Sky Curtain: The Darwin Incident at the outset, the Declaration of the People's League

【Angel of Peace - Colossus-class - Planet-destroying Weapon】

[Create an unbreakable, transparent barrier around the planet. Everything inside remains intact, but no one can get in or out.]

This is a colony planet inhabited by 60 million people.

The colossus is approaching.

The Angel of Peace's emitter does not produce any beams of light or shockwaves.

It simply releases a thin film that is almost invisible to the naked eye, quietly spreading from the Arctic, wrapping down along the meridians, inch by inch, like sealing the fruit with a preservative plastic seal.

The planet is encased in an eternal cocoon.

Inside the barrier, survivors pounded on the unseen wall with their bare hands, battling the ships until fuel ran out, oxygen was depleted, and vital signs dropped to zero.

The barrier remained completely still.

This planet will drift in the universe for a billion years, becoming a living coffin that will never be opened.

[Celestial Judgment - Colossus-class - Planet-destroying Weapon]

[Exclusive to Idealist Psionic Ascension. Projects a massive torrent of psionic energy, destroying all mechanical populations and Hive Mind individuals, forcibly converting the remaining organic population to idealism.]

A certain mechanical planet.

This is one of the Allied Forces' logistics hubs. The entire planet's surface is covered with photovoltaic arrays and computing cores, with billions of mechanical individuals operating synchronously through data links.

They felt no fear when the colossi arrived.

Fear is an emotion of living beings, but they don't have it.

Therefore, they have no need to exist.

A torrent of psionic energy descends.

A purple psionic wave swept across the ground, and wherever it passed, the processors of the mechanical entities went limp like puppets with broken strings.

They didn't die, they just stopped.

Meanwhile, the organic population that served the mechanical empire slowly raised their heads amidst the raging torrent.

Deep within their pupils, the purple light of psychic energy was reflected.

When they spoke again, they said the same thing:

"We saw the light."

They no longer resisted, no longer feared, and no longer remembered who they had once pledged allegiance to.

In their fervent prayers, they gradually forgot how to make a screw.

Purgatory Ray

[A continuous thermal beam with extremely high penetrating power, capable of piercing through an entire enemy line]

In the quiet of space,

The two main fleets met at the edge of the gravity well.

The coalition forces formed a standard three-tiered defensive line – frigates providing cover, destroyers providing support, and battleships projecting firepower.

Human Titans rose from behind the array.

Its bow cracked open, revealing a launch chamber with a diameter exceeding that of the frigate.

Purgatory Ray.

The uninterrupted liquid flames swept across the battlefield.

The beam cut in from the left flank of the allied forces, piercing through the first frigate. The shields went to zero, the armor vaporized, and the hull melted in two.

The beam of light didn't stop; it continued to penetrate the second, third, and fourth ships—

Until the left flank formation was neatly cut off.

The beam of light swept toward the center.

The captain of the command ship only had time to utter half a syllable before the porthole was filled with orange-red light.

【Intellectual Beam】

[Effect: Fires a special energy wave, regressing the organic population of the target planet into an unintelligent species. Mechanical and hive-like thinking units are destroyed.]

An academic planet belonging to a certain coalition.

This is the home planet of the Allied Forces' Chief Scientific Advisor, a temple of wisdom with twelve universities, four giant particle colliders, and three thousand top scholars.

The colossus is moored.

The moment the brain-degrading beam touched the atmosphere, the entire planet seemed to be reset.

In class, the professor was still explaining the fluid equations of the jump engine.

The next second, he suddenly stopped, staring blankly at the chalk in his hand, as if he were seeing the object for the first time. He put the chalk in his mouth and chewed it.

In the library, doctoral students, clutching piles of documents, forgot how to read them.

Those words are still symbols, but they no longer point to any meaning.

They stepped out of the building, looked up at the starry sky, their eyes showing neither confusion nor fear.

There is only emptiness.

[Sky Clouds and Lightning]

[Summon chain lightning that leaps and travels between enemy fleets]

A coalition fleet is regrouping.

A human cruiser burst into the firing range, and its hull was riddled with holes by concentrated fire.

Victory is in sight.

Then, its turret turned.

Lightning flashed across the sky.

The first electric arc struck the nearest frigate.

Shield overload, armor melted through.

But the arc of electricity did not disappear. It leaped from the wreckage, struck a destroyer three kilometers away, leaped again, struck the port side of a battleship, leaped again, and struck a supply ship behind it.

With each jump, the power diminishes; with each jump, a new transmission path is created.

Within three seconds, seventeen warships were linked together by electric arcs into a deadly net.

The flames from their explosions lit up at the same moment.

…………

The coalition forces are still sending reinforcements.

More intergalactic fleets entered the battlefield, and more civilizations submitted resolutions to join the war.

The human commander remained calm.

The holographic star map before him was covered with the Allied Forces' insignia, which had spread across half of the Milky Way. The territory of the Human Empire was compressed into a small patch of deep purple.

But that deep purple is still burning.

Every planet annihilated and purified by neutrons provides the empire with ready-made colonies.

Every world shattered by the planetary explosion became a mineral supply for the fleet.

Every enemy ship melted through by the Infernal Rays was salvaged, melted down, and forged into a new Fear Frigate.

For every ship the Allied forces lost, they forever lost a captain, a gun crew, and the experience of a battle.

They are wasting their lives.

Human empires only consume production capacity.

Finally, let's detonate the star.

Only a supernova explosion can release a massive amount of energy to produce enough dark matter.

Even if everything is destroyed

Chapter 27 is about to speed things up!

The Three-Body World

The Trisolarans' thought network revealed an extremely rare, almost melancholic, grayish-white waveform.

Neutron annihilation: The principle is explainable. The energy level can be simulated. The killing mechanism conforms to fundamental physical models.

Earth-shattering celestial body: Its energy requirements exceed the total of all existing civilizations. But theoretically... there is a possible path for its development.

The Heaven-Burning Divine Weapon: Star Harvesting Technology. This is a divine feat that requires another six million years of evolution to achieve.

Their calculation cores were running at breakneck speed, yet they all, almost instinctively, paused for a moment before each weapon's parameters.

It's not fear.

It is to desire but not to obtain.

They want it!

With this technology, it would be possible to travel at the speed of light or even faster than light...

Dark Forest?

Just kidding.

Ling Cage World

--lighthouse.

Lord Morgan gazed at the planet in the sky, which had been preserved as an eternal specimen by the angels of euthanasia.

"The lighthouse has been sailing for three hundred years, and we thought we were looking for a home. In reality, we were just looking for a bigger, more beautiful... cocoon."

He closed his eyes.

That "peaceful" planet drifted slowly in the darkness.