Chapter 270: Silver Wing Falls in Battle

Deep within the Kunlun Mountains, the absolute zone shrouded by the anomaly of Shenhua Tianfu fell into deathly silence after consuming Xia Wan. The Low-Altitude Skimmers monitoring the perimeter captured only Xia Wan's final transmitted key information—no further signals emanated from the core region, as if it had become a total forbidden zone where even information could be annihilated.

Time slipped away in tense waiting.

At the New Era Command Center, the atmosphere was heavy. Though the discovery of Kunlun Mountain was of immense significance, Xia Wan's disappearance cast a shadow over the operation. Qin Feng's expression was calm, but those who knew him sensed a faint, almost imperceptible chill beneath it.

He could not, and would not, wait indefinitely.

Just as Qin Feng prepared to activate the backup plan and consider employing more direct means to forcibly intervene in Kunlun Mountain, the Low-Altitude Skimmer, which had been in stealth cruise mode, suddenly transmitted a brief, extremely faint encrypted data stream—on the verge of interruption at any moment!

The data stream did not originate from Kunlun Mountain's core, but from the High-Sensitivity Detector onboard the Low-Altitude Skimmer, used to monitor the peripheral environment. After preliminary processing by the Low-Altitude Skimmer, it reconstructed a chilling image—

At a snow-covered pass approximately fifty kilometers from Kunlun Mountain's anomalous zone, an intense energy collision had occurred!

The image was extremely blurred and riddled with interference, barely revealing two figures moving and colliding at speeds too fast for the naked eye to track!

One figure was entirely encased in sleek, silver-white, streamlined exoskeletal armor, its back unfurling a pair of energy-formed wings resembling metallic feathers—its speed like lightning, its movements ruthless, each strike accompanied by a shriek tearing through the air and blinding flashes of energy! Its combat style radiated cold efficiency and precision—more like a perfect killing machine than a human.

Silver Wing!

Qin Feng immediately recognized it: one of Dragon Country's most powerful secret single-soldier units, never publicly revealed, codenamed "Silver Wing." It seemed Dragon Country's high command, while seeking Qin Feng's aid, had not entirely abandoned their own efforts—they had deployed this hidden trump card, attempting to find a breakthrough from the periphery.

The figure battling "Silver Wing" was even more bizarre!

It had no fixed form—sometimes a rolling shadow, sometimes a twisted beam of light, sometimes coalescing into an indescribable mass of eyes and tentacles! Its attacks were inconceivable—not pure energy impacts, but distortions and corruptions of reality itself! Silver Wing's energy blades, capable of slicing through tank armor, struck it as if cutting through empty space, yielding minimal effect. Meanwhile, its invisible spiritual contamination and rule interference caused Silver Wing's movements to stagger and develop fatal openings!

This was no known creature or artifact from Earth!

Its existence bore a faint kinship to the aura emitted by the Black Object at Kunlun Mountain's core—likely a derivative of it, or a "Guardian" born from its power's corruption!

The battle's intensity far exceeded conventional understanding.

Silver Wing was clearly in dire straits. His advanced armor was now riddled with strange corrosion marks and cracks; his energy wings flickered erratically, his speed noticeably slowed.

Finally, after a violent explosion that briefly blinded the detector—

When the image stabilized again, the bizarre shadow had vanished.

The silver-white figure knelt half in the snow.

His energy wings were utterly extinguished and shattered, like withered metallic petals. His ornate armor cracked piece by piece, revealing the charred, carbonized body beneath. The energy blade in his hand lay broken beside him, devoid of all glow.

He struggled to lift his head. His faceplate was shattered, exposing a young face streaked with strange black markings, eyes hollow, gazing toward Kunlun Mountain's core.

Then, he froze in that pose.

All life-sign signals on the detector dropped to zero.

Dragon Country's hidden trump card, the strongest single-soldier unit codenamed "Silver Wing"…

Died in battle.

The image ended here.

The Command Center fell into absolute silence.

Su Wenqian stared at the frozen figure on screen, and the snow-pass flattened by the battle's aftermath, drawing a sharp breath. Even a being like "Silver Wing" had fallen so easily to that bizarre entity? The danger within Kunlun Mountain far exceeded imagination!

Lei Dong's face turned ashen, his fists clenched. He knew Silver Wing's strength—it was nearly the ceiling of human single-soldier capability. His death meant conventional military force was likely useless against Kunlun Mountain's anomaly.

All eyes instinctively turned to Qin Feng, standing silently before the main console.

Qin Feng stared at the lifeless silver-white body on screen, his gaze deep as an abyss.

Silver Wing's death did not surprise him.

Before forces that touched the level of rules, pure physical strength appeared pathetically feeble.

This further confirmed the value of Xia Wan's transmitted information—the Black Object and its derivatives wielded power levels vastly superior to current human civilization.

It also meant the danger Xia Wan now faced was unimaginable.

He could wait no longer.

"Notify Dragon Country: 'Silver Wing' has fallen in the line of duty." Qin Feng's voice broke the silence—calm, yet carrying an irrevocable resolve. "Tell them to seal the news. All perimeter personnel withdraw to one hundred kilometers away. Kunlun Mountain affairs are now under the full authority of the New Era."

"Yes!" Su Wenqian replied immediately.

Qin Feng's gaze returned to Kunlun Mountain, sharpening.

Silver Wing's death proved conventional methods ineffective.

It was time to employ some… unconventional means.

He needed to go there himself.

To see that so-called "Beacon" or "Lock."

To bring back the girl who called him "brother."

Home.