My ability pool is superior to others

Rumble~
The intense sonic booms continuously assaulted Lü Bai's eardrums.

If an ordinary person were in Lü Bai's current position, they would probably bleed from their ears and lose their hearing in less than a second.

But Lü Bai acted as if nothing was wrong, showing no intention of slowing down despite the increasingly strong winds.

At a supersonic speed, it quickly passes through the troposphere and enters the stratosphere.

In the stratosphere, where airflow is predominantly horizontal, the ability to "ride the wind" becomes increasingly effective, and Lü Bai's ascent speed not only does not decrease, but actually becomes slightly faster.

As for the temperature gradually dropping to minus 30 or 40 degrees Celsius, after Lu Bai switched to the [Iron Body] ability, there was no need to worry about it anymore.

Feeling the temperature around him gradually rise, this temperature inversion, coupled with the outline of the planet appearing before him, made Lü Bai realize that he was already almost fifty kilometers away from the ground.

Unbeknownst to him, the pressure of ascent suddenly decreased, and Lü Bai no longer hesitated, accelerated, and soared to the altitude of near-Earth orbit in one go.

Without a doubt, in an environment with no obstruction, he could spot the Mona interstellar warships at a glance.

The distance is still quite far, estimated to be more than two thousand kilometers.

Of course, in the environment of outer space, space seems to be stretched out, and compared to the distance between planets, a distance of several thousand kilometers is almost within reach.

However, thanks to this distance, Lü Bai was able to clearly see the entirety of the Mona warship.

It was a huge cylinder.

The tail thrusters don't seem too difficult to understand, at least not to the point of being science fiction.

If Lü Bai had casually brought over a professional aerospace technician, he would have been able to identify it as a highly efficient fission thruster.

Its design alone might inspire human professionals and significantly improve human space technology.

Unfortunately, Lü Bai didn't consider this aspect; otherwise, he would have at least taken a picture first.

What truly caught Lü Bai's attention were the four plates at the front of the interstellar warship.

Each of these four panels is enormous; if unfolded, each one would probably be larger than the main body of a starship.

These boards are folded together to form a square opening, with one end of the opening pointing towards the Earth.

Without a doubt, the dark red, high-temperature beam of light that had been emitted earlier came from this square opening.

It's not that the power is insufficient, but rather that it takes equipment even larger than the main body of an interstellar warship to create a high-temperature confinement ray with an evaporation diameter of three kilometers. Doesn't that seem a bit strange?

It was so bizarre, it was like someone was carrying a Gatling gun and shooting out a small spray of water.

Upon seeing this, Lü Bai frowned slightly.

No, that's not right.

Lu Bai gradually formed a conjecture.

Even though he wasn't very knowledgeable about aerospace technology, he knew that among the challenges of human spaceflight, besides energy, another one was heat dissipation.

For large mechanical equipment such as aircraft carriers, airplanes, and tanks, heat dissipation is not a problem.

Because whether it's air or seawater dissipation, it's very easy, and there's no need to consider dealing with this waste heat.

However, space is different. In a vacuum environment, the only way to dissipate heat is through thermal radiation.

Clearly, the Mona people's technology was not advanced enough to perfectly utilize energy without generating waste heat.

It appears that these four massive panels are actually the cooling system for the Mona interstellar warship.

In other words, that attack that threw the human combat command center into panic and caused complete chaos among countless people at the forward base...

Essentially, it's just a cooling method used by the Mona interstellar warships?
The four enormous panels, now unfolded again, faintly glowed a reddish hue from the intense heat, further confirming Lü Bai's guess.

This is terrifying for humanity as well. While human spacefaring scientists are still focusing on how to save space in cooling systems, the Mona have already been able to reuse the waste heat generated by the energy consumption of interstellar warships, and even use it as a considerable form of attack.

This gap is truly disheartening.

Even if it hasn't reached the point of perfectly utilizing all energy, this method doesn't seem too far off.

But Lü Bai actually overlooked one point.

When even he could guess the effects of these devices, it meant that the technological development of the Mona people had not diverged from the research direction of humanity.

In this way, at most there will be a technological gap, but the development path will remain the same.

Given enough time, humanity can completely catch up with the Mona by using their equipment.

The only question is, if we measure the gap in years, how many years is there now?
……

"Without considering the cutting-edge technology acquired from deadly duels, based on our current or soon-to-be-realized technology, the technological gap is probably within a hundred years."

Operations command room.

On the huge central screen, images of near-Earth orbit provided by wartime satellites are displayed.

Based on the appearance of this interstellar warship and the results of heat source detection, the technicians in white coats gave this answer.

It was noticeable that the doctor in the white coat had an undisguised smile on his face as he said this.

There was no other way; at first, we thought the gap between us and the Mona people was so vast that they couldn't comprehend it and that we would be powerless to fight back.

But now it seems that the Mona people are nothing special.

After listening quietly to the researchers, a soft cheer erupted in the operations command room.

Admittedly, there are still gaps, but there are ways to bridge them.

We can fight this battle, and we even have a chance of winning!
This idea persisted until, in the scene, Lü Bai single-handedly crashed through the interstellar warship.

……

Numerous warship wreckages were scattered and suspended in space. The interstellar warship that Lu Bai had smashed into two pieces by relying on his "steel body" emitted countless arcs of electricity and sparks from the broken pieces.

From a distance, it looks like a pile of space debris.

Holding his breath, Lü Bai headed straight for the driver's seat.

He had never been on such a starship before, so he didn't know where the cockpit was and had to search several places.

This made the interstellar warships, which he had already wrecked, even more scattered.

He eventually found the driver's seat.

Inside the driver's cab, there were only two people with terrified expressions.

Yes, humans.

From the colorful lights floating above their heads, Lü Bai could easily tell that they were two Mona warriors.

He grabbed one in each hand.

Without hesitation, I read their thoughts.

In the blink of an eye, he learned the answer he wanted to know.

That's right, these weren't the first Mona people to arrive.

This warship was merely equipment left behind when the Mona people descended upon Earth four hundred years ago. (End of Chapter)