Chapter 1299: and translation of chapter title

Old and ridiculous toys...

At high speed, the few leading Alien Species contemptuously glanced at the distant drone swarm.

However, with a mere wave of the hand, the rapidly moving drones were blown apart by the spreading airflow, turning into fireballs.

Even after modification, the drone combat group capable of flying at 700 km/h still appeared as slow as slow motion to them.

The strange weapons mounted on them couldn't even breach their defenses.

Perhaps they'd be somewhat useful against a Second Level ground assault, but to them, they're just a bunch of toys.

The only thing worth their slight attention is likely a batch of black spheres controlled by Awakened Ones.

Even at top Mach 2, it barely matches Third Level speed; if they truly charged all out, they could only blast them apart.

"Watch out for the Black Ball."

"It should be carrying a nuclear bomb; within a hundred meters it can be taken out directly."

Flying at the front, she issued a command with a blank expression, her strength enough to suppress an advanced Third Level female Alien Species.

Although to her these things are hardly different from toys and the chance of being blown up is nearly zero, facing humanity's strongest technological weapons, it must be said that up close, the explosion could indeed inflict considerable harm on them.

However, beyond a hundred meters, there's basically nothing to worry about.

"Lord Huang Lin, why must we go this way?"

"These worms may not harm us, but passing through this area will inevitably get us blown up."

Although Huang Lin is a Third Level peak, to Fourth Level Alien Species like Qing Ya he's merely cannon fodder, but to these Third Level advanced Alien Species, he is the captain of this mission.

After respectfully asking about their destination, he couldn't help but feel doubtful.

These worms' "landmines" are too easy to dismantle.

Breaking through from other areas, those dilapidated iron birds can't harm them in the slightest. As long as he wishes, they have countless ways to ignore this place. These Black Balls and drones, thinking their self-destruct disguise is superb, appear to them like fireflies in the night.

Although clearing this area might facilitate later ground troops' entry, but.. is it meaningful? They aren't really the military.

"It's just to make them detonate the nuclear bomb."

"Let them be happy for a while, watching us get blown up. When we emerge, that's when these worms will know what despair is."

He snorted coldly, and Huang Lin spoke calmly.

The High Level Alien Species' meaning is simple: these worms still think of resisting, nothing more than believing Lin An will intervene, and they simply haven't realized what true strength is.

Once they emerge from the nuclear blast, these worms will realize they are invincible, completely shattering their fighting spirit.

Also to prevent Lin An from escaping, after these worms are captured they'd still have a will to fight to the death, so we directly detonate the nuclear bomb internally, aiming for mutual destruction.

Long An can be destroyed, but only after they have captured the target.

As for whether their strength will be diminished after being hit by the nuclear bomb—

It doesn't matter; as long as they aren't directly hit, to her perception it's merely a threat from a few lightweight nuclear bombs, at most making them look a bit disheveled. Even if severely wounded, she has enough confidence to kill everyone except Lin An.

The strength gap is too huge. According to intelligence, Long An's interior doesn't even have a Third Level; what could they use to resist them?

The so-called Second Level legion and strange tech weapons pose at most a threat to early Third Level beings; to them, they are no threat at all.

What if Lin An appears?

She is essentially a suicide attack; whether she's seriously wounded or not makes no difference.

A Fourth Level Lord Alien Species will avenge her! For the sake of her species, she is willing to give everything.

"Minister An, these monsters are constantly destroying our aircraft fleet! They're about to break through the defense line!"

"The fighter jets are in position; should we launch an attack?!"

In the command room, an Awakened One wearing a headset urgently asked An Jing Tian; on the screen, the massive drone swarm threatening human forces fell like raindrops, and even when weapons mounted on the drones hit their targets, it was as meaningless as air.

Above the monsters, twelve fighter jets have locked onto their targets, awaiting An Jing Tian's order to attack.

"Wait a bit longer! Wait until they get close to that area!"

"Have the six Black Ball squads stand by, ready to detonate the nuclear bombs at any moment!"

They stared intently at the battlefield display, where the monitor had switched to the perspective of the Black Ball squad.

In the screen, the incoming Alien Species, wearing the faces of the military, were destroying their defense system as casually as taking a leisurely stroll.

But as soon as An Jing Tian's words fell, everyone's hearts in the command room sank.

It was already a hopeless situation, using drone swarms to lay nuclear bombs in a desperate attempt to stop any possible ground forces, but when a few Third Level Alien Species appeared, their arrangements became a joke.

Not to mention hindering them; even a drone swarm that could breach a small safe zone would, at this moment, be like a target, easily blown apart in midair.

So, for them to have any effect, the only option is to have the Awakened Ones aboard the Black Balls launch a suicide attack.

The six Black Ball squads mentioned by An Jing Tian are precisely the units each carrying a nuclear warhead.

At a normal Mach 2, theoretically up to Mach 3.4, they would rush toward the enemy and instantly detonate the nuclear bomb! This is humanity's strongest weapon, the only way it can be put to use.

The cost, however, is the elite warriors aboard those Black Balls.

Each one, capable of becoming a high‑level elite in the outside world as a Second Level, now can only die like expendable cannon fodder.

"Distance to defense line breach: 17 kilometers!"

"Distance to defense line breach: 17 kilometers!"

"「16.3! \"": no names.

"\"14.7! \"": no names.

"「10.9！」": no names.

The breakthrough speed was faster than imagined; after Huang Lin's order was given, the incoming Alien Species, aside from a symbolic strike, no longer cared about destroying these toys.

As long as it's not a direct nuclear blast at point‑blank range, they would find it hard to suffer any injury.

But at this very moment, as they were about to break through, twelve consecutive laser beams struck them like heavenly swords.

Their bodies stalled; under near‑light‑speed strikes, even the fastest Alien Species could not dodge in the slightest.

"Pffft."

As a bloody mouth, wreathed in a wisp of green smoke and reeking of burnt flesh, erupted from his body, several Alien Species were stunned, never imagining that this swarm of worms actually had weapons capable of piercing their defenses.

Although the power was not great, they instantly realized that if such weapons were fired in a barrage, activating over a hundred times, they might not withstand it. Just like Lin An at first, they could only temporarily avoid the sharp edge.

It's somewhat interesting... not really like this world's technology.

But just to fantasize...

Their bodies accelerated again; as the few leading Alien Species scornfully healed their wounds and continued flying, six sharp sonic booms rang out in quick succession.

From all directions, Awakened Ones with frenzied expressions, overloading their control of the black spheres, came charging at them.

Detonate!!

In the command room, the control room, Faction: Long An soldiers who charged in like suicides, upon seeing several Alien Species suddenly light up, without hesitation detonated the nuclear bomb.

Too bad..

In the 01 cockpit, a Second Level Awakened One pressed the detonator, his eyes showing no fear whatsoever. From the day he was selected into the black sphere unit, he had been clear about his mission.

His only regret was that they were still seventy meters away from this batch of Alien Species.

But that final seventy meters could not be crossed; they could only detonate on the spot.

In an instant, a sense of extreme void rose from behind him; perhaps the explosion was too fast, he felt no pain at all.

As the extreme white light engulfed his body, six successive suns rose one after another.

Boom boom! Boom! Boom!!

Immense light and radiation instantly tore the earth apart; the rapidly expanding fireball also instantly purified all darkness.

At the same time, the crowds still in chaos outside the city all stared blankly at the light rising on the distant horizon.

That is...

Nuclear explosion!?

On the city wall, soldiers shooting at the thugs stared blankly at the light representing death, momentarily losing themselves.

Have we... come to this point?

Don't look! Lower your head! Your eyes will go blind!!

Boom!!

Several seconds later, the belated Shockwave at this distance had weakened considerably, yet still like a gale it swept up a sky‑wide storm.

Up and down the outer city, masses of Faction: Long An soldiers and Survivors were all stunned, gazing at the distant mushroom cloud. Knowing only that the capital had sent troops to destroy them, they had no idea who the actual enemy was.

Are they dead? Is our enemy dead?

Muttering to themselves, the soldiers couldn't help but gasp heavily, looking at the distant Apocalypse‑like scene.

They dared not imagine what kind of enemy could force Faction: Long An to detonate a nuclear bomb; would this thing also fall on their heads later?

Sixty‑three meters!!

The nearest detonation distance is sixty‑three meters!!

In the command room, masses of staff stared fixedly at the screen still flickering with snow. Even though they knew the first nuclear blast might not eliminate these monsters, when this ultimate weapon erupted wildly, everyone was still utterly shaken.

Could any being survive this attack? Even if not a point‑blank detonation!?

Even super‑alloy would melt into molten iron at this proximity; any life would have its genes shattered by the immense gamma rays.

Maybe these monsters just died!?

Unlike the others, An Jing Tian's right hand remained firmly pressed on a red button.

Although he also hoped these monsters would die in this nuclear blast, with six warheads detonating together, though the yield wasn't large, it still exceeded most people's imagination limit. If it were merely a regular Third Level, he believed the opponent would surely be dead!

But with the examples of Lin An and Zhang Tie, he knew that after Third Level, each step's gap was enormous; those monsters were likely not to die!

They had no means to control these monsters; even with all their effort, they could only detonate at this distance.

The true killer's edge lies in the final kilometer!

As expected, while everyone watched the psionic screen gradually return to normal, revealing a super‑deep pit and huge mushroom cloud, the five monsters' silhouettes still did not appear. For a moment, everyone couldn't help but show joy.

Perhaps Minister An and the others were too worried! It looks like those monsters have been vaporized!

Having never personally experienced the terror of a high‑level Third Level existence, they simply could not imagine what kind of individual could survive.

However, the joy had not lasted even a few seconds when, amidst the thick yellow‑brown nuclear dust, a large blank area was suddenly swept clean.

Only seen floating at the front, a middle‑aged woman entirely scorched black looked expressionlessly at the distant warplane's camera, as if she knew someone inside Faction: Long An was watching her, and gave a scornful smile.

Click‑click

As the scorched black skin on her body instantly peeled off and fell to the ground, exposing bloody red muscle tissue, like a devil's, aside from the damaged epidermis she seemed largely unharmed.

Likewise, the several Alien Species that flew out after her gave a feral laugh, indifferent, tearing off their own scorched black skin with bare hands.

All together it's less than a million tons equivalent, plus a portion is low‑grade dirty bombs...

Is this the trump card of these worm‑like creatures?

With a sneer, at this distance two Alien Species whose actual strength peaked at Third Level withstood the attack—how could these nuclear blasts possibly kill them?

If the distance were closer to forty meters, or even thirty, they might be injured; within twenty meters even a high‑level could not withstand it. But the nearest is only sixty meters... far too far...

Aside from the internal organs of two high‑level Alien Species suffering impact and more severe injury, the rest were basically unharmed.

Being able to flexibly dodge the first blast wave, the subsequent radiation and particle flow meant nothing to them; after all, in their world their living environment is not unlike a nuclear explosion...

Like a threat, the leading yellow‑scaled Alien Species revealed a cruel grin as its skin peeled off, making it look like a bloody skeleton gazing at the distant warplane.

A few seconds later, it moved forward again.

She could already imagine how terrified those worm‑like creatures inside Faction: Long An must be at this moment.

Merely out of habit sensing whether there was still an ambush far away, her eyes flashed a strange hue as she casually said:

At the final kilometer ahead, there seem to be two Second Level energy bodies.

Hah, no Third Level, and they still placed two Second Level to try to block us?

She didn't care; in her perception, those two masses—actually four energy bodies—were now buried entirely along their necessary route. Clearly, it's likely those worm‑like creatures thought that if they didn't blast us to death, we'd at least be severely wounded. Trying to block us with Second Level attack strength?

Too ridiculous... even a heavily wounded Third Level is not something a Second Level can peek at.

It can only be said that, at this stage, aside from Lin An, the cognition and strength of other humans are vastly inferior to theirs—too great a gap.

It's like primitives encountering a starship; this group of bugs always makes a laughable struggle.

At the same time, in the command room. As the five alien species walked out, everyone turned deathly pale and froze in place.

What Minister An and the others said was correct; they still severely underestimated the terror of this group of alien species.

Under their desperate counterattack, it seemed utterly meaningless.

"A nuclear explosion... that really is a nuclear explosion..."

They seemed unable to accept all of this; even as members of Long An, they had access to far higher-level information than ordinary survivors. But after truly witnessing with their own eyes the scene that was only rumored to appear, everyone felt a suffocating oppression.

Such monsters—aside from Lord Lin An being able to kill them, do they really stand a chance of stopping them?

Ignoring the unease and fear of everyone in the command room, Jing Tian drew a deep breath and simply stared fixedly at the button in his hand.

He was not at all surprised by their reaction.

The speed at which Lin Dui's strength increases is too fast, and the enemies they face are terrifying to the point that ordinary people cannot imagine them.

After this incident, I believe the members of Long An will clearly realize what is truly important! Having them personally witness the terror of the high-level, they will no longer hold the notion that the apocalypse is nothing more than this!

At the moment the alien species casually flew over the area where the spirit-energy nuclear bomb was located, Jing Tian suddenly pressed the button; in an instant, unlike the previous white light, two clusters of blue light like plasma illuminated the entire sky once again.

At this moment, the world seemed to fall silent.