Volume 2 Chapter 70: Impact, Descent, and Dispersal (Part 1)
The sun invaded the world of humanity.
From 9,000 kilometers away, after waging war against humans and the Skynet, it crashed into this world.
A sun with a diameter of approximately two kilometers descended from the sky at speeds hundreds of times the speed of sound.
Its mass exceeded 100 million tons. This collision alone was enough to completely redraw the map surrounding the impact site, flattening everything within a 100-kilometer radius.
The power of this descending sun was unparalleled, comparable only to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
The energy it released surpassed one-tenth of humanity's million nuclear weapons, equivalent to 5 billion tons of TNT.
Even if the Ghidorah's Wings did nothing after hitting the ground, the sheer energy released would already approach the total energy Godzilla used to destroy the Far East and Australia.
The sphere of judgment descended from the sky, and humanity could do nothing to stop it.
Once it entered the atmosphere, the collateral effects of nuclear weapons would exponentially increase. At this point, with the enemy still intact, nuclear weapons had become completely ineffective against the Ghidorah's Wings.
This marked the failure of humanity's first line of defense.
Even with Godzilla's assistance, only three Ghidorah's Wings had been destroyed. The remaining 41 still posed a formidable threat. Could the remaining defenses really stop them?
This question lingered in the minds of humanity, who feared what would happen if the second and third lines of defense also failed.
Would humanity be forced to retreat underground again? Return to the days of the nuclear wars?
Staring at the screen displaying the descending sun, everyone fell silent.
High above, the blazing sun finally pierced through the vacuum of space and reached the mortal realm.
The sun formed by the Ghidorah's Wings declared its victory to the world, unleashing countless beams of light that painted the skies with a scene of unimaginable splendor.
Countless lasers scattered in the atmosphere like dreamy, twinkling stars, descending alongside the falling sun.
2,500 kilometers... 2,300 kilometers... 2,100 kilometers... 2,000 kilometers... 1,800 kilometers... 1,500 kilometers... 1,200 kilometers... 1,000 kilometers!
In Australia, Northern Europe, and North America, the sun gradually disappeared, sinking below the horizon like a setting sun dragging the stars into the earth.
Only East Asia still felt the piercing glare of that celestial body. The sun in the sky grew brighter and brighter until it seemed poised to crash directly into the ground and the world below.
Finally, the sun's radiance became so intense that everyone was forced to shield their eyes. Its brilliance dominated the heavens.
The moment it was about to collide with the Earth, all people could do was pray helplessly, offering desperate supplications to nameless gods.
What was the name of this god? What did they want the god to accomplish? Nobody knew. Yet inexplicably, as they faced the descending sun, some people couldn't help but think:
God, please kill them!
But prayers to the divine were futile. In this moment, no savior emerged to confront the sun.
The Ghidorah's Wings plunged into Earth's atmosphere, finally reaching their target.
The sun was about to crash into the Earth. It was about to collide with the ground.
All people could hope for was that it would kill more of them—kill them brutally.
Faced with their own helplessness, humanity collectively harbored a grim wish:
If Einstein and von Neumann cannot harm them, then let Newton do it.
Let Newton's power smash them to death on Earth.
The 5-billion-ton explosion was far beyond what the Ghidorah's Wings near the impact point could endure. If it struck the Earth, while it might not reach the initial estimate of killing 22 Ghidorah's Wings, it could still eliminate at least 13 or 14.
Even though the remaining 30 would still surpass expectations, it was better than facing all 44.
The sun formed by the Ghidorah's Wings entered the ionosphere. Far denser gases bombarded the rapidly descending entity, making it even more luminous.
At the same time, the surface of the Ghidorah's Wings began to sublimate.
Friction with the atmosphere raised their outer temperatures rapidly.
For now, the lasers ceased as atmospheric friction transformed the Ghidorah's Wings into a true meteor! They were about to collide with the Earth!
Once a shining sun, it now fell toward the ground. Its target was the heart of East Asia, near the city of Yanjing.
The sun was falling.
The sun was rising.
Boom.
Boom boom.
Boom boom boom.
Boom boom boom boom.
Boom boom boom boom boom.
Boom boom boom boom boom boom.
On the ground, a "tsunami" erupted.
A new sun rose into the sky after the fall.
Hissss…
The sound of trees crackling was followed by their ignition.
Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack!
The ground beneath began to "scatter and flee."
Clang!
Clang—
Clang——
Deep within the Earth's crust, tremors echoed.
The world behind them plunged into darkness, while the scene ahead became blindingly bright.
The light was so intense that it was clearly visible from space.
Its brilliance could no longer be described as sunlight.
The entire sky was ablaze.
No distinction remained between clouds and sun—there was only pure, unadulterated light.
This was unsurprising, as the explosion's fireball had a diameter of 50 kilometers.
Flammable materials in Yanjing, hundreds of kilometers away, ignited instantly. At 200 kilometers, surfaces carbonized before flames even had a chance to spread.
Before the fires could rage, the death knell rang underground.
A 9.5-magnitude earthquake.
The strongest earthquake ever felt in East Asia shook the land. Seismic waves reverberated through the crust at speeds rivaling the Ghidorah's Wings' descent.
Boom boom boom—
Amid the terrifying shockwaves of this magnitude 9.5 superquake, skyscrapers that had once stood proudly as symbols of resilience collapsed. Before the shockwaves even arrived, nearly every 300-meter building in Yanjing fell like dominoes in the undulating earth.
Indeed, modern engineering could design buildings to withstand magnitude 9 earthquakes.
But the difference between magnitude 9 and 9.5 is astronomical.
The energy disparity is 5.5 times—far beyond what structures designed to endure magnitude 9 could handle.
In Yanjing, every skyscraper over 300 meters was utterly destroyed by the seismic waves.
And yet, the true disaster was only just beginning.
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