Chapter 1

Despite having used the [Electronic Specter] form many times in previous script missions and battles, Aim was now intoxicated with his current state of power.

His mind was unusually clear, and his thinking speed far exceeded that of ordinary people. This feeling of transcending his sluggish body was more addictive than all the sensory stimuli in the world.

Aim took a deep breath and said, "The probability of the other party plundering a nuclear bomb to conduct an airburst over a city to kill the population has decreased. Next, let's discuss the other party's world-destroying strategies."

The attending insectoid elites seemed to recognize the situation and had to use their brains and discuss it quickly.

"The conventional methods that can complete large-scale extinction within 15 hours, besides nuclear explosions, are only a few natural disasters. Tsunamis, earthquakes, super typhoons, meteorites..."

A tsunami expert stood up and said, "Tsunamis are impossible. In most cases, tsunamis are caused by geological activities such as submarine earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The highest intensity level 6 tsunami disaster can cause level 3 damage to most reinforced concrete buildings in coastal cities, wash away cultivated land, destroy ships, and sweep away people.

"In the fifteenth century, the tsunami caused by the magnitude 8.6 earthquake in Tokai Island, Japan, was 15-20 meters high, killing more than 40,000 people.

"The Messina tsunami at the end of the eighteenth century killed 85,000 people.

"The Indonesian tsunami in the early twentieth century caused 156,000 deaths.

"The direct casualties caused by a super tsunami are not higher than a nuclear airburst."

Someone frowned and asked, "What about superimposed tsunamis caused by continuous earthquakes?"

The tsunami expert replied, "The same is true. In the early 1960s, a series of earthquakes broke out in the waters near Puerto Montt, Chile, with a total of 225 earthquakes, including 10 earthquakes above magnitude 7, and 3 with a magnitude greater than 8. The average wave was 8 to 9 meters, and the highest was 25 meters, eventually causing tens of thousands of deaths and disappearances, and two million people homeless—still not as good as a nuclear airburst.

"And the energy required to cause this level of earthquake is much higher than a single nuclear bomb.

"From a cost-effectiveness perspective, tsunamis are very low."

"Super typhoons are the same."

The typhoon expert said, "Typhoons are essentially tropical cyclones. Super typhoons above level 16 have an average wind speed near the bottom center of greater than or equal to 51 meters per second, which can cause extreme waves of 14 meters at sea and destroy houses and sweep away vehicles on land.

"But even the theoretically strongest typhoon with a wind speed of 160 meters per second is still less lethal than a large-yield nuclear airburst.

"And that level of typhoon... cannot be produced by human power."

Although in the hearts of these experts who study natural disasters, the natural disasters they track and study are extremely powerful, and each one is a major hazard to the survival and development of the insectoid civilization,

Science is science, and they must respect the facts in this situation.

"Man-made natural disasters..."

Aim quickly simulated it in his mind and found that even with skill consumption scrolls, consumable props, and other aids, a high-level player with a spiritual power value of 5,000 could not create tsunamis or typhoons that exceeded theory.

The idea of ​​dropping a nuclear bomb into the sea to detonate it and create a super tsunami is absolutely unrealistic and has no cost-effectiveness.

"Under limited conditions, the biggest threats besides nuclear bombs are earthquakes and meteorites."

A seismologist said, "Earthquake zones are all over the world, and tens of thousands of earthquakes occur every day, but most of the magnitudes are relatively low, so they are imperceptible in daily life.

"The energy contained in high-level earthquakes is far higher than nuclear explosions."

Another expert frowned and asked, "Um... is it possible to detonate a nuclear bomb underground to bombard weak spots in the tectonic plates?"

The seismologist glanced at him and said in a deep voice, "Impossible. Even the world's deepest Mariana Trench is more than ten kilometers away from the weak spots of the plates.

"At that depth, even if 1,000 nuclear bombs are tied together and dropped into the water for detonation, it will only make a sound.

"It won't even shake the submarine canyon, let alone cause a large-scale tremor between the two plates.

"Unless the other party has the ability to efficiently influence plate activity, meteorites are the only way to achieve super-strong destruction."

"Meteorites..."

Aim immediately retrieved the database. In the past data, he had not seen Li Risheng possessing the ability to control meteorites, but another disaster-level player, Hohenheim, had demonstrated the spell of summoning meteorites in a script mission.

"The meteorite summoned by Hohenheim in that script mission was about 20 meters in diameter, with a density of 1,500 kilograms per cubic meter, an impact speed of 8 kilometers per second, an impact angle of 45 degrees, an energy of about 2.01 times 10 to the 14th power joules before entering the atmosphere, and an energy of about 1.23 times 10 to the 14th power joules after the airburst, which is equivalent to 29,000 tons of trinitrotoluene, 1.3 times the 'Fat Man' atomic bomb..."

After calculation, Aim immediately came to the conclusion, "The art of summoning meteorites is indeed the optimal solution for destroying cities and mass extermination.

"65 million years ago, the meteorite with a diameter of about 10 kilometers was equivalent to 100 trillion tons of trinitrotoluene, 50 billion Hiroshima atomic bombs.

"It instantly evaporated seawater after falling, causing volcanic eruptions and creating a 200-meter-high monstrous wave, causing shock waves to echo around the globe hundreds of times. It directly wiped out the dinosaurs and created a meteorite crater with a diameter of 180 kilometers and a depth of 900 meters.

"To exterminate 500 million insectoids within 15 hours, it probably only needs a meteorite with a diameter of 5 kilometers, one bombing—equivalent to a Tsar Bomba thermonuclear bomb.

"Or multiple small-diameter meteorites, multiple bombings..."

He immediately performed data simulation,

There are no meteorites that meet the standards in the outer space of the earth, so he can only assume that Li Ang has the art of summoning meteorites, or similar skills.

The middle layer of the atmosphere is 50 kilometers away from the ground at the farthest, the thermosphere is 483 kilometers, and beyond that is the exosphere, 1,000 kilometers at the farthest. Low Earth orbit is 2,000 kilometers.

If Li Risheng launches a 20-meter-level meteorite in low Earth orbit, the same as Hohenheim, it will take about 250 seconds to land, about 4 minutes.

Theoretically, this time is enough for intercontinental missiles to intercept, but it must be quick to react and launch immediately after seeing Li Risheng enter low Earth orbit.

Considering that the countries with the largest and most densely populated insectoid populations in the world are basically relatively powerful, especially the United States, which has deployed a large number of land-based nuclear missile silos and missile vehicles throughout the United States, it can theoretically intercept slower-flying meteorites.

Aim's mood immediately relaxed. He has always advocated rationality and calculation.

People will lie and deceive, but numbers will not. As long as all variables are calculated with cold numbers, the situation will not be out of control.

"Only super-large meteorites of about 5 kilometers cannot be intercepted by intercontinental missiles. But Li Risheng most likely does not have that kind of ability."

Aim made a decision, "The main types of disasters to guard against at the moment are nuclear airbursts and falling meteorites. Fortunately, the power of both is largely concentrated on the surface.

"In this way, residents in all cities with a population of more than 10 million, those on the edge of the city, leave the city on foot or by single-person vehicles.

"Those on the outskirts of the city, leave the city by vehicle.

"Those in the city center, take shelter in underground facilities on the spot—parking lots, subway stations, subway tunnels, etc."

Theoretically, the remaining two and a half hours are enough to drive a long distance, but Aim has to consider urban traffic problems.

The traffic conditions in those megacities are already extremely unfavorable, and there are a lot of traffic jams at ordinary times.

Going to and from work in the morning and evening will cause city-wide traffic jams.

If the residents of megacities are allowed to evacuate on their own, it will inevitably cause city-wide congestion. At that time, everyone will be staying on the surface, and there will be no place to escape, so it is better to let more people hide underground.

This is also why Aim wants to gather the high-level members of the insectoid civilization, instead of doing it alone—the insectoid civilization has a special ability. High-level insectoids can release pheromones to inform low-level insectoids of some simple information.

Under normal circumstances, this ability is not very useful.

The level of insectoids is engraved in their genes, like a congenital caste.

It does not affect them inheriting human culture, allowing some insectoids to gain social status through acquired talent and hard work.

But in this case, the pheromone ability is more useful. Aim can use high-level insectoids to direct low-level insectoids to carry out relatively orderly evacuations.

Soon, hundreds of millions of insectoids on this planet moved,

A large number of insectoids left the city and went to the depths of the land,

The insectoids in large cities entered underground parking lots and subway tunnels.

The whole process was relatively orderly. Since Aim only considered the events of these 18 hours,

Therefore, he directly asked all the urban insectoids to abandon their personal property, etc. Each insectoid resident does not need to bring food, and directly enters the underground facilities—food and water are uniformly sent into the underground facilities by local departments.

Moreover, wary of Li Risheng's biological weapon capabilities, Aim ordered the disaster emergency personnel among the insectoids to directly send gas masks, full-body protective clothing, etc. from nearby factories directly to the city and into the underground facilities to equip as many insectoids as possible.

In addition, they also have to guard against the mental abilities that Li Risheng may release, or things like the t-virus,

In each underground facility, in addition to civilians, there must also be armed personnel with real guns and live ammunition, wearing full-coverage protective clothing.

If an insectoid creates a riot, or is transformed into a biochemical monster by the t-virus, then these armed personnel have the right to directly shoot and minimize the losses.

These are the emergency strategies adopted by large cities, and in the vast rural areas with relatively sparse populations, since there are no public underground facilities, Aim can only let them hide in their own houses.

Dense personnel in factories, schools and other areas returned to their homes within 2.5 hours to await orders.

If there are home-built shelters, or cellars, etc., take food and water and hide in them.

After doing all this, Aim, who was in the semi-air above Times Square in New York, increased the power output of the [Electronic Specter] form to the maximum,

The whole person floated into the high altitude, and the eyes turned into a piece of ghostly blue.

His will jumps and shuttles through tens of thousands of public networks and confidential intranetworks,

At the same time, plains, mountains, snowfields, ice floes, and seabeds on the earth spewed out fire.

That's a missile.

Thousands of missiles sprang out of the ground and flew into the high sky,

Dragging long tails of smoke in the blue sky, heading towards deep space.

Second round.

Third round.

Fourth round.

...

Aim launched a large number of active missiles, and the staff in those missile platforms were also working intensively, operating machines and assisting Aim in launching more missiles.

"Cleared 70% of the world's active nuclear missiles waiting to be launched, leaving only enough active missiles in each region to intercept meteorites and pursue Li Risheng.

"If I were in the real world, I should be able to get the Nobel Peace Prize, right?"

Aim looked at the light spots in the sky as dense as stars,

One thousand strands of divine thoughts, one strand of divine thoughts thought so.

He lowered his head, scanned the empty streets of New York, and called the National Guard of New York State to assist the military and drove ten special vehicles loaded with missiles, which were parked in the center of Times Square.

Aim's initial teleportation location was on the streets of Times Square. Parking the missile vehicles here may just intercept Li Risheng who teleported in.

In order to improve the effect, Aim also placed several consumable props near Times Square, which can block space teleportation abilities and suppress players' spiritual power—

Although he also knew that the Killing Game system gave himself three hours to prepare, so it is likely that he would not be given the opportunity to prepare in advance and snipe and kill his opponent.

"The props I have deployed should be able to briefly suppress the opponent for a period of time. If Li Risheng really teleports to Times Square, I will not directly detonate the nuclear bomb—each missile vehicle has a program I set up, even if I issue a detonation command, they will detonate with a delay of 10 minutes.

"And, I will directly display this delayed detonation setting on the Times Square advertising screen.

"Tell Li Risheng that I am not thinking of directly killing him.

"It's not that I'm cowardly,

"It's just that the Battle of Destiny is not only a battle between Earth players, but also a battle between Earth players against alien players.

"There is no need for both of us to fight to the death in a small arena in the rematch stage, right?

"Even if the Killing Game gives the winner special rewards after some particularly exciting battles, there is no need to do this."

One of Aim's divine thoughts explained to himself,

While manipulating the Times Square screen to display the text he explained to Li Risheng.

Peace and friendship, cooperation and win-win.

After making all preparations, Aim dispersed the National Guard and US military forces below, and ended the [Electronic Specter] form, flew into the high sky, split out ten figures, and flew in different directions.

All the phantoms sped all the way, and after flying out fifty kilometers, they all disappeared,

The real Aim, on the other hand, sneaked into the seawater on the east side of the United States in invisible form, sank all the way, passed over those wandering fish that didn't know why, and landed on the seabed.

His figure shrank into a ball, concealed all his breath, closed all spiritual power fluctuations, and quietly waited for Li Risheng's arrival.

Countdown, ten seconds.

Nine.

Eight.

Seven.

...

When the countdown ended, Li Ang opened his eyes in the breeze.