pjbooks Chapter 274 Marching on the Sky
Chapter 274 Marching on the Sky
Lu Yan's tactical communicator was restored to function, and the military's encrypted channel was filled with desperate screams.
"Coordinates: 108°E, 34°N. The outer defenses of Xijing City have been completely destroyed!"
"The target is moving towards the city! Repeat, the target is moving towards the city!"
"What the hell is that thing! Our 'Dragon Slayer Stone' missile array can't even break through its shield!"
A compressed battle report video was forcibly pushed to the terminals of all high-level combat units.
The footage is shaking violently; the person filming is on a precariously swaying high-rise building.
On the distant horizon, a moving silver mountain range is slowly creeping toward the camera.
Its main body is composed of countless smooth silver geometric shapes, with liquid light flowing across its surface.
Wherever it goes, green fields turn into scorched wastelands, and sturdy roads are corrupted into swamps billowing with black smoke.
Dozens of heavy missiles, trailing plumes of flame, accurately struck the moving mountain from different angles.
There was no explosion.
The missile vanished the instant it touched the semi-transparent energy shield surrounding the mountain.
At the end of the video, the camera suddenly shifts and focuses on the person filming.
His comrade, an awakened individual also wearing heavy combat gear, was having his body twist and swell uncontrollably.
His skin melted, his bones pierced through his body, and he eventually became a roaring monster made of uncontrolled flesh and blood.
The video is interrupted here.
A cold, emotionless female system voice rang out in the channel.
The "Scorched Earth Project" has been launched, and final execution authority has been confirmed.
[Target: Codenamed "Mobile Sanctuary"]
[Weapon deployed: 'Dimensional Collapse Bomb'.]
[Deployment countdown: 89 minutes and 59 seconds.]
This is not a plea for help.
This is a farewell.
That mobile fortress, along with Xijing City and the surrounding land for hundreds of miles, will be completely erased from this dimension.
This was the last, and most feeble, solution the military could offer.
Zhao Leiguang slammed his fist into the ground, creating a shallow crater in the alloy floor.
"damn it!"
Just then, a private communication that bypassed all military channels was directly connected to Lu Yan's terminal.
There were no military ranks or code names.
There is only one name.
Li Jing.
The call was connected, but there was no screen; only a line of text was being typed out at lightning speed.
The bombs are a sign of our incompetence. You are our last hope.
You have 89 minutes to get to its core.
The text disappeared.
Communication was cut off.
Lu Yan turned around and walked towards the "Kunpeng" transport plane that was silently waiting in the ruins.
"I'm gone."
The "Kunpeng" engine roared loudly as it ascended vertically into the air.
The aircraft drew a resolute arc in the air, without the slightest hesitation, and hurtled towards the silver mountain range that was moving in the heart of the continent.
The atmosphere inside the cabin was oppressive.
No one spoke; everyone was quickly processing the qualitative change brought about by level 70.
New skills are available on each player's tactics panel.
Xiao Qianyu's fingertip traced a constantly flashing spatial beacon icon.
[Warp Beacon]: Marks any coordinate point within the field of view, forcibly teleporting the entire squad in one go. Warning: The teleportation landing point is extremely unstable and carries a significant risk of spatial coordinate displacement.
In Wen Yue's hand appeared an arrow composed entirely of pure white light. It had no physical form, yet it left behind trails of afterimages in the air.
[Arrow of Spellbreaker]: A one-time consumable item. After being fired, it can briefly ignore a specified defensive spell on the target.
A thick, earth-yellow halo flashed past beneath Zhao Leiguang's feet.
【Immovable as a Mountain】: Activates in place, creating an absolutely safe zone with a radius of five meters. The zone lasts for ten seconds and grants immunity to all damage and control effects.
Lu Yan's gaze swept quickly over everyone's new skills.
A bold, almost insane attack plan took shape in his mind.
"Xiao Qianyu, use your beacon to target the top of the 'Mobile Sanctuary'."
"Wen Yue, at the instant the spatial jump is complete, use your arrow to tear open its energy shell."
"Old Zhao, once you land, immediately activate 'Immovable Mountain'."
The plan was simple, yet each step was intricately linked.
Use the most unstable movement skills to avoid the strongest ground defenses.
Use the only attack that can break through the defense to create a fleeting opening.
With absolute defense, we can withstand the first wave of counterattack that we will inevitably encounter after landing.
This is dancing on the edge of a knife.
If any link in the chain goes wrong, they will be torn apart by the spatial turbulence, or vaporized by unimaginable firepower the moment they land.
The speed of "Kunpeng" has reached its limit.
The intense friction between the fuselage and the air caused the entire cabin to tremble slightly.
Outside the porthole, the silver, moving mountain range dominated the entire horizon.
The outline of Xijing City appears small and fragile in its shadow.
"Get ready."
Lu Yan's voice rang out in the team's communication channel.
At a maximum distance of 30 kilometers from the target, "Kunpeng" suddenly rose and entered a levitating state.
Go any further and you'll be captured by the fortress's contamination field.
The cabin door was wide open.
A violent gust of air rushed in.
Xiao Qianyu stood at the cabin door, her gaze fixed on the highest point of the moving mountain range.
There, there was a relatively flat, huge platform made up of countless geometric shapes.
She raised her hand, joined her index and middle fingers together, and pointed at the distant target, making a dot in the air.
A tiny, almost invisible spatial beacon flashed across the top of the fortress.
"Beacon, set up."
She activated her skill.
The surrounding space is no longer stable.
The entire world, in the eyes of the first squad, was distorted into a dazzling tunnel composed of countless rays of light and color.
next second.
The violent spatial tremors violently threw them out of the subspace.
boom!
Six figures, like stones thrown by a catapult, crashed heavily onto the cold, smooth, silver crystal ground.
The material beneath my feet was harder than I could have imagined.
The moment Wen Yue lost her balance, she had already completed the action of drawing the bow and nocking the arrow.
That [Arrow of Destruction] was released from the bow.
It drew a pure white trail in the air and accurately hit the spot where Zhao Leiguang was about to land.
hum-
The energy shield on the outer layer of the fortress, powerful enough to absorb missiles, left a circular hole ten meters in diameter at the point where the arrow struck.
The void lasted for less than a second.
But enough.
Zhao Leiguang's burly body passed through the fleeting gap and was the first to crash onto the crystal ground.
"roar!"
Without pausing for a moment, he slammed the two earth shields heavily into the ground.
Immovable as a mountain!
A golden, semi-transparent shield instantly expanded around him.
Almost at the same time.
The massive platform beneath their feet, with all its silver crystal surfaces, glowed with a blinding red light.
Hundreds of weapon turrets hidden beneath the platform rose from the crystal ground, their dark muzzles aimed at this absolutely safe golden area.
The platform's surroundings.
Hundreds and thousands of angelic constructs guarding the surface of the fortress turned around in unison.
They have no facial features, only a smooth, mirror-like mask.
At this moment, all the faceplates accurately reflected the figures of the six uninvited guests inside the golden shield.