Chapter 324: Chapter 323 War… Begins!

At that time, The Kunlun Mountain had already fallen into the most chaotic period, with all kinds of internal electromagnetic waves crossing and propagating, one computing center after another was being conquered. For humans, who had fully realized informatization, it was no less than a disaster!

After the incubation period, these Digital Life forms began to propagate through electromagnetic waves at a rate that was definitely faster than humans shouting. Many people didn’t even know what had happened, only to find their communication devices completely paralyzed… As a result, an hour later, they received the announcement “Disconnect the network, defend against the Digital virus” from the loudspeakers.

There were also people in the living areas who turned on their mobile phones, only to find their screens filled with chaotic numbers, unable to send any messages at all!

Inside The Kunlun Mountain, a large-scale power blackout began, as people tried to kill these Digital Life forms by cutting off the electricity.

But, how easy could it be to completely cut off the power?

As long as a single mobile phone was left on, not cut off from power, these digital organisms could rise from the dust again!

Moreover, the information that had been destroyed was difficult to recover in a short time. The only option was to restore the system from scratch, which added to the difficulty of handling the situation.

In this way, except for some computers that were completely isolated from the outside world and had no wireless functions, nearly all electronic devices with any wireless signal reception capabilities were conquered within an hour!

This powerful Digital Life form even proliferated to the surrounding Guardian Fleet…

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“Damn it, figure out first… whether the virus was sent from The Kunlun Mountain or from the opponent’s spaceship. How did it suddenly get infected?”

Captain Li Junkang of the Destroyer Yingsun 1 furrowed his brows. An hour ago, the communication with the Mother Ship and the entire fleet had been completely cut off, and their spaceship suddenly became paralyzed.

All the military personnel had no idea what these damn viruses were. It felt like being frogs in a gradually heating pot, about to be boiled alive.

Anxious, really anxious, he kept urging the technicians to repair the relevant electronic equipment.

Fortunately, because the ship’s body was not as large as The Kunlun Mountain, they could successfully transmit information by shouting through the loudspeakers.

“No go, Captain Li, it’s no use, we don’t understand the working principle of this virus for the moment. We only know it can propagate through electromagnetic waves.”

“Unless we restore the systems for all devices at the same time… it will take dozens of hours… and some complex software beyond our capabilities to restore!”

Captain Li Junkang glared at the technicians with angry eyebrows, almost cursing out loud, “What about our firewall, our passwords? I’m the only one who knows this password, a full 32 bits. How did it suddenly get hacked? Weren’t we using an unbreakable encryption method?!”

“Captain… No firewall is perfect.”

“What about the backup electronic system then?!”

This technician hastily said, “We absolutely cannot start the backup system now, otherwise it will get infected too… We must wait until the viruses are completely cleared.”

Just now, the entire spaceship had been completely powered down in an attempt to eradicate these Digital Life forms, but it was unknown from where, or perhaps some Power Armor was hiding them, and they proliferated en masse again.

Then power was cut off once more, still failing to completely eradicate them.

It was a joke, even the team of experts in The Kunlun Mountain had no clue on what to do, let alone the soldiers here to solve the problem easily.

Luckily, there were still a small number of computers, including some life support equipment, that could operate normally, otherwise this group of soldiers might suffocate in space.

“Check again to see if there are any corners we’ve left behind.”

At this moment, a signalman in the next room shouted, “Captain! We’re receiving a signal from The Kunlun Mountain!”

“What signal?” Li Junkang was overjoyed, “Are all communication devices repaired?”

“No, it’s light signals from the surface of The Kunlun Mountain…” This signalman was observing their Mother Ship with an astronomical telescope, and the signal lights were flashing in a regular pattern.

This ancient form of communication language came together to form one word — Attack!

Attack!

Attack!!

“The war has started!”

Li Junkang took a deep breath. The most important thing now was to stay calm; if he, the Commander, succumbed to panic and tension, then all the soldiers would become anxious and frightened.

This battle wasn’t unwinnable… The enemy’s spaceship would need some time to catch up.

They had to use this time to make emergency repairs!

The smaller the spaceship, the simpler it was to make emergency repairs; the larger it was, the more difficult it would be to fix.

Recovery was easiest for the Escort Ships, slightly slower for the Destroyers.

“But the Kunlun Mountain won’t be able to regain combat capability in a short time… Damn it!”

“I don’t know to what extent we can repair our spaceship… We must regain at least some combat capability before they arrive, we must!”

Without the central computer’s calculations and the assistance of a large number of electronic devices, they couldn’t even figure out where the enemy’s spaceship was.

The Universe was just too vast; even if they were only twenty million kilometers apart, from the perspective of the human eye, it was smaller than a speck of dust.

Manual operations alone were absolutely incapable of hitting anything!

As time ticked away second by second, every technician was sweating bullets. But Li Junkang stopped urging them and instead observed the light communication of the twenty-plus Escort Ships around him, using this primitive form of communication to coordinate the spaceships.

“Captain!”

A soldier using binoculars saw a large swarm of bee-like objects densely approaching.

It was the enemy’s vanguard of unmanned drones!

Li Junkang’s eyes bulged, “Speed up, speed up our spaceship… The Mother Ship has already given instructions, our first priority is to protect ourselves. Deploy the unmanned drone formation for a counterattack!”

“No can do, Captain, our communications haven’t been repaired yet, and without the central supercomputer to command them, the drones won’t be very effective.”

“The Fusion Engine is also paralyzed! We’re working on repairs.”

“…Start up the backup chemical engines, accelerate as much as possible!”

Li Junkang knew in his heart, if they were caught by the enemy’s drones, his half-paralyzed spaceship would soon be completely destroyed.

One should not underestimate the combat power of these small unmanned drones. Even though they only carried some basic lasers and kinetic weapons, in close combat, the multitude of ants could kill an elephant, and a Destroyer was definitely no match for a large group of drones.

But the Destroyer’s advantage lay in–that its weapons and equipment were more diversified and its functions more comprehensive.

He observed with an astronomical telescope for a moment and pointed in one direction, his expression turning fierce, “Prepare the Electromagnetic Pulse nuclear bomb, and give me a fierce one!”

Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons, a new type of nuclear weapon characterized by enhanced electromagnetic pulse effects, primarily aim to destroy electronic instruments and disrupt battlefield communications. Since humans no longer had electromagnetic communications, it was better to just fire an Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb to level the playing field… No one gets to communicate.

The same anxiety was present among all the Escort Ship Captains. Even with a plethora of weapons at their disposal, in this state of equipment paralysis, there were not many options they could utilize.

All the Escort Ships, as if they had agreed upon it beforehand, tried to manually control their craft in order to preserve their own vessels while attempting to protect The Kunlun Mountain.

This was the Mother Ship of eight million humans. If The Kunlun Mountain were lost, everyone would die utterly, with no chance of survival!

What could these few soldiers do, even if they managed to escape? Could they really navigate back through the Universe?

Impossible!

Without the Mother Ship, human beings faced annihilation.

So, they must hold on, they must!

In that instant, a nuclear fireball erupted abruptly, ten thousand kilometers away from The Kunlun Mountain. The explosion of this Electromagnetic Pulse nuclear bomb also marked the opening of humanity’s first interstellar war!

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