Chapter 1176: Remaining Civilization

Boom boom boom! Boom!

The earth shook.

Under the area-of-effect attack, Lin An continuously calculated the information feedback from the bombardment impact points.

He didn't intend to kill the fleeing Heavenly Eye Person.

Using only a few hundredths of a percent of his power, each attack stayed at the limit of the Heavenly Eye Person's shield they had just raised.

His train of thought was clear.

For Lin An, since he couldn't see the opponent, area bombardment would do!

Like splashing ink, as soon as that Heavenly Eye Person blocked the attack, they would instantly be revealed in his sight.

Bearing the newly risen energy shield, the frantically fleeing Yaxia, eyes full of terror, almost cursed aloud.

Too terrifying! Too frightening!

He never expected that a routine information-gathering mission would let him encounter a pervert who could see through optical camouflage!

You know, despite their tens of thousands of operations, no alien species had ever detected them before!

Can't hold on!

Must retreat!

Hearing the urgent alarm from the built-in cochlea, Yaxia's face turned deathly pale; he knew it was a warning of imminent energy depletion.

This alien species was like a madman, utterly unreasonable.

He gritted his teeth.

He glanced at a nearby hill, a flicker of struggle crossing his eyes.

Should we take the ship and flee!? Taking the ship would expose too much...

However, he didn't hesitate another second.

Upon detecting the anomaly again, Lin An suddenly snorted coldly, his whole body rushing forward like a ghost.

Although he wasn't sure of the exact position, he had already found the opponent's general direction.

Activating the Death God Halo directly, just a second should be enough to drain the opponent.

Hearing the frantic blare of the death alarm, Yaxia's survival urge overrode reason in his mind; his face showed despair, and he forced himself to madly rush toward where the aircraft was buried.

There's no way! Unless he wanted to be caught, the only option was to flee by ship!

If caught, he might leak even more information!

Almost as he reached the hill, Yaxia didn't care about anything and shouted loudly:

"Engage the engines!"

"066th Recon Officer requests return!"

"Crack-crack"

The earth instantly shattered.

At the moment Yaxia issued the command, a small spacecraft buried in the mountains instantly burst through the overlying rock.

Like a drill bursting from stone, the violent thrusters spewed out, and in a blink emitted a deafening roar.

He lunged frantically into the open hatch, Yaxia slamming his hand onto the start button.

"Return! Return!!"

"Boom!"

A bright blue Mach ring formed a diamond shape, tail flames spewing.

Under the immense pressure, Yaxia felt as if his bones were about to snap, and he couldn't help crying out in pain.

The acceleration was too great; the fully ignited engine at maximum thrust could crush most living beings.

If not for the combat suit's protection, he suspected he would have turned into minced meat in an instant.

"Whoosh-bang!!"

The spacecraft launched, and in the span of a breath it shot skyward like a soaring sword.

At the same time, the vast number of Awakened Ones gathered at the Alliance assembly point all stared in shock as the arc-shaped spacecraft vanished like a meteor across the sky.

What is that!?

How could something like this appear here!?

Whether it was Lin An's sudden strike just now or the spacecraft that appeared later.

Vaguely, many Awakened Ones realized that someone might have already infiltrated their gathering place.

"Too terrifying.. too terrifying.."

"That monster probably didn't catch up, right?"

His eyes glued to the viewport, Yaxia patted his chest with lingering fear; under the ground-effect craft's acceleration, he could break through the atmosphere and return to base in just a dozen seconds.

Even if that monster is a pervert, it shouldn't be able to catch up, right?

After all, the altitude is already over ten thousand meters...

However, before he could take a breath, the next second a pair of icy eyes suddenly appeared outside the viewport.

"Want to run?"

Lin An gave a light chuckle, utterly disregarding the terrified Heavenly Eye Person, and in the blink of an eye activated Blink, appearing before Yaxia like a demon.

He casually placed his hand on Yaxia's head and spoke softly:

"I ask, you answer."

"Or I'll ask again after you're dead."

Inside the spacecraft, feeling the cold from above, the somewhat frail Yaxia was now filled with despair.

"Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"

Kill me! The spaceship will self-destruct! The life system is bound here!

Trembling all over, Yaxiya looked somewhat collapsed at this moment, gazing at Lin An before him; he noticed that Lin An seemed very interested in the layout inside the spaceship.

Although he didn't understand what Lin An meant by 'die then ask,' it didn't matter at all; he could feel that this alien species before him truly didn't care whether he was dead or alive.

Frowning, Lin An withdrew his gaze and turned to look at Yaxiya.

Self-destruct?

Self-destruct, self-destruct; he didn't care about this spaceship anyway, since it couldn't kill him.

His only curiosity was that the spaceship's technological level was obviously far superior to that of the Heavenly Eye People in the gathering place.

It even surpassed Earth's technology by several levels.

Combining Yaxiya's actions and information, Lin An almost instantly came to a conclusion.

Has your civilization not been destroyed?

You have been hiding in the dark, observing the situation of the Apocalypse battlefield?

Although the conclusion seems somewhat unbelievable, this is the most reasonable explanation.

Hearing Lin An's question, a hint of hesitation flashed across Yaxiya's face.

He did not want to answer any of Lin An's questions, but it was obvious that some things could not be concealed.

Destroyed..

I guess so..

He seemed to want to stall for time, yet did not want to die.

Yaxiya subconsciously glanced at the altitude on the control console, and upon seeing the specific altitude, he couldn't help but suddenly speak:

Alien species! Get out!

If you don't leave, we'll all die!

There are some things you don't need to know!

Huh?

Lin An blinked slightly; he didn't expect the Heavenly Eye People before him to say such words.

What does that mean?

If you don't leave, will you die?

As Yaxiya's urging grew more urgent, Lin An seemed to think of something; his gaze turned cold instantly, and he looked up at the suspended cabin above.

Through the narrow observation port, a second later, his gaze suddenly narrowed.

All he saw was that at the far end of his vision, a vast expanse of dense black dots filled his entire field of view.

As the True Eye kept magnifying, all he saw was more than ten thousand magnificent space warships, like a stellar net, covering the entire near-Earth orbit.

And at the center of the warships, an enormous space fortress, as huge as a continent, was constantly swallowing and spewing out countless fighter craft.

Alarm!

An alien species has been detected in the return vehicle!

Please lock on and destroy!!

In an instant, it was almost as cold as a mechanical command. On the six nearest space warships, bright white light condensed in the dark muzzles.