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In the holographic projection, Liu Ruyan's voice was hoarse, her eyes were bloodshot, and the electronic blueprint roll in her hand had several creases from being squeezed. Li Yichen raised his hand and turned off the communication interface, and the eerie blue light dissipated.

"Ling'er, mothership, enter stratospheric standby mode, full-band stealth permanent." He tapped the edge of the control panel twice.

"Received, brother! Disguise protocol activated, radar cross-section reduced to zero." The little girl's holographic image gave an OK sign.

Li Yichen turned his head to look at the three military leaders still leaning against the porthole: "Comrades, I have a big job to take care of in a bit, so I'll take you down first."

Liu Guoliang gripped the metal railing with both hands, turned around, and stared wide-eyed: "Why not just drive this treasure back? Are we just going to throw it into the air?"

"Why drive it back?" Li Yichen patted the edge of the holographic command console. "It was built to be used. From now on, it will hang in the sky, serving as the Great Xia's protective umbrella, ready to be deployed at any time. If you want to see it, just look up."

"You can't see it even if you look up, your full-band stealth is on." Xiao Jingshan muttered, reluctantly loosening his grip on the edge of the porthole. His life of military service had been completely transformed by what he saw today, reshaping his view of war.

A 120,000-ton space carrier hovering in the stratosphere—such strategic deterrence is enough to keep all hostile forces around the world awake at night. He even began to plan how to rewrite the Great Xia's defense white paper upon his return. The existence of this behemoth heralded the end of the traditional era of sea power.

The passageway at the bottom of the bridge opened. Two Xuanniao-01 stealth fighters slid out of the hangar and hovered at the docking point on the outside of the mothership. Several T-800 Terminator helicopters, with heavy steps, escorted the three leaders to the anti-G bay of the fighters.

Xiao Jingshan touched the fighter jet's outer shell, his rough hands repeatedly stroking the matte coating, unable to move for a long time. He turned to look at Li Yichen, his eyes slightly red: "Kid, you've given Great Xia tremendous confidence. This old man can die in peace now."

He Zhenchuan stopped before stepping into the cabin. The battle-hardened veteran turned around and placed his broad hand heavily on Li Yichen's shoulder.

"With you by our side, the fate of the nation is secure." He Zhenchuan left these words behind before bending down and crawling into the cabin.

The docking point was sealed. The tails of the two Xuan Bird fighter jets emitted faint streams of ion light, which transformed into two streaks of light and plunged straight down below the clouds.

Li Yichen stood at the edge of the docking point, facing the stratospheric gale. Dark golden liquid metal gushed from his collar, instantly covering his entire body. The vibranium nanotech armor visor closed, and the dark blue goggles lit up.

He leaped into the air.

The airflow left blinding sparks on the surface of the armor. A dark golden meteor streaked across the night sky, heading straight for the Shanghai Pudong Shipyard.

Fifteen minutes later.

Pudong Shipyard, open-air dock.

The surrounding area had already been cleared, and searchlights illuminated the massive dock. The Terminator ripped open a huge camouflage curtain to both sides, revealing the colossal creature lurking within.

This is a pure black iron box that is 500 meters long and 200 meters wide.

Absolutely no aesthetic appeal. No streamlined design whatsoever. Rough exterior, with large weld seams throughout, even revealing exposed rivets and reinforcing steel bars.

The black anti-radiation coating was covered in pits, and there wasn't even a porthole on either side of the hull. It was more like an infinitely magnified black cargo container than a spaceship.

Li Yichen descended from the sky, his armor and boots slamming onto the concrete ground, kicking up a cloud of dust. He removed his faceplate and looked up at his masterpiece.

Old Zhao, who was in charge of the shipyard coordination, jogged over from behind an engineering vehicle. He held a walkie-talkie in his hand, cold sweat streaming down his face, and he stammered, "Mr. Li, the deadline you gave us was too tight. Our workers worked day and night shifts, relying entirely on those Terminator robots for welding. After more than two months, we finally assembled this big thing."

But this thing doesn't even have a streamlined shape; the wind resistance must be incredibly high! Can it really fly? Maybe we should spend another half month installing a fairing or wings on it?

Old Zhao had spent half his life building rockets, all of them streamlined shapes that soared through the sky. This was the first time he'd ever seen such a square, bulky iron lump ready for takeoff, and his worldview was severely shaken. He was terrified that this piece of junk would disintegrate as soon as it took off, and he couldn't afford the responsibility then.

Li Yichen strode towards the stern and struck the 30-meter-thick stern thrust plate. A dull metallic echo reverberated across the open ground.

"Old Zhao, you have to believe me, as long as the thrust is enough, even a brick can fly." Li Yichen explained, "This thing was born to be used as a dump truck for hauling ore, why would it need a bicycle? The fairing is a complete waste of payload."

Old Zhao's hand, which was wiping sweat, froze in mid-air, and he let out two dry laughs. He took two steps back, raised the walkie-talkie, and evacuated the remaining maintenance personnel.

He thought to himself that this young tycoon, worth trillions, was acting far too recklessly. Spaceships or rockets, to fly, require fluid dynamics and drag coefficients; but for Mr. Li, it all became the logic of a brute who thinks you can just blast a brick into the air.

Li Yichen didn't want to waste words and walked straight to the control panel a hundred meters away from the Xuanwu. He was too lazy to do a countdown, and he didn't need a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

"Ling'er, take over the main control system of the Xuanwu."

"Permissions transferred, bro! Anti-gravity auxiliary array offline, pure physics propulsion mode ready."

Li Yichen put one hand in his pocket, his gaze passing over Lao Zhao's head and locking onto the Xuanwu's massive thrust plate.

"ignition."

He uttered two words.

At the stern of the Xuanwu, the nuclear pulse thrusters suddenly flared up.

The first fusion fuel pellet was accurately launched by the robotic arm, and a high-energy laser beam shot out from inside the thruster, detonating it instantly.

Boom!

A miniature nuclear explosion ripped apart behind the thrust plate. The blinding light robbed everyone of their sight, and for a moment the night sky of Shanghai seemed to be turned into daylight.

The violent reaction force slammed into the 30-meter-thick thrust plate. The cushioning coating on the surface of the thrust plate absorbed the impact force of up to hundreds of thousands of tons, converting it into upward kinetic energy.

The 200,000-ton steel behemoth was forcibly lifted by this earth-shattering force.

A violent sonic boom cloud dispersed in mid-air. Visible white shockwaves spread outwards in a ring. The glass of abandoned factory buildings around the dock shattered into dust in an instant, and the ground trembled violently.

The Huangpu River was whipped up by strong winds, creating huge waves several meters high that crashed against the embankment, raising a cloud of water mist.

Old Zhao hid in the safe house, covered his ears, and slumped on the ground, his mind blank.

He watched helplessly as this brick, like a miniature sun, brutally defied the laws of physics. He could even feel the free-floating electrical charges in the air stinging his skin.

Immediately afterwards, the second and third fuel pellets were launched in succession.

A series of dense nuclear fireballs erupted one after another at the stern of the Xuanwu. The frequency increased rapidly, eventually merging into a pillar of light that pierced the heavens and the earth. This extremely violent and utterly irrational method of propulsion showcased a barbaric and brutal aesthetic of heavy industry.

Trailing a long nuclear explosion contrail, the Xuanwu forcefully tore through the atmosphere, pulling thousands of Terminator robots and a bunch of mining equipment from its cabins straight into deep space.

At the same time.

Global observatories and military early warning radars have all exceeded their maximum readings.

Across the ocean, in the underground command center of the Quattroporte in the United States.

The piercing highest-level air raid siren blared throughout the corridor. Red warning lights flashed alternately, turning the entire command center blood red. On the monitor screens, a terrifying energy trajectory was accelerating out of Earth's gravitational pull at a speed defying the laws of physics.

"My God..." The duty officer slammed his coffee cup to the ground, the brown liquid splashing onto his boots. "Has there been a nuclear explosion? Did Great Xia launch an intercontinental ballistic missile?"

"No! The trajectory is wrong!" The radar analyst's hands pounded frantically on the keyboard, his voice cracking. "The target is leaving the atmosphere! The energy readings are still skyrocketing! It detonated dozens of miniature nuclear bombs in a second! I feel like the planet is about to explode!"

Chaos erupted in the command center. Generals roared at each other, and agents frantically dialed phones. Everyone thought the end of the world had come.

Russia, the Kremlin underground bunker.

Military leaders stared intently at the infrared thermal image on the large screen. The blinding white light, brighter than the sun, burned a white mark onto the radar screen.

"Find the source of the launch! Find the source of the launch immediately!" The defense minister's roar echoed in the conference room.

"Report! The signal source is from the east coast of Great Xia! The target has broken through the thermosphere and its speed has exceeded Mach 100!"

The satellite network above Earth was briefly paralyzed, and all optical lenses were rendered unable to image by the intense light. Leaders of several countries were urgently awakened in the middle of the night and taken refuge in underground nuclear bunkers.

In the Oval Office of the Black House, Te Kao Pu had just changed into a brand new suit. The red encrypted phone on his desk was ringing incessantly.

He grabbed the microphone, and the Pentagon Secretary's distorted voice came through the receiver.

"Mr. President, a series of nuclear explosions have occurred in the direction of Great Xia! The target is flying into space at an incredible speed!"

"A nuclear explosion?" The reliable guy loosened his tie, veins bulging on his forehead. "Has Great Xia gone mad? Are they going to drag all of humanity down with them?"

"Uncertain! We cannot currently determine the nature of the target; we only know that its thrust exceeds our current scientific understanding! Our interception system is completely useless!"

He slammed the phone down, his obese body slumping into the leather seat. Gazing at the night outside the window, his deepest fear was amplified.

The trump cards that Da Xia has revealed are more and more outrageous than the last; now they've even created a monster propelled by a nuclear explosion. His Yellow Giant Project, which he considers his trump card, is utterly laughable in the face of these godlike technologies.

He even began to wonder if he had provoked a civilization that didn't belong to Earth at all.

outer space.

The Xuanwu spacecraft broke through the atmosphere and entered a vacuum environment.

Once air resistance was eliminated, the nuclear pulse thruster reached its maximum efficiency. Under the continuous thrust of nuclear explosions, the huge black iron box's speed skyrocketed.

Mach 100. Mach 300. Mach 500!

The massive ship transformed into a dark streak of light, heading straight for the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Space debris along its path was instantly vaporized by the energy field emanating from its surroundings, without even a chance to slow down.

Next to the ground control console.

The raging winds surrounding Li Yichen gradually subsided. He raised his wrist, and the holographic projection lit up.

"Brother, the Xuanwu has entered its planned route." Ling'er, now dressed in miner's clothes, excitedly waved a small pickaxe in her hand. "We're expected to arrive at Lingshen Star in twenty days. Our material crisis will be resolved soon!"

Li Yichen stretched, his joints cracking crisply. He tilted his head back, his gaze piercing through the thin clouds, locking onto the vast, boundless depths of the starry sky.

"Alright, the miners are on their way." He lowered his arms, and the armor and visor covered his face again. "Next, it's time to lock our door."

With his back to the empty dock, Li Yichen issued the command.

"Ling'er, activate the planetary barrier base deployment protocol."

"Brother, the planetary barrier base deployment protocol has been initiated." Ling'er's holographic projection switched to a three-dimensional model of Blue Star. "The magnetic confinement bases at the North and South Poles have entered the preheating stage. As long as the matter and antimatter reactors arrive, they can be connected to the grid for power supply at any time."

Li Yichen stared at the flashing red and blue dots on the holographic model.

"A base alone isn't enough." He raised his hand and drew a circle around the model. "In case the alien fleet masters space jump technology, they could turn on us at any time. We must lock down the entire near-Earth orbit."

"Ling'er, from now on, at the Future Heavy Industry Science and Technology Park, allocate thirty ten-axis industrial machine tools and two atomic forging casting tables specifically to produce the energy bases needed for the planetary barrier shield in space, and launch the required tens of thousands of energy bases into space as soon as possible."