Chapter 421: Gungnir

"My main body is a Horcrux, left on Earth. Even if I die, I can be resurrected again through the Horcrux." Lucas said.

An automated program is certainly not as safe as putting a wizard directly on it to control it.

Murphy shook his head. "The ultra-distance connection between the Horcrux and the physical body may also have a distance limit, and there is no evidence that this ultra-distance connection is faster than light. Perhaps when your body is far enough away, you still have to bear the delay."

"But it's also possible there won't be a delay." Lucas said.

"Things haven't reached that point yet." Murphy said. "There's no need to consider a self-sacrifice plan now."

Things were decided this way. With the previous moon landing experience, there were no major problems with the rocket and the loading of nuclear bombs. However, the Apparition device capable of teleporting a rocket weighing thousands of tons still had some R&D difficulty. But with the help of the time accelerator, everything was completed a month later.

Murphy equipped the rocket with a powerful computing hub. Its hardware was a small supercomputer composed of hundreds of brain-like chips. In terms of software, it was a large-model super AI with a portrait soul as the core. Its intelligent performance in any aspect was not inferior to any human being.

The rocket body was improved from the "Energia" super-large rocket. Through the Undetectable Extension Charm, it could hold ten 150-megaton hydrogen bombs—they didn't use the Shrinking Charm because in past experiments, scientists found that the Shrinking Charm might cause atomic bombs to accidentally break through critical conditions and detonate themselves, and the fuse of a hydrogen bomb is an atomic bomb.

The fully loaded Energia weighed 3,000 tons. This was the result after the Undetectable Extension Charm greatly reduced the fuel mass, but it could still perform five consecutive ultra-distance teleports under the control of the super AI. Although the distance of each teleport did not exceed 20 kilometers due to the huge tonnage of the rocket, coupled with the rocket's own flight speed of dozens of Mach, it was almost unstoppable.

In Murphy's several simulations, even if there were a dozen more lasers like those encountered during the last moon landing, it would be difficult to stop it from exploding on the lunar surface. The simulation success rate was as high as 95% or more.

Such a rocket could no longer be called a rocket, but an interstellar missile.

However, even so, Murphy still felt uneasy, so he produced three such interstellar missiles at the same time.

In order to increase the speed of the rocket as much as possible to improve the hit rate, these missiles, named "Resisters," would be launched in synchronous orbit.

They would be divided into three parts and transported in batches by other carrier rockets to the Soviet space station in synchronous orbit, where they would be assembled by automatic machinery.

In December of '97, the carrier rocket used a super-large "Floating Charm" device to lift off, and then left the Earth's surface through a long-distance Apparition once every 20 seconds to reach synchronous orbit. Here, after the three Resister missiles were assembled, they would ignite liquid hydrogen fuel and head toward the Moon.

Since the influence of gravity here was already very small, the missile only needed to accelerate for a very short time to reach escape velocity and leave Earth's orbit.

Subsequently, they would reach the Moon within four hours through long-distance Apparition and fuel propulsion. At that time, their speed would reach 46 Mach, which is 15,000 meters per second, after continuous acceleration and propulsion. Coupled with the ability to perform up to five consecutive ultra-distance teleports, Murphy found it hard to imagine a fixed target being able to escape such a strike.

When the rocket was launched, the United States was almost arguing to the sky, threatening several times to intercept the Soviet rocket, and even used the destruction of the Soviet space station as a threat, demanding that the Soviet Union stop the launch mission.

But Murphy ignored him.

In fact, after possessing the global strike capability of magic satellites, Murphy was actually no longer worried about the other side's nuclear deterrence.

No matter how strong the nuclear bomb is, the other side's transport means are only intercontinental missiles, which can be completely shot down by magic satellites.

A week later, the three missiles were assembled at the Soviet space station and ignited toward the Moon.

After another tense four hours, what Murphy had been worried about did not happen. The gods did not intercept them halfway. The three Resister missiles successfully reached lunar orbit and then fell toward the center of the back of the Moon like thunder.

On the back of the Moon, in a dark space like a deep well.

The countless statues of the past had disappeared, and only one incomparably huge stone statue remained in the large deep valley.

The stone statue wore a crown of thorns and a long robe, and the halo like a sun was layered behind it. Looking closely, it was actually piled up by countless small stone statues of various shapes, wriggling and struggling.

At this moment, the huge stone statue lifted its eyes and saw the three stars in the distance.

"Are you still struggling?" The gentle voice echoed in the deep valley like rolling thunder.

"The Death Star has arrived."

"If we continue to consume, we will all die."

"Being devoured by you, we will die all the same!" A one-eyed stone statue roared between the giant statue's chest and abdomen.

"No, you will only become my angels. Humans will worship you as always, and I will continue to spread your names."

"Do you think we will believe you?"

"I will make a contract with you."

"If I don't do this, let me be trapped here forever." The giant statue said.

"Time is running out. Die together, or rush out of this cage with me?"

When the missile was about 200 kilometers away from the lunar surface, suddenly, the valley below shook, and then, a flash of light lit up from the valley. Its speed was so fast that the detection means in the missile did not find any abnormality. In an instant, one Resister missile exploded in the air.

The super AIs in the remaining two missiles didn't understand what had happened, but it didn't prevent them from starting to change strategies.

Both instantly dispersed through Apparition, and one of them performed a second teleport at the same time, pushing forward by 10 kilometers, and then a third teleport, pushing forward by another 20 kilometers. Sure enough, another crimson fire line shot out from below, but the missile launched a fourth teleport the moment the fire light lit up. There were only 15 kilometers left. With one more teleport, it could reach the valley.

The valley suddenly radiated more than 20 rays, forming a huge net.

"Boom!" The missile was cut into pieces by the net before the fifth teleport was launched.

However, this explosion also blew all those energy rays away.

The next instant, the last missile immediately launched all five teleports and suddenly arrived above the valley.

Just then, a light lit up in the pitch-black space. That light was like the sea, endless. The missile watched as it was less than one kilometer away from the valley, and it would take less than 0.1 seconds to cross it.

But, time seemed to suddenly stagnate. The light spread outward, and the missile was like a small boat pushed by the sea. The distance did not shorten, but instead lengthened bit by bit.

The super AI immediately chose to ignite the fuse. At this distance, with the explosive power of more than one billion tons, it was enough to destroy everything in this valley.

However, the moment the order was issued, a crimson spear suddenly shot out from the valley.

The spear was crimson all over, stained with blood, crossing space like a meteor, passing through the center of the missile, and cutting the core computing unit inside into two halves, causing the order to fail to be sent out.

The missile was hit by a beam of light in the next instant and transferred to thousands of kilometers away, then exploded into a ball of light countless times brighter than the sun, but it failed to cause greater damage to the valley.

And that spear had unstoppable momentum, crossing the distance of 380,000 kilometers in an instant, falling toward the Earth's surface.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 422 =====