Kona Satellite Base, forward assembly yard.
The shrill whine of high-frequency cutting mingled with the dull impacts of hydraulic wrenches, reverberating through the headsets.
"Number three mechanical arm, lock down the gravity buffer bolts! Move!"
"Power lines connected in parallel! Injecting cryogenic liquid hydrogen propellant! Forty seconds remaining!"
Ten multifunction Engineering Robots surrounded the massive heavy Hypersonic Missile carrier, their mechanical arms blurring with motion.
Designed specifically for heavy intercontinental strategic strikes, the vehicle was over three and a half meters wide. There was no way it could pass through the two-meter-wide two-way Portal Lin Mo held open.
Zheng Jinren's solution was to use the crudest battlefield engineering to dismantle this intricate behemoth into thousands of standardized components, ferry them through the Portal like ants moving their nest, and reassemble it on the Tenth Planet's icefield.
Lin Mo stood at the edge of the Command Console, watching the busy assembly line, but his heart felt heavy.
"Commander Zheng, I'll leave things here to you for now." Lin Mo took a deep breath and turned to Zheng Jinren.
"I need to return to the Terra Fief immediately."
Zheng Jinren abruptly looked up.
"What happened?"
"I need to find out exactly what we're facing," Lin Mo replied.
"A Space Wormhole spanning 3,400 kilometers is absolutely not something an ordinary Demon God could hold open."
"Herman, the Seventh-Order Demon Venerable imprisoned in our underground laboratory, is the only high-ranking captive alive who we can squeeze information out of."
"Without knowing our enemy, no matter how many nuclear bombs we throw at it, we're just firing blindly into the dark."
Zheng Jinren nodded.
"All right. I'll wait for your intelligence!"
"No problem."
Lin Mo left immediately, heading for the Portal inside the base.
Great Xia Fief, Terra Continent.
Lin Mo turned into a