Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 52 Cultivation Intervention (Please continue reading)

Inside the Jura Mountains, the Trisolaran rebels who had entered the tunnels quickly killed the remaining NATO defenders and took complete control of the European Large Hadron Collider.

After doing all this, Caesar terminated the battle plan, put the pen back on his breast pocket, and closed the notebook.

"Lord, my work is done. Leave the rest to the soldiers on the front lines. They know what to do."

Gazing at the setting sun over the Colosseum, Caesar made a prayer on his chest, his face serene.

Sophon did not reply to the ETO leader, but continued to observe the Trisolaran rebels' actions on the front lines.

"The reinforcements from the armies of various European countries will arrive soon. Now, I order: blow up all the tunnels at the entrances and exits," said a woman wearing an ETO badge but carrying a lieutenant colonel's insignia on her shoulder.

This female lieutenant colonel replaced Caesar, who was in charge of remote command, and issued more detailed operational orders.

"Shouldn't we... leave an exit?" an ETO peripheral member asked tentatively.

The lieutenant colonel gave him a cold look, and the latter felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

"Destroy them all."

"Yes!"

Soon, several muffled explosions rang out from the depths of the tunnel. The mountain structure, whose supporting structure had been shattered by the explosion, began to collapse naturally under the force of gravity.

Apart from the lights inside the mountain, all access routes to the outside world have been completely buried by the mountain's soil and rocks.

The belated NATO reinforcements surrounded the entire Jura Mountains. They were horrified by the battlefield ravaged by the ball lightning weapons. One of the technical officers squatted on the ground in anguish, picking up the ashes of the NATO soldiers and holding them in his hands.

"There is no magnetic field reversal device here, so we cannot defend against this kind of ball lightning excited by macro-electrons."

"General, they've blown up all the passageways. Jura Mountain will become their inescapable grave. Even if we do nothing, they'll suffocate in the mountains," a operations staff officer said.

The general's expression was grim: "They possess an entire hadron collider, which is dangerous. Whatever they intend to do, we must stop them."

"We have already cut off the power to the Large Hadron Collider. Whatever the Trisolarans want to instruct these people to do, we have enough time to deal with it!" an officer said.

“That’s not how it works, General,” the technical officer cried out. “Two years ago, a small nuclear power plant was built inside the Jura Mountains. The mountains are capable of self-sufficiency in energy!”

Upon hearing this, the general swayed slightly.

Meanwhile, the Franco-German forces on the other side had been authorized to bombard the entrance cave with heavy weapons, including tanks, but the effect was limited, and the collapse of the mountain was more complete than anyone had expected.

Many blasting experts are also powerless to do anything about it. The basis of blasting is to destroy the supporting points of large structures by rapidly releasing explosive energy in a short period of time. But when faced with a completely collapsed mountain, which was already collapsed, even if it is blasted again, it will still collapse.

Ordinary explosives are ineffective.

"Commander, the Franco-German forces have launched more than a dozen bunker buster bombs, but so far, the effect has been limited."

Upon hearing the message from the Joint Intelligence Department, the technical officer beside him shook his head: "Even the most advanced bunker-buster missiles can't penetrate more than a few dozen meters into the hard Jura Mountains. Right now, there's only one way to quickly open a passage."

The general immediately realized: "A nuclear bomb?"

“A bunker-buster nuclear bomb,” the technical officer corrected. “Inform the joint command and let the Americans prepare it. They have bunker-buster nuclear bombs. Even if they can’t blow open the entrance, they can still kill them inside.”

"As for the Large Hadron Collider," the officer said with a reluctant expression, "let it be destroyed. Anyway, with Sophon there, it's just a decoration. Besides, China and the United States have backups."

"Something worth hundreds of billions of dollars, you just throw it away like that?" one of the accompanying technical experts asked incredulously.

"The accelerator can be rebuilt. The most important thing is to drown these bastards in the mountains first! Avenge the other fallen soldiers!" the officer roared, turning around.

It takes time to deploy bunker-buster nuclear weapons, it takes time for bombers to take off, and it takes time to evacuate civilians.

More than an hour had passed by the time the bunker-buster nuclear bomb fell like the sword of Damocles from the B-2 bomber at an altitude of 10,000 meters.

A deadly impact has arrived!
After penetrating hundreds of meters into the mountain, the earth-penetrating nuclear bomb unleashed a fireball of nuclear fission inside the mountain. As the massive Jura Mountains bulged as if their interiors had been bulged, countless plumes of dust were scattered throughout the mountain and covered almost the entire Geneva area. The resulting micro-seismic waves could be detected even at the borders of Switzerland.

Switzerland became the second country, after Japan, to be hit by nuclear fission since World War II—of course, these are not the same thing.

"The passage didn't open... instead, it collapsed even more completely due to the nuclear bomb."

Is it possible for the people inside to still be alive?

"You'll have to ask Tomoko about that."

The whispers ceased with a piece of bad news.

Geologists detected a long, buzzing sound on the mountainside, and everyone immediately realized there was a problem.

The bunker-buster nuclear bomb failed to effectively destroy the space inside the mountain, and the Large Hadron Collider has even been activated by the Trisolaran rebels! The low-frequency sound waves just now are proof of that!
"We need a second bunker-buster nuclear bomb! A third! A fourth!" In the NATO operations center, a French general slammed his fist on the table and roared.

"Is it really necessary to be in such a hurry? Even if Zhizi doesn't interfere with them, what can these traitors possibly do?"

"Who knows what they might create? Don't forget how far ahead of us the Trisolarans are in terms of technology. I wouldn't be surprised if they created a miniature black hole."

"I can tell you don't understand physics at all. Black holes are formed by the accumulation of mass; how could microscopic particles possibly collide to create them!"

One of the generals said, "Don't be impatient. Disrupting the Trisolarans' plan is more important than anything else. The second bunker-buster nuclear bomb has already been launched from Paris. This one has a greater yield than the previous one. Let the outer troops spread out."

Faced with the nuclear explosion that had just occurred inside the mountain, the ETO lieutenant wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and smiled.

One high-energy particle expert loyal to the ETO cursed: "The PDC is also crazy. They use nuclear weapons without warning. Geneva is the second largest city in Switzerland!"

“This is a life-or-death struggle,” the ETO lieutenant said. “We need to complete the next collision before the next nuclear strike arrives. The bunker-buster bomb just now hit the wrong spot. This is God giving us a second chance.”

As the ETO lieutenant spoke, a blood-red countdown appeared in the lower right corner of the vision of the more than 600 Trisolaran rebels still alive inside the mountain.

【10:57:14】

The countdown to the second round of bunker-buster nuclear strikes is ten minutes long, accurate to the millisecond.

"The Lord is not an intelligence agent for the Allies. The Lord's calculations are infallible. We have ten minutes left, which is enough for us to complete the second round of particle collisions." The ETO lieutenant saw the countdown in his line of sight, and the anxiety caused by the explosion of the bunker-buster nuclear bomb calmed down somewhat.

Hopefully, this earth-penetrating nuclear bomb will miss its target slightly, just like the previous one, so they will have a third chance to obtain macro-atoms.

Five minutes ago, in the first high-energy particle collision, ETO had already captured more than a hundred macroatoms. However, it is not easy to select macroatoms with large enough internal structures and destructive properties for living organisms from these macroatoms. ETO needs more macroatoms to improve the success rate.

The Large Hadron Collider in Europe (LHC) began its second high-energy particle collision experiment. Dozens of trembling accelerator operators, under the threat of rebel gunfire, worked with ETO's own particle experts to start the collider once again.

But the next moment, a large hand pressed on the shoulder of the ETO lieutenant. The lieutenant turned her head and saw a figure that surprised her.

"Stop," Luo Qing said.

(End of this chapter)