Chapter 155: Mission Completion Reward
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Outside Pluto, a mothership hovered in space. From its side, a kiloter-long cannon extended, pointing ominously towards Neptune.
“Fire!”
With Moro’s command, the fully charged third-generation star-destroying cannon unleashed its fury.
On the big screen, two countdowns were displayed. One showed a ti of five days, while the other was a re six minutes.
The five-day countdown indicated the ti it would take for the star-destroying cannon to hit Neptune. The six-minute countdown marked the launch ti of another planet-destroying weapon.
The six minutes passed in a flash, and dozens more cannon barrels erged from the mothership, firing straight at Pluto.
Each was a laser beam as thick as a bowl. Dozens of them fired together, creating a hollow circle.
In an instant, a hundred-ter-deep channel was lted into Pluto’s ice layer.
After the channel appeared, the lasers didn’t stop. They continued outputting, deepening the channel.
“What are they doing?!”
On the lunar base, Zhao Yu stared at the gravity wave detector, puzzled.
“It seems like they’ve fired sothing at Neptune. Based on its mass and speed, I suspect it might be a star-destroying cannon,” Uncle Da explained.
“They want to destroy Neptune?!”
Zhao Yu frowned, recalling the gravitational wave disturbance after Jupiter was bombed, “This is likely another attack from the enemy. Hurry up and repair the second defensive line…”
But as to how the enemy would specifically attack, the two spent a long ti pondering but couldn’t figure it out.
“Commander, maybe you should stay on the mothership during this ti. Just in case sothing changes, it would be easier to escape…”
“Hmm…”
Zhao Yu thought for a mont, then made another trip to the combat command center to ask the staff, but he did not receive any useful information.
Six days later.
On Pluto, the channel lted by the lasers beca increasingly deep, only a thin layer was left before reaching the core.
In the center of the ring of laser cannons inside the mothership, a previously silent cannon suddenly spewed a bolt of lightning. It shot straight into the core of Pluto.
“Sizzle —!”
The lightning instantly struck that layer, and in a blink, the entire core appeared before their eyes. It was a fiercely burning golden fireball.
With the addition of lightning, the color of the golden fireball beca even more vivid.
Although Moro’s fleet no longer had particle black hole collapse bombs to casually blow up planets, it did not an they had no other ans to destroy a planet.
In addition to the star-destroying cannon, there were many other ways to destroy a planet. Like the current thod to destroy Pluto, it was suitable for environnts without external interference.
“Pluto’s core temperature is rising…”
“The pressure inside the core is increasing…”
“Increase laser power, keep the channel open…”
“The core has awakened, Pluto’s magnetic field reappears…”
“Keep heating…”
Various departnts in the mothership coordinated. In a few minutes, the temperature of Pluto’s core increased nearly tenfold. The ice layer outside the core started to boil and vaporize.
A large amount of steam erged, desperately seeking an outlet. But this was the outer layer of the core, there was no exit, the steam could only compress within this small space.
The temperature of the core grew higher and higher, and the pressure outside the core grew greater and greater.
“Hum—!”
After an unknown length of ti, all gravity wave detectors on the mothership failed with a crisp sound.
“Neptune has exploded!”
Moruo knew clearly; this was the effect of the star-destroying cannon reaching Neptune.
“Pluto should be soon…”
As he said this, the land of Pluto below suddenly broke apart. The entire planet seed as if so creature was waking from beneath the ground, beginning to churn.
“Quickly evacuate—!”
All cannons on the mothership ceased firing and in a blink, they had left Pluto.
In a few seconds, Pluto ‘boom’ – completely shattered. Countless fragnts mixed with various elents exploded in all directions in space.
At this point, both Pluto and Neptune were officially retired.
The mothership had only moved a few tens of millions of kiloters away, and then stopped again.
This was the location of the wormhole.
“Activate the wormhole, let’s go to the nearest star system…”
The spaceship began to spew negative energy. As the wormhole erged, the ship vanished into it in an instant.
Near the moon, Zhao Yu sat on the massive mothership, anxiously watching the screen with Uncle Da.
On the screen, the gravitational wave curve representing the star-destroying cannon was slowly colliding with Neptune.
“Zzz—!”
The familiar error code appeared, and the gravitational wave detector failed again.
“Here we go again…”
Zhao Yu took a deep breath, looking towards the second line of defense. There were tens of thousands of newly built spaceships standing by at a safe distance.
As Zhao Yu was pondering how the enemy might attack, a system voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
“Level 1 mission, expel alien (Moro) fleet completed, optional rewards available.”
“Optional Reward 1: Upgrade the title ‘Mysterious rchant.’ Gain extra tech points when trading with alien civilizations.”
“Optional Reward 2: Activate the title ‘War King.’ Gain extra tech points when destroying alien military units.”
“Optional Reward 3: Unlock the reputation system. Reputation can be used to exchange for technology exceeding base level limit.”
“Note: In view of the host’s relationship with the Earthlings, trading with Earth will not trigger ‘Mysterious rchant.'”
“Note: Only one of the three rewards can be chosen.”
Mission rewards?
Zhao Yu was taken aback. He carefully recalled that when he first ti-traveled six years ago, the system indeed ntioned this as a mission, but it was so long ago that he had forgotten.
After reading the system’s prompt carefully, it ntioned that the mission to expel the Moro fleet was completed.
“Does that an, the Moro fleet has left?!”
The system wouldn’t lie. Zhao Yu breathed a sigh of relief. He had worried that the Moro fleet’s destruction of Neptune indicated so new form of attack.
Now, it seed they were simply lashing out in helpless rage, detonating a planet out of spite before leaving.
Overjoyed, Zhao Yu began happily examining the three rewards.
What he found sowhat regrettable was that the ‘Mysterious rchant’ title no longer applied to the Earthlings.
He guessed it might be because he had interfered too much with Earth, leading the system to judge them as being of the sa origin.
Though Zhao Yu was very curious about what the Mysterious rchant would beco after the upgrade, now, this reward seed to be the most useless.
“War King title, destroying alien military units can earn extra tech points…”
Zhao Yu couldn’t help but glance at the space station outside Earth.
[Note: Due to the host’s common origin with the Earthlings, destroying Earth military units will not earn extra tech points.]
Just as this thought ca to mind, he received a system prompt.
Zhao Yu felt sowhat disappointed. If he could exploit this loophole, that would be amazing. He could continuously build and destroy, earning tech points in abundance.
Finally, he moved his gaze to reward three, “Activate the reputation system. Reputation can be used to exchange for technologies beyond the base level. This is good…”
Zhao Yu quickly made his decision.
“I choose reward three, activate the reputation system….”
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