this time.

Yu Lan, however, felt differently; she knew the merciful deity would not let the humans of Blue Star go to their deaths. So, she said excitedly: "I'm going to find a plane to go to space and fight the aliens too!"

Wei Wei kindly reminded her: "That's space, you know; the planes you build can't go up there."

"Don't worry, the deity has his own arrangements!"

After everyone was ready.

Chu Xingyang moved his fingers slightly.

Three hundred airplanes, one thousand humanoid mechs powered by steam engines, and three thousand submarines all flew into the sky.

As their altitude climbed steadily, everyone inside these pieces of equipment began to feel difficulty breathing.