Chapter 127

When the hype over the launch of magnetic levitation cars swept the globe, throwing the scientific and industrial communities of every country into turmoil,

The production line for Yanhuang Guo's interstellar warships, after nonstop construction day and night, was finally declared complete.

Qin Hao came here again.

Zhang Yunfeng beamed, pointing at the production line that wound like a giant dragon, and told Qin Hao, 'Now it's your turn to shine!'

Qin Hao nodded, his gaze sweeping over the high-tech production line, and he involuntarily gave the system an order.

'Scan the information, prepare to copy!'

【Detected target: interstellar warship production line prototype, one energy unit per line. Proceed with copying one hundred lines?】

'Yes.'

【Copy successful, consumed one hundred Energy Points.】

The system's notification tone sounded in Qin Hao's mind.

Almost simultaneously, the previously empty vast reserved factory area instantly filled with countless production lines.

The entire process was silent, only the system's intangible power controlling everything. When a hundred brand-new interstellar warship production lines suddenly stood before Zhang Yunfeng and Qin Hao.

Both of their faces showed smiles.

'The system's miraculousness is beyond our imagination; I truly don't know where it came from!'

Zhang Yunfeng sighed with emotion, while also feeling a vague worry in his heart.

Qin Hao saw Zhang Yunfeng's thoughts and said reassuringly:

'Who knows, but if it helps our country recover quickly, it's not necessarily a bad thing.'

Zhang Yunfeng said nothing.

As Qin Hao said, worrying is useless.

After the hundred production lines were officially put into operation, results appeared just one month later.

The first batch, a total of one hundred large interstellar warships, took shape mightily within Yanhuang Guo's super factory zone.

They were no longer experimental like the 'Kunlun' but had been optimized and improved into more intimidating war machines.

Each interstellar warship is larger than the world's biggest aircraft carrier, with the largest reaching over five hundred meters in length.

Their hulls gleamed with a cold luster, and the energy cannon muzzles at the bow silently proclaimed the terrifying power they could unleash.

These data were brought by Cheng Haitang.

After learning about their massive size, Qin Hao inquired about other information.

'Old Cheng, tell me the specific data of these interstellar warships; I'd like to learn more as well.'

Upon hearing this, Cheng Haitang took a sip of tea, then opened the computer in his hand, pulled up a 3D virtual projection of the interstellar warship, and began to speak slowly.

'Let me start with defense; our scientists, after deep development of the Energy Shield, have now successfully achieved modular construction.'

Without waiting for Qin Hao to ask, Cheng Haitang began operating on the computer.

'The scientists call it the 【Honeycomb Energy Shield】; the shield is no longer a single bubble but consists of hundreds of tightly connected hexagonal energy fields.'

'When the warship is attacked, the impact is dispersed, causing at most one or a few 'honeycomb cells' to overload and rupture.'

Saying this, Cheng Haitang's eyes flashed with confident light:

'The main control system will, in an extremely short time, redirect energy to the damaged area to complete repairs.'

'Unless the enemy possesses terrifying firepower capable of destroying an entire warship in one strike, what they face will be an energy wall almost impossible to breach.'

Qin Hao nodded repeatedly, thinking this design concept far superior and more reliable than the full-coverage shields seen in movies.

'This is only the first line of defense.'

Cheng Haitang set down his teacup, his voice tinged with pride.

'Even if the enemy uses some unknown weapon to instantly tear open a large section of the shield, we still have a second safeguard.'

He pointed to the hull shimmering with metallic luster in the holographic projection.

'The warship's hull is entirely covered with a layer of composite vibranium armor; you should know best how sturdy it is. In effect, each of our warships possesses two layers of top-tier defense, as solid as a golden soup.'

'Furthermore, our soldiers must wear steel battle armor when fighting; this is the final line of defense, and when the civilizational levels are not vastly different, we can say we are in an invincible position.'

After hearing about the three layers of defense, Qin Hao nodded repeatedly.

'What about offense?'

'There are several offensive methods; first is the high-energy laser beam: the three main guns can fire a one-meter-diameter energy bolt lasting ten seconds, though the drawback is that power diminishes with distance.'

Cheng Haitang lightly swiped the holographic projection; the warship's 3D model rotated, and red dots lit up on countless turrets across the hull's top, bottom, left, and right.

'Besides the main guns, beneath the warship's surface armor lie three hundred sixty rapid-fire laser turrets.'

Cheng Haitang pointed at those red dots, his tone calm: 'They form a seamless firepower net; any enemy attempting to approach will be hit.'

Qin Hao looked at the dense firepower points and couldn't help but smile: 'This is practically an iron hedgehog armed to the teeth.'

'A very deadly hedgehog.'

Cheng Haitang nodded in agreement, then slid his finger across the screen again, making part of the hull's exterior turn transparent to reveal the internal launch units.

'Of course, having only energy weapons isn't enough; we also equipped a large number of miniature nuclear missile launch silos.'

He pointed at those complex-structured units,

'Their range in space can be considered virtually infinite, their power is decent, and most importantly they are highly flexible.'

'In a complex battlefield environment, they can strike the enemy unexpectedly or be used for saturation attacks, instantly tearing open gaps in the enemy's defenses.'

'Nuclear weapons, once the Sword of Damocles hanging over all humanity, have now become a flexible, usable conventional tactical weapon in interstellar warfare theory.'

Qin Hao couldn't help but feel that the nature of war has truly been completely transformed.

Cheng Haitang seemed to see through Qin Hao's thoughts, his face showing a mixture of gravity and fervor.

He enlarged the holographic projection, focusing on several long tracks along the warship's central axis that glowed with a faint blue electric light.

'But these are still not our strongest trump card.'

His voice lowered slightly, carrying a hint of mystery, "This is our true trump card."

Qin Hao's gaze was firmly drawn to those several tracks.

"Electromagnetic railgun."

Cheng Haitang said, word by word, "With the near-limitless energy supplied by a controllable nuclear fusion reactor, this track can accelerate a one-ton tungsten-steel pellet to... 0.5 times the speed of light."

Qin Hao's pupils contracted sharply.

He understood better than anyone what that number meant.

According to the mass-energy equation, as an object's speed approaches the speed of light, its kinetic energy tends toward infinity.

A one-ton pellet flying at 0.5 times the speed of light carries pure kinetic energy whose impact would far exceed any nuclear weapon; if the enemy warship lacks an energy shield, a hit means total destruction.

"Using kinetic energy to strike the enemy warship."

Cheng Haitang's voice carried a chilling dread,

Before such an impact, any armor and defense are meaningless; it would, like a bullet through paper, easily pierce the target.

"This is the true dimensionality reduction strike."

Qin Hao slowly exhaled a breath.

However, its drawbacks are also obvious; in interstellar war, distance makes it easy to avoid, and only in close combat can it be effective.

After saying that, Cheng Haitang closed the holographic projection and concluded:

"So, our fleet has the strongest shield and the sharpest spear; the fleet's prototype is formed and can be deployed into space at any time for the next drill."