Chapter 614 - 372: The Moon’s Second City: Jade Rabbit City
Chapter 614: Chapter 372: The Moon’s Second City: Jade Rabbit City
After that, he killed every Saint Tier he came across. To be honest, he didn’t really think much of the Saint Tier anymore. If it weren’t for the safety of Earth, he wouldn’t even bother.
Thanks to Li Xiang’s killing spree, many Saint Tier Exotic Beasts went into hiding and no longer dared to attack human Underground Cities. The pressure on the major Underground Cities across the globe was drastically reduced. Though dangers still lurked everywhere, they were no longer on the constant brink of collapse, their populations facing total annihilation.
But the greatest threat, in the end, was still those few deep within the earth.
Li Xiang didn’t waste too much time on these small fries. They were countless, impossible to kill them all. He collected enough Achievement Points and upgraded his speed again. After spending over ten billion Achievement Points, his Extreme Speed had increased to 600 kilometers per second, about two-thousandths the speed of light.
Having ascended a major Realm, the one hundred grains of thousand-ton Star Sand he had previously refined now felt too light. He combined these hundred grains into ten grains of ten-thousand-ton Star Sand. Then, he went into space, found a Meteorite Belt, and spent over ten days refining a thousand more grains of ten-thousand-ton Star Sand.
Each grain was the size of a soybean, perfectly round and spinning smoothly. They came in different colors—red, orange, yellow, green, Qing, blue, purple... exhibiting over ten different metallic lusters. As they orbited around him at Extreme Speed, they were truly a dazzling, brilliant stream of light.
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On Earth, the population for Jade Rabbit City was being recruited and vetted. Meanwhile, on the Moon, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui had arrived at Jade Rabbit City together to jointly oversee the construction of this new lunar city.
The City Lord of Jade Rabbit City was Lei Xiaohui, while Zhao Xueqing was the City Lord of Guanghan City.
Originally, Lei Xiaohui was supposed to oversee the work by herself, but Zhao Xueqing, fearing it would be too demanding for her alone, had come to help out.
In any case, the two cities were not far apart. Whether by flying under her own power, piloting a Profound Bird-3 Fighter, or taking the Underground Maglev Train, one could travel between them quickly.
In the future, these two cities would certainly have to watch over and support one another.
Sisters working in concert can slice through metal. With Zhao Xueqing’s emotional intelligence, no matter how busy she was, she would always make time to come and help.
Besides the subway station, there were also the Tianhe Airport (a docking port for Aerospace Carriers), large Land-Based and Space-Based radar stations, a lunar version of the Beidou Navigation system, the Thousand Sails Constellation, the Thousand-armed Guanyin, and more.
The "Thousand Sails Constellation" was a massive low-orbit satellite internet constellation, an enhanced version of the Starlink network.
The "Thousand-armed Guanyin" was an extended network of "hands" and "eyes" for Jiang Cai’Er’s Moon AI Clone, spread across the Moon and the surrounding space. The network was incredibly dense, with a Beacon, camera, or other signal-monitoring device placed roughly every hundred kilometers.
Only with these "hands" and "eyes" could Jiang Cai’Er maximize her unique advantages.
As the Master of the Moon, Li Xiang could protect the Moon and its airspace up to an altitude of 300 kilometers. From now on, this planet was his domain, so naturally, it had to be armed to the teeth.
Additionally, there was a circumlunar Space Station serving as an outpost and the first line of defense, orbiting at an altitude of 200 kilometers. This Space Station was actually an Aerospace Carrier as well—the Cloud Whale No. 2, an upgraded version of the original Cloud Whale.
Since research had begun on converting the skeletons of Divine Tier Exotic Beasts into massive Aerospace Carriers, this version of the Cloud Whale was now relegated to use as a "transport," "Space Station," or "training vessel."
In terms of armament, there were three main types: high-yield missiles, laser defense weapons, and High-Energy Ion Cannons.
Missiles were a given, as they were a traditional strength of Country C.
Laser Weapons had existed before, but after the darkness descended, the enveloping black fog caused significant interference, rendering them almost useless. Now, however, the black fog on the Moon’s surface had been pushed back beyond three hundred kilometers, allowing for the deployment of numerous "Silent Hunter-35" and "Spirit Shield-20" laser defense systems.
Of these two laser defense systems, one was low-power, ranging from 300 kilowatts to 5,000 kilowatts. It was suitable for killing creatures below Tier Eight and could adjust its power output for different targets to conserve energy for sustained combat. The other was high-power and adjustable, ranging from 5,000 kilowatts to 3 trillion watts (3 terawatts). It was suitable for killing creatures from Tier Eight to Tier Eighteen, and could even effectively wound or kill beings Above Saint Tier.
Meanwhile, the Land-Based High-Energy Particle Cannon could kill Saint Tier beings.
The main advantage of these weapons over traditional artillery shells and missiles was their speed. Whether it was a laser or a high-energy particle beam, the projectile velocity was not much slower than the speed of light. A high-energy particle beam might only travel at 200,000 kilometers per second, which is considerably slower than light, but not even a Divine King Realm Exotic Beast could reach such speeds.
And in space, a laser travels at the actual speed of light. Once these high-tech weapons achieved a lock, escape was virtually impossible within the fog-free zone below a 300-kilometer altitude.
The robotic dogs had also been upgraded, becoming eight-legged, all-terrain "mecha-spiders."