Chapter 1586 - Cold Night is Approaching (1/2)

Chapter 1586: Cold Night is Approaching

“This is Enterprise. An unknown object is identified at coordinates… It is approaching your ship at a speed of 60,000 kilometers per hour. Firing is approved, I repeat, firing is approved!”

“This is Frontier, roger that. The ship has entered level one preparedness, ammunition is being loaded…”

Inside the bridge of Frontier, the entire ship’s officers and soldiers were ready.

The images from Enterprise showed an abnormal spot behind the asteroid and they suspect it may be traces of Harmony civilization. Although this observational anomaly did appear before, they made the same decision every time.

It was better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one perpetrator go free.

Frontier, which led the charge, immediately started the secondary engine and adjusted the bow of the ship to the asteroid’s direction. Enterprise quickly moved closer to Frontier, while Judgement, which was relatively far away, began to slow down. The bow also aimed at the asteroid in the front and opened the torpedo compartment at the bottom.

“The mass projectile is loaded.”

“Capacitor charging…”

“The charge is complete!”

“FIRE!”

The gunner inside the bridge followed the command of the captain and pressed down on the touchpad without hesitation.

The white light flickered for a second, and the fifty-meter-long cylindrical mass projectile was accelerated to the limit by the magnetic coil and blasted toward the asteroid at an incredible speed. Under the effect of the conservation of momentum, the starship suddenly halted.

Even the people who stood in the bridge felt the huge recoil from the bow of the ship.

The ten-ton heavy-duty tungsten core projectile was almost the most destructive weapon on Frontier. Based on the trajectory calculation, if the projectile landed on the target, the asteroid would be torn into pieces.

Frontier Captain, Yue Dongwen’s eyes were locked on the twinkling blue dot that approached the asteroid marked in red. He had squeezed his hands so hard that his palms sweated.

Suddenly, the vector parameter next to the red dot on the star chart suddenly changed and deviated from the original orbit. Yue Dongwen’s pupils shrank slightly, and it seemed that the worm ship was equipped with some kind of battlefield scanning equipment…or organs.

The original critical strike was avoided, and the cylindrical mass projectile whizzed by the asteroid that was in front of it and hit another asteroid in the Kuiper belt, which directly blasted it into fragments.

Without any hesitation, Yue Dongwen made a decisive decision and ordered.

“Launch the starcrafts! Open the torpedo cabin!”

“ROGER!”

In the carrier hangar, pilots with helmets boarded the Stingray A-1s one after another. The starcrafts were moved by the mechanical arm into the tubular ejection runway one after another, and under the acceleration of the magnetic track, they launched one after another in the worm ship’s direction.

At the same time, on the other side of the battlefield.

Judgement, which had already prepared for firing, launched a nuclear torpedo.

In space operations, the lethality of thermonuclear weapons was quite limited because of the lack of gas shock waves. However, the engineers of Future Military modified the nuclear torpedo. They added a metal liner with strong thermal conductivity inside the warhead.

It was needless to say how powerful the high-velocity superplastic jet driven by thermonuclear weapon was…

An orange-red tail light flowed behind the engine of the nuclear torpedo.

The nuclear torpedo, with a built-in guidance function, locked onto the asteroid after two phases of accelerations and trajectory changes. It blocked all possible escape routes and directly hit the target! At the moment when this nuclear torpedo exploded, the high-velocity superplastic jet instantly penetrated the asteroid and released a terrifying amount of kinetic energy into the asteroid in a fan-shaped direction.

The asteroid with a radius of over a hundred meters started to show lava-colored cracks on the surface as if there was a thermal reaction that happened on the inside, and in the slow-motioned camera, it exploded into countless pieces.