Wandering Meteor-Chapter 170 - 169: Entropy Weapon

Constant Star Lu Chen had been paying close attention to the black sphere scientific conference.

He was also the first to receive the devastating news.

What Lu Chen didn’t expect was that there were actually two pieces of bad news.

The first was about the scientific team from Pirate Civilization, who, after bringing back the black sphere, were coerced and bribed by Earth Civilization to disclose the core technology of space energy, and to use their expertise to help Earth Civilization and Light Synthesis Civilization become a Tier 3 civilization, in exchange for the right to live on Earth.

At first, the scientific team from Pirate Civilization agreed to the deal.

However, in their actual actions, the scientific team from Pirate Civilization secretly developed a special weapon.

It turned out that under Pirate Civilization’s brainwashing education, every pirate, including scientists, was extremely loyal.

At the time, upon witnessing the destruction of Pirate Civilization by Constant Star Lu Chen, the scientific team was intent on seeking revenge.

They took the opportunity of helping Earth Civilization become a Tier 3 civilization to secretly gather materials and create a targeted weapon – the ozone bomb.

The weapon wasn’t very powerful in other aspects, but it was specifically designed to destroy the ozone layer. If launched into space, it could completely demolish Earth’s ozone layer, causing the disappearance of Earth’s natural protective barrier, and leaving the organisms on Earth without protection, thereby having a severe impact and consequences on civilization.

In fact, the scientific team from Pirate Civilization was well aware that they could not directly obliterate the Wandering Alliance with their own situation and strength. After conspiring, they decided on a very long-term plan for revenge.

They planned to destroy Earth’s ozone layer, plunging the entire planet into chaos. The original trend of entropy reduction would instantly turn to entropy increase, and to reverse this entropy increase, Earth Civilization would have to pay a great price to repair or rebuild the ozone layer.

This would invisibly increase the entropy chaos in the Wandering Star System. Although this entropy chaos wouldn’t directly annihilate the Wandering Star System, it would exacerbate the depletion of resources and disorder within the system, forcing the Wandering Star System to plunder more resources to reverse the entropy increase, and plundering means more wars.

Wars would gradually accelerate the demise of the Wandering Star System.

It can be said that this was an unusual weapon principle, a weapon model centered around the principle of entropy.

Fortunately, their plot did not succeed; otherwise, Earth Civilization would have been in an extreme environment for a very long time.

The pre-emption of Pirate Civilization’s scientific team’s plot by Earth Civilization was thanks to an Earth scientist responsible for receiving space energy technology who noticed that the scientific team from Pirate Civilization had secretly collected some strange materials. Upon further investigation, they captured them before the launch of the ozone bomb.

When Constant Star Lu Chen learned of the entire process, he directly had Earth Civilization eliminate all the scientists from Pirate Civilization.

He did not wish to leave some traitorous individuals on Earth to create chaos.

Fortunately, Earth Civilization had previously received most of the space energy technology data. Even without the assistance of Pirate Civilization’s scientific team, they could still thoroughly research space energy technology to become a Tier 3 civilization, only taking a bit more time.

Because Earth Civilization was not foolish. If Pirate Civilization had not handed over the true space energy technology, they would never pass the verification by Earth scientists, nor would they possibly get access to the materials necessary for weapon production. Therefore, in order not to raise suspicions from Earth Civilization, what Pirate Civilization’s scientific team handed over from the beginning to the end was the true space energy technology.

After all, for Pirate Civilization’s scientific team, the level of civilization that the Wandering Star System reaches is no longer important. Space energy technology is also no longer important to those few scientists. What matters is whether their entropy-based weapons could be successfully deployed. Using some unimportant things in exchange for opportunities and time to implement their plan was naturally a very cost-effective deal.

Unfortunately, despite all their precautions, Earth Civilization ultimately discerned their plan.

The second piece of bad news came from the black sphere left by the Entropy Beast.

While all the scientists at the Wandering Base were participating in the research conference regarding the black sphere, workers outside the isolation room discovered that the black sphere was undergoing some kind of mutation.

Suddenly, the equipment inside the isolation room issued a red alert, and after careful investigation by the staff, it was found that the temperature of the black sphere was rapidly rising—from the initial few tens of degrees to over three hundred degrees. Moreover, there was no sign of this trend stopping; instead, it was accelerating.

Immediately, the staff went to inform the scientists who were in the meeting.

By the time the scientists arrived outside the isolation room, the temperature of the black sphere had soared to over seven hundred degrees.

This rare anomaly left the assembled scientists somewhat baffled.

They couldn’t understand how, in the absence of a heating source, the black sphere could be heating up so quickly.

Initially, the scientists thought it was the sphere’s internal material intensifying the heat, but after inspection, this possibility was ruled out.

Therefore, the scientists could only turn their attention to external environmental heating, but both the air in the isolation room and the outside air were at normal temperatures. Where then was the sudden increase in temperature of the black sphere coming from?

Just as the scientists at the Wandering Base were at a loss for an explanation,

important news came from the Geological Survey Institute on Earth: their real-time observations indicated that the temperature of Earth’s Core was dropping rapidly.

Originally, the temperature of Earth’s Core was 6,835 degrees.

According to calculations by geologists, the temperature of Earth’s Core should gradually increase, eventually breaking through 7,000 degrees after more than five thousand years.

However, recently the temperature of Earth’s Core has started to decrease anomalously, and not just by a little. It has been declining at a steady rate. In just a day or two, the core temperature of Earth has dropped by nearly seven hundred degrees, causing the atmospheric temperature to decrease by about ten degrees!

Should Earth’s Core temperature fall below 3,000 degrees, it would have unpredictable effects on Earth’s ecology. The temperature on the surface might well drop below zero degrees, the oceans could start to freeze slowly due to the reduction of geothermal heat, and ultimately, all material on Earth’s surface would turn into ice sculptures.

Keep in mind that even previously, when Earth initiated the Wandering Plan, and there was no sunlight, the deep ocean was at least still liquid. No one ever imagined that the cooling of the core could be more terrifying than the loss of the Sun’s light!

When the scientists at the Wandering Base learned of this, although they found it hard to believe, they had to accept the reality.

The temperature rise of the black sphere must be coming from the Earth’s Core. Although the principle was still unclear and how the black sphere could forcibly extract geothermal heat was uncertain, the scientists speculated that it must be related to the Entropy Beast and Entropy Civilization.

The Entropy Beast was originally created to eliminate targets of entropy reduction, and as the creators, the Entropy Civilization must have also considered the possibility of the Entropy Beast being killed. Thus, the Entropy Civilization might have turned the core of the deceased Entropy Beast into a special weapon to deliver a second blow to the targets of entropy reduction, which was not beyond the realm of possibility.

Of course, the scientists had also suspected that the Pirate Civilization might have played a trick.

But realizing that the technology of the Pirate Civilization would not at all be capable of this feat, and moreover, if it was indeed possible, they would not have been so easily exterminated.

So, there was only one truth left: this was a second-wave entropy weapon set by the Entropy Civilization.

Once the civilization that eliminated the Entropy Beast greedily sought to study unified forces, they would unknowingly be absorbed by the Black Entropy Ball, which would draw the planetary temperature, ultimately leading to the cooling of the planet, and the self-destruction of the target of entropy reduction.