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Ling'er's virtual face was almost touching the tip of his nose, and her voice was so loud that it made Li Yichen's eardrums go numb.

Li Yichen leaned back half an inch and pushed the holographic projection away.

"What's all the fuss about?" He grinned as he looked at the technical documents for the matter-antimatter reactor. Even the most powerful cold fusion has a mass-to-energy conversion rate of less than 0.7%, but this thing is a pure annihilation reaction. The energy released by one gram of antimatter is enough to flatten a city of ten million people off the map.

He threw the document into the system repository and gestured with his chin toward Ling'er, who was in mid-air.

"Just a moment ago you were complaining about needing a killer weapon," Li Yichen said, pointing to the few remaining golden cubes in front of him. "Now that we have the 'heart,' let's see if this damn system knows what it's doing and provides a decent 'body.' Give me the last few packs!"

Fingers poked repeatedly in the air.

The fifth-to-last gift pack exploded.

There was neither white light nor golden light. A deep blue light curtain spread out in the system space, rapidly expanding to support a semi-transparent, giant spherical phantom, its surface rippled with energy patterns like water ripples.

[Acquired: Global Planetary Barrier Shield (Blue Star Main Defense)]

Li Yichen pulled the parameter panel close to his eyes and scanned it line by line.

This defense system is not designed for individual soldiers or warships. It relies on tens of thousands of orbital energy stations surrounding the Earth, plus giant fixed energy hubs at the North and South Poles, to envelop the entire atmosphere like an iron turtle.

The structure has three layers. The outer layer is purely physical resistance, specifically designed to withstand interstellar meteorites and main cannon bombardment. As long as the kinetic energy does not exceed the threshold, it won't even cause a ripple when hit.

The middle layer is an energy filter that isolates high-energy rays and quantum toxins, plus full-area electromagnetic pulse suppression, directly disabling the opponent's electronic warfare capabilities.

The innermost layer is the most sophisticated, directly locking down the spatial coordinates of the atmosphere, preventing even a fly from getting in, specifically designed to prevent large-scale infiltration by enemy airborne forces.

Below is a line of smaller print: Supports zoned power adjustment.

Li Yichen stroked his chin: "This means that we don't need to go all out normally, but if a real battle breaks out, I can turn Daxia into a key protected area, or I can maximize the shield power of Shanghai or the aerospace base to protect the core industrial area."

In that case, even if the outside is destroyed, I can still protect Great Xia.

"Brother, don't be so happy." Ling'er's two little hands moved rapidly in the air, and blue data streams flashed across her eyes. In less than two seconds, her face fell, and she poured a bucket of cold water on him.

"Look at the energy consumption column!" Ling'er pointed to a long string of zeros at the bottom of the panel. "If this shield were to operate at full power, the energy required would be astronomical. Forget about our cold fusion reactors; even if you drained all of Earth's current energy reserves, it wouldn't be able to power it for even a day! It would be a complete waste!"

Li Yichen wasn't in a hurry. He bent his index finger and flicked Ling'er's virtual forehead from a distance.

"Ouch!" Ling'er obediently covered her forehead, her eyes widening.

"Silly girl," Li Yichen pointed to the red document beside him, "what was that matter-of-fact reactor we just discovered for? The system just unleashed a combo attack on us. It completely wiped out the strongest shield's batteries!"

Ling'er paused for two seconds, then realized what she meant and slapped her thigh: "That's right! The energy multiplier of matter-antimatter annihilation is 1200 times that of cold nuclear fusion. Using it as the main energy hub to support this shield is more than enough! As long as there's enough antimatter, no one can break this turtle shell!"

"Keep going."

Li Yichen rubbed his hands together and pointed to the fourth one from the bottom.

White light. Ten-axis machine tool.

The third to last.

White light. Magnetic confinement forging table.

Second to last.

White light. Ten-axis machine tool.

Li Yichen didn't even blink. He knew that all of this was to pave the way for the final grand finale.

My eyes were fixed on the last gift package.

The index finger fell heavily.

The instant the light exploded, the entire virtual starry sky darkened. A pure black pillar of light shot into the sky, lacking any dazzling brightness, but instead resembling a black hole, sucking in all the surrounding light. That destructive sense of oppression surged directly into Li Yichen's nerve cortex through the brain-computer interface.

[Acquired: Orbital Planet Destroyer (Ultimate Heavy Firepower for Fixed Planets)]

Li Yichen's breath caught in his throat for a full three seconds.

Pupil constriction.

He scrolled down to the bottom of the giant cannon's parameters, his eyes fixed on the power assessment section.

A single, conventional shot penetrates the shields of a large interstellar mothership.

Fully charged and fired, shattering a small gas giant.

"Shatter...the planet." Li Yichen chewed on those four words.

This is not a weapon for fighting; it is a torture device used to erase the coordinates of celestial bodies.

He jumped out of bed and stomped around the room barefoot on the wooden floor. After circling twice, he slammed his hand on the bedside table, making the water glass on it clang loudly.

"Truth!" He turned his head, looked at Ling'er in mid-air, and raised his voice, "This is what they call truth being only within cannon range!"

Li Yichen stood with his hands on his hips, looking up at the illusory black beam of light: "Five years, huh? The main alien fleet, huh? As long as they dare to show their faces in the solar system and swarm over here, I'll teach them a lesson and make them aliens again with one shot!"

The room was quiet for a few seconds, with only Li Yichen's slightly heavy breathing remaining.

At this moment, Ling'er suddenly reminded Li Yichen, "Brother, what if they have more advanced technology? Or weapons even more powerful than the orbital planet-destroying cannon?"

Li Yichen was stunned when he heard Ling'er's reminder, and then slapped Ling'er away.

He walked to the bedside, sat down again, and began to mentally tally the final, frenzied gains from this batch of 165 gift packages.

One hundred and twenty-one new machine tools, plus the original ones, totaling one hundred and forty-two.

Thirty-seven new forging and casting tables, bringing the total to thirty-eight.

This is the absolute production capacity base, the skeleton of all crazy plans.

Nanosuits enable individual soldier mobility and space survival.

Space-based laser interception satellites and near-Earth orbit air defense networks are specifically designed to clear out enemy troops and airdrops.

Quantum global network, a command link with zero latency and no interference, integrates all combat units into a whole.

Matter-antimatter reactor, the heart of unlimited energy.

A global planetary barrier, an absolute defensive iron wall.

Orbital planet destroyer, the ultimate punch on a planet.

Li Yichen fell backward, sprawling out on the mattress in a starfish shape.

These past few days, the 5.2 light-year red line in Ophiuchus has felt like a boulder pressing down on his chest. Even in his sleep, he dreams of countless alien spaceships blasting Earth into ruins.

Now, this stone, which was called "Five-Year Countdown," has been completely shattered by this combo.

"That felt great!"

Li Yichen looked at the ceiling, his tone relaxed, yet revealing an undeniable air of dominance.

"I used to always feel like I was lacking in weaponry, and I could never build enough. I had a classic case of chronic firepower deficiency." He turned his head to look at Ling'er. "Now? I think five years is enough time for me to put on a grand interstellar fireworks show for those alien bastards. They'd better send a few more, or I won't be able to take them all out with one shot."

Ling'er excitedly twirled several times in mid-air, her skirt fluttering and creating a stream of blue data.

"Brother! That's amazing!" She stopped directly above Li Yichen, waving her fists in front of her chest. "With this equipment, we might actually be able to defend Blue Star, and maybe even launch a counterattack! We can set up the planet-destroying cannons on the moon, use the moon as a firing platform, and bombard them one by one!"

After spinning around, Ling'er's virtual image landed back at the foot of the bed. She rested her chin on her hand, and the data stream in her eyes began to flow again, faster and faster.

In less than half a minute, the excitement on her face faded, replaced by a serious expression.

"Brother, these things are indeed all good stuff." Ling'er bit her lip, looked up at Li Yichen, "But have you done the math?"

Li Yichen propped himself up on the mattress, half-sitting up: "What accounts are we settling?"

"Materials inventory, and time inventory." Ling'er stretched her hands out in the air, revealing a densely packed progress chart. "Tens of thousands of orbital energy base stations, giant hubs at the North and South Poles, plus a planet-destroying cannon. Such a massive project requires superconducting alloys, rare earth resources, and polymer materials—not just in tons, but in hundreds of millions of tons!"

She pushed the progress chart in front of Li Yichen, pointing her finger at several data points marked in red.

"Our current material reserves are not even a fraction of what's needed. And even if you bought up all the minerals in the world, could our current production capacity really keep up with turning all these blueprints into physical products within five years, or even less?"