Chapter 76: Fire Whirlwind Crisis and Bee Sting Unsheathed

Chen Guang's sentence "fire whirlwind" was like ice water poured into an oil pan.

It made the atmosphere in the command vehicle, which had just been slightly relaxed because of the successful dispersal of the flame retardant, explode instantly.

"Fire whirlwind? Are you sure?!" Feng Yan stared at the data transmitted back by Butterfly-09 and the unsettling thermal imaging footage on the screen.

On the southeast edge, several scorching air currents were spiraling and converging in a way that violated common sense.

The temperature at the center was rising sharply, rolling up ashes and sparks from the ground.

Forming a terrifying vortex that was taking shape, with a diameter of over ten meters!

"Thermodynamic model matching degree exceeds 87%, airflow shear data supports the judgment."

"It is expected to take full shape within three to five minutes, intensity... unknown."

Chen Guang spoke extremely fast, his fingertips sliding across the console, pulling up more monitoring data, his face unprecedentedly heavy.

Fire whirlwind, this is the most unpredictable and destructive demon in a mountain fire.

Wherever it passes, oxygen will be instantly evacuated, the temperature can melt steel, and it is enough to tear any life and obstacles into pieces!

What's more fatal is that according to the situation map, the path of this fire whirlwind that is taking shape.

Not only has firefighters building the second line of defense on its path,

but also a forward supply point that has just been established and stores important materials and some wounded!

"Must stop it!" The general commander's voice carried a trace of trembling.

"Team Leader Feng, do you have any way? Conventional means are too late now!"

Feng Yan's brain worked at high speed, and a bold idea flashed in the blink of an eye:

"Guangzi! 'Bee Sting' micro-laser! Can we perform multi-point precise energy projection to disturb or even break up its formation structure?"

Chen Guang heard this, and the gaze behind his lenses suddenly became sharp.

He didn't answer immediately, but pulled up all the performance parameters of the "Mechanical Mantis" and "Bee Sting" laser.

As well as the fluid mechanics model of the fire whirlwind formation, performing high-speed simulation calculations.

One second, two seconds... the command vehicle was terrifyingly quiet, only the heavy breathing of everyone and the faint humming of instruments running could be heard.

"Theoretically feasible!" Chen Guang raised his head and answered abruptly.

"Need at least four 'Mechanical Mantis' units equipped with 'Bee Sting' to synchronously attack the energy aggregation points at the core of the vortex, as well as the key airflow shear layers!"

"But the energy output must be precisely controlled; too strong may trigger uncontrollable explosion, too weak will be ineffective!"

"Need Old Li's Mantis platform to provide an extremely stable shooting platform!"

"Old Li!" Feng Yan immediately connected to Li Yang's channel, his tone urgent, "Southeast edge, fire whirlwind is about to take shape!"

"Need your Mantis to carry Bee Sting to execute point-to-point precision strikes!"

"Guangzi will give you coordinates and energy parameters! Can you do it?"

Li Yang, who had just assisted in completing a steep terrain material hoisting and was waiting in a relatively safe area,

responded without any hesitation, his dull but incomparably firm voice coming from under the wolf-head helmet:

"Iron Wolf received! Mantis team, move forward immediately! Coordinates receiving!"

I saw Li Yang operating quickly, and the back armor of the Iron Wolf Mark II exoskeleton he was in slid open.

Four cabin doors like folding blades opened, and four "Mechanical Mantis" units with more slender and bionic aesthetic shapes were ejected!

They unfolded their bodies nimbly in the air, and the "Bee Sting" micro-laser emitters with faint blue luster at the front limb joints had already entered the ready-to-fire state.

"Mantis team released! Receiving attack coordinates!" Li Yang reported at the same time.

Four mechanical mantises were like real predators, using their excellent jumping and climbing abilities.

They maneuvered rapidly between scorched earth and rocks, rushing precisely toward the four key node positions marked by Chen Guang!

"Bee Sting energy output parameters calibrated! Attack sequence loaded!" Chen Guang also completed the final data injection here.

The entire command, everyone's heart was lifted to their throats, staring closely at the split-screen footage on the main screen.

On one side was the footage overlooked by Butterfly-09 of the increasingly clear and increasingly huge fire vortex, like the giant mouth opened by hell;

On the other side, four small, blue-glowing mantis figures were rushing toward the vortex of death without looking back!

"Mantis-01 in position!"

"Mantis-02 in position!"

"Mantis-03 in position!"

"Mantis-04 in position!"

Four cold electronic sounds came in turn.

"Synchronous attack! Countdown three seconds!" Chen Guang took a deep breath to keep himself calm and issued the execution order!

"Three!"

The core of the fire whirlwind was already vaguely visible in a crimson-white color, and the suction force began to appear, with surrounding smoke and ashes being crazily rolled in.

"Two!"

The "Bee Sting" lasers at the front limbs of the four mechanical mantises lit up at the same time, and the faint blue light condensed to the extreme.

"One!"

"Fire!"

There was no deafening roar, only four extremely slight "chi" sounds, as if ice was shattering.

Four slender but precise energy-containing blue laser pulses.

At the speed of light, they hit four different key nodes of the fire whirlwind almost at the same time!

One shot precisely into the most energy-dense part of the vortex core, instantly triggering a small energy disorder;

One cut into the shear layer between the updraft and the outer airflow, attempting to destroy its stable spiral structure;

The other two hit the key support points of the vortex's rotational momentum!

From the macro perspective, the huge fire whirlwind that was accelerating to take shape, emitting a destructive aura, stalled violently!

Like a monster strangled by an invisible hand, its smooth and terrifying rotation movement showed obvious stuttering and distortion!

The crimson-white color of the core dimmed instantly, and the suction power also showed short-term chaos!

"It's effective!" Someone in the command couldn't help but shout!

But the fire whirlwind did not dissipate immediately; its huge energy and inertia were still struggling, and the disturbed structure was trying to reorganize!

"Energy feedback abnormal! Vortex structure toughness exceeds expectations! Need secondary strike!"

"Adjust attack points, focus on the core disorder area!" Chen Guang stared at the data stream and quickly corrected the instruction.

Almost at the moment his voice fell, Li Yang had already controlled the four mechanical mantises to perform tiny displacements, and the "Bee Sting" at the front limbs lit up again!

"Chi! Chi! Chi! Chi!"

Four more blue laser beams, like scalpels, precisely shot into the energy weak points and structural cracks caused by the previous attack!

This time, the effect was even more obvious!

That huge fire vortex seemed to be hit in the vital point.

It let out a dull roar like a dying beast (actually a low-frequency noise caused by violent airflow disorder).

The rotation speed dropped sharply, and the originally clear vortex structure began to collapse and disintegrate!

A large amount of sparks and ashes lost support, falling down like rain, and the crimson-white light at the center extinguished rapidly!

Less than fifteen seconds!

That fire whirlwind that was enough to swallow everything, just by relying on four small mechanical mantises.

Under eight precise and fatal blue laser pulses, it was forcibly strangled in the cradle!

Inside the command vehicle, there was dead silence.

Immediately, a huge cheer mixed with disbelief and survival after the disaster erupted!

"My God! This... solved it?!"

"What is that blue light? Laser?!"

"It's Dragon Chant! It's them again! They can even fight this kind of thing?!"

On the front-line position, the firefighters and volunteers who witnessed the confrontation between the blue light beam and the fire whirlwind and finally won.

Were even more excited, cheers and whistles rose one after another.

Wang Hao was in the equipment area, watching the transmitted footage, and slapped his thigh forcefully:

"Guangzi! Old Li! Awesome! Too damn cool! I can brag about this operation for a year!"

Feng Yan let out a long sigh of relief, feeling that his back had been soaked with cold sweat.

He looked at Chen Guang and Li Yang, his eyes full of indescribable appreciation and luck.

Chen Guang pushed up his glasses, his face still expressionless, just silently recording the actual combat data of the "Bee Sting" laser under extreme conditions.

Li Yang controlled the four mechanical mantises that had completed the mission, like assassins who had achieved success and retired, silently withdrawing into the storage cabin of the Iron Wolf.

However, just when everyone thought the crisis was temporarily lifted and they could breathe a little.

The monitoring screen in front of Chen Guang flashed with red warning signs again—this time, not from the air, but from underground.

"Report," Chen Guang's voice came. "Spider-08, while clearing residual hidden fires in the P1 area, at coordinate D9 (the location where the lost team member was found), about five meters below..."

"Detected abnormal cavity structure... internal heat source reaction... extremely strong and unstable."

"Preliminary judgment, it may be a large underground combustion cavity that has not yet been discovered, and energy is accumulating." ===== CHAPTER 77 =====