Global Helium Flash! I Livestream the Ignition of Jupiter's Atmosphere

"Supreme alert from the United Defense Authority! Gravity tides have locked on. Earth and Jupiter will collide in 40 minutes. All directional plasma thrusters are offline. Who can save Earth?!"

Above the heavens, Jupiter, a churning, roaring dark-red mass, filled the sky over the entire planet. Three billion people around the world were plunged into a lightless eternal night, writing their wills in despair.

Inside the underground control center, the defense chief stared at the completely crashed AI matrix, then grabbed Gao Yang, an intern maintenance worker who was livestreaming an explanation of the hardcore mods for Starsea Frontier 2025.

"Didn't you use a hand-operated solenoid valve to ignite a planetary engine on stream? Think of something, fast!"

"Chief, that was fictional code from a bargain-bin single-player game!"

Seeing the planet's surface crack apart, and the shadowed faces of his parents and countless fellow humans staring up at the sky, Gao Yang gritted his teeth and took the seat at the planetary ignition console!

[Ding! Celestial-Scale Rescue activated: Ten million orbital simulations, manifested at ten thousand times scale. Absolute celestial mechanics intuition loaded!]

Billions of viewers around the world stared at the punk on the main screen and cursed: "He's crazy! You're sending a meter repairman to ignite a planetary engine?!"

The next second, Gao Yang blindly operated the overclocked superconducting capacitor, forcing an underground heavy-nuclei fusion blast by harnessing a geothermal fissure. A seventy-thousand-ton pillar of red plasma tore through the atmosphere, shooting toward the boundary between Jupiter's hydrogen and oxygen layers, thirty thousand kilometers away!

"This is the Great Xia Strategic Aerospace Orbital Force. All space warships are in formation on either side of the beam. Little brother, follow my laser beacon and light one up for all humanity!"