"High-energy threat ahead! Attack type identified as 'Super-Heavy Delta-Ray Cannon.' Attack energy level assessed at 14-15! Projecting attack trajectory... Warning! Warning! This vessel's coordinates lie within the attack's lethal radius. Destructive power exceeds this vessel's shield capacity by over 800%. Defense impossible. Evade immediately! Estimated time until impact: 3m 46s, 3m 45s, 3m 44s..."
"Wha... the stellar-class weapon is targeting us?!"
"H-how could this happen? That's impossible!"
Through the AI Core's attack assessment, countless slackers discovered an unimaginably cruel truth.
However unwilling they were to believe it, the death countdown ringing in their ears was like a curse demanding their lives, terrifying them out of their wits!
Many might have been unfamiliar with the weapon the AI Core identified as a "Delta-Ray Cannon," but surely they had heard of a "Gamma-Ray Cannon."
Gamma rays, also known as γ rays, were high-energy, short-wavelength radiation produced when atomic nuclei transitioned between energy levels.
During the "Save the Tree of the Long-Lived One" operation, Nie Yun had used a Houyi-class mithril warship equipped with a Gamma-Ray Cannon to achieve the impressive feat of sinking a Twin Stars warship with a single shot.
Gamma rays, as conventionally defined, were electromagnetic waves with wavelengths shorter than 0.01 angstroms.
(Angstrom, abbreviated Å, was a unit of length. 1 Å = 10^(-10) meters = 0.1 nanometers.)
Delta rays, meanwhile, were ultrashort waves with wavelengths eight orders of magnitude shorter than conventional gamma rays, capable of persisting in space for long periods.
Earth Civilization had originally possessed no concept of Delta rays, but with the tremendous success of Nie Yun's grand space adventure, its scientific and technological database had grown vastly richer.
Only the previous year, scientists from Earth Civilization had separated these ultrashort waves from the conventional gamma-ray spectrum and named them "Delta rays."
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