Chapter 1891: Pressure Cooker

“Even if Ji Xuan can disrupt the Red Star’s internal structure and cause its energy to fall into chaos, it might not necessarily result in a ‘shortbread’ structure that is thin and brittle.”

In the tent, Su Zhiwei still poured cold water on the group. “The greater possibility is that while the Red Star falls into energy chaos, it won’t disintegrate on its own, but will continue to crash into Earth in an unstable state.”

“I agree with Dr. Su’s point. Relying on this alone to destroy the Red Star is far from enough.” Lu Xun nodded in agreement.

“Then we’ll add more fuel to the fire.”

Yang Xiao, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke.

“What do you mean?”

“The mass distribution has been altered, and the internal energy is in chaos. In this situation, the violent potential energy inside will definitely try to find a way to vent… for example, through the ground cracking and energy surging.”

“If we can find a way to forcibly lock in this potential energy that is about to be vented, preventing it from dissipating and instead keeping it trapped inside the Red Star, we can continuously cause structural damage to it.”

“Similar to suffering internal injuries from holding back one’s breath in martial arts novels?” Ji Xuan immediately found an appropriate analogy. “After an enemy takes a palm strike, if the internal force can’t be dispersed, it ends up rupturing their other internal organs, eventually leading to death by internal bleeding!”

“……That’s the idea.”

“How do we do it specifically?”

“There are only so many forms of energy.” Yang Xiao pondered for a moment before speaking. “I can disrupt the Red Star’s electromagnetic field to keep its internal resistance heat rising. As long as the heat on the outer layer is higher than the chaotic heat inside, this chaotic energy won’t leak out, but will be forcibly locked inside by the barrier of the temperature difference.”

“I can help too,” Qi Muyun added. “My chaotic airflow can change the path of heat conduction, swirling the heat that was meant to be released back into the depths of the ground… With Yang Xiao and me working together, plus Old Wu’s reinforcement, we should be able to act like a pressure cooker, forcibly locking the chaotic energy inside the Red Star.”

“A pressure cooker… that’s a good analogy.” Wu Tongyuan nodded repeatedly.

“In this way, the chaotic energy cannot be released, and its internal structure should become even more brittle…”

“But Old Wu, can your mental strength hold up?” Lu Xun looked at Wu Tongyuan with concern. “Supporting the power of all three of them at once is too heavy a burden for you.”

“At a critical moment, even if I can’t hold up, I must,” Wu Tongyuan said solemnly.

“Since we’ve decided to clamp down on this pressure cooker that is the Red Star… even the slightest gap could lead to our total defeat.”

……

Wu Tongyuan’s mental strength was being consumed frantically.

Blood flowed continuously from his seven orifices, and the three Lingxu Numbers flashed wildly in the void… His eyes were already bloodshot, and he could barely see the situation in front of him.

“Old Wu!” Chu Changqing’s figure appeared behind him just in time, supporting him. At the same time, a pure surge of life force was transmitted into Wu Tongyuan’s body through his arm.

Wu Tongyuan’s life, which had been on the verge of collapse, was forcibly stabilized.

In the deep, pitch-black space, the Red Star burned like a sun. Under the dual blockade of electromagnetism and chaotic airflow, the chaotic energy tore frantically within it, and light and heat radiated into the universe through the electromagnetic storm and chaotic airflow.

“It’s suppressed!” Lu Xun’s eyes shone like stars. “Hurry!!”

Lu Xun and Su Zhiwei moved simultaneously.

Lu Xun grabbed at the void with both hands, as if grasping something, his veins bulging all over his body!

Brilliant starlight erupted from the depths of the universe, as if Lu Xun were roaring and gasping. At the same time, two strangely shaped meteors happened to fly in from two completely different directions, following specific, precisely calculated orbits, flying toward the two sides of the Red Star!

These two meteors were ones that Lu Xun had used his power to forcibly alter the orbits of days ago, guiding them here…

Using stars as pieces, he had calculated the celestial trajectories with centimeter-level precision. Not only had he predicted that the Red Star would appear at these coordinates at this exact moment, but he had also sent these two meteors here at the same time.

These two meteors didn’t crash directly into the Red Star, but crossed past it on the left and right. Gravity acted like two invisible giant hands, grabbing the sides of the Red Star and forcibly tearing it in different directions!!

The Red Star, which was already extremely unstable and whose internal structure had become “brittle,” began to crack from the center under these two gravitational hands…

Like a shortbread cookie being gently broken apart by someone.

At the same time,

Su Zhiwei slammed headlong into the surface of the cracking Red Star!!

……

“Very well.”

“Then the next question is, after turning the Red Star into a fireball inside an extremely unstable pressure cooker, how do we destroy it in one fell swoop?” In the tent, Ji Xuan threw out a new question.

“Naturally, by detonating it at the right moment.”

Lu Xun squinted at the shortbread cookie on the table that had already cracked down the middle, and said in a deep voice,

“I can manipulate celestial bodies to pry the Red Star open a bit at the right moment… Under normal circumstances, even if there were a hundred of me, I might not be able to do it. But if you succeed in turning it into a ‘shortbread cookie,’ then this might not be difficult.”

“But the problem is, if a gap appears in this fireball inside the pressure cooker, all the out-of-control energy will be released outward from this gap. This is our most dangerous moment, but… it’s also the best opportunity to ignite it.”

“As long as there is a single spark to ignite this bit of overflowing energy, it will immediately conduct to the deepest part of the Red Star, igniting all the other energy along with it.”

“And then…”

“Bang!”

Lu Xun raised his hand and tapped lightly, and the shortbread cookie instantly fell apart.

“And among us, the only one with the ability to ignite the chaotic energy is…”

Everyone’s gaze turned to Su Zhiwei simultaneously.

String theory.

String theory is the microscopic foundation of all matter and energy, like the key to destroying everything… and Su Zhiwei is the one holding that key.

“So this crazy battle plan ends with me finishing it off…” Su Zhiwei’s lips curled slightly. “Becoming the one who finally ignites the Red Star sounds pretty good.”

Even if no one said it, everyone knew that the moment the chaotic energy surged out from the gap, the person who finally ignited the Red Star would absolutely not survive… It was like using a lighter to ignite an out-of-control gas tank; the flames and shockwave from the explosion would inevitably hit the person holding the lighter first.

This was a suicidal option.

But Su Zhiwei felt no fear toward this… instead, she felt a sense of relief, as if she were letting go of everything.

“……Leave it to me.”