Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones - Chapter 421: Destroying Planets
For billions of years, this core has been covered and weighed down by a thick layer of gas over 20,000 kilometers thick.
The pressure here once consistently remained around 10 million times Earth’s standard atmospheric pressure, while the temperature stabilized at approximately 30,000 degrees Celsius.
Now, all the gases that once covered and continuously weighed it down have vanished.
Consequently, with the release of immense stress, this core, while still maintaining an extremely high temperature, experienced a planet-wide earthquake, encompassing all parts of the entire planet, from its core to its surface.
Continuous volcanic eruptions, gas jets, and planet-shaking earthquakes followed one after another, a hundred times more chaotic than Earth was when it first formed.
Without external interference, this chaotic situation would persist for at least a million years. After that, once the stress was released and the interior reached a new equilibrium, it would calm down.
Afterward, it might absorb some interstellar dust clouds, or its interior might release some gas, re-establishing a thin atmosphere, eventually evolving into a planet similar to Mars.
But clearly, Tom would not give it this opportunity.
Because a considerable number of Star Beasts were still hidden within this stellar core.
"With such high temperatures and such frequent geological activity, even if your Star Beasts’ ’technology’ has reached the gravity level, living in such a harsh environment must be incredibly painful.
But rest assured, your pain and torment will soon come to an end..."
Tom shifted his gaze to another planet.
It was a planet with a radius of approximately 2,000 kilometers, rapidly approaching this location.
It was originally a satellite of that ice giant. With Tom’s gas extraction operation, it broke free from its original orbit and became a dwarf planet.
However, unfortunately, Tom had other uses for it, so he forcibly moved it out of its orbit again and brought it here.
Currently, more than a million giant thrusters on it were propelling it at a speed exceeding 60 kilometers per second. Its target was... the stellar core in front of Tom.
"You thought I couldn’t do anything to you by hiding in the stellar core?"
A slightly cruel smile appeared on Tom’s lips: "Then I’ll smash this stellar core too! Let’s see where else you can hide!"
While maintaining a powerful external deterrent to ensure no Star Beasts could escape this stellar core, the massive celestial body, formerly a satellite and now a dwarf planet, crashed in with an unstoppable momentum, like a rampaging giant beast.
The moment of impact, Tom felt as if the entire universe was shaking.
An immeasurable amount of dust and debris instantly ejected from the two planets like fountains, hurtling into space at extremely high speeds.
A light brighter than a star erupted at the impact point, blinding to the naked eye. The two originally spherical celestial bodies began to deform at this instant, like dough being continuously kneaded, and an unprecedented violent tremor extended to all matter.
At this moment, whether it was mountains and valleys or basins and plains, everything was easily flattened like sandcastles. Even the plate structure, at this moment, was easily torn apart like cardboard.
The two planets were completely destroyed under the impact specially designed and driven by Tom.
In the future, a considerable portion of their mass would sweep across the entire solar system, bringing continuous impacts to every planet, while another portion would escape this solar system, just like the gases Tom had ejected earlier.
Yes, those gases would not remain around this star, because their speed was too fast.
At the original location of the ice giant, the star’s escape velocity was only about 10 kilometers per second, completely unable to restrain those gases.
They had now transformed into an interstellar dust cloud, gradually enveloping this solar system. Although its density was extremely low and it could not be distinguished on a small scale, if viewed from a sufficient distance, from an overall perspective, this interstellar dust cloud was clearly visible.
If a certain low-level civilization discovered that this solar system was covered by an interstellar dust cloud, they would likely be very confused. Because this completely did not conform to stellar evolution principles.
If they progressed further, they might vaguely perceive that this was not naturally formed, but came from... human effort.
The remnants of these two celestial bodies would most likely form an asteroid belt in their existing orbit in the future, and then be gradually torn apart and destroyed in the gravitational battles of the large planets.
But that would be at least hundreds of millions of years later, and Tom wouldn’t bother with such distant matters.
He still had one more thing to do now.
Although it was certain that the planetary collision would cause massive casualties to the Star Beasts population, it was not guaranteed that some lucky Star Beasts would escape.
At this moment, they might be hiding in some larger fragments, using the force of the planetary collision to escape outwards.
This was not permissible.
Since he was going to silence them, no Star Beast could be allowed to escape!
They must all be killed here; they must not be allowed to inform any high-level backer they might have about what they encountered.
Even if the probability of him suffering retaliation from a high-level entity was extremely low, Tom could not accept such a risk.
Under this guiding principle, Tom’s massive fleet set out again, closely monitoring every larger planetary remnant.
The completely shattered planetary remnants were generally not large. The smallest were, of course, interstellar dust clouds, and the largest were no more than 100 kilometers in size.
Tom set a standard.
All remnants with a size of 50 meters or more, without exception, would be thoroughly inspected and sieved! 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞
Remnants from 50 meters to 10 kilometers would be directly blasted with hydrogen bombs of different yields, and larger remnants would be manipulated by other remnants to collide with them, making them smaller, and then still blasted with hydrogen bombs.
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