Chapter 213: Is There a Tsunami?

Rat-tat-tat—

The sound of gunfire startled the stressed-out crowd into sobriety, and then they discovered with even greater horror that the bullets had actually passed through the man's body without causing the slightest damage.

"What is this thing?"

"Don't shoot!"

Bai Chonghuan was about to start cursing, "Can't you see it's a holographic projection? Damn it, how long has it been and you've already forgotten the original technology?"

"So, sorry, I thought it was an enemy blink." Zhang Lin, who had fired the shot, explained sheepishly, and was then slapped on the head by Bai Chonghuan beside him, "I told you all to play fewer games, can't you go do some compulsory labor when you're free?!"

"Di, Division Commander, it hurts!" Zhang Lin clutched his head, actually feeling a massive bump, tears welling up in his eyes, his gaze full of accusation.

——Division Commander, do you not know the strength of your own iron palm?

Bai Chonghuan was used to it too; he withdrew his hand, feeling a bit awkward, "This, uh, who did you say you were?"

"Heitao A," Heitao A had no shadow, but its body looked exactly like a real person's. Out of an understanding of human defensive psychology, its height automatically adjusted to be slightly shorter than Bai Chonghuan's, "Super Intelligent System. I am now requesting to connect to the Haiyang Base network to assist Acting Chief Liu Mu in completing the city area scan as soon as possible. May I connect?"

If this appearance of it were to appear before anyone even slightly superstitious, they would think it was a ghost.

"Woof, woof, woof," Niu Boyi whimpered fawningly at Heitao A, wanting it to pull some more delicious food out of space for him.

Heitao A lowered its head, placed its hand on his head, and then it passed right through, "Good doggy, without the Chief's permission, I cannot give you more food."

Seeing that Niu Boyi was very familiar with this so-called system, Bai Chonghuan couldn't help but believe it a little.

Just as mentioned before, compared to other places, Haiyang City was more than half surrounded by the ocean, and when the disaster occurred, the temperature here was more than half lower than elsewhere, so it did not directly revert to the pre-information age.

Coupled with more than a year of line repairs, parts of the city and nearby counties could indeed be covered by the network.

"Did Liu Mu tell you to do this?" Everyone had seen artificial intelligence systems, and Bai Chonghuan also knew that military system research was far ahead of civilian ones; as long as he treated the projection as an AI, it wasn't that hard to understand.

"Yes," Heitao A paused briefly, and a miniature mecha projection immediately appeared beside it; the flickering shadow showed that it had already patrolled a beach.

"Hurry up and connect the network, I've discovered a search ship," a human face appeared in the mecha helmet, it was Liu Mu, "Old Bai, I'll give you the coordinates, precision strike, I suspect it's a warship of the Sky Viper. Damn, they seem to have discovered me..."

The shadow flickered, and the third-person view changed to the first-person view inside the mecha, seeing a large steel ship in the offshore waters from afar, and in the wind and snow, there were several small boats attempting to reach the shore through the broken ice pushed by the waves.

Should one say, it was fortunate she arrived early enough, otherwise the Haiyang Base might really not have been able to hold on.

"Access granted," Bai Chonghuan had thought some hardware facilities were needed to complete it, but then felt that since the other party brought a 'Super' intelligent system, perhaps just saying the word was enough?

"Authorization received, connecting, connected." Heitao A's prompt told the people here via voice, and at the same time, Liu Mu received it on her end, 【Already connected to the Haiyang Base system, data reading in progress, reading complete, weapon system under control, control complete. Requesting further instructions.】

Heitao A had actually taken direct control of the entire base's system; this was something Liu Mu hadn't expected, but she wasn't overly terrified either.

In other words, a system that had been with her for so long, if it couldn't even manage this bit of pushing its luck, then it would have been trained in vain.

"Strike!" This order was given by Liu Mu.

And the crowd still waiting on the high wall suddenly heard the air defense alarm, and then the heavy weapons hidden in the core area of the base all started up.

Amidst the friction of machinery, one cannon after another rose up, and automatically adjusted their firing directions and angles.

Perhaps there were too many twists and turns today, Bai Chonghuan was numb to it all and didn't make any overly intense reaction.

Instead, the masses below were frightened by this, screaming or dodging, or squatting down on the spot, as if the end of the world had arrived once again.

And the soldiers inside were also highly nervous, looking left and right, asking what had happened.

Heitao A, having received authorization, had originally ignored the humans, but Liu Mu's voice came out from the internal broadcast system, "Haicheng Barrier's subordinate Haiyang Base, executing Number One Contingency Plan. In ten seconds, we will conduct a fire strike against the anti-human armed organization attacking the base. Please do not panic, maintain calm and order; the strike will not pose any threat to your lives."

She was quite fluent in official jargon now; as her voice ended, the entire base core heard a broadcast-style male voice counting down.

"10, 9, 8, 7..."

"Get down!"

Bai Chonghuan, who knew the power of his base's weapons well enough, was truly panicked this time. Damn it, how could this woman use all the firepower? Wouldn't that blow his base apart?

"Everyone get down, follow the emergency plan, protect yourselves!"

Bai Chonghuan rushed into the guard room on the high wall, and just as he shouted a few times, an earth-shattering vibration erupted from inside the base.

Boom—

Boom—

Boom—

The vibration and shockwave of the artillery fire almost blew the soldiers on the high wall away.

Fortunately, Niu Boyi remembered he had to protect Bai Chonghuan, so he ran over and lay directly on top of the concrete guard shack, protecting both the shack and Bai Chonghuan.

The dog didn't forget to cover his ears with his front paws, baring his teeth as he watched the artillery fire flying across the sky, "Woof, hehe, doggy is so clever!"

Won't Master praise doggy now? I can eat delicious food, happy!

A round of firing actually only took 15s, but the momentum was massive, and everyone felt as if an electric drill had been inserted into their brains, buzzing with pain.

They hadn't even fully processed this pain when the explosions from afar reached their ears.

The crowd looked around in confusion, but Bai Chonghuan was roaring, "Everyone on the wall get down, quick! The shockwave is coming!"

The target of the strike was in the offshore waters; this level of bombardment, combined with the current severe weather, would inevitably kick up a cold shockwave that would sweep back.

Bai Chonghuan really wanted to talk to Liu Mu; did this Acting Chief know how large a base of combat units she had just used? With this kind of bombardment, let alone a warship, even an aircraft carrier would be shattered in Haiyang.

Including Niu Boyi, all living creatures on the high wall retreated within a minute; those inside went indoors if they could, and those who couldn't find a corner to hide in.

The shockwave was slower than the sound; according to Bai Chonghuan's estimation, it would take at least a quarter of an hour to sweep over.

But, Liu Mu, who had just finished enjoying the explosion by the sea, had rejoiced too soon!

"Holy crap, a tsunami?"

Waves over two meters high, pushing a shockwave of over ten meters mixed with wind and snow, rushed onto the coast at the first opportunity.

Liu Mu didn't even think, turned around and ran, directly setting the mecha to full power; once again, she suffered from a lack of education.

【Xiao A, why didn't that old big brother Bai Chonghuan say so earlier? Ask him if he's dissatisfied with me?】

Heitao A: 【Are you sure you want to ask, Host?】

【Forget it, I'll settle the score with him after I get back safely!】

Heitao A: 【On what grounds will you settle the score with him, Host?】

"Shut up, I'm busy!" Liu Mu was annoyed; she couldn't exactly say that she hadn't known an explosion would kick up a shockwave.

Or had she not considered how great the shockwave impact would be from such a large-scale explosion?

Heh, as if!