Kryptonians: Man of Steel

Chapter 1400: Trying to Capture Alive
They originally thought that with their powerful firepower advantage, they could easily suppress the monsters and demons, but reality gave them a heavy blow.

The stone monster did not just passively withstand the attacks.

Its seemingly rough and bulky body contains terrifying power that makes people shudder with fear.

When the American soldiers thought they had won and continued to suppress it with intensive firepower, the stone monster suddenly opened its huge mouth.

From its mouth, an irregular stone slowly emerged.

The surface of the stone is uneven and lacks the streamlined characteristics that air fluid should have.

But before everyone could react, a mysterious and powerful demonic power instantly enveloped the stone.

The demonic power is like an invisible silk thread, tightly wrapping around the stone and giving it incredible power.

Under the influence of the demonic power, the stone broke through the speed of sound in a way that defied common sense.

According to conventional physics principles, when an object moves in the air at a speed exceeding the speed of sound, a sonic boom will occur. At the same time, the surface of the object will generate high temperature due to the intense friction with the air, causing the object to be damaged or even burned.

But at this moment, the stone seemed to be protected by some mysterious force. It did not cause any sonic boom, nor did it produce any thermal barrier phenomenon.

It maintained its current size, without any loss due to friction with the air, and flew towards the American soldiers like a ghost.

The speed of this stone reaches an astonishing one thousand meters per second!

what is this concept?

Generally speaking, the speed of sound is about 15 meters per second under standard atmospheric pressure and 340°C, while the speed of this stone is almost three times the speed of sound.

Such a high speed makes it almost impossible to be captured by the naked eye during flight, leaving only a blurry afterimage.

With a loud "bang", the stone accurately hit an American soldier.

A powerful impact force erupted instantly, and the soldier's upper body turned into a pool of minced meat in an instant.

Because the speed was so fast, his two remaining legs remained in a standing position, as if time had stopped at this moment.

It was not until a few seconds later that a breeze blew and the two legs slowly fell down due to the wind. The scene was so horrific that people around them couldn't help but gasp.

But this was just the beginning. The stone monster seemed to be aroused by its ferocity, and it spit out stones crazily, one after another, pouring down on the American soldiers like raindrops.

With the blessing of demonic power, each of these stones possesses terrifying supersonic power.

In an instant, the originally neat and orderly American soldiers were in a desperate situation.

Those stones were like the god of death's scythe, ruthlessly reaping the lives of the soldiers.

Some soldiers were hit on the head by stones, and their entire heads exploded instantly, with blood and brain matter splattering everywhere; some soldiers were hit on the chest by stones, and their chests were directly pierced, and their hearts and other internal organs were crushed to pieces.

The armored vehicles were not spared either. These armored vehicles, which were said to have high-strength protection, were like paper-made under the attack of stones.

A fist-sized stone easily penetrated the high-strength bulletproof glass and alloy armor of the front of the car, and penetrated all the way from the front to the rear. The remaining force not only penetrated a towering tree at the back. The moment the tree was hit by the stone, a huge hole appeared on the trunk, wood chips flew everywhere, and the tree was shaky.

The military Hummer was blown to pieces.

The stone hit the body of the Hummer, and the powerful impact caused the body of the Hummer to disintegrate instantly, with metal fragments flying everywhere.

The fuel tank was detonated, causing a huge explosion, flames shooting into the sky and thick smoke billowing.

"What a joke! Demonic power can actually do such a thing!"

A researcher opened his eyes wide with disbelief on his face, and couldn't help exclaiming that physics no longer existed.

In his understanding, physics has a set of rigorous laws and formulas, and any phenomenon should be able to be explained within the framework of these laws and formulas. But everything that happened before his eyes was completely beyond his understanding.

From a physics point of view, it is almost impossible to make an irregular piece of stone break the speed of sound without producing a sonic boom and heat barrier.

A sonic boom occurs when an object flies at supersonic speed, and the air in front of it is rapidly compressed, forming a strong pressure wave. When this pressure wave propagates to the ground, it produces a loud noise.

Thermal barriers are caused by the intense friction between objects and air, which causes the temperature of the object's surface to rise sharply, even reaching thousands of degrees Celsius, causing the surface material of the object to melt or burn.

However, the stone monster used its power to break these conventional laws of physics.

The demonic power seems to be able to distort the surrounding physical environment, allowing the air to form a special flow field around the stone, thereby reducing the air resistance and friction.

At the same time, the demonic power may also interfere with the propagation of sound, making it impossible for sonic booms to occur normally.

Researchers began to frantically record various data, trying to find some clues from these phenomena that seemed to violate the laws of physics.

They set up high-speed cameras in advance. These cameras have extremely high shooting frame rates and can capture every subtle movement of the flying stone in a very short time.

By taking continuous shots, they hope to find clues about how the demonic power affects the air flow field from the trajectory of the flying stone.

At the same time, they also deployed multiple sensors that can accurately measure the speed and energy of the stone.

The speed sensor uses the Doppler effect principle to measure the speed of the stone by emitting and receiving electromagnetic waves; the energy sensor estimates the energy contained in the stone by measuring the energy exchange between the stone and its surrounding environment.

In addition, they also used a spectrometer to try to analyze the composition of the demonic power.

A spectrometer is an instrument that can analyze the emission or absorption spectrum of a substance. By analyzing the wavelength and intensity of the spectrum, the chemical composition and structure of the substance can be determined.

The researchers pointed the spectrometer at the stone monster, hoping to capture the special spectral signals emitted by the monster's power and thus uncover the mystery of the monster's power.

However, the data currently available has left them even more confused.

The stone speed and energy data measured by the sensors exceeded their expectations. The speed of the stone far exceeded the value they predicted based on conventional physical laws, and the energy it contained seemed to be constantly changing, sometimes increasing and sometimes weakening, without any pattern to follow.

(End of this chapter)