Chapter 1496: Chapter 1494: Open, Insert, Close
Wilderness.
The sky was dark, and the dry, cold wind howled across the land, making a ghostly wailing sound.
"Woo~woo~"
Suddenly, this sound grew louder, then turned into a rumbling roar.
On the distant horizon, an endless horde of abnormal creatures appeared, rushing forward like a flood breaking through a dam, instantly "devouring" everything.
But they were not attacking; they were fleeing.
Desperate to escape.
Behind the horde of abnormal creatures, countless storm airships appeared, chasing them while continuously releasing magic rune gliding bombs, carpet-bombing the area, leaving no bodies or vegetation behind.
Occasionally, some powerful abnormal creatures in the horde tried to resist. For example, a dual-headed abnormal lion ran to a depression in the terrain, stopped, raised its two heads, and aimed at the nearest storm airship overhead.
The mouths opened, and a ball of red energy and a ball of blue energy formed inside, ready to be unleashed.
"Boom!"
A fireball over a meter in diameter descended from the sky, accurately striking the dual-headed abnormal lion and exploding violently.
The entire body of the dual-headed abnormal lion was blown apart, and both heads flew over a hundred meters before falling, the energy inside their mouths completely dissipated.
In the sky, a thick-lipped warlock glanced at the remains of the dual-headed abnormal lion, snorted lightly, and then flew ahead, targeting an abnormal giant leopard, waving his hand to release another fireball spell.
Besides this thick-lipped warlock, there were many other wizard figures surrounding the storm airship group, both guarding and precisely eliminating more threatening targets to enhance the bombing efficiency of the storm airships.
"Boom boom boom..."
The storm airships advanced rapidly, leaving scorched scars on the land below.
Gradually, some abnormal creatures began to realize they couldn’t escape the storm airships’ attacks and started leaving the horde, fleeing in other directions.
But they didn’t get far before being overtaken by several troop transport storm airships, from which numerous black knights descended, waving magic rune weapons and starting to clear the area.
It was clear that Shalin was determined to wipe them out completely this time, leaving no chance, forcing the horde of abnormal creatures to continue fleeing forward, living as long as they could.
After a while, the horde fled into a canyon, rushing through it towards another exit.
But in the middle of the canyon, something strange happened, as if an invisible gate stood there, and many abnormal creatures plunged in, disappearing instantly.
You could see an endless stream of abnormal creatures rushing into the canyon, but none came out, and soon they all vanished in the air in the middle of the canyon.
Inside the storm airship command cabin.
Pandora adjusted her glasses with her finger and murmured, "Looks like we’ve found another containment for them. How’s the stabilization?" The last half was directed at Bi Bi.
Bi Bi immediately reported: "Data shows there’s indeed an invisible half-plane nearby, but it’s trying to escape the space, with an energy reaction around level 1.2, escape speed 0.2, expected to completely leave in about five minutes."
"Energy reaction level 1.2, huh, so it seems to be a normal secondary containment." Pandora responded, "As for the five-minute escape time...hmph, three minutes will do, and if not, I can give them a little push. Notify the Breaking Wall Team to start operations, and have Black Sun Castle personnel ready to activate and launch the Black Sun Weapon at any time."
"Okay." Bi Bi nodded and quickly manipulated the light beam.
Soon, a brown airship detached from the storm airship group, flew to the front, and then the cabin opened from the bottom center, extending a large L-shaped mechanical arm.
The mechanical arm rotated half a circle, locking onto the spot where the abnormal creatures disappeared, and suddenly lit up on the surface, with forty-eight magic runes flashing rapidly at a frequency of thirty-six times per second.
Energy gathered, and then a milky white light beam shot out, hitting the air.
The light beam traveled hundreds of meters in the air before being stopped, forming a transparent wall ahead.
The light beam quickly turned red, and the "transparent wall" followed with a mass of ripples, like continuous stones thrown into water, disturbing the surface.
This process lasted about a minute, with a "crash" sound, the "transparent wall" breaking at its limit, forming an opening of over ten meters in diameter in the middle of the canyon, about half a meter above the ground.
Looking at it, the opening appeared very abrupt in the field of vision, like a neat oil painting with a hole poked by scissors, forcing attention.
Peering inside, the light was extremely weak, with many indistinct shadows moving densely, continuously emitting low growls.
One could entirely imagine the danger of rashly entering.
Because of this, Shalin had no intention of entering the place in this situation.
"Send the number one unlock key to Black Sun Castle personnel and have them start the operation." Pandora said inside the storm airship command cabin.
Bi Bi responded, expression slightly solemn, and pointed at a dark gray light in front of her.
At the rear of the storm airship group, a noticeably larger black airship detached from the formation, replacing the previous brown airship and arriving at the forefront.
The cabin opened below, followed by a massive bullet-shaped metal object over twenty meters long, lowered from the mount to expose it to the outside air.
The metal object looked very slender, with more than two-thirds being a cone, and less than a third being a cylinder.
This was the latest generation of Black Sun Weapon, with an improved ultra-high power warhead in the cone and a short-range flying mana engine and high-energy propellant in the cylinder.
Inside Black Sun Castle, it’s called "Ivan the Suicide Bomber," as the explosion range of this weapon is almost as much as its range, and if unlucky, the launch site may be destroyed along with the attack target.
But when attacking special targets, these factors shouldn’t be considered, like now.
Like receiving some signal, magic runes on the Black Sun Weapon’s shell lit up, transmitting to the back and gathering on the end cylinder.
The cylinder part lit up, ejecting a purple energy flame tail, following which the entire Black Sun Weapon detached from the mount, quickly rushing into the black round hole.
Almost simultaneously, the previous brown airship fired an orange light beam from the mechanical arm, hitting the transparent wall again.
The transparent wall produced even denser ripples than before, after a rapid distortion, the giant black round hole visibly shrank, eventually disappearing completely.
"Rumble..."
Then came an incredibly dull roar.
The sound seemed right beside you, but no specific direction could be found, coming from all around, quickly fading, vanishing in seconds.
This made one feel a gust of cold air blow over the body, like Death God’s scythe hovering over the neck for a moment before quickly disappearing, an extremely dangerous destructive force appearing briefly, not fully realized before vanishing without a trace, and then came a subtle afterfear.
At the center of the canyon, the previously silent air seemed suddenly pulled away by a large portion, causing a chain reaction. Air from all sides surged in, collided within the canyon, then violently bounced outwards, causing unstable rocks on both canyon walls to fall, dust rising, triggering a small avalanche.
Once everything calmed down, a wizard flew to the canyon entrance, extending a hand to release a row of over twenty fireballs.
These fireballs had no specific target, simply leaving the wizard’s palm in succession, flying towards the other end of the canyon without encountering any obstacles— tangible or intangible, eventually disorderly falling on the empty ground beyond the canyon exit and exploding in order.
In the storm airship command cabin, Bi Bi spoke to Pandora: "Data shows the energy reaction nearby just now reached 1.68E+09 in a very short time, then quickly fell back, first reaching 3.57E+05, then down to 0.
Reaching 3.57E+05 should be the normal decay after the power release, consistent with the data curve provided by Black Sun Castle. As for the 0, that’s likely due to both Breaking Wall Team operations and the explosion’s power causing the half-plane to passively disconnect from nearby space, preventing further data collection, otherwise typically it wouldn’t fall below 2.2E-3."
"Hmm." Pandora nodded, "If it’s disconnected, let it be. With no unexpected occurrences, it should be resolved— if not, the next time we see it, completely dismantle the whole half-plane. Now, proceed according to the plan, target the next one."
"Alright." Bi Bi nodded.
Soon, the storm airship group, suspended in the air, lit up with bright magic runes and flew full speed in the northwest direction.
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