Telecommunication Scam

"Commander Yue, the departure order has been transmitted to all departments and all passengers on the Hope Ship," Zhu Pete said immediately after hearing the report through his earpiece.

"Alright, let's set sail!"

"Hope Fusion Engine Startup Program Self-Check Completed, Entering Program Ignition Phase."

"The orbital correction data has been calculated, and Hope is expected to break away from Ross 154-7 orbit in two hours."

As the voices of the crew members echoed from the bridge, the Hope's posture began to slowly change.

Everyone on the bridge who witnessed it all knew that humanity had ultimately been deceived.

Yes, if they still don't understand they've been scammed by now, they might as well not live.

The claims of being a survivor of the Moke Star People, a Mining Area Patrol, or "Shu Po" are all hoaxes. Even the individual footage of the Moke Star People "Shu Po" is a hoax.

All of this is a lie told by the Nanobots consciousness to deceive humanity.

It was a complete and utter Telecommunication Scam.

"Huh?"

Just then, Yue Yuan suddenly saw in the satellite imagery that the transport ships started moving after being filled with an unknown amount of 'Silver Mist'.

A transport ship, its stern spewing flames, soared into the sky.

Then came the second, the third, and the fourth. "Come on, come on! It'd be best if they all came up together and tasted the hydrogen bomb!" Seeing this, Yue Yuan glanced at the countdown timer for the Hydrogen Bomb Array detonation order and thought bitterly.

If you can't become Mining Area Patrol, bombing the Silver Mist is a good alternative.

However, what happened next surprised Yue Yuan, because the eight transport ships were rising in different directions, and after the eight transport ships plunged into the sky, the transport ship that was originally prepared for the non-existent Mining Area Patrol did not move.

"Uh, this..."

Seeing this situation, Yue Yuan's mind raced for a moment and he thought of a possibility: the Nanobots consciousness had actually discovered the hydrogen bomb arrangement on the Ross 154-4 orbit long ago!

The fact that they are flying towards Ross 154-4 orbit in batches suggests that they are coming up to dismantle the hydrogen bomb detonation device, or perhaps they are dismantling the hydrogen bomb as if it were ore. The second point is a bit of an exaggeration, but considering Silver Mist's abilities, it doesn't seem impossible.

Thinking about this, Yue Yuan even felt that more than a decade ago, Silver Mist had already discovered the Hope, which was in orbit Ross 154-4 at the time.

So, those artificial satellites have also been discovered. This explains why the 'Silver Mist' has remained motionless on the planet for over a decade.

"So you were already scheming back then?"

Yue Yuan felt another chill. It was just an Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, yet it had not only learned to deceive, but was also incredibly intelligent.

"Universe, just how dark are you?" Yue Yuan thought to himself. "If that's the case, humanity was indeed hovering on the edge of the devil's mouth back then. Fortunately, we decisively ran to Ross 154-7. Now that I think about it, the Nanobots consciousness only tried to lure humanity back with that signal after discovering that humanity had escaped."

The reason for taking so long was likely to use that motionless Silver Mist to deceive humanity, and also to support the lie about 'creating Neutrino Communicator.'

This was truly a Telecommunication Scam that had been planned for over a decade.

"Well, so what if they saw it? Silver Mist probably doesn't expect that we sent the activation button as soon as we noticed the anomaly!"

Yue Yuan continued to watch the movements of the eight transport ships.

Just then, the eight transport ships had already left the planetary orbit, and the Silver Mist that had boarded them had begun to gush out of the transport ships. However, not all the Silver Mist had come out of the eight transport ships, and the flight trajectories of the other two ships seemed to be directly crossing the orbital altitude of the Hydrogen Bomb Array.

"Bomb it up! Bomb it up!"

Yue Yuan looked at the time since the detonation signal was sent; thirty minutes had passed. The detonation signal should have arrived by now, but the explosion was not yet visible on the screen due to signal delay.

We'll see the results in four minutes; it's already happened.

Yue Yuan glanced at the actions of the Nanobots consciousness for a moment, then looked at the countdown timer.

"The Nanobots consciousness did indeed discover the trigger method for the hydrogen bomb signal interruption, which is why it hasn't used that signal-blocking method. But it's clearly impossible to dismantle so many hydrogen bombs in such a short time." Yue Yuan sneered inwardly. "Heh, those two ships that wanted to break through the Hydrogen Bomb Array's trajectory don't have enough time either!"

Sure enough, after a short while, Yue Yuan saw a bright light on the large screen inside the Hope Ship's bridge, and the light instantly painted the entire display screen with the color of light.

However, the intense light on the screen only flashed briefly before disappearing, because it was footage taken by a satellite in orbit around Ross 154-4. Within a second of the Hydrogen Bomb Array exploding, those satellites were also destroyed.

This flash of bright light was the last optical image data that a man-made satellite transmitted to humanity.

"I'll teach you to commit Telecommunication Scam!"

Inside the bridge of the Hope, everyone who felt the intense light from the screen mentally spat out a mouthful of spittle from the Nanobots consciousness.

The next moment, the black screen lit up again.

People knew that it was the Hope's communications officer who promptly switched the signal receiver to the Hope's radar equipment, allowing everyone on the bridge to see the scene of the Hydrogen Bomb Array exploding again.

However, since the perspective has now shifted to the Hope, people did not see the same intense light as before, but it wasn't too dark either.

Hope is currently 2.06 Astronomical Unit from the Ross 154-4 Planet. This distance is equivalent to the distance between Mars and the Sun when Mars is 0.4 Astronomical Unit beyond its aphelion.

From such a distance, even if 3,800 hydrogen bombs with a yield of 100 million tons were detonated at once, the effect of a nuclear explosion would not be much stronger.

Just think about the images of the sun that spacecraft take on Mars.

After all, the sun is only so bright, let alone a nuclear explosion.

What the Hope's bridge saw was nothing more than a white light suddenly appearing in the darkness next to the red Main Sequence Star, growing brighter and brighter until it quickly dimmed before reaching the brightness of the red Main Sequence Star.

Although its brightness was not comparable to that of a star, it was still like a short-lived white sun appearing in the night sky, like a second meteor. Because it was a hydrogen bomb explosion, it released mostly Gamma Ray with extremely short wavelengths. After being converted by the Hope spacecraft, the scene displayed to people was quite dazzling.

In the middle of the night, just like the moon, a dazzling burst of fireworks suddenly lit up the sky.

"Good riddance! That damn fraudster is gone!"

Upon seeing the Hydrogen Bomb Array detonate, an excited shout rang out from the bridge of the Hope.