Chapter 664: Extra 15

[Near-Earth Orbit Matrix High-Energy Beam Focusing and Targeted Energy Projection System]
Zhou Yi suddenly felt a chill run down his spine and began frantically flipping through the project's engineering appendix.
The principle was to establish a massive satellite array in space, collecting solar radiation while its core insanely housed a miniature nuclear fusion facility!
Then, this potentially devastating explosive force was compressed into a beam and projected onto a designated location on the Earth's surface to provide "energy"?!
At first glance, this seemed like a perfect clean energy technology.
Creating unlimited energy in space and then, like delivering a package, instantly delivering it to any power-deficient location on Earth using beams.
“I just looked at the project proposal,” the assistant naively analyzed,
“If we follow this plan, we need to build massive receiving base stations on the ground to receive these beams of space energy falling from the sky, aiming to provide remote areas with instantaneous, massive amounts of clean energy…”
“Shut up! Are you stupid?!” Zhou Yi abruptly interrupted the assistant, cold sweat trickling down his forehead.
“Wearing the sacred cloak of ‘making all remote areas of the earth have electricity,’ and crowned with the revolutionary technology of ‘rapidly transmitting environmentally friendly energy’!
It’s all just a damn high-sounding rhetoric!”
As the helmsman standing at the pinnacle of human technological advancement, Zhou Yi saw through the hypocritical mask of “advanced energy” the instant he saw it, revealing the vicious intent hidden beneath!
Tearing apart the sacred packaging of this bullshit “energy transmission matrix,” its true nature was utterly chilling!
What if, instead of establishing any so-called "receiving base stations" on the ground, this beam of energy carrying terrifying power simply crashed down?
"This isn't some kind of energy transmission system...
This is clearly an attempt to forcibly create that legendary world-destroying weapon, the 'Staff of God,' right under the noses of the world!"
The Staff of God!
The moment those four words were uttered, even the surrounding air temperature seemed to drop several degrees.
This should only exist in the most desperate science fiction novels and apocalyptic movies, a forbidden fantasy that should never be released into reality!
The plan was indeed written in a grand and respectable manner, stating that it was "projecting energy to ground-based energy storage facilities."
But what if...
This beam of energy wasn't aimed at the energy storage facilities, but instead blasted towards a city, or a specific hostile force?!
Then this beam of energy, containing the violent power of nuclear fusion, would crash down, leaving nothing but ashes!
“In today’s world, even if you launch an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of destroying a continent…
no matter how fast it flies, the enemy can at least have an air defense system to warn you, or even launch interceptor missiles to engage in a counterattack.”
Zhou Yi muttered to himself, his voice trembling with barely suppressed fear.
“Whether it’s a fighter jet swarm or a drone swarm, at least in modern warfare there are traces to follow, giving people time to react.
But this thing…
How are you going to warn us?
It fires directly at the ground from that despairing depths of space!”
Even more terrifying, its attack was a beam of light!
That's the true pinnacle of physics—the speed of light!
Even if you predicted its attack a second before it was launched, you wouldn't have time to react!
Because the moment you see the light, the strike is already complete!
This is absolutely unavoidable and undefendable physical annihilation!
"This...this is practically divine punishment!"
The assistant finally reacted, his legs going weak.
"Yeah...didn't we just see the intelligence report saying that those terrorists from the Rebel Society have been acting very aggressively lately?
They're carrying out terrorist attacks everywhere, striking and running away, keeping defenses around the world constantly on the go, unable to react in time, right?"
The case is solved!
Everything connects!
As long as this 'Staff of God' hangs high in the sky, it doesn't matter if you're a ghost from the dark web or a rat in the sewer!
Any terrorist, as long as they dare to show even the slightest trace on this blue planet...
No need to mobilize the army; a pillar of light representing absolute annihilation would descend from the sky, unleashing an irresistible divine punishment the moment they appeared!
They would be wiped out, ashes and all!
Isn't this exactly what the chairman wanted: "instant detection, absolute lock-on, immediate annihilation"?!
However, the fear on Zhou Yi's face didn't subside; instead, it intensified.
Because he had thought of something deeper!
Such a heaven-defying, utterly unethical ultimate weapon—could it really only be used to kill a few rats from the Rebellious Society hiding in the sewers?
No!
Once this space-based weapon, exclusively controlled by Fang Huan, is completed, it's equivalent to Su Hao placing a loaded, undefendable sniper rifle simultaneously on the heads of every head of state and every force opposing Fang Huan in the world!
From then on, no one would dare to harbor even the slightest thought of resistance!
This transcends the realm of weapons; this is absolute domination!
This is a method of control powerful enough to make the entire world tremble and grovel at the feet of the Fanghuan Empire!
This is the true, ultimate deterrent, a thousand times more despair-inducing than nuclear weapons!
"Gulp." Zhou Yi swallowed hard.
"Now I finally understand…
Why the chairman went to such lengths to place his genius son, Su Yun, into our Gaia Center…"
Only at this moment did Zhou Yi truly see the overwhelming ambition hidden behind this earth-shattering mystery.
The Gaia Center, this scientific holy land adorned with the incomparably grand halo of "existing solely to solve global warming"...
But in the eyes of that unfathomable chairman, it was nothing more than a smokescreen!
Solving global warming?
Benefiting the human environment?
That's all bullshit!
His true purpose, under the lofty guise of "saving the Earth," is to secretly plot against the world's noses...
To gather the pinnacle of human technology and create an ultimate weapon of hegemony capable of crushing nuclear weapons and truly dominating all humanity!
The most terrifying thing is that he entrusted this power, capable of destroying the world at any moment, to only his most trusted and fanatically devoted son!
"Truly worthy of being the chairman..."
Zhou Yi slumped into his chair, letting out a heartfelt sigh filled with boundless awe...