The Vast Heavenly Torrent

Chapter 110 The Vast Heavenly Torrent

After leaving the star system where human civilization is located, Lin Zimo did not immediately enter the subspace traversal, but instead cruised in the sea of ​​stars at faster-than-light speed.

He already knew about Karen's intention to surrender. The diplomatic envoy from the Boros Global Foundation, now the leader of a revolution within the foundation, wanted to lead the entire foundation to surrender to him and atone for the attacks the foundation had launched against him. Lin Ziming had given him this opportunity.

Lin Zimo assigned the task of punishing the civilizations that had attacked him to Karen, including the galactic overlord and his vassal civilizations who participated in the siege of him, as well as the pirate alliance that took advantage of his misfortune in the shadows of space.

Now that he had entrusted these matters to Karen, Lin Ziming no longer paid much attention to the conflicts within this galaxy. If Karen could truly complete his mission, then they would meet again one day. If Karen failed, it would only prove that the alien civilization had no value for survival, and destruction would still come upon them as promised.

Now, Lin Ziming is heading to the colony of the Humboldt Consortium.

This civilization, which dominates the galaxy cluster, attempted to bind and study him using extinction-level weapons like black hole warships, but in the end, it is only this authoritarian and reckless civilization that will suffer the bitter consequences of failure.

Lin Ziming has destroyed the core territory of the Homborian Covenant, leaving behind only some uncolonized, desolate star systems and weak vassal civilizations. However, their colony domains still exist, scattered in every corner of the star cluster, like a venomous snake with its head severed, its remaining body still twitching helplessly, trying to launch a counterattack.

What Lin Ziming wanted to do was to burn this mutilated body to ashes, so that the name of the Humboldt Convention would become history.

The star map that Karen provided when they first met detailed the distribution of civilizations involved in the Foundation's trade territories, which naturally included the Humboldt Consortium.

After flying at faster-than-light speed for a period of time, Lin Zimo entered subspace travel. No longer needing to worry about burning through the curtain, he could make full use of the chaotic nature of subspace to reach his destination at the fastest speed.

The reason why civilizations between galaxies are difficult to expand is that even in a state of faster-than-light travel, it would take a very long time to cross two galaxies, and the limit that transportation networks can extend is naturally the boundary of civilization development.

Time and space in the subspace lost their meaning, and the chaotic currents became submissive before them, like subjects making way for a king who had arrived.

Lin Ziming's dragon-skeletal body traversed this chaotic realm, with black and red flames burning around him, incinerating all the numerous subspace entities he encountered along the way.

When he emerged from the subspace and re-entered the real universe, the sight before him made him pause slightly.

This was a star field he had never been to before, where star systems were more densely distributed and interconnected through a complex gravitational network. Often, dozens or even hundreds of stars would appear together to form a single star system.

According to the markings on the star map, this is one of the colony star systems of the Homborian Covenant, but what Lin Zimo sees at this moment is a star system that is being invaded by foreign enemies.

Lin Ziming's psionic energy instantly covered the entire star field. He saw countless warships fighting in the starry sky, saw the flames of war burning on the colonized planets, and saw the defensive fortifications that originally belonged to the Humboldt Alliance being destroyed one by one.

The military fortress, which should have been heavily guarded, has now been blown into metal debris floating in space. The shield generator has been completely torn apart, and the fortress is covered with gruesome penetrating wounds. The defenders inside fought desperately, but nearly all of them were wiped out.

Outside the hyperspace corridor, molten metal clouds left behind by exploding warships drifted aimlessly in the cold space, expanding and cooling. The deep space monitoring station, which should have been operating day and night, had long lost all signals, leaving only an outer shell rotating in the starry sky.

The planet marked as habitable is now engulfed in war. Cities on the planet's surface are ablaze with flames. The defenders of the alliance are launching a counterattack from their fortresses. The atmosphere is torn apart by the shockwaves of the explosions, and large amounts of gas escape from gravity and magnetic fields into space. The entire planet's ecosystem is gradually collapsing.

The invaders resembled a civilization composed of aquatic species, and their fleet appeared to be designed entirely according to the aesthetics and survival logic of aquatic species, resembling various bizarre fish.

Lin Ziming's attention was drawn to a particularly enormous ship in their fleet. The ship hovered above a colony planet, its shape resembling a giant octopus flying in space. Countless tentacle-like structures extended from the hull, slowly wriggling in the starry sky. It neither sent troops down to land nor carried out an orbital strike.

The ship's metal armor had a strange silver-blue sheen, and its surface was covered with fine patterns, like the scales of some aquatic creature. The main body was round and full, like the head of an octopus, and the tentacle-like structures resembled its weapon system.

Lin Ziming saw that the giant ship was extending several tentacle-like gun mounts from its front end, which intertwined to form a huge cannon barrel, pouring a massive amount of liquid water into the colony planet below.

That planet was originally a rocky planet, its surface covered with towering mountains and deep canyons. It was a habitable colony for the main race of the Homborian Consortium, just like their lost home planet.

At this very moment, under the influx of liquid water falling from the sky, the entire planet is changing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A massive amount of liquid water cascaded down from space like a waterfall, crashing onto the planet's surface and creating a cloud of water mist and massive earthquakes.

The surging water rushed down the mountain gullies, flooding the canyons and filling the basins. The once towering peaks were gradually swallowed by the rising water, with only a few mountain tips showing, like lonely reefs in a vast ocean. Then, under the erosion of the increasing water flow, they gradually collapsed, rocks shattered, and soil was washed into mud.

The entire surface of the planet is being reshaped into a vast ocean. The buildings on the planet, the colonial cities and fortifications that the Humboldt Consortium meticulously planned and built, are as fragile as sandcastles swept away by the rising tide in the face of the raging flood. All the towering buildings are submerged, and countless lives struggle and cry out in this catastrophe, eventually sinking to the bottom of the water.

Lin Ziming could feel the fear and despair of those lives. Their souls emitted strong fluctuations at the moment of death, and then were swallowed up by the liquid water falling from the sky.

However, destruction was not the end. Lin Ziming noticed that while the warship was dumping liquid water, it was also carrying some kind of gas, which was stabilizing the planet's climate, maintaining this ocean environment, and forming a new atmosphere after the entire planet was submerged.

Rather than calling it destruction, it is more accurate to describe it as a large-scale environmental modification device, but in terms of its effects, it can undoubtedly be called a planet-destroying weapon.

It doesn't want to completely destroy the planet, but rather to reshape it, transforming a rocky planet originally suitable for terrestrial life into an ocean paradise suitable for aquatic life.

This transformation was so thorough and almost irreversible that all life originally living on this planet was inevitably wiped out in the catastrophe, making room for the later inhabitants.

Compared to the absolute end brought about by "death by zero," this kind of planet-destroying weapon is more of a consideration for a civilization's outward expansion, and it is unwilling to destroy potentially habitable planets indiscriminately.

Lin Ziming watched this scene quietly, without immediately intervening in the war. He hovered at the edge of the galaxy, like an observer, watching the development of the battle.

He saw the Homborian Alliance fleet in retreat, having lost command of its core territory. These garrison fleets scattered across the colonies were fighting like headless flies, unable to form an effective resistance against a systematic invasion.

This was an unequal war, which likely originated from Lin Ziming's destruction of the Covenant, giving the dominant civilizations from other star clusters an opportunity to exploit.

Lin Ziming withdrew his gaze. His target was the Hamborya Consortium, not this suddenly appearing aquatic species civilization. As long as they didn't block his way, he wouldn't bother with them.

However, the giant ship that had completed the reshaping of the colony seemed to have noticed his presence, seeing his keel-like figure streak across the starry sky like an ordinary shooting star.