Rebirth of the Super Battleship

Chapter 469: Death Penalty and the Asia

What happens when living humanoid beings are brought directly into space without protection is a very interesting matter. To be honest, Xiao Yu was not very sure about this either. He had once established highly precise models and calculated what would happen if this were done, but calculations are always calculations and cannot represent reality.

Now, Xiao Yu finally had the opportunity to see what would happen when humanoid beings reached the cold of space without protection.

As everyone knows, there is no atmospheric pressure in space, while humanoid beings are suited to a certain level of atmospheric pressure. Just as fish living ten thousand meters under the sea will burst open when brought to the surface, humanoid beings entering space should, unable to withstand the immense internal pressure, become like bombs and burst with a bang.

This calculation seemed very reasonable, but it overlooked another important factor, namely temperature. The temperature in space is only a few Kelvins. At such low temperatures, the human body would be directly frozen, with no chance to burst.

The final observations confirmed Xiao Yu’s conjecture. He saw that these more than twenty thousand humanoid beings, thrown directly into space, lost all movement the instant they reached it. They were frozen, like stones. Occasionally, under the influence of airflow, two humanoid beings would collide, and after the collision something truly horrifying would occur.

At this moment, these bodies had already become things akin to stone. So after a single impact, one person’s arm might fall off, while for another it might be a leg, or the head.

At extremely low temperatures, the toughness of the biological body had completely vanished.

This, however, was not the most terrifying situation. The most terrifying phenomenon occurred when the spacecraft transporting them moved away and starlight shone directly upon them.

There is no air in space, and there is only one factor changing temperature here, namely whether or not starlight shines upon you. With starlight, the temperature can rise above zero in a short time, even up to several hundred degrees Celsius. Without starlight, the temperature can rapidly drop to more than two hundred degrees below zero. These two states can switch within a very short time. Perhaps one moment it is unbearably hot, and the next, because something blocks the sunlight, it drops to extreme cold.

Previously, because the spacecraft blocked the sunlight, these humanoid beings were directly frozen. But now the spacecraft had moved away, and the star’s light, bearing a great quantity of heat, shone directly upon them.Thus, the bodies that had originally been frozen began to warm rapidly. Rising temperature means the expansion of gases, but because the heating was uneven, these bodies did not burst open directly due to rapidly expanding gases. Instead, small bubbles appeared on the surface of their bodies, gurgling, like boiling water at a rolling boil.

From these bubbles, sublimated gases and water turned to steam boiled out, like jets of fountains. At this moment, these frozen bodies became little comets.

In stark contrast was the side of these bodies facing away from the star. Without the illumination of starlight, that side remained extremely cold. So that side still roughly preserved the appearance these beings had before death.

But this could not last. Because of the recoil brought about by the sublimated gases and evaporated steam going out, these bodies could not maintain a fixed posture here. They kept tumbling. Tumbling meant that every part of their bodies would be exposed to the star’s light, like a roast duck hung in an oven, continuously rotating.

Roast duck sheds fat while roasting. Under the star’s baking, these bodies would give off gases and water vapor.

Xiao Yu let out a slight sigh, losing interest in continuing to watch these poor wretches. He knew very well that after the gases and water vapor within them had completely evaporated under the star’s heat, they would become no different from cold stones. Without external forces, they would drift here for all eternity like ghosts in the dark universe.

Luka Two’s handling was highly effective. This iron-blooded method successfully intimidated some within intelligent being society who harbored ill intentions, and under Luka Two’s deliberate guidance, used this opportunity to trigger a vast wave of discussion throughout society.

Xiao Yu understood Luka Two’s plan very clearly. Xiao Yu knew that Luka Two hoped to use this incident to elevate the wisdom of the intelligent beings. Wisdom is not IQ. Wisdom is a broader and more comprehensive term.

Although the elevation of wisdom means an enhancement of personal presence, and once personal presence is enhanced there will be greater resistance toward a transcendent leader like Xiao Yu, he still did not intend to stop it and even planned to quietly fan the flames from the shadows.

Xiao Yu had his own plan. He wanted to verify whether, with himself as the absolute leader yet treating the intelligent beings kindly, a stable social structure could be formed, and whether the intelligent beings would rebel. This was very important to Xiao Yu. If rebellion by the intelligent beings could not be prevented, then now, while he still had absolute control, Xiao Yu would cold-bloodedly eliminate all intelligent beings.

At this moment Xiao Yu was an observer, hidden behind the scenes, quietly watching the various changes in the intelligent being’s society, making his decisions on that basis.

Under Luka Two’s leadership, the relocation proceeded on a large scale. Nearly ten billion citizens of the Divine Ark Civilization without criminal or adverse records were selected and moved to live in the new Home ship. Luka Two said that their indifference to the rumors proved their rationality and that they possessed higher wisdom. They naturally deserved these better benefits.

The first Continent-Class Home ship had left Dock Two several months earlier and was berthed in geosynchronous orbit. At this moment, what was under construction in Dock Two was the second Continent-Class Home ship.

Putting the first Continent-Class Home ship into service left nine old-model Home ships vacant. Xiao Yu therefore dismantled these nine ships without hesitation, recycled their various materials, and put them into the second Continent-Class ship.

The construction of Home ships was only one aspect of the grand construction era. In Dock One, the Asia was still being built in full swing.

The Asia had a much higher technological content, and Xiao Yu did not allow intelligent beings to have a hand in it. Under such circumstances, it took Xiao Yu a full thirty years to complete the construction of this Continent-Class ship.

Yes, after the first Continent-Class Home ship was completed, Xiao Yu’s first Continent-Class combat ship was finally born. At this moment, it had already sailed out of Dock One and was berthed in front of the China. The China, which had once seemed incomparably huge, now looked like a pitiful little dwarf compared with the Asia.

In parallel with the difference in size was the difference in combat power. The Asia adopted an irregular exterior design, and its surface was densely arrayed with various combat weapons. Its firepower was extremely formidable. Setting aside the six high-power space weapons mounted on it, to speak only of the negative matter cannons, the negative matter main cannon equipped on the Asia had already reached the Star System-Class level. In the past, Xiao Yu could only build such a cannon by relying on a planet.

Its internal energy reserves were sufficient to sustain travel at a speed of thirty-two times the speed of light for nearly three hundred years, while maintaining basic combat capability throughout the journey. In other words, the Asia was sufficient to support a massive war spanning ten thousand light-years. A complete gravity balancing system allowed it, despite its vast size, to execute many astonishingly rapid maneuvers. The newest multi-layer shield system, Modular Shield Technology, and the Four-Dimensional shield gave it unparalleled defensive power. After a single full recharge, even if it stood still and let the China, the United States, and the Russia, the three Nation-Class ships, attack at will with all weapons including space weapons, it would still take nearly five hours to break through its defense system.

In Xiao Yu’s war simulations, if he went all out, regardless of how the China responded or fled, regardless of what means the China used, the Asia could destroy the China in less than three hours.

This was the war fortress created by gathering all of Xiao Yu’s most advanced technologies and materials and consuming the most of his effort and time.

“It is time to move. The China should retire as well.” Filled with emotion, Xiao Yu piloted the China to slowly approach the Asia. After connecting with physical lines and then mustering at least one hundred thousand new-model ships to guard the link to ensure absolute safety, Xiao Yu passed through the data channel and, in the span of an instant, moved from the China into the Asia.

Feeling the broader field of view, the more ample computing power, and the more majestic body, Xiao Yu’s heart surged with heroic spirit.

“Next will be the Europe and the America, as well as various Nation-Class and Province-Class ships, and the construction tasks for Continent-Class Home ships. I have less than one hundred years remaining. In one hundred years, we set sail.”