Super Invincible Battleship
Chapter 686

Chapter 686: Chapter 297 Unlimited Ammunition Chapter 686: Chapter 297 Unlimited Ammunition Energy weapon attacks are extremely formidable, and since they come from outer space, one could say they are virtually invincible, not something that the current Yan Fei and drones can withstand. Therefore, should Yan Fei encounter an energy attack of the same level as before, he would certainly be reduced to ashes, his passionate endeavors turning to dust.

However, nothing in worldly matters is absolute, and Yan Fei wasn't completely without countermeasures, for he had already found a method to deal with such energy attacks. There was a mysterious connection between Yan Fei's main body and his Drone Avatars, so long as his original self survived, even if the drones were destroyed to pieces, they would automatically restore themselves at midnight local time, when the Drone Data was refreshed.

So all Yan Fei had to do was hide under solid rock and bear the excruciating pain of his Drone Avatar being torn apart; he could still deploy the Drone Avatar for combat. Even if the Drone Avatar couldn't avoid the energy weapon's attack, before being hit by the energy weapon, it could at least annihilate the entire approaching United Fleet.

But this method was merely a trick, only capable of staving off an imminent threat temporarily, not completely preventing the possibility of being attacked. The space-based Energy Weapon loomed over Yan Fei like the Sword of Damocles, its fall unpredictable. Once an energy weapon struck with its contained energy and high speed, it would mean true destruction for Yan Fei.

When Yan Fei first discovered the Artificial Whale was destroyed by an energy weapon attack, he was somewhat panicked. However, he quickly regained his composure, remembering what Yang Qi had once said. Yang Qi believed that after humans ventured out from Earth, they would abandon traditional Earth-bound weaponry in favor of more advanced energy weapons. Although energy weapons sound powerful, the concept isn't new; humanity has always been researching into it and made some progress, with laser weapons being the most representative.

But over the years, no one has been able to truly utilize energy weapons in actual combat, not even laser weapons have made it to the battlefield. The fundamental reason was the inability to provide energy weapons with a sufficiently powerful source of energy. Therefore, Yang Qi deduced that, until Nuclear Fusion Technology was fully matured, aside from laser weapons, humans could not freely exploit the true energy weapon technology, let alone deploy energy weapons in space.

Then Yan Fei came to a key question: where did the energy attack from outer space originate? From the current situation, such energy weapon attacks definitely weren't the doing of aliens. After all, even if there were aliens, Yan Fei had no quarrels or grudges with them; they wouldn't rashly attack Yan Fei to aid the United Fleet. At least so far, with the level of human technology, no evidence of alien existence has been discovered.

Therefore, the force that attacked the Artificial Whale must belong to the Earth's powers, and furthermore, Yan Fei's enemies. Yan Fei had no shortage of enemies, but those capable of delivering energy attacks against the Artificial Whale from outer space could only be The United States of America. After all, with the US and the United Fleet aligned, their sudden strike against the Artificial Whale, upon finding the United Fleet's failure to succeed, seems plausible.

With America's technological level, even if they concealed their technological strength and made breakthroughs in some areas, possessing the ability to conduct energy attacks with energy weapons, they still couldn't miniaturize those energy weapons nor provide them with an adequate power source. Without a sufficient energy source, the energy weapons wouldn't be able to launch unlimited energy attacks.

Thus, the most likely scenario was that the Americans did send their energy weapons into space, but they couldn't provide it with enough energy. This attack had to have involved a long energy storage period before it could unleash an energy attack. This attack was meant to be decisive, and the Americans used it judiciously. It did not disappoint, destroying the powerful Artificial Whale on its first strike, but it's very possible that due to the limitation of energy sources, the Americans lost the ability to launch a second attack.

The Americans must have been monitoring this maritime battle closely, and they certainly discovered the presence of the Artificial Whale early on, but why didn't they launch an energy attack against the Artificial Whale at the beginning of the conflict and instead waited until the United Fleet was on the verge of destruction?

The most probable reason is that energy attacks required a long period of energy storage and that's why the Americans didn't attack the Artificial Whale at the start of the war. The attack on the Artificial Whale now was likely because the energy weapons had completed charging.

If America possessed the unlimited capacity for energy attacks in space, then who on Earth could stand against them? Russia was fully behind the United States, but their ability to withstand for so long was largely due to their Nuclear Weapons. If America could just use space-based energy weapons to target Russia's Missile Silos at the moment Russia threatened with Nuclear Weapons, eliminating all threats in their infancy, would they need to compromise at all or engage in tiresome squabbles with Russia?

Of course, it's also possible that the situation was entirely opposite, that America did indeed possess this terrifying offensive capability, but chose to conceal it due to certain limitations. Only upon realizing that Yan Fei's Artificial Whale was powerful enough to disrupt the global military balance might they recklessly strike and destroy the Artificial Whale.