Chapter 417: Chapter 286: Dead End
Nuobai sat in the cockpit, her vision becoming increasingly dark, an overwhelming drowsiness that she couldn’t resist making it almost impossible for her to keep her eyes open.
She knew very well, this wasn’t because she was tired or sleepy.
It was because her blood pressure was dropping.
Her body really couldn’t hold on any longer...
If she fell asleep, she might never wake up again.
She bit down hard on the tip of her tongue, which had been bitten countless times before, filling her mouth with the taste of blood, barely staying slightly awake by relying on the pain.
Just as she was fighting against her scattered consciousness, she suddenly felt her vision turn black.
This wasn’t due to the drop in blood pressure, because the outside airspace had gone dark.
The dazzling lights below continued to disappear, swallowed by dense darkness, with stars and the moon in the night sky also invisible, the entire floating airship seemed wrapped in a shroud of black mist.
Immediately, without any warning, a strange and indescribable whisper filled her mind, endless static noise flooded her ears, tearing at her consciousness.
"Warning, altitude dropping rapidly! Warning, altitude dropping rapidly!"
With the control stick losing control, the plummeting airship started issuing warnings, the red light almost turning the cockpit into a pool of blood.
Nuobai tried to steady the control stick, but she had already lost the outside view, unable to see anything, completely clueless about where she was flying.
Adding to it, the noise in her mind grew louder, her consciousness battered, she couldn’t even make out the parameters on the console, only feeling a sense of weightlessness flooding her entire body, the whole world spinning.
Drawing from her rich experience in mercenary life, Nuobai quickly identified the source of this eerie situation.
Nearby, there was a "Illusionary Blood Code" carrier.
This kind of blood code carrier didn’t have strong physical abilities but could emit a special frequency of brainwaves, causing enemies to fall into various hallucinations.
If she couldn’t regain control of her consciousness now, this floating airship would spiral out of control and crash, and she would be smashed to pieces.
Without the brainwave blocking hardware around, and unable to locate the body of the Blood Code Carrier for now, the only solution was to use the most primitive and extreme method.
Pain.
Nuobai put a finger in her mouth and bit down, biting so hard, her teeth quickly sunk into her flesh, spilling gushing blood.
The intense pain from her knuckles came drilling in.
But it wasn’t enough...
She continued to bite harder, her teeth tearing through flesh to the bone, her nerve endings battered, the intense pain causing cold sweat to bead on her forehead.
Under the stimulus of this pain, the chaotic whispers in her consciousness weakened a bit, and the dense black mist outside began to fade, faint city lights came into view.
From the perspective of vision, the floating airship was in a dive trajectory exceeding 30 degrees, if it wasn’t pulled up in time it wouldn’t recover.
Just as Nuobai prepared to pull the control stick, another wave of sharp disruptive whispers surged into her mind, this impact more intense than before, even the cockpit drowned in black mist, leaving only endless darkness in sight.
Gasping for breath, Nuobai once again bit down on her own finger with all her might.
Her teeth continued to grind against the finger bone, exerting more force until a cracking sound came.
She had bitten her own finger bone clean off.
The relentless pain almost made it impossible for her to breathe, but thus broke through the influence of the Illusionary Blood Code, everything around turned clear once more.
Just before the floating airship could spiraled out of control and crash, Nuobai successfully pulled the control stick, adjusting it back to the normal trajectory.
Through the holographic window on the console, she finally discovered the location of the Blood Code Carrier.
At this moment, another floating airship was chasing her from behind.
The Illusionary Blood Code has a range of influence, in this high-speed flight, for the adversary to continuously affect her, they too must be on a flying vehicle.
Having just determined the enemy’s position, the chaotic whispers surged back, attempting to once again disrupt her consciousness.
Meanwhile, the enemy airship opened its weapon bay, several missiles howled straight towards her.
Nuobai bit off another finger bone to fight the hallucination, then pressed a red button and pulled the control stick to initiate serpentine maneuvers.
Decoy flares blossomed in the air like fireworks, disrupted the tracking system of the missiles, while the airship traced elegant arcs, successfully evading them completely.
However, evading one round of attack wouldn’t change anything, the enemy airship came fully armed and prepared, while Nuobai’s airship had been severely damaged by the Scavengers before, with most of its weapons malfunctioned, and there was a massive performance gap.
Moreover, with the presence of the Illusionary Blood Code, given her precarious physical condition, she couldn’t perpetually fight back through self-infliction.
If this standoff prolonged, the outcome would be inevitable.
Ultimately, Nuobai was forced to take a desperate gamble.
...
In another floating airship, Xuan Hui and several elites of the "Ancient Temple Mercenary Corps" were in the cockpit.
Xuan Hui slowly played with the prayer beads in his hands, a vortex of energy swirling deep within his eyes, unleashing the shapeless and invisible brainwaves of the Illusionary Blood Code.
Just as Xuan Hui aimed to crush Nuobai’s consciousness with the Illusionary Blood Code, the airship in front abruptly turned, charging at them like a warrior in a death battle.
"Captain! She’s trying to ram us!" an Ancient Temple Mercenary shouted urgently in warning.
Xuan Hui’s eyes narrowed, saying: "Cannons."
The pilot activated the cannon system; a barrage of firing erupted, a hail of bullets swept towards Nuobai’s floating airship.
Nuobai’s floating airship constantly maneuvered in mid-air, due to the damage to its hardware, combined with the reducing distance, it failed to dodge all the cannon fire, explosions and smoke blooming from the hull.
