Chapter 292: Eve of Dawn
Countless firepower converged into a torrent toward the Winged Demon in the sky. At this moment, the heavy artillery fire from the high wall defense lines in both the east and north of the city also bombarded the giant sea urchin.
Dense explosions erupted against the invisible defensive barrier on the sea urchin's black spines, and for a time, the artillery fire shook the heavens.
The Pangu Unit-01 was overturned by the Abyss Worm, crashing backward into a city block. Several high-rise buildings exploded upon impact, and the fragments of the building structures and glass curtain walls fell like a tidal wave.
"Damn it, this earthworm!"
In the cockpit, Chen Wei cursed angrily, gasping for air repeatedly.
"This worm is the vanguard for that sea urchin. They must have some kind of communication mechanism; now we are being pincered from both sides!"
Lin Xian was breathing rapidly at this moment, and suddenly he felt a hot stream flow from his nostrils. He reached up to touch it and found it was all fresh blood.
Even though he possessed the Heart of the Machine, the difficulty of maintaining a constant scan and perception of the entire ten-thousand-ton mecha while operating it via neural link was unimaginable. He turned his head to look at Chen Wei and found that the other man's face was also pale, with nosebleeds flowing like pillars.
"How are you? Can you still fight?!"
Chen Wei wiped away the blood: "A small matter."
"Good!"
Clang, clang.
The two grabbed the arm manipulators, their bodies jolted, and they stood up once again.
Woo~
Lying in the ruins, the nuclear-powered turbine pulse in the chest of the Pangu Unit-01 began to roar. The muscle engine units throughout its body outputted torque frantically. The Unit-01 slammed a single fist into the ground and rose from the ruins once more.
Looking at the smoke and dust filling the sky ahead, Chen Wei said calmly:
"That worm was acting while we were moving; the seismic sensors couldn't lock onto the signal. Now it's not moving again, clearly lurking to ambush us on purpose."
Lin Xian's gaze tightened as he looked at the black sea urchin under the dense artillery fire, and he nodded: "As long as we attack that sea urchin, this thing will pop out, so..."
He looked at Chen Wei, and the other man nodded back at him.
The two immediately understood, aimed at the direction of the black sea urchin, and began to walk forward.
Thump, thump!
The Unit-01 walked out of the smoke and dust and headed toward the black sea urchin. At this time, the giant sea urchin fully braced its protective barrier, its black spines twisting, and billowing smoke and dust rose around it, seemingly slowly ascending into the sky!
"This guy wants to run!?"
"We won't give it the chance!"
Once this guy flew into the clouds, there would be absolutely no chance left.
Immediately, the Unit-01 began to accelerate. Every step it took brought a massive tremor, but at the same time, the Abyss Worm beneath the ground was also following and moving.
"Right fist!"
"Right fist!"
Just as they approached the black spines of the sea urchin, the two shouted in unison and threw a fierce punch, but it struck directly against an invisible protective shield, sending out layers of air ripples. Yet, the giant sea urchin did not attack the Unit-01 at all, instead ascending while enduring the dense artillery fire!
But the Unit-01 would not give it such an opportunity. It shifted horizontally for hundreds of meters, finding the gap where the atmospheric pressure tower had been inserted earlier. At that position, a circle of the protective barrier was emitting high temperatures from the force field, continuously melting the body of the metal atmospheric pressure tower, and it looked as if it was about to be completely severed.
Lin Xian and Chen Wei seized this moment, and both raised their right arms simultaneously.
"Activate the ultra-high-pressure pulse electric hammer!"
"Activate the ultra-high-pressure pulse electric hammer!"
Zzzzt, zzzzt, zzzzt—the right arm's hydraulic press stretched, and high-frequency pulse electric arcs flickered across dozens of alloy stamping machines. Then, they slammed a punch directly into the metal atmospheric pressure tower. The massive electromagnetic impact caused the tower to emit a high-temperature blast, crashing through the outer shell of the giant sea urchin by dozens of meters, immediately causing a large amount of black corrosive thick slurry to spray from the tower's mouth.
Lin Xian and Chen Wei immediately dodged to the side, avoiding these corrosive liquids.
Click~ screech, screech, screech.
This action seemed to not only severely damage the sea urchin but also completely enrage it. The giant black-spined sea urchin emitted a powerful infrasonic howl. In an instant, all the black spines began to sway violently, ignoring the missiles landing on its body, and swept crazily toward the Unit-01.
Boom!
Lin Xian and Chen Wei were already prepared. They drove the Unit-01 to raise its hands and fiercely embrace the black spines, dragging the giant sea urchin down from the sky by force!
Wen Zhuo, in another direction, saw that all the defensive barriers around the sea urchin had disappeared. His gaze tightened as he sensed the opportunity, and he immediately shouted on the frequency: "Quick! Everyone, fire at will! Shoot all missiles!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
At this moment, all flight units, and even long-range ground units and heavy artillery, opened fire. In an instant, the sky was filled with dense arcs of flying flames, and the artillery fire from the high city walls also roared in.
Wen Zhuo and the others also brought the hunting group members and used every long-range skill they could muster.
For a time, dense explosions erupted all over the giant sea urchin!
Boom, boom, boom!
This time, the massive explosions shattered a large amount of its hard shell, and dozens of giant black spines also snapped upon impact, falling down with a wailing hum.
The giant sea urchin was burning with a raging fire, and a large number of black spines fell to the ground one by one. Everyone watching this scene was filled with excitement!
Rumble.
At this moment, massive seismic waves began to roar. Chen Wei and Lin Xian, who were tightly suppressing the sea urchin, immediately braced themselves.
In the holographic vision, they captured the cracking of the ground, and both of them had somber expressions.
"Don't let go yet, this guy is about to collapse!" Chen Wei gritted his teeth and roared.
"I... know...!" Lin Xian was gritting his teeth to the limit at this moment. The nuclear-powered engine in the chest of the Pangu Unit-01 roared frantically, and all the engines throughout its body were humming, outputting massive torque to suppress the sea urchin onto the ground by force.
Just at this moment, a faint red light streaked across the sky, heading rapidly toward the direction of the crack in the ground.
Lin Xian looked up and saw that it was actually Kiki bringing the Hell Black Chrysanthemum. She flew rapidly across the street, speeding along the direction of the seismic wave.
"Kiki, don't get so close!!"
Lin Xian shouted immediately, but all communication frequencies near the black spines were interfered with, and their messages couldn't be received at all. Other aviation combat formations were also attacking flexibly based on the Unit-01's actions and the state of the black spines. Seeing Kiki make such a dangerous move, Lin Xian was extremely anxious.
"Stinky worm, you've been chasing this flower, right? It's right here, come and get it!!"
Kiki's face was pale. She held the cultivation pod of the Hell Black Chrysanthemum in both hands. As she was about to approach the sea urchin, she turned sharply, staring fixedly at the crack in the ground, shouting frantically in her heart: "Follow me, follow me!!"
And a strange scene occurred: the Abyss Worm seemed to be truly attracted by the aura of the Hell Black Chrysanthemum. Just as it was about to approach the Unit-01, it suddenly changed direction and followed Kiki.
Kiki's expression turned to joy, and she immediately increased her speed, taking the Hell Black Chrysanthemum and flying toward the open area in the distance.
Seeing that Kiki's action had actually succeeded, Lin Xian and Chen Wei were both somewhat incredulous.
"It seems this worm isn't very smart either!" Lin Xian muttered.
"Sea urchin, your subordinate has run away, it's time for you to die too!" Chen Wei also shouted angrily at this moment.
But at this moment, on the Unit-01's holographic vision, alarms suddenly blared and red lights flashed.
【Warning, strong energy fluctuations detected!】
【Warning, strong energy fluctuations detected!】
Scrape, scrape, scrape!
At this moment, whether it was because the dense bombardment made the giant sea urchin perceive the crisis of death or because it was enraged by the stupid behavior of the Abyss Worm, the dense compound eyes on the sea urchin began to emit red light violently. Its black velvet fur swayed rapidly, and a scarlet smoke and dust, several times more violent than before, oscillated outward in a spherical, omnidirectional posture!
Boom!
In an instant, all the incoming missiles and shells were submerged and exploded. The city blocks around the sea urchin were instantly shaken into powder by the shockwave caused by this high temperature. The composite armor on the Pangu Unit-01 was instantly torn apart, a large number of mechanical units melted, and the nano-ceramic window on its head shattered in half. The lights and system glows inside suddenly went dark, and the entire machine was blasted away!
At this moment, Kiki, who was flying past, felt the energy fluctuations behind her. Before she could even turn around, she was instantly submerged by the shockwave and blasted away, and the Hell Black Chrysanthemum in her hands fell into the ruins.
Rumble!
The shockwave supported a massive hemisphere of destruction over Xilan City in a radial pattern, covering almost 1/3 of the city. The monster tide in the city, the Winged Demons in the sky, and many aviation formations were instantly swallowed. The powerful ionizing radiation also caused all the aircraft in the distance to lose power and fall downward in large numbers!
This terrifying scene almost leveled the entire central city area, and Kiki was also blasted by the shockwave into a ruin. Fortunately, she used a telekinetic shield to protect herself at the very last moment, otherwise, her life would have been lost.
Cough, cough~
Kiki struggled up from the rubble, covered in blood, and used her last bit of strength to move a floor slab off her body. She stood up with effort, looking fearfully at the devastated city, searching everywhere for that Unit-01.
"Lin... cough, cough, cough."
Kiki had no strength left at this moment, shivering in the wind and snow. At this time, she finally saw the giant mecha under the ruins in the distance. At a glance, the front part of the Unit-01 was largely scorched red, its chest armor split open, looking miserable.
"Lin Xian!"
Kiki shouted, and she hurriedly pressed the communicator, trying to make contact, but even if it could connect, there was no sound coming from the other side.
Rumble~
At this time, the roar of the earthquake came again. The ground trembled, and smoke and dust rose everywhere. Kiki realized something and hurriedly searched for the Hell Black Chrysanthemum.
If that worm swallowed the Hell Black Chrysanthemum, then the Unit-01 side was finished too!
"Where is it? Where is it..."
Kiki searched blankly, surrounded by pitch-black ruins. At this moment, she suddenly thought: "Right, that worm is looking for it too!"
She immediately looked in the direction the earthquake was moving, and sure enough, at the edge of the rubble on a street, she saw the Hell Black Chrysanthemum emitting red light!
Kiki's chest heaved rapidly, gasping for air, gritting her teeth to try and use her ability to fly, but she was shivering all over and couldn't control her ability at all. Bright red nosebleed kept flowing from her nostrils.
Just when she was extremely anxious, a snowmobile suddenly roared out from the ruins of the street. Its headlights were bright, and it stumbled all the way to the side of the ruins. The door opened, and a thin, small figure jumped out of the car and rushed straight toward the Hell Black Chrysanthemum.
Kiki's gaze tightened, because that figure was actually Xiao Yuan!
"Xiao Yuan!!" Kiki shouted immediately into the communicator.
"Kiki, I found the Hell Black Chrysanthemum, where are you?!" Xiao Yuan said into the communicator while carefully digging through the rubble to pull out the Hell Black Chrysanthemum.
Rumble!
The violent earthquake continued to roar. Kiki looked at the billowing smoke and dust rising into the sky in the distance, her face changed drastically, and she shouted to Xiao Yuan: "Quick! Run, don't worry about me!!"
After saying that, she immediately shouted urgently in the hunting group's communicator: "Wen Zhuo, Brother Huo, where are you? Come here quickly!"
"Arriving immediately!" In the communicator came the sound of whistling wind; it was Wen Zhuo's voice.
At this time, Xiao Yuan saw the earthquake behind her and the Unit-01 in the distance. She immediately hugged the Hell Black Chrysanthemum in her arms and ran back to the car frantically. She stepped on the accelerator, the engine roared, and the snowmobile rushed through the snow dust and ran toward the open area in the distance.
And behind her, the roaring seismic wave was rapidly approaching.
"Lin Xian!! Lin Xian!! Are you still alive!!" Kiki was calling Lin Xian frantically in the communicator. Watching Xiao Yuan fleeing for her life, she shouted in a voice almost choked with sobs: "If you don't get up, Xiao Yuan is going to die!"
Zzzzt, zzzzt, zzzzt~
Zzzzt, zzzzt~
Under the rubble, in the head cockpit of the Unit-01, sparks flew, pipelines burst, and the holographic vision flickered non-stop.
【System reboot successful】
【Detected that the external main structure is severely damaged, exceeding 37%】
【Detected that the left arm orbital burner is damaged.】
【Detected that the back buffer jet unit is damaged.】
【Detected that 22% of the core power source is lost】
【Detected...】
The mechanical female voice kept ringing in his ears. Lin Xian slowly opened his eyes in the dim cockpit, feeling the cold wind blowing in from outside the shattered nano-ceramic protective panel.
Scrape, scrape, scrape~
The exposed steel bars and metal on the ground shook rapidly. Wen Zhuo flew past quickly in the sky. The holographic panel captured the direction of the seismic wave, and soon he saw a small snowmobile speeding rapidly in front of the roaring smoke and dust.
"Team Leader Lin."
Xiao Yuan, who was driving and fleeing in a hurry, looked at the sky full of smoke and dust in the rearview mirror. Her mind was almost blank, her gaze focused only on the front, and the tracks drove over the rubble and the shattered street.
Hearing Kiki's shouting in the communicator, she was also extremely anxious about Lin Xian's safety, but she knew that this pot of Hell Black Chrysanthemum had to be taken away quickly, as far away from Team Leader Lin as possible. Otherwise, this worm would definitely go find Team Leader Lin.
At this time, Xiao Yuan looked at the Hell Black Chrysanthemum beside her, and her expression gradually became firm.
Rumble, the sound of the earthquake was getting closer and closer. The speed of the snowmobile couldn't outrun the worm under the ground at all.
In an instant, Xiao Yuan only felt the car surging and undulating like a ship in the waves. Knowing that the monster had caught up with her, she immediately hugged the Hell Black Chrysanthemum and prepared to jump out of the car.
Whoosh!
At this moment, a sound of breaking air swept over rapidly from the distance. Wen Zhuo made a decisive decision and directly used magnetic control force to grab the entire snowmobile out of thin air!
The massive lifting force pressed Xiao Yuan fiercely into her seat. Just when she thought she was saved, massive smoke and dust suddenly rose from the ground below. The entire ground ruin exploded with a roar, and an abyss-like giant mouth with violent momentum burst out from underground, directly swallowing the entire car in the air!
In an instant, Xiao Yuan only felt the light around her being annihilated in the darkness. At this moment, she felt as if even her heartbeat had slowed by half a beat.
"Catch it!!" Not knowing where the strength came from, just as the snowmobile was about to be swallowed by the giant worm, she actually threw the Hell Black Chrysanthemum in her arms toward Wen Zhuo with all her might... Boom!
The next instant, the snowmobile was completely swallowed by the abyss giant mouth.
Wen Zhuo's gaze shook. The magnetic control force in his hand couldn't hold the snowmobile at all, and he could only grab the Hell Black Chrysanthemum thrown out at the critical moment.
"Xiao Yuan!!" Kiki, on the ruins in the distance, saw this scene and exclaimed loudly, her eyes full of disbelief.
"Click, click... it... it doesn't matter..."
In the roaring, noisy current sound of the communicator, Xiao Yuan's voice came intermittently.
"... you... all... must live on..."
In the snowmobile swallowed by the abyss, Xiao Yuan gripped the communicator tightly.
"It is very normal for a fleet to have a 5% casualty loss..."
"Which large fleet along the way doesn't have a death rate exceeding 5% or 6% every time they experience the dark night? Some even exceed 10%. Once the dark night comes, how can there be no deaths."
"Those who die in the fleet every time are mostly peripheral personnel or ordinary people with low strength and insufficient protection. There is nothing to make a fuss about..."
!
Rumble, the Abyss Worm retreated rapidly underground. Watching the signal on the communicator also disappearing rapidly, Xiao Yuan closed her eyes and prepared to say her final words to the communicator.
"Team Leader Lin, I..."
Boom, the next instant, the entire snowmobile was completely swallowed and exploded, and the signal was interrupted.
Thump, thump, thump!
However, just at this moment, the ruins of the entire central city area suddenly experienced a violent tremor. Just as the Abyss Worm was about to drill back underground, a super-giant mecha roared in with an ultra-low running impact posture. Even the blizzard in the sky and the raging fire on the ground were extinguished by a powerful wind pressure, and the entire ruin was trembling!
"Lin Xian!!!" Kiki shouted.
In the cockpit, Lin Xian, piloting the Pangu Unit-01 alone, rushed over with blood-red eyes. He directly grabbed the edge of the Abyss Worm's giant mouth, then raised his right hand. The Pangu Unit-01's right hand began to transform, and the five fingers transformed into a triangular phase ring and began to rotate at high speed. However, the maglev acceleration rail did not light up; he actually used the high-speed rotating phase ring directly as a rotating shield machine!
"You want to eat my people, you! Dream!!!!"
Lin Xian roared angrily. The rotating shield machine descended from the sky, directly inserting into the giant mouth of the Abyss Worm, humming and mincing a patch of minced meat and blood rain. Along the way down, it grabbed the swallowed snowmobile by force. Scrape, scrape, scrape—thousands of engines in the Unit-01's right arm roared, the hydraulic drive shaft exploded with ten thousand tons of torque, and it roared as it tore out the snowmobile along with a large part of the Abyss Worm's esophagus!
Ang, hum!!!!
The Abyss Worm emitted a fearful wail at this moment, and blood plasma and flesh chunks sprayed into the sky like a volcanic eruption!
Xiao Yuan, who was about to welcome death, only saw a brilliant white light shine above her head before losing consciousness, and then Lin Xian's roar came from the communicator.
"Team... Team Leader Lin?"
Outside, seeing this violent scene, Kiki and Wen Zhuo were both stunned for a moment. The Unit-01 threw the snowmobile toward Wen Zhuo, who immediately understood, raised his hand to grab the snowmobile with magnetic control force, and flew into the high sky along with Kiki in the distance, avoiding the danger zone.
Woo!!
At this time, the maglev acceleration rail on the Unit-01's right arm, full of minced meat and blood plasma, began to emit a ghostly blue light, and the hexagonal superconducting coil burst into high-frequency whistling in the extreme cold!
Lin Xian raised the plasma cannon and aimed it directly at the giant mouth of the Abyss Worm, saying coldly: "Now let you eat your fill!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The plasma cannon with millions of degrees roared and shot out. The Abyss Worm, which was trying to twist and escape, lit up with scarlet and white flames inside its body, expanded rapidly, and then in the next instant, it exploded and burned. Flame lava sprayed out, the worm's mouth opened like an exploded morning glory, scattering in all directions, and the entire inside of the worm's mouth was like burning red lava, dead beyond dead!
Boom!
Just at this moment, a giant black spine suddenly swept over in the flames, directly catching Lin Xian off guard. The Unit-01 was blasted away by this huge force, crashing into the ruins and rushing out a giant ground subsidence gully of dozens of meters!
Pfft~
Lin Xian crashed into a cooler on the side and immediately spat out a mouthful of blood. The neural empathy cable was still plugged into his body. At this moment, the dual pain of body and spirit gave him a feeling worse than death. The relay gel inside the mask began to leak, and Lin Xian's consciousness still produced a vague feeling of suffocation.
【Warning, target anomaly approaching.】
【Warning, target anomaly approaching.】
In the cockpit, the alarm red light flashed. Lin Xian looked at the rapidly approaching giant sea urchin, and in his heart, he actually felt some pleasure.
Because this giant sea urchin didn't fly into the sky at the first opportunity, but after the Unit-01 solved the Abyss Worm, it angrily launched an attack on him!!
Regardless of the reason, all the surviving combat units from all sides were exerting their last strength to launch fierce bombardment at the giant sea urchin at this moment. Only a dozen of the dense black spines on the entire giant sea urchin remained.
Hum!
Another black spine attacked, and this time it wasn't a sweep, but a direct stab from a high place with the tip aimed at the chest core of the Unit-01!
"Ah!"
At the critical moment, Lin Xian shouted and climbed onto the console. His left hand swung, manipulating the Unit-01 to brace against the ground and shift horizontally to the right. The black spine grazed the left rib mecha unit of the Unit-01. Boom, boom, boom—the black spine directly inserted into the ground and overturned the foundation of a street. The giant sea urchin seemed not to intend to stop. The further the giant black spine inserted, the thicker the tail end became, grinding off the drive shaft of the left arm and a large number of cables, and the armor on the left chest also shattered and spread inch by inch, appearing with a huge gap.
Zzzzt, zzzzt, zzzzt—a large number of mecha unit fragments continued to fall, sparks flew, coolant leaked in large quantities, and the giant sea urchin used this one black spine to nail the Unit-01 fiercely to the ground. Its huge main body descended directly above the Unit-01, countless pairs of red compound eyes staring at the Unit-01. Its remaining black spines were still swaying constantly in the air, releasing patches of protective barriers in an attempt to block the artillery attacks from the sky and the distance.
At this time, those countless scarlet compound eyes seemed to see Lin Xian inside through the broken nano-ceramic panel on the Unit-01's head. In the honeycomb structure wrapped in mucus, every pupil contracted synchronously at this moment, as if staring at Lin Xian.
And Lin Xian saw those scarlet eyes filling the sky, and his eardrums suddenly felt as if they were pierced by the screams of billions of overlapping anomalies. At this moment, Lin Xian seemed to see a giant eye, seemingly outside the atmosphere, in the form of a nebula, gazing at him!
Lin Xian suddenly saw dense scarlet silk tentacles drilling out of the giant sea urchin's compound eyes, like small velvet tentacles formed by some kind of blood and energy body. They were in the thousands, constantly probing, twisting, spiraling, and converging in the air, and then heading toward Lin Xian's direction. Lin Xian sensed the danger at this moment, but for some reason, he found that he couldn't move at all, as if his mental power had been drained, and he could only watch those completely red compound eyes in horror and despair.
Scrape, scrape, scrape!
At this moment, the dark red high-frequency blade chain sword under the armor of the Unit-01's right arm suddenly slid out of the rail. The sword spine closed, changing from a folded form to a solidified giant sword. The sharp, cold serrations flashed with cold light, the nuclear-powered engine in the chest emitted a sharp whistle, and the exploding chain sword slammed into the center of the giant sea urchin's compound eyes!
In an instant, Lin Xian suddenly woke up from that fear-dominated state. He turned his head and saw that Chen Wei had climbed up at some point, reconnected the neural empathy, and exploded with a face full of blood!
"Go to hell!!"
Chen Wei roared, his voice full of the release of vengeful anger!
"His temper is just like this, he doesn't have a good face for anyone, and he is particularly resistant to ability users. It is said that after the Apocalypse Day, his family was all killed by an ability user thug fleet. Now his brother is gone too, and after he alone linked to the Unit-01's neural empathy system to drive, he suffered trauma in terms of spirit..."
Scrape!
The chain sword slashed down vertically, splitting open the entire black shell of the sea urchin, and a massive amount of black mucus sprayed out.
And at this time, under the illumination of the warning lights on the Unit-01, Lin Xian actually saw that inside the hard shell of the black sea urchin, it was full of spherical substances similar to human brain tissue, densely stacked together like egg follicles, with brownish-red liquid circulating and flowing inside, constantly twisting and deforming, looking extremely terrifying.
Hum, hum, hum!
The inner cavity of the sea urchin, split by a sword, suddenly erupted with a roar like a pipe organ. The gap closed rapidly, and the countless compound eyes outside were all focused on the Unit-01's head cockpit at this time. Scarlet red emerged, energy fluctuations boiled, and violent winds and electric arc lightning began to flicker and explode in the surrounding city blocks!
It was that kind of laser beam again!
"Lin Xian!!"
"Team Leader Lin!!"
Under the white-hot battlefield, dozens of people from the hunting group rushed over to assist one after another. All the aircraft in the sky rushed over rapidly. Seeing this terrifying scene, everyone realized what the sea urchin was about to do!
Wen Zhuo, Han Jun, Brother Huo, and others exerted their abilities with all their might, mobilizing a large amount of material to gather in front of the sea urchin's compound eyes, trying to block this death ray.
The next instant, a dark red beam of light roared out, instantly annihilating the Unit-01's head cockpit completely!
Hum, hum, hum—in an instant, the surrounding ruins burned red and melted rapidly due to the high temperature diffusion. The blizzard in the air was all vaporized into steam and rose. The entire central city area was shrouded in a dark red halo. The ground trembled, and the light was blinding.
Finally, the dark red death ray spray ended, and the thick smoke dissipated. But just when everyone thought Lin Xian must be dead, Wen Zhuo, who was rushing at the front, saw clearly that in the air in front of the Unit-01's head cockpit, there was actually something translucent like an energy shield flickering rapidly. The area of the polygonal light shield was extremely large, almost covering the entire upper body of the Unit-01!
And at this time, the Unit-01, apart from emitting steaming heat, was actually unscathed!
"What is this?!!"
"It actually blocked that ray!"
"Impossible!"
The nano-ceramic panel of the Unit-01's head cockpit shattered and fell inch by inch under the high temperature. Lin Xian stood on the driving platform, his eyes flashing with electric arcs. He supported a giant AT field defensive shield with one hand. Behind Lin Xian, a ghostly azure superstring reactor phase rainbow ring appeared, a large number of cables floated behind, and countless electric arcs connected behind him like a spider web!
And at this time, the Unit-01's nuclear-powered turbine engine was running violently, and a large amount of electricity was outputting surgingly!
The thick smoke passed, and the countless scarlet compound eyes focused on Lin Xian above the sky were twisting frantically, seemingly bursting with endless questions about why the prey was still alive at this time...
At this time, Lin Xian slowly raised his finger, his blood-red gaze pointing at the cracked and unclosed black shell of the sea urchin, and he whispered:
"Gravitational lens."
A sound of spatial humming rang out, and all the sounds on the battlefield seemed to stagnate instantly, as quiet as before.
In an instant, everyone on the battlefield felt that the already weak light in the central city area darkened immediately. A distorted space formed in the crack of the giant sea urchin's black shell, like a black water vortex in the air. The red light of the sea urchin's compound eyes was also distorted at this moment.
Instantly, the distorted dark area seemed to stir and swallow all the red light and starlight, turning into a giant dark red black hole!
The black hole expanded rapidly, like a meat grinder with huge gravity, instantly grinding the giant sea urchin's black shell and the egg follicles inside into a spherical void!
At this moment, all the compound eyes of the giant sea urchin were trembling violently, and the strange pipe organ-like sound of woo~ chi, woo~ chi was emitted constantly.
Lin Xian exhausted all his strength, expanding the lens to the limit he could use in an instant.
With a loud bang of empty space, the massive grinding force instantly ground out a void about 1/5 of the volume on the body of the giant sea urchin!
On the other side, Wen Zhuo and the others saw this scene and immediately sensed the opportunity. He immediately shouted loudly in the communicator:
"Quick, this is an excellent opportunity, finish it off in one go!!"
The voice instantly spread to everyone on the battlefield.
In an instant, Brother Huo, Lu Xingchen, Han Jun, Qin Xueming, and the more than 20 hunting groups that rushed over, the aircraft in the sky, and the missiles supported by the three defense lines played the hunting war song simultaneously, all firing roaringly at the exposed void of the sea urchin.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!
The giant sea urchin was still swaying its remaining black spines, attempting to raise a protective barrier, but the last bit of barrier could not block it at all.
Countless energy explosions, metal storms poured down!
Without that strange defensive barrier, its body was nothing more than a giant meatball to the firepower of the 7th Investigation Corps and tens of thousands of survivors. In an instant, it disintegrated and shattered, and the remaining tissue and minced meat splashed in all directions.
In the head cockpit of the Unit-01, Lin Xian looked at the brilliant explosion firelight above, his vision began to blur, and all the floating cables fell. He only felt the world spinning, and could only hear the sound of his own breathing and heartbeat. In the blink of an eye, he had fallen silently. He turned his head, and lying beside him was the already dead Chen Wei. All the neural empathy cables were still linked to his body. At the last moment, he still maintained the action of stabbing the chain sword, and the two Phoenix Society badges worn on his neck slid to his neck.
One for Chen Wei, one for Chen Lie.
"Lin Xian!"
Lin Xian heard Chen Sixuan's voice at this time. He turned his head, and before losing consciousness, he saw a lithe figure wearing Black Eagle combat armor, prying open the fragments of the nano-ceramic panel, appearing above the head cockpit.
Clang, clang.
Clang, clang.
In the blizzard, the sound of the train tracks was like a lullaby. The 22 Doomsday Trains were traveling on the north line tracks, like a long dragon of wind and snow, driving away from Xilan City in the dark night.
September 1st, D-95, 5:25 AM.
The Xilan City defense battle ended.
Of the more than 65,000 survivors in the whole city, only more than 29,000 remained. Of the 12,256 Investigation Corps soldiers, more than 7,000 died in total. 2/3 of the aviation combat formations were lost, the Dreadnought-class aerospace carrier crashed, and only 21 of the 35 hunting group squads remained...
The giant sea urchin was surrounded and annihilated by the city's firepower, billowing black smoke filled the earth, all monster tides retreated, and humanity won a miserable victory.
Wei Kexue, Sun Kai, Chen Wei, Xiao He, Chen Xiao, Zhang Chengzhi, Wu Zhenhai, Liao Ming, Lu Yong... countless people slept forever in this blizzard, never seeing the dawn of September.
The Phoenix Society led all the remaining survivors and the Investigation Corps to unite together, driving toward the east, which was about to be covered by the No. 5 Star Abyss, before dawn. And the train group led by the Infinite and Longshan No. 1 could only continue to follow the north line tracks, driving into the blizzard and polar night in the direction closer to the No. 5 Star Abyss.
This was a quiet collective evacuation.
"Supervisor Zhao, has the postman beacon been sent out?"
On the Phoenix Society's large base vehicle, Wen Zhuo asked Zhao Yu.
"In the latest fire book information package, the Dawn Center has already received it."
"Which postman group is it?"
Zhao Yu pondered slightly: "There is no postman group, the tracking signals of all 12 postman groups have disappeared."
After speaking, he turned to look at Wen Zhuo: "A fleet called the Blackie Fleet discovered Zhou Wuer and Peng Peng. When they found them, they were already gone. That guy called Long Dahei took the beacon out for them."
Wen Zhuo's fingers trembled inadvertently upon hearing this. After a long while, he whispered: "Good."
Just as Wen Zhuo was leaving, Zhao Yu called him back. After thinking for a moment, he finally said: "He is your friend, right? He was a good one..."
"He is my brother."
Wen Zhuo took a deep breath and turned to leave.
At this time, deep in the vast blizzard, countless corpses of snow demons and snow monsters were piled up in an alluvial area. At the very center, Zhou Wuer hugged Peng Peng and curled up, already buried by the wind and snow. In the special postman bag, a bottle of unopened Xinghua Fen liquor still lay quietly inside, letting the wind and snow blow.
"Zzzzt..."
"Phoenix Society global announcement: The scientific research team has successfully analyzed the operating principle of dark creatures at the Star Abyss front line, which has been named 【Dark Mark】. The Phoenix Society research group has successfully developed the latest generation of Soul-Oscillation Value Detector in conjunction with Xinghua Heavy Industry. In addition to being able to directly detect the peak individual Soul-Oscillation Value, it also has the function of detecting the concentration of individual 【Marks】. The Phoenix Society hereby issues an announcement to survivors all over the world..."
"Do not walk into that polar night with a mark. The daylight is coming to an end. Face the danger, burn and roar. Before igniting the prairie fire, please... remain silent in the dark night!"
(End of Volume 2)
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