That glimmer was extremely small, yet exceedingly bright. If one could brave the dazzling light of the Pegasus V432 star and look directly at it, then even the naked eye could perceive its existence.
It resembled a spark erupting from a wood fire, fleeting in its appearance. In that instant, the radiation power of the entire Pegasus V432 also increased slightly.
Although the increase was minimal, it was still detectable by sophisticated observation instruments.
The source of that glimmer was a heavy transport ship that Li Qingsong had previously positioned near Pegasus V432.
This type of heavy transport ship had a payload capacity exceeding ten million tons.
It wasn't carrying anything else; it was entirely loaded with hydrogen bombs!
Ultra-high yield hydrogen bombs, each with an equivalent of 1 billion tons of TNT!
Each such hydrogen bomb weighed approximately 200 tons. Thus, a single heavy transport ship could carry fifty thousand of these hydrogen bombs, with a total yield of fifty quadrillion tons of TNT!
If such a cluster of hydrogen bombs were detonated on Earth, the Earth's crustal plates would be fractured, the entire planet would suffer unprecedentedly strong earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, the entire atmosphere would be shrouded in dust, and some Earth material would even be blasted directly into space.
The entire Earth's ecosystem would be completely destroyed.
Of course, the detonation this time was not on Earth, but on a star, a star even more powerful than the Sun.
Although Li Qingsong had ordered the heavy transport ship to crash into Pegasus V432 before the detonation, the final detonation distance was not the original 6 million kilometers, but rather actually within the atmosphere of Pegasus V432, allowing more energy to be released into the star, causing a greater impact.
Even so, the impact of this hydrogen bomb ship explosion on Pegasus V432 was minimal.
After all, Pegasus V432 radiates approximately x 10^27 joules of energy per second across all wavelengths, and the energy of fifty quadrillion tons of TNT is approximately * 10^23 joules. The energy of such a powerful hydrogen bomb ship explosion is only eight ten-thousandths of the star's energy radiation per second.
But that didn't matter.
Because Li Qingsong had deployed not just one hydrogen bomb ship around Pegasus V432, but over twenty thousand!
But that didn't matter, because Pegasus V432 is a variable star.
In classification, it belongs to the non-radial pulsating variable stars. In such stars, the boundary between the convective zone and the radiative zone is unstable. This instability can even cause wave-like ripples on the star's surface.
Generally speaking, most variable stars have higher instability than ordinary stars.
If such a large number of hydrogen bomb ships were detonated near the Sun, the Sun might not release much energy.
Because the Sun is not a variable star, the Sun is very stable.
But Pegasus V432 is different.
It already possesses a certain degree of instability. What changes will occur when it is subjected to such a huge external energy impact?
Li Qingsong's simulation model showed that at this moment, its instability would instantly increase hundreds or thousands of times, leading to an instantaneous energy burst of more than ten thousand times.
Such a massive amount of energy would sweep away everything tangible and intangible around the star.
Not to mention Li Qingsong's technological creations and fleet, even the fleets of the Extinction-Level Intelligent Machines civilization could not withstand it!
No matter how advanced your technology is, you are only a third-level strong nuclear civilization. How could you withstand such a violent stellar energy burst that can truly be called a 'natural disaster'?
This was Li Qingsong's last trump card.
Since you refuse to let me go, then let's all perish together! If we're going to die, we'll all die!
The glimmer just now was only the explosion of one hydrogen bomb ship. It was a warning, just a warning, to show that I am not making empty threats.
I really have deployed corresponding forces near the star!
In the cockpit of a spaceship, the clone body where Li Qingsong's consciousness resided stared madly out of the porthole, at the twinkling stars in space.
Each star was a massive Extinction-Level Intelligent Machines warship. Countless stars meant that the Extinction-Level Intelligent Machines' warships were also almost countless.
Endless stars surrounded Li Qingsong.
Now, make your choice! Perish with me, or... flee immediately?
Billions of kilometers away, the Supercomputing Mothership.
At this moment, the computing power utilization rate of the numerous supercomputing bases within the Supercomputing Mothership began to rise rapidly. Thin liquid nitrogen mist floated in the liquid nitrogen cooling pools, and in the laser cooling towers, the lasers operated at full power.
Endless logic flickered wildly in the computing units.
"I've been tricked.
The prey civilization's all-out resistance before was not really a desperate fight, but to increase the difficulty of my capturing their civilization;
The prey civilization calculated that I would not truly destroy them, but hoped to capture as many of their intelligent life forms as possible.
Capturing alive is more difficult than annihilation. Coupled with the prey civilization's previously demonstrated powerful fighting will, I had to send more forces to join the battlefield, and under the prey civilization's enticement, gradually came very close to the star.
The current situation is clear. I must immediately evacuate the fleet, otherwise, the opponent will definitely detonate those many hydrogen bombs immediately, causing the star to explode, burying themselves while also burying more than 95% of our civilization's combat power.
But... to evacuate immediately, I must pass through the asteroid belt at the fastest speed.
And the opponent has also deployed a large number of hydrogen bomb traps in the asteroid belt.
How to choose?"
The logic computing units were still running wildly.
Near Planet A, in a warship, a hint of a smile appeared on Li Qingsong's face, which was full of madness.
"Faced with this situation, what will you choose?
If you continue to stay here, I will detonate all the hydrogen bomb ships, causing the star to explode, and we will all perish together.
All your fleets will be annihilated, and I will also lose all the power I currently possess.
If you evacuate as soon as possible, I will not detonate the hydrogen bomb ships, my power can survive, but you must suffer the attack of endless hydrogen bomb traps in the asteroid belt.
You must evacuate the asteroid belt at the fastest speed, so there is no time to eliminate the hydrogen bomb traps.
Based on the precedent in the Altair star system, these hydrogen bomb traps will at least reduce your fleet by more than 90% of the ships.
So... what will you choose?"
