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Chapter 243 The Living Shell is Too Slender

Space was vast and empty. Although the metal projectiles fired by the Behemoth were not large, only about the size of a car, they were still discovered by the Ska people, who were always on guard against the direction of the Behemoth, as the distance to Reka planet decreased.

"An unidentified high-speed object launched from the Babel swarm spaceship has been detected!"

"Launch missiles immediately to intercept!"

At the same time, numerous rockets were launched from underground military bases in various Ska nations.

These rockets were originally intended to transport industrial production lines to other planets, but after the swarm issued a declaration of war, they were repurposed to carry intercontinental ballistic missiles from various countries.

Numerous rockets launched, carrying intercontinental ballistic missiles to the orbit of Reka Star, before disintegrating and falling back onto Reka. These intercontinental ballistic missiles then orbited Reka Star like satellites.

For missiles propelled by chemical propellants, the biggest challenge in actual combat in space is fuel.

The space battlefield spans a vast area, often tens or even millions of kilometers, requiring missiles to travel long distances to hit enemy targets.

The enemy has ample time to constantly change its movement speed. As a result, the missile has to consume fuel to recalibrate its trajectory. Eventually, it runs out of fuel halfway through the flight and can no longer perform trajectory calibration, allowing the enemy to easily evade it.

Therefore, these intercontinental ballistic missiles need to be launched in a way that saves as much fuel as possible, which is the gravity slingshot method.

Moreover, the timing and distance of the escape from the planet's orbit must be precisely controlled in order to achieve the desired attack and interception effect on the space battlefield.

When the metal projectiles launched by the Behemoth behemoth approached Reka Star at a sufficient distance, these intercontinental ballistic missiles, which were orbiting Reka Star, were directed by the underground control base on Reka Star to launch the metal projectiles using gravity slingshots.

In the control base beneath Reka, all the Ska people eagerly awaited the outcome of the intercontinental ballistic missile interception.

Besides them, there were also high-ranking leaders from various countries, as well as Skars from other underground military bases.

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Logically, the Skamen's timing and distance were perfect, and the metal projectiles fired by the Behemoth's electromagnetic cannon should have been intercepted.

But this is just a logical deduction; the Babel bee swarm never intended to play by the rules from the beginning.

An electromagnetic railgun is essentially an electromagnetic barrel with a metal projectile; its power depends on the strength of the electromagnetic force.

However, when they focused on studying the electromagnetic railgun's honeycomb structure, they were not satisfied with this fixed frame, so they made some improvements.

This improvement is not complicated; it simply involves changing the electromagnetic railgun's metal projectiles into live metal projectiles.

It added a propulsion nozzle that allows for fine-tuning of the trajectory, as well as a small bio-radar, to improve the hit rate of the live metal projectiles and to give these live metal projectiles a certain degree of worker bee capabilities.

Therefore, when the biological radar detects the incoming missile, the living metal projectiles collectively begin to cocoon themselves, continuously expanding and extending until they eventually become very long ropes.

Each rope is about the thickness of a nylon rope.

This operation completely baffled the AI ​​of the computer inside the intercontinental ballistic missile. The radar feedback indicated that the targets they were supposed to strike had inexplicably all become longer!

How do we strike the target now?

This is not only a problem with intercontinental ballistic missiles, but also a problem for the Ska people in the underground command center on Reka Star. Looking at the information transmitted by the ballistic missiles, they don't know what to do.

In the end, the Skaians could only remotely control the intercontinental ballistic missiles launched for interception, attempting to sever the ropes using proximity bombing.

The result was that not a single live metal shell was intercepted.

These living metal projectiles, once they anticipate which part of the missile is heading towards, significantly transfer the mass of their bodies away. With their slender bodies contracting in this way, even if an intercontinental ballistic missile is detonated at close range, it can only miss.

Without these intercepting intercontinental ballistic missiles, the living metal projectiles returned to their original projectile state and continued straight toward their target.

On the orbit of Rayka Star, all the satellites of various countries, whether military or civilian, or simply used for scientific research and meteorological observation, were directly penetrated and destroyed by the living metal projectiles.

Carrying the kinetic energy from the electromagnetic cannon of the Behemoth, they directly rammed through and destroyed the Ska's orbital satellites. Such a violent impact would naturally cause many living metal projectiles to die, but a considerable number of living metal projectiles also survived, demonstrating the tenacious vitality of the swarm creatures.

These living metal projectiles, upon approaching Reka Star, either change course to enter a different trajectory, or they hurtle straight towards Reka Star, exploding one by one at the edge of Reka Star's atmosphere, forming clusters of spore clouds.

Because of their small size, their original kinetic energy was negligible. These spore clouds collided with the atmosphere of Reka Star and were absorbed into it by the airflow.

In the following period, memory disorders began to appear in the Ska people's society one after another.

These patients are different from ordinary amnesia patients. They retain their memories, but only those from the day before the onset of the disease. After sleeping, no matter what they did that day, their memories are completely wiped clean.

What made the Ska people even more uneasy was that this memory disorder seemed to be contagious. Without exception, the doctors and acquaintances who came into contact with the patient developed the same memory disorder after that day.

The Ska people's society remained orderly. After all, it was just a matter of sleeping and regaining their memories from the day before they fell ill. Their original knowledge and memories were still there, the elite remained elite, and the beggar remained a beggar.

But the panic was real, especially among the high-ranking officials of the various Ska people's countries. These patients were destined to be unable to make military decisions or get involved in national politics. After all, no matter how far-sighted they were, they would forget everything after a good night's sleep. They would not remember what they said, did, or planned in the meeting. How could that be acceptable?

Not to mention, they still have to deal with a powerful alien civilization, and all the satellites of various countries in orbit have been destroyed!

In stark contrast to the anxious upper class, the lower-class Ska people continue to live ordinary lives without a care in the world. Although the fact that memories disappear after a night's sleep has led to many crimes that never occurred before, that's about it.

Ordinary people still eat and drink as usual. Working people don't have much of a way out to look up. Long-term planning is not within their scope of consideration. In fact, this kind of forgetting is a kind of benefit. After all, being exploited by the boss is painful, and being able to forget this pain is another kind of happiness.

Moreover, the capital market welcomes these memory disorder patients because they can forget the fatigue of working overtime after a short nap. When there is occasional high-intensity overtime, these people can do more and better than ordinary people.

The behemoth was unaware of the impact its bombardment was having on Ska society; it continued its march toward its target planet…

(End of this chapter)