Chapter 609: My Shield Was Consumed 15

Good!

Laura readily agreed to Taibelos's suggestion and immediately organized the research and technical personnel to withdraw.

As a commander and moreover from an archaeological family, Laura and her subordinates' combat ability is indeed not bad, but this situation is clearly not something they can intervene in.

Run!

Only by leaving this underground cavern can the Man-eating Shark Terminators let loose and go all out.

Chi—chi—!

Boom—boom—!

Inside the cavern, gunfire never ceased.

Fortunately, the Man-eating Shark brutes remain brutes, but before friendly personnel finished withdrawing, they hadn't gone so crazy as to directly activate the explosive bolt yield.

As for Taibelos's side.

Woom!! Bang! Bang!!

At this moment, the battalion commander truly became a bloody shark that turned into a fleeting shadow; wherever he passed, the areas where beetles and spiders gathered would instantly appear as blank zones.

I don't know whether Taibelos has mutated or what, but even wearing the large-sized underworld-type Terminator that impairs agility, his 4.2-meter frame can still move swiftly.

To ordinary eyes it's just a gust of wind, but to his brothers it's as if his speed is multiplied by three or four.

Bang!

Taibelos kicked a super-sized metal spider to pieces, and his helmet monitor then fed back that Laura and the technical and research personnel had already withdrawn from the cavern, whereupon he immediately gave the order:

"Field blockade, maximum yield."

"." On the communications, all was silent save for faint breathing, indicating the Man-eating Shark Terminators were carrying out the order.

Next, the hundred Terminators scattered in the cavern almost simultaneously released a blue radiant energy field, linked together, and in an instant expanded to fill the entire cavern.

But just as the field extended to the metal wall's edge, it suddenly braked, deliberately leaving a gap so that the seemingly endless metal beetles and spiders could surge into the cavern—or rather, into the field the Terminators had projected.

Thereafter, Taibelos, standing at the front, raised both hands, aimed at the impending metal wave that would engulf him, and directly caused the paired linked explosive bolts to spew blazing tongues of fire.

The hundred Terminators did the same.

Chi-chi-chi-chi——!!!!

Ri~——Boom——Thud——!!

The volley had just begun when it was replaced by blinding white light and violent explosion; the metal beetles and spiders that should have devoured Taibelos and the Terminators were instead swallowed by the white light.

The white light and explosion didn't just engulf everything inside the field; they also shot straight through the previously left gap and rushed into the ruins' interior.

At the same time.

Alarms blared in the forbidden zone above the ruins; immediately after, the earth shook and mountains trembled, as one peak swelled like foam whipped up with soapy water, gradually expanding…

Expanding…

Boom——!

A green light pillar shot straight to the sky.

However, beneath the surface at this moment.

Inside the cavern everything appeared intact, even the soil near the lift remained dry, yet all the instruments left by the technical and research personnel had completely evaporated.

Of course, this also included those metal beetles and spiders.

Looking again at Taibelos and all the Terminators, they were likewise unharmed, distributed within the cavern, with each of their gun barrels aimed at the cavern's far end.

Actually, the meaning of just now's "field blockade, maximum yield" should be to deploy an armor field for blockade and to crank the antimatter explosive bolts' yield to the maximum, carrying out indiscriminate bombardment.

After years of production and research, humanity's study of antimatter is practically second nature, yet each legion's antimatter explosive bolts carry different matter-antimatter specifications.

For example, the Steel Warriors, who prefer "playing it safe" and fear friendly fire or damaging newly built fortifications, load their warheads with 1 milligram of matter and 1 milligram of antimatter, whereas the more aggressive Space Wild Wolves usually carry 1 gram of matter and 1 gram of antimatter, and sometimes even more.

(After many years, warheads with 1 gram of matter and 1 gram of antimatter are rarely fielded; for the Astate, this spec is already considered a relatively large yield.)

Moreover, some battalions might receive special favor from the OriginalBody, granting them higher storage limits for antimatter explosive bolts and higher-grade authorization.

The Man-eating Sharks, whose conduct belongs to the "brute" category, naturally fall into this group: each Terminator carries 200 hundred 1.0‑cal antimatter explosive bolts per mission, each bolt equivalent to 3–4 Hiroshima atomic bombs.

Thus, that volley just now—if the Man-eating Sharks had not deployed the Terminators' field to link, bind, and blockade—would have had a kill radius of at least thirty‑five kilometers, by which time Laura Crouff and others on the surface would also have been caught up.

However, the gap that Taibelos and his crew deliberately left instead became an outlet for that enormous energy.

The original metal wall had long vanished, the surrounding soil was completely crystallized, and some crystal chunks still flickered with scorching red light.

Only at the gap's end did a faint green light still burst forth.

Seeing this, Taibelos stepped forward, and the remaining Terminators followed behind.

Arriving at the blown‑open gap, about three kilometers in diameter, standing at the edge and gazing inward into the ruins……

An endless green ocean.

Yes, that salvo of antimatter explosive bolts they just fired successfully destroyed numerous threats.

But when Taibelos used his powered armor to conduct a pulse scan of the ruins' interior, the helmet screen showed that the recent dense nuclear blast had destroyed only about 10% of the ruins.

Furthermore, after zooming in, Taibelos discovered that metal beetles and spiders had already surged forth again inside the ruins and were beginning to repair the damaged sections.

Zooming back out to normal view and scanning the surroundings, one can see countless hundred‑meter‑high metal pyramids arranged in a "field" pattern throughout the ruins.

At the same time, there are metal giant pillars arrayed between the many pyramids, also serving as one source of the faint green light.

Besides this, Taibelos could instantly identify the core that triggered this ruins outbreak incident.

No wonder, after all—a metal pyramid standing a standard 3333 meters tall with a perfect 51° incline sits right at the center of the ruins.

"Brother." At this moment, a Terminator with a red helmet approached Taibelos's side and gave a clear analysis of the situation: "Communications have been cut; the enemy possesses an unknown shielding field."

A shielding field indicates their short‑range teleportation may fail; once they enter the ruins' interior, they will quickly find themselves isolated and helpless.

"First come, first served—let's go."

Before he finished speaking, Taibelos had already stepped forward, without activating any anti‑gravity program, and fell downward in free fall.

The other Man‑eating Sharks did the same.

Thud—— Thud——!!

A group of giants slammed onto the already deformed metal ground.

Mu's.

"Swoosh—!" the high‑energy beam whistled.

"Buzz—!" the energy shield instantly repelled.

As soon as they touched down, they were hit by a barrage of beams; Taibelos, a company commander, and the vast majority of Terminators dodged.

Yet some brothers with less luck passively activated a faint golden energy shield, stubbornly withstanding the attacks.

After weathering a round of simultaneous fire…

"My shield has been depleted by 15%," a metallic‑toned query came through the communication channel.

(End of chapter)