Chapter 1875: Solar Network

An earthquake..!? Moonquake!?

Seeing the warning information transmitted from the lunar sensor, Deng Xiang stared in shock, then hurriedly retrieved the relevant records.

As early as the 1960s of the last century, laser ranging had been placed on the Moon to measure the Earth-Moon distance. Subsequently, with the booming development of space programs, more and more scientific equipment was sent to the Moon.

But after the Apocalypse broke out, no one paid attention to it anymore. After all, humans on Earth were still being chased by zombies everywhere—who had the mind to worry about the Moon hundreds of thousands of kilometers away?

"The Moon's core has cooled! There's a vibration wave warning; besides a meteor impact, it can only be…!"

Deng Xiang's heart pounded as he clung to the thought of verifying his idea.

Soon, through his efforts to pinpoint it, an unbelievable image instantly appeared on the screen!

And Lin An appeared once again in his field of view!

To be precise, it was Lin An's sword!

All that could be seen was, on the silvery-gray lunar surface, an extremely long, super huge sword like a red line, abruptly breaking into this eternal starry sky.

It was as if a sudden slash of blood-red had burst into a black-and-white ink painting.

The scope of the image was simply too vast!

Even when Deng Xiang maximized the resolution, he could only see the huge sword as if grasped by an invisible deity, then violently chopped down!

In the vacuum, there was no sound!

In the high-latency footage, at the instant the giant sword fell, the entire Moon seemed to freeze.

The next second.

The strike fell, and suddenly an invisible shockwave violently swept outward from the point where the sword's blade met the lunar surface!

Even without an atmosphere, the lunar regolith weighing over hundreds of millions of tons was lofted into lunar space by this force, then rose like a layer of silver-gray dust "cloud" tens of kilometers high; at a glance, the entire eastern half‑moon region looked like a powder puff struck and blown apart by this sword.

The image was simply too shocking and terrifying.

Even though no sound could be heard, at this very moment Deng Xiang could still feel from the image how earth‑shattering and deafening this sword strike was!

"Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!?"

Unable to comprehend what Captain Lin was doing, he watched helplessly as the huge sword fell again.

For a moment, Deng Xiang felt as if his nonexistent scalp were about to explode!

Lin An was chopping the Moon with his sword! Trying to blast the Moon apart!?

(Could it be that Captain Lin dislikes the Moon and wants to smash it to pieces!?)

He gulped, the abnormality on the Moon was simply too huge.

A few seconds later, even visible to the naked eye, the city of Xuanhai outside the satellite panicked and rushed straight to the control room, stammering as he began shouting at Deng Xiang:

"Little Brother Deng! Quickly persuade Lord Lin An! The Moon mustn't be shattered—this will cause a major disaster! What's there to be angry about—how can you get mad at the Moon? My goodness! It's too terrifying, too terrifying!"

He was incoherent; even though Xuanhai's cultural level wasn't high, he also knew the Moon's influence on Earth was enormous.

Once the Moon disappeared, under tidal forces Earth's oceans would likely lose control instantly, triggering an unimaginable apocalyptic tsunami!

If this image of Lin An continually striking the Moon had been seen by nations before the Apocalypse, it would probably have frightened a bunch of scientists into thinking the end had come!

Yet the shock seemed far from over.

Despite Deng Xiang's repeated attempts to contact Lin An—none of which got a reply—the strikes continued.

Perhaps he felt his pace of destruction was too slow.

A brief pause.

The next second, a black long sword appeared once again in the sky above the entire Moon.

One red, one black, as if slicing the Moon, they fell again!

A few seconds later.

In the stunned silence of Deng Xiang, Xuanhai, and others, a lunar fragment as large as half of Europe broke off soundlessly and slowly drifted away from the Moon.

Countless tiny fragments formed a meteor shower around the continent.

Under the shadow cast over sky and land by this continental fragment, Lin An was holding up the entire landmass.

At the same time.

Europe (moro) Earth‑Moon observation station.

Among a few survivors wearing dirty white coats, resembling researchers, a young scholar stared blankly at the night sky.

Seeing that the night sky seemed to be missing a piece, like a nibbled edge of the Moon, he was utterly baffled, feeling as if he were hallucinating.

"Is today a lunar eclipse period?"

"Why… why is a chunk missing from the Moon?!?"

After he spoke, his companions gave him a weak, annoyed glance, feeling that everything the young man had learned had been eaten by a dog.

"What are you thinking? There's no way today could be a lunar eclipse period—this month hasn't even had one!"

"Stop looking—come over and lend a hand; let's take these instruments apart—maybe we can salvage useful parts to trade for food."

"In a few days, the military will level this place and set up a Safe Zone!"

He frowned bitterly and let out a low sigh.

Yet, facing his companions' impatient urging, the youth who looked up at the heavens remained motionless.

Only then did he suddenly grab the crowd about to dismantle the astronomical telescope, his whole body trembling as he squeezed out a voice from his throat:

"Don't tear it down! Don't tear it down!"

"It's flown! God!! The Moon has flown away!!"

"Huh?!"

A few minutes later.

One after another, ear‑splitting screams of extreme shock suddenly burst from the quiet observation station.

Like madmen, six researchers rushed wildly toward the Safe Zone, their faces etched with terror.

「There are monsters on the moon!! 」

「A chunk of the moon has disappeared!! 」

They cannot imagine how great a power could achieve this at that time, and they cannot even imagine what is dragging that sliced‑away "continent" flying away!

「The size should be enough... 」

In the deep, dark void of space, Lin An estimated the lunar fragment he had cut off, quickly calculating what he needed.

The fragment he cut off is nearly a thousand kilometers long, with a mass reaching hundreds of millions of tons or more. If it weren't for the extremely low gravity in space, he couldn't possibly drag an entire continent around.

He didn't care whether part of humanity would observe his actions; for Lin An, he was more concerned about whether his idea could be realized.

「Moon dust is rich in iron, calcium, magnesium, cerium, thorium, zinc, and even naturally occurring glass fiber. 」

「After high‑temperature smelting, theoretically I could 'burn' a pyramid near the Sun. 」

「Hum」

Continuously compressing the continent he held, Lin An was like forging iron, condensing its volume as much as possible to turn it into material.

The gravitational and repulsive rules he mobilized with all his strength simultaneously covered the fragment, and as spiritual energy heated and melted it, the entire continent began to deform, melting into a sphere.

Soon, within just a few minutes, a turbid super "iron ball" appeared above Lin An's head.

The preliminary processing was about done, and Lin An unhesitatingly used the spatial Props he had captured, directly taking the iron ball and transmitting it toward the Sun.

Earth seems not far from the Sun; just look up and you can see it.

But the actual distance between them is such that even at the speed of light, it takes eight minutes to reach Earth.

For Lin An, whose top speed is only 290 times Mach, he might not even be able to fly there in a hundred days.

「Hum」

With a bout of dizziness, Lin An laboriously dragged the iron ball out from the faintly bursting spatial turbulence.

After a lingering‑fear glance at the barely‑controlled portal behind him, Lin An quickly calculated the coordinates and glumly discovered that his transmission landing point had an error, still a considerable distance from where he had calculated to land in the prominence layer.

「Fourth Stage, even Fifth Stage power is still too insignificant on the cosmic scale... 」

「Not having my own spatial rules is really inconvenient... Forget it, not messing up and sending me into the Sun's core counts as good luck. 」

Suppressing his feelings, Lin An didn't think much more, just continuing to fly toward the Sun.

He can now cleave spatial rifts, but properly simulating a transmission effect is still too difficult. Transporting from the Moon here has already exhausted all his spatial Props reserves.

Mastering spatial rules is essential, but for now condensing a fledgling faith is more important.

One hour later.

There was no scorching heat wave as imagined, nor the imagined high temperature.

Although he could feel large amounts of radiation and particles passing through his body, like nuclear blast radiation, bombarding his cells and even his DNA strands.

But such a level of "attack" is nothing to Lin An.

Standing on the prominence layer.

In the endless dark of space, Lin An stared blankly at the enormous, vast light sphere filling his entire field of view.

No end visible above or below, no boundary left or right.

At this moment, he felt as if he were in a world of light, and before this super‑celestial body that illuminates the whole solar system, he seemed as insignificant as dust.

Prominences roiled; within his limited view, each second saw more than thousands of fire‑serpents capable of swallowing Earth leap up, whipping about like tentacles.

These are prominences; each one can reach thousands of kilometers in length, and when erupting violently can even reach staggering millions of kilometers!

Such a length is enough to swallow the Moon and Earth together over and over, dozens of times.

Totally unlike the Sun seen from Earth, it is merely a calm, bright ball of light.

At this moment, observing the Sun up close, Lin An felt that the Sun before him resembled a super‑lifeform, violent and terrifying.

Endless fury, endless roars, each second equivalent to the detonation of hundreds of billions of hydrogen bombs inside—this is essentially a giant beast trapped in the void of space!

If it could move freely, if it had its own consciousness, Lin An could hardly imagine how terrifying an existence that would be.

By comparison, Lin An dazedly gained a deeper perception of power.

「So, the meaning of Silver Core rank is that it is a pseudo‑Sixth Stage existence above the peak and below Sixth Stage, already comparable to the core of a star system: the Sun, right? 」

「Like the Sun, possessing endless energy, like the Sun, illuminating the entire star system? 」

「Can an individual life truly be this strong...? 」

「And what about the death star above this...? 」

Bewildered, perplexed.

In such an intuitive display of power, Lin An felt that his previous understanding of high‑stage power had been reshaped once again.

Or rather, he was beginning to be unable to comprehend what form high‑stage power must take to surpass the Sun before him.

He had not never seen the Overseer act, but he felt it was just "nothing special". Amid the chaotic power comparison, he truly could not understand what was going on. Of course, Lin An also knew that he had in fact never truly witnessed a Sixth Stage battle.

Just at this moment, he suddenly realized that the Shen Yuan remains thrown to him by Number 77 were far more terrifying than he had imagined—hundreds or thousands of times more so!

That Overseer...!?

Decisively stopping his idle thoughts, Lin An forcibly suppressed his miscellaneous thoughts, took a deep breath, and couldn't help reaching out to touch "a wisp" of the prominence spewing into space.

Even though it was thousands of kilometers away, on the cosmic macroscopic scale Lin An also felt as if he had actually touched it.

For some reason, he suddenly wanted to taste the Sun's flavor.

Half a minute later.

Lin An shook his head slightly disappointed, feeling that the Sun's taste wasn't very good either.

Whether the prominence consists purely of plasma or lacks any material structure, aside from a faint, scorching air taste, he couldn't taste anything.

He didn't waste any more time.

After confirming Earth's direction, Lin An instantly took control of the "iron ball" he had brought, and it suddenly stretched and expanded!

Like a scene from mythology.

Just seeing the sun, whose volume is a hundred billion times his own, Lin An seemed like a creator god, holding aloft the continually melting triangular throne.

At the sun's center, Lin An at this moment seemed to add a triangle into this red eyeball, while Lin An himself was like the eye within the triangle.

As if opening an eye for the sun, allowing it to see that blue planet amidst the endless starry sky.

Straining and deforming, Lin An worked hard to forge before the sun a triangular structure a million meters in size.

Although he had not yet determined what belief he wanted to condense, faintly he already had a rough idea.

Condensing the embryonic form of faith is like condensing a nascent life.

At the very beginning of this life's birth, he need not condense a strong belief; a rough approximation suffices.

Therefore, Lin An intends to follow Chu An's meaning and first create a 'global network'! Or rather, a network of faith!

"Using the sun as a source to provide power! After collecting it via the pyramids, project it onto global satellites! Based on my belief, establish a resonance network!"

"Just like communication transmission, as long as someone on Earth holds the same belief as I do, they can receive the power on the same frequency!"

"The higher the overlap with my belief, the stronger the received power! In this way, we can complete a global screening, letting everyone obtain weapons, become another me! Become a Fire Seed!"

His gaze was scorching.

Lin An stared straight at the sun, his pupils seemingly filled with endless light.

This is an incredibly crazy plan!

To guarantee the intensity of the first batch of energy transmission, he even prepared to bombard the sun, causing it to erupt!

Lin An could not be certain whether his plan would succeed.

In his view, in the year Chu An launched the Fire Seed Project, on the day he found Deng Xiang at the Weapons Research Institute, at the moment the Star Link was restarted—this plan had already begun!

Everything Chu An had arranged for him might have been for this very moment!

"When the sun rises..

"When the first solar storm strikes Earth..

"When the light shines, when the sky shows auroras, when the scorching sun melts the ice and snow!"

"Then this world will ignite hope among the myriad Fire Seeds!"