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Chapter 701 Plasma Worm Defense Mechanisms
When the countdown reached the fifth second, the two plasma worms on the main screen suddenly lit up from head to tail.
That wasn't the blue light from a charged attack.
Beneath their dark purple carapace, countless translucent spray sacs, each the size of a sesame seed, swelled up simultaneously, densely covering their heads, sides, and backs, like countless cold, gleaming eyes opening.
In the next instant, countless plasma beams shot out from the jet pods, sweeping across the airspace from which the two missiles were flying.
Blue and white light instantly filled the track image.
It wasn't a single beam, nor ten beams, but a whole fan-shaped fire net, as if someone had trapped a rain of pear blossom needles in space, completely blocking the missile's terminal penetration route.
Inside the Tian Shu Command Center, the expressions of several staff officers changed drastically.
"The target possesses short-range missile defense capabilities!"
"The coverage area is too large, leaving insufficient space for missile evasion!"
The two hypersonic interceptor missiles have entered the final impact window and are extremely close to the target. The missile's onboard AI immediately initiates terminal evasion.
With continuous fine-tuning of the vector nozzle, the projectile traces a subtle arc in space, attempting to slip through the beam gaps.
But that plasma fire net was too dense.
The first missile had just completed its second deflection when its outer shell was simultaneously struck by three blue and white beams of light.
The high temperature instantly burned through the insulation layer, forcing the warhead to detonate prematurely.
On the other side, the second missile also crashed into the beam's coverage area. The missile body shuddered violently in the blinding blue light and then turned into a ball of expanding white fire.
In a vacuum, there is not enough medium to transmit the shock wave, so the explosion does not create the kind of shock wave that tears everything apart like in the atmosphere. Only high-speed debris, thermal radiation, and high-energy particle streams continue to spread outward.
Because there is no air, the fireball is an ionized gas and appears as a flash, unlike in the atmosphere where a fireball can last for several seconds.
Based on distance, these kills can still affect plasmaworms.
But the next second, a scene that made everyone's hearts sink even deeper appeared.
When the heat flow hit the outer layer of the plasma worm, a semi-transparent ripple suddenly appeared on the surface of its enormous fleshy body.
The ripples spread out in an arc, like an invisible water curtain rising from the carapace, blocking all the aftershocks of the explosion.
On the screen, the first plasma bug only swayed slightly, and dark red arcs of electricity flashed a few times in the gaps of its carapace before quickly stabilizing.
The same applies to the other plasma worm.
The light from the missile explosion engulfed half of its body, only to be blocked by the protective shield.
Even after the flames subsided, it remained suspended on the track, with its front-end jetting organs still in the contracted state immediately after firing.
The command center fell silent.
Close-in missile defense, energy shields, orbital attacks...
Plasma worms are not simply living artillery emplacements, but a complete space strategic force!
A staff officer stared at the data and said incredulously:
"The two interceptor missiles failed to cause effective damage; the target remains intact."
Han Niba's heart sank upon seeing this, but he did not dwell on it any longer.
His gaze went straight to the central screen.
There, two plumes of bright blue plasma falling from orbit are rapidly approaching the atmosphere of Kona satellite, with their impact point being the core area of the Great Xia landing site!
"Don't worry about the orbital target for now," he said in a deep voice.
"Those two attacks have already landed; let's hold the position first."
"yes!"
"adjutant."
"arrive!"
"Notify Lin Mo, the plasma worm attack is about to reach the core area of the landing site," Han Niba continued.
"He and the two elven elders immediately retreated inside the portal to prevent a second failed interception."
The adjutant immediately turned around and made arrangements:
"clear!"
The command was relayed back to the Kona position via a quantum relay.
In the core area of the landing site, Lin Mo had returned to the Pangu mecha and was standing next to the astral teleportation array.
The portal had now been stabilized, and in order to counter the burrowing dragon, he and the two elven elders remained to defend it.
Vehicle-mounted missiles are continuously passing through the blue portal.
The electronic voice of the Pangu mecha rang in his ears.
[Master, a message has arrived from headquarters.]
[Enemy orbital plasma attack is imminent.]
Please prepare to evacuate with the two elven elders.
Lin Mo nodded, indicating that he understood, and immediately said to the two elves:
"Elders, an attack is imminent. For our safety, let's enter the portal and stand guard inside."
The earth-elemental elder nodded; it was far too unsafe to be here.
Explosions and fires were everywhere.
Bone spears and weapons thrown by the throwing demons, as well as fireballs spewed by the fire-breathing beasts, fell from time to time, making the Great Xia's position still somewhat dangerous.
The wood-elemental elder next to me had just finished setting up the protective layer above the teleportation portal.
Dense vines covered the area above the portal, preventing the magic circle from being affected by occasional attacks from demons.
Before entering the portal, he seemed to sense something and turned to look at the sky.
Above Kona's dark and thin atmosphere, two blue lights are already visible to the naked eye, like two miniature suns falling from the sky.
.......
Inside the Tian Shu Command Center, the plasma cluster has already entered the atmosphere.
Kona's atmosphere is thin, but it is not entirely without resistance.
The first mass of plasma, one kilometer in diameter, was violently stripped away during its high-speed descent. The outer blue light was continuously torn apart by atmospheric friction and radiative cooling, and its volume shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The second group was slightly smaller, but it was also consuming energy.
On the screen, the data was refreshing rapidly.
[Target volume decay: 64%.]
[Target volume decay: 79%]
[Target volume decay: 88%]
[Target 2: Volume decay: 91%]
A few seconds later, the first mass of plasma, which was originally nearly one kilometer in diameter, was reduced to only about 120 meters.
The second group shrank to seventy or eighty meters.
But this scale is still terrifying.
Even if they are 90% damaged, as long as they explode in the core area of the landing site, they will be enough to destroy the teleportation array, destroy a large number of unmanned equipment, and even cut off the communication that has just been restored.
Keep in mind that the portal was opened in the direction of the Kona satellite, and the magic circle was exposed to the demons' attack.
"Trajectory stable!"
"The landing point did not deviate!"
"First interception window: 1 minute and 26 seconds!"
The staff quickly came up with a solution:
"It is recommended that multiple anti-aircraft missiles be fired simultaneously, using proximity fuses to allow them to spread and destroy the enemy in advance over the airspace above the position."
Another staff officer followed up:
"The swarm of high-altitude drones has entered above the impact zone!"
"If the missiles fail to completely destroy the target, the drone swarm can form a second line of defense."
Han Niba did not hesitate for even a second.
"Execute immediately."
At the Kona satellite landing site, several air defense systems that had just arrived through the teleportation portal simultaneously deployed.
The top cover of the mobile launcher pops open, revealing the missile body from the launch tube, and the tail nozzle begins to preheat...