134: Chapter 134 The Mystic Maiden Strikes, Sweeping God's Staff in Three Seconds in Near-Earth Orbit!

Pangu Laboratory, Level B2, 8:15 AM the next day.

Su Che woke up from a nap, sat at the console, and pulled up a blank document.

He typed a few words: "Southern Gate Technical Reserve."

To build a 10,000-ton prototype luan bird aerospace carrier, one could not just rely on memory; the foundation had to be clear.

The skeleton was being assembled, the stealth coating was being applied, and now it was time to fill in the rest.

Fingers tapped on the keyboard, and lines of text appeared on the screen.

1. Basic Computing Power: 3nm Quantum Chip, Room-temperature Topological Quantum Computer, Quantum Lithography Machine, Pangu OS.

2. Core Propulsion: Miniaturized Controlled Nuclear Fusion, Adaptive Attitude Control Module.

3. Aerospace Platform: Aerospace Carrier Core Support Truss, Anti-gravity Load Application System, Full-band Metamaterial Stealth Structure.

4. Combat and Command: EMP Equipment, Quantum Enhanced Laser Technology, Yi Ren Intelligence General Cognitive Kernel.

5. Other Auxiliaries: Quantum Information Transmission, Brain-Computer Interface Bidirectional Interaction System, Global Active Noise Cancellation Module.

Su Che looked at this list, picked up the water cup beside him, and took a sip.

Starting from a scrap yard in Su Family Village that crushed pigs, he had unknowingly built a foundation capable of overturning the Earth's existing technological system.

He finally added the Anti-gravity material "Kunlun Alloy" developed by his grandfather's generation, then saved the document, encrypted it, and threw it into a hidden partition of the supercomputer.

Jiang Yingxue's tablet emitted a crisp notification sound.

She had been lying on the equipment crate next to him all night. Hearing the sound, she sat up, picked up the tablet, and swiped her finger across the screen.

"Found it." Jiang Yingxue projected the tablet screen onto the main display.

The map showed a red dot blinking under the Potomac River Bridge in Washington.

"The Yiren AI Core has tracked Adam's GPS signal trail." Jiang Yingxue looked at the screen. "There is an abandoned air-raid shelter from World War II under the bridge, and the signal disappeared there."

Qin Lan, who had just walked in, pulled over a folding chair, sat down, and opened her tactical terminal to verify the coordinates.

"This air-raid shelter is not in The Pentagon's active facility inventory." Qin Lan looked up. "And there are no records of any municipal power grid connection."

"It has an independent power source." Su Che looked at the main screen. "What did the kernel smell?"

The map on the main screen faded, and a line of Yiren AI analysis data popped up.

[Detected short-wave high-frequency energy pulse.]

[Signal feature comparison: 94.2% match with "apocalypse fragment" residual physical model.]

[Signal direction: Low Earth Orbit, altitude 400 km.]

Qin Lan's spine straightened.

"Low Earth Orbit?" Qin Lan stared at the screen. "They hid something in the sky?"

Jiang Yingxue pulled up the old bills of the Pan-Pacific Technology Alliance.

"Ten years ago, the Alliance used several shell commercial aerospace companies to launch twelve meteorological satellites into Low Earth Orbit." Jiang Yingxue quickly flipped through the data. "Shortly after the launch, all twelve satellites were declared lost and listed as space debris."

Su Che pulled over the keyboard and entered a command on the supercomputer terminal.

"Let the kernel take over our country's Low Earth Orbit space telescope and aim it at those twelve coordinates."

Three minutes later, twelve high-definition optical images appeared on the main screen.

They were not meteorological satellites.

Twelve ten-meter-long cylindrical metal bodies were floating against the pitch-black cosmic background. The rear of the metal bodies had small attitude adjustment thrusters, and the front was a sharp cone.

"Rod of God." Qin Lan spat out the four words. "Space-based kinetic weapons. They disguised high-density tungsten rods as satellites and sent them up there."

Jiang Yingxue looked at the structure at the rear of the tungsten rod in the image.

"It's not just a tungsten rod." Jiang Yingxue pointed to the ring-shaped device at the rear. "It's equipped with an energy acceleration ring reverse-engineered from the apocalypse fragment. A conventional Rod of God relies on freefall, but this thing can be charged to accelerate three or four times faster."

Su Che looked at the screen.

Twelve tungsten rods falling from an altitude of 400 kilometers, combined with the charging acceleration of the apocalypse fragment, meant each one's destructive power was no less than a small nuclear bomb, and there was no radioactive pollution. Anti-aircraft missiles couldn't catch up with its terminal velocity.

"It is estimated that it will take another sixteen hours for Adam to activate them." Qin Lan picked up the communicator. "However, I still need to notify General Shen in advance to put important cities across the country into the highest level of air defense status."

"No need." Su Che spoke up.

Qin Lan stopped what she was doing.

"To intercept iron rods falling from the sky, air defense networks are useless. You have to use things in the sky to deal with things in the sky."

Su Che called up the assembly drawings of the Xuan Nu fighter on the console.

"Last night, I had the Military Science Commission logistics deliver those forty sets of Quantum Enhanced Laser Technology crystals to Assembly Line No. 3. I have already issued the ratio for the niobium-tungsten alloy and carbon fiber/silicon carbide."

"However, you go and notify them to rush the production of the first Xuan Nu prototype. I will hurry to finish the final assembly, and it will be in time to take out his so-called Rod of God." Su Che's hands flew across the keyboard, entering parameters.

Qin Lan put down the communicator and turned to walk out the door.

In the center of the hall, the hydraulic robotic arm made a dull crashing sound. The first 42-meter main beam was successfully docked with the second section, and the 84-meter stealth skeleton lay on the floor.

Lin Waner pushed the door open, took away Su Che's empty cup, and replaced it with a cup of warm water on the corner of the table.

"Did you sleep well last night?" Lin Waner asked.

"No." Su Che picked up the water cup. "It's better to sleep while holding you."

...

9:10 PM.

The conveyor belt of the automated workshop sent out the first molded Xuan Nu fighter shell.

The plasma stealth coating presented a dull grayish-black color under the lights.

Su Che left the console and walked into the assembly area.

The giant gantry crane fitted the shell with the internal bionic hydraulic deformation skeleton.

There was no cockpit.

The entire fighter had a flat flying-wing configuration, with a wingspan of 14 meters and a fuselage length of 25 meters. The rear had two Adaptive Variable Cycle Aerospace Engines.

Under the belly of the aircraft, a hexagonal payload bay slowly opened.

A robotic arm precisely pushed a set of Quantum Enhanced Laser Technology crystals into the fire control interface.

"Energy module connected." Su Che looked at the tablet in his hand and entered the test command.

The onboard Controlled Nuclear Fusion reactor emitted a very low hum in the heart of the fighter.

The gaps on the surface of the fuselage closed tightly, driven by the bionic hydraulics.

...

11:40 PM.

The first Xuan Nu aerospace drone prototype rolled off the line.

In his mind, the blue-and-white system panel popped up on time.

[Ding! Detected that the main R&D task [Without a swarm, the carrier is just a living target] has been completed!]

[Xuan Nu aerospace drone prototype is off the line! Trans-atmospheric flight control logic verification passed! Onboard quantum directed-energy weapon fire control connectivity 100%!]

[Task Reward: 15,000 skill points!]

[Current user has accumulated 21,400 skill points.]

21,400 points.

Su Che looked at the numbers on the panel and closed the notification.

He walked back to the B2 level main console.

"Kernel, take over Xuan Nu No. 0." Su Che typed on the terminal.

A confirmation window for Yiren AI popped up on the main screen.

[Ready.]

"Input the coordinates of those twelve tungsten rods in Low Earth Orbit." Su Che pulled over a swivel chair and sat down. "Test the cross-domain autonomous decision-making and cluster coordination algorithms. Although there is only one now, it counts as a single-node swarm."

[Target locked.]

[Orbital parameters calculated.]

[Estimated contact time: 14 minutes.]

...

Washington, the abandoned air-raid shelter under the Potomac River Bridge.

Adam stood in front of a dusty console, where twelve green signal lights flashed on the screen, indicating that charging was complete.

He pressed the Enter key.

"Target locked: East Sea Fleet home port of the Dragon Kingdom, Beijing air defense hub, Three Gorges Dam..." Adam looked at the red crosshairs on the screen. "You can defend against missiles and gravity waves, but let's see how you defend against a meteorite falling from the sky."

He reached out and pushed away the red launch safety cover.

His finger hovered over the launch button.

...

The special skylight at the top of the Pangu Laboratory slid to both sides, revealing the night sky.

Xuan Nu No. 0 stopped on the launch pad directly below the skylight.

There was no runway takeoff.

The Anti-gravity coupling node under the belly of the aircraft lit up with blue light.

The fighter silently left the ground and rose vertically.

The moment it passed through the skylight, the Adaptive Variable Cycle Aerospace Engines at the tail ignited.

Two faint blue exhaust flames spewed out.

There was no deafening roar; the global active noise cancellation module suppressed the engine noise to the minimum.

The Xuan Nu turned into a shadow and shot straight into the night sky.

On the main screen, the fighter's altitude data jumped wildly.

10 km, 50 km, 100 km.

Breaking the Kármán line.

"Entering Low Earth Orbit." Jiang Yingxue looked at the tablet. "Speed: Mach 22."

Su Che picked up his water cup and leaned back in his chair.

"Let it play by itself." Su Che said.

400 kilometers high.

The energy acceleration rings at the tail of the twelve tungsten rods lit up with dazzling red light.

The orbital de-orbiting program started, and the tungsten rods began to adjust their attitude, aiming their conical heads at the Earth.

Xuan Nu No. 0 rolled in the vacuum.

The Yiren AI Core did not use traditional radar locking.

The hexagonal payload bay under the belly of the aircraft unfolded.

The muzzle of the Quantum Enhanced Laser Technology cannon poked out.

There was no charging wait time; the small Controlled Nuclear Fusion reactor directly poured massive energy into the crystals.

An invisible quantum laser swept out in the vacuum.

The tungsten rod at the very edge was hit by the beam.

There was no explosion or fire; the high-density tungsten alloy was snapped in half directly by the quantum-level energy erosion.

The unbalanced tungsten rod spun in orbit, deviated from its intended trajectory, fell into the atmosphere, and turned into a shooting star.

The Xuan Nu did not stop.

The fuselage pulled off an aerodynamic-defying right-angle maneuver in space.

The second laser, the third.

The non-human logic of Yiren AI was vividly displayed at this moment. It did not break them one by one in order, but calculated the orbital interference gravitational field of the twelve tungsten rods, finding an optimal firing angle.

One laser beam penetrated the rear acceleration ring of the second tungsten rod, and the scattered energy incidentally melted the attitude control nozzle of the third tungsten rod.

Inside the air-raid shelter.

Adam's finger had not yet pressed down.

The twelve green signal lights on the screen went out one by one within three seconds.

The red words [Signal Lost] filled the entire screen.

Adam's hand froze in mid-air.

He stared at the screen, the muscles at the corner of his eyes twitching twice.

"Impossible..." Adam punched the console, and the old keyboard keys flew out.

...

Pangu Laboratory, Level B2.

On the main screen, the Yiren AI Core popped up a line of text.

[Target cleared.]

[Xuan Nu No. 0 energy remaining 89%, requesting next instruction.]

Qin Lan looked at the battle report on the screen.

"Three seconds." Qin Lan tilted her head to look at Su Che. "This thing you built cuts tungsten rods like cutting tofu."

"No matter how high the melting point of tungsten is, it can't withstand the bond breaking at the quantum level." Su Che placed the water cup on the table. "Let it stay on standby and patrol in orbit."

In the center of the hall, the hydraulic robotic arm made a heavy biting sound.

The third main beam was spliced with the fourth section, and the robotic arm was calibrating the docking interface between the fourth and fifth sections.

The stealth configuration could not tolerate the slightest gap; it had to be seamlessly fitted to the micron level, and every docking had to be repeatedly calibrated and fine-tuned; there was no room for any sloppiness.

Su Che pulled over the keyboard.

"One is not enough." Su Che entered the number into the production queue of the automated workshop. "Run the Xuan Nu production line at full capacity, build one hundred of them first."

He looked at the three-year countdown warning in the corner of the main screen.

"The 10,000-ton verification ship in front of us is just a test platform, and can hold at most 20 of them. After the verification is completed, when the real 100,000-ton luan bird aerospace carrier is built, these one hundred Xuan Nus can truly form a complete swarm combat force."

Su Che pressed the Enter key. "Only then will I be qualified to welcome the guests from outside."