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

Chapter 58 Earth's Two Thousand Sounds (Three-in-One) (Seeking Monthly Tickets!)

"I will begin my counterattack. All fleet commanders, please prepare accordingly."

Luo Qing's voice was transmitted to the Pentagon's operations command center via the headset, and also broadcast live around the world.

However, because the electromagnetic pulse interference caused by the nuclear explosion had not yet subsided, his voice sounded particularly distorted.

However, it was this slightly distorted voice that sent chills down the spines of every commander participating in the exercise.

"How is he going to retaliate?" an Australian officer asked.

No one knows the answer.

The sky grew desolate.

The gale at sea gradually subsided, while the mushroom cloud that served as the backdrop continued to rise slowly.

Luo Qing took a step forward and appeared above the mushroom cloud. It took the equipment control personnel in charge of the live broadcast a while to recalibrate the position of this Wallfacer.

Luo Qing added, "Considering that both worlds are watching my live stream, I will retaliate using methods that are easy for both worlds to understand."

"What do you mean by retaliating in a way that is easy to understand?" a military staff officer asked.

No one at the Pentagon's Joint Command could answer the question, but the person who asked it quickly received an answer.

【Impact】

All the magical arts, sword techniques, and lightning spells—all the dazzling, cinematic cultivation methods—were absent. Instead, the air around Luo Qing trembled subtly. Within those ethereal, trembling clouds, Luo Qing's figure began to appear and disappear intermittently.

The Pentagon Joint Command immediately issued the order: "All fleets, attack at will!"

However, some people made relatively correct deployments: "Evacuate, escape to the periphery of the exercise area, increase the distance, take off all carrier-based aircraft, and expand the battlefield!"

But such deployment is now too late.

The clouds over the Pacific Ocean suddenly twisted, and a streak of purple-gold light tore through the atmosphere, causing violent air tremors wherever it passed. The mushroom cloud was torn apart, leaving a clear spiral-shaped vacuum channel.

Luo Qing's figure disappeared visually, but he was still visible in radar detection.

In order to facilitate detection by human radar systems, Luo Qing activated the high-power electromagnetic wave diffuser he carried in advance, marking his position on the radar.

Within a ring of humans, Luo Qing approached a warship in a matter of seconds, then transformed into a beam of light and instantly passed through the warship.

The first human warship to be penetrated was the Japanese destroyer "Maya"—the golden arrow of light swept past the bridge at a speed visible to the naked eye. The alloy steel hull was sliced ​​open like butter, and four gas turbines were simultaneously pierced by a sword beam. By the time the internal explosions began, Luo Qing had already approached his next target.

The second warship to be penetrated was the American Zumwalt-class destroyer. Coincidentally, Luo Qing's direction of movement was exactly in front of the muzzle of the heavy electromagnetic rapid-fire cannon. Amidst the continuous barrage of high-energy electromagnetic projectiles, Luo Qing deliberately rammed into it at a greater relative speed.

In a short time, hundreds of hypersonic electromagnetic projectiles crashed into Luo Qing. The moment the projectiles shattered upon impact, the electromagnetic railgun experts in the operations room felt as if they were trying to intercept a rock with an egg.

Alloy projectiles are ultimately too brittle; the hardness and strength of materials based on metallic bond strength are ultimately limited. Even with the latest breakthroughs in materials science, nanomaterials are essentially just different microstructures.

Human research in materials science has always been limited to the level of atomic arrangement and molecular structure. Moreover, these electromagnetic projectiles are nothing more than ordinary metal projectiles.

Before coming into contact with this futuristic-looking but practically useless naval warship, Luo Qing deliberately scanned the electromagnetic cannon's operating principle with his spiritual sense, and then pierced through it without hesitation.

Then came the third one.

The fourth ship.

The fifth one.

Because of its incredible speed, the first destroyer to be pierced, the "Maya," only began to sink after Luo Qing had smashed the tenth large warship in the inner ring of the fleet.

"Simple, direct, and efficient." Jiang Xingchen's eyes gleamed as he watched one torn naval warship after another being torn apart.

Even at this rate, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier 'Mount Everest,' which he had served as captain for ten years, was about to be destroyed, which could not conceal his appreciation for this form of warfare.

In the joint command center, a U.S. Navy vice admiral, a veteran who had participated in three local wars, silently lit a cigarette as he watched the radar lights constantly dimming.

In the short time it takes to smoke a cigarette, three more naval warships were rammed and destroyed by Luo Qing.

The lieutenant general said, "Since humans came down from the trees, they have fought wars for tens of thousands of years, from the land to the sea, and from the sea to the sky. They thought they were very good at fighting, but compared to today, it's all like playing house."

I order that the large warships do not need to reposition themselves; hold their ground and counterattack to the last moment. All remote-controlled commanders, execute this order.

The chief naval equipment designer said, "This war exercise will have a significant impact on the future development of military science."

Military strategy experts say: "Military theories also need to be overturned. Combat against other civilizations is completely different from internal conflicts between humans. Existing experience cannot be applied."

While the generals from various countries were thinking, conversing, and summarizing within the joint command headquarters...

Luo Qing continued forward, traversing the remaining warships along the arc of the inscribed circle. During the initial 10 minutes of free bombardment, these human warships maintained a very close relative distance to maximize firepower.

This gave Luo Qing a very short time to destroy all the inner circle warships.

The peak of public opinion across the internet is growing explosively. People from all over the world, both online and offline, are watching the constantly exploding fleets of various countries and the 'military exercises' described with certainty on the live broadcast screens, and they can't help but fall into deep thought.

Alright, alright, we know Luo Qing is a true cultivator now, so please stop.

It's all taxpayers' money!
Luo Qing remained silent, simply shuttling back and forth.

One warship after another burst into flames at sea. From the perspective of space captured by satellites and high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, the circular array of the United Nations First Fleet is now slowly igniting from the inside out. The yin and yang lines of varying lengths are turning into burning flames and disappearing.

Although it was early morning, it was the twilight of a traditional navy.

Although Sai had told Luo Qing beforehand to give the human fleet some face, it was clear that Luo Qing was deliberately tearing away the fig leaf of human military power.

Only by striking hard enough can humanity fully recover from the lingering effects of its golden age!

在那名美国中将吸完了第一支烟之后，罗清就已经贯穿了舰队内环全部的战舰，其中包括6艘巡洋舰、12艘驱逐舰、28艘护卫舰、6艘老式战列舰、8艘两栖攻击舰、和3艘滨海战斗舰。

The naval ring, composed of countless silver specks scattered across the ocean, is burning from the inside out.

With each turn Luo Qing made, intense energy ripples exploded on the sea surface, and giant waves thousands of meters high radiated outwards from him, only to be instantly shattered into a sky full of water mist by terrifying sonic booms.

Luo Qing was certain that his escape speed had exceeded the limit of the Nascent Soul stage. The sonic boom alone was enough to crack the steel skin of the warship. At hundreds of times the speed of sound, he left a rainbow trail tens of kilometers long behind him. The high temperature generated by the friction with the seawater boiled a small area of ​​the sea into a boiling salty soup.

To further improve the killing efficiency, Luo Qing added a handful of pebbles to his hand.

He said that the retaliation should be done in a way that is easy for outsiders to understand, and throwing stones is obviously something that everyone can understand.

The pebble was thrown by Luo Qing at about one ten-thousandth the speed of light, which is almost three times the muzzle velocity of the most advanced electromagnetic cannon. The moment the pebble left the ground, it shone brightly in the atmosphere, but it was enveloped by the invisible spiritual power and was not completely wiped off by the atmosphere. In the end, it hit the carrier-based aircraft that were scattering in the sky.

The flames began to spread from the sea to the sky.

The instant a pebble hits a carrier-based aircraft, its extremely high speed, amplified by the power of special relativity, causes it to shatter the aircraft almost instantly. In this state, the pebble's destructive force even surpasses that of a conventional anti-aircraft missile.

Countless steel migratory birds crashed into the sea with a whooshing sound. Fortunately, these fighter jets participating in this "death military exercise" were also remotely and unmanned, controlled by computers.

However, there are exceptions. For example, a U2 reconnaissance plane pilot acting as a war correspondent at an altitude of 10,000 meters heard a giant pebble whizzing past his plane and silently made the sign of the cross on his chest.

When the last warship in the inner ring, the Japanese light aircraft carrier 'Izumo', was destroyed by Luo Qing, the 'Maya', the first ship destroyed as the starting point of the destruction, was not yet completely sunk and was still burning ahead of the Izumo.

The flames completed their cycle at this moment.

A burning ring with a circumference of 800 kilometers appeared over the Pacific Ocean.

The inner ring of the fleet has been destroyed by Luo Qing; the next area to be dealt with is the middle ring of the fleet.

Without hesitation, Luo Qing vanished from his spot. When the human radar system detected the intense electromagnetic fluctuations emanating from Luo Qing, the cultivator had already appeared at the starting point of the central ring—the USS Kitty Hawk, a conventionally powered aircraft carrier.

Most of the aircraft carriers from countries such as the United States, China, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and India are gathered in this central area.

Because Luo Qing destroyed the inner ring so quickly, in less than three minutes, the aircraft carrier and its escort fleet in the middle ring were completely unable to make effective maneuvers in that short time.

Thus, the super fleet of ten aircraft carriers was thrown into disarray. Amid the numb and trembling emotions of the Pentagon commanders, Luo Qing ignored the call in his earpiece, "Please wait a moment, give humanity some face," and initiated the second round of shuttle.

This time, Luo Qing significantly reduced his speed, rushing towards the first aircraft carrier at only 20 kilometers per second, approximately Mach 60. This speed was already within the realm of human comprehension.

About 65 million years ago, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs also hurtled toward Earth at Mach 60.

But understanding is understanding, and responding is responding; these are clearly two different things.

When the USS Kitty Hawk's early warning system detected the anomaly, Luo Qing was already at the core of the carrier battle group. An F-35C formation had just taken off, but before it was fully airborne, it was smashed by a handful of stones thrown from the deck.

Apart from one F-35C fighter jet that survived while acting as a war correspondent, the remaining aircraft were smashed into pieces in the sky like seagulls hit by machine gun fire.

The F-35C war correspondent watched Luo Qing, who was strolling on the aircraft carrier deck, with trepidation.

Since the USS Kitty Hawk was much larger than the destroyers it had previously carried out, and was one of the largest warships in terms of size and tonnage in this battle, it was virtually impossible for Luo Qing to sink the carrier with penetrating damage.

These 100,000-ton behemoths are massive vessels capable of withstanding low-yield nuclear explosions without being sunk. Some military researchers have said that the size of future human space warships will only be similar to that of aircraft carriers.

An aircraft carrier is the largest steel city that mankind can build.

Fortunately, the United States did not send Nimitz-class or Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers to participate in the exercise. Luo Qing was confident that he could trigger a miniature nuclear explosion in the nuclear propulsion system inside the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, thereby quickly sinking it.

However, he had no good solutions for dealing with such a massive machine that could not be propelled by conventional power.

But it's not that difficult.

The destruction of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier ultimately ended with Luo Qing's kick.

The 10-ton central hull was flattened like tin foil. The flight deck sank beyond its limit and snapped instantly. The remaining two F-14s, still not yet airborne, were pinned to the bulkheads by inertia. This stomp would ultimately break the long, narrow aircraft carrier in two, the middle section diving into the sea, the two ends rising high. The sealed compartments, riddled with holes, quickly filled with water, finally sinking this behemoth.

The broken steel behemoth is like amber sealed by the sea.

Faced with this astonishing scene, the F-35C Reporter jet swooped down and took a series of photos of the tilted Stars and Stripes on the island superstructure.

The end of the empire.

This war correspondent knows how to take candid photos.

It is foreseeable that the sinking of this behemoth will last for about ten minutes, and perhaps it can hold out until the entire UN First Fleet is destroyed, while still managing to keep a broken flag on the surface of the sea.

A massive whirlpool formed near the sinking of the aircraft carrier, but the culprit disregarded everything, transforming into a streak of light and sinking the other escort ships of the USS Kitty Hawk in a very short time before immediately rushing towards the adjacent Han carrier battle group.

Facing this conventionally powered aircraft carrier from the Western Pacific, Luo Qing, who already had experience sinking an aircraft carrier once, did not show any change in attitude. If there was any difference, it was that he improved his attack method, transforming himself into a sword and forming a sword beam with a diameter of a thousand meters, which slashed fiercely towards the waist of the 'Han'.

The island superstructure of the aircraft carrier "Han" and the J-15 carrier-based aircraft within the sword's gleam were simultaneously split in two by the sword's light.

The complex internal structure of the aircraft carrier, severed in two by the sword's edge, is clearly visible. Under the extreme sharpness of the blade, this complex internal structure creates a strangely smooth appearance.

Due to its larger damaged area, the aircraft carrier "Han" sank into the sea at a much faster speed than the aircraft carrier "Kitty Hawk".

The fragments of the aircraft carrier destroyed by the sword light scattered in all directions like blooming peonies, while countless jets of solid-liquid mixture maintained considerable impact and destructive power, which would be pierced by the carrier-based aircraft on the two sections of the aircraft carrier.

The steel behemoth that failed to take flight became a casualty of the giant ship.

In this dazzling yet concise attack, humanity's second giant aircraft carrier was sunk.

As Luo Qing charged toward the Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikrant at Mach 60, the latter had already shown its intention to flee. In the Pentagon's joint command center, where Luo Qing could not hear, the Indian general shouted in terror: "We're withdrawing from the exercise! We're withdrawing from the exercise!"

The conventionally powered aircraft carrier 'Vikrant' was met with another astonishing sword light, but this time the sword light did not sever it from the waist, but instead pierced directly from the stern to the bow, splitting the entire aircraft carrier vertically in two.

The Vikrant was like a cockroach that had been sliced ​​open, its wreckage flying everywhere, its juices scattering, before finally sinking into the sea.

In the next few seconds, Luo Qing also penetrated the British conventional-powered aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.

Next up was the French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. Compared to the previous aircraft carriers that failed to release all their carrier-based aircraft into the sky, the Charles de Gaulle reacted much faster than the others. More than 20 Rafale M carrier-based aircraft took to the sky one after another. These aircraft did not attack Luo Qing, but scattered and fled, obviously trying to buy time.

At some point, the Pentagon's joint command had come to regard the exercise with Luo Qing as a one-sided survival race, as if whoever could survive long enough under Luo Qing's command would win the competition.

Faced with the Rafale M carrier-based aircraft that fled decisively, Luo Qing used the same trick again. With a sweep of his spiritual sense, he grasped 98% of the flight paths of these fighters, and then threw out another handful of stones.

Under the lock of spiritual thought, none of the carrier-based aircraft survived; all were overtaken by the stones, their engines were shattered, and they roared as they plummeted into the sea.

Evasion maxed out, mobility maxed out, attack power maxed out, defense maxed out, divine sense scanning maxed out, and thinking speed maxed out.

Faced with this new type of hexagonal cultivator, the fragility of humanity's existing warfare system is laid bare.

In the next minute, Luo Qing destroyed the Western Pacific's "Qin" aircraft carrier, Russia's sister ship "Kuznetsov" aircraft carrier, Russia's "Peter the Great" nuclear-powered cruiser, the US "Ticonderoga" Aegis cruiser, the US "Arleigh Burke" air defense destroyer, the US "Iowa" and "Wisconsin" battleships, the US "Constellation" aircraft carrier, and Russia's "Frunze" cruiser.

At this point, only one-tenth of the Central Ring aircraft carrier group remained.

Unwilling to accept humiliation and certain death, the remaining fleet, despite losing 90% of its strength, continued its counterattack against Luo Qing.

The destroyer's close-in weapon system spun frantically at the incoming streak of light, but couldn't even catch a glimpse of the target.

By the time the phased array radar on the mainmast detected the target, the entire midsection of the destroyer had been cut diagonally, and seawater was siphoning into the interior.

After the destroyer was destroyed, Luo Qing disappeared again.

In this devastating spectacle, the fate of the Russian nuclear-powered cruiser "Peter the Great" was undoubtedly the most visually striking, with its 20-story-high island superstructure collapsing like building blocks as the sword flashed.

Several P-700 Granit anti-ship missiles were sliced ​​apart in mid-air by the flash. Subsequently, the nuclear propulsion system was precisely triggered in a chain reaction, turning into a dazzling explosion that ultimately created a small mushroom cloud.

The joint command finally recognized the situation and stopped making futile counterattacks, ordering the surviving warships to escape at maximum speed.

After the inner and central districts were destroyed one after another.

The outer ships received orders to flee, as if humanity would win if the speedboats on the outer perimeter could even reach the 500-kilometer radius exercise zone.

Thirty seconds later, the last nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the human fleet, the 'Everest', was sunk.

Luo Qing's figure reappeared on the sea surface.

Behind him, 237 giant warships, including ten aircraft carriers, floated on the sea at different angles, like steel behemoths with their spines removed, or like people about to drown, struggling in the vast ocean in various postures.

The entire fleet was like a metal specimen carefully arranged by Luo Qing, neatly displayed on the death canvas of the Pacific Ocean.

At this moment, less than five minutes had passed since he announced the start of the counterattack.

There were no screams, no panic.

When commanders from various countries realized from the damage control reports that the power systems, weapon systems, and communication systems of all their main fleets had been precisely destroyed, they breathed a sigh of relief.

—It's finally over.

Although a total of 2000 warships participated in this military exercise, these 237 main warships accounted for 90% of the total naval tonnage of the exercise, while the remaining 1,700-plus outer ring ships were mainly composed of light vessels.

The human fleets in the inner and middle rings were the core of the UN First Fleet, but now they have been completely destroyed.

The remaining scrap metal on the outer ring road poses even less of a threat to Luo Qing.

While watching the live television broadcast, Qin Shi Huang calculated that Luo Qing had sunk nearly 30% of the total tonnage of human navies in the past five minutes.

He didn't speak, but a shadow that wouldn't dissipate had already settled over his heart.

The remaining 1700 ships are mostly small-country vessels consisting of armed speedboats, with the weakest being a civilian speedboat equipped with a fixed machine gun.

Most of these speedboats were flying the flag of their own country. Looking around, the flags of the small countries were colorful and complex, but they lacked the majesty of the flags that had sank the giant ships.

Their purpose was purely to reach the number 2000 and to create a sense of formality for a grand alliance of human nations; the symbolic meaning outweighed the practical significance.

Unexpectedly, the remaining 1700 small ships brought Luo Qing a lot of trouble.

Luo Qing's spiritual sense covered an area of ​​over a thousand kilometers. He sensed the scattered speedboats and frowned slightly.

It's not easy to intercept them. Even if he chases these warships at top speed, there will definitely be speedboats that can escape the 500-kilometer fleet exercise area within 10 minutes.

After all, some speedboats were less than ten kilometers away from the 500-kilometer exercise red line.

"Fine, let's unleash our ultimate move."

Luo Qing telepathically instructed the war correspondents piloting various reconnaissance aircraft in the sky to increase their altitude to 12000 meters and to be careful to avoid them.

Subsequently, Luo Qing used the first magic technique in this exercise.

Water diversion technique.

The next moment, a thin layer of seawater, three hundred kilometers in diameter, was lifted up by Luo Qing. This thin layer of seawater rose higher and higher, eventually reaching an altitude of ten thousand meters, forming an unprecedented liquid dome.

Luo Qing thoughtfully took out his phone, connected to the live stream signal, and turned on the phone's selfie mode, adding a 'first-person perspective' to the online live stream and TV signal.

Luo Qing spoke:
"Congeal."

The liquid dome began to collapse, and sunlight was cutting down obliquely through the gaps in the water, casting shimmering gold foil on the sea surface.

"go with!"

Luo Qing raised his hand and waved it lightly. The transparent giant dome formed by two million cubic kilometers of seawater condensed was like a popped soap bubble, carrying the weight of the entire Pacific Ocean as it crashed down on earth.

...

The Pacific Ocean was a clear, deep blue, and the Combined Fleet seemed as if it had never existed.

Luo Qing now held a blue flag, not the captured Emperor's flag, but the flag of the United Nations.

Luo Qing looked towards Washington, a thousand kilometers away, his gaze piercing through the clouds and reinforced concrete, landing on the generals at the joint command headquarters.

He waved the blue flag, which fluttered in the wind.

"Ten thousand years ago, humans learned to use fire, dispelling the fog of the long night of ignorance. Two thousand years later, primitive agriculture arose, and humans began to settle down and cultivate the land. Six thousand years later, the widespread use of iron tools increased productivity and became an important engine for the progress of civilization. In the last two hundred years, the steam engine was improved, thus ushering in the Industrial Revolution and reshaping the face of human society. Then, seventy years ago, the World Anti-Fascist War ended, and humanity officially entered the atomic age, beginning the exploration of the microscopic world and the use of nuclear energy."

His voice was clear and firm, without any attenuation due to signal transmission, and everyone could clearly hear what the Wallfacer was about to say.

"I know that humans have become accustomed to being the protagonists of this era, but I want to deny that. Humans have never been the protagonists of the universe, or even the protagonists of the earth. Dinosaurs ruled the earth for far longer than humans did 6500 million years ago."

"I also know that since the Industrial Revolution, humankind has always habitually believed that the boundaries of the world can be measured with steel and fire."

"But this time it's completely different—our enemy is speeding toward Earth across the vast universe, four light-years away. They also possess steel and fire, and their power far exceeds our imagination."

"With basic technologies locked down, humanity has fallen into a state of depression and despair. But humans have always had an optimistic nature, and I believe that the future will always rise from the depths of despair. If one day human civilization achieves some small success, I hope that people at that time will still remain humble. The road ahead still needs to be walked by humanity itself."

Luo Qing suddenly felt a strange warmth flowing into her body. She couldn't explain it, and her body seemed to be shining with gold, as if she were being bathed in sunlight.

He looked up.

In the East, Earth's stars are rising majestically.

(End of this chapter)