Chapter 397: Eight-Winged Angel! (10,000)

*Boom, boom*, thunder exploded.

Thunderclouds gathered over Dawn City, and heavy rain poured down, covering the entire city in a curtain of rain.

At the south gate of the city, the Garrison troops on the high wall all had extremely nervous expressions. Under the doomsday, everyone's fear of the dark night was extremely sensitive. There was no lightness or laughter; everyone's face only showed fear of the unknown.

The sky was terrifyingly dark. The commander of the B2 Defense Sector looked at the crowded teams in the outer city with optical binoculars and then looked at the time, his nervous expression intensifying.

"There are at least tens of thousands of people here. Speed up the march!"

"The city is already too crowded to fit anymore. We must have those fleets cooperate, otherwise all areas will be blocked!" someone shouted from the other side of the communicator.

"The Dawn Watcher Alliance, the Wind Walker Alliance, and the Joint Alliance fleets are already helping to divert the crowd, but there are really too many people."

The officer responsible for passage defense shouted at this moment: "The main problem is that there are too many vehicles. They are all large vehicles and modified vehicles, blocking the streets. If this continues, the main roads in the city will be paralyzed. We must let the fleets behind abandon some vehicles!"

"Abandon vehicles, people enter, vehicles don't. Let the survivors enter the city to spend the night first!!"

Once the order was given, all city gates began to execute it. For a time, the survivors who had not yet entered the city were all panicked. Vehicles were their mobile shelters. In this situation, not many people were willing to voluntarily abandon their vehicles.

But looking at the dark curtain gathering in the sky and the rolling thunderstorms, some decisive survivors began to abandon their vehicles, take their luggage, weapons, and families, and began to run into the city on foot. This immediately drove many other survivors who had been blocked for a long time, so more and more vehicles were abandoned.

"How long until dark?" The commander on the city wall looked at the dark sky. The dark clouds and rain curtain made it impossible to distinguish between day and night.

"Report, sir, there should be 30 minutes left!"

Upon hearing this, the commander frowned deeply. He seemed to hear some sound coming from under the city wall, then walked forward. Below the city wall was pitch-black like an abyss, and it seemed that even the original outer city streets and houses could not be seen at this moment.

"Searchlights."

"A1, A2 searchlights!"

At this moment, multiple Garrison soldiers surrounded them with guns, but the searchlights swept past, only to find nothing.

The commander retreated and reminded everyone: "The dark tide of the Star Abyss is expanding abnormally. The predicted time may not be stable..."

*Screech!!! *

Just as he hadn't finished speaking, a giant tentacle covered in black scales suddenly appeared from the rear, its front end splitting into a fanged giant mouth, swallowing half of the commander's body in one bite, tearing even the power armor to pieces.

*Rat-tat-tat!! *

In an instant, all the automatic artillery on the city wall opened fire. The soldiers were scared out of their wits by this terrifying scene and only reacted in the next second.

"Aberrant entity!"

"Open fire!"

*Bang, bang, bang! *

*Whoo~*

For a time, Dawn City's defense weapons poured fire like a deluge. The searchlights swept past again, only to see that below the city wall, densely packed aberrant entities with various strange limbs were climbing up like a tsunami. Large swaths of outer city streets and buildings were covered. The black mist wave seemed to be a natural barrier. No one would have thought that the dark tide would arrive so much earlier.

The battle was ignited instantly. High above in the sky, various flying monsters swarmed densely under the thunderclouds. At the city gate, amidst the giant artillery fire and the roars of the monster tide, countless disaster victims all abandoned their vehicles and began to run densely toward the city. A couple who had fallen into trouble had just gotten off the vehicle when they were swallowed by a giant black centipede in the darkness behind them.

The ground was full of house centipedes, monster insects, human aberrants, stitched humanoid monsters, and giant mist spiders coming out in full force. Screams, artillery fire, and thunder and rain gathered together in these few minutes. Those survivors who had not yet entered the city were like prey surrounded by darkness at this moment, dying in large numbers.

Darkness was like a tide, and tens of thousands of survivors were running wildly.

"Run, run to the city wall!!"

The man dragged his wife and daughter through the overturned truck. The daughter's small leather shoe was lost, and the soles of her feet were cut bloody by broken glass.

"Daddy... I can't run anymore..."

The man suddenly bent down, carried her on his shoulder, and fired wildly at the darkness behind him with his gun.

"Hold on tight!" In the next second, a terrifying black shadow pounced from the side—the wife pushed the father and daughter away, but she herself was dragged into the darkness, leaving only a short "Run—"

The defense guard points in the outer city were firing at full power at this moment. Many people who were scattered by the monster tide could only rely on the Garrison's guard points while resisting, like isolated islands in the darkness.

"Quick, lean over here!!" The Garrison soldiers on the guard tower fired wildly and shouted at the survivors who were scattered.

"Come on, there's plenty of bullets today!" the soldier holding the large Vulcan Gatling gun roared through gritted teeth.

Who would have thought that just as over a hundred people leaned toward the defense guard tower, a giant shadow of several tens of meters flapping its wings suddenly swooped down from the sky.

Boom!

The firelight in the entire guard tower area disappeared into the dark smoke and dust in an instant.

*Buzz, buzz, buzz. *

Inside Dawn City, dense attack drones were bombing and resisting the monsters flying into the city. The pulse laser sky array was like a blue sky net constantly shooting toward the sky. Each 210mm damage high-explosive shell fired by the Great Wall base giant artillery could blast a monster tide area of half a football field into pieces. Rotten meat and insect limbs were scattered everywhere. Countless Thor's Hammer electromagnetic railguns fired dazzling electromagnetic barrages densely into the darkness at large-sized aberrant entities, suppressing the violent waves.

"There are 16 defense sectors under attack, with a scale exceeding Level 4."

On the city wall command tower on the front line, the commanders of each defense sector were reporting the battle situation to Lu Tianye.

"Early warning aircraft will be dispatched immediately to scout for special-level and S-level units. All city gates will be closed in 5 minutes!" Lu Tianye looked at the dark sky and ordered coldly.

"Isolation zone report!"

*Boom, boom, boom! *

In the isolation zone of the outer city, the Garrison Combat 1st Regiment, which was heavily defended, was the area that first withstood the large-scale monster tide invasion. But because there was advance defense preparation, they were not caught off guard. The entire regiment relied on powerful firepower to hold on to the first wave of attacks when the black tide arrived.

"Report, General, the isolation zone is..."

Combat 1st Regiment Commander Huo Bing was directing the battle. Who would have thought that under the defense line camp, the earth shook and the mountains swayed. Rows of buildings collapsed and streets collapsed. A giant aberrant entity covered in scales and thorns drilled out from the ground with a bang. Its body of several tens of meters swept, directly crushing and piercing more than a dozen soldiers and survivors into a pool of blood.

"Large aberrant entity appeared, should be A-level, requesting strategic weapon support!"

"3rd Battalion, pull that beast out of the street for me!"

"Coordinates!"

"Coordinates are..." Combat 1st Regiment Commander Huo Bing hadn't finished speaking when, under the black mist of the defense line, several giant figures slowly stood up from the black mist.

"F*** you..." he took a cold breath and cursed aloud at this moment.

"Screech..."

In the next instant, the sound in the communicator turned into current noise, and a large amount of signal from the isolation zone disappeared from the command center.

*Boom, boom, boom. *

Dawn City was under attack from multiple sides. Firelight shook the sky. Thousands of artillery fire, plasma rays, and electromagnetic railguns illuminated the rainy night sky. In the inner city military fortresses, large missiles were launched rapidly from time to time, whistling past at supersonic speeds.

For a time, the sound of explosions and thunder were mixed together, as if even the air was shaking.

On the Twin Towers, Lin Xian and Chu Yan's squad looked at the scene that was like a world war, their expressions extremely solemn.

"The dark night arrived so much earlier?" Lin Xian looked at the time, it wasn't even 18:00 yet.

"Star Abyss movement, the original way of calculating the dark tide is no longer effective." Chu Yan said coldly: "Now we can only defend passively."

Kiki looked at the firelight in the distance, her expression nervous: "What should we do, Lin Xian? The Infinite is still in Jinhai."

Lin Xian had a solemn expression: "Can only hope that side is fine. The industrial zone has no dark marks. Logically speaking, it won't actively encounter enemies."

Although he said so, it was impossible for Lin Xian not to worry. The extreme night was developing too fast. So many of his team members were over there. Now he could only hope that Xiang Xiang Ningjing and Qian Dele could arrive safely.

After speaking, Lin Xian looked at Chu Yan: "Can you find the information about that part of the large mechanical devices?"

According to Lin Xian's inference, if he could find the whereabouts of these mechanical equipment, it was very likely that he could directly find the base where the Deep Red World was resurrecting the action brain and the curtain-breaking device cooperating with Dawn City.

"Checking, but don't hold too much hope. If even Wen Hui and Zhou Mingyuan don't know, then it means this project is very likely directly intervened by the Deep Red World. The information about this part of the underground strategic network has already been investigated by Zhou Jin and Qi Nuo's Night Walker organization, and it has been completely deleted. For Chu Zhaonan and the Deep Red World, the confidentiality of the Vanguard Plan is higher than expected."

*Ssh, ssh. *

"Who is it?!"

At this moment, Chu Yan's squad members suddenly raised their guns in unison.

Lin Xian, Chu Yan, Kiki, and others turned around, only to find a man in the shadows appearing quietly on the roof at some point.

"Lin Xian."

The man looked directly at Lin Xian and said very politely: "Chairman Chu Zhaonan wants to talk to you."

Once these words were out, several people's expressions changed.

Star City Underground City. Along the way, except for the ability user who led the way, Lin Xian almost didn't see anyone. The huge underground city seemed to have been emptied in a very short time. A large number of high-level residents of the underground city became ordinary people after the Federation Council dissolved and could only hide in the crowded inner city.

Lin Xian didn't expect that he would see the Federation Chairman one day, nor did he expect it would be in such a situation.

Chairman's office. It was empty, with only an office desk and a tea table in the corner in the distance.

Outside the city, they were fighting, but here it was quiet and empty. No smoke could be seen. As soon as Lin Xian entered, he saw a middle-aged man in military uniform standing quietly by the window. Outside the window was a huge underground city patio, with a huge scale, several times larger than the No. 9 Underground City Lin Xian had been to before. It looked like the infrastructure was very perfect, but at this moment only a small amount of lights were on. Looking at it, he could still see a large number of residents evacuating.

"I've heard your name. A few people have mentioned you to me." Chu Zhaonan's voice was warm and firm. It didn't sound like the momentum of a superior. The tone was serious and not casual, as if he was having a calm conversation with Lin Xian: "Can I have a simple chat with you?"

Lin Xian looked around, with a bit of alertness in his urgency: "Chat about what?"

Chu Zhaonan turned around, looked at Lin Xian: "Many things, such as dreams, or responsibility."

"Chairman Chu." Lin Xian looked puzzled: "Tens of thousands of people are dying outside the No. 1 Wall. Are you sure you want to discuss dreams and responsibility with me here?"

"From a personal point of view, survival is a dream, and helping others obtain survival is a responsibility." Chu Zhaonan said seriously: "But the Vanguard Plan has nothing to do with dreams. This is essentially the same as you tying fate and the collective together many times to gamble for a glimmer of survival."

"Do you want to tell me that the humans escaping in the Vanguard Plan shoulder the responsibility of civilization survival, or do you want to tell me that the efforts we are making now are meaningless?" Lin Xian answered.

Chu Zhaonan shook his head: "Any effort has meaning. Just now, the Garrison Combat 1st Regiment sacrificed themselves across the board. But if they hadn't guarded the isolation zone regardless of everything to contain them, the chain reaction of the collapse of the defense line might have caused the collapse of multiple defense sectors in the south of the city. Tens of thousands of people might have lived because of this effort, which in turn caused Dawn City to gain more time and buffer, including our conversation this time, including the implementation of the Vanguard Plan, including whether we can see tomorrow's dawn."

"This is the meaning of civilization. Civilization lies in the communication, collaboration, and co-creation between individuals and is brilliant. Human beings have multiplied from the Stone Age to the present. Our civilization is growing rapidly. Our use of planetary energy and stellar energy has reached a considerable scale. But such a civilization that has experienced ten thousand years is on the verge of extinction and destruction in less than a year. What does it explain? Is it a pity? But if I tell you that 3 to 9 million cells die every second in the human body, we magnify human civilization to the cosmic level. There are countless civilizations more brilliant than ours. We are just like 1 of the 9 million dead cells."

Chu Zhaonan looked at Lin Xian and said in a calm yet helpless tone:

"From the vastness of the universe, perhaps the least lacking thing is civilization."

Lin Xian was silent.

"I recognize all the concepts of Ye Lanli and Ping. I recognize the original intention of the Phoenix Society and respect and pay tribute to the choices of every sacrifice, including you, Lin Xian."

Chu Zhaonan looked at him and said: "In these efforts, the choices you made have had direct and indirect impacts on the humans who are still alive in the current world. Yubei Airport, you made a choice, Zhang Dingzhong made a choice, Bai Shuang made a choice, Jian Xuwei also made a choice, Xilan City, Zhao Yu, He Zhen, Wei Kexue, Sun Kai, the Phoenix Society, various human alliances—70,000 people all made their own choices. Similarly, the European Storm Alliance, the North American United Front, the Dawn Center, the Qingluan Sky City—too many sacrifices, too much enthusiasm. Because of these choices, Dawn City could possibly survive until now. In the darkness, we can find more possibilities."

"But although I respect possibilities, I cannot choose to entrust human civilization to these possibilities. Human beings need a decisive choice." This sentence of Chu Zhaonan seemed to be said to Lin Xian, and also to himself.

Lin Xian pretended not to understand: "So you know I infiltrated the Starport base, but you don't stop me, and you even talked to me specifically. Is it because you hope I can do something for you?"

"Join the Vanguard Plan." Chu Zhaonan said directly.

"You should be clear about your abilities. The creative ability of mechanical abilities can quickly help interstellar colonization to carry out comprehensive industrialization, and live as a new human after escaping Blue Star."

"Why?" Lin Xian was stunned.

"Isn't rushing into the clouds to escape the dark night your expectation?" Chu Zhaonan asked back.

Lin Xian was stunned. I don't know why, but hearing Chu Zhaonan's words, he was actually a bit moved. He was too tired. If he didn't care about anything and escaped this damn darkness, maybe he wouldn't have to be so tired.

He was struggling in his heart. For a time, countless familiar faces appeared in his mind: Chen Sixuan, Kiki, Dalou, Shasha, Brother Huo, Shu Qin, Lv Chang, Miao Lu, Xiao Yuan, Old Mo, Li Yi, Luo Yang, Liang Lei, Shi Diyuan, Xiang Xiang Ningjing...

And those who died, those who were about to be forgotten, Zhang Dingzhong, Zhan Wei, Ma Xiaotang, Bai Shuang, Wei Kexue, Sun Kai, Zhou Wuer, Peng Peng, Chen Wei, Xiao He, Chen Xiao, Zhang Chengzhi, Wu Zhenhai, Liao Ming, Lu Yong...

Lin Xian stood there, his eyes inexplicably turning red. At this moment, he wished that these people had never appeared, had never died, had never seen those ice and fire, blood and tears, had never heard the hymn of courage of the Iron Guard Brigade, and that he had already died quietly in the shelter in Jiang City on the Apocalypse Day, quietly rotting.

However, how could he act as if he hadn't seen it, hadn't struggled, hadn't looked forward to the dawn...

They have all died, they are all still alive!

After a short silence, Lin Xian suddenly laughed at himself:

"1,500 years, I can't live that long."

He then said seriously to Chu Zhaonan: "You know my purpose for coming here."

"So I didn't stop you, because you won't destroy the Vanguard Plan, won't harm humans. What you want to do is to obtain information on connecting to the darkness and obtain data on the energy conversion of dark-corrosion cells for humans to resist dark invasion. I support this point."

"Then can you tell me the location of the No. 1 curtain-breaking device?" After Lin Xian finished asking, he felt that his idea was really too naive.

Since Chu Zhaonan chose to cooperate with the Deep Red World, he was prepared to inevitably complete the Vanguard Plan. In this situation, how could he actively reveal it and let the people of the Phoenix Society go to sabotage it?

Even if Lin Xian and the others were not going to sabotage it, some things were not completely controllable by Chu Zhaonan, nor were they controllable by the Phoenix Society, such as the Deep Red World. So if Lin Xian were Chu Zhaonan, he certainly wouldn't reveal half the information to ensure the smooth launch of the Vanguard Plan.

Chu Zhaonan did not speak, which confirmed Lin Xian's idea.

But at this moment, Lin Xian only felt blood surging in his heart, and he still couldn't help but say directly:

"Even if you don't look forward to this possibility, as a human leader, can you leave a hope for those of us who have been abandoned?"

Chu Zhaonan looked at Lin Xian quietly. The calm face seemed to be slightly moved. Perhaps it was because he heard Lin Xian refuse the invitation to join the Vanguard Plan, or perhaps Lin Xian's sentence 'those of us who have been abandoned' was a bit desolate. Chu Zhaonan's gaze flickered slightly.

Then, he walked over and took out a small photon storage device from his inner pocket and handed it to Lin Xian.

"What is this?" Lin Xian asked.

"Dawn City Galaxy Heart Continuous Control Key."

Chu Zhaonan said: "When the Vanguard Plan is launched, it will connect to the Galaxy Heart for total control. I considered that in this situation, it would give the Deep Red World an opportunity, so I set a disconnection program in advance. When the Vanguard Plan launch is activated, the citywide neural network hub and weapon system will be offline for 10 seconds. You can use this continuous control key to regain control of the Galaxy Heart. So..."

"So if the Deep Red World tries to invade the Galaxy Heart with AI at this time, it can be directly paralyzed and captured!" Lin Xian's expression was surprised.

"10 seconds, enough for you to use."

Chu Zhaonan looked at Lin Xian: "Your mission has been completed, Lin Xian. Good luck."

Hearing Chu Zhaonan's words, Lin Xian knew that the conversation between the two had ended.

Lin Xian slowly held the continuous control key in his palm. When he was about to leave, he suddenly asked:

"Chairman, do you think human beings still have a dawn?"

"When I was young, I was a mechanical engineer." Chu Zhaonan said something else at this moment. He turned around, as if looking at the sky above the surface: "Remember the first time I entered Star City, seeing the City Ring, I felt that human beings were really great, to be able to build such a gorgeous mechanical structure. As a beautiful landmark, it could not only drive in the air but also send signals to planetary devices for space orbit positioning. It's a pity that I can no longer see such civilization engineering."

"Yes, human civilization is very brilliant."

Lin Xian looked at Chu Zhaonan's back and left the Chairman's office.

At this moment, no Garrison or other members blocked Lin Xian. He returned to the Twin Towers and told Chu Yan about the continuous control key.

And on this side, Zhou Jin, Qi Nuo, and others had all gathered here. The No. 1 Wall had already been fighting, countless survivors were dying, and the countdown to the Vanguard Plan takeoff was approaching second by second.

"Chu Zhaonan still left some opportunities for human beings." Qi Nuo lit a cigarette in the rainy night. Behind him, the four teams of Night Walkers, totaling more than 20 people, had searched for 5 hours.

"But our key target still failed." Zhou Jin looked at the continuous artillery fire, and even some blocks in the outer city had already been fought, indicating that some aberrant entities in the air might have broken through the defense line and entered the city, or because of dark invasion, causing fear mutation, so he spat and said: "It's really f***ing annoying. According to the movements of the three Star Abysses, Dawn City doesn't have many days to live."

Chu Yan looked at Lin Xian: "Chu Zhaonan knew you infiltrated the Starport base, did he just say that to you?"

Lin Xian did not mention Chu Zhaonan inviting him to join the Vanguard Plan, but just said: "Also said some things about dreams, responsibility, civilization, etc. I didn't quite understand."

After speaking, he said to Chu Yan: "By the way, isn't your mental ability very powerful? Can you directly search for who in this city are people from the Deep Red World?"

Chu Yan sighed: "If we could do this, would we need to go to such trouble? Stealing thoughts is a very dangerous thing. Even if you catch the target, you have to do it in a state of unconsciousness. A conscious person's mental power is very strong, not to mention that human mental power is constantly growing now, so the most I can do is make you have a headache. Only in dreams is my home turf."

After Chu Yan finished speaking, she asked Lin Xian back: "Speaking of which, your mechanical ability is the one that can truly perform scanning and searching. If it is such a large mechanical colonization device of S-level, it must need a huge launch site. Can't you scan it?"

Lin Xian smiled with a headache upon hearing this: "Please, this is an ability, not a spell. Just scanning this building would take me several hours and cost me half my life. How big is Dawn City? You really treat me as a radar..."

After speaking, the smile on Lin Xian's face froze. He suddenly looked at the towering and huge City Ring surrounding the Twin Towers in the rainy night. In the dark night, it showed a huge architectural outline, like a flying vehicle floating in mid-air.

"Wait."

"What's wrong?"

Lin Xian pointed to the wreckage of the City Ring: "Was this thing originally the orbital fixed-star device of the Mochizuki Planetary Ring and the South Tianmen?"

"Yes." At this moment, Kiki said seriously: "Many people know it. The orbital ground positioning of the Mochizuki Planetary Ring at the beginning of construction was aligned with the center of Star City."

"So this itself is a super radar that can launch from S-band to high-energy pulses, right?"

"Almost." Qi Nuo said at this moment: "But if the Deep Red World is deep underground, you can't find them by radar."

"Not necessarily!"

Lin Xian immediately said to everyone: "I can control the radar and use this large-scale electromagnetic wave to enhance my mechanical scanning!"

Kiki frowned upon hearing this: "You want to perform a citywide scan?"

"Chu Yan is right. Such a large mechanical colonization device of S-level must need a huge launch site," Lin Xian said at this moment: "If it is underground, I don't need fine scanning. I only need to filter mechanical structures on a large scale, and perhaps I can find the launch site of the curtain-breaking device!"

"This works too?" Zhou Jin was incredulous: "What if it's in a very far place?"

"How far?" Lin Xian asked.

Zhou Jin couldn't answer. And at this moment, Kiki suddenly stood out, holding the mobile terminal and saying seriously: "Simple. If you want to establish a launch sequence docking and intersection before breaking the Sky Curtain Giant Curtain, you have to consider the starship speed, launch time, and the curvature of Blue Star and signal delay. If calculated by the acceleration of the Distant Star-class starship launch, with our current planetary engine level, it can be realized within 1,000 kilometers. But now after launch, there is no ground information transmission, and affected by dark invasion, even if it is the signal delay calculated by the starship's very high-frequency transmitter, this distance must be controlled within 50 kilometers. If you are more cautious, 30 kilometers is safer!"

Qi Nuo's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Smart. Indeed, for such an important plan as the Vanguard Plan, considering its particularity and technical limitations, it certainly won't be too far from the Starport!"

Chu Yan looked at Lin Xian: "So what do you want to do now?"

Lin Xian ran toward the bottom of the Twin Towers immediately. Seeing his movements, all the squads followed and ran.

Soon, the group came to the signal control room where the City Ring originally belonged. It was like a rocket launch hall, originally an important area of the government, but it had already been vacated and abandoned at this time.

As soon as he entered, Lin Xian immediately said:

"Team Zhou, Team Qi, you take people to help me check the signal cabinets and connection cables of the City Ring. Report any damage to me, and I will repair it directly. Kiki, help with personnel maneuvering."

"Chu Yan, your people help me clean up the venue together. Also, I will spend a lot of time and energy when I perform the citywide search later, and the energy of the City Ring might attract some aerial aberrant entities to approach. I need you to protect the device until I find it."

"Okay!" Kiki responded immediately.

Chu Yan and the others exchanged glances and nodded in response at this moment.

"Understood."

"Start acting immediately."

Everyone present was an elite squad, and everyone had unique skills. Following Lin Xian's arrangement, everyone was mobilized. The combat group began to search and set up fire defense points. Information experts, ability users, and other maneuvering personnel all began to help Lin Xian carry out the action.

At the same time, Lin Xian opened the Black Star Forge and released Grace and hundreds of drones. In addition to those he manufactured himself, there were also those he fought with from Qin Feng's side, all used for defense. In addition, there were hundreds of construction drones that began to coordinate with members of each group to inspect and repair the City Ring.

For a time, this team of less than 100 people seemed to exert the mobility of an entire army level, acting quickly and efficiently.

Artillery fire was everywhere outside the city, but in the control hall of the City Ring, the cables were connected and the lights were bright. The City Ring at a height of 100 meters began to patrol and inspect under the leadership of several squad members and drones.

"First ring road, signal relay QSR-7 damaged, a total of three."

"Second ring road, main power cable fused, wave guide array offset..."

"Third ring road, relay flange rotation base completely stuck."

"Fourth ring road, B-41 support beam found a 1.2-meter crack, belonging to main structure damage. It's best to reinforce it, otherwise it's not certain it can survive the next full-power operation before falling down."

"Fifth ring road, control tower phase modulator burned out."

"Sixth ring road..."

"Seventh ring road..."

The 12 ring roads of the City Ring all lit up with lights of various sizes. And Lin Xian had already used his mechanical ability to scan and connect to the central control system. This was not the first time Lin Xian used the radar system to enhance his scanning. He had used it on the photoelectric radar on the Infinite before. The main reason was that his mental power could not support the overload brought by the radar amplifying his scanning at high power.

However, Lin Xian now had the Superstring Reactor Phase Rainbow Ring, and he didn't need to do fine scanning, just perform mechanical searching like he did when sensing the Prototype and searching the underground main control room at the White City Research Institute. In theory, it was feasible.

"Then can I help?" Just as everyone was busy, Shizhi opened her mouth weakly at this moment.

"You can help a lot!" Lin Xian immediately said to her: "Searching the whole city will cost me a lot of energy, and it will take a long time, so I need your ability to support me. Can you do this?"

Seeing Lin Xian's look of entrusting him with a heavy responsibility, Shizhi nodded seriously immediately and said firmly: "Okay, I will definitely try my best!"

Time passed every second. The work of repairing the City Ring was faster than expected, and Lin Xian also received news from Jiang Yun on this side.

Star City Orbital Station. Jiang Yun, Jian Xuwei, Brother Huo, and Mo Nika led the Hongyuan Business Alliance, the New Era Engineering Group, the Iron Shield Fleet, and the original Wind Walker Alliance people to forcefully take down a group of Night Patrol Group people who had no resistance, successfully recovering the Silver Star. Now the Star City Orbital Station stronghold had gathered more than 20,000 people. Added to the defense lines of each area of the original alliance and the people brought into the outer city by Jian Xuwei's Fenger Group and Jian Zeyang, it had exceeded 70,000 people.

"There is no news from Jinhai yet. Arranged a few automatic drones to try to contact, but the signals have been interrupted." From the other side of the communicator came Jiang Yun's voice.

At this moment, Jian Xuwei's voice sounded: "Lin Xian, the Infinite and the Firmament-class will drive in at dawn. Need to negotiate with the Garrison. If it doesn't work, we will go out of the city directly to transfer to Qingbo."

"Then leave it to Deputy Jian. On my side, it's not certain that it will be done before dawn." Lin Xian looked at the time at this moment. The launch of the Vanguard Plan was at 10 o'clock tomorrow. According to the spread of the Star Abyss, it might not be dawn yet at this time.

20:25, Dawn Chengnan and West directions. The battle situation was intensifying, and even giant humanoid bodies began to climb the city wall.

*Boom, boom, boom! *

The sound of fuel-air bombs, sub-nuclear weapons, and giant aerial bombs sounded every once in a while, shaking the earth. That was definitely a heavy weapon that could only be taken out to deal with A-level or special-level.

These levels of aberrant entities possessed defense fields or regeneration capabilities that could defend against thermal weapons or ability weapons, and required large-scale strategic weapons to suppress.

Finally, the repair of the City Ring was completed. Each squad began to be responsible for defense in the Twin Towers and the City Ring. Only Lin Xian, Chu Yan, and Shizhi remained in the control room.

*Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh! *

At this moment, three energy phase rainbow rings lit up behind Lin Xian.

With the huge energy surge, the central control screen composed of 24 giant screens lit up with the logo of the Dragon Country Aerospace. A magnificent sound sounded. Lin Xian sat in a dusty chair and began to operate the central control system to start 【City Ring High-Energy Pulse】.

*Buzz! *

At this moment, high above the center of Dawn City, a circle of giant light bands like an aerial lamp suddenly lit up. The strong light beam illuminated the entire Twin Towers, like a 'God's Ring' floating above the city.

This brilliant scene made millions of Dawn City survivors stunned. Countless people looked up at the night sky and exclaimed one after another.

"Look! The City Ring is lit!"

"What happened!"

"The Twin Towers are lit!!"

And with the lighting of the giant City Ring, this dark city that seemed to have been abandoned after the dissolution of the Federation Council seemed to restore its vivid vitality at this moment, a cyber-industrial lamp shining in the sky!

At this moment, the Garrison and survivors who were resisting fiercely in the outer city and on the city wall inexplicably had a little less fear, and their firepower became more and more courageous!

"Kill! This is our human main city!!"

"Our families and children are all in the city. Don't let the monsters get into the city wall!!"

"The Garrison is fighting for our lives, fight them!!"

"Damn it, fight!!"

And Lin Xian, who was in the Twin Towers at this moment, didn't know that the lighting of the City Ring had produced a subtle civil encouragement for all the humans in the city. He sank his intention of mechanical scanning into it. With the radiation of the high-energy pulse, his intention was like God's eye hovering in the air. With a bang, the City Ring erupted with a powerful ionization shock, and his consciousness began to rush from the Twin Towers into the underground, and with this as the center, it spread out.

The moment his neural interface connected to the radar array, the world collapsed into a data torrent before his eyes. His intention was like a blade cutting into the steel bones of the building. The glass curtain wall became transparent in his consciousness, revealing the crisscrossing stress frames inside. Bullet holes remained in the elevator shaft, and cables hung like dying snakes. Lin Xian fell down along the data flow, crashed through the B7 parking lot, and hit the darkness of the underground transport tunnel. Countless maglev tracks were transporting ammunition and equipment at high speed at this moment.

On the No. 2 city wall of the inner city, most of the weapon arrays were facing the sky. Tracer bullets and pulse cameras were like blooming flowers, making the residual limbs and blood rain of aberrant entities in the sky fall constantly. Consciousness came to the old city. The dense fleet of cars and underground building structures made Lin Xian's head heavier and heavier. Millions of people were shooting at the sky, and in the basement, the elderly protected the children in the middle, women built fortifications with shopping carts, babies were crying, and wives were weeping.

As the range expanded, Lin Xian's pressure expanded exponentially at this moment. Shizhi on the side began to exert her ability to support Lin Xian with all her strength. And at this moment, Lin Xian felt the pressure loosen, and immediately gritted his teeth and continued.

Time seemed to slow down. He couldn't hear the gunfire coming from outside, nor could he hear the urgent battle shouts of Zhou Jin, Qi Nuo, and others in the communicator.

Lin Xian could only concentrate on expanding the scan at this moment. Consciousness finally arrived at the No. 1 city wall. In an instant, the huge defense weapons and underground pipeline groups appeared. Darkness, death, tens of thousands of corpses were everywhere, blood mixed with rain flowed wantonly into the sewers, and there were screams of heartbreak everywhere, like the deafening sound of artillery fire in a world war.

And leaving the No. 1 city wall, countless terrifying aberrant entity faces came toward him. They howled, charged frantically, used humans as blood food, and no matter whether it was men, women, the elderly, or children, they were ruthlessly torn and swallowed.

Lin Xian sank completely underground. The original underground strategic fortifications now featured multiple completely hidden passages that seemed to have been newly constructed after the Apocalypse and were not on Zhou Jin's classified maps. Following these passages, and under the intrusion of his splitting, agonizing consciousness, a massive and majestic underground city unexpectedly appeared.

But the underground city marked with the No. 2 nameplate seemed to have been abandoned after only being half-built. At this moment, it was transformed into a large underground base, named 【Giant God Peak Launch Site】.

Lin Xian saw countless drones and many armed personnel. That didn't seem to be people from Dawn City.

A large amount of resources and equipment were transported here. And under the circular underground city, Lin Xian finally saw that S-level Gray Mist!

At this moment, the Gray Mist Messenger had already stood vertically like the A-level aberrant entity colonized by flesh and blood under the Jinhai underground. The giant hydraulic limit tower fixed it. The whole body of this Gray Mist had been installed with mechanical armor like the Prototype, like an old god forcibly dragged into the human world. The head was fitted with armor, and at the back of the head was a set of ultra-large brain-machine control modules. 24 EVA-style restraint locks were inserted neatly along the back of its spine like 24 sharp swords. Countless liquid pipes were connected to it, filled with yellowish-brown liquid.

Its broken tissues and bones were all covered and connected by power components and armor. The neck and joints were wrapped in dark red restraints. Those metal armors engraved with warning signs were not to protect the aberrant entity, but to defend the suppression modules and restraints. A giant fusion vortex engine was installed on the chest to provide power for this giant device of several hundred meters.

Because the most terrifying thing was that 8 large plasma thrusters were installed symmetrically on its back, each of which was a hundred meters high, like 8 sharp buildings hanging upside down on its body. This scale was more than three times larger than the Prototype of the Emperor Project!

Like an eight-winged angel!

"Found it."

Lin Xian exclaimed in horror. Looking at this giant device combining the corpse of an S-level aberrant entity with human mechanical colonization in his consciousness, he immediately concluded that this must be the curtain-breaking device they were looking for!

(End of chapter)