Immortal, My Desperate Journey at 40k

Chapter 636 Dangerous Curvature Sailing

"Hmm... I feel like it would be better if we didn't go down..."

Hu Jin looked at the world below the fleet. It was a world filled with chaotic forces. Above this world, countless demons were wreaking havoc. Although they had seen this situation more than once, the environment of this world was indeed a bit weird.

Everything in this world seems to be changing. The clouds in this world are constantly rolling, sometimes changing into one shape and sometimes into another shape. Even the continental plates of this planet are changing. The chaos pollution in this world has become so serious that it has become a demon world. If a landing operation is carried out on this world, the situation in this world may directly destroy all the imperial troops that have landed on it.

After all, no one can predict what will happen when they really land in this world. If everyone dies there just after going down because of the earthquake caused by the movement of continental plates, then it will be a waste of time. Tzeentch has a lot of underworld things. After all, when it comes to the underworld, no one can compare to Tzeentch.

"Just blow it up?"

Wang Ming looked at that world. He looked at the situation in that world, and then looked at the extremely chaotic data sent back by the detectors that had been released before. This world was already in complete chaos. It was really difficult to get some intelligence from it. After all the detectors were released, they all lost contact within a few hours.

The reason why these probes lost contact is without exception: they were all destroyed by external forces. However, this external force was not any enemy or the like, but the ever-changing geological environment on the planet. The ever-changing geological environment was the real culprit that destroyed those probes.

"Why not just issue an extermination order? If this world launches a landing war, we'll be dead anyway."

Hu Jin looked at the reconnaissance intelligence of the world on the holographic projection screen in front of him. He nodded to Wang Ming, then fiddled with the grenade launcher in his hand. Although he felt disappointed that he could not go down to fight, this situation was also a special one and they really could not go down.

"That's it. Just blow up this world."

Wang Ming looked at Hu Jin beside him, and then gave the order to the fleet. Just as Wang Ming gave the order, a huge figure suddenly raised its head above the planet. It looked at the lights in the sky and knew that it was the fleet anchored in the planet's orbit.

"Look, how smart they are! Knowing that the combat environment is dangerous, they immediately stopped coming down. But whether you can come down or not is not up to you. My psychic power can extinguish stars, so pulling you down is not a problem."

Magnus looked at the fleet in orbit. It held up its staff, with its wings stretched out toward the sky. A terrifying psychic force suddenly appeared beside it. The power from the highest heaven was controlled by it, and it rushed directly to the position of the fleet in the planet's orbit from the surface of the planet.

"Warning, warning, an unknown traction force has been detected pulling the fleet. The thruster power of each ship is being adjusted to begin the escape."

The moment Magnus exerted his psychic power, the fleet was immediately pulled up by its ability. However, the fleet's artificial intelligence reacted quickly. After detecting that the fleet was being pulled by an unknown force, they immediately increased the power of each of the fleet's thrusters, trying to escape the pulling force. However, Magnus's power was still too strong. Even if the Sun Fortress turned on its engine power at full capacity, it was still falling.

Because of this huge traction, the interiors of a large number of ships in the fleet began to become chaotic. The interference of electronic equipment caused by the psychic effect shut down a large number of life support systems in the fleet, and some equipment was burned. On some ships, even the oxygen supply system and gravity system in the health system were directly destroyed. If there were no emergency plans, the crew members on those ships would probably have been suffocated to death.

But some ships were extremely unlucky. They were torn into pieces directly under the huge pulling force. The people on these ships were all exposed to the space. Their fate was already determined. Humans would die if they entered the space without protection.

"Psychic power... Damn it, it's Magnus!"

Wang Ming felt the psychic spell that was pulling the fleet. He felt a familiar feeling. It was Magnus' psychic spell, pulling the fleet towards the surface of the planet. There wasn't much that could be done in this situation. He had to issue the extermination order first. In short, he could not just sit there and wait for death and let it really pull the fleet down.

"Send out the extermination order. All ships, follow my orders. Open fire on the surface of the planet and destroy this world!"

Wang Ming felt the huge psychic energy and he was also using it to resist, but his psychic energy was too weak compared to Magnus's. Magnus had accumulated tens of thousands of years of experience in using psychic energy and accumulated a huge amount of psychic energy in the subspace. This guy's psychic power could easily destroy a star. If he wanted to fight against this guy, unless the Emperor came in person, the terrifying existence of one of the two most powerful psychics in the galaxy was not something Wang Ming could deal with.

Wang Ming can only hold on now. He can only delay the fleet's descent but cannot really solve the problem of the fleet being towed.

After Wang Ming's order was issued, all the crew members on the ships began their work. Despite the impact of the destruction of various life support systems, they continued to carry out their work in the vacuum or weightless environment of the ship while wearing space suits. Attacks were fired from the ships and flew towards the surface of the planet. The perseverance of the Imperial Navy was revealed at this moment. They could persist in fighting under the harshest environment, and their courage was no less than those mortal auxiliary troops who faced the battlefield.

When those attacks hit the surface of the planet, they actually did not cause any damage, because the land of this planet is also changing, it is constantly changing, and all attacks hitting it will be resolved by its endless changes. Perhaps those attacks will cause some damage when they just hit the surface of the planet, but those damages will be covered up by the ever-changing scenes within a few seconds.

Endless changes filled this world. It was basically impossible to destroy this world, because this world was constantly changing. Even if it was blown into pieces, the changes in those pieces would reassemble it into a world. The cyclone torpedo that went straight into the star core of this world was a very good example. This cyclone torpedo did explode and destroyed the star core of this world. But within a few seconds of the disintegration, this world suddenly changed into a complete world again. In other words, all physical destruction was useless in this world. This world was already a chaotic demon world. It already had some subspace properties. It was basically impossible for physical attacks to destroy it.

"My fleet..., this thing can't be destroyed..."

Wang Ming felt the powerful psychic spell. He looked at the planet that had just been broken and immediately turned back to its previous intact state. He was now numb all over. Physical attacks had no effect on this planet at all. The subspace form of this planet had completely changed. No matter how much physical damage was caused to it, it would immediately recover when the next change came.

"Fuck you, Jianqi!"

Wang Ming cursed Jianqi, but his curses were of no use to Jianqi, because Jianqi was happy to see Wang Ming getting frustrated after falling into his plan. It was really fun.

"The Solar Fortress is still falling, and so are the other ships... Just start the superluminal curvature engine and travel at twice the speed of light. Don't worry about the gravitational interference of the planets, and escape first!"

Wang Ming kept thinking about how to get the fleet away from this dangerous area. Finally, he came up with a solution, a solution that was not a solution, an extremely dangerous solution. This solution would cause great losses to the fleet. After all, in this environment with planetary gravity, using a curvature engine for superluminal navigation is also a very dangerous situation for the fleet.

If one thing goes wrong, the curvature engine may self-destruct, or the curvature engine may overload and cause space rupture, leading to the disintegration of the ship. But at least this is better than being dragged directly to the surface of the planet and dying together. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, you can give it a try.

"Understood. The warp engine is being activated. May Om Messiah and the God-Emperor bless us!"

Wang Ming's order had been received by the fleet's artificial intelligence. After receiving Wang Ming's order, the fleet's artificial intelligence immediately began to execute the order. At the same time, he also humanely imitated the mechanical priests and prayed.

"Where did you learn this...? You don't have a soul..."

After hearing the artificial intelligence's life-long prayer, Wang Ming couldn't help but think of it in his heart, but he still respected the artificial intelligence's belief in the Emperor and Om Messiah, and did not say much. Instead, he quickly grabbed everything around him that could be grabbed, preparing to face the huge space distortion caused by curvature navigation.

After all, he didn't know whether the curvature navigation under the planetary gravity environment would cause the ship to disintegrate. If the Sun Fortress was so big, it would be troublesome if it really disintegrated. It would be better to grab something to fix itself, otherwise it would float directly into outer space, which would be very troublesome.

"Fix yourself and adjust your mindset later, don't..."

While securing himself, Wang Ming spoke to the mortal crew members around him, and then gave each of them an emergency survival kit, and notified all crew members in the fleet to wear fully enclosed space suits to deal with various dangerous environments that might arise. No one knew whether this would cause the ship to disintegrate directly, so they had to make various contingency plans to minimize casualties.

Just when everyone was ready, the fleet's warp engines started directly. The warp engines of all the ships started together, as if a faint blue sun and a constantly twisting black hole suddenly appeared in space. Blue light radiated from the black hole, and the space next to the black hole kept twisting, making everything around it seem so unreal, like ripples on the water.

During this process, several strike cruisers disintegrated directly. They were not Federation-made ships and did not have such high structural strength. As ships that had the ability of curvature navigation after later modifications, it was very normal for them to disintegrate in such an environment. Fortunately, most of them had only a few mortal crew members who were time travelers, and the only non-time travelers had only dozens of working mecha servants.

Although it would not cause any casualties, the travelers on it were in trouble. The moment their fleet disintegrated, their bodies directly entered a curvature navigation state. The feeling was even more exciting than entering the subspace. They felt that all their senses were stretched, and everything nearby was slowed down. Their bodies were also constantly stretched in this twisted space, like a stretched gummy bear.

However, this state did not last too long, at least not too long on the time scale of the real universe. The bodies of the traversers began to disintegrate in this environment and turned into atomic-sized fragments. However, from the traversers' personal perspective, they had experienced several months of struggle in that area before finally meeting death.

This situation can actually be explained by some theories of relativity, but the time travelers don’t actually know the specific principles.

The disintegrated ships and the explosion of the uncontrolled curvature engines on these ships caused the space above the orbit of the planet to distort. Fortunately, the curvature navigation of other ships was quite normal, otherwise they would be trapped in this large space distortion, just like the disintegrated ships.

When this space distortion appeared, Magnus's expression changed on the planet. He looked at the distorted space above the sky with surprise. He was very surprised that Wang Ming would make such a risky move. He would rather escape with the risk of ship disintegration than let the fleet fall directly to the surface of the world and die with those mortals.

(End of this chapter)