Chapter 654: Facing the Nuclear Blast

Within 0.01 seconds.

Under the threat response from biological instinct, Lin An, upon feeling the sting, abruptly activated the Uninterrupted State.

His form was illusory, as if fixed on the surface of the material world.

Amid the surge in neural reaction speed, time felt slow again in perception.

First came a point of flash.

Within 0.1 picoseconds after the flash appeared, the eyeballs staring at the explosion began to melt, the skin on the body carbonized, and muscle tissue dissolved and disappeared.

Instantly repaired.

Vision regenerated.

The world seemed to quiet down, after being enveloped by the black shroud that appears when the Uninterrupted State is activated, a great deal of empty ringing sounds and a single heartbeat rang out.

"Thud..."

Entering the Uninterrupted, independent of time.

With his bodily state locked, Lin An couldn't help but feel a strong palpitation.

Fortunately, his reaction speed was fast enough.

The power at the nuclear explosion's center far exceeded his imagination.

Is it calculated in picoseconds or nanoseconds?

The damage he received in the instant before fission nearly destroyed most of his body.

High-energy radiation, particle penetration.

Every cell inside his body, amidst the scattering radiation, had its basic structure shattered.

If the speed of entering the Uninterrupted State were slower by one ten-thousandth of a second, he would probably have ended up severely injured...

Under close-range exposure to high-energy radiation, the violent electron flow would destroy the DNA chains throughout his body.

How terrifying... the power.

He remained in the fission reaction only for a moment.

Lin An, in the Uninterrupted State, breathed heavily and stared blankly as the flash rapidly expanded.

Is this the scene at the nuclear explosion's center?

Unable to breathe any gas, the temperature at the center where he was had reached 100 million K, roughly ten times the temperature of the Sun.

Extreme light and heat.

At the nuclear bomb's explosion center, the chain fission reaction accelerated.

Space seemed to twist.

At the center point, all things first began to vaporize, then a trace of absolute void appeared.

That is, after the material vaporized, the vaporized portion was swiftly erased again.

Any form was broken down, turning into pure molecular structure.

He, probably the only human in history to have personally witnessed the center of a nuclear explosion...

Under the rule of ignoring all damage for ten seconds, Lin An's heart suddenly rose with an inexplicable feeling.

His right hand, as if in slow motion, reached toward that violently expanding white presence.

I... am touching the nuclear explosion.

Clearly, he would suffer no injury.

But from the self-created battle information bar, the high-speed scrolling flood of prompts was enough to cause a strong palpitation.

"Beep, took 9999 points of gamma ray damage..."

"Beep, took 8759 points of thermal radiation damage..."

"Beep, took 6000 points of high-energy particle stream damage..."

A wave of lingering fear.

He had greatly underestimated the terror of the nuclear explosion's center.

Although it was related to being too close.

This nuclear bomb detonated almost right in front of him.

But before he truly realized the terror of the reaction power in this material boundary of nuclear fission...

Lin An mistakenly thought that within a hundred-meter radius he would at most be seriously injured, and within ten meters he would be near death.

Now it seems.

Mistaken...

Within a hundred meters, suffering the nuclear explosion's impact without activating the Uninterrupted State, he would surely die!

Fortunately, he had tested it.

Otherwise, if he were to encounter a nuclear strike later and had already used up the Uninterrupted beforehand, it would surely cause big trouble.

Blankness and void.

Within a few microseconds, a large amount of light radiation frenziedly spread outward.

At this moment, the Twin Star Base seemed like daytime.

At 750 meters from the nuclear explosion.

Soldiers who knew they could not escape desperately put down their weapons.

The guns had not yet hit the ground.

He somewhat dazedly lifted his head, trying to take one last look at this world.

However, at the moment the light reached the retina, the eyeballs melted.

Just like snow melting under a scorching sun.

No time to think, no time to feel pain.

The second wave of high-temperature radiation ignited everything.

Faster than the shockwave.

A large number of soldiers who couldn't escape in time were suddenly ignited, their clothes vanished, and the intense heat instantly burned them to ash.

Bones vaporized, and a thick scorched scent emanated from the distorted air.

Soldiers leaning against the wall, attempting to hide inside the building, were imprinted onto the wall behind them without reaction, becoming a black shadow on the white wall.

That demon... is he dead!?

A desperate, frantic run.

The first to flee, Jin Yicheng had his back to the nuclear blast center.

1.2 kilometers, that was the farthest distance he had run.

Behind him, a large number of Awakened Ones began to vaporize, and the extreme heat, exceeding the speed of matter propagation, scorched his back.

Feeling the stinging light and heat behind him, the ground ahead was as bright as an operating room.

Fear filled his mind.

Jin Yicheng could hardly suppress the fear in his heart, and couldn't help wanting to scream loudly.

It's too terrifying!

Hurry up, run faster!

I'm going to die!!

Using both hands and feet.

He swore that today would be the fastest he had ever run in his life.

His whole body, every cell seemed to be wailing.

Lin An...

He must be dead!

Everyone fleeing with him harbored the same thought in their hearts.

At such a tremendous cost, it's impossible for anyone in this world to survive at the nuclear blast epicenter!

Amidst the fear, everyone felt a hint of relief.

No matter how strong...

In the face of a nuclear bomb, even a Third Rank has only a dead end!

Not to mention Lin An, whose special means aside, his strength remains only at Second Level.

The moment that thought arose.

"Boom!!!!"

The sound appeared.

Eardrums shattered, the shockwave arrived instantly amidst the earth-shattering explosion.

The ring-shaped shock airflow first contracted inward, then suddenly expanded outward at a speed of 330 meters per second.

Destructive and unstoppable.

The Twin Stars Building, originally constructed of high-strength concrete, was instantly destroyed.

Like withered wood in a gale.

Glass shattered, and the armored tanks left on the ground were hurled high by the shockwave.

Within a radius of one kilometer, the surging air wave, like a tsunami, swept up everything, continually spreading.

"Pfft!!"

A sweetness welled up in his chest.

Dozens of Awakened Ones fleeing head-down with Jin Yicheng were suddenly blown away by the shockwave.

Tumbling, bones shattered.

5 seconds later.

Jin Yicheng, slammed onto the ruins, struggled painfully to get up.

Gasping heavily, he felt his internal organs bleeding, and didn't know how many bones were broken.

This was after fleeing to nearly 1.7 kilometers away.

The scorching air irritated his trachea.

Upon realizing the explosion and the strongest radiation impact had ended, he suddenly burst into a foolish laugh.

"Ha--ha..."

"I... survived..."

"I survived!!"

Laughing wildly, the pain from the wounded area made him bare his teeth and split his lips.

He unconsciously narrowed his eyes, looking at the distant rising mushroom cloud, and in his ecstasy couldn't help shouting curses.

"Damn you!!"

"He's dead, right!?"

"You destroyed my base! And yet you got blown up yourself!!"

Beside him, collapsed on the ground, the Awakened One representing the military likewise showed a relieved smile.

That slowly rising mushroom cloud, at this moment actually looked beautiful to him.

"Wait a few minutes..."

"Let the surviving mechanical soldiers rush in and retrieve the equipment."

Somewhat excited.

They used nuclear bombs to kill Lin An, wasn't it just for the equipment on Lin An?

Imagining the scene of obtaining the equipment, the military representatives couldn't help but feel somewhat excited.