Deep Space.
A giant planet is wandering, its speed in the universe is 115km/s.
The planet has huge amounts of geothermal energy, from which a large number of lifeforms are spawned, among them flora and plants similar to Earth's algae.
On the rim of each crater, a small unique type of ecological chain is formed.
Over billions of years of development, intelligent life was birthed and came to dominate the planet.
They are not creatures of any form from any of the planet's known protozoa, fungi, plants, or animals.
If one were to really classify them, they could barely be categorized in the eukaryotic domain above these realms, as they also have a nucleus nuclear membrane in their cells.
However, their morphology was a bit of a mixed bag, more akin to life in the Bacteria domain.
Their bodies are dotted with hundreds of eyeballs.
The body, if mucus, adds up to a puddle of toadstool eggs, each puddle being 2 to 2.4 cubic meters, which can be considered gigantic.
On the surface.
The buildings they have erected all emit a soft light that makes the entire planet look lit up from space.
But their true core was in the much hotter underground.
In the depths of their worm-like tunnels, dozens of alien creatures were connected to a transistor, and they communicated through light signals.
Each of them had an alien screen in front of them, making it easy for them to watch with hundreds of eyes.
And on the screen was none other than the Hope.
They seemed to be analyzing the flight trajectory of the Hope, and at the same time, they were also speculating where the Hope came from.
This kind of communication has been going on for almost 200 years.
For their species, 200 years was not a long time.
The next moment.
The screen in front of them transformed into a flashbulb, and its brightness exploded directly.
They were thrown into a state of panic.
The screen dimmed down and then a cylindrical UFO appeared above it.
Soon they order their spacecraft to move out to intercept it.
They unleash their laser weapons.
But the laser weapons don't penetrate the thing.
Because it is silver-white, the surface is so smooth that it is like being wrapped in a mirror, most of the energy of the laser hitting it will be reflected, and a small amount of energy can't penetrate its material, but only leave insignificant craters above it for a while.
The creatures on the planet were in disarray.
In their world, there had never been a weapon that light could not counter.
They continued to mobilize their superlaser weapons on the planet's surface to target the missile, still with little effect.
The thing could not be allowed to fall!
All that creature on the entire planet made an instantaneous decision to send a large number of spacecraft forward to intercept it with their hulls.
But the 1000km/s speed missile was simply unstoppable, and those spacecraft that stopped in front of it were instantly dismembered into countless fragments by the missile's impact.
They didn't realize that in order to qualify the strength of the missile itself, Ella had heartlessly made the entire warhead into a lump of iron.
What could smash a horrible metal warhead nearly 200 meters thick?
The Absolute Zero missile had approached the planet 10 million kilometers.
Suddenly a force affected the missile itself, deflecting the terror missile itself.
It was magnetic force!
As the easiest of the four basic forces to master, this level 1 civilization had obviously mastered it as well, not enough to put constraints on nuclear fusion, but enough to be used as a weapon.
Using magnetic force to deflect the missile was very clever.
The creatures on the ground were all excited to see the missile being deflected, and the fiber optic tubes they received on their heads became very bright.
However the next instant.
In their shocked gazes, the missile actually corrected its orientation automatically and continued towards the planet.
Ella had begun modeling the missiles during the development of the first missile, trying out hundreds of millions of scenarios, taking everything into account.
Magnetism, the force most likely to be mastered by a level 1 civilization, was naturally under consideration.
After all three scenarios failed, the creatures continued to decide to use signal shielding or signal misdirection to stop the missiles.
But it was still ineffective.
Because the missile itself, in order to prevent being intruded into the system, it was not equipped with a highly intelligent system at all, but rather with the simplest ... heat source sensing device.
In this dark deep space, the biggest heat source was the planet itself.
After all means were exhausted.
Two and a half hours had passed.
The missiles have already reached the outer layer of the planet.
It's too late!
Twelve minutes until the missiles hit the ground.
All the creatures on the planet are hysterical, but all they can do is look at the stars overhead.
They have no idea what this flying thing is, they only feel a great threat.
Twelve minutes later ...
The missile impacted directly on the surface of the planet, the great weight and kinetic energy carried by the speed allowed the huge missile to instantly pierce the planet's crust.
It was like a needle sticking into tofu, easy and smooth with no resistance.
The missile touched magma after penetrating thousands of meters deep.
"Drip drip drip~"
A tiny sound came from inside the missile.
The heat of the magma triggered the missile's detonator.
It was set in advance.
The detonation of the missile itself was a difficult technique.
If it was impacted, such as being intercepted by a spacecraft before it would be easy for the missile to detonate prematurely.
If it was remote-controlled, it would be even more impossible, because the distance between the two sides was too great, and the signal would be transmitted back and then remotely controlled, with a total delay of 5.4 days.
So a high and stable heat detonation was set.
The terrifying eruption didn't raise the surrounding air waves or any dust.
It didn't even make any sound.
It was just a cold storm invading from the crust to the mantle, cooling the lava at the atomic level in the mantle layer, and all the hot glowing magma instantly became dull and cold.
This cooling spreads and expands unreasonably for 4,000 kilometers, breaking right through the Gutenberg interface to the outer core.
At the same time.
Cold!
This was something that the creatures on this planet slowly felt over the next day.
The magma of every volcano began to cool, and the magnetic field of the planet's surface weakened away.
The coldness of the dark starry sky gradually invaded the planet's surface, if a storm.
This day.
It was a doomsday for this entire geothermal civilization.
Looking down from space, the original brilliance of the entire planet was eclipsed, becoming a dead star.
Terrifyingly low temperatures descended, and countless lives that had depended on the volcanoes began to wither.
Creatures were frozen into ice sculptures in an instant, with no time to react.
The ground was littered with beings with different postures, and they were frozen in this moment for eternity, if the time pause button was pressed.
The light above the heads of the two beings talking to each other was dissipating as they stared at each other, in their hundreds of eyes was a love that was simpler than human.
...
A creature is calculating how much longer it is going to be before it applies for its favorite position.
...
Some repairman was maneuvering a machine to repair a spacecraft.
...
Civilizations are varied, but many things share similarities.
These various beings died at this moment.
Nearly a third of the original population of 387 million on the entire planet had died in just one day.
It was a good thing that they didn't all rely on geothermal heat, but instead developed nuclear energy in tandem, and it was only with the power supply of nuclear energy that most of the life was spared from the cold temperatures.
It took half a month before the entire planet lit up again.
A slow flicker.
If a silent, sad track.
...
The distant Hope had moved to another quiet starry sky.
Jon didn't think about what a single Absolute Zero missile would do to a civilization.
He had not been in hibernation for 2 years.
The age of his body had reached 43.
However, he was glowing at the moment because he had invented a new achievement together with Ella.
This achievement could raise their civilization level by another 0.1 or even 0.2.